Violent Delights
Nov. 12th, 2021 12:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handful_ofdustAs I get older, I feel more and more ambivalent about the way that North American culture glorifies the military mindset. The way that everyone wants to think of themselves as "a warrior for" some fucking thing, particularly male-identified people. I'm so happy that Cal's as gentle as he is, even though I get worried for him sometimes when his enthusiasm rockets up into the "could be mistaken for aggression" part of the behavioural spectrum. The longer he can register as a child, somebody other people want to take care of, the better things will be for him. What a sad fucking world we live in, really.
Then again, I did just watch The Suicide Squad, in which literally hundreds of people get slaughtered by antiheroes we're nevertheless encouraged to cheer for, especially when they risk getting their heads blown up by going back to save a city from a kaiju-sized starfish, and one of them finally learns to fight through his musophobia so he can stroke the helpful pouch-rat that insists on loving him rather than punch it into the stratosphere. It's a vicious, ridiculous film, and I enjoyed it completely.
Then again, I did just watch The Suicide Squad, in which literally hundreds of people get slaughtered by antiheroes we're nevertheless encouraged to cheer for, especially when they risk getting their heads blown up by going back to save a city from a kaiju-sized starfish, and one of them finally learns to fight through his musophobia so he can stroke the helpful pouch-rat that insists on loving him rather than punch it into the stratosphere. It's a vicious, ridiculous film, and I enjoyed it completely.
