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THEY'RE FUCKING HOLDING HANDS
I CANT
Can we talk about Weiss dual wielding for a quick minute? This isn't something you just do. You give a single sword user a second one suddenly and it's like they've never held any sword before. Their movement and coordination goes out the window. Their balance is off and they make mistakes.
But Weiss dual wielded like a pro, which means at some point when Winter was training her she probably made her use 2 swords. Maybe before Weiss got Myrtenaster Winter even had Weiss use her own weapons to begin training with...
Weiss dual wielding out of sheer grief was.....damn
Please appreciate the pure strength of Smol Weiss Schnee successfully pulling back a distraught cat hellbent on throwing herself into the abyss to join her soulmate.
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October 14, 1977, Anita Bryant is pied for her antigay bigotry at a press conference in Des Moines, IA.
It was 40 years ago today…
Never gets old.
40 years on and it still is gratifying
Anita’s still alive and kicking and being anti-gay. Thom Higgins, who threw the pie when he was 27 – and was poetically from Beaver Dam – passed away 17 years later at 44. Info on his life is here. The pie throwing was a big deal. In an age before the internet let gays feel connected, and long before ACT UP, the pie showed small pockets of gays that we could fight back.
it showed that gays were human beings, who might be in the room with you, that you had been accepting as being equals and treating as people. you didnt suspect them as bieng gay, why should you treat them different after? do they become less human after finding out? i mean, its almost like you just found out they have an oppinion on your bullshit
She was “pied” on TV. All across the country, people got to see proof that the LGBT community weren’t going to just sit there and take it. People who thought they had no choice but to stay silent saw a horrible woman get humiliated on live TV.
One of the best moments in television history.
Whoa.
it is so upsetting listening to so many males talk about all of the times they have gone on road trips alone and slept in their cars alone or on the side of the road, or travelled overseas alone and slept on the floor of strangers homes or in parks or at hostels, and they appear to have such freedom in that they are able to be alone in ways that females, unfortunately, cannot. and there is an ignorance surrounding this in that these boys never seem to comprehend just how fortunate they are that strange people and unfamiliar places and the dark of night are not their enemies but rather exciting, promising things.
“Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Finally got around to watching *those* Lexa scenes...
At first I didn’t want to, because I’d read it wasn’t *her*, but rather an alien shapeshifter taking the form of her. BUT.
1st scene: “I’m not her, Clarke...” *all the while sending soft looks, unable to resist grabbing onto and holding Clarke*
2nd scene: Clarke: Am I the only human being who ever sinned? *sarcastically* Lexa: *silent eye roll* Of course not. But you, are the only test subject from any species, anywhere in the universe, since the dawn of time, who committed murder during the test. *exasperated side eye, but full of barely contained pride* Clarke: *tries to hide defiant, borderline flirty grin* I’d do it again. Lexa: Madi knew you’d say that *also visibly thinks ‘and so did I.’*
The dynamics fit to a T. It was Lexa. It’s Clexa. (Also there’s no way in hell Eliza Taylor and ADC can be in a scene together, giving Clexa life, without sparks flying - aloof aliens be damned). That’s endgame enough for me from this flaming disaster of a show.
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Thought the 100 couldn’t go any lower? 7x15′s ‘Bury Your Disabled’ trope
First off, I’m not a disabled person. But seeing others post about this made me want to educate myself on the issue, and if anyone better qualified can provide further insights, I’d be really grateful.
That Octavia and Clarke conclude they must kill Madi after literally 10 seconds because she’s ‘conscious but can’t move’ is seriously fucked up. It’s the Mercy Kill trope writ large, a thoughtless writing decision that strips away the sensitivity such a weighty issue deserves. The fact that Madi is a child, and that they directly parallel it to the mercy killing of someone reduced to meat chars due to acid fog in S1... It’s a bloody mess. Oh, and they don’t end up pulling the trigger because they get distracted by Cadogan and promptly waltz on out of there, leaving Madi in that state and completely invalidating their ostensible justification for killing her, ie. Putting her out of her misery.
At this point, they’re recklessly perpetuating harmful ableist tropes with subzero subtlety for pure shock value, and for anyone who was personally hurt by this I’m so sorry the show did that to you on top of every-fucking else.
it’s the intentionally making a woman who just had a miscarriage in real life play out a traumatic scene where she brutally loses her child for me.
To those still watching The 100 and providing updates in the tags for the rest of us who just can’t stomach what the show has become, but self-torturously need to know how this whole garbage train implodes for the sake of closure - thank you. That’s a damn public service.
Renowned Feminist Philosopher Judith Butler Tears Transphobic Feminism Apart
Judith Butler says that J.K.Rowling and the transphobic TERFs do not speak for feminism at large.
If you haven’t heard about Judith Butler before, here is a short summary: She is one of the most important gender theorists in modern times.
When right wing extremists despair about postmodern gender theory, she is probably one of the thinkers they are referring to (not that they have ever read her).
She has shown how social structures, language, the stories we tell and the roles we play strengthens the oppression and marginalization of women. In other words: For her gender is definitely a cultural and social phenomenon, and because of that she is on a collision course with the so-called “gender critical feminists” (TERFs) who want to reduce gender to biological sex.
I strongly recommend that you read the recent New Statement interview with Butler, where she addresses the thinking and the tactics of TERFs in very clear terms. The interview is behind a paywall, but you should be able to access a couple of articles for free.
Still – in case you are locked out – here are some important excerpts.
She refuses to think of transphobic TERFs as mainstream feminists.
I want to first question whether trans-exclusionary feminists are really the same as mainstream feminists. If you are right to identify the one with the other, then a feminist position opposing transphobia is a marginal position. I think this may be wrong. My wager is that most feminists support trans rights and oppose all forms of transphobia.
So I find it worrisome that suddenly the trans-exclusionary radical feminist position is understood as commonly accepted or even mainstream.
I think it is actually a fringe movement that is seeking to speak in the name of the mainstream, and that our responsibility is to refuse to let that happen.
She dismisses J.K. Rowling’s idea that allowing people to identify as they want will be a threat to women in women’s bathrooms.
The feminist who holds such a view presumes that the penis does define the person, and that anyone with a penis would identify as a woman for the purposes of entering such changing rooms and posing a threat to the women inside. It assumes that the penis is the threat, or that any person who has a penis who identifies as a woman is engaging in a base, deceitful, and harmful form of disguise.
This is a rich fantasy, and one that comes from powerful fears, but it does not describe a social reality. Trans women are often discriminated against in men’s bathrooms, and their modes of self-identification are ways of describing a lived reality, one that cannot be captured or regulated by the fantasies brought to bear upon them.
She dismisses the idea that the term “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” (TERF) is a slur.
I wonder what name self-declared feminists who wish to exclude trans women from women’s spaces would be called? If they do favour exclusion, why not call them exclusionary? If they understand themselves as belonging to that strain of radical feminism that opposes gender reassignment, why not call them radical feminists?
My only regret is that there was a movement of radical sexual freedom that once travelled under the name of radical feminism, but it has sadly morphed into a campaign to pathologise trans and gender non-conforming peoples.
My sense is that we have to renew the feminist commitment to gender equality and gender freedom in order to affirm the complexity of gendered lives as they are currently being lived.
She does not accept the idea that the term gender can be defined once and for all, for example in reference to biology.
We depend on gender as a historical category, and that means we do not yet know all the ways it may come to signify, and we are open to new understandings of its social meanings.
It would be a disaster for feminism to return either to a strictly biological understanding of gender or to reduce social conduct to a body part or to impose fearful fantasies, their own anxieties, on trans women… Their abiding and very real sense of gender ought to be recognised socially and publicly as a relatively simple matter of according another human dignity.
She also says:
It is painful to see that Trump’s position that gender should be defined by biological sex, and that the evangelical and right-wing Catholic effort to purge “gender” from education and public policy accords with the trans-exclusionary radical feminists’ return to biological essentialism.
It is a sad day when some feminists promote the anti-gender ideology position of the most reactionary forces in our society.
So there you have it: One of our leading feminist philosophers are comparing TERFs to the transphobic extremists of the right. And she is right to do so.
It is important to stress this: TERFs are not representative of feminism. They represent a toxic fringe movement that at this point in time does more to help right wing misogynists than women.
Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”
Pink News has also covered this interview.
Butler criticized TERFs back in 2014, as well, as reflected in this interview.
Judith Butler: the backlash against “gender ideology” must stop
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By the way, if you’ve ever jumped into debating with radfems or other exclusionists, this is a must-read.
Look at how Butler is dissecting the TERF position. She isn’t arguing on their terms - half the goal of exclusionists is to draw you into an argument over their false premise, in order to get you to legitimize their position. No, Butler is doing exactly the right thing, and pointing out their whole foundation is flawed. Her deconstruction of TERF ideology is most cutting because it’s effectively, concisely, and clearly explaining that the premise of their beliefs is wrong at every level - that what they propose is not for debate because it is fundamentally false.
Anyway, I’m just absolute in adoration over how she talks about these topics. She’s not just tearing down TERF rhetoric, she’s dismantling it with the precision of a master.
Yang: It’s laundry day. Dad, you wanna wash that dirty red band of yours?
Taiyang: One day, Yang, perfection will reveal itself to you in the form of someone who makes you want to fly stupidly into the sun with just one look. Their soul will spill into yours, and no matter how much pain it causes you, you’ll want to burn with the closeness of their soul’s color for all eternity.
Yang, rolls eyes: ... so no.
Taiyang, smiles knowingly: One day.