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@averagechilean
To the cry "¡Nunca más!" (never again), thousands of Chilean women surround the Moneda Palace to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the violent coup d'état of September 11, 1973, in Chile. A cry for all Latin America: Never again!
La Moneda, 1973.
Ni perdón ,ni olvido.
“My friends, Surely this will be the last opportunity for me to address you. The Air Force has bombed the towers of Radio Portales and Radio Corporación. My words do not have bitterness but disappointment. May they be a moral punishment for those who have betrayed their oath: soldiers of Chile, titular commanders in chief, Admiral Merino, who has designated himself Commander of the Navy, and Mr. Mendoza, the despicable general who only yesterday pledged his fidelity and loyalty to the Government, and who also has appointed himself Chief of the Carabineros [national police]. Given these facts, the only thing left for me is to say to workers: I am not going to resign! Placed in a historic transition, I will pay for loyalty to the people with my life. And I say to them that I am certain that the seed which we have planted in the good conscience of thousands and thousands of Chileans will not be shriveled forever. They have strength and will be able to dominate us, but social processes can be arrested neither by crime nor force. History is ours, and people make history. Workers of my country: I want to thank you for the loyalty that you always had, the confidence that you deposited in a man who was only an interpreter of great yearnings for justice, who gave his word that he would respect the Constitution and the law and did just that. At this definitive moment, the last moment when I can address you, I wish you to take advantage of the lesson: foreign capital, imperialism, together with the reaction, created the climate in which the Armed Forces broke their tradition, the tradition taught by General Schneider and reaffirmed by Commander Araya, victims of the same social sector which will today be in their homes hoping, with foreign assistance, to retake power to continue defending their profits and their privileges. I address, above all, the modest woman of our land, the campesina who believed in us, the worker who labored more, the mother who knew our concern for children. I address professionals of Chile, patriotic professionals, those who days ago continued working against the sedition sponsored by professional associations, class-based associations that also defended the advantages which a capitalist society grants to a few. I address the youth, those who sang and gave us their joy and their spirit of struggle. I address the man of Chile, the worker, the farmer, the intellectual, those who will be persecuted, because in our country fascism has been already present for many hours – in terrorist attacks, blowing up the bridges, cutting the railroad tracks, destroying the oil and gas pipelines, in the face of the silence of those who had the obligation to protect them. They were committed. History will judge them. Surely Radio Magallanes will be silenced, and the calm metal instrument of my voice will no longer reach you. It does not matter. You will continue hearing it. I will always be next to you. At least my memory will be that of a man of dignity who was loyal to [inaudible] the workers. The people must defend themselves, but they must not sacrifice themselves. The people must not let themselves be destroyed or riddled with bullets, but they cannot be humiliated either. Workers of my country, I have faith in Chile and its destiny. Other men will overcome this dark and bitter moment when treason seeks to prevail. Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free men will walk to build a better society. Long live Chile! Long live the people! Long live the workers! These are my last words, and I am certain that my sacrifice will not be in vain, I am certain that, at the very least, it will be a moral lesson that will punish felony, cowardice, and treason.”
— President Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile, 11 September 1973
Centro de detención Estadio Nacional, Chile 1973
Fotos: Andresbravo AFI Santiago
Honestly, I don’t see it posted much here, but not having access to large parts of your trauma history is wack really confusing and frustrating cause you can see what you are currently, how you operate, how you feel, how people with certain traumas have similar behaviors, and read between the lines of the implications of shit
But you have no answers to WHY you are like this or WHAT caused it. You can GUESS, you can read between the lines and INFER, but unlike a lot of other trauma survivors who can often pinpoint moments related to it if they sat on it for a bit, all you get is just this blank wall and a “…maybe something in this realm of trauma???”
And like, for those reading this who are a bit more new to trauma processing and dissociative amnesia / memory block outs, don’t fight against it. Don’t dig into it even if the lack of knowing is wack frustrating and confusing. If you aren’t able to reach the memory there / you hit a dissociative wall, its probably a good idea not to try to jackhammer through it. It is probably that bad. It is probably too much for you at the current moment. You don’t need to remember it right now, it’ll come when you are ready to handle it in the future. Please don’t hurt yourself digging for trauma that your brain doesn’t want to deal with at the moment.
It is so confusing and fucking sucks to not have a consistent narrative of who you are and how things happened though. Real talk.
No hay un día igual a otro
Pero esa no es la novedad
Su tragedia nos contaron a pesar del aguacero
Y aunque la historia es familiar, nos dejaron empapados
Pues si fuera un caso aislado, sería una pena infinita
Mas esta historia está escrita en los reveses del pueblo
Animalito perdido que la lluvia va limpiando
Es la memoria un tesoro
Y el olvido su remanso
-Extracto de “La Flor al Paso”, por Leyla Selman.
girls be like “im fighting demons” and the demon is a degree they chose for themselves
What are gringos doing now?
Ah yes, making child labor legal again
Los campesinos te lo habían dicho. Que llegaban en camionetas sin preguntar y disparaban a diestra y siniestra.
Te lo habían dicho y no les creíste.
Que sacaban a sus hijos y esposos y los rellenaban de plomo en frente de todo el mundo.
Te lo dijeron los pelados de las comunas.
Y no les creíste que entraban a los barrios encapuchados y con fusiles.
Militares y paramilitares de la mano señalando a quien matar.
Las madres de Soacha lo gritaron.
Y les dijiste que seguro sus muchachos “no andaban recogiendo café”.
Te lo dijeron las jóvenes que encerraban en las estaciones y las violaban mientras otros veían y se reían.
Te lo contaron.
Te dijeron que a la orilla del río bajaban los restos de las personas mutiladas.
Y te lo dijimos nosotros cuando éramos estudiantes.
Que los escuadrones de la muerte venían en manada buscando a quien no tenía con que defenderse. Y nos llamaste vándalos, subversivos, terroristas.
Ahora, ¿ya lo ves? ¿O cerrás la ventana?
¿Ya nos crees? Ahora que tus hijos pueden estar en la calle. Ahora que tu esposo puede estar tocando la puerta, pero nunca más los vas a ver entrar.
Ahora que tu hija está detenida o que la vecina llora porque mataron a su nieto.
Ahora. A esta hora que nadie duerme sino que solo cierran los ojos esperando que amanezca pronto para que la muerte quede expuesta a la luz del día.
Sólo hasta ahora.
Autor: Desconocido.
What’s happening in Peru
since so many people are coming out as exclusionists, lemme just let yall know, my blog is a safe space for all genders and sexualities. asexuality is part of the lgbtq+ community and pansexuality is super fucking valid. we dont support exclusionists here.
Finally, a sane celebrity who doesn’t bend the knee to feminist bullshit.
Source
My god I love her.
I know people are gonna get salty af about this but by God she’s RIGHT.
When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. I’ve you’ve ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a “look”.
Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesn’t last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a “look”.
The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood and Sand were eating pretty much chicken and veggies for every meal to maintain a “look”.
Why is this such a big deal? Because all these characters are considered physical goals for men. These are actual unobtainable physical standards for men. Male body image issues get swept under the rug so often that some people don’t even think they exist.
You want proof? Just check out that scene in Captain America: First Avenger where Cap just transformed into that beautiful beefcake of a man. Agent Carter’s actress just HAD to touch them muscles, it was completely unscripted.
Chris Evans had to wear shirts so small they physically hurt, and he dislocated a shoulder during the helicopter scene in Civil War. But who cares, girls got to wet their panties watching Captain America flex.
If we are talking about unrealistic physical standards of male fitness given to us by movies, I would like to mention Hugh “Wolverine” Jackman here.
Yeah, he is ripped, isn’t he?
Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of “water weight”.
Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular.
As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, “If You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout ‘Roll it!”
It’s the same with professional bodybuilders who get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a bit better.
According to experts, healthy body fat percentage for a healthy male ranges from 8% to 20%, depending on height, lifestyle and numerous other variables.
Fitness model and professional bodybuilder Helmut Strebl also known as “World’s Most Shredded Man” as he supposedly managed to get his body fat percentage below 5%…
… But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of one’s body for longer periods of time.
I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human then…
There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydration…
And let’s not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known as “Megarexia” or “Bigarexia”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia
Yeah, it’s a thing, but it’s barely talked about, since it’s apparently not manly to admit to having problems like that, which also creates problems with researching this particular disorder…
So… Thanks Hollywood?
I had no idea that most people who looked like this are dehydrated until I read posts like this.
dehydrated to the point theyre about a day away from actual organ failure okay so chris hemsworth is a absolute god of a man, but hollywood says ‘thats not good enough’ and for the thor movie he has to spend several days having the juice squeezed from his body untill he looses about a gallon of whats supposed to be him so that he can do 2 days of shooting scenes without his shirt, after which he has to have recovery time before he is hospitalized because i am not joking about ‘one day away from organ failure’ thats the benchmark- look at chris hemsworth and process that he is told he isnt suitable for a shirtless scene without prepping for three days and nearly fainting
real feminism acknowledges the unhealthy standards that men are held to. radfems brush them off as non-existent
guys, feminism is for you, too. it’s for all of us.
Unrealistic body images helps no one and actively hurts men too!!
since the discussion of that they put henry cavill through for the witcher is floating around my blog, i want to add this too,.
one of the reasons producers get away with this in men and no one criticizes it is because we are fed the lie that this body type is 1) attainable and 2) healthy.
We know starving women down to skinniness is unhealthy, but you see an overmuscled man and you don’t immediately think dehydration.
i love this whole thread but uh
this IS feminism. being able to speak out about that? that’s the most feminist thing she could have done. don’t call it bullshit, because this is IMPORTANT. these men are being starved and dehydrated and basically just hurt over and over again so that people can drool over their muscles and no one (by which i mean the audience) realizes something is wrong. so don’t say that this isn’t feminism, because it is. it really, really is.
Remember when Zac Efron ate pasta in his Netflix show and cried afterwards?
Also that Natalie Dormer headline is 100% feminist thank you @crying-at-ikea for your service.
what started as a students' protest over a rise in subway fares,
ended up destroying dictator pinochet's constitution
((but actually, we know it wasn't just over subway fares, it was the accumulation of decades' worth of misery and injustices. chile was the first guinea pig for neoliberalism, years before reagan or thatcher.))
Chile despertó!!
Histórico, ahora Plaza Dignidad, 25 de Octubre