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"The glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."
Theodor Adorno. Minima Moralia
Justice for Agostina, a 14-year-old girl whose country utterly failed to protect her from a murderer. A previously accused rapist who only spent 20 days in jail because he was a friend of the judge and paid bail. He raped her, killed her, dismembered her, and dumped her body in a wasteland.
Justice for Agostina. Instead of asking what the hell a 35-year-old adult man was doing with a 14-year-old girl, and what the hell an adult man was doing having sexual relations with a 14-year-old child, they go and blame the girl, her mother, and any other woman in Agostina's lifeâANYONE EXCEPT THE MURDERER.
Justice for Agostina. The Minister of Security is out there congratulating the security forces and the dog that found her dead, yet his police chiefs refused to take the mother's report because the River-Belgrano match was playing. They failed to immediately trigger the Sofia Alertâa protocol that is crucial to launch the exact moment a minor's disappearance is reportedâall because of a soccer game.
Justice for Agostina, whose life is treated as worth less than a soccer match, and worth less than the life of a murderer and rapist.
Justice for Agostina
men b like wow Iâve never met a girl who liked music before..
You obviously know nothing about men if this is what you think they say
Men will see a mouse and eat it
No they wonât because why would anyone eat a mouse thatâs stupid not all men are bad and not all men are stupid you may have had a bad experience with a man but not all men are bad granted there bad men but instantly accusing all men as bad is immature Iâm dating a man and he is nowhere near stupid and I know for a fact that he wonât eat a mouse and in pretty sure I could name at least five other men that wonât do something as immature as that and saying that a man will see a mouse and eat it wonât get you a anywhere with a man if anything it will drive them away.
A man will see a mouse and be like is anyone else gonna eat this and not wait for an answer
I dont want to hijack Tyler's post but her post reminded me of the time my family had to euthanize their dog, rip Zero, who was a very friendly Belgian Mallinois. He was already 16, so very old, but he developed an aggressive stomach cancer. Anyways, my mom is a retired doctor so she knew the dog wasnt going to make it and SHE had to make the choice of euthanizing him even though my brother was responsible for the dog. Mind you, this was when he was 30 years old and he didnt even was PRESENT when the vet euthanized Zero. He said he was just too sad to be there so my mom did, instead he stayed home playing video games and smoking weed.
Ah, and after Zero died, he facetimed me to cry about it and then DEMANDED me to bring him my cat so he could cuddle with a pet. When I told him no, he decided to make a scene and called me coldhearted and he had been angry at me for that since.
Everybody says grooming is bad but few actually articulate why. Besides the whole sexualizing of children and minors, the point is to make someone grow entirely dependent on you.
You arrest their development and make them supply all of your needs, emotional, sexual, sometimes even finantially, while stopping them from fulfilling theirs.
You model someone into being your mother, father, lover, family, friends while denying them of living their own life. And because you are spoiled at every need, being immature and childish at the expense of someone else's who besides everything, you made entirely dependent on you.
You successfully invert a caretaker situation where you posit yourself as a child in need of care and them, as the caretaker who must soften every adult life's blow. All while they're younger, less experienced and in general, unsuited for managing their lives let alone yours, so you basically put them up for an impossible task.
Ah! And because they're dependent on you, they feel like failures for not carrying it out perfectly.
Thats why grooming uses so much hot and cold tactics, silent treatment, etc. To pavlov children and teens to your attention.
From the moment I began reading Modelland, I found myself unable to adequately explain what it was like. This continued through all 600 or s
"Itâs all there in Modelland, and itâs all off.
A type of art I love is that of âOutsider Artâ. My favourite art museum is that of the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, which Iâve been to a few times and is dedicated to this category. Itâs a broad and loose category, one that carries certain connotations, not all of them innately positive: Outsider Art is art by the self-taught and untrained, those who exist often âoutsideâ the world of âtraditionalâ art. Depending on how thin you slice the meaning of Outsider Art, it could be anyone who doesnât have an art degree; At that level, the term loses all meaning.
Yet as judgemental and uncertain as âOutsider Artâ can be as a term, it still has a certain value for describing works like Modelland. Art by someone who does not know the conventions of her medium, art which is created without knowledge of what others would call standard. As much as creators frequently ignore the ârulesâ of their medium, they tend to be aware of them. Subversion becomes a conscious process, and weirdness tamed by intention."
I guess thatss what makes an example of body horror, good: the anxiety beneath the metaphor. And I guess thats why the bad writing of a model does such a very good job at it. Who else would be as anxious about the body as someone who make a living out of it?
Curiosity got the best of me, and decided to search what was that Tyra Banks novel about and... She really should write horror. I guess models have a keen sense of what constitutes as body horror.
An older, unrecognizable person was staring at Tookie. It had a boil growing on its nose, letting out a smoke that smelled of rotten eggs and animal droppings. Much of its hair had fallen out in clumps, and many of the hanging strands had fused together into what looked like chunks of petrified wood. Its eyes were bruised, swollen nearly shut, and its ears were swollen into what looked like bulbs of cauliflower.
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Everyone in the room screamed, their faces melting and warping just like Tookieâs was.
Piperâs skin was so raw it was transparent. Her blood was visible, pumping wildly through her face. She resembled a skeleton with muscles and veins, with a thin layer of clear plastic keeping it all together.
Dylanâs ponytails had completely fallen out and she was cradling them in her arms. Her nose had become detached from her face and was sitting on top of the bed of hair. Shirazâs grapefruit-sized eyes bulged and bulged like they were about to pop out of her head. The spot where the ruby had been on Kamaliniâs SMIZE was now a gaping hole four inches wide, exposing her brain. AngelĂźkaâs ZipZap head injury had split open wide from the top of her head to the base of her neck. When she screamed, her exposed vocal cords, which lay in a spaghetti-like tangle at her throat, vibrated.
âMy heads hurt so much!â both sides of AngelĂźka cried. Even Zarpessa and Chaste looked like mutants, their noses falling off and their lips turning into slugs.
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