(Talking about toy Shark at IKEA that’s been adopted as a trans symbol)
IKEA shark IYKYK but many don’t. Every year for over a decade I’d enjoyed our (Australian) State Secondary School Art Student perspective. The forty top students get their exam entries displayed in our State Art Gallery. A couple of years into our son’s estrangement I spotted the pastel shark in a photo portrait. I’ve never gone to another exhibition, let alone a student one. Art is now relegated to things I no longer enjoy along with live theatre, music and comedy shows. I have developed a keen interest in architecture.
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Art is now relegated to things I no longer enjoy along with live theatre, music and comedy shows.
Wow, sucks to be you, I’d say.
Seriously though, if your bigotry and self-pity is more important to you than your very enjoyment of life, then maybe get help or something.
IKEA shark
Doo doo doo doo doo
Aww diddums. Much like being a parent too. Because you hate your child. I'm Cishet or as your type'd say in 90s regarding straight people, normal (And fuck you very much. Back then I was very feminine and did girly things. On occasion wore skirts, or lipstick and regularly painted my nails. Yet I enjoy video games, ttrpgs, movies, books, art, music because I don't hate others and their existence doesn't affect me.
Art is something created that is designed to elicit an emotion.
When drawings/paintings of a mere toy shark make you seethe, all other human beings express joy , Joy. Happy happy.
Fun Fact: The trading of insults is considered an art among Klingons. Y’know what I consider to be an artform, OP?
I have developed a keen interest in architecture
Well, considering there are architects such as Julia Oderda, Olivia Chaumont and Isabella Torres, someone with the latter surname - B’Elanna - would be pointing and laughing at you right now. Why? Hopefully you’ll have seen some of their architecture and liked it. Congratulations, Joy Shite.
As those architects are trans people, you’ve been insulted by your own interest, you petaQ !
Making others prove themselves wrong. That’s an art.
Yeah, art is frequently for the subversive. Even when artists were only employed by the church and the ultra-wealthy, there has been an element of subversion. And some of the artists most cherished by the mainstream are actually the most subversive. Take Norman Rockwell, for instance. He’s most associated with what many Americans consider to be the “innocence” of the 1950s, and many people look at his artwork and say they wish things could still be that way but much of his work is actually not about how innocent 1950s America was but how that innocence was manufactured. Because nothing about the 1950s is actually innocent. On top it looked that way but lift the rug a bit and out come all the dark secrets - the racism, the misogyny, the domestic violence, the sexual abuse, the suicides of LGBTQIAA2S+ people, the institutionalization of all PWD, and the lobotomization of anyone who refused to conform.
What OOP and many transphobes want is to go back to a world where we are all forced to hide again, where it’s considered shameful to be different in any way and everyone’s choices are limited to conform or die. They want a world where what appears on the surface is all there is.
I, for one, am sick to fucking death of that kind of bullshit.
“IKEA shark IYKYK but many don’t."
“I spotted the pastel shark in a photo portrait.”
“I’ve never gone to another exhibition, let alone a student one.”
You sound like a depressed loser. It may be time to realize that you're the reason the family is split and that it's a toxic situation, including for your mental health. You may also be able to enjoy art again in the future. You have to accept that your well-being is your responsibility. The estranged person understood that and went to live their life, you also have to deal with that fact and learn from that lesson.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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