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listen tho if you tell me we had sex and I was so drunk that I literally just have to take your word for it it was rape
and like if I was wasted and you weren't and I said no and you just laughed it was rape
blurred lines my fucking ass thanks for the heroin problem
the ol’ razzle dazzle
am i the only person not affected by generalized positivity… like post it notes in bathrooms that say ‘you’re beautiful’ or posts that are like ‘smile! you are a beautiful sunshine flower!’ i’m just like … okay…
I just heard a psychologist (Guy Winch) say that the people that positive affirmations help most are actually the people who have high or at least normal self-esteem. They really do cheer those people up!
But for the rest of us they run so counter to our general worldview (we’re fundamentally bad and deserve nothing) that our brain rejects them immediately as lies and uses that moment to remind us of how terrible and abnormal we actually are.
What usually works for people with low self-esteem is stuff like writing out a list of very specific things we know we’re good at, and revisiting it every day to write a paragraph elaborating on one of those things (i.e. “I’m a compassionate person and here are five examples”) to try to set our brain on a different track long term.
That makes so much sense.
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you remember when “IDFWU” came out and everybody got out all their anger from their ex. We were cleansed. Thanks to Pastor Big Sean
someone: am i the only one who—
me: There are 7,000,000,000 People On This Earth
Why is the “historical realism” thing always rape?
A couple weeks ago The Mary Sue announced they weren’t going to cover “Game of Thrones” any more after yet another female character being brutally raped. The thread is still being invaded by trolls periodically, and there are more than 12,000 comments on the article, which is a site record and probably an internet record. (12K comments because a single website said “We’re not going to recap or promote this show any more.” Baffling.)
Tons of trolls have thrown out the “but THINGS WERE JUST LIKE THAT BACK THEN!” argument ad nauseum. Which is total bullshit, of course. Now with the season finale of “Outlander” (which, spoiler, also included rape) the trolls are coming back.
I just want to ask, why is it whenever producers/directors/writers want to demonstrate “gritty historic realism” it’s ALWAYS RAPE? It’s always sexual violence toward women/girls.
You know what would be gritty historic realism? Dysentery. GoT has battles and armies marching all over the place. You want to show “what things were like back then”? Why aren’t we seeing 500 guys by the side of a road puking and shitting their guts out from drinking contaminated water while the rest of the army straggles along trying to keep going? Or a village getting wiped out by cholera? Or typhus, polio or plague epidemics?
You want to show what it was like back then for women? Show a woman dying of sepsis from an infection she caught while giving birth. Show a woman coping with ruptured ovarian cysts with nobody know what it is. Breast cancer that the audience will recognize immediately but the characters think is some mark of the devil or some shit.
But no, it’s always rape. And we all know why that is. Because these douchecanoes that do this, though they’ll deny it, think rape is sexy. Because they can’t make a modern set story where women get raped in every god damned episode without being called monsters. So they use “but but historical realism!” to cover their sexism (see “Mad Men”) and misogyny. Then they tell us “That’s just how it was back then!” with the clear implication “Shut the fuck up bitch, because that could be you and you should be thanking me that it’s not.”
Can we propose a rule for “realistic” historical fiction/fantasy? Twelve graphic cases of dysentery for every one graphic rape?
^^ I like this idea.
Maybe if high fantasy writers and creators weren’t all fucking hacks who’ve been riding JRRT’s dick for the last fifty years and insist on making every single god damn fantasy world they create a boring retread of Middle Earth based on the same three hundred year span of time in four countries of Western Europe they wouldn’t all have to rely on the same garbage logic to justify their garbage misogyny.
You know, they could deny that they find rape sexy, and they might even believe their own denials. But the point is that they clearly don’t think of rape as something distasteful enough and disgusting enough to omit.
And you know what, I’m not even gonna insist on the dysentery. Just this: if you’re going to include rape on the basis of historical accuracy, none of your female characters are allowed to have shaved legs or armpits. And all of your characters have to have terrible teeth – yellowed and worn and crooked, because nobody’s getting braces or regular visits to the dentist – with at least a few teeth blackened or missing for every character over the age of thirty.
Of course, if your reaction to blackened teeth and hairy armpits is “ugh, no, sure it might be historically accurate but it’s gross, nobody’s going to want to watch that" and you don’t have the exact same reaction to rape, you might want to think about why that is.
Not to mention that some of the societies portrayed, or inspiring similar fantasy settings, actually had STRONGER protections against and consequences for rape than the ones we live in today.
Accounts from Vikings’ contemporaries recount a lot of raiding, but not a single case of rape. Viking law didn’t treat rape as a property crime, and the penalty for it was outlawry, which was essentially a death sentence. Medieval English law prescribed that rapists be castrated and blinded. And the sagas contain vanishingly few references to rape (and violence against women is usually followed with comeuppance–often death–for the perpetrator).
TL;DR: History wasn’t one giant rape-fest, and in fact, members of the cultures high fantasy is usually based on may have actually been more disapproving of rape than we are today (imagine trying to pass a bill making rape a capital offense today!).
These writers include rape because they like writing about rape, not because history dictates it.
why does “hate breeds hate” always mean “if you hate your oppressors, they will just hate you more” and not “if you hate and oppress people, they will start to hate you too”
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Reblog. This could really help someone out.
Reblogging because I remember the days I had to do this so my baby girl could eat
I experienced sleep paralysis for the first time this morning. And let me just say.. that shit is horrifying. I thought I was gonna die. Only instead of doing something about it all I could do was lay there and stare at the wall. Cool.
meg, that sunflower’s gonna fucking die
#they face the sun for a reason lmao im cryin
“stop being dramatic”
me:
Despite having the most intense drug dream I've had in a hot min today was hella productive... Still trying to tell myself that I can be proud of me bc I got all the important shit I've been putting off for like a year and a half done today plus cleaned the house, filed my taxes, and worked a shift. Yay for not going to jail... Hooray for feeding the machine. (The fact that I'll be paying for my kidneys to work until I am quite literally 32 is a lil bit of a buzzkill but these things happen when you're in a shit country I guess) Idk I think this full moon was really good for me.. like I was sad all day today but it didn't stop me from doing things I've been mentally unfuckingable to do for almost 700 days. Which is kind of a big deal. My brain just has trouble rewarding me for it idk. -pats own shoulder while sobbing-
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File this one under “Masculinity So Fragile…”
“Thought up by a guy who lives in an old firehouse, walks to work with his dog, has two bikes and a trike, and want to move beyond stemware.”
“At MANCAN we believe wine is for drinking, not pairing, and our “notes” are more rock than classical.”
“Crush one at the game, throw one in your back pocket on a camping trip, or pop one open at your favorite dive bar.”
“Just do us a favor and don’t talk about the “aroma.””
“MANCAN - SHUT UP AND DRINK”
omg that gifset i need it for everything
The sad part is that wine in a can has a lot of practicality to it… But they ruined it with the fragile masculinity.
