Its important to remember that Marx was an anti-semite, Yet he pioneered the politics of 99% of people here, including myself.
Really, the lesson of all this is that engaging with the people desperately trying to say Jax isnt trans is to call them fuckin dumb, they arnt looking to debate anyway.
LeosOnTheOnline
this kind of thing is extremely common when you actually read theory written by Dudes From the Past. if you personally want to reject it based on Barthes transphobic rhetoric here, that’s fair, but you’re really gonna struggle to find a theorist from the past who hasn’t said insanely weird shit
Erin Returns!!
SHUT THE FUCK UP, HOLY SHIT IT'S REAL
the essay deadass starts with "it is unknowable through what lens and mentality daisuke operated when he declared that bridget was a girl"
i am going to Throw Up
Ada Basilisk, Haunted Doll VTuber
I'll be honest, I've never really felt the same way about Death of the Author after learning its origins (Barthes was angry over a Balzac story about a chaser, written over a century prior, for referring to a character as a woman instead of a femboy no I'm not making this up)
