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I just love Nick so much, I don’t want him to lose his mom again. So I just wanted you to know: that one day - when he marries another lucky girl who is enough for you, and you’re playing with your grandkids while the Tan Huas are blooming, and the birds are chirping - that it was because of me: a poor, raised by a single mother, low class, immigrant nobody.

CRZAY RICH ASIANS dir. Jon M. Chu, 2018

#crazy rich asians #jon m chu

politijohn

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Some good news

#ai #technology #new york

whimsicalfairytales

The “nobody” scene in the odyssey is absolutely not just a clever pun—it’s a character defining moment for Odysseus because he refuses to be nobody. He devised an incredible plan that worked and he could have saved his men and returned home much sooner but he just had to yell to the cyclops that he isn’t nobody—he’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca so now Poseidon knows who to curse which severely fucks up the rest of the journey.

The “nobody” scene highlights both Odysseus’s cleverness but also his arrogance and those two traits define Odysseus throughout the entire story. It’s a foundational aspect of Odysseus’s character and cutting the scene displays a shocking level of ignorance and disregard for the themes in the source material.

#the odyssey #christopher nolan #the odyssey 2026

girlfailure-poetics

I have kind of a niche political view on tumblr, which is that I think misogyny is bad even when it’s just hurting women

#misogyny

neonshroudedgraves

"Why do you need age verification on a site where everyone is 38?"

stevishabitat

idk who on earth could possibly need to hear this, but do NOT, under ANY circumstances, give out your SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER to ANY SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

☝️☝️☝️

#yikes #privacy

yavannastrees

Films watched: Persepolis (2007)

↳ “Why is it that me, as a woman, should their tight clothes have no effect on me, while they should be aroused by a shorter scarf?”

#persepolis #marjane satrapi #vincent paronnaud

cristinaricci

Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves kisses in The Devil’s Advocate (1997) dir. Taylor Hackford

#keanu reeves #charlize theron #the devil's advocate #taylor hackford

kyloren

REVENGE OF THE SITH (2005) dir. George Lucas | RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) dir. Richard Marquand

#lol #sw #rots #rotj #obi wan kenobi #darth vader

classicfilmsource

Delia Garcés as Gloria Milalta Él — 1953 | dir. Luis Buñuel

#delia garces #el #luis bunuel #old hollywood

notahorseindisguise

everytime i see like. tumblr queers or people like that in real life and they always talk about "haha im so autistic" i think about my little brother who will probably never be able to drive a car and who has felt separated from his peers in school for his whole life. or i think about my uncle brock who cant speak and can only make noises and bang his hands together in a sensory seeking way. i think about my clients some of whom live in their own filfth and just need someone to help them . i think we've watered down autism too much and i know its a spectrum and i know a lot of people do have it but then you hear other people go like "why would you complain about having autism its a superpower!" and i think oh so youre the worst ever.

cordycepsfem

When I was in my late 20s (early 2007 to mid 2009, maybe) I worked for the local public school district in my hometown.

the-curated-woman

"People hate when I talk as though there are personal benefits to identifying with these disorders, but there plainly are, or diagnoses would not decorate so many Instagram bios, would not make it onto so many scholarship applications, appear in so many gauzy celebrity profiles. In a world of repetitive scandals where white academics are caught playacting as people of color, we should be adult enough to recognize that there are perceived social and professional benefits to occupying modern identity categories.... [T]here are status games at play whenever identity is discussed."

#autism #disability

oceanmirage

This phenomenon of men identifying as women and using it to excuse their cruelty towards women makes me think not just about how they view women but also about how they view women's relationships to each other. Like in the TRA community you see it frequently, a man who talks about respecting women all the time begins identifying as one and it's like it opens up the floodgates, he's given himself full permission to express all his most vile misogynistic beliefs and thoughts, and to treat women in ways that they seem to view as stereotypically catty, but are really just profoundly sexist and abusive. This is what they seem to think relationships between women are actually like. Antagonistic, childish, petty, competitive. They treat the women around them the way straight men treat each other. They genuinely can't imagine a greater depth and quality to a platonic relationship. Women will attempt to have those kinds of real relationships with them and some of them will have their kindness siphoned for the sake of validating the TIMs identity, but that's usually the best they'll get from the relationship. They view women as being ultimately hateful and abusive (which I think is part of why they so strongly associate these traits with BEING women) and can't imagine that our relationships with each other aren't founded on a sense of one-upmanship, jealousy, lust, competition or a need to constantly humiliate each other.

#male privilege #misogyny

twixnmix

Pearl Bailey photographed by Carl Van Vechten on July 5, 1946.

#pearl bailey #old hollywood #carl van vechten

radflag

i swear, now that i’m in university and now that i’m a radfem i hate studying illuminism. when i wasn’t that aware of the hatred that men had and have towards women i was like: “oh wow the revolution cool” but now i’m like ... wow men are always opposing slavery except when it’s about women. this happens every time in history and that’s why i don’t believe in ideas about freedom and revolution when it comes from men.

rad-octopus

"Men are communist, socialist, or anarchist from the waist up" -Antonia García

hugewoman

Studying the enlightenment era as a woman is nothing short of depressing and disappointing.

All of those men who called themselves polymaths and geniuses, who had such well rounded educations in science and philosophy and government, who made networks of fellow scholars and intellectuals and were directly involved in growing literacy rates bc of the sheer volume of letters and pamphlets and books and treatises they published, who had a hand in society evolving and becoming curious, none of them gave a single solitary thought to women in an academic sense unless it was to espouse how foolish and inferior we are or that we are submissive and servile by nature.

(DON’T try and comment about Nicolas de Condorcet as a gotcha, I know he was an early male feminist but he was an extremely rare outlier)

Those men acted like they were god’s gifts to society, like they were brave heroes defying the church and the king and the institutions, pioneers on the frontier of scientific and mathematical and philosophical discovery, but the second they got called to task for sounding even marginally too anti-church or anti-monarchy in their writings they apologized and toed the line and wrote retractions or edited their manuscripts. They were only anti-monarchist until a sitting monarch sponsored them and took them in as favored members of their court. They were only anti-church until they actually upset the church and risked being jailed or executed for heresy.

Ultimately they were cowards and hypocrites. They called themselves humanists and abolitionists while owning slaves, they talked about how the church had it wrong but how there was obviously still some kind of divine creator, they talked about economics and poverty and the exploitations of labor but they were mostly lords and aristocrats themselves, they talked endlessly about the human condition and they didn’t bother to consider or consult the other 50% of the living humans on the planet alongside them.

None of them would have been able to produce the sheer amount of work and writing as they did if any of them had ever washed a single dish or cooked their own meals or did their own laundry. Their “genius” was literally only possible because of the uncredited labor of wives and servants who took care of them daily and allowed them to work nonstop. (PLEASE read who cooked the last supper by Rosalind Miles)

Some of them (I’m looking at you Jefferson and Voltaire 👀) went so far as to pat themselves on the back for being enlightened egalitarians while simultaneously writing literal examinations on what they believed was an objective inherent biological inferiority of black people

That type of cognitive dissonance is identical to the way liberals today will preach culture relativism while conveniently ignoring atrocities done to women and girls all over the world in the name of religion and faith. They’ll say in the same breath that circumcision is wrong but that female genital mutilation and child marriage are important cultural traditions that we can’t possibly ethically interfere with.

Modern men are so much closer to the mindsets and actions of their forefathers than they will ever realize or admit

#misogyny

bushpropaganda

found this revolutionary paper that analyzes every single case of transgender violence across 25 years in Britain, using data from Trans Day of Remembrance. it is the first study that has ever counted trans perpetrators, and the researchers found that trans people were more often perpetrators of violence than victims of it in Britain.

this paper is very comprehensive and has a ton of sources if you wanna do further research on this topic. i recommend reading it and forming your own conclusion.