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carolyn // they/them // 26

machine-saint:

remember, it’s imperative to turn your aesthetic preferences into moral ones. you can’t just dislike neutral colors, or glass-and-steel skyscrapers, or flat design, they have to be symbols of neoliberal capitalism in decay. it’s incredibly important that you make sure everybody knows that the only reason anyone could like the things you don’t like is that they’re an empty shell of a person.

andhumanslovedstories:

Would your twelve year old self like who you are today, and sorry no nuance allowed you have to pick one

Yes

No

romanfuckingroy:

not sure why people don’t seem to understand that shiv being the victim of misogyny and vitriol from all the men in her life can and does coexist with the fact that she is not a feminist liberal hero fighting to save democracy. why is it that we never afford her any nuance? she’s either the only good person on the show and deserves to kill every man in a ten foot radius (twitter) or a uniquely evil cruel sociopath with no heart fueled entirely by spite (reddit). is it not just so much more interesting for her to be a fascism aiding and abetting character like the rest of them who also views herself as more progressive in spite of everything else about her and who undergoes horrific treatment at the hands of the men around her yet has no interest in undoing the system that allows them to do so, only in ruling it herself? shiv is not any better than the others nor is she any worse than them. there’s no Evil Olympics here guys, nor should there be. snook said it herself in the after credits sequence – shiv was just lucky that her interests aligned with her sympathies. who knows what she would’ve done had mencken been her best personal option? yes she cares infinitely more about politics than roman, yes she is still very much interested in maintaining the capitalist, fascist structure and even strengthening it, so long as it ends with her on top (which either way would be a win for liberal causes bc Woman). fascism isn’t one-size-fits-all. it’s not just mencken and trump. it’s also mattson. it’s also logan. it’s also roman and shiv and kendall. that’s… kind of one of the main points of succession? but even so, that does not negate the fact that as a woman it is so hard to watch some of the scenes with her and tom/roman/kendall – of course that misogyny will resonate with female viewers, as it should!!! but that resonance needs to coexist with a deeper understanding of her character – if you want to root for a bad bitch fighting against misogyny go watch, i don’t know, captain marvel or whatever. what makes shiv interesting is that she’s so so so much more than that – she is the product, victim, and perpetrator of misogyny and fascism, two concepts so heavily intertwined they’re virtually inextricable from each other. tl;dr it’s one thing to be like my god someone give shiv a gun and it’s another entirely to say, entirely seriously, that shiv is the Good Liberal Feminist One and the rest are all evil. like i absolutely adore shiv but i would honest to god find her so fucking boring if she were actually the person these tweets make her out to be i’m sorry

youwillfindilluminating:

the scene towards the end where shiv is essentially trapped in a room with all the men in her life turning on her?  panic attack inducing.

whoever directed this episode did an amazing job of imbuing that scene with misogynistic violence even though there was no actual physical violence.

10001gecs:

tumblr being all adults nowadays is so funny because my mutuals are either unemployed chainsmokers or Ezra, Bioengineering PHD Candidate at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

omnidudes:

I Kissed a Girl being knocked off #1 on the Hot 100 by Disturbia which was knocked off by Live Your Life which was knocked off by So What which was knocked off by Womanizer which was knocked off by Single Ladies which was knocked off by Just Dance which was knocked off by My Life Would Suck Without You which was knocked off by Right Round which was knocked off by Poker Face is an insane run of HITS. We really said the Global Recession needs the cuntiest soundtrack.

bagofbonesmp3:

ya saben que día es perros

imovyn:

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ok i’m gonna start posting my paintings here heres some uhhhh fish

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gurofriend said:

what if we asked men of Reddit and YouTube to powerscale the Duelists of Utena.


empty-movement:

spaceswordblaster:

empty-movement:

oriko-mikuni:

gurofriend:

oriko-mikuni:

gurofriend:

oriko-mikuni:

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what if this was how we taught them intersectional feminism.

Powerscale them based on how strong their feminism is

because the real power to Revolutionize the World… is feminism

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WAIT WAS THERE A TRANSLATION THAT ACTUALLY RENDERED THAT AS FEMINIST??

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Tags from @empty-movement

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To be 1000% clear, for people who do not already know all this, here is my understanding of this whole situation:

The word Touga says in Japanese is “feminisuto”.

Yes, he straight up says he is a feminist.

HOWEVER.

When it became a loan-word from English, the word “feminist” also slightly (hugely) changed meaning as well. “Feminisuto” in Japanese did not mean “champion of equal rights between men and women.” The word crossed over in a time when women were still supposed to walk behind the man they were with instead of beside, regardless of relationship (coworker, boss, husband, whatever) (yes this was an actual example given to me of how women were openly treated as lesser; it seems to have mostly died out although it is apparently still seen in formal situations). Feminisuto meant someone who thought women should be treated well and not seen as lesser because they were women. This does not at all mean the same thing as “all women are of equal status and rights etc as men,” it just means “I don’t make the office lady make the coffee and hang up my coat.” “I don’t make my girlfriend walk behind me when we’re on a date.” It was a word for men that treated women better, not a word that meant they saw them as equals. This is the way that Touga uses it; he is signaling that he is a man who does not treat a woman badly just because she’s a woman.

I suspect, although I have no proof, that someone in Be-Papas was aware of this discrepancy between meanings and purposely used it for that reason. It fits too well. The irony is too delicious.

And yes, Vanna and I argued with Nozomi’s producer about changing it from chivalrous to feminist in the subtitles, and our loud squawking about it was overruled on this basis entirely. The producer was concerned that people were not aware of the language shift that happened and would not get the meaning of Touga’s words, so “chivalrous” was used as it is closer to the intended meaning.


But, friends, seriously:


Touga does actually say he is a feminist.

caesarsaladinn:

I think the university course database should have a filter to only show classes taught by extremely old people who are insane

apricops:

hotvampireadjacent:

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I was reading something about Whitestown, Indiana and my eyes nearly popped out of my head thinking it was one of THOSE comically racist towns. Nice to know, at least the name, wasn’t that.

Racisttown, named after the abolitionist Stopbeing Racist,

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