Happy Manifesto Day!
I have this gorgeous institutionalized notion of the nurtured artist - one with, first, a mentor to teach and be surpassed, and later a patron to prevent starvation and part-time jobbery. With skill expanded by their mentor, and the beginnings of reknown arranged by the same, the artist could then attract a patron to further assist their career.
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Shhhhh . . . it's frickicking stizzupid to insist on the politically and grammatically correct "his or her" instead of the corrupted "their." We are too advanced to refer to humankind as mankind ("the artist could then attract a patron to further assist his career") and too sexist to stomach irregular "her" narratives ("the artist could then attract a patron to further assist her career"). Any new asexual pronoun would be too jarring to gain wide usage (se, shis, etc.) Therefore, I say let us stop being hesitant snobs! Replace "him or her" with "them," "his or her" with "they."
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I agree wholeheartedly.
I want a patron SO BAD. Some rich dude or dudette who will invite me over to THEIR house for fancy balls and pay for my fancy dresses to wear to said fancy balls, where I can mingle with important people who will then go home and say, "Oh my, why don't I know about this Christine Nielsen yet? I must be terribly behind the times--I must go purchase large quantities of her work and place it casually throughout my house." And my patron and I will laugh conspiritally and be good friends and I will paint murals on their walls and ghostwrite their autobiography and drink bottles of wine more expensive than my housing in their overstuffed armchairs.
And then I'll die at the age of thirty of an overdose of pain medication, years after my traumatic accident. And my patron will speak at my funeral and then turn to alcohol.
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