Halloween 3 is so fun.

I really like The Thing (1982) as well.

And honestly, gotta give it up for Paranormal Activity, where the real paranormal activity is the toxic masculinity along the way.

As someone who works in pre/early modern lit, this is a good post and the real key I think is here:

However, the way you’re talking about the story makes it sound like an explicitly homosexual text, which it isn’t.

I haven’t read OP’s essay, but in general this is the big thing with gender/sexuality and pre modern texts. Noncery aside, reminds us that these things are historically determined. If you want to read homosexual desire into a pre modern texts you need to basically do the work to explain how that desire fits into the material conditions of the medieval period.

Btw, this is actually rooted in a Marxist approach - sex and desire are not trans-historical but always determined by the material conditions of the historical moment. If you’re gonna read same sex desire into Bisclarivet (which, as you note, is actually a commonplace) you have to do the work to read it into the text and articulate how we see something like same sex desire in a period where this didn’t really have a systematic/ideological/cultural sanction.

Glad someone else had the post so I didn’t have to.

I think this is an honorary TrueAnon rule for life.

Racism is not the same as trauma dumping. Obviously if someone is blatantly racist or sexist you can withhold your tip. But complaining about having to tip and tying that to the _qualty of service _ is the issue here.

Complain about the low wages they’re paid (in many states submininum), but getting mad about tipping in this way is a bad look, especially when your post doesn’t mention anything beyond the pale. Also, it doesn’t change that servers should pool tips, tip out to back of house, and unionize. Fundamentally though, we can’t withhold tips systematically to achieve increased wages. So until wages are raised and tipping is banned, you need to tip.

I think you’re wildly underestimating the amount of assholes servers deal with. Especially women.

Just tip the 20%, and be mad they aren’t paid a fair wage. Getting mad about rude servers is really reactionary.

Obviously tipping is evil, but remember refusing to tip is not praxis

The grand tradition of continues.

Billy Bragg might be anglo, but he is pretty cool.

https://youtu.be/DwbzxemJZIc

That feels like the right call. You’ll have given good faith, and if they give you another reason (in a less chaotic setting) - GTFO.