Every now and again I’ll get one note from a post of screenshots from this movie and I just want to reblog this and talk about it a lil because I really do recommend it.
It’s a coming of age, two gay teens and a closeted professor working through their stuff independently but also with each other in support. There’s not any major romance plots, the love there is the kind that you have with others in your situation to some degree. It’s a comradery below the surface, community you can’t communicate except by being community. If that makes sense.
I don’t think I could better articulate what it’s like to be either closeted or out as a young person better than it is in this movie. A going through of things and the sameness in struggle in all its shapes.
Also idk if any of you are Irish but it’s an Irish film (not language wise but that’s where it is and the culture) and that might resonate with some folks better than Americanized films that depict things a bit differently, because being a teenager throughout the world varies and all.
“kids these days are so cringey w their fortnite dances-” are none of yall going to acknowledge the shit we did. are we not going to acknowledge gangnam style. what does the fox say. if we go older hamster dance. crazy frog. the fucking duck song. the llama song. charlie the unicorn.
let he who is without sin throw the first stone
last week I was at a party where the macarena came on. we looked around to see if it was a joke, but no. everybody did the macarena. we did the macarena.
I worked an event the week before where dozens of drunk adults did the chicken dance.
PSA: journalists aren’t supposed to put names in the headlines if the person isn’t a public figure. It’s not a matter of maliciously not giving credit
^^^as a journalist, this is something that bothers me ALL THE TIME
A friend of mine on Twitter explained this the other day, so to elaborate based on what she said: If the name is not instantly recognizable the way a public figure is, then putting the name in the headline isn’t going to bring about any sort of recognition or connection in the reader, and doesn’t do much to draw the reader into the story. But something like “local teen” does create a connection by tying the person into the community, and encourages the reader to learn more about what this local teen has done. The name will be in the article itself, after the headline has done its job at getting the reader to look into it.
It’s worth noting too that usually, according to the Inverted Pyramid writing style used for journalism where the most important information is shared first, the person’s name is usually in the first sentence of the first paragraph.
Whenever I see someone get up at arms over a headline that says “Local Teen” and the first comment is “SAY THEIR NAME” I’m always like “hey, thanks for telling every journalist present that you don’t read articles and just skim headlines.” Really makes us feel appreciated.
I think this Onion headline illustrates the point pretty well
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