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Sappy do you remember what the bad take about Frankenstein and Mary Shelley was please spill

found the post. to be fair to them. not the most egregious thing said on this post, but they did endorse the rest of it so.

ignoring "horny frat boys" being an insane way to describe percy, byron, and polidori, not to mention poor fucking claire lmao. theres a pervasive issue of people really wanting mary shelley's life and career to be a story of a woman being greatly underestimated and silenced by her (male) peers but persevering nonetheless and this idea is generally pushed in popular culture and by some ill informed biographers to the point that it is just no longer reflective of her actual experiences. i think people forget a lot that mary shelley existed in radical circles that, while not devoid of misogyny, had moved past the idea that women shouldn't have opinions and be writing and have lives outside of their relationships with men and who certainly were not discouraging her from pursuing a career in writing. she was deeply admired for being the daughter of wollstonecraft and godwin and then as a writer in her own right, and i think its sad that this idea that she was discouraged from pursuing writing by the men in her life, especially by her husband, is so pervasive because one of the most interesting things about her social group to me is the creative relationships built among them. people joke a lot that percy shelley is just remembered as the wife of the author of frankenstien as a diss on him but everything he is on record saying about her work implies that he would be fucking honored. they had a deep creative partnership and mutual admiration for one another's work that was much stronger than even their romantic relationship and its deeply frustrating how that is often disregarded and put down because people are so fixated on this stereotype of how they think 19th century women should exist that they dont let themselves engage with what her life was actually like.

also i dont even fucking like polidori but why are we acting like he didn't as part of this competition LITERALLY invent the modern vampire. like hello.

sappymix1

this post has been popping up in my notes again and yet still nobody seems to have noticed that i accidentally referred to percy shelley as mary shelley’s wife

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galaxycepheus

If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules

galaxycepheus

Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u

wizardposting666

When those GPS trackers for cars were released, specifically advertised for parents to put in their child's car, I saw the ad on TV and said out loud, "God... I wonder how many abusive parents and spouses are gonna use that to keep their victims from escaping."

My dad was sat next to me and his eyes got big as saucers. He was so quiet when he replied solemnly, "I didn't even think about that... jesus christ, that's dark..." and I had to tell him I had friends who were probably gonna end up in that situation with their conservative parents. He was so removed from the notion of using that device for cruelty that he didn't even CONSIDER it! That's how easily people can be bought in by inventions/legislation advertised under the guise of "keeping the kids safe". My own father, who is a beautiful and gentle man with a good head on his shoulders, was ready to advocate for a tracking device, because it was sold as a device to "protect children".

Children need more protections from abusers, yes, but the biggest protection they could possibly have is AUTONOMY. GIVE CHILDREN AUTONOMY.

zinjanthropusboisei

Tired of trying to be genuinely creative and intellectual. I'm going to invent a vague aesthetic that I can slap a -punk suffix on, market myself as the founder, and put out a series of BookTok friendly speculative fiction novels that do gangbusters because they include a color-coded set of categories to sort one's intrinsic characteristics into. Surely this is the path to the future.

zinjanthropusboisei

#solarpunk has achieved nothing it's time for geopunk#we've got BASELOAD RENEWABLE POWER and SPARKLY GEM BASED CASTE SYSTEMS#and hot spring episodes

Reviews will include "sort of like the Broken Earth but worse and dumber" and "this amount of geology puns about hardness, cleavage, and subduction should be illegal"

thememedaddy

kuttithevangu

the new fantasy genre, popehunk, encompasses all books in which historical figures responsible for real atrocities are presented as sexy and potentially suffering from a cute lil' anxiety disorder

stripedroseandsketchpads

Matt Damon’s sensitive and repentant Odysseus might come as a surprise to Homer, likewise some significant omissions concerning the poem’s f

This is the most scathing title I’ve seen in a LONG time and boy am I feeling “women and nuance pushed overboard” as an encapsulation of current popular media…

stripedroseandsketchpads

Another gender focused review from a modern pov:

Christopher Nolan’s epic adaptation has been met with almost universal acclaim – from mostly male film critics. Might women find the journey

A few examples. Zendaya’s Athena – one of the really top gods – has almost nothing to do here but vaguely shadow Odysseus, Scottish Widows-style in a headscarf, softly nodding, sometimes doing a sad head-shake, like the teacher who tells you they’re not angry, just disappointed.

Charlize Theron’s Calypso likewise only really functions as a sounding board, ambling after him in the sand with drinks and lotus flowers. The flowers, it’s suggested, are secretly to stop Odysseus remembering who he is. The movie makes no mention of her keeping him as a sex slave for eight years. Homer’s Calypso is a great part. Nolan’s is some woman who runs a beach bar and is thinking of pivoting to psychotherapy.

These changes consistently make the women either more boring or more bonkers. The scenes with Samantha Morton’s Circe start promisingly, as she cooks a feast for Odysseus’s men in her Landmark Trust-ish cottage (good spoons, no telly) before vengefully turning them all into pigs. Odysseus comes by, twigs what she’s done and persuades her to reverse the spell not by – as in the poem – a year of sex and complex rhetoric, but just a quick word, conceding that men can be awful, but these ones aren’t too bad, as it goes.

Such alterations aren’t about the women, of course. They’re about Matt Damon’s hero, changed from tricksy shagger to gentle feminist – as well as super-cool warrior dude (an added scene involving him walloping some goons disguised as priests is really outrageous).