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Be kind and mind your own business

like, wear whatever you want, talk a certain way, like whatever you want to like... without people who manage to create visibility and acceptance in society, there will be more stories like A-han and Birdy. I think it is a nice movie to watch, but I don't want to watch it in real life.

Without activists such as #ChiChiaWei in Taiwan or #EduardStapel in Germany (DDR at that time), young people like me and my friends would have to adhere to heteronormative societal rules whether we want to or not. Without people stretching the boundaries of what is considered acceptable to do +

say that - at least in my region - a lot of people have a similar mindset to me: not my monkey, not my circus. I know what my grandparents and direct family think about queerness, and have a lot of queer friends, too. But without a supportive network, I wouldn't be able to live the way I want to. +

to do (like learning for that midterm, oof). But that is because I am priviledged enough to grow up with a supportive background. Same-sex marriage was legalized in #Germany in 2017, the same year courts ruled that the Taiwanese government had to legalize same-sex marriage within 2 years. I would +

fights for equal rights everywhere. In my personal opinion, we are all humans first and then our identity second. I don't care who other people frick with and think that it's none of my business. If it's two consenting adults, why should I care what they are doing in private? I got better things +

"follow their heart" and just be with each other. So I understand why Birdy decided to disconnect from A-han. It hurts to see the person you love and not being able to be with them.

Now, I am neither a guy from the 80s, nor am I Taiwanese. However, I find it interesting to learn about #queer +

being gay was socially not acceptable in Taiwan in the 1980s. Being gay was considered a "problem of the West", labeling it as nonexistent in Taiwan. So if A-han were to confide in the wrong person, it could lead to eMOtional DAmAge, or worse, societal exclusion. For both it is a great risk to +

very not subtly implying that it is a bad thing, Birdy engages in a relationship with Ban-Ban. This is the "correct" way to perform his supposed sexuality. The punishment for doing so is societal condemnation. Similarly, A-han doesn't have someone he can openly confide in about his struggles. +

they should be sexually interested in the opposite gender. Birdy shows an interesting dynamic in regards to this: He condemns homophobia and expresses romantic and sexual interest in A-han. By doing so, he is not performing his supposed sexuality "correctly". When being accused of homosexuality, +

According to Butler, those who don't perform their gender correctly, they get punished (Butler 1988, 242). In the context of the movie, A-han and Birdy live in a heteronormative society in Taiwan in the 1980s. This means that, as perceived guys, +

Butler's article: www.amherst.edu/system/files...

homonormativity is still centered around being accepted by the mainstream, it fits Butler's explanation of what happens, when someone does not perform heterosexual interest. I will try to explain this with the movie we had prepared for the class, #YourNameEngravedHerein by #DirectorPatrickLiu. +

Butler's theory in the context of #homonormatovity.

I KNOW, PROF. SAEJI, THAT THIS IS A WESTERN CONCEPT AND THE LITERATURE TRIED TO DECENTRALIZE WESTERN HETERONORMATIVITY.

But(t... hehe) it made me think about the movie when we were talking about the #performance of gender. Since +

a content frog with its head as the center of a sunflower. You're welcome

Bluesky deleted my first thread draft, but maybe that is not too bad.

In a separate class, we coincidentally talked about #genderperformativity and #JudithButler's theory of performing #gender. And while gender and #sexuality are two separate things, I think it is very interesting to think about +

that's a whole other topic.

their country in case of war... maybe they should wonder where they have failed as a government to protect their country properly to avoid war?

Now, if the government wants to START a war, it would make more sense for them to want to push for a more hypermasculine type of man in general, but +

personally haven't encountered any topic that would justify being called a "crisis" like this. The Chinese government won't fail if men wear some make up. And it won't stop working if men have emotional intelligence. And if the government is concerned that Chinese men won't be able to defend +

completely disregarding wén 文 - AND calling it "traditional" masculinity. It sounds like the Chinese government is inventing a "traditional" type of masculinity. But why? Why make up a crisis?

Now, I am not Chinese. So my insight is limited. But as someone who consumes a lot of media in regard, I +

over how a less #hypermasculine masculinity had been influenced by #Buddhism. Also, with the concept of #wén #文 and #wǔ #武 being a concept of complementary masculinity in Chinese history throughout several dynasties, I don't quite get the call for hypermasculinity equally to only wǔ 武 and +

The History of Masculinity in China Zhanhao Zhang In 2020, during the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, committee member Si Zefu  criticized male teenagers for being too “feminine.” The Ministry of Education re…

I think the discussion around #niangpao #娘炮 really is not about the concern of the #Chinese public about a real social issue. It doesn't really fit into the traditional concepts of #masculinity featured in Chinese history.

I think this gives a nice overview + the-footnote.org/2021/10/18/t...

Thanksgiving, anyway. It does not have to be Americanized.

describe it instead when explaining it in English? Some websites already describe it as a "traditional Korean harvest festival", which is accurate and understandable with no specific negative meaning that is erased. Chuseok has a lot of very distinctive aspects that have nothing in common with +

recognize the slaugter of Native Americans by Pilgrims. By recreating the #narrative of Thanksgiving as "just a harvest festival" to celebrate family and gratitude, Koreans contribute to this fight for accurate representation.

Instead of translating it with a different holiday name, why not +

then celebrate US American Thanksgiving in Germany with US American celebration customs?

Simple. Because of #aesthetics.

The problem with that is that this removes the brutal connotation and erases Native American history. There has been an ongoing fight about whether or not US American officials+

Friends of mine also engaged in this trend, arguing that it simply is another expression of the German harvest festival #Erntedank (literally "harvest thanks"). However, we do have this very specific German harvest festival with its own distinctive celebration features, so why would you +

if you ask me. I understand the more modern understanding of Thanksgiving as just another term of "harvest festival" - but you could also just call it that. In Germany there has been a rise of the trend #friendsgiving. On the day of US American Thanksgiving you invite your friends and eat together +

I found were articles that did call it that - and it's even visible when you just do a search on thanksgiving. To me it was obvious why you would want to distance yourself from the term " #Thanksgiving" since it is rooted in the slaughter of #NativeAmericans - which is not a nice conntation +

So, #Chuseok. I was really confused about my quick Google search results about the question why Chuseok should NOT be called the Korean Thanksgiving. Because my assumption was that Koreans were calling for calling it Chuseok instead of "Korean Thanksgiving". But when I did a quick search, all +

Actual footage of Prof. Saeji looking at me while waiting for me to figure out why I'm not getting any research results on this topic after literally explaining it to me

gaze of others (compare #LauraMulvey's concept of the #MaleGaze). These children are not given the #agency to buy the clothes and post the pictures. Their parents chose to do so. This is not about empowerment, this is about exploiting your child like a cute dressed up doll or pet.