Itâs not even just Belinda. This entire era has been weirdly pushy on enforcing motherhood as the purpose of women
Donna is confirmed to have settled down and had a child as soon as she left the doctor
Ruby is only 19 and from the very beginning sheâs in a maternal role. She looks after the children Carla fosters. In space babies she immediately assumes a maternal role to look after the children.
Anita was sad and lonely and now sheâs happy and pregnant (from an accidental pregnancy, isnât she so glad that happened without her deciding to do it!)
The ranis motivation is grief about her infertility, and her plan is to create loads of new time lord children. One of her incarnations describes herself as the mother of the other.
This entire two series arc has been building up to the statement that women should be mothers, and would be so much happier if they were mothers. Whether they want it or not. When it happens theyâll realise itâs what they wanted the whole time. Itâs gross and I think one of the most misogynistic plots from a modern show Iâve seen.
People call moffats era misogynistic but it has NOTHING on this. Belinda had a whole set of memories and a life where she was living in a shared house working as a nurse being a woman in her thirties who didn't conform to the patriarchal ideals of motherhood. And that whole version of herself has been erased and replaced by a 'happy ending' when she had a daughter all along. But she didn't have a daughter all along??? Poppy only existed because of conrads wish. Conrad, who wished for a misogynistic, queerphobic, and ableist world. Why is this version where she is a mother the better ending? Why was Belinda and the Doctor's excitement at travelling together when Poppy was being erased framed as something tragic and wrong?? Say what you will about moffat but at least he explored the horror of unexpected motherhood in series 6. Why was Belinda nothing but happy and fulfilled at being a mother?
billie piper returning isnât an awesome feminist moment or âhaunting the narrativeâ or the story going full circle. Itâs keys being jingled in front of our faces like babies
i keep meeting transfems whose personalities are like, gaping wounds. girls who've been stomped on over and over until they start thinking they're uniquely evil and they deserve it. people shouldn't be allowed to treat us like this.
I've lived with cats my entire life, which is why i don't think i could ever eat cat meat personally, but i would like to try dog meat at least once in my life before i die.
"is it possible for a [thing] girl and a [different thing] boy to be in a relationship? đ„ș" i'll stop you right there. get a notebook cause i'll only tell you once. men and women are not allowed to date each other
a lot of people seem to have trouble accepting that cynical embittered teenagers are literally right about the education system. in fact when people express that something is making them suffer suicidally it generally means there is something wrong. big news for people who desperately fucking hate kids
there is something so âeve tasting the forbidden fruitâ about spike getting his soul back. he had a sort of innocence in his soullessness, but thatâs gone now. he knows what sin is, and heâs ashamed, because all heâs ever done is sin. he tries to hide his shame by clothing himself but he canât hide it. he canât escape it. he embraces the cross but it rejects him. he rebelled against the natural order of things and now heâs being punished for it. maybe heâs adam rather than eve, because he reclaims his soul for the same reason that adam tastes the fruit after eve. âwhy does a man do what he mustnât? for her. to be hers.â
Seeing people wonder âhow can people say stuff like thisâ and âwhy does [x misogynistic thing] keep happeningâ is a bit disorienting because when you take a five second pause to think about it you can realize quite immediately that itâs because people hate women. Like guys⊠people HATE women.
The blind security he showed in our interview had reason to astonish me. We were approaching the moment of major events, he rejected, mockingly, the news of the invasion of the Prussians, for the inaction of which he vouched; he likewise rejected the idea of ââthe perfidies of the plotters from within; and as a true opium giver, according to his honorable custom, he assured that the true way to finally be free, invincible and happy, was to keep ourselves quiet and united, that is to say, to let our enemies do their thing, by discussing with them. It took the cruel events of the tenth [August] to prove to the public that he was only a dreamer, whose foolish confidence had exposed us all to having our throats slit.
How often do you ask yourself âWhat Couthon thought about it?â when you read Robespierreâs and Saint-Justâs opinions about something?
It seems to me (at least this evening) that Thermidorian propaganda was most cruel, albeit unintentionally, to Couthon.
Both Robespierre and Saint-Just were demonized, one as a bloody dictator, another as an âArchangel of Terrorâ. But these images, though far from reality, were magnetizing. Thermidorian propaganda turned people into a kind of myths characters, into symbols. And they are attrecting (not attective), they make you want to learn more.
What French Revolution movies tend to depict? The Reign of Terror. What people far from the Revolution remember the best? Bastille and the Terror â and so they know Robespierre as a dictator, and maybe they know about Saint-Just, his supporter.
And now we have two points:
Couthon didnât get a dark legend that could attract. His function was to be the third in Triumvirate, while the ones who were usually named, acted in person and really bothered and offended thermidorians were Robespierre and Saint-Just. That deprives Couthon of his identity, so when he is finally named itâs like: Couthon in Lyon acts the way triumvirs thought was right; Couthon in Prairial suggested the Robespierreâs law.
Couthon was a deputy of Legislative Assembly, but who cares? Legislative Assembly is an approaching of the war, is the beginning of the âsuspectsâ politics, is a march to the republic, is Girondins rise and shine.
 On 5th October 1791 Couthon gave a stunning speech about why the pomp around the executive should be reduced and the king should be addressed only by âthe king of Frenchâ (the decree was enacted the same meeting, repealed the next day). Moniteur
On 7th October 1791 Couthon gave a speech criticizing the priests who didnât take a civil oath. It was the first speech of that type given in the Legislative Assembly. Moniteur
And then disappears from history books until he meets Dumouriez and then until the National Convention. I canât believe he ceased acting. But I have no time to search for his name in every issue of the Assembly period.
I donât say no one studies him. My point is different.
When I searched for âCouthonâ on Internet Archive, I got this:
With âCouthonâ in a title:
On Gallica with âCouthonâ in a title:
And this:
How is he usually depicted in movies? Sitting here and there in his wheelchair.
What will someone without special interest in him mostly remember about him?
Lyon mission
Prairial law
A dog
Paralytic
Member of CPS, Triumvirate
A friend of Dumouriez before his treason
Not much, and not much politics.
And that is my point: Thermidorian propaganda put a âNothing interesting hereâ sign on him.
That big one, that what made me seriously think about Couthon was a biography of Vergniaud, where he acted by his own.
If anyone knows a good biography of Couthon, please, share it.
I can never understand the argument that âRobespierre was unlike Stalin because Robespierre was a principled and selfless person, whereas Stalin was a psychopathâ, because the thermidorians were smarter liars than Khrushchev ever could be, and it would be pitiful to see through the lies of the former, but be duped by the latter.
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