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Gays: if you’re not gay then you’re not gay
People in hetero relationships but who wear silly clothing: How DARE You Disrespect me! I exist!
heels are my number one feminist op (not platforms). THEY ARE SO BAD FOR YOU!!
my favorite favorite thing about my neighborhood is how safe it is….maybe I do to go to the 24 hour fruit stand listening to folk music and not super paying attention. Maybe that’s fine. Maybe there are normal people on the street even at that time.
if bridgerton has no haters I am deceased
look, I totally empathize with the idea that woc should have cute princess stories not dominated by racism but what if I told you that there is real well documented history of woc thriving in times and places far far away from the atlantic slave trade where we could create fantasy stories and have cute outfits that don’t involve glamorizing the very people who made human rights crimes that RIVAL THE HOLOCAUST seem sexy and cool like.
this is also my issue with glamorizing a certain historical queen lizzie like girlie pop was a girlboss when she fought the Spanish but she was doing unimaginable crimes in what wiule become the US, the uk and ireland. The Regency girlies were bad.
Yea, Bridgerton is such a weird re-imagining. The idea that re-casting white supremacist elites as people of color is some sort of progressive thing to do comes from people lacking in historical knowledge and political praxis, imo.
Like, I unreservedly love Shonda Rhimes and her aesthetic of unrepentant acceleration, but Bridgerton's blind cast has always struck me as deeply tone-deaf, if not racist.
Hamilton, on the other hand, is just fucking racist; recasting historical white slave-owners as people of color while still idealizing them is psychotic.
With Bridgerton being a romance fantasy, a deep and abiding suspension of disbelief is required. For women to find any historical romance compelling is already a big fucking leap, as we all know that actual women in these time periods were essentially domestic slaves, and things like marital rape and domestic abuse were legal while divorce and homosexuality were not.
Bridgerton makes some half-hearted commentary on these issues, and they do the same for trans atlantic slavery and racism. In my opinion, it makes the show even worse, as it breaks the fantasy and the commentary they offer is still both misogynistic and racist. No one needs to watch another female character get raped, for example, and the idea that Queen Charlotte had black ancestry was started by one of her racist contemporaries. There's no truth to it, and the idea that a black woman could sit the throne while watching her people be brutally enslaved . . . Not what I'd call progressive. There are a number of scenes of her collecting/ eating towers of bonbons, for example. It's played for laughs for people who have no understanding of where that sugar came from.
Like, we do have historical examples of women finding themselves at the helm of imperial patriarchies, but any progressive actions they took were carefully offset by the sorts of depravity that imperialism requires. Difficult to run an empire without pledging allegiance to extreme hierarchy, and no oppressed person can hold the power of their oppressors without being complicit in that system of oppression.
I think one of the reasons women like Queen Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette, Anastasia, and so on is that these women were prominent enough that we actually have a pretty good historical record of their lives. The lives of everyday women have, for the most part, been erased by male supremacists throughout history.
It makes sense for women to find kinship with these figures, because they are often all the evidence we have of our foremothers. But, at the same time, feeling represented by a string of imperial leaders doesn't exactly foster leftist political ideals.
One can do both, tho! I think Queen Victoria was a fashion icon, but obviously I save my social and political respect for Harriet Tubman and Anna Elizabeth Dickinson.
What I find most enraging is that there are, despite men's best efforts to erase them, plenty of truly progressive, courageous, badass women throughout history that performing and visual arts could focus on, that tv shows and films could be written about.
Like, as much as I love My Lady Jane, when tf will we get a show about Boudica? Apacuana? Kittur Chennamma? Ana Betancourt? Jenny von Westphalen? Lucy Parsons???
Many, many such horrible deprivations.
yes! and to your last point I think the stories would be a lot better if we tried to tell them with some fidelity to the lives and empires those women actually ran, understand the choices they made and idk like genuinely ask the audiences to grapple with the worlds those characters inhabit rather than superimposing our values onto it and if you want something a lot less morally complicated there are absolutely stories you can find like you listed!
And you’re also right about source material too. But there are some ways around it, The Long Song is a lot of fantasy and elements of enslavement were really toned down for the audience, but when crafting July’s character there was engagement with historical sources. One of my favorite parts of the show was the humor she had and that’s actually really well documented as something enslaved people did all the time to pursue a bit of their dignity. We also have property record, court data, church roles and other ways to get at some of what these women did.
also a Boudica movie like….I just want to see the world building so bad
if bridgerton has no haters I am deceased
look, I totally empathize with the idea that woc should have cute princess stories not dominated by racism but what if I told you that there is real well documented history of woc thriving in times and places far far away from the atlantic slave trade where we could create fantasy stories and have cute outfits that don’t involve glamorizing the very people who made human rights crimes that RIVAL THE HOLOCAUST seem sexy and cool like.
this is also my issue with glamorizing a certain historical queen lizzie like girlie pop was a girlboss when she fought the Spanish but she was doing unimaginable crimes in what wiule become the US, the uk and ireland. The Regency girlies were bad.
Yea, Bridgerton is such a weird re-imagining. The idea that re-casting white supremacist elites as people of color is some sort of progressive thing to do comes from people lacking in historical knowledge and political praxis, imo.
Like, I unreservedly love Shonda Rhimes and her aesthetic of unrepentant acceleration, but Bridgerton's blind cast has always struck me as deeply tone-deaf, if not racist.
Hamilton, on the other hand, is just fucking racist; recasting historical white slave-owners as people of color while still idealizing them is psychotic.
With Bridgerton being a romance fantasy, a deep and abiding suspension of disbelief is required. For women to find any historical romance compelling is already a big fucking leap, as we all know that actual women in these time periods were essentially domestic slaves, and things like marital rape and domestic abuse were legal while divorce and homosexuality were not.
Bridgerton makes some half-hearted commentary on these issues, and they do the same for trans atlantic slavery and racism. In my opinion, it makes the show even worse, as it breaks the fantasy and the commentary they offer is still both misogynistic and racist. No one needs to watch another female character get raped, for example, and the idea that Queen Charlotte had black ancestry was started by one of her racist contemporaries. There's no truth to it, and the idea that a black woman could sit the throne while watching her people be brutally enslaved . . . Not what I'd call progressive. There are a number of scenes of her collecting/ eating towers of bonbons, for example. It's played for laughs for people who have no understanding of where that sugar came from.
Like, we do have historical examples of women finding themselves at the helm of imperial patriarchies, but any progressive actions they took were carefully offset by the sorts of depravity that imperialism requires. Difficult to run an empire without pledging allegiance to extreme hierarchy, and no oppressed person can hold the power of their oppressors without being complicit in that system of oppression.
I think one of the reasons women like Queen Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette, Anastasia, and so on is that these women were prominent enough that we actually have a pretty good historical record of their lives. The lives of everyday women have, for the most part, been erased by male supremacists throughout history.
It makes sense for women to find kinship with these figures, because they are often all the evidence we have of our foremothers. But, at the same time, feeling represented by a string of imperial leaders doesn't exactly foster leftist political ideals.
One can do both, tho! I think Queen Victoria was a fashion icon, but obviously I save my social and political respect for Harriet Tubman and Anna Elizabeth Dickinson.
What I find most enraging is that there are, despite men's best efforts to erase them, plenty of truly progressive, courageous, badass women throughout history that performing and visual arts could focus on, that tv shows and films could be written about.
Like, as much as I love My Lady Jane, when tf will we get a show about Boudica? Apacuana? Kittur Chennamma? Ana Betancourt? Jenny von Westphalen? Lucy Parsons???
Many, many such horrible deprivations.
yes! and to your last point I think the stories would be a lot better if we tried to tell them with some fidelity to the lives and empires those women actually ran, understand the choices they made and idk like genuinely ask the audiences to grapple with the worlds those characters inhabit rather than superimposing our values onto it and if you want something a lot less morally complicated there are absolutely stories you can find like you listed!
And you’re also right about source material too. But there are some ways around it, The Long Song is a lot of fantasy and elements of enslavement were really toned down for the audience, but when crafting July’s character there was engagement with historical sources. One of my favorite parts of the show was the humor she had and that’s actually really well documented as something enslaved people did all the time to pursue a bit of their dignity. We also have property record, court data, church roles and other ways to get at some of what these women did.
life expectancy for an enslaved person in the sugar colonies was less than 5 years. They mixed people who spoke different languages together on purpose. Sugar harvesting cuts you inherently and those cuts would get filled with sugar which…bc of the tropical environment would get filled with bugs. and you worked 16,17 hours a day 7 days a week completely isolated, covered in bugs until you fucking died. If you were a woman you could not even rest at night bc you would be getting raped. Ruling families in England made a boatload of money off of colonies where this was practiced and even the coolest and most feminist of the bunch did not do enough to challenge it.
Every single family who made money off of slavery should 🔫🔫🔫. It’s NOT a cute princess fantasy and making those people poc to be woke is an insult to the people who died in the trade or resisting it fucking bite me.
people would be so malnourished they would eat dirt and they literally made muzzles to make them stop bc it would rupture your stomach whatever you think about slavery it was worse and what’s taught in k12 is a super toned down kid friendly version.
life expectancy for an enslaved person in the sugar colonies was less than 5 years. They mixed people who spoke different languages together on purpose. Sugar harvesting cuts you inherently and those cuts would get filled with sugar which…bc of the tropical environment would get filled with bugs. and you worked 16,17 hours a day 7 days a week completely isolated, covered in bugs until you fucking died. If you were a woman you could not even rest at night bc you would be getting raped. Ruling families in England made a boatload of money off of colonies where this was practiced and even the coolest and most feminist of the bunch did not do enough to challenge it.
Every single family who made money off of slavery should 🔫🔫🔫. It’s NOT a cute princess fantasy and making those people poc to be woke is an insult to the people who died in the trade or resisting it fucking bite me.
if bridgerton has no haters I am deceased
look, I totally empathize with the idea that woc should have cute princess stories not dominated by racism but what if I told you that there is real well documented history of woc thriving in times and places far far away from the atlantic slave trade where we could create fantasy stories and have cute outfits that don’t involve glamorizing the very people who made human rights crimes that RIVAL THE HOLOCAUST seem sexy and cool like.
this is also my issue with glamorizing a certain historical queen lizzie like girlie pop was a girlboss when she fought the Spanish but she was doing unimaginable crimes in what wiule become the US, the uk and ireland. The Regency girlies were bad.
if bridgerton has no haters I am deceased
look, I totally empathize with the idea that woc should have cute princess stories not dominated by racism but what if I told you that there is real well documented history of woc thriving in times and places far far away from the atlantic slave trade where we could create fantasy stories and have cute outfits that don’t involve glamorizing the very people who made human rights crimes that RIVAL THE HOLOCAUST seem sexy and cool like.
if bridgerton has no haters I am deceased
if bridgerton has no haters I am deceased
if bridgerton has no haters I am deceased
Jenny Saville
"what if that homeless person you gave money to spends it on alcohol ???😱" first of all alcohol withdrawal kills people and if theyre not in a safe place to detox (unlikely if they dont have a fucking home) this is literally harm reduction. second of all if they are not in danger of withdrawal thats fine too because im not a little baby bitch who thinks people have to earn the right to have a fucking drink by passing the "must be this tall housed to ride" test. third of all i would have spent it on alcohol also. so now what.
"bottom" please consider 🫵 whether the word you are looking for is in fact "submissive" ! because if we decide that taking dick means your personality & character r inherently subservient 😃 we might as well just throw in the towel on the most basic premise of feminism & 🔫 kill ourselves 🎉