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the way people on here talk about santos and al hashimi vs the way they talk about robby and langdon genuinely makes me feel crazy lol

#the boymoms are never bearing the racist and misogynist allegations I fear #heck people even glaze that asshole park the shark #little to no empathy for santos though and she's literally right about almost everything #don't get me started on how weird people were towards baran for the first half of this season #the pitt #baran al hashimi #trinity santos

maelancoli

trinity santos is a study in fandom misogyny because they gave her all the characteristics fandoms usually salivate for in men, being gruff, quippy and misunderstood with a tragic backstory but a heart of gold beneath it all. they put all this into her AND let her be a lesbian. she's everything you could ever want in a character but she's not a man so half the fandom either hates her or constantly mischaracterizes her as petty, callous and aggressive while doing mental gymnastics to baby the male characters around her

starffis

Season 1 Claudia outfits but as a 1920s fashion catalogue

#First reblogged this back in early Dec 25

timetravellingkitty

zionist indians going all "they kill gay people in palestine" is so fucking funny you know people here go ballistic if you marry someone of a different CASTE right

official-cisphobe

here's a random word generator--whatever word it gives you is now the thing you are the deity of

#deity of pot #cryinf

fandomsandfeminism

Is there anything sadder than the little chunk of Kikis Delivery Service when Kiki says "I used to really like flying before it was my job" and then gets so burned out that her magic stops working and she cant talk to Jiji anymore and she tries so hard to FORCE the magic that she breaks her mothers broom and stays up all night, alone, trying to make a new one and crying?

And I know it is all ok in the end- Kiki has friends who look out for her and she takes care of herself and finds her place.

But fuck, those 20 minutes just hurt my heart so much.

shybi-n-ready2cry

papenathys

If I made a video essay about the way Leigh Bardugo capitalized on Zoya Nazyalensky's race without any meaningful representation of South Asian culture, would desi folk be interested in contributing? Non desis please do not comment.

thebubblesoutlet

I have a lot of thoughts, so bear with me.

I'm not really sure if this is "bad" representation, but other than physical descriptions there is little to nothing connecting either Zoya, Inej or the Suli to Desis. When I read the books I read the characters as Romani/ Ashkenazi Jewish. I was shocked to find out that people on tumblr and twitter were making fan art of them that looked like....well me.

Tbh I think it was pretty problematic for her to mash both cultures in the first place. Sure, it's probably true that some Roma can trace their origins back to India (rajasthan in particular ) but they supposedly migrated out of India a long, long time ago. Some Roma might look very Desi but they've since mixed with other ethnicities and formed their own, unique culture that's absolutely worthy of accurate, non- stereotypical representation, but I'll get to that later. Any Roma person I've come across on the Internet is pretty adamant (and rightfully so) about the Romani being seen as separate from desis.

My point is that if Leigh's intention was to represent two different cultures then she could've easily represented us as ..... two. different .cultures. She could've sneaked in a nation that was loosely based on South Asia and I would've been fine with that . Instead she kind of pulled an aladdin when it comes to the Suli.

Also I should mention that I don't think it's really all Leigh's fault. I know that leigh is ashkenazi Jewish/ part Roma herself and she probably just decided that making Inej darker skinned would be good representation for darker skinned romani ? I feel like some readers probably headcannoned the Suli as being 50% desi and then just ran with it. I can see why the early readers thought of it this way, fan art of inej shows her with peacock feathers and that's something we've historically associated with Desi culture.

But idk, there just wasn't anything that lept out to me as being overtly "desi" in the books. I feel so seen in Amita and Sujaya, I just didn't have that experience reading the books. It makes more sense that a Russian- centric book has characters based on the Roma than characters based on South Asians, who they had little interaction with. Shu Han being based on Mongolia and China makes sense to me too, because Russia shares borders with those nations.

If leigh had to have made a "south asian" nation, had inej (who could've still been the Grishaverse equivalent of Christian)be abducted from there and then mistaken for Suli in kerch, I would've bought it. Its entirely plausible that this European based nation sees all colored people as one. From there our "actually desi" inej could've dealt with the repercussions and developed an understanding of the plight of the Suli . But that didn't happen.

I love these books and leighs writing, but I acknowledge that every culture/nation/people group represented in the GV are a stereotype of a real-life place or ethnicity. There are many things she could've done better. Making the one canonically east- Asian nation "technologically- advanced people who might take over the other nations and experiment on people in their secret labs and carry out secret torture" just doesn't sit right with me . Neither does Novyi Zem, where the characters who are phenotypically described as dark skinned and curly haired are the ones that farm and work on plantations. But those aren't my battles to wage so I won't say anymore of it.

#grishaverse #zoya nazyalensky #books #king of scars #rule of wolves #shadow and bone #soc #tgt #desi #india #kos

thebubblesoutlet

Patrick is so cute??? Like I wasn't seeing it in the stills but the minute he opened his mouth in the casting video I knew he was perfect???? Why yall lying??

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LGBT

lesbians, gays, b-bicycles…. *sweats* trains

thebubblesoutlet

Is it bad I laughed when he said that? He was going through it .

meatthawsmoth

He also bombed a hospital, as an ostensibly secure adult.

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What's wrong with Gandhi?

Where do I begin?

- Criticized the Jews for defending themselves against the Holocaust because he insisted that they should have committed public mass suicide in order to “shame” the Germans instead of fighting back. His exact words were, “But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from the cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.”

- Wrote an open letter to the British people in 1940 telling them to surrender to the Axis even if it mean accepting genocide.

- Was very anti-black. I hope you can stomach reading how he treated black people in South Africa. It’s fucking disgusting.

- Refused his wife life-saving medication (for religious reasons), but those religious reasons all of a sudden no longer applied to him when he was in a similar position.

- Refused to have sex with his wife for the last 38 years of their marriage. He felt that in order to test his commitment to celibacy, he would have beautiful young women (including his own great niece) lie next to him naked through the night. His wife, whom he described as looking like a “meek cow” was no longer desirable enough to be a solid test.

- Believed that Indian women who were raped lost their value as a human.

- During his time as a dissident in South Africa, he discovered that a young male was harassing two of his female followers. He responded by cutting the girls’ hair off to ensure the “sinner’s eye” was “sterilized.” He later boasted about the incident in his writings, pushing the message to all Indians that women should carry responsibility for sexual attacks upon them.

- Argued that fathers could be justified in killing daughters who had been sexually assaulted for the sake of family and community honor.

- Believed that menstruation was a manifestation of the distortion of a woman’s soul by her sexuality.

- Waged a war against contraceptives, labeling Indian women who used them as whores.

- Held the attitude that women were simply creatures that could bring either pride or shame to the men who own them.

Sources:

Websites: Women Suffer From Gandhi’s Legacy, People who most likely chose Gandhi as a historical figure to do a report on and immediately regretted it, On Mahatma Gandhi, his pathetic racism and advancement of segregation of black people by Sentletse Diakanyo, Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People by Nick Chiles

Books: Sex and Power by Rita Banerji, On Pacifism by Derrick Jensen, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

earhartsease

Also literally went on hunger strike to prevent the new Indian constitution from outlawing the caste system, because he believed in the idea that people are born into the wealth/privilege or poverty/privation they find themselves in. Patronisingly referred to the so-called Untouchables as “children of god”. It took another half century to get caste outlawed, and of course its still deeply embedded in the culture and people are still getting murdered for transgressing its theoretically illegal rules.

mrdyketator

Fucking disgusting that we still have a holiday for him anyways.

spookyscarykittycat

Wasn’t he also an actual pedo?

thebubblesoutlet

This is so funny because loads of indians strongly disliked him when we were fighting for our independence but then we started to glorify him bc the West and white people are FUDGING obsessed with him because he excused their racism (he literally believed that india got colonised because we LET ourselves get colonised which is very victim -blamey but whatever ig) and that's why white people LOVE hiding behind him. It's sad that as a nation we've forgotten just how terrible he was . Just another way we continue to seek white validation I suppose