Only Happening Inside Your Head

[justalittlelighttocallmyown]

I can’t with these people

[theyouth--waste-it]

Honestly i was never even there to see any tweets or interviews or whatever. One day people just started hating on her and i just reblogged the memes i have no idea what she said

[champagnemoon]

body positivity has largely failed because people started arguing for attractiveness and romantic prospects instead of respect and dignity

[carewitchproject]

this is truly the best summary of what all of this SHOULD be about

[extremeirrelevancy-deactivated2]

If you remove biological femaleness from the definition of “woman” you’re left with stereotypes related to femininity.

If you then try to remove the stereotypes, you’re left with a word that defines absolutely nothing, and is useful to no one.

And making a word that is important to the discussion of systematic oppression into meaningless window dressing is fucking bullshit.

[ryan-sometimes]

COVID is slowly becoming a “third world” disease. While first world countries are hoarding vaccines, having doses for populations many times their size, third world countries can’t get any because pharma companies want to sell to the first world countries first. Even then, first world countries will receive them first. While rich countries recover from COVID, they will forget about the pandemic while many other countries live the absolute worst moment of the pandemic without being able to vaccinate their population.

[ryan-sometimes]

Watch also when some first world countries finish vaccinating their populations, they will turn to third world countries and “donate” or sell surplus vaccines. People in these countries will go “Oh how sweet! The government is donating vaccines to the poorer countries <3” when it was their hoarding that led to many, many third world citizens dying before they could even get vaccinated in the first place.

[comradesaucegay]

african and latin american countries are also pushed by pfizer to give up sovereign assets as part of their vaccine agreement

[nanalineni]

Yo europeans, sign the fucking petition, get the european commission to lift the patents

No Profit on Pandemic! Sign now!

Everyone deserves protection from COVID-19.

[nanalineni]

This is not a bullshit useless change dot org petition by the way this is an actual thing with legal consequences. If this petition gets to a million signatures, the european commission HAS to examine it.

[queerqueerspawn]

They need not only a million signatures but to pass thresholds in at least seven member states - which only Belgium has done so so far. Especially if you have Italian, Irish, or Cypriot citizenship, please sign. Sign it in general, but try to circulate if you can to anyone with those nationalities specifically.

[leosuncancervenus]

231,195 / 1,000,000 signatures as of 10/28/21

[hairasuntouchedaspartoftheamazon]

237,730  /  1,000,000  signatures as of 11/28/21 and the Signatory Deadline(it has to be signed by this date) is January 8th, 2022.

PLEASE sign, especially if you’re from one of the countries that has not reached it’s threshold. (France, Sweden, Greece, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria…basically every country except Italy and Belgium)

Minimum thresholds must be met in at least five more countries in addition to the 1,000,000 signatures requirement.

The countries closest to reaching their minimum threshold are Ireland(89% of required signatures), France(75%), The Netherlands (75%), Spain (69%), and Cyprus (46%). If you or anyone you know have citizenship in these countries, please sign it, encourage them to sign it, and pass it forward.

If the requirements are met, the European Commission will be forced to examine this and take legal action. Real change is a possibility if enough signatures are collected.

Spread this.

[metamorphesque]

Everyone forgets Icarus also flew

1. Jack Gilbert / 2. “The Fall of Icarus” by Merry-Joseph Blondel / 3. Lines attributed to Irish poet Oscar Wilde / 4. “The Fall of Icarus” by René Milot / 5. Charles Baudelaire / 6. “The Lament for Icarus” by Herbert James Draper / 7. Ilya Kaminsky / 8. “Icarus on the Rocks” by Vlaho Bukovac / 9. Nina Mouawad

[justalittlelighttocallmyown]

The war against JK Rowling: How one woman became a hate figure in the debate on gender and sex

The Harry Potter author has become shorthand for so-called terfdom in the increasingly bitter debate over sex, gender and trans rights. It i

”The rage against Rowling is actually rage against her for being a woman who has not politely faded into the background, but who has instead asserted her voice and her boundaries. That is what is specifically infuriating about her – and it’s why one of the favoured tactics from her attackers was to reply to her tweets with images of pornography.

The sexual nature of the violation was not accidental. But Rowling has not buckled under the abuse. She is, for now, the inadvertent figurehead of a highly contentious issue; but she is too much her own woman to be reduced to a caricature by anyone.”

[fullmetalswift]

how are we going to teach the gen z kids that fiction includes bad people and bad things and makes you uncomfortable on purpose sometimes bc maybe the author is trying to tell you something 

[justalittlelighttocallmyown]

I can’t with these people

[user87262893]

i don’t get why everyone is getting so upset that jk rowling said biology is real. but no boohoo terfs ruined harry potter. get over it

the only valid take I’ve seen is “jk Rowling is worried about lesbian erasure but there’s not one lesbian character in any of her books”

[evilregalswen108-deactivated202]

As a lesbian I’d like to add to this!

The HP books ran from I believe 1998/9 to 2007, whilst section 28 - the article that forbid the promotion of homosexuality within the UK - ran from 1988-2003. (And it didn’t exactly go away overnight).

She already had trouble publishing under a woman’s name, was a working class woman to say the least, so I can hardly fault her for not incuding any gay characters, at the very least, in the majority of the books. I think people forget how much has changed in these lasts few decades. Just my thoughts, but I appreciate that she’s using her platform now.

[furiosafemale]

With this new information, letting us know Dumbledore was gay after the films were done makes more sense.

[pronounpin-deactivated20200801]

Did people not know this? 🤔

[homosaccharide]

am young so yes

[lesbian-mercury-deactivated2022]

this is what happens when we americanise gay/lesbian history. section 28 was awful and it really stinks that all these TRAs inundating Rowling with threats can’t put two and two together. 

I’m 19 and I never encountered a gay character in any fiction I read until I was maybe 11 or 12. Our sex-ed didn’t even say as a minimum that gay people exist, and that it was okay if you’re gay, and I finished state education in 2017 - 14 years after Section 28 was repealed in law.

[joannerowlingwashere]

On top of that, Rowling wrote more books beside HP. There is a lesbian character in A Casual Vacancy who’s definitely a butch, outdoorsy type (her homophobic parents are basically the story’s antagonists whom she fled as a teen). Troubled Blood is about Strike helping a lesbian couple figure out what happened to one of the woman’s missing mother.

I think people also don’t remember at all what happened when she let out the fact that Dumbledore was gay. She never made like a big announcement on twitter (that was 2007, i’m not sure Twitter even existed), she just gave an honest reply at a small gathering with some fans asking her questions post last book release. People went absolutely mad over this. Religious nutjobs were calling for book burnings again. Gay teens went out massively to comment on how much that reveal meant to them. It’s only much later that people started constructing this fake idea that Rowling had somehow “done that for publicity” and it was “queerbaiting” to “make more money”. Make more money?? From what?! The seventh and finale book had just been published ans was literally the most sold book of all times!! If anything she was endangering her sales. This had nothing to do with Coca-Cola pulling off a they/them.

[appropriately-inappropriate]

To put it in perspective: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix came out in 2003, the same year that it became legal to mention homosexuality in a positive light.

She was five books into a seven book series before she could say anything more specific than “Dumbledore’s a friend of Dorothy’s”.

[hobrien]

do you ever see someone’s comment about a film/tv show you watch or a book you’ve read and wonder if maybe we all truly live in different realities and the internet is the only commonly shared space which doesn’t change across universes, because it isn’t fucking possible to draw such dumbass conclusions about a thing unless we’ve seen/read different versions of it

[justalittlelighttocallmyown]

Opinion | The Little Symbol Triggering Men in South Korea’s Gender War

Fury over pinched fingers and a sausage is putting women’s rights in danger.

And they say women are oversensitive. ❤️ to the women of South Korea.

[same-shit-different-century]

Not sure if this has been posted yet but it's an article on jkr in The Times

Alex Massie: Death threats don’t sit on the right side of history

Today, like yesterday and like tomorrow too, the most famous person living in Scotland will probably receive at least one death threat and a

It's behind a paywall so I'll share screenshots in a reblog

[same-shit-different-century]

[dasfeministmermaid]

I dislike the misogynistic fearmongering that surrounds pregnancy and birth. There is so much misinformation that gets spread as fact, the most pervasive being "pregnancy will ruin your body"

It's nonsense and covers for medical mistreatment. Female bodies are built to sustain multiple pregnancies. As long as a woman is fully grown and healthy, pregnancy is safe. What causes most of the problems are unsafe birthing practices.

In my own reading, I found many interesting facts such as:

Pregnancy/childbirth has no long term effect on urinary continence. What does have a significant causal effect on urinary incontinence is the use of catheters w/ caesarians and epidurals

More so than pregnancy itself, permanent breast changes result from weight gain and loss and a woman's genetics

Tears heal better and faster than episiotomies, and tears are much less likely to occur when a mother is calm and unrushed

Prolapse is connected to rushed, induced, and/or instrumental delivery

Etc etc etc

When you take this knowledge and apply it to the sky-high intervention and unnatural birth rates in the US, it makes a sinister sort of sense. Women's bodies are strong and capable; it's time we stop disparaging them when incompetent doctors and nurses are largely to blame.

[justalittlelighttocallmyown]

As someone working in an L&D ward I felt I had to comment on this. “Incompetent doctors and nurses” are not to blame for women’s issues postpartum. Some people give birth without complications sure, and if a delivery can be done without instrumental assistance or without the help of oxytocin (a medication to give you stronger contractions and help progress) you can be damn well sure we don’t give it. The medical staff don’t wish anyone harm. We are not incompetent. We have discussions almost on the daily about how to be better, how to minimise postpartum bleeding, how to make the situation calmer for the woman because OF COURSE being in a hospital can be scary. We research how to stitch up vaginal ruptures better because no woman should be troubled by that postpartum, but it’s a sad truth that many still are. My L&D is comprised of only women; all the OBGYNS, all the midwives and all the nurses and other staff, and let me tell you we work our asses of to make sure we give the best care possible to the women who come here.

Also:

Giving birth can absolutely affect continence.

Tears can happen if a birth is rushed (such as when the baby is in distress and you need instrumental assistance), but they almost always occur, although in varying degrees. Sometimes it is simply better with an episiotomy than an uncontrolled tear.

Don’t have enough facts to comment on prolapse but if a birth was in some way rushed or ended with the help of instruments it was necessary, for the mother or the baby’s health.

The rate of induction is a problem, but the medical community almost never recommend induction if it isn’t absolutely necessary. Almost always we induce because the patient is worried and wants us to.

That being said of course we should find ways to do better, to make sure women get the best possible care. But we don’t mean harm and we do our best.

[joannerowlingfans]

J K Rowling woke me up - Merched Cymru

J K Rowling woke me up. In my far-flung corner of rural Wales, I’d been complacent and comfortable. Raising a family, then home educating my children and getting back into work, I’d filed away women’s rights as safe and secure. I had taught my children about the suffragettes and women’s liberation, explaining how far women had come. Women had choice

“I thought women’s rights were safe and secure. I was wrong.

Thanks to J K Rowling, I’m awake now.” - Ruthy Jones

[artemisiasea]

When Toni Morrison said the grandeur of life is the attempt, not the solution… And how she went on to explain that it’s about behaving as beautifully as one can under completely impossible circumstances. The power that has, you know? It’s really just the making room for what breathes in the presence of the attempt. In the coming-to-be. 

[berakar]

[artemisiasea]

This is the one.

[seashell-strut]

Q: How do you survive whole in a world where we’re all victims of something?“

Ms. Morrison: Ummm, how do you survive whole–I can’t do this quickly, for one–how can you survive whole and when we’re victims of something, um. You know that’s a nice fat, eastern/western philosophical question about ‘how do you get through’?

Sometimes you don’t survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt, it’s not about that solution.

It is about being as fearless as one can, behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. It’s that, that makes it elegant. Good is more interesting. More complex, more demanding.

Evil is silly. It may be horrible but at the same time it’s not a compelling idea: it’s predictable, it needs a tuxedo, it needs blood, it needs fingernails, it’s all that costume, in order to get anybody’s attention.

But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more compelling intellectually, if not spiritually and they certainly are spiritually. This is more fascinating job.

We are already born. We are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.”

[naliya]

Also, regardless or what any one person might legitimately think of JK Rowling,, which is not the subject of this post.

The amount of vitriol aimed at her and her work to diminish her accomplishments and devalue her work when compared to what is leveled at any men (take your pick really), is telling.

Nobody is trying to retroactively claim that any movie ever produced by Weinstein was actually a dud, or that The Pianist has no cinematic value despite Polanski being an actual child rapist, or that if you still enjoy Toy Story you're stupid because it was actually "bad all along" despite Lasseter being... well who he is. No.

People are not trying to pretend any piece of media ever produced by "bad men" were actually never any good. Or not to the extend I'm seeing it happen with JKR and Harry Potter in any case...

Gee... I wonder why that is... Not really.

[naliya]

While I'm on the subject of JK Rowling, I want to add that this pervasive idea floating around that "no one asked her" or "she's just cash grabbing, she needs to stop talking!" each time she adds something to her world or write something new within it, is just as cringy and idiotic as other type of vitriol leveled at her.

First because, again, no one levels that kind of bullshit at other creators. No one is crying foul about Pullman writing within the HDM universe, nor at GRRM for writing side projects within ASOIF before even finishing the main story (granted, he does get criticisms for not writing the end at all, but that's a legitimate thing to say, the vitriol isn't about him writing something else and expending per see which makes a difference here). Others are allowed to expend, to add, even to sell their intellectual property to big studios to plunder without much criticism, but god forbid JKR says Hermione loved math in middle school on Twitter. They act like for her to be legitimate as "HP's owner" she must be perfect and needs to ask "permission" before having fun with it just for the sake of it. I've never seen any other creator treated that way to THAT extent, and if I'm wrong, please show it to me, but I don't think you'll be able to.

Secondly because in what God forsaken universe do you live in where this Fandom DIDN'T ask? We did ask. We did nothing but ask! Are you all zoomers who didn't grow up during the madness or do you have that much of a short term memory?

Back in 2007 after DH was published, people kept asking her over and over again; "Please Jo write Hogwarts: A History", "I hope she does a Marauders prequel!", "Jo, what is Neville's wand core?", "it would be so cool to know what the next Gen is up to" and so on and so forth. This is why Pottermore originally became a thing in the first place, a website which she labeled a gift to the readers at the start and where she released the unpublished material that didn't make it into the novels for FREE.

But now that you don't like everything that she's said and that it doesn't entirely conform to your imagination, ideas and American-centred calvinist politics, you're acting like toddlers throwing temper tantrums for not getting exactly what you want?

A bunch of you are acting so entitled it's not even funny, JK Rowling is one of the huge reason why Fandom culture is allowed to be what it is today, she's was one of the first big name authors to publicly say that people should be allowed to play in her sandbox, with the toys she brought in, even actively encouraged it. But now here you are acting like you own the sandbox and she ought to ask you before participating if she wants to.

Honestly grow up and move on. Your vitriol is exhausting and immature.

[51g970n284-deactivated20220926]

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie link to full essay