i want that really cliché friend group that takes long drives together, takes pictures of each other when they're not looking, goes on random picnics, and visits museums together. i want it so bad.
like idk when kara and ruthie learned about what the brigands were up to, it never really felt like ‘oh now it’s even more serious’ and i’m not even sure they directly mention the sex trafficking thing again, beyond the Civilians Who Need Saving all being young women
there are definitely a lot of Very Normal Men hating on this movie because it dares to star a woman and the antagonist is a guy trafficking young girls, but if i’m honest i was a bit disappointed by the story having that plotline, only for it to be sidelined for the dog antidote
yeah i'm definitely shocked men don't like the movie about a woman taking down a child trafficking ring. i'm so surprised by this. i can't believe they hate a movie about trying to free young girls from the abuse of men
@MarthaAhumuza relatedly though there is definitely an unspoken rule that the less a woman is conventionally-attractive, the more she must perform femininity to be accepted/less rejected. e.g. a fat woman is "expected" to be wear more makeup + v feminine clothing to "make-up" for being fat
@MarthaAhumuza i see the logic, but i'd argue it's more that conventionally-attractive women are generally given more permission to do ANYTHING by society. there's definitely an eagerness to argue "bitterness" in nonCA women but i don't think it changes the fact society doesn't like feminism
Lots of Boomers seem to be remembering the summer of 1976 with rose tinted spectacles, & think that they ‘just got in with it’
Let’s have a look at what the newspapers of the day had to say in 1976….
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@wiltingdecay the ONLY tattoo i like/use is the one that’s like smoke coming off the left eye + i use it on my drow durge so it looks more like a cool magical scar/birthmark from evil bhaal things
@sukunaglxzer the way this runs the full gamut from "i'm a good person bc i only consume Unproblematic Media" to govt social policy like prioritising punishment over rehabilitation—like it sounds trite but we as a species really do have to hate what is done to us more than the people who do it
Therapy helps but let’s be clear. You can’t CBT your way out of capitalism. You can’t mindfulness your way out of racism. You can’t self care your way out of oppression. You can’t journal your way out of ableism. This isn’t about coping, it’s about deconstructing the systems.
@realmsmisery if i had to guess bc f&b is written from the perspective of a later historian chronicling previous accounts after the fact (so 2 layers of bias already worked in) it might be an attempt to delegitimise him as a targaryen bc it’s not a typical name/emphasise his contested lineage
@skarsghardy i haven’t done this myself yet but apparently if you speak with dead on the little girl it turns out she’s a decoy and leon did actually manage to smuggle the real victoria out.
still not great dal killed a child but it seems leon expected something of that sort.