But it really all boils down to one detail I cannot help but return to time and time again: why is this normal now, and why are fans so proud of their cruelty?

It’s not just the Swifties, obviously. It’s the sports fans who start punch-ups and yell bigoted slurs during games. It’s the tinhatters who smear the spouses of their favourite singers and actors as evil harpies who fake pregnancies to keep these poor helpless millionaires entrapped. It’s the Barbz going after the graveyard where Megan thee Stallion’s mother is buried. It’s Johnny Depp cultists participating in a bot-driven hate campaign against his ex-wife after he lost a libel trial in England. It’s K-pop “fans” demanding an apology from the singer Karina because she “betrayed” them by having a boyfriend. It’s the conspiracies and the berating and the obsession over numbers. It’s calling someone “poor” because they can’t afford to buy $500 concert tickets. It’s discarding all the wonderful qualities of fan communities in favour of an endless competition where victory is the sole goal of your cultural pleasure.

— That Time I Got Harassed For a Review I Didn’t Write (And What It Might Say About Modern Fandom), Kayleigh Donaldson

When thinking about the historical and traditional symbols of heteronormative male culture, two main things come to mind; women and cars. Cars are such an essential part of this identity that an entire franchise is dedicated to the power of cars. So utilizing cars, and the culture around them, to tell stories about queer identity and sexuality is fruitful territory. Christine (1983) and The Hitcher (1986) take on these ideas but utilize them differently. Christine is a movie about a killer car that entices a nerdy boy desperate to be a man, while The Hitcher is about a man who accidentally picks up a killer that he becomes inexplicably attached to. Ultimately the two movies give our main characters two options; repress their identity or accept their transformation. In one tale, we see how this struggle drives two best friends apart, and the other brings two strangers together. Yet both highlight how our focus on traditional societal values and binary identity can cause immense harm, destruction, and death. 

— Horror, Men, Queer Love, and Cars: The Hitcher & Christine

Library management has become increasingly complex and challenging Institutional, societal, and technological changes have produced strong pressures for libraries to change the way they deal with their client groups, their governing bodies, and their internal operations.

The most obvious pressure for change is the altered library economy. The recent high rate of Inflation, the need to bring library salaries closer those of similar professions, and the dramatic Increase in costs of library materials have moved libraries from the period of growth that characterized the 1960s, to a period of stabilization and In many cases, decline. However, the economic troubles that beset libraries have some positive Implications. Libraries have been forced to re-examine and redefine their roles and to develop new systems and procedures for fulfilling those roles. And while the struggle to adapt to the new library economy continues substantive advancements have been made.

A second factor faced by most larger libraries is the dramatic change in the physical and organizational dimensions of libraries since the late 1940s. The amount of world publishing has grown exponentially during this period, and major academic and research libraries have attempted to maintain collection strengths by radically Increasing the size of their collections. This has led to multi-million dollar budgets, large staffs, new buildings, and Increased organizational complexity. The managerial process in turn has bad to become more sophisticated, more technical, and less directly personal in order to control this rapid growth. Managers have focused on the building and control of major research collections. The currently emerging period of retrenchment or decline offers new challenges requiring new organizational and managerial responses.

Another pressure fix change involves libraries' client groups, which have expanded in terms of diversified interests and have increased the intensity of their. demands. As a result, libraries' service requirements have tended to increase in both dimension and areas of specialization while net available resources have declined. A partial response to these pressures has been found In technological developments, which have produced at least potential for reduced costs in processing and cataloging materials and in operating some service functions such as circulation. But-organizational responses with more immediate and substantive impact still are required.

Finally, the changes in staffs' expectations and demands regarding their role In library organizations have forced management to move toward more open organizations. Library managers, like managers in other enterprises, find It Increasingly difficult to maintain control with traditional management styles Staff are demanding increased organizational attention to their personal and professional needs and are developing mechanisms for contributing meaningfully to organizational change and renewal. While this trend offers opportunities lor creative, positive change, it also creates' tensions and frustrations for library managers accustomed to more traditional modes of accountability, authority, responsibility, and decision-making.

The existence ol these pressures lor change is amply illustrated in library management literature. And while there are no final answers, the existence of these pressures and the profession's response to them have greatiy enriched the literature and have expanded the practitioner's understanding ol both the limits and the possibilities of dealing with the fundamental issues lacing library managers Approaches to these fundamental issues can be grouped in the following general categories management ol human resources.

— LIBRARY MANAGEMENT IN THE 1970'S. SUMMARY OF ISSUES AND SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1977

Greaser is a name given to an American youth street style that was predominantly visible in the 1950s and early 1960s, although it is possible that the style was present in the late 1940s, as the greaser look is aesthetically related to the style of dress adopted by the early motorcycle clubs and gangs of the postwar period.

The problem with dating the greaser aesthetic relates in part to the fact that the term “greaser” seems not to have been applied to this look in writing until the middle of the 1960s (see the Oxford English Dictionary for key dates of use), well after the street style had peaked in popularity and begun to fade from use and morph into a new aesthetic.

Thus, ascertaining when the look emerged is contingent upon locating dated photographs, an effort that presents challenges for the researcher. While a specific date for the advent of the style may be elusive, a well-documented history of the polysemous label is informative. The word “greaser” has been applied since the 19th century as a pejorative term for underclass laborers, especially those of Mexican origin (Bender 2003, xiii). The term has also long been used to indicate a profession: that of a machine “greaser.” The greasers discussed in this entry were generally male, often but not exclusively working class, typically white, and often involved in (or associated themselves with) American hotrod or motorcycle culture.

— Street Style in America: An Exploration, Jennifer Grayer Moore

There are various reasons for "a land flowing with milk and honey" having been universally understood as an unbridled encomium. The Bible itself refers both to milk (or milk products) and honey as luxury items. These are high-energy foods used by those who camp in the wilderness, articles of trade, contributions to priests and Levites, and worthy gifts. Honey is described as being both pleasurable and healthful and is used to symbolize such diverse pleasures as wisdom, the Lord's commands, and (along with milk) sexuality. (3) It is not surprising that God will deny the sinner milk and honey in the future, nor that the divinely bestowed manna in the wilderness has the taste of hoňey. (4) In the case of a sinner who is deprived of milk and honey by God, the use is synonymous with pleasure; the denial of milk and honey is a denial of pleasure.

Like the question "What is sweeter than honey?" (Ju. 14:18) the meaning of the phrase "a land flowing with milk and honey" has been regarded by readers of the Bible as self-evident. However, its meaning is quite different. With this phrase, as with many biblical expressions, familiarity substitutes for understanding. — The Symbolism of Milk and Honey, Etan Levine

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