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watchmorecinema · 6 months

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Yukio Mishima has been trending this week for uh, reasons. He was a world renowned Japanese author and all of his work is overshadowed by his actions on November 25, 1970. You might not want to read more about this guy because he is horrible and disgusting, but he's utterly fascinating and the movie about him is brilliant.

He's a really interesting character, to the point that he sounds fictional. He's gay, obsessed with ritualistic death, a right wing lunatic, led a private militia that was halfway to a cult, and also was a legitimately great author. His life is covered in the film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and it's easily the most beautiful film I've seen in my life. Look at the stills I posted above; every frame of this movie looks like that. It's all just a series of beautiful paintings with people living in them.

The way the film is structured is that it tells the story of his life in three ways. His past is told in black and white flashbacks with static cameras. This is closer to how a movie from the 50's would look like (specifically ones directed by Yasujirō Ozu). The events of three of his books are told with this beautifully stylized look, with sets that look like stage plays. The events of November 25, 1970 is told in an almost normal fashion, with regular colors and competent camerawork. The past is nostalgic, the present is mundane and only in fantasy can you truly come alive.

Through this movie we see the ideology of Mishima coming through. His nationalism, his sexual feelings and his thoughts on beauty and death all come together. Death isn't just a violent and tragic end, it is in itself a beautiful act. Beauty is the only true goal of life and creating beauty brings honor. Growing old and ugly is an act of hate; to die at your peak is to give love back to the world. It is therefore treasonous to live long enough to die peacefully. He pities what heaven must look like now; when men died young and beautiful it was paradise, but now it is filled with old men.

This is an objectively insane way to view the world but it is also fascinating. How much of this was what he believed, and how much of it was just begging for attention? In one instance when asked why he moved to the right politically he said "because the left was full". It was a joke answer, but he clearly wanted to be in the spotlight. His shield society was a paramilitary group dedicated to living a virtuous life of beauty, honor and old ideals. It was also a group of good looking, athletic young men led by a (barely) closeted, conservative gay man. So much of his life could have gone differently but also he was pretty much in control the whole time; he was independently wealthy and revered on the world stage. He could do whatever he wanted, and apparently the way his life went *is* what he wanted.

What's special about Mishima, both in the film and in real life, is that he's a smart and eloquent guy. In films the guy with a crazy worldview is someone like Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver or D-Fens from Falling Down. Travis couldn't understand the alienation and loneliness he felt and he couldn't find any healthy solutions. D-Fens was smart enough but not emotionally strong enough to confront his problems or deal with them maturely. These are people that could benefit greatly from therapy (other examples include Joker from Joker, Rupert Pupkin from the King of Comedy, Frank Murdoch from God Bless America, Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, Tyler Durden from Fight Club and so, so many more).

These are either 20 something year olds that are lost in the world, alienated and lonely, or 40 something year olds with a mid life crisis when they realize that everything has fallen apart. People who don't know where to go, or realize it's too late to change things. Travis Bickle had basically no friends, no family, no charisma with women and a lot of rage and anger. D-Fens lost his job, his self respect and was estranged from his ex-wife and daughter. These are people who's lives are shit at best (Patrick Bateman is a bit of a subversion. He is rich and successful, but his life is completely hollow, his relationships are shallow and he personally is very, very pathetic. I need to write about American Psycho later that film is great too.).

Mishima is different. He's smart enough to understand his issues and how to find help. He's got the money and means to do so. He's famous and rich enough that he could basically get away with anything weird or eccentric so long as it was harmless. On the world stage he was a popular author, and at home he led a life of political activism. If he was unhappy he could easily find healthy ways to fix it. His self destruction was the most avoidable of any of them, yet he's the only one that existed in real life. You expect these people to have serious personality flaws and unfixable (or seemingly unfixable) problems, not to be poetic writers that adhere to healthy living and regularly journal about their emotions, while enjoying respect from their peers and fulfillment in their work.

It's a hell of a film. Paul Schrader has not written or directed anything better (he actually wrote Taxi Driver too, so he had some experience with this type of character before) and it stands out as an incredible experience to watch. Like, Mishima's life is public knowledge and you can probably guess how it went, but I've purposefully not said what happened on November 25, 1970 because I don't want to spoil it. It's an event that actually happened but it's better for you to find out via the film than some wikipedia page.

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whatthehellami · 6 months

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Men love men.

The rise of influencers like Andrew Tate as well as other such podcasters and high value sigma men is not so surprising and sudden when you take into account the fact that men idealise men. But then again, men idealizing men is not harmful isn't it? We, as women idealise Marie Curie, Joan of Arc, Taylor Swift and so many more inspirational and amazing women. There wouldn't have been a problem if more men were idealizing Mark Twain, Newton or Harry Styles. But do these men really possess the qualities which a man of the current day would attractive? Would their personalities be masculine enough? Dominant enough?

Women are called fanatic, crazy, stupid, brainless and so much more if they hype up a musician by buying their albums, going to concerts and screaming out their songs. But men following Andrew Tate defend him in spite of him being charged with human trafficking. He dehumanizes women, reduces them to mere commodities whose only purpose is to serve a man and his followers have one thing to say: "it's just what a man is. At least he cares about men's mental health!"

Mental health?! Babes, you need to start using your brain soon instead of gagging on that misogynist's words because if your mental health is at peak by lowering and dehumanizing women, you need to get checked. This is not American Psycho's set. This is the real world.

Often I've seen the word 'gay'; 'feminine'; 'pussy' being used as an insult. An important point to be noted is that the last two terms are derived from women. Hence, it is disrespectful to be something similar to a woman. 'Pussy' or the female reproductive system is probably one of the strongest systems in the entire body which is capable of withstanding immense pain. If logic was used, the word should be synonymous with strength but of course it's a woman. How can a man and woman ever be on the same footing?

The most curious thing is the disrespect to the term 'gay'. Why is it disrespectful? I want to know, why? They are just lovers who don't harm anyone. It shows your mentality that you equate love with a slang. But also, you love men and if you would rather believe in a man's word over a woman, you are gay. If anything to do with a woman is not up to your standards or not at your level, you are gay!

Isn't that the reason why you look up to Andrew Tate for relationship advice? When you see women pushing for more independence every day, every night and you actively choose to believe in his theology that women are below men, women should stay in kitchen, then you are gay. You are in love with him and you should find a man similar to him.

You don't love women. If you did, you would've heard what they want.

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pjharvey · 4 months

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the problem with male manipulators is they’re often right about what things are good but they think said things are good for the wrong reasons. ie radiohead, the smiths, punk rock in general, martin scorcese films, fight club, they also have a very narrow range of what things are good and u will notice very few of these things are made by women, and they dislike art made by women often because it “scares them” even though they say they love disturbing subject matter lol. if gay men made said things (ie fight club and american psycho, both written by gay men) they do not pick up on the homoerotic subtext ever even if they say they do to impress bisexual girls. i’m learning a lot

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thejakeformerlyknownasprince · 1 year

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Actually, your answer makes a lot of sense, and has given me a new perspective on the issue of the #Problematic. Due to personal trauma, I've always been very wary of those who enjoy certain problematic media, because I assume that means they support it, which is clearly an assumption that I need to work on. Hadn't considered that I enjoy problematic stuff myself, and criticize it. Being aware of the problematic and not replicating that on Real Life is enough when dealing with fiction.

Anyway, thanks for a good dosis of self-awareness.

Yeah, it's a messy and complicated issue. Because I recognize that, for example, women who say "a guy who mentions on the first date that his favorite movies are Taxi Driver and American Psycho is sending up a red flag" are probably onto something. And I've had students tell me "the Joker from The Joker makes some really good points", and I've felt a prickling of discomfort at their words.

But. I love Fight Club. The movie is a darkly funny critique of the alienation of capitalist life. The book is a brilliant horror story, written by a gay man raised by a single mom who wanted to understand why "masculinity" is considered this fragile thing that must be defended with violence, as someone who was himself shut from qualifying for the precious "man card." I got hooked on horror from Fight Club, I've written imaginary-friend-as-boogeyman as a result of Fight Club, I cosplayed as Tyler Durden in high school, I drove an hour to see Chuck Palahniuk speak... and I'm only spending an entire paragraph defending my love for Fight Club because I know what it looks like and that fragile part of me is tempted even now to scream I'm not one of THOSE guys, I swear!

So, I think it's best to recognize that my opinions can make other people uncomfortable, and that other people aren't having opinions at me. Even the people who like James Bond or Gone with the Wind might do so out of ignorance, or willingness to forgive sexism because of good cinematography, and the best thing for it is just to disengage from the conversation and find other people to talk to.

Which is where the internet can be nice. I fully support blocking and muting people whose opinions make me uncomfortable. I support others blocking and muting me. In fact, my most-used reason for blocking someone is that I'm unsure whether or not I qualify for their DNI (do not interact) list. I can't tell if I'm a BNHA Apologist or not... guess I'd best not interact. I googled KL//Ance Shipper but nothing came up, and I might support KL and Ance's romance... guess I won't interact. So on. I never hear from them, they presumably never hear from me, and we're all so much happier than we would be if we got into a shouting match over Your Fave is Problematic.

#fandom #fandom etiquette #on loving problematic things #bad feminist #misogyny #fight club #your fave is problematic #internet etiquette #i've seen 3 episodes of bnha and it didn't hook me #feeling cute might apologize for it later #the night is still young

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … April 4

1785 – The German writer Bettina von Arnim was born on this date (d.1859). The Countess of Arnim was born Elisabeth Catharina Ludovica Magdalena Brentano, was a writer, publisher, composer, singer, visual artist, an illustrator, as well as patron of young talent and a social activist. Bettina is best known for the company she kept. She claimed deep friendships with Goethe, Beethoven, and Pückler and tried to foster an artistic union between them. Many leading composers of the time, such as Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, Johanna Kinkel, and Johannes Brahms, admired her for her spirit and her talents. Her composition style was unconventional, in that it molded and melded her favorite features of the old—folk music and historic themes—with unusual harmonies, phrase lengths and improvisations that became synonymous with the music of the time.

No one knows exactly what passed between this willowy creature out of Sturm-und-Drang German romanticism and the poet Karoline von Günderrode. She devoted one of her books to this intense friendship, but since the letters she published as being from Goethe to herself have turned out to be largely fictitious, how much can we believe?

Bettina and Karoline had apparently been lovers. When Bettina overheard a handsome young man talking of his love for Karoline, she jealously reprimanded him for daring to speak of the poet as if he had a right to her love. So pronounced was her outrage that all present were aware that she was speaking as if she had a right to Karoline's love. Shortly thereafter the two women quarreled, and Karoline, selecting a beautiful, romantic spot, unobtrusively blew her brains out. She was 26.

Editor's note: Wikipedia has a different account of why she killed herself (it was because her husband was dying) and it was by stabbing herself with a dagger.

1932 – Clive Davis is a record producer who has won five Grammy Awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He was the president of Columbia Records from 1967 to 1973 before founding Arista Records in 1975. He created J Records in 2000 and is currently the chief creative officer at Sony Music Entertainment.

Davis is best known for launching the careers of Aretha Franklin, Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow, Carlos Santana, Jennifer Hudson and Whitney Houston. At Arista, Houston became one of the best-selling artists in music history. Over the years, Davis also signed notables like Janis Joplin, Dionne Warwick, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd and Aerosmith, helping to establish rock, pop and folk trends in the music industry for decades.

In 2013 Davis publicly came out as bisexual in his autobiography, “The Soundtrack of My Life.”

In the book, he admits to having his first sexual experience with a man in the 1970s. “Was I nervous? Absolutely,” he writes. “Did the heavens open up? No. But it was satisfying.”

On the daytime talk show Katie, he told host Katie Couric that he hoped his coming out would lead to "greater understanding" of bisexuality." Since 2004, Davis has been in a relationship with a man, which followed a 14-year relationship with a male doctor.

1932 – Anthony Perkins, American actor born (d.1992); an Academy Award-nominated American stage and screen actor known for his role as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and its three sequels.

Perkins made his film debut in The Actress (1953). He received the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actor and an Academy Award nomination for his second film, Friendly Persuasion (1956).

Following this, he released three pop music albums in 1957 and 1958 on Epic and RCA as "Tony Perkins". His single "Moon-Light Swim" was a hit in the United States.

Perkins was cast as Norman Bates in the Alfred Hitchcock-directed film Psycho (1960). The film was a critical and commercial success, and gained Perkins international fame for his performance as the homicidal owner of the Bates Motel. Perkins' performance would garner him the Best Actor Award from the International Board of Motion Picture Reviewers

Perkins reprised the role of Norman Bates in three sequels to Psycho. The first, Psycho II (1983), was a box office success more than 20 years after the original film. He then starred in and directed Psycho III in 1986, but refused to reprise his role as Bates in the failed television pilot Bates Motel. He did play Bates in the following made-for-cable Psycho IV: The Beginning in 1990, over which he had much creative control although he was turned down for director.

Tab Hunter and Anthony Perkins

Perkins was bisexual, having had affairs with a number of men, including 1950s and 1960s film stars Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter, dancer Rudolph Nureyev, composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale, with whom Perkins had a six-year relationship prior to his marriage to Berry Berenson. He claimed to have been exclusively Gay until his late 30s, when he met actress Victoria Principal.

He said of his bisexual life: "I had wild fantasies, but my erotic experience was mostly solitary. Along the way I'd had homosexual encounters, but that kind of sex always felt unreal to me and unsatisfying. And I had never had sex with a woman - the very thought of it terrified me."

He said of his battle with AIDS; "I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life."

Perkins died at age 60 from complications from AIDS. One day before the ninth anniversary of his death, Perkins' widow, Berenson, died on American Airlines Flight 11, during the September 11, 2001 attacks. He had two sons: actor Osgood "Oz" Perkins and musician, Elvis Perkins.

1938 – Germany: The Gestapo decrees that men convicted of homosexuality will be sent to the concentration camps. Between 1933 and 1945 when WWII ended, an estimated 100,000 men were arrested as homosexuals; 50,000 were sentenced and sent to prison. Between 5,000 and 15,000 were in concentration camps. After WWII many remained in jail until 1968 because homosexuality was still a crime in Germany under Paragraph 175 which as not repealed until 1994.

1963 – Graham Norton, Irish talk show host, born; an Irish actor, comedian and television presenter. . He achieved fame as a broadcaster on Britain's Channel 4 and also through his role as Father Noel Furlong in the critically acclaimed Irish television series Father Ted. Though he only appeared in three episodes, Norton's performance as Father Noel proved extremely popular with viewers.

Norton is out Gay, and is one of the UK's most famous Gay personalities. In his autobiography, So Me, Graham Norton noted that it was "easier to be Gay than Protestant in Ireland"He has since moved from Channel 4 and done much work for the BBC, with various shows for BBC One and BBC Two, and work on BBC Radio 2. He is also the co-owner of SO Television: the company which produces his various shows.

In January 2009 he made his stage debut in a West End revival of La Cage Aux Folles at the Playhouse Theatre.

1979 – Heath Ledger, born in Perth, Western Australia (d.2008), was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger left his homeland for the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His work encompassed nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and The Dark Knight (2008). In addition to acting, he produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.

He is included here for his legendary portrayal of Ennis Del Mar, the homosexual ranch worker, in Brokeback Mountain, for which Ledger won the 2005 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the 2006 "Best Actor" award from the Australian Film Institute and was nominated for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the 2006 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Posthumously he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the ensemble cast, the director, and the casting director for the film I'm Not There, which was inspired by the life and songs of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. In the film, Ledger portrayed a fictional actor named Robbie Clark, one of six characters embodying aspects of Dylan's life and persona.

Ledger received numerous accolades for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, for which he became the first actor to win an award posthumously, the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Ledger died on 22 January 2008, from an accidental "toxic combination of prescription drugs". A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his penultimate performance, as the Joker in The Dark Knight, his death coming during editing of the film and casting a shadow over the subsequent promotion of the $180 million production.

1968 – The civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on this date at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

1992 – Ricky Dillon is an American YouTube personality and singer. Over his ten years on YouTube, Dillon has amassed over 3.2 million subscribers on his channel, as well as more than 415 million views on his videos.

Dillon was born in North Carolina. Dillon attended high school at Hoover High School where he also marched in the band. Dillon then attended college at Auburn University to study film but dropped out after three years.

Dillon began his career on YouTube, uploading his first public video to his channel, PICKLEandBANANA, in 2009. Dillon also gained exposure due to the YouTube supergroup Our2ndLife where he, Connor Franta, JC Caylen, Kian Lawley, Trevi Moran and Sam Pottorff went on an international tour and amassed a total 2.7 million subscribers before the group broke up in December 2014. He is also partnered with Fullscreen and has participated in their InTour festival.

Dillon uploads original songs and covers, as well as music videos on his channel. He also starred in a scripted Sour Patch Kids series, titled Breaking Out.

In 2014, Dillon released his debut single, titled "Ordinary". Dillon's debut EP, titled RPD, was released on January 26, 2015. In July 2015, Dillon released his sophomore single titled "Beat". In an interview with People magazine at VidCon 2015, Dillon hinted towards a new personal song called "Gold", to be featured as one of the tracks on his second EP.

Dillon has mentioned in multiple interviews that Demi Lovato is a major influence to his musical career. He has covered several of her songs on his YouTube channel some of which were released to iTunes.

On December 1, 2015, Dillon announced the release of his debut album Gold, which was released on January 15, 2016.Dillon, who has previously dated both men and women, posted a video in September 2016 entitled "My Sexuality", in which he said that, "If I were to label myself, I would be the closest to asexual." In a February 2019 video named "My Coming Out Video Was a Lie", Dillon distanced himself from earlier comments on his asexuality, remarking on the 2016 video that "I no longer 100% relate to that video, I don't have a label for myself for the time being, I am figuring myself out, and I don't label myself as asexual". In February 2020, Dillon posted a video in which he came out as gay (titled "I'm Gay").

Today's Gay Wisdom Queer Pharaoh in Brooklyn

We're not sure about his exact dates (no one is), so we'll choose today to tell you about the Queer Pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare who reigned from about 2278 BC to 2184 BC.

Pepi II was a pharaoh of the Sixth dynasty in Egypt's Old Kingdom. His throne name, Neferkare (Nefer-ka-Re), means "Beautiful is the Ka of Re." Neferkare succeeded to the throne at age six, after the death of Merenre I, and is generally credited with having the longest reign of any monarch in history at 94 years (c. 2278 BC - c. 2184 BC) although this figure has been disputed by some Egyptologists who favor a shorter reign of not much more than 64 years. That's still a pretty long reign. This quibbles are based on the complete absence of higher attested dates for Pepi beyond his Year after the 31st Count (Year 62 on a biannual cattle count).

If you're ever at the Brooklyn Museum of Art you can see a beautiful statue of Neferkare seated on his mother Queen Ankhenesmerire II's lap. Pepi II wears the royal headdress and a kilt and is shown at a much smaller scale than his mother. This difference in size is atypical because the king is usually shown larger than others. The difference in size may refer to the time period when his mother served as a regent. Alternatively the statue may depict Ankhenesmerire II as the divine mother.

What's interesting about Neferkare is a later story about him circa 1800 BC. Referred to now as "King Neferkare and General Sasenet," it talks about the king sneaking out of his palace in the middle of the night to visit his general Sasenet, who is thought to have been his lover. Kind of saucy, but what's really significant about the story is it's an example of a relationship between two adult men rather than between a man and boy as was often the case in the ancient world. This may be the earliest story of a homosexual relationship.

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soliusss · 4 months

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One thing I would like to add about that "sigma males are mad that American Psycho was written by a gay man" was that, in addition to that, the movie adaptation was written and directed by women.

NO FUCKING WAYYY that’s CRAZY!!!! OMG!!!! I had NO IDEA!!!!!! I’m so glad you told me this, TEN fucking THOUSAND PEOPLE on that post kept saying that but I had no idea it was TRUE!!!!!!!!!!! IM SO GLAD YOU SENT ME THIS MESSAGE SO I WAS MADE AWARE!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHHHHHAHAHHAHHHAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

#solius posting

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minxxfur · 2 years

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an entirely too long essay on the irony of people idolizing patrick bateman

//american psycho, mentions of white teenage boys, murder, misogyny, racism, homophobia, toxic masculinity, mention of nazis, the term “sigma male”

these boys who don’t even own a driver’s license are missing the entire point of their favorite movie. they have seen this film repeatedly and still do not understand the point that is directly in front of them. this is one of the most hilarious societal phenomenons i have ever witnessed.

christian bale, the actor, is idolized for this role by these teenagers, despite him expressing sheer disdain for patrick himself. he has also played a role in velvet goldmine, and a quick google search can easily tell you why this movie was brought up.

the entire film, especially patrick himself, is satire and made entirely to poke fun of what people would consider “sigma males”. he reeks of masculinity, he’s rich, he gets major bitches. he also is a serial killer and certified joke.

the author of the book hand-wrote him letter by letter as a well-crafted joke, the entire movie was scripted, casted, directed, edited, created to keep that joke going; to make fun of the exact type of man those little white boys aspire to be.

this is because the man they aspire to be is a fucking piece of shit. he’s a known racist, a misogynist, a sexual predator, and so homophobic that the creators made fun of him for it. also, he has fucking murdered people, in case you couldn’t tell. these little boys look up to this sack of putrid vomit because it’s them (racist, among other things) but this time he’s rich and has an inhuman amount of sex scenes.

these scrawny young boys do not recognize or even have a clue of what masculinity is. they see patrick, the epitome of what they are told masculinity is, and due to the societal pressure of being a “real man”, they seek to become him to avoid this trouble. even though he is a joke.

they then resort to being the most vile cunts known to man (literal nazis) in order to appear tough, then it gets internalized. this has them look up to patrick even more, because fuck women and fuck gay people, right?

the director of the movie is a woman, and the writer of the book is gay.

it doesn’t even take a google search to know that it’s directed by a woman. the credits are right there.

given this information, why would they put so much effort into patrick bateman and his silly adventures?

because he’s a fucking joke and nothing more.

he’s not to be taken seriously. i can envision Bret Easton Ellis and Mary Harron in fur coats, clinking a glass together and laughing as they watch those “sigma male patrick bateman” tiktoks on a curved tv screen.

even if a swarm of white boys who can’t even lift a chair idolizing patrick wasn’t at all the intended results, my god is it hilarious to watch. it proves their entire point on how toxic masculinity effects young boys and how it spreads like moldy butter. of course, we can’t all just sit back and giggle (we have to actually do something about it, isn’t that crazy?) but good lord, that’s the funniest shit i’ve ever seen.

tl:dr if you idolize patrick bateman i will actually laugh at you

#i could also get into how they satirize capitalism but do i really have the time?#anyways please speak with your therapist about your parents if you defend him #american psycho #patrick bateman #sigma male #sigma male grindset #what the fuck am i even saying anymore..#film analysis #filmbro #seventeen gay men making out [4K HD]

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lesbiantestsubject · 6 months

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Having brunch with my wife and we forgot that rich people do brunch too, not just gay people and it's honestly the worst. I've been listening to these women have a conversation that wouldn't feel out of place in fem!American Psycho for the past 20 minutes. They didn't even pass the Bechtel test. Disgusting.

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hometownrockstar · 2 years

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Something i could write a video essay on: the cross-section of sexuality and violence in novels. Most every book that is from the perspective of a murderer tries to untangle their motivations, why they do what they do and what their view of the world is like and how its different to us. thats where the core of the horror is, to see someone who can justify such awful actions to us. But i have noticed it has a different way of presenting itself depending on the sexuality of the killer and the author. I have read several books from the perspective of straight men with female victims & gay men with male victims, and i know a few books i have yet to read that are straight women with male victims, but as far as i know ive seen none with gay women.

Books with straight men killers treat their sexuality as an immutable trait, like a heterosexual misogynist worldview taken to its furthest extreme. Patrick Bateman from American Psycho views all women in his life as the same, girlfriends and sex workers and secretaries, they are all just objects to be used for sexual gratification then methodically killed and taken apart as casually as the rest of his lifestyle. Straight male killers almost dont seem to have an attraction to women, so much as they are simply acting out the regular course of action of control, sex, and murder.

How this differs from books with gay male killers is that the killer's gayness exists outside of their murderous urges, and that they are still attracted to men in a distinctly gay way. I should note that the books i have read that fit this were written by gay male authors as well. I am talking about books like Frisk by Dennis Cooper and Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite. Whereas for straight male killers the straightness and gender of their victims is an afterthought to their murder, for gay male killers the gender and sexuality is put first. it is often written as an extension of their love of the same gender, where they have gay partners who they love and do not want to murder, but where the murderous urges are shown within them as an obsession and love of men, wanting to appreciate every aspect of them. in these books essentially every character is gay; the victims, the murderers, and any and all side characters. the stories are drenched in gay culture, and the contrasting of gay sexuality to forms of it taken to its extreme is the point i believe.

#this is just smth interesting ive noticed while reading...#i think this mostly shows the intentions behind gay authors who put their sexuality into their work #like how u can tell when a gay murder book is written by straight ppl for straight audiences #to demonize and portray a misunderstanding of gayness #vs these gay male authors who write abt murder but from a uniquely gay male perspective #and how their sexuality and love of men is intentionally woven into the book

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eruscreaminginthedistance · 5 months

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Book recs based on stuff I read in 2023

Nonfiction

Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer (2003) - it's outdated by about 20 years which leads to one hell of a jumpscare at the end, but I'd recommend it to anyone who's interested at all in Mormonism, high control groups, FLDS, and the history of abuse against women and girls in the LDS; it covers everything you need to know about the ways the LDS church has cultivated a paedophile/domestic abuse culture and it's fucking haunting and it's the most upset a book has ever made me

Black Tudors: The Untold Story by Miranda Kaufman (2017) - a really fun read; it's a collection of case studies of the real life Africans living or working in England during the Renaissance, with each chapter focusing on a different individual and what we know about them from parish records, legal documents etc. It's also a great primer on England's relationship with the slave trade and African nations from the 16th to 17th centuries. Also I listened to this on audiobook and the lady's voice is super soothing

Problematic gay rep

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (1956) - yeah okay turns out Baldwin is the GOAT of queer lit for a reason. I don't even like 20th century stuff but Baldwin can WRITE man I was sucked in! And David is the BLUEPRINT of problematic gay rep! I loved watching his awful decisions I hope he suffers eternally! It's a short and easy read and a classic for a reason do give it a chance

Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite/William Martin (1996) - I'm not sure if I'm deadnaming Martin here because I bought the book earlier this year and it was still being attributed to Poppy Z Brite so I guess it's being treated like an author pseudonym now? I think? Anyway, don't read this book unless you're a disgusting freak like me who enjoys torture porn. This book comes with every content warning under the sun and I had an AMAZING couple of afternoons reading this book. American Psycho, Jeffrey Dahmer and NBC Hannibal had a baby and Martin delivered it; it's a raw, twisted and angry scream into the void about AIDS, homeless queer youth, homophobia and cultural stigma, wrapped up in a bow made of intestines. I went into this book hoping to see people get tortured and came out of it quite melancholic with a lot to think about, and I accidentally got attached to the victim oops!

The Charioteer by Mary Renault (1953) - I was gonna make a non-problematic section just for this book but then I remembered all the rampant femmephobia xD and Ralph and Laurie would 100% be bootlicking gays against pride. This book personally isn't for me - it's a lot of love triangle nonsense - but I think the tumblr demographic is particularly primed for gay World War II love triangle stories, and it's a softer, happier love story than my other recs. Would recommend if you can get past the main characters being pick mes.

Manga

No Longer Human by Junji Ito (2019) - this is a story about being a bad person and ruining everyone's lives especially your own lol; I loved the original prose version, but Ito's spin of the story makes everything so much worse and if I hadn't literally read a book about irl paedophilia the month before I think this book would have put me in the angriest and most violent place I've been all year. Love gorgeous art? Love mental illness? Love despicable spineless main characters? Get on this

Other fiction

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (1980) - it took me a month to read this entire book. It's so self-indulgent and long winded and contrived and the big twist is laughable and I wouldn't have it any other way! It's just some old guy playing in his sand box with his little monk action figures and it's charming af. Plus the concept of a monastic murder mystery involving several orders of monks will never not be fun, and I'm biased towards the book cos my guess at the very start as to whodunnit was right >:) would recommend if you like Sherlock Holmes and long long diatribes about medieval Catholic geopolitics

Garth Marenghi's Terrortome by Garth Marenghi (2022) - this one's just a bit of a laff. The horror comedy ramblings of a man going stir crazy during COVID lockdowns. You don't need to have seen Garth Marenghi's Darkplace to understand the book but it is recommended if you can access it. Content warning for explicit man x typewriter

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962) - it's a modern day (relatively) witch story! Jackson was writing about and for all the weird autistic little girls out there with this one. It's a gothic murder mystery about two co-dependent sisters who are outcasts in their village. It was a great introduction to Jackson's work

#i've still got two more books to read before 2023 ends but I don't think they're gonna make the list so it's fine lol #books #reading #my reading #literature #bookblr #reading wrap up #book recommendations #book reccs

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spacesapphist · 1 year

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I thought it would be fun to make a post about my favorite movies/TV shows/books/plays from this year! ID under the cut.

[ID: Six images. First image reads, "My favorite things of 2022." Second image reads, "Favorite books read in 2022." The image includes the book covers of Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel M. Lavery, Fabulosa!: The Story of Polari, Britain's Secret Gay Language by Paul Baker, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold, Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, All's Well by Mona Awad, and Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon.

The third image reads, "Favorite movies seen in 2022" and includes the posters for the movies In the Heat of the Night, Everything Everywhere All At Once, Fire Island, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Sweet Smell of Success, and American Psycho.

The fourth image reads, "Favorite plays read in 2022" and includes production posters or book covers for the following plays: In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl, Nell Gwynn by Jessica Swale, Stage Kiss by Sarah Ruhl, How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel, Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale, and Tipping the Velvet by Laura Wade.

The fifth image reads, "Favorite TV shows watched in 2022" and includes the posters for BBC's Ghosts, Make Some Noise, Taskmaster, The Boulet Brother's Dragula, and Game Changer.

The last image reads, "Other favorites." On the left side of the image is a promotional image for the band American Murder Song. Below, album art for the band Ibibio Sound Machine. Below this is the album art for Premonitions by Miya Folick. Below that is the album for the original cast recording of Chess the Musical. At the bottom of the image is a red plaid wool coat. On the right side of the image, text reads, "American Murder Song / Ibibio Sound Machine / Miya Folick / Chess the Musical / My red coat." End ID.]

#book recs #movie recs #my posts #best of 2022

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thetaoofbetty · 2 years

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watching this in the way that i know jughead would want me to. with early regret and judgement:

do you think the writers have to pay a fine if they don't work in a reference to a better story? why yes, silence of the lambs is better than any of your plots and sweeney todd is better than american psycho, cookies to you guys

nah the dick waving right at the start between archie and drake could make me watch the rest of this season, pls, it's hilarious to watch him squirm

where is the jr to my dr curdle?

alright but jughead snapped with very little provocation in s3, we should probably be worried about the voices in the bunker thing

lexi howard pulled off a much better homoerotic musical number and she's still in high school so...

uh, y'all can say ratings don't impact anything but i literally just sat through 5 ads when the last time i watched on the app it was 2-3 at most

archie just admitted that he thinks missionary is where it's at and probably keeps his socks on the whole time😭

okay but is a gay revenge curse something i can buy or what?

this song is bad and also stupid

this whole unprofessional thing would be less funny if all of these people haven't banged someone they work with before

that felt pretty shamey and weird how it only happens to women on this show 🤔

the vale coming in hot

it's weird because it's like none of these people are familiar but also weird because is that the point of all of this?

i am not going to say anything about how bad the dancing is in this number from some of them but i am going to say that camera angles that keep cutting to above the waist in a dance number is saying it for me. are we allowed to say that if it looks like all of your limbs locked up when you dance that maybe you shouldn't?

is that the only face heather makes?

i feel like i've seen all of these things before

those flashbacks are funny since they don't even have enough to pull from it always feels so random when they use them/make up new history since they never actually gave them one besides "childhood bffs"

also the whole tbk thing happening during that song is weird and the archie stuff before/after it just gives off betty is going to deny a part of herself and it's going to backfire vibes

plagues are a coming! and i'm going to get in an actual fight over that god awful hairstyle they keep giving [redacted]

#riverdale spoilers #long post #i am sorry but not that sorry #but also if you yell at me it won't matter i have to run an errand love you bye

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richreviews99 · 2 years

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American Psycho: A love-letter to toxic masculinity

Patrick Bateman. A vain, egotistical Wall Street yuppie.

Hobbies include listening to Huey Lewis and the News, dining at trendy restaurants, snorting countless grams of cocaine, and most notably, murdering homeless men and prostitutes.

Superficially, “American Psycho” is a shallow slasher film. So much of the content comes off as gratuitously violent when not properly examined. However, once we delve deeper and analyze the sub-textual themes in Bateman’s character, we realize he is an extreme metaphor for feminist concepts like fragile masculinity and the toxic male ego.

The film criticizes New York city’s yuppie masculinity embodied by Bateman and his friends. The plot suggests that the rigid gender and social roles they adhere to ultimately lead to anxiety and madness (fragile masculinity). In a world where you’re not allowed to be yourself, true identities hide away and turn perverse from neglect. At least, that’s what happens to Patrick Bateman. As the film progresses, we watch his mask slip away, revealing the blood thirsty killer beneath.

In the movie’s opening scene, Bateman and his colleagues sit around a table in an ultra-chic, ultra-expensive restaurant called Pallette. A member of his entourage comments, “God, I hate this place. It’s a chick’s restaurant. Why aren’t we at Dorsia?” The other man says, “Because Bateman won’t give the maitre d’ head.”

This introduces the viewer to the way Bateman’s circle thinks. They are rich, entitled, status-driven men who care more about appearances than anything else.

In Bateman’s world, masculinity is limited to one particular style with clearly defined rules. There is very little wiggle room for self expression. The film reaffirms this concept by making most of the male characters non-distinguishable. Bateman often finds himself mistaken for other investment bankers and never corrects those who mistake his identity.

As the film progresses, we come to realize that that for him, this is an advantage. His lack of perceived individuality makes it easy to hide his crimes in plain sight, especially as his murder rampages become more frequent and more gruesome.

The assertion these yuppies subliminally remind each other is that there is only one right way to be a man if you want to be in their club. In the end, everyone knows of each other, but no one truly knows each other.

In the film, anyone who deviates from these standards and shows a measure of otherness, such as Bateman’s gay colleague, Luis Carruthers, finds themselves at the bottom end of the pecking order. Although Carruthers pretends to be straight, everyone can sense he doesn’t belong in their circle and treats him accordingly.

In another instance, when Bateman encounters a homeless man on the street, Bateman kills him for being “such a loser”. This is his first on-screen kill, signifying his complete disgust and disregard for anyone who is not like him.

In contrast, his second kill is his competition, Paul Allen. Bateman is jealous of Allen because Allen is richer than him, more successful than him, and he can get a table at any fashionable restaurant in town. Allen also consistently insults Bateman publically and has a superiority complex.

Since Bateman has such a fragile ego, he resolves to kill Allen to a) assert his social standing, and b) get even with Allen for daring to compete with him. His unhinged reaction to Allen and the homeless man both signify Patrick’s toxic male ego.

While the homeless man’s murder represents Bateman’s disgust for those who don’t fit his standards, Allen’s murder represents his competitiveness with those who do.

Everything Patrick does in this film stems from his complete hatred for the weak, his obsessive perfectionism, and his social circle’s obsession with greed, power, drugs and women. All of this has its roots in toxic expressions of masculinity.

American Psycho’s genius is its commentary on a time of excess. A time when people like Bateman could use their privilege to hide their evil in plain sight. It’s a commentary on a world that bred a man like Donald Trump, so in many ways, this message resonates more with our generation than the film’s original audience.

American Psycho asks us to look beyond the surface. What we find may not be pretty, but at least it’s real.

#american psycho #movie review #feminist #critic #film critique

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