Jan 30 -

mikkipedia: hysteriarama: shoulders: okay maybe here’s what i can think of: feminine boredom is to the detriment of everything that is not the one true love, i.e., being-desired and a perfect fairytale are the sole antidotes to the condition of being a bored woman. emphasizing and prioritizing the boredom is against its panacea,… I’m into this. I’m also not sure if the conversations around feminine/feminist boredom are necessarily advocating boredom as a tactic? maybe some are, but some are also just about the condition of feminine boredom. I think that public expressions of boredom are compelling because they’re socially inappropriate, esp. for woman-identified people (ie they’re the opposite of expected social care, performing interest etc). it’s rude to appear bored in lots of circumstances, so revealing your boredom is one way of resisting it.  idk, it’s late where I am, so I’ll maybe say more tomorrow, but I’m definitely not trying to say that boredom and inactivity are my favorite feminist goals, more interested in looking at how we live out unnecessary boredom in terrible ways and what that does to us and why we practice it. See also Willow’s “Bored now.” And I say this as someone who is: not into Buffy. At all. OK a little. It seems significant that “Bored now” is Vamp Willow’s thing - something that she does only when she’s free to express her darkest desires, be kinda gay (pre-Tara, when she’s still an awkward high school geek), practice S/M etc. Normal Willow would never be so rude. I wonder if it’s because she’s actually not bored by the same things as her vampire alter-ego, or because she’s just too polite to express her boredom. I wonder the same thing about people who police public displays of boredom. Are they polite, or are they actually not bored? Not the same thing at all.  Also haters and the bored - expressing flip sides of the same thing? Is everyone else just feigning interest or do they actually enjoy this shit? And other relevant life questions.