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kylos

V FOR VENDETTA (2005) dir. James McTeigue

afriblaq

salty-red-mage

thorndykes-deactivated20161204

please stop reblogging sylvia plath poetry

thorndykes-deactivated20161204

For ppl asking why she’s an anti black, anti Semite. She has used the n word and compared her depression to the holocaust

transwolvie

Even not counting her poetry her private journals are full of disgusting, overblown antisemitism. She didn’t just use Jewish people for her metaphors, she outright hated them irl and yet decided to use their suffering for her own gain

foulserpent

here’s a source with some quotes

meta-hemeralism-blog

okay, I’m Jewish and I appreciate this sentiment. and if someone wants to cut out Sylvia Plath, go for it, I get it.

But. by this logic we’d also need to stop reblogging TS Eliot, Oscar Wilde, and Shakespeare quotes. Virginia Woolf wrote anti-semetic things in her private journals, too. If you only want to read classic poets who liked Jews and black people, that’s fine, but like. good luck? Sylvia Plath isn’t an exception.

idk. Tumblr’s attitude of “consume nothing problematic” just doesn’t work if you’re part of a group that most culture-creators over the last few centuries have hated by default. For people actually in those groups, it’s not like the only two choices are 1) worship authors who hate you or 2) completely cut the majority of literature out of your life. You learn to read critically and acknowledge flaws where you find them.

anyway, as a Jewish woman, I would much rather see a version of this post that said “please read Sylvia Plath poetry critically because she’s anti black and antisemetic” than just “stop reblogging Sylvia Plath poetry.”

IMO, reblog Sylvia Plath all you want, just not unthinkingly.

theroguefeminist

I’m reblogging this now because I’m seeing anti-Virginia Woolf discourse lately due to the antisemitism in her journals and like… as a Jewish person who loves Virginia Woolf’s writing and an English teacher who knows that pretty much every writer of the classics is Problematic just…chill pls

benevolent-atrophy

The point isn’t to never consume media that isn’t ideologically pure. That’s never the point. Were that the goal, we would NEVER be able to consume any media. Nothing is ever ideologically pure, especially as time goes on and our social consciousness expands.

We should be telling people instead, “Be critical as you read this person’s work. They held bigoted views. Understand how that is reflected in their work, and be mindful of it. Be critical, be thoughtful”

Compelling others to not engage with something at ALL on ideological grounds is in the same vein as burning books. We should be compelling others to be critical and mindful, not narrow and willfully ignorant.

politijohn

feministism

moulinrouqes

Happy Mean Girls Day!

vengeful-supermarket

This is the only day you can RT this

aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202

Instead of a stoic hero and a chatty villain or a chatty hero and a stoic villian imagine if they’re both chatty. Just, the villian trying their best to kill the hero while the two of them have a in-depth discussion about their opinion of pumpkin spice

aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202

Villian: *shoots laser* No but seriously orange is a really fun color

Hero, dodging: but your entire room? I’m not painting my entire room orange

Villain: *stabs at the hero and misses* well then why did you ask my opinion on paint colors if you’re not going to listen

anastasia1marie

The Princess Bride

aromantic-goldfishdeactivated202

Holy shit

heroofthreefaces

#this is why i love tpb #or one of the many reasons anyway #tpb #and that fencing scene is A*

veganvenom

This graffiti appeared overnight at 5 different job centres in Birmingham.

It’s referencing the increasingly harsh benefit sanctions in the UK which are punishing disabled people in particular.

Claimants who cannot work due to severe disabilities or chronic illnesses are being categorised as “fit for work” in order to meet targets and are not being given enough money to survive.

The majority of people who legally challenge their benefits sanctions or ‘fit for work’ decision have them overturned, but only after months without the money they need.

Estimates generally put the number of people who have died in the last few years directly due to benefit sanctions in the thousands. These include people who have died of starvation, exposure, because they couldn’t afford electricity to keep their insulin cold, or because they couldn’t afford treatment, among other things.

The DWP has even sent letters to people declaring them fit for work when in fact they have already died from their illness.

Fuck the DWP and job centres.

Good job, whoever painted these!

ancom-cow-mommy-deactivated2024

“The DWP has even sent letters to people declaring them fit for work when in fact they have already died from their illness.”

reticentral

I never add on to posts, but I work for Citizens Advice and I’m literally BEGGING you all to get in touch with Citizens if you have financial trouble or issues with your benefits. It’s a totally free service, you can access us by phone, webchat or face-to-face (when Covid isn’t happening) and we have experience with helping people get their benefits reinstated.

The people at Citizens are almost exclusively volunteers who are there for the sole purpose of helping people with this stuff (you can come with pretty much any issue actually - housing, relationship breakdown, scams etc. We’re not just for benefits). We’re not beholden to the government and all our advice is independent, impartial, confidential and free.

AND as well as offering advice, we also put together research papers and put a tonne of pressure on the government to change things that are disadvantaging people.

#fuck the DWP

ursie

Disabled children deserve to see themselves in every genre, in every setting, not as the victim, not as a morality pet, not as a reminder of horror, of tragedy, but as a character, we’re allowed to be characters