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Rose Tyler Hate: Sexism and classism parading as anti racism

Saw a post calling Rose Tyler catty and describing her as someone who thinks expects to be more important than she is. Same poster goes on to degrade her for “making googly eyes” at the Doctor. As if being in love and showing it is a crime. They also describe her as the stereotypical girlfriend. Not the first time I’ve seen descriptions like this and other ones are usually followed up by how whiny she is.

And you know, these are all insults that are primarily reserved women. And they tend to come from people who also tout themselves as anti racism heroes. But here’s the thing, anti racism fundamentally does not work if it relies on classism and sexism.

Rose Tyler is exactly the kind of person society expects to be disposable. She didn’t complete her education, she lives on government housing, and to top it all off her personal brand of femininity is the one that that the patriarchy despises the most. She embodies the most stereotypical sides of femininity. Girly, soft, romantic, and sensitive are always traits that get twisted into whiny stereotypical girlfriend. Feminism means that all forms of womanhood and femininity are valid. Including the “boring” “stereotypical” girly girls.

Rose doesn’t want to be the most important woman in the universe but she does want to be special to the person she’s in love with. And that, apparently, for someone like her, is a crime.

The show subverts all this by showing such a person not as disposable but instead as immensely important. But unfortunately, instead of taking in that message, swaths of the fandom would rather choose to see her through the default disposable lens.

Rose’s flaws get magnified to double the degree other characters’s flaws are. Most people who hate her will cite her selfishness for leaving home and struggling to firmly communicate the end of her relationship with Mickey, but won’t see an issue with Clara being willing to abandon the Doctor on a volcano for her own interests or with River mind wiping a man whenever she’s bored. Rose is relatively really tame in terms of character flaws but many bystanders of the fandom might actually think she’s the most morally questionable!

Then there’s the issue where fans of Rose Tyler are frequently infantalised. Being a Rose fan and enjoying her brand of femininity is seen as something people should “grow out of”. People will even directly post about being too mature for Doctorrose all the time. This is especially concerning since a large chunk of Rose and Doctorrose fans are women or men and nonbinary people who identify strongly with femininity.

As the Indian and Black daughter of an immigrant I am seen as disposable and worthy of disdain by society for different reasons than Rose Tyler. But the result is often very much the same and that’s why I relate to her anyway.

Yes, there’s much more work to do. More proper and thought out representation of other types of minorities is necessary. Absolutely. But we have had a great example of subverted societal expectations of what someone’s “place” is since 2005 and it is possible to enjoy that and hope for more at the same time.

Sexist and classist anti racism isn’t really anti racism. It’s just virtue signaling.

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Like Madonna said,

“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it’s okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading.”

I completely agree with this and I want to normalize femininity, especially in men, in order to eventually achieve total gender erasure. The idea of gender (apart from the biological one of course) will always be problematic, and while I understand that it is human instinct to stereotype people and categorize them, I still think it limits everyone in society and does more harm than good. Gender norms hold us back and prevent us from achieving total equality and equity, or at least coming close to it.

Capitalism also plays a big role in the oppression of women, and I therefore think that we can never achieve equality in a capitalist society. Because women were prevented and banned from, and still are in most countries, the labor market and academia, men were given a huge "head start". It is easy to say that women have the same chance when we are technically "allowed" to work and educate ourselves, but when they are uneducated and still expected to choose more "domestic" professions and education, they do not have the same opportunities as their male peers. The same problem is seen with, for example, people who live in poverty or who have been prevented due to major problems

(for example war, famine, disabilities, abuse, etc.)

They are distracted and prevented from getting a fair chance at education or employment. Once you have missed a large part of your education, it is almost impossible to fully recover. A child like myself, who comes from a privileged background and from an An academic family where everyone is educated and studying is partly easy, but also encouraged, has much better chances and opportunities, compared to a child who may have had to flee war and who may come from a family that does not have the same attitude towards studying. This means that those who are already privileged, like myself, are the only ones with a real chance of success, or at least we have it much easier than those who were not born into the "right family". This is an unfair system that can also be compared to the different conditions of women and men. Capitalism and patriarchy go hand in hand and in order to achieve absolute and total equality & equality, or at least come as close as possible, we must break down both the capitalist system and the patriarchy.

Thank you for reading.

#girlblogging #hell is a teenage girl #capitalism kills #anti capitalism #essay writing #politics #leftism #socialism #anti classism #anti sexism #feminism #socialist #trans inclusive feminism #equality #equal rights #humanity #anti patriarchy

Kay so I had this idea to make conspiracy theorist / anti establishment / PUNK DIY stuff and not worry about it conforming to what I think punk has to be and just go for it

I wanted to do patches, but patching my pants would make them not very good for working especially cause I need to patch the knees where there are holes,

and I honestly don't know how to customize shirts unless I . . . Take a marker to it? Go at it with acrylic paint?

I don't feel comfortable making stuff super crusty as I struggle with OCD

Any experienced DIYers who could give some tips on practical application? I know how to sew so that is good.

Anyway, to get to the point of this post, I'm just writing down ideas to put on stuff! To get it out there

No Fear

Children's Rights

Resource hoarding is a sin

(i.e. false scarcity)

The poor have a right to your care

Tell that to Lazarus

Samaritans are your neighbor too

Swiper no Swiping

Tyrants are just cowards

Mankind is not a cancer

Perfect love / Casts out fear (1 John 4:18)

The OG Rolling Stone

Bro was institution maxxing

You don't govern me. Yahusha does.

I don't bow to the government. I am a member of the Kingdom of Heaven.

(This is basically what 'Jesus is Lord' means when people refused to say that Caesar was lord, but the meaning goes beyond just that)

De-foreskinning babies is not very love and peace of you

Native American communal living was legit But then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked

Jesus said call no man Rabbi or Father.

Escape the Vatican Simulator

*Aaah resisting the urge to cringe at these*

Sorry I feel like these are too cynical and self righteous. I don't want to be prideful or knock people down if they saw these idk. I was raised to be nonconfrontational but i really don't want to act full of myself either

#punk #idk what im doing #conspiracy #truther #diy #punk diy #the bible #bible #jesus #yahusha #yahushua #messiah #yeshua hamashiach #anti classism

Intersectionality Flag

A flag for intersectionality, the realization that different forms of discrimination are intertwined and can't be stopped by just focusing on one issue, you have to see the whole image and fight all forms of discrimination.

Here comes a quote from Dr. Alex Hershaft's website:

"My name is Dr. Alex Hershaft. I am an American, but I was born in Poland, where I survived the Holocaust. I could have spent the rest of my life as a victim. But I decided otherwise. So that my family and all the other millions of people would not have died in vain, I decided to draw some meaning from my dreadful experience – and to devote the rest of my life to fighting oppression. Oppression can have many victims. Animals are the most vulnerable sentient beings on earth – and therefore the most oppressed. Every time we eat animals, we support the greatest oppression in history. I am convinced that if the oppression of animals is no longer accepted, other forms of violence will disappear. I will fight for animals as long as I live. We all deserve a more peaceful world where we do not cause unnecessary suffering to sentient beings. This is my mission in life, and I will never stop motivating people to choose a life free of violence and oppression."

So yes, intersectionality includes veganism. Because as long as people think it is justifiable to treat animals as horribly as we do, the step to treating some groups of people the same isn't that far, all that needs to be done for that is dehumanizing a group and claim they're not human, they're animals. If we would all agree that all Animals, including humans (yes we are also animals, we are mammals to be exact), deserve respect, rights and be themselves freely, there would no longer be discrimination. But it is a far way to achieve this.

And with anti-speciesism I mainly mean that we should stop treating farm animals so much different from pets and wild animals.

It was also important for me to specifically include anti-intersexism separately from queer rights because even within queer spaces intersex individuals are often overlooked, plus they face unique forms of discrimination.

And the reason why anti-capitalism is included is because capitalism is one massive source of inequality and discrimination and as long there is capitalism there will always be some form of discrimination.