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After a long uphill battle since getting Greenlit in January, Depression Quest was planned to, and approved for, launch on Steam today. Literally minutes after we got the notification, beloved actor Robin Williams was found dead from a suspected suicide after a long struggle with...
Tried to put pen to paper with my thoughts on depression after hearing the horrible news and seeing what erupted on my newsfeed.
Last night I managed to unfuck my kitchen. Which doesn't sound like much considering it's so tiny, but it really was great to get it done!
; sometimes the teachers, and counselors, the helpers need help too. We can’t just take laughs, we must give them too for the strongest, bravest, most delightful of us all are still human beings. RIP R.W.
this was in response to what happened at my university, James Madison.
reblogged it before, rebloggin’ it again
Holy crap I have a lot of clothes that I never wear. As I get ready for a move next month, I am on a crusade for some major unfucking. So far, a bag of donations, two bags of clothes headed to the trash.
Male Writer: Ah, anniversary jokes are so funny. Because chicks always hate it when you don't remember anniversaries! A plus gold very original
Male Writer: Mother in laws amirite?
Male Writer: My male character who is an author insert of myself pines after a woman I used to pine after in high school. Then they have sex. This is good literature.
Male Writer: Ugh female books are so romance filled
Male Writer: And girl fanfics, so mary suey
Male Writer: Now listen about this original middle aged man who is an expert in everything, suffers from ennui, looks like me, acts like me, and gets all the girls i want.
Male Writer: She was sexy in an alluring, boring way, filled with purple prose and riddled with objectification
Male Writer: If i make a female character parrot my misogynistic views, they cease to be misogynistic! Are you saying you don't respect my fake female characters opinions, feminists?
Male Writer: a good action girl is one who looks hot at all times
Male Writer: If the female main character got in an asskicking line, my work is Feminist with a capital F and no one can criticize me
Specifically White Male Writer: Heroic tropes are so overdone. I'm going to create a boring white guy with stubble to be a completely original antihero no one has ever seen before TM.
Same Guy: It's original because he is a jerk who gets away with bad behavior, just like I wish i could.
Another Specifically White Male Writer: It's in my universe to only have white men do things in my book. I mean, don't you care about historical accuracy
Same Guy: I mean, it's a generic fantasy verse with no real life time period equivalent and i haven't done any research, but i'm SURE that it's historically accurate. To that dark mideval dragon fighting europe period
Same Guy: Where in Europe? Who cares!
Male Writer: There is no better way to introduce a female character to a male character than by him saving her.
Male Writer: Characters hating each other is good sexual tension!
Male Writer: One female character and five male characters is a good team balance
Male Writer: If my female character chooses to act in a sexist tropey way, it's not sexist. In fact, because she CHOSE to do it, it is Feminist.
Male Writer: I am original
"Characters hating each other is good sexual tension"
Melissa Harris-Perry: Nothing is riskier than being poor in America [full video]
Disney and Marketing Language: Disney Princess Tiaras
All of these item descriptions were found on Disney’s online store, click names for links.
Pocahontas
Keepin that native hair under control with a tiara styled specifically after something popularized by European royalty, encrusted jewels and all? This is kind of like when people claim their great-grandmother was a “native american princess.” (it’s superimposing European ideals and concepts over what Native cultures really were despite the history of what Europeans did to Native people)
Feathers aren’t even a part of Pocahontas’s original design (and this design is labeled “Feather girl”). This is not a comment about designs changing so much as it is a comment about there being numerous distinct and diverse native groups, but a feather is treated as a recognizable symbol for all of them, and any character, at any point in time
Choosing a gilded, jeweled feather ( it’s a peacock feather: not even native to North America) adds an additional context of “every girl wants to wear gold on their head like a typical European princess” which was not part of movie Pocahontas’s personality, and treads even more over the original (real) Pocahontas and her history.
Did anyone remember what problems a search for gold created in this movie??! hii
Jasmine
JASMINE’S DREAM WAS NOT FULFILLED BY BEING A SULTAN’S DAUGHTER?? That is the exact opposite of Jasmine; she hated being treated like that was her sole identity. She was not just someone’s daughter; being a rich, powerful man’s daughter was not her dream!
What is up with the phrase “Arabian desert dream”
Also worth noting that the description is about how your “princess” [daughter, etc] will feel, which makes it doubly messed up.
Anna
Included this as an example of how the language in these is very gender specific. HER beauty will be frozen in time; the tiaras themselves are labeled “Tiaras for girls" just in case anyone was getting ideas of not following the gender binary and allowing anyone to play with tiaras or something
The language in Disney merchandising for girls often comes down to “beauty.” Disney’s merchandise is split into specific “Girls” and “Boys” categories (which is unnecessary and detrimental but done because they assume it leads to more profit, and profit > child’s well being), yet similar words (like handsome) are not used in encouraging text for boys’ toys. (ex: Captain Hook costume)
Mulan
“China girl”?? For comparison, Sofia the first is “crowning glory,” Rapunzel is “art of gold,” Merida is “fiery band.” So I have no idea why Mulan did not receive some pun-y description that would have been less questionable. It’s like calling Merida’s “Scotland girl,” and there isn’t even the same history there of racial othering.
Totally misses the point that 0% of the honor Mulan brought came from looking at her reflection. So why does your daughter need to? Literally the point of the movie is seeing the heroism within and not relying on external appearances in how we judge people. This is an example, again, of where merchandising falls into the constraints of sexist thinking when the movie it was based on never did to the same extent.
Rather than implying that wearing a glittery tiara is how a girl can bring “honor to us all,” it would be ideal to at least use wording that implies play/pretending to be a hero brings honor. But the reinforcement of “looking in her reflection” seems to concentrate seeing play as the act of wearing, rather than imagining heroism. I know it’s subtle and some people just don’t care, but no one is pushed into a gender binary overnight. It’s little pushes and prods over a long span of childhood. This isn’t about saying glittery is wrong, btw. It’s about consistently trying to define girlhood as “beauty.”
This basically sums up the problem I have with Disney.
I have pretty much no problems at all with the movies, other than personal preference; even the older princess films like Snow White I don’t really think are sexist in a way that really creates a problem.
But I have a lot of problems with the marketing. The “Disney Princess” line of stuff is just really, errrggh. Irksome. Especially when, as this person points out, it undermines the messages of the movies themselves. Which are usually pretty great messages!
My lovely friends and I did a thing.
I also really want my idol, lacigreen to see this.
THIS IS AMAZING AND SO ON POINT!!! i’m so proud of u bb!!! ❤❤
A feminism comic I did for my uni’s newspaper. I wish I had a bit more time to work on it, but I’m pleased with how it came out considering the tight deadline!
90s info brochures are generally painfully corny but this one is perty on point
Someone at my school made these in response to my principal announcing a dress code that, as usual, only applied to girls, and I’m kind of proud
OMFGGgg CAN I JUST SAY I AM SO!!! PROUD OF ALL THE GIRLIES TAKING A STAND AGAINST THIS BS AT THEIR SCHOOL
GET IT LADIES
I’m in this month’s Glamour magazine!…. and they whitened my teeth.
This headshot has been used by a great number of media outlets and institutions. It was printed on promotional posters for my talk at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at The Field Museum, and is used in news articles and accompanying bios. It is my standard headshot and I have never had an organization attempt to alter it in such a way before.
Is this such a big deal? With a magazine like Glamour I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that nobody is free from the touch of their photoshop brush.
Perhaps it’s the timing - on Monday I gave a talk at the Field about the importance of female science role models in the media. I discussed the pressures young women face to be the best, most beautiful, smartest, most capable. I brought up the unending pressure to scrutinize one’s own appearance, picking out the flaws one by one and attacking them until every last imperfection is remedied. I emphasized how there needs to be far more realistic women in media and in public roles - women whose primary objective is empowerment and encouragement, and how the only way we will get there is leading by example.
I am disappointed in Glamour, but I’m not surprised. I’m airing my dissatisfaction because we need to take on this challenge for ourselves and express that it’s not okay to alter photographs beyond realistic portrayal of individuals. I understand their objective is to sell magazines, but I dream of the day I can subscribe to a publication that portrays people as they truly are.
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Can I please be this fierce now?
Beth Ditto is amazing.
All hail Queen Beth
Beth Ditto is my hero.
