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She was tired a lot, as if she was living not one life but two: her own, and another, shadowy life that hovered around her and would not let itself be realized—
– Margaret Atwood, from “Death by Landscape,” Wilderness Tips: Stories (Anchor Books, 1998)
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Imitation of Life (1959) dir. Douglas Sirk
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the daria writers really did that
Call me by your name
THAT’S THE POINT THOUGH.
They’re children. They’re literally students sitting in class. They’re 14, maybe 15 years old (I can’t remember which season specifically this is from).
That’s what grooming is. An adult, who is fully aware of what they’re doing, taking advantage of a teenager or a child and manipulating them or brainwashing them because they’re too young to actually understand what’s happening.
Tiffany thinks he’s talking about gardening. And even when Quinn is relating and thinking back on the story, she still doesn’t really understand what was going on. It wasn’t until her older sister and mom could process the scene through their adult brains that consequences were had.
It shouldn’t be the responsibility of children to recognize when they’re being groomed/gaslit/manipulated/etc.
This.
Couple things that come up in the notes bc I don’t think anyone has casually watched Daria in like 20 years:
- “Woah, Daria picks up on it faster than her mom!” her mom is an obsessive workaholic who still loves her family, and the main point of her character is to acknowledge that and grow into a better mom. If you watch, you’ll notice that Daria and her mom both react to the same information (the hair stroking), its just that their mom is processing Quinn’s rambling in chunks, and Daria is listening to it all
(it’s also a good example of the whole “kids can’t understand that level of dangerous behavior yet” message, bc Quinn’s recounting of the grooming is so casual it slips in perfectly to her normal tone ie: makes it harder for her mom to notice it at first. And since Quinn doesn’t know there’s a problem, she doesn’t go out of her way to get her mom’s attention.)
- “You know it’s a cartoon bc in real life the school would protect the perv!” Actually, this moment happens near the beginning of the episode, and what follows is that Daria is encouraged forced to become her sister’s teacher instead, in direct retaliation over having to fire the perv Edwards. It’s pretty much implied that the principal wouldn’t have fired the guy if it hadn’t been for Daria’s mom’s phone call, so yeah, that’s actually pretty in line too
(See, Daria’s mom is a high powered lawyer, and has already read the principal the riot act for targeting and threatening Daria in the past, so the principal is NOT a fan of their family but she is scared of her mama lol)
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” - Anne Lamott
Dark Passage (1947) dir. Delmer Daves
Me in 2022 when the pandemic hasn’t ended yet because people don’t know how to act right and I’ve been holed up in my house for three years acquiring a new flavor of crazy, going to open the door for the guy in the hazmat suit that’s come to deliver my groceries
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the very concept of a “work life balance“ is such a slap in the face considering how many workers are expected to deal with ridiculous commutes, having to remain professional even off the clock because they represent a company, being called in for a shift at a moments notice and having to drop everything or they’re fired, doing unpaid overtime etc etc. capitalism has never given the working class the supposed luxury of true free time or a personal life divorced of the working environment and no amount of encouraging people to organise their time better is going to make up for that
Fight Club (1999) dir. David Fincher
Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay FRIENDS (1994-2004)
thank GOD we are talking about racism towards asians now because as a dark skinned south asian woman my only representation in western media is 1) the smart brown girl studying to become a doctor or 2) the brown girl with overbearing parents who want her to get an arranged marriage. and don’t you dare tell me that this only happens in movies or shows because i cannot count the number of times that white people have come up to me and asked me what medical schools i want to apply to since i was literally 12 years old.
my culture has been stolen by white people trying to be woke while i was shamed for being south asian as a child. the golden milk you find on every white girl’s youtube channel now is haldi doodh, and my ancestors have been drinking it for thousands of years. the bindis on white girls’ foreheads as they go to coachella have served as a target for racists to attack south asian women. but when i drink haldi doodh or wear a bindi, i get stares from white people trying to dehumanize me by calling me barbaric or “backwards.”
racism towards south asians is still around and something that we NEED to keep talking about if we want to see change happen.
for me it’s that after i finish a debate round, the white competitors are congratulating each other on the nuance of their arguments while i field compliments about my fucking “advanced” vocabulary. for me it’s that my mother got spit at by a white woman while we were in line at a grocery store because we didn’t understand how this country worked.
it’s the fact white people reduce our culture to the curry we eat or treat the few mainstream south asian celebrities as spokespeople for the billions of people that originate from south asia. how they have the audacity to call south asia a poor, dirty, monolith after colonizers stripped away thousands of years of tradition from our ancestors.
it’s fucking disgusting and i’m tired of being brushed aside as the smart girl or the exotic girl because i am so much more than what you think the color of my skin tells you.
David Lehman, The Daily Mirror, April 9
