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this “f1 is for the girlies” push to try and commodify the sport so you can be a “paddock princess” and essentially a pretty object is just repackaged misogyny. girls like CARS. girls like strategy and combustion engineering and aerodynamics and race analysis and RACING. i don’t want to be sold a lingerie set based on who my favourite f1 team is, i want a sensible and flattering team shirt that actually fits my body shape.
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Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor
trans actual uk - trans led and run advocacy, education and empowerment organisation
fiveforfive - collective fund for trans women and girls and transfem causes
gendered intelligence - trans led advocacy org
mermaids - supports trans youth
akt - lgbtq youth homelessness charity
loving me - domestic abuse service for trans people in england
not a phase - for trans adults
spectra - trans led advocacy, education, and other support, also focuses on sexual and mental wellbeing, London-based
trans creative uk - trans artists countering media negativity by raising trans voices, Manchester-based with national reach
trans unite - directory of support groups in the uk
trans kids deserve better - action network by and for trans+ youth
the outside project - LGBTIQ+ centre and shelter (their insta is more up to date)
open calls for genocide of the kashmiris began yesterday. indians are so so so similar to israelis.
this incident was fodder for them to continue the hate mongering and lynching muslims.
SRINAGAR: After the terror attack on tourists in Pahalgam, which claimed the lives of 25 tourists and a resident, the J&K Students Assoc
Security increased in Dehradun, social media posts taken down after threat by Hindu Raksha Dal
Kay was whiney, demanding and domineering. Apo was the submissive, soft, feminine, and agreeable girl that would've suited the entire mafia lifestyle as a wife 50x better than Kay. Yes, him and kay had more concrete and geniune enduring history and love but objectively kay was not the right fit for michaels direction once he stepped up and got into the family business especially after the don got shot. Kay could've accepted reality and the facts that the man she loved changed and she could've left, breaking up with Michael without any dramatics and moved on (like she eventually did after 2nd movie).
I could careless about both of them. Apo and Kay but Apo would've just blended in so well and adjusted to the life perfectly. She was made for it and men like Michael in that world needed Apos, at least on the rise and transition into power. Apo would've never disrespected him and aborted a human life like that especially without telling Michael. I can't see it for her at all. She would mostly get tired of his shit if she got fed up and would've left with the baby (even if he objected). She wouldnt have aborted as some self righteous pompous protest to his evil and madness. Like girl just say you didn't want another baby period and you hated him so thus you never wanted Michael's baby period.
A life is a life period, even if its not born yet and she knew michael was looking forward to having a boy. Its white entitlement and privilege she has that you guys dont seem to understand. She could've turned the baby over to Michael and been done with it. I think she deserved the slap he gave her and Its factual he loved Apo and both of his loves for apo and kay shouldn't be discredited.
This film was made back during a time where love could be conceptualized without needing a bunch of literal experiences together and a laundry list of memories.
Michael liked kay and "loved" her cause she was the best, nearest and only option out there. Men will have a general love for who they're with but there will always be a woman out there past present or future that will be his IT girl, his true type and who he would be with if he someone granted him the chance to have any type of woman he wanted and not just the woman he naturally met.
Apo isnt better than kay and kay isnt better than apo but everyone needs to accept that Apo was better suited for the lifestyle and organized crime. She just was. Last thing Michael needed was some blonde wife at home groaning and being dramatic about all of this like she never had a clue and couldn't leave. She was wealthier and better off than 80% of the country and most people with Michael and abusive relationships like Michael sister and her man existed. Michael stepped out on her when he was under the assumption he would start a new life in italy. Other than that? He always stayed with kay and anyone else would've did worse. Every other mob film the men cheat and dont care.
Apo didnt get a chance and didnt stand a chance but had she lived? Even if she were to have left michael eventually, she's still the better choice not cause of her being above or better but because he needed a more subdued, softer, easier to mold very TRADITIONAL old world kinda girl there.
All I ever saw with kay and michael aside from good times was butting heads, competition and kay determine to make him submit instead of just leaving peacefully and bowing out.
Kay was strong, stood up for herself and her children and was smart. Apollonia was a child, puppeted by her parents and sold off to the highest bidder and couldn't think or act by herself. Apollonia was the perfect young, naive and helpless girl that a corrupt, older mafioso would want on his arm for 3 reasons:
Control: The husband to dominate his wife and control her, having her agree to his every whim and demands.
Power: A mafioso who was also a family man was looked upon as having more structure and being respectable.
Children: To legitimize his family further and have sons to succeed the mafioso in the family business.
Michael's type was always Kay and women like Kay. If Kay wasn't the "right fit" for THE Michael Corleone, why the hell would a man as powerful, influential, well known and wealthy as him bother to keep her around? Michael could have had anyone he wanted. He could have had a woman like Apollonia brought to him out of Sicily faster than tracking Kay down to talk to her and get her back on his side. He chose not to, that was Michael's decision because he wanted to be with Kay. Nobody made Michael do anything he didn't want. Only Michael knew what was right for him and he acted on that.
You're right, Kay could have accepted the reality and the facts of what she had gotten herself into, but what is this so called "reality" and "facts"? She was lied to for over a decade, gaslit and deceived. She didn't know the "reality" and "facts". She knew whatever lies and secrecy Michael fed her to keep her quiet, confused and in line like he would have done with any woman in his life at that point. Kay could've left? She did. Once she realized her husband was becoming a sociopath, endangered her and her children's life (while she was pregnant, mind you) and all his lies came spilling through with his corrupt lifestyle he gaslit Kay into believing he was out of, she left. She did just that.
What dramatics? It was Michael who was dramatic. Michael got up yelling and acting abusive. Michael struck his wife. Was that necessary? Could he not have controlled himself? Let's not make excuses for his fury. What's ignored here is that Kay knew the only way to have Michael let her go, divorce her and make sure they never see each other again was to abort his child and bring it up to his face by insulting the family business (calling it "this Sicilian thing"). She understood it just as well as Michael did, so it was no "Sicilian thing", but she did what she had to do to make that man hate her so Kay could truly be free of him. Michael should have moved on. Why is half the plot of The Godfather Part III Michael chasing Kay around, telling her he loved her and wanted her back? Why was he lamenting like a loser? Why did he pretend to be her taxi driver? Why did he want all that closure? Talk about dramatic.
Apollonia would have been easier to abuse, control and manipulate. Those are the ONLY reasons why she would have adjusted "perfectly". Apollonia would never have left Michael even if he beat her day and night, and that's depressing and horrid to think of as a concept. She wouldn't have up and left, where would she go? She'd have broken English, no money, no education, no credentials to her name other than being a child-birthing machine and no job. She'd be stuck being Michael's bangmaid for the rest of her life. She'd know nothing but a lifetime of his cruelty and distance no matter how many children she popped out. That would be Michael's only use for her, just like how back in Sicily Michael's only use for her was for sex. It literally states in the book Michael married her because he was horny and knew people in Sicily were too "prude" and pre-marital sex was frowned upon. Also, he was bored, there for months without an end date and kept Apollonia as a "sex slave" (stated in the book verbatim) in the house without letting her see anyone for weeks.
Kay did want Michael's baby, which is clearly why she got pregnant with it and carried it for 3 months, until she almost got assassinated with Michael and her unborn child and discovered all of his lies. Why should she go and be a single mother of 3 children, one of which is a newborn baby without a father figure or the funds to support it? Why would she give birth to Michael's expectation; a boy more intelligent and cruder than Anthony to succeed Michael? Who the hell would wanna carry that nightmarish reminder in their body for 6 more months after divorcing the guy?
"A life is a life" I'm gonna have to stop you right there, anon. I'm more than happy to debate The Godfather on all levels, but not the topic of abortion. The fetus was in Kay's body, it's Kay's choice. She was in no way, shape or form entitled to carry a child for 9 months that she didn't want just to "hand it over" to Michael like it's some sweater she knit over a period of almost a year. Also, it's alarming you think Kay deserved to be hit because she had an abortion. You think domestic violence is justifiable in certain cases to you? Unless Kay gave birth to that baby and tore it apart alive in front of Michael's face, nothing warrants abuse, period. Full stop. Women don't deserve to be abused by their husbands.
Mario Puzo, the literal creator of The Godfather, Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino himself said Kay was the love of Michael's life many times over. Apollonia was never mentioned. In the book, it clearly states Michael only loved his father and Kay. It's not "factual" he loved Apollonia, that is strictly your opinion. It's actually incorrect, considering the given statements from Puzo and the novel.
"This film was made back during a time where love could be conceptualized" Incorrect. People had no issue falling in love and creating loving memories and bonds with each other in the 1940s-1960s. I think this is a form of Apollonia cope, because Michael had no bonding with Apollonia other than giving her presents to appease her parents through his wealth so he could literally do 1 thing with her) have sex. He had plenty of bonding with Kay though, and this seems to bother Apollonia stans. You can't discredit this just because it doesn't suit your narrative.
Kay was Michael's "it" girl whether you like it or not. Like I stated above, Michael could have had anyone he wanted if he truly didn't love or need Kay. Just as easily as he married Apollonia, he could have had any other pretty Sicilian girl or whatever to suit his corrupt lifestyle. Again, as Mario Puzo himself, along with Al Pacino and Francis Ford Coppola clamed, Kay Adams was the love of Michael Corleone's life. They're literally telling you right there that Kay IS the "IT" girl of Michael's life.
There's too much talk of what Michael "needed" to succeed in his lifestyle and not enough talk about his corruption, his evil personality, and the pain he caused others. Why are we trying to find women to be trapped alongside with him? Why are we picking which women best suit to go through those evils with him? We should be talking about how Michael deserved nothing good in his life because he fucked it all up for power. He could never be half the man his father was, and the irony of it is that he had it all from birth and he still chose to sabotage it.
That's all I'll say on that.
It's not just to have a "do over" that doesn't involve the original cast, it's to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.
If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That's just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.
#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those 'ungrateful brats' as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products
via @discipleofkleio
I hate Rowling so much.
There's people in the notes saying they're going to watch it anyway, and you know, I understand how you can start feeling so burned out and numb from the world that it may feel too hard to avoid things that will give you a little immediate relief in some way in order to avoid the long-term impact of funding these things.
But. If you can't bring yourself to avoid watching it, you better at least fucking pirate it.
FYI, Rowling posted this today. She is actively queerphobic, do not support this project in anyway.
I know that this was a foundational thing for so many people. I was one of them. Without Harry Potter, I probably wouldn't be the person I am today.
If you're thinking about watching this anyway because you feel all that nostalgia: It's time to grow up. It's time to move on.
Don't even hate watch it. Make it fail.
It is the easiest thing ever to simply not do anything.
#oh look she's expanding the horizon of her hatred. that's nice. (i'm so tired y'all)#transphobia cw#acephobia cw
They always do, it's the same rhetoric used by the same people. The only thing that changes is the order in which the groups are targeted. Bisexual people will be next.
—Lois & Clark, "Tempus Fugitive", Superman & Lois, "Pilot" and Smallville, "Beacon"
“Parasite-in-chief and her idiot hat” is like the 7 most important words a human has ever spoken thank you christopher eccleston
gen z has to reckon with its radicalization problem. you are not a morally pure and superior generation of youth come to save the world, your men and boys are radicalized at an unprecedented level and you ignore it because it’s too hard to address but you have to. these boys are in your classes, they date your friends, you know them and you cannot continue to pretend this is an “old white guy” problem
girls are contributing, too. the coquette aesthetic, the “i don’t want to girlboss i want a man to pay my bills”, girlmath girljob girlmoney. it’s a joke, it’s clothes, it’s whatever, i get it but it is driving a mentality of traditional gender roles and you know you’re joking but your boyfriend doesn’t. your kid brother doesn’t. you have to stop this shit it is a contributing factor
free online james baldwin stories, essays, videos, and other resources
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James baldwin online archive with his articles and photo archives.
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Giovanni's room"When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend's return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened - while Giovanni's life descends into tragedy. This book introduces love's fascinating possibilities and extremities."
Go Tell It On The Mountain"(...)Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiographical novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves."
+bonus: film adaptation on youtube. (if you’re a giancarlo esposito fan, you’ll be delighted to see him in an early preacher role)
Another Country and Going to Meet the Man Another country: "James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit." Going to meet the Man: " collection of eight short stories by American writer James Baldwin. The book, dedicated "for Beauford Delaney", covers many topics related to anti-Black racism in American society, as well as African-American–Jewish relations, childhood, the creative process, criminal justice, drug addiction, family relationships, jazz, lynching, sexuality, and white supremacy."
Just Above My Head"Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land."
If Beale Street Could Talk"Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche."
also has a film adaptation by moonlight's barry jenkins
Tell Me How Long the Train's been gone At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty.
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Baldwin essay collection. Including most famously: notes of a native son, nobody knows my name, the fire next time, no name in the street, the devil finds work- baldwin on film
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Take this hammer, a tour of san Francisco.
Meeting the man
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Debate with Malcolm x, 1963 ( on integration, the nation of islam, and other topics. )
Debate with William Buckley, 1965. ( historic debate in america. )
Heavily moderated debate with Malcolm x, Charles Eric Lincoln, and Samuel Schyle 1961. (Primarily Malcolm X's debate on behalf of the nation of islam, with Baldwin giving occassional inputs.)
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apart from themes obvious in the book's descriptions, a general heads up for themes of incest and sexual assault throughout his works.
"didn't you used to like hp"
yes cuz i was a child and it was a huge phenomenon that gave me an easy sense of wonder and companionship shared with my peers and i was unaware of many evils of the world
i am now an adult and able to see how hateful its creator is and what kind of messages she spreads and i don't want that in my life ✌️ she finds my existence "tragic" and "unfortunate" and is funding legislation that kills people, she can suck my entire ass
Like this always pisses me off. I'm not mad at people who don't know. I'm not mad at people who used to like it. I'm upset with the people who are continuing after they know how harmful it is or actively shutting down conversations that bring awareness.
