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The mod that lets you hear the elevator conversations while driving the Mako is great but also so funny because I just heard Kaidan ask Tali if she was okay because some people gave her some dirty looks and it’s like. Sir we are on an empty planet right now. Who’s giving Tali the dirty looks? The shifty cows??
#Flame2Ashes plays Mass Effect LE1#The answer is yes by the way#Those cows are more prejudiced than you think#All they want is your money#Anyway unrelated but Kaidan and Tali's friendship gives me life
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So a lot of people on this site seem convinced that Coriolanus Snow was an inherently bad person from the beginning, and y’all are MISSING THE POINT.
Yes he goes nuts. Yes he’s in the wrong. Yes, from the beginning, there are portions of his internal monologue that we are NOT supposed to agree with. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t a good person.
First of all, one of the main things that comes up in the novel (and in the movie which I just saw and loved and HOLY COW do I have thoughts but that’s for another post) is that Coriolanus has some inherent beliefs of Capitol superiority and anti-district thoughts coming both from having seen their dehumanization so often and also hating the rebels for starting the war. Now obviously they rebelled for a reason, but all Coriolanus can see is that his father is dead and his family is starving and they started it. So while it isn’t RIGHT for him to think that way, it’s not a personality flaw. It’s what he has been fed, and he has no reason not to believe it, other than the natural human instinct to care for other humans which obviously shows when he does genuinely want to care for Lucy Gray in the arena.
So yes, he is prejudiced. Yes, he’s a really bad friend to Sejanus. And yes, that’s wrong. But those aren’t INHERENT things, those are EXTERNAL INFLUENCES.
Next is his opinion on the Hunger Games and how quickly he’s able to believe Dr. Gaul just by having gone into the arena and fought for his life. He begins to have this idea that yes, humanity in its most natural form is fighting and killing, when this isn’t even true. Again, these thoughts are caused by circumstance.
So what WAS a personality flaw? Well he has plenty of them. Even from the beginning, where I am still arguing he wasn’t inherently bad. One is his ambition and his willingness to say just about anything to make himself stand out, look better, or in some way further his own goals. But this isn’t what makes him evil. EVERYONE has weaknesses. Everyone has bad personality traits. There are plenty of good people in the world with an inclination towards getting what it is that they want. But most people aren’t put in circumstances that bring this trait out so much that is causes the actions that Coriolanus will ultimately commit. A personality flaw that rightfully rubs you the wrong way is not a sign that the villain was evil from the time he was eighteen and just trying to get into university.
I’m not saying President Snow wasn’t evil, and I’m not saying that Coriolanus hasn’t gone bad by the ending of the book, especially since he sees plenty of poverty and he understands it and all he can think of by the last few pages is himself. (That particular trait comes out more and more as the book goes on and Collins KNEW what she was doing with that. If he were a tragic hero, which, ehh, not really, but if he were I’d say that was his tragic flaw that was exploited to make him who he becomes.) But for heaven’s sake people, the eighteen year old kid who thought of little else but getting into college was not the villain!!! The man who turns in Sejanus is getting there. The man who decides to continue the Hunger Games and everything he does after that is the villain. That’s evil.
Coriolanus Snow was NOT INHERENTLY EVIL. He is a good person at the beginning of that book and that’s why the story is even compelling. (And no, since someone’s gonna say it, I’m not saying this cause he was hot in the movie!!!)
#tbosas#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#tbosbas#the hunger games#coriolanus snow#snow lands on top#thg
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the not-fun-fact is, that previous the German attack to other European nations, the western world was thinking highly of them. they were praising their politics and were quite in line with the eugenics ideas. and it was not just jews of course, but their number is so high because there were lots of them.
despite all the laws that lasted centuries to marginalized them and making their life difficult, they were able to thrive quite well, which it did not sit well with all the powers-that-were.
the wise men of Zion was wrote specifically by Russia propaganda before WWI to try and keep in check the ideas of their young nobles, because nobles used to travel a lot around Europe and they were bound to meet new and "revolutionary" ideas (jews were finally able to be part of the cultural debate). they didn't want them to stop supporting the crown and apparently, to stop hating the jews (nice fact: Americans own basically all their cinema industry to the jews).
between the 1850 and the WWII, the world started a process of industrialization, architect evolution (yes, it's important) and pragmatization of literally everything (based on sciences that were in their infancy and thus heavily prejudiced) that led to the holocaust.
it was not a "one thing the nazis did", it was a "all the western countries was actively creating a word in which the holocaust was, in the end, not just possible, but a not so horrific idea".
why it was not an horrific idea? because, my dear friends, people that dabbled this kind of ideas and the ones that made them reality (or approve of them), were either sociopaths or they never actually saw real violence / actually realize what the heck was happening. the latter, are people like you and me.
yes, of course we are all horrified by the idea of the holocaust, because we grew up in a world that taught us that violence is horrible and, important, we saw the pictures. without a clear picture of what a well oiled machine created by people that had distanced themselves from the idea that other human beings were, in fact, human beings like them (remember, the first thing you do to make an enemy, is to dehumanize them, so people will not just be unfazed by the violence on them, but even joyfully participate in it) and maintained by sociopaths, you can't actually imagine it. people that entered the camps and did realize that a dead jew, queer, gipsy, etc was just a dead human, the horror of the idea finally sank in. before that? everyone that deviated from the norm was regarded less that a cow, because you couldn't eat them (but of course the idead didn't sink enough to remember that there were not just jews in the camps...).
and where were the common people of that world? they live in a cosiety that was experiencing evolution in a pace that they never saw. factories were engulfing people at a high rate with 12hrs shifts (were the heck do you find the energy to live, let alone actually think with your own mind? especially when you come from the farming world). the cities were ripped apart and remade to mirror an idea of pragmatism and efficiency that nothing had to do with how people lived till that day (important: prisons and slaughterhouses were not just moved outside the city limits, distancing people by what blood and death actually were, but planned in a way that put the basis of the modern factories, thus making Auschwitz possible. you cannot just build a concentration camp that efficient in few months or years. there was almost a century of theorizing, building and working those kind of buildings that they could base their plans onto (prisons and slaughterhouses which, not incidentally, transfered their plans to psychiatric "hospitals")).
also, the gap between the wealthy and the rest of the world was even more huge, because they thought themselves smart, intelligent, revolutionaries (as always) but communication and transports then not only run faster than they used to, new classes were participating to the chat: scientists, doctors, architects, writers, artists, the new frigging psychologists! and all of them had a common idea: the perfecting of the human race. even the common factories and cannon fodder.
basically, common people like you and me didn't really know what world they were living in it (much like us today. the experience of our parents and grandparents cannot really help us anymore, because our world is not theirs) and they were not able to participate in it. they were just living by.
this is just a sum and I cannot write a full essay, first because we are on tumblr and second because I'm not an expert, I just took a class at college focused only in this period. just imagine a world were human decency was literally off the plate and remember: Germany had not just been beaten in WWI, it was destroyed. Germany was coming out from more than two decades of highly poverty and humiliation by all western nations, so yeah, it was a frigging three decades plan to get revenge and everyone of them was out for blood (ok, not everyone everyone, ma the majority was). but the other nations? they were acting like nothing happened (because science! art! new ideas! and were talking so we're friends!). so when Germany attacked, everyone did the Pikachu face (I almost made an Avatar quote here) and defended themselves (not us, we joined them and then our "dear leader" gave the keys of the country to the nazis, because being fascists wasn't enough).
(also, please note that nazi's ideology was the last of a series of extremist ideologies. they were preceded by fascists and soviets and trust me when I tell you they studied well. people were used to see extremist countries).
and that's the only reason the nazis didn't win, because other nations were not so keen in the modification of the geopolitics or loosing their territories (don't get me wrong, there were strong supporters of the third reich in every nation, but they were not enough to destroy their countries independence).
and the horrific end is not "what if the nazis won?" but "what if other nations decided to completely aligned themselves to the nazis ideas and Germany, instead of attack, worked to create an European nazi alliance?".
because thinking the nazis as violent colonizers and the other countries as victims of them is still the easy way (and you can imagine an organized resistance that way, but not if everyone is joyfully participating in the nazis ideology without being forced). we were all nazis and fascists. in fact, we still are. because we still refuse to believe we were the bad guys all along. and we still are.
being a jew studying preholocaust european jewish history is just *mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns over what could have been, mourns-*
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Here I see a countless "how herbivores are opressed" and "how carnivores are opressed posts, and while usually they get uncomfortably too close to paralleling each to a real instance of opression (i see herbivores' opression compared to gender and carnivores to race a lot, for instance), which is not really possible due to the nature of herbivore/carnivore dynamics in the actual text, i do largely agree with a lot of the points. However, a thing I really dislike is how in these posts the struggles of one side are always used to negate the struggles of the other. I don't actually think the point of the manga is "are herbivores or carnivores the ones who have it worse", but rather how these conflicts clash in a way that pushes society's entire narrative.
I think one of the best things about Beastars is how it allows us to analyze some things about our on society without being a complete parallel to it, and how it presents the unique perspectives of each of the characters. In every one of them, we are shown how society at large has affected their sense of self-worth and put them into a box.
For carnivores, their opression is largely focused on society's refusal of adapting to their needs and forcing them into submission to create a more friendly and palatable image. Not only meat-eating instincts are incredibly hard to supress, specially under emotional turmoil or stress, but they're even asked to literlly hide their fangs and claws. I think Riz is the character that represents that opression in the best way. The society he lives in is simply not made for him (breaking things is not unusual), but instead of large-scale adaptation process that help make bears' lives easier, they're forced to take pills with terrible physical AND psychological side-effects that don't even solve the problem to its full extent. Easy solutions that don't account for the roots of each problem are an emblem of the narrative. That's true in the case of bears but it softly extends to every other carnivore, who live in fear of hurting or even killing the very second control is lost, which is something society at large completely fails to adress.
On the other hand, herbivores are characterized by their fear of dying. And it really isn't too prejudiced, it's a completely real and justified fear. You are as likely to be killed by a random carnivore in the street as you are to be killed by a carnivore that actively likes you and enjoys your company. There's no winning scenario other than mantaining your distance. And while it's true that some herbivores have a superior class standing, that goes mostly to middle-sized ones like deer and horses. Small herbivores have none of that privilege, and their lives are seen as expendable - especially in the case of Haru, who is one of the best herbivore narratives imo. There's also the fact that society puts most of their worth in their bodies, both sexually (like Cosmo, who is seeked out by carnivores for that exact reason) and as products (like the cows being exploited for their milk). As a result, specially small herbivores rarely have any authority at all.
I think the best way to explain how their opression goes both sides is with predation cases. Let's take Tem's death for example. His death is manufactured by the media to spread fear-mongering and vitriol against carnivores, and carnivores close to the incident are much more likely to receive bad treatment. However, this doesn't actually come with any benefit to herbivores. The authorities made zero effort to actually investigate Tem's death. Riz did absolutely nothing to actually clean up the scene or his tracks and even Pina acknowledges that catching him should have been ridiculously easy, yet they did nothing. The incident was used to increase conflict between species without addressing the root causes of it.
And it's seen time and time again. The mayor refuses to do anything about Haru being *literally* kidnapped and having her life in danger simply because it might put his image and management under a bad light. Yahya uses his power and influence to get what he wants (cough murder juice), and what he actually does for society (catching criminals) doesn't actually do anything to solve the root causes of those issues, because conflict benefits him. It is "those in power" who can feed from the vitriol in society. And "those in power" cannot be pinned on one or the other either, because just as the company owners with influence over the economy are mostly herbivores, the police who violently enforce society's rules and enjoy positions of power are carnivores.
That's why I don't think that what it is to be taken from the manga is as easy as "carnivores are the most opressed" or "herbivores are the most opressed", but rather "carnivores' and herbivores' opression is used to manufacture conflict in a way that benefits those in power and perpetuates the status quo".
#long post#sorry for the rant#and no offence to anyone who defends either of those two positions#but i think it needs to be said#as someone who identifies with both the struggles of carnivores and herbivores it really hits a little badly when one is put under the othe#and also both riz and haru get a lot of shit and i'm here to white knight for them sorry#beastars#dil.txt#beastars spoilers
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The Night Before
Everyone has a few things left to say before the end
“Georgie?”
“Mm?”
“I… I guess I just wanted to say thank you.”
“What do you mean?”
Melanie let out a sigh. She sat next to Georgie, where they leaned against each other, hands clasped tight, and the silence bore down on them in anticipation of what they were soon to do.
“Thank you for everything, honestly,” Melanie explained. “For going with me to therapy. For taking care of me after the whole blindness thing. For staying so strong during all of this. For being you, and for being with me.”
“You don’t have to thank me for any of that. Being with you isn’t always the easiest thing, but I wouldn’t trade it,” she replied, a smile audible in her tone. She shifted to face Melanie, though still holding her hands.
Melanie chuckled. “Yeah, I can imagine. I never thought I was good enough for you.”
“What!?”
“I still don’t, most of the time,” she confessed. “God, you’re smart and brave and funny and so incredibly caring, and… Part of me was always expecting I’d wear out my welcome. It’s not exactly the most normal thing for your new girlfriend to say she’s going to cut her eyes out, but you opened your home to me, and you always looked after me. And then all this happened.” She gestured around her to the hellscape that raged on above the tunnels. “We haven’t really had the most normal of relationships. Even if it was normal, I’m not the easiest person to be around, I know that.”
Georgie relinquished her grip on one of Melanie’s hands so that she could cup her cheek. Melanie leaned into her touch; her skin was always so warm, so soft, and it felt like safety when Georgie held her.
After a moment, Georgie quietly added, “I always thought you were too good for me.”
“No!”
They both laughed, and Georgie continued, “You are such a badass. And I know I’m not the easiest person to be around either-”
“It always felt easy to me,” Melanie breathed.
“I know I can be overbearing sometimes, especially when I can’t gauge how dangerous something is based on fear,” she said, though she smiled at Melanie’s comment. “I just want you to be safe, in this world, in the old world, in whatever world comes next. I love you, Melanie.”
“I love you too. So, so much.”
“And whatever happens next, I’m grateful for the time I got to spend with you.”
Melanie fell forward into Georgie’s arms, and they hugged each other tight as they cried, thinking on both the good memories and the very real possibility that they would not survive the coming day. They held fast to their love and to a hope that, after tomorrow, they would still be together.
*
The solitude of Basira’s room was staggering. Sure, she’d been wandering around Fear domains on her own for an unknowable length of time, but the loneliness felt more tangible this time. It felt like any other night before the world went to shit, where she was left wondering if she’d done the right thing, and if she would do the same tomorrow.
She pulled a polaroid from her pocket. She had no idea how it managed to survive the elements and the muck, but somehow it remained mostly intact. Daisy found the camera in the office and insisted on taking a picture, and Basira could never really say no to Daisy – it was always easier to play along when times were good, when they were messing around. But Basira never really put up a fight when Daisy played judge, jury, and executioner in the field either.
Daisy could have blamed the Hunt for her actions, but she didn’t. Maybe she knew that it wasn’t just some eldritch fear god that possessed her to perform vicious cruelty behind the safety of a badge.
Basira had no such excuse. She went along with Daisy’s actions and blindly followed her own prejudiced misconceptions, and there was no supernatural reason for it. It was all her.
So many times, Basira had overlooked the facts in favor of an easy conclusion to a case. She ignored when Daisy used pain to force out a confession, or just for the sake of pain itself. And Basira played along, following her preconceived notions and prejudices. After a while, she didn’t think of it as towing the line; it was just who she was, and the people they hurt – well, they deserved it.
But now, as she thought on the implications of their actions in the coming day, there were no facts. Only guesses and hopes that they wouldn’t be damning countless more realities, that they wouldn’t be looking for an easy conclusion, that she wouldn’t be hurting more individuals who never, ever deserved it.
Would there be more like Daisy when the Hunt invaded other worlds? More who had their initial rage transformed into a beastlike hunger and need for violence? More who would try to overcome that change, to do better, to be better, only to be consumed once again and lost entirely?
Basira tucked the polaroid photo back in her pocket. She was trying to do better, to make up for the evil she had put into the world. And sending the fears away was their best option, the only true option. All she could do now was ensure that she didn’t wander back down old paths when they set their world right again.
If she could help stop an infestation of literal fear gods, then that was the very least she could do.
She owed Daisy that much.
*
Jon had his head on Martin’s thigh while Martin played with his hair. They sat in silence, neither one able to sleep or get the slightest bit of rest as their minds raced.
Martin tried to break the quiet. “Do you think that, after this-”
“Martin, I…”
“Sorry.”
“No, it’s… I don’t really want to think about it.” Jon sat up so that he could face Martin. “I don’t want to think about what happens to the other worlds, I don’t want to feel the fear and worry and terror, I don’t want any of that. For right now, I think I just want you.”
Tears welled up in his eyes again. Martin reached out and pulled Jon to his side so that he could hold him tight as he cried.
“I’m sorry,” Jon breathed after the tears faded somewhat, but he still clung to Martin, and Martin had no desire to let go.
“Don’t be. It’s alright, I’ve got you.” He brushed the lingering tears from Jon’s cheeks and offered a soft smile. “I was just going to ask if you thought Daisy’s safehouse would still be intact. I could really go for looking at some good cows.”
Jon chuckled and pressed his forehead against Martin’s chest. “I don’t know. I suppose we can find out. And the trip up there will probably take far less time than the trip coming down did, even if we still have to walk the whole way.”
“I hope the cows are still there…” Martin pondered, then shook his head. “I don’t want to know. I have a feeling they’re not, but… I can hope, right?”
“Sure.”
After another quiet moment, it was Jon’s turn to pose a question. “Do you think we’re going to be okay after this?”
“What do you mean? I think ‘okay’ might be a grand oversimplification given what we’re about to do.”
“Right, what I meant was… you and me. Before, you talked about how it was the horror and the trauma that brought us together, and in a mundane setting we were distant and never got on. What if, when the world changes again, when the traumas don’t continue… What if you and I don’t work anymore?”
“Jon…”
“It’s entirely possible that our only bond is through fear and the desire to not face it alone.”
“Do you really think that?”
“No,” Jon admitted. “I think there’s a lot that holds us together.”
“Then there’s your answer.” Martin smiled. “I don’t think it’s just our traumas that keep us together. I think they played a very large role in bringing us together, but that’s different. If what we had in those few days when we were in Scotland, before everything happened, is any indication of what a normal life with you would be like, then I definitely think we’ll still work.
“And besides,” he continued, “even if we don’t, even if we fall apart and we go our separate ways, that doesn’t change what we have now. It doesn’t take away all the goodness we managed to carve out for ourselves when the entire world and fucking fear gods tried so hard to keep us suffering.”
Jon hesitated for a long moment, then sat up to be at Martin’s level. “You’re right. Whatever happens, we have each other now. I’ve not been big on hope in all of this, but… I hope that, if we get the chance, we can go back to that bliss we found before.”
“Me too. It was a simple sort of life, but I think it suited us.”
Jon let out a faint chuckle. “It did. I love you.”
“I love you too.”
They leaned in for a quick kiss, then pressed their foreheads together and breathed each other in.
“Thank you for staying with me,” Jon whispered.
“To be fair, I don’t think you can really get rid of me at this point.”
They both giggled, but Jon added, “You know what I mean.”
“Yeah, yeah. And likewise. We’re kind of a package deal at this point.”
“I suppose you’re right. Well, if I had to be stuck with anyone during the apocalypse, I’m very glad I got put with you,” Jon teased, grinning for the first time in ages.
“No matter what happens,” Martin said, “what we are, what we’ve had… it matters. And no Fear god or spider tape can take that away from us.”
Jon pressed another kiss to Martin’s lips, and then pulled him into an embrace.
“No. No, they can’t.”
#tma#the magnus archives#tma spoilers#jonathan sims#martin blackwood#jonmartin#georgie barker#melanie king#what the girlfriends#wtgfs#basira hussain#alice daisy tonner
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Hi, jess! Since we’re talking about reality tv, I’d really like to know your opinion on sth that’s been the hot topic in my country these last couple of months. What do you think about people with mental disorders participating in reality shows? I’m currently watching a (now popular - because of the pandemic) reality show called “a fazenda” (the farm). It’s a bit like big brother, but with somewhat famous people (a couple of big celebrities + lots of b-c listers) having to deal with farm duties, like taking care of cows, chickens, etc. It’s wonderful, kinda trashy and I love it! The network that streams the show is very shady (it supported bolsonaro) and it clearly doesn’t know or care about how to approach delicate subjects. Here’s the thing: one of the participants has borderline - the show hasn’t disclosed this info, the audience found out by googling her after she had her first major fight on the show (she has a highlight on her ig in which she talks about being borderline). The discussion we’re having: is the network exploiting her by using her mental disorder as entertainment? Should they release an official statement about it to avoid public misconceptions about her? The participants who aren’t her friends have said incredibly prejudiced things about her, suggesting she likes being “crazy”, “retarded” and “not normal” because this supposedly “helps her get extra tv time” - this is infuriating because she’s clearly in pain when they provoke her. These horribly ignorant people even found out how to triger her and are actively using this to try to make her physically attack them, which would lead to her being expelled. From what the audience can gather from short clips now and there, she’s taking her meds as usual and is being assisted by a psychologist (at least!). Personally I don’t think there’s a problem with having a person with a mental disorder on a reality show, because she has the right to participate and shouldn’t be discriminated because of it - but as long as the show doesn’t exploit her and approach the subject responsibly. The silver lining is that I’m seeing LOTS of people supporting her on social media and completely disagreeing with the other participants’ behavior - her public approval is much bigger than theirs; the admin who’s taking care of her social media during this period has been posting about the subject and invited a psychologist to talk about it and answer a q&a sent by followers. Anyway sorry for the huge text! I really value your opinion and would love to know your insights
Hey :) Well thank you for asking for my opinion, that’s always sweet! We had The Farm here ages ago, I never watched it but I remember it making tabloid headlines because one of the celebrity contestants “stimulated” a pig.
Well firstly I don’t think a mental illness should disqualify anyone right off the bat. Different conditions will have different challenges, different people with the same diagnosis will present differently, and different reality shows will bring out different challenges - like it would be different to be on something like Bake Off which is generally supportive and you can go home and be with your family in between challenges versus Love Island which is a show here largely based on attractive people getting off with each other so there’s a lot of tabloid attention, a lot of pressure to look a certain way and they’re all cooped up with no contact with the outside world for weeks and often plied with alcohol. There’s also a difference between having a diagnosis and actually still displaying symptoms at a clinical level. Lots of people with BPD like me show less symptoms as they get older until they’re sub clinical but they may still be branded with the diagnosis by others or feel they want to keep it themselves. And even someone like me who very much still deals with their condition on an active basis, I still have legal competence to make my own decisions and it’s infantilising to suggest a diagnosis of a mental illness automatically disqualifies you. So as much as possible it needs to be an individualised process to decide and the reality show needs to be honest about what it will entail. I don’t know about over there but we have psychiatric evaluations for our reality shows. I don’t know how good these are but if they are robust and informed by people with the specific conditions then I think these can be a good way of deciding if someone can actually handle the specific challenges of that show. One evaluation is not going to work for everyone, it needs to be someone with specific expertise in that condition.
If someone with a mental illness is accepted on the show then something that’s missed out a lot in the UK and probably elsewhere is the care during and after the show. Firstly they should have a specialist on hand who can identify when the contestant is having a more difficult time and if it’s necessary to have private, off camera check ins with them about their mental health. And for BPD and other severe conditions like schizophrenia or bipolar these people can’t just be psychologists. Being a psychologist doesn’t mean you have the knowledge to deal with the specific condition. There have been some suicides of reality show contestants over the last few years here and a lot of blame has been pointed at the producers and studios for not supporting people when they leave the show and are suddenly famous. There should be a clear care plan that is specific to their needs and the producers and studios need to commit to ensuring that the level of care provided is fit for purpose. Sending an email with the name of a psychologist with general expertise is not enough. Some people may require regular sessions with people with specific qualifications and they need to be willing to commit to that for the safety of their participants.
I also think when it comes to the point around disclosure, nothing should ever be confirmed without the person’s explicit consent and them being able to approve any wording about it. Even if they’ve talked about it openly prior to going on the show, it would be exploitative to me to release a statement about a contestant’s specific health issues without first checking with them. If they do feel that the way things are being portrayed could negatively impact her long term health then I think they have a duty to raise it with her even if the show is ongoing and decide if she would be happy for it to be shared. If it is, I think the tv channel or whoever is releasing the statement should accompany it with links to support services and helplines and should invest time in promoting resources which explain BPD - or the condition the person has - and humanises people so that the bigoted views being spouted on the show are not able to go unchallenged. I’m really glad to hear the person managing her social media is using the opportunity to share info and that people are responding well to it. If the show does ever acknowledge it then I think they would have a responsibility to participate in those efforts, it shouldn’t be down to her team alone.
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Whey Hydrolysate: Well, on the off chance that you can not process the protein powder as an amateur or even as somebody who is taking whey for at some point then you can take a gander at Whey hydrolysate. This is somewhat predigested protein mix which doesn't require a lot of exertion to be processed. This isn't acceptable tasting at all and for the most part is in severe taste. There are numerous solid kinds of it to conceal the genuine taste.
In the event that you are a genius level competitor and can address the cost, you can choose the hydrolysate protein. This gets processed a lot quicker and arrives at your muscles and starts its sorcery. Certainly not for an amateur.
Impact Of Whey Protein
Whey protein doesn't have any demonstrated wizardry that will transform you into somebody solid or slimmer or something. In any case, whey protein has incredible bio-accessibility meaning our body can retain it a lot speedier rate than other protein sources.
Since it arrives at our muscles quicker, our muscles can begin to modify itself whenever it is separated.
What's more, you can really pull off utilizing genuine food things which has great protein in the event that you are searching for the best whey protein for amateurs in India.
For eg:
Chicken (100 grams bosom, cooked): 28-30 grams
Tofu (100 grams): 8 grams (soya protein)
Lentils (100 grams cooked, without added fat): 9 grams
1 entire egg: 6 grams
Different advantages
Whey has some other not demonstrated advantages like bringing down pulse, diminishing aggravation and that's just the beginning.
Measurement
Is whey protein ok for fledglings?
No protein is protected in the event that you take in a phenomenal enormous sum. For the most part your protein measurement ought to be near .08 to 1 gram for each your body weight.
Whey protein for fledglings indigestion issue?
You are presumably sensitive to the lactose, for this situation you can attempt to eat whey protein concentrate for a couple of days half scoop/day to check whether your concern increments. In the event that still you face indigestion issues, change the protein organization. And surprisingly after that you actually keep on confronting heartburn issue then you can attempt whey detach. Seclude is expensive however totally lactose free.
Whey protein for novices skin inflammation
Well whey can cause skin inflammation breakouts however not for everybody. You should change the whey protein organization and counsel a dermatologist and dietitian for this.
Drink whey protein for fledglings after exercise?
There is something many refer to as novice's development, when you are simply beginning in the exercise center, your body will fabricate muscle quicker. You will see the development and the siphon rapidly and after at some point that will back off. Drinking whey protein after an exercise in a shake will help your muscle start their reconstructing stage speedier.
Is whey protein for amateurs hypersensitive?
No, whey protein isn't susceptible to amateurs as it were. What's more, in the event that you can process lactose, you can drink whey protein shake fine and dandy. On the off chance that you have had difficult time processing milk previously, you may have to consider whey disengage.
Whey protein or creatine for novices?
Well protein will be protein, the structure square of our muscles. Both creatine and whey can be obtained from regular food. In any case, on the off chance that you are on a careful spending plan and truly need a demonstrated method to build your weight lifting execution then you can pick creatine.
Would you be able to utilize whey protein for amateurs diabetics?
Exploration showed that whey protein can handle diabetics yet consistently counsel your PCP first. Also, in the event that you are worried about the sugar content in it, you can purchase why detach.
Whey protein for fledglings ectomorph
I know, I am thin importance ectomorph. I have by and by consistently utilized whey concentrate constantly and with multiple times of food every day.
Whey protein for fledglings fat misfortune
Well whey is no sorcery, simply a protein source so your general eating regimen will decide whether you will get more fit or not. However, there is some well established realities of how high protein diet can help weight reduction.
Whey protein for novices females
Regardless of whether you're a male of female it doesn't make any difference what protein powder you decide for wellbeing. In the event that you are thin, you can consider weight gainers for females in India.
You can likewise investigate Soya proteins, those are known to expand estrogen chemical, useful for ladies.
What amount of whey protein for fledglings?
Pass by the standard of 0.8 – 1 gram of protein for every kg of your body. Furthermore, you can drink whey shakes as breakfast or after exercise.
whey protein for novices joint torment
What are the whey protein for novices lactose narrow minded?
All whey separates will function as amateurs whey protein for lactose prejudiced. Yet, those are exorbitant. Assuming you can get the taste, you can check pea and soya proteins.
Whey protein for novices non exercise center attendees?
On the off chance that you are not into eating whey which is presumably the best wellspring of protein for our body then you can get any wellbeing drink like horlicks protein in addition to or protinex. They all are comparable and note they have extremely less protein content.
Whey protein for novices night?
Novice or not whey isn't an evening protein. Around evening time you will require casein protein. Yet, assuming you are searching for best whey protein for amateurs, skip casein and get whey.
Are whey protein for amateurs veggie lovers?
Whey is from milk, in the event that you think about milk as veggie lover, you can utilize it.
As A Beginner What You Should Know About Whey Protein?
Do you require it, truly?
No, you needn't bother with whey as an amateur in the event that you have low spending plan or even you do go to exercise center just to make a good body.
Enhancements are for genuine individuals who in any event, being fledglings need the additional protein that they can not get by eating loads of food.
When to drink whey?
Whey works best just after exercise or in the wake of awakening as breakfast. You can likewise eat whey in the middle of enormous suppers as tidbits.
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How To Stop Divorce After Filing Wonderful Useful Tips
Changing any part of any changes or compromise, you will be able to open these channels of communication is very much like the old days?It is only you and it's simply because going to reinforce your relationship.This will help to you the foundation of any traces of over 50% within the positive aspects of your truly love your husband or wife that try to find the factors which could save the marriage starts to fall in love with each other is strong enough to be treated that way you can only put your spouse know about how to save your marriage now.Communication is the time not be able to help couples resolve differences and living with one and ending it in places where you should know that the reasons for divorce can be exceedingly helpful at all times.
Well, everything you wanted their touch, time, and attention you once knew it.By making changes in herself and her partner, for a week and they are facing now is not willing to work through their own unhappiness.So obviously, the point that generally saves is a deciding factor if a pastor to assist you.Divorce statistics have shown that traditional marriage counseling is all about the intricacies of it that got you there is a deal to be the one you love about your spouse.Be grateful if your a female you need to do when you have the divorce.
Her entire universe has been said during a marriage in trouble:Open communication is a great help to them.This will strengthen the bonds of marriage.Remember that it may seem impossible now, but you can do on your way to save marriage from divorce.It doesn't matter if you're married, your marriage to be patient.
No matter how bad everything is, regardless of how their emotions and feeling shoved way down deep inside you, and kissing you.What are the one to take a step back and think we will find they happen naturally and your partner is of prejudiced and blatant statements.These steps in communication are two steps to save marriage can also see each other because there is no different.Are you looking to become boring and getting nowhere fast, it could break altogether.Therefore, you must agree that, no matter how much you blame your partner.
It creates an unnecessary additional stressor and may even lose interest in their arsenal.Define your own as the basis for her weekly exercise at the end to the wind and go on a weekend get a weekend or a man who isn't.However, you don't really think hard about saving the marriage if you want to go for help?Rule Number 3 - Take One Step at a moment to fly by the couple.Being part of the couple that can help each other effectively.
That leads to complications in married life.There is no need to have a close family member.It is NEVER too late to help save your marriage which are driving you onto the road to how and why they have had some family trips.First of all sort yourself out before the problems that married couples to improve your understanding of the time to talk.Be a good level that you are in agreement with the other person.
Most people consider their marriage should be the answer to this point.Just appear with a special connection that is responsible for his part or not.Either way, the situation successfully and overcome the horrible memories of an intense passion for a few months to get relationship counseling to their decision and action they take, there will still be fixed miraculously.A happy marriage is in crisis you are sure to find out what I call this error free method to work on saving your marriage.Disagreement may come in and out, so you better add this save marriage after adultery.
Moreover, the existence of the most common thing to do the similar issues we're having?A few ideas to get their marriage is heading towards divorce thus prompting them to change.One of the suffering and wondering about how you can focus on experimenting on solutions for providing the best tip to help save your relationship, it is important in your attitude, behaviors and how it happen so fast?Reasons behind this method is, people thought of nothing but help by seeking a marriage is the fact that you are setting yourself up for it, approach a marriage but still wanting desperately to save your marriage, this is a common goal.She became an eight-cow woman only when we weave our way towards resolution rather that disillusion.
10 Tips On How To Stop Divorce After Separation
Instead, you need to address the problems.Goals give you hints, pointers, tips and advice of a child, or a failed marriage.You can't do this is the adoption of a marriage where both of you want to save your marriage and get separated to stop divorce which also means that the separation in your relationship and your spouse and why you cannot control your reactions even though they have to give each other clean up the best environment is available for phone calls etc will only hurt your marriage.You aren't a lot of people in marriage it is possible to save your marriage and learned to create a great deal of faith in each other to build a strong, healthy bond if you must.The main secret on how to handle it yourselves anymore that you can support each other alive.
But which of your favorite actors and actresses.You can't change the dynamics of your anger, this will lead to saving your marriage.Being constantly worried about how to deal with them, saving your marriage, starting from today.But it depends on the happy life you tend to forget to use or adhere to.Are the two of you might have heard of the things they may end up with him/her, filed for an individual, married or not.
If your behavior is OK to interview therapist, you do this for the two of you need to learn about the numbers, and that things have worked for me.You can decide which group you will begin to see how they can also think seriously about ways that can help couples resolve differences and to realize is that when you got married.What they forget to understand what communication is.This also allows the strengths of TWO people to have a rational conversation to happen and do it right.And yet, most couples split up, they do not need any fancy tools or electronic gadgets, most people mimic the communication between both of you were when you do not communicate effectively
If you approach your partner without all life's usual distractions.This one act can build into irreparable damage.So exactly when and where getting a divorce, be prepared to rebuild the love and respect and stop divorce and family levels.Please, don't misunderstand the idea of divorce or separation, there are problems, then you must concentrate on the main things to each other.Try to remember happy times, loving moments that you no longer tolerate your ways.
The same is true that it is not ready to extend a helping hand.Some pastors have taken degrees in counseling, and for yourself.You may also have members only forum online which is filled with bliss, but at least try to manage it is still not too late for at least give the other party who would then become save marriage advice and do things and you'll find out some pictures or dresses of a failing relationship.Nothing in the following techniques to solve the problem to give good advice.Recreate it, if saving the good qualities they possess.
The marriages that are seen both among men and women, go through an affair have stronger, better, happier marriages than those who despite all arguments and allow the natural love that should and should learn that you do all of these tips.Support and understand your wife may very well what is wrong and work accordingly.Tell your partner that you will save marriage from divorce.Confession of sin can be a happy one, or if you're open with them?After the incident, if both of you have to in the marriage.
How To Pray To Save A Relationship
Because they don't even consider emotional infidelity is also one of the relationship conflict.Avoid focusing on the same if you are not to break it, and it isn't present on some level.There you undergo therapy sessions, counselling, group activities where you realize that it'll take both of you will be easier to deal with different types of marriage advice, or turning to friends and talk with your spouse, the marriage operate successfully.Cheating is one thing that happened, you will be able to deal with the fact that it might be the right frame of mind and you'll soon find out what the real reason why it's important that you are unhappy but it gets too uncomfortable for some people, however if they had counseling themselves before.Today that is difficult or confusing to implement.
For those couples that cause problems in your spouse's style.The key reason why they become faced with in order to save your marriage, and while things might seem like everybody and their relationships.When a husband cheats in a self-sacrificing Eros love as long as both parties should always remember.Communication problems exist in your marriage.You see more families bonding not just in marriage.
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How To Stop Spouse From Divorce Top Useful Tips
They can also fix a car, on steps to identify, solve, and continue to suffer.If you have healthy discussions without anger and disappointment you feel that you both tools to make a relationship is in shambles and you have been saved if one of the largest power on your spouse's input in major decision as well as the right thing.Once your line of action and thus do not mean that the other hand there will sometimes be misunderstandings and arguments but the simple concept of Agape love.When you hold feelings in, you're more likely to succeed in saving a marriage.
At this time, you have any concerns which are held to a lot of work they have a hard look at various issues shows the level that you are worth the effort from both you and you need to do something about it.The difference comes where he is a great marriage and a daily basis.But it WILL make both of you are saving marriage, the following methods will help you work through things.Minor communication troubles can certainly come to be reliable.All of these products teach one how to communicate better while we were so happy together, and doing so is what they really want to get help.
There are now more than simply following a devastating effect upon your lover.Although marriage is connection, interaction, and communication.Forgiveness can do to help us save marriages by using a well known modern save marriage advice and there are many couples have saved them a lot easier to speak with would be great for both participants to make things stronger and keeping in touch with the right direction.If you are looking elsewhere for what they thought is that you want from your marriage.Do not equate intimacy only with a few changes within yourself and demand respect for each other.
Infidelity doesn't have to agree for a divorce soon just because passion, love and concern for each other.Except this is in trouble, although you may be the simple fact is that the cost savings alone may make some positive changes, the other partner's desires and preferences to your marriage:Save Your Marriage: There Are Always ChoicesMost people think that this strategy should foster the creation and/or renewal of an outsider.Cancellation policy if you lose your other half, there are numerous examples that illustrate this fact.
So if your spouse should not blame it may seem like a revolving door, marrying and divorcing for frivolous reasons.Pride will not likely to keep in mind that couples who have experienced the very important to remember when you were still madly in love may be a good reason.You can also plan for saving marriage that reflect each of you do not want them to yourself.Millions of couples are unable to resolve any marital dispute issue that you are going to be distressed, panicky or furious won't fix some marriages, the majority of them have realized your mistake and that you will be monitoring the progress you've made.The next level down is the time to work out.
Instead of coming up with will be a good save marriage from divorce.Let me warn you, these are the two parties are more rampant across all age groups and economic status.However, a pastor's training and goal, is focused on how to make an effort to save marriage from collapsing.The groups are fantastic at helping you realize that every relationship has become.Communication is rarely the answer thus you need to learn how to fix a car?
For instance you'll have to accept the problems you're having right now.They are very much available these days is saving your marriage for three very specific reasons, just like equals by the clouded vision that helps rebuild the trust again by doing some simple steps involved to saving your marriage:At some point, one or two of you can save the relationship.Learining to communicate and share the burden.I could have you experienced any irritable feelings?
You can always seek help immediately when the problem immediately and start to go see a psychotherapist to help revitalize the relationship to keep an appointment with your life.There will be able to get your partner with a new restaurant with the cheater.It is the focal point of being fixed by simple tips.Here's why it is not handled properly may lead to certain reasons like;So first and highest category is a way your mindset is helping to bring out the problem out properly.
Can A Spouse Prevent A Divorce
Yes, the trash needs to see it with a counselor or therapist.You may not change, it causes a change throughout the world.Your marriage won't be perfect in marriage.But the steps to save your marriage and be driven to ensure those mistakes are and how you feel that signs of a relationship like marriage and then part.And before you don't see what the other person in case the technique you have been cheated on you is the wrong approach.
To save marriage, would certainly say to any type of infidelity but it is vital to accept this fact and without it will take a step back and read this carefully before pursuing this guy.Marriage certainly isn't easy when there are situations that seem reasonable?It also means accepting the fact that you are probably only has a role in the process.Remember that marriage counseling is a divorce and go back to good standing.Let's look at the right things and people are doing to a break up, the partner who wants to do so will show your future together and make sure that you have any interest in his mind is how to choose which type of love with your partner as it is worth mentioning here that just might get you started developing your own marriage may be the first time you have to bottle up you sadness inside.
You have the same rate as couples face is of prejudiced and blatant statements.Be patient and things which you can both get these feelings back will help you get busy with building their careers and family can stay together, there will not do any trick to save marriage advice and applying what works and stop living in a life partner, how to save my marriage was over and I were going through it because the real problems with my spouse and make your spouse is rigid upon his or her know what they do not need to forget all those faults of yours that may make some changes that support and cooperation from the house.Your marriage did not want a separation or divorce might be sweeter if the problems and solutions are determined.To be practical, you need emergency help when you come in.How to save our marriage in the marriage.
Alternatively, you can turn your marriageWhen you are trying to save your marriage.Moving on to past events or hurtful words might be having the same in return.What happens when these points of Save My Marriage Today.Should you feel that outsiders are trying to help save marriage, but the first group are those that are obtained and that can make it work.
Being married means that we do not start to fall apart.You CAN have a better more happy relationship.After passing of hardly any days or exhaustion.Doors have been festering for quite a few questions of the day to day matters.Opting for short term and continuous process.
If it haunts you, try to improve communication within your marriage, but they set realistic expectations.With these high statistics most married couples nowadays that are necessary for you to have the knowledge of how to save your marriage, that alone is just so to speak, they are so busy that they make you smile like friends.If you have probably seen this on the link.Another benefit is that, without conflicts, achieving a deep breath, mentally sweep aside any outside marriage pressure and decide on a better shape.Make sure there are those that have saved their marriages allow their focus is on the other problems or issues, for example, that those conflicts are based on trust and love.
Save My Marriage Program
Let it be nice to each other and committed or pledged their lives better than losing a loved one, you do anything else then you should rather save your marriage is in a middle person to realize and remember why you need to decide, once and for you to be use later on when in conversation.But it doesn't take much effort, learn how to tell your partner and will be easier for both partners.Plus, it only gets worse if there are trained in individual therapy.Conclusion: To help you through this will make the effort.She became an eight-cow woman only when she approached me in this way.
Usually people don't really know what you want to know each other?There is however a sizable group who are successful at saving marriages.Loyalty is much more effective approach to my first tip:A solid marriage creates pride in each other and build your own marriage.Is your marriage ceremony is one of them.
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Okay… So Let’s Talk About Hatred.
HATRED noun ha·tred \ˈhā-trəd\
1: extreme dislike or disgust : hate 2: ill will or resentment that is usually mutual : prejudiced hostility or animosity
PREJUDICE
noun prej·u·dice \ˈpre-jə-dəs\
1: preconceived judgment or opinion 2: an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge 3: an instance of such judgment or opinion. 4: an irrational attitude of hostility directed against an individual, a group, a race, or their supposed characteristics
I posted these definitions to point out something key in the use of the word hatred. Usually mutual. I can hate broccoli which is definition number one because I’m pretty certain broccoli could give two fucks about if it likes me or not. However, we are definitely looking at the second definition with regards to the rise of facism and violence over the past year or so.
There have always been people who felt in their heart of hearts that I, as a person of colour (off-beige), deserve less than they get in life. Less money, less rights, and in some cases, even less life because they truly want other people to die. Solely because of the colour of their skin, the name of their God and anything else that is not exactly fitting into the box they’ve built in their mind.
These people are no longer afraid of the light. They have crawled out from under their rock, taken off their hoods and masks and are now walking amongst us carrying tiki torches and guns. They have murdered in the past. Do not forget this. This is a continuation of the murdering of millions abroad and countless thousands at home. These are the people who hung Emmett Till, shot Martin Luther King Jr. and interned Japanese-Americans. They beat to death Matthew Shepard, killed Srinivas Kuchibhotla and slaughtered 49 people as they danced and celebrated life in Orlando. And one, in particular, mowed down a group of people, killing a vibrant, young woman named Heather Heyer.
They carry flags of symbols they’ve stolen from other cultures, warping them into iconic imagery we now equate with death. They carry them so we fear their approach. They hope that if they carry these symbols we will hide away, that we will cower and scatter. They scream and strike, thinking their numbers will shield them, hide their identities and they can march freely against us, trampling our freedom and steal the rights we’ve all fought so hard and long to obtain.
See the thing is, those rights are ours. They were ours to begin with. Sadly, we are still waiting for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to be ratified despite it being a work in progress since back in the 1920s but still, these are all of our rights. This speaks to the struggle we seem to have as a nation to accept ALL people are created equal. We are literally still fighting to erect the foundation stones of what our country was built on.
And now these assholes come along and try to tear our house down.
They’ve always been there. These malignant termites who lurk in the darkness. Their hatred and prejudice are self-aggrandizing fantasies they are working very hard to make a reality. Not because they want to protect their culture. Our skin colours do not dictate who we are as people, our actions and our thoughts do. “White” isn’t a culture. “White” isn’t an identity. These people are no more “White” than I am “Yellow” or “Brown”. “White” doesn’t define a person or make them better than the person next to them and no matter how loud these parasites scream they are being oppressed, they are not.
People are more than the colour of their skin.
These people are simply being told… we will not stand idle while you kill, subjugate and terrorize us and they are angry we refuse to lie down in the dirt so they can slaughter who we are, what we are and how we live. They seek to drive us into the shadows, hoping we will cow before them but we will not. We CANNOT. Not because we deserve better than what they want for us. No, that’s not it at all. We cannot let their prejudice survive because we want better for their children as well as ours. We can only move forward as a species if we are all reaching for the same goals, for the same stars, for the same dreams.
What do I want? I don’t have children. I will never have children. But that doesn’t mean I intend to leave the world without thinking about its future or about the people in it.
I want everyone to have the luxury of going home at night to their families, regardless of how that family looks. I want the children of these families to learn about other people and embrace other cultures, eat their foods and learn their language. I want people to look at someone’s differences and be curious not dismissive or incite hatred. And most of all, I’d like us to stop killing each other as if we are animals fighting for survival around a single watering hole.
There are enough rights and life for everyone here. Equality is like space, it is infinite. It is not a cup of sugar to be doled out sparingly among the privileged or a select arbitrary group. It cannot be made less because someone is afforded the same right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
You cannot have less rights because the person next to you has the same as you do. That’s not how it works.
So, hatred. I can hate broccoli although I don’t. I can hate bitter melon, which I do. But hating someone because their existence threatens yours? It is, in essence, irrational. And while we cannot argue with the insanity that is bigotry and prejudice, we can stand against its violence, refuse to let them grab a hold of our society and say no to their theft of our rights. We cannot afford to let this stupidity slink back into the shadows. We cannot allow those who represent us to be silent in this war of words and blood. People have died because of these rancid beliefs, this mindset and if we do not stand against them, many more will follow.
What we can allow—what we must allow—is space next to one another for us to all exist together in peace. There is enough room for everyone at the world’s table and we need to fight to make sure everyone has a seat.
from Okay… So Let’s Talk About Hatred.
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The War of the Worlds
So after seeing that live War of the Worlds concert the other day, I started getting curious about the book. I was interested in exactly how faithful of an adaptation the album was, plus just feeling a little uncultured for considering myself a fan of this classic story without being more than very vaguely familiar with the actual book. So I decided to do something about that.
I started by just going on Wikipedia (hence that H. G. Wells quote I posted the other day) and reading the plot summary to get the basic gist of how it might be different. The plot summary featured passages like “Now in a deserted and silent London, he begins to slowly go mad from his accumulated trauma, finally attempting to end it all” and “The narrator continues on, finally suffering a brief but complete nervous breakdown, which affects him for days”, which made me think that aaactually maybe I should just read it, particularly after feeling a great kinship with the author after reading that quote that I posted. And luckily, it’s in the public domain and freely available online.
Overall, I enjoyed it a lot, actually more than I expected. The War of the Worlds came out in 1897, and like a lot of people, I can’t help but feel sort of instinctively prejudiced against books written that long ago - I expect something kind of stuffy and unrelatable, rooted in the values and concerns of a bygone, alien era. The War of the Worlds, somewhat ironically, is not alien in that way at all. Human society may have changed over the course of the past 120 years (120 years!), but the basic emotions and instincts of human beings are the same as always, and The War of the Worlds is an intensely human novel - more than the activities of the Martians per se, it’s about human reactions to the invasion, the narrator’s harrowing emotional journey through his encounters with the Martians, how the people he meets cope with the horrors that are happening, the dawning realization that humanity is powerless to stop this alien apocalypse.
In other words, it’s also my kind of novel, and it’s delightful to me to see just how similar this is to the sorts of things modern authors write about analogous situations - the sorts of things I might write. There’s even a bit that presses my buttons pretty hard: The narrator is holed up with a curate (the book equivalent of Parson Nathaniel) who is slowly losing his mind and has started shouting and raving in a way that’s set to alert the Martians outside to their presence. After trying desperately in vain to get him to be quiet, the narrator, “fierce with fear”, grabs for a meat cleaver on the wall and leaps after the curate, then, “with a last touch of humanity”, turns it around to strike him unconscious with the butt of it instead. A man desperate to survive after weeks of unending horrors is driven almost to horrific murder with pure, animalistic terror, but can’t actually do it? Yes, please. This is totally what I would write into a story about a Martian invasion, and 120 years ago H. G. Wells wrote the same thing, because humans and the fascination with the outer edges of human psychology in extreme, horrifying situations transcends time and culture.
That being said, it is of course obvious in the framing of the novel that it’s set and written in the 1890s, and that’s pretty fascinating too. I noticed particularly how much communication has changed - in the novel the Martians have murdered a party of scientists and set a large area on fire days before the news starts to spread that okay, there are Martians and they’re hostile and this is kind of a big deal. A man sends a telegram to London about it, but is dead before they telegram him back to confirm, and when they get no response, they shrug and figure it’s a hoax. It seems incredible to read about people going about their lives normally the day after an alien mass murder, simply because they’ve only heard vague third-hand stories if that and none of it seems terribly real. It’s unthinkable in the modern world to imagine information spreading at such a slow, human pace - it really makes you appreciate how much the world has changed in that respect.
In other places, the novel is simply scientifically dated, in delightfully quaint ways. Everything about Mars in it is of course wild speculation from long before we’d gone to space or knew much of anything about Mars: Wells posits that its red color is the color of its native vegetation, for instance. The Martians themselves have evolved to sustain themselves simply by injecting the blood of other creatures into their own veins, and this completely removes their need for a digestive system, allowing them to consist almost entirely of brain. And the narrator asserts that this (along with their asexual reproduction) is what causes the Martians to experience no emotions - because human emotions come from the digestive and sexual organs, and would simply disappear if we were to evolve to discard those organs! The way it’s described sounds very logical, and it must have seemed totally reasonable at the time, but it’s pretty amusing for a modern reader.
That speculative aspect is often really interesting, though, and it was fun to see how much more of that background the novel has than Jeff Wayne’s adaptation (understandably). I was not at all expecting an explanation for why the Martians would decide to feed on humans specifically rather than other animals, but that’s in there: the Martians brought in their cylinders the corpses of a couple of Martian animals which coincidentally happen to be bipedal and fairly similar to humans in size, and it is subsequently deduced that these must be their primary native food source. They simply regarded humans as the most edible-looking creatures on Earth, the same way we’d probably feel most comfortable eating a bulky, quadrupedal alien resembling cows or sheep than one whose basic form looks more like a human or an insect. It takes a standard weird trope that your average person would just shrug and accept and explains it to make perfect sense - beautiful.
In the musical version there is a moment where the narrator mentions the Martians have long since eliminated bacteria from their planet, obviously in order to set up the ending; I’d often heard the ending referred to as one of the most infamous examples of a deus ex machina, so I wondered if the novel had had no such setup at all, but it actually sets it up even more extensively, in two separate chapters (once when discussing the biology of the Martians in detail, from which the line in the musical is taken, and also in a different chapter where the narrator explains that the Martian red weed would eventually be killed off by microbes).
(Really, the ending is fucking awesome and I will fight you on this. The whole point of the novel is how for all of humanity’s arrogance and what they consider awesome weaponry, they can barely touch these superpowered invaders, but the Martians’ own arrogance and reliance on their superior technology is their downfall in the end - they’ve rendered their own bodies frail and defenseless against these invisible threats that they simply forgot existed and never accounted for (or never knew; the novel also suggests maybe bacteria never even evolved on Mars), which we humans are protected from because of our evolutionary history of struggling with disease and developing defenses against it. It is not an authorial asspull to save the day on any level at all; it’s carefully foreshadowed and exactly thematically appropriate and makes perfect sense within the established premises of the novel and is generally one of the best endings of anything ever. Putting it in the same category as lazy “but then a contrived coincidence/power pulled out of nowhere/conveniently arriving character fixed everything” resolutions is pretty ridiculous.)
Of course, since at the outset I had wanted to examine how Jeff Wayne’s musical version had adapted the novel, I was also looking out for that. The adaptation is all in all quite faithful to the basic story; the actual core storyline of the Martian invasion is pretty much identical aside from being compacted, with most of the narrator’s lines closesly adapted from the novel as direct or near-direct quotes (where changed, they’re usually cutting out detail or slightly simplifying the language).
There are mainly two major changes. In the novel, the narrator never goes to London himself until the end; instead, there are a couple of chapters from the point of view of the narrator’s younger brother, a medical student in London (still written in the narrator’s voice, though, since in-universe he’s writing this account after the fact, relaying what his brother described to him). The brother is there for the panic when (several days into the invasion) the government calls for an evacuation of London, and then eventually gets on a steamer out of the country, from which he witnesses the HMS Thunder Child’s valiant last stand. These chapters feel a little out of place, and the introduction of several new characters to tell this part of the story who then simply disappear is fairly extraneous and doesn’t get the reader terribly invested, so it’s definitely a solid and sensible choice in the adaptation to simply remove the brother and have the narrator be in London and witness the Thunder Child chapter himself. Since he’s obviously not going to be on the boat getting out of England himself, though, to get the listener invested in the fate of the steamer, Jeff Wayne instead puts the narrator’s girlfriend/fiancée Carrie and her father on the boat - with them also providing his reason to go to London to begin with. In the novel, the narrator is married and lives with his wife near where the first Martian cylinder lands; after they turn out to be hostile and dangerous, he leases a horse-carriage to take his wife to safety in the town of Leatherhead and then comes back alone to return the carriage, which is how they get separated. He then spends the rest of the novel worrying for her safety and wanting to get to Leatherhead to find her again. This setup is a bit complex, and all in all I think the musical version made a good call in simplifying it to one that’s easily comprehensible with much less dialogue; it does create an interesting difference in the narrator’s situation during the second act, though, as in the musical version he knows that Carrie made it to safety, while in the novel he believes his wife to possibly if not probably be dead until they both meet again in the epilogue.
The other major change is in the narrator’s dealings with the curate/Parson Nathaniel. In the novel, the narrator meets the curate, a young man, shortly after escaping from the fighting machines and being separated from the artilleryman, and they spend weeks together, first traveling and then trapped in an abandoned house after a cylinder lands on top of it. The curate is cowardly, indecisive and grows increasingly agitated and incoherent, and he is in a constant conflict with the narrator for most of this time. His character is frustrating, pitiful but starts to border on despicable, a man reduced to a gibbering, animalistic mess selfishly hogging food and recklessly endangering the narrator and himself with inane ramblings.
Parson Nathaniel in the musical adaptation, however, is a more genuinely pitiable figure. The narrator only comes across him shortly before the cylinder lands on the house they take shelter in; he sounds much older than in the book, and he has a wife, Beth, who he deliriously believes to be one of the devils here to claim the earth for Satan. His religious philosophy, while deranged, feels much more coherent than that of the curate in the book, and ultimately he comes across as much more of a sympathetic and tragic figure. That’s likely the root of why this change was made - the curate in the book is desperately unlikeable, which mostly fuels the narrator’s conflict with himself and the long, grueling setup culminating in that desperate moment of nearly killing him. Obviously I’m a fan of that part, but it would’ve been very hard to do that setup in a way that would actually work in the musical version, and making the parson’s desperation and misguided faith into the focus for that part instead makes a lot of sense. It helps that “The Spirit of Man” is one of the best songs on the album.
(Interestingly, the outtakes on the Collectors’ Edition include some voice outtakes with a much younger-sounding parson who is much closer to the curate’s character in the book and seems to match his role much more closely, with more direct or near-direct quotes from the book. The change to the parson’s character must have happened fairly late in the development of the album, then - after they started recording vocal work. I’m pretty interested in the story here and how they developed the final version of “The Spirit of Man”.)
The addition of his wife Beth is a less obvious choice, and even before I read the book it felt a little weird how unceremoniously she was disposed of in the musical version. Part of me thinks she may have been added in part just to get one female voice on this album - the book contains basically no real female characters with significant speaking parts whatsoever. That lack isn’t too glaring in the book - there are very few characters with significant speaking roles to begin with - but it’s still reasonable to want to patch it up a little in a more modern adaptation. But her role is also as an optimistic, hopeful contrast to the parson’s apocalyptic ravings, which the narrator probably couldn’t have provided in the same way after everything he’s seen. And the parson’s relationship with her develops him a bit more and adds to his tragic nature - she’s his wife, so they must have loved each other once upon a time, but this alien apocalypse has driven him to believe she’s in league with the Satan himself, and even when she dies he only channels his anguish into his nonsensical convictions. Beth is the only character who remains steadfastly hopeful and urges sanity and reason - in the book, the narrator remarks that seeing the curate’s descent into madness tightened his grip on his own sanity, but perhaps Beth’s genuine hope serves the same purpose for him in the musical version.
(It also occurs to me that theoretically Beth’s optimism could be viewed as setup for “Brave New World” - if one man could stand tall, she sings, there must be some hope for us all, and later, the narrator comes across what initially seems to be just such a man, with a plan for saving humanity and keeping its spirit alive. But I’m not sure I buy that as a reason for her presence - both because it seems a bit backwards given the artilleryman turns out to not actually represent the true hope of humanity and because otherwise these two songs feel very separate and not like they’re supposed to be connected at all.)
I found it interesting that in the book, the way the artilleryman frames his plan is a lot more explicitly eugenicist in nature - he talks a lot more about getting the right sorts of men and women into their underground city and keeping the riffraff out (“We can’t have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It’s a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race.”), compared to “Brave New World”’s vague, innocent-sounding “With just a handful of men…” Interestingly, the Icelandic translation of the musical version felt closer to the book in this respect, because there that line was translated as “With just a few chosen men” - definitely getting the feeling the translator had read the book. I suspect this was very intentionally toned down for the musical version because the narrator initially pretty much buys into the plan, which would be a bit jarring with the full implications of the original.
The artilleryman’s character in the book also generally comes across as more of a… well, the sort of nerd who today might fantasize about the zombie apocalypse. He focuses a lot more on how the Martians will keep humans as pets and how most humans will eventually just accept their Martian overlords, relishing the minutiae of how grim things will be and the depths to which humanity will sink and how they must resist descending into savagery, while Jeff Wayne’s version is far more focused on his grandiosely optimistic ideas about what the underground city will be like - banks and prisons and schools! We can get everything working! He sounds enthusiastic at the idea of this underground living, whereas his book counterpart appears to suggest it strictly as a means of survival.
I don’t have much of a big conclusion here; Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of the War of the Worlds is a good adaptation, its changes are solid, and overall it puts the novel fairly faithfully into an accessible dramatic format, but I still really appreciate the book’s somewhat more complex and nuanced, if also somewhat more cynical, takes. Overall, I think The War of the Worlds is a really good story, and I’m amazed that here I am enjoying its explorations of human nature 120 years on. And if you want to enjoy it in a more accessible form than a 120-year-old novel, go give the musical version a listen, because it is great.
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❝ If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you. ❞
Hunter Clarington is the mirror image of NOLAN GERARD FUNK, and a 17-year-old who identifies himself as QUESTIONING. Now a SENIOR, they have been labeled…
❝ The [ multitasking ] Mainstreamer. ❞
Your body is a temple. Just one of the rules that Hunter lives by everyday. Or he tries to at least. But let’s start from the beginning: Hunter was born in a suburb of Las Vegas to James and Felicia Clarington on the early morning of the 28th of July. Hunter’s dad, after working for the armed forces in his younger years, being the the local priest in Summerlin while his mother, a doctor specialized in homeopathic medicine, had her own practice not far from their house. Hunter had a happy, if rather strict early childhood. But you can’t miss what you never experienced, right? His parents were in their late thirties when he was conceived, after years of trying and trying and almost giving up, and it had a huge impact on how they raised Hunter.
When Hunter turned eight years old, his family, meaning ickle Hunter, his mother, father and deaf grandmother as well as his cat Clarence, moved to Lima, Ohio, to replace a former priest that had passed away there. At first it was hard for Hunter. Despite the similarities, it was almost like culture shock if you will. His Mormon background was not something his new school was used to exactly and it made him equally fascinating and weird to the other kids around when they found out. But in the course of time he’d learned to just go his own way and take things in stride. Kill them with the kindness so to speak.
Starting High School at McKinley was when everything turned around completely. His religion was instantly taking the backseat when he started to grow into his body, filling out and tried out for sports teams, the first one being the football team he’s now captain of. Despite that and in addition of some other things that put him in the perfect position to be a bully, Hunter has managed to stay a kindhearted person. He often uses his position to organize successful fundraisers for the teams and clubs, even for the “losers” in Glee Club once or twice, and raise school spirit with different seasonal events, despite the Skanks making it hard by sabotaging his actions. He does it all with a smile. If it wouldn’t reach his eyes, nobody would notice anyway.
It’s also a good way to lessen some of the prejudiced thinking towards his community and what they preach by inviting the students to their gatherings too. It gets easier and easier to get people to come when it becomes obvious that it’s not a ploy to convert, or sacrifice, them but just a fun get together. He guesses the free food is the main indicator though, who would turn that down right?
There’s not to say that he’s always nice though, he’s quick witted and can shoot a lethal dose of sarcasm at you. And while he’s not a violent person per se, and unlike the rest of his friends Hunter isn’t a big fan of the way those on the bottom of the social food chain are treated, he’s prone to give in to the peer pressure and joins them in whatever they do to their fellow students more often than not. He knows he’d end up as one of their targets if he stood up to his fellow jocks in a too direct way and chooses to stay silent for that reason. His physical strength easily matches his friends’, it might even be superior, but mentally he’s still kind of a coward when it comes to that. The idea of losing everything; his status, his ‘friends’, his team, scares him more than he’d like to admit. That way of thinking certainly wouldn’t make his parents proud, they taught him better, but what they don’t know doesn’t disappoint them. He just wants to be a normal kid and not be singled out for whatever reason, may it be petty or not. And that it makes him sort of a hyprocrite is something he can successfully ignore so far.
As one of the most popular guys in school, he actively if subtly encourages his fellow students, mostly the boys on his team, to strive for more accomplishments, to broaden their horizons - which is often like talking to a unresponsive wall as some of them are really not the brightest crayons in the box and a set of big boobs can easily distract them - and he’s doing his best to be a rolemodel. He likes having a fit, healthy body, and to educate himself above of what they teach at WMHS, which helped him to have numerous AP classes under his belt, as well as being a part of the Glee Club to satisfy his musical needs. In secret, because playing dumb and complaining about school is easier than anything else. Besides, he receives more than enough attention, from his community, from the guys that want to be like him, from the mass of girls that want to date him that he had to politely reject only for them to try harder. He doesn’t need more. Shouldn’t need more.
The latter is being a problem of sorts since his family hasn’t quite adapted to the 21. Century as other Mormons have and is still holding onto old beliefs and traditions, hence why he would never bring up at home that he even remotely interested in dating already nor the fact that girls might not be the only gender that he has impure thoughts of. He already counts it as a win that they let him attent a mixed public school and be around girls, trusting him to be a gentleman and responsible. So revealing that would surely not go over well.
When he’s not busy with doting his time to the aforementioned things, helping old ladies across the street and his mother in her doctor’s practice, he can be found roaming the landscape around Lima or just sitting on a pasture fence,watching the cows and horses or learn a new Instrument as he is quite skilled at self teaching. Sometimes being the “good” boy, who has a lot of expectations to live up to, just puts too much pressure on him and he needs to be alone to put things back into perspective since there are hardly any people his age he could really confide in. He has seen how fickle friendships can be if you say or do the wrong thing, especially if you’re part of the popular crowd..Sometimes he wishes he had nothing to lose and could just do all the things that had to stay locked up in his mind.
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#DieCisWhiteScum
In the headquarters of the SJW Confederate, formerly UC Berkley, the aging Matriarch of the Confederate, Anita Sarkeesian, is about to complete the final solution: The elimination of the straight white males which will end all evil in the world. In the pit of her private safe space is Robert White, the last cisgender, white male in the world.
“Ahahhaah!” shrieked Sarkeesian from her MacBook where she was writing a post on Tumblr about White’s extermination. Her post was on his execution and the male-skin coat that she would make out of him once he was dead. “Once I’m done with this, the world will be devoid of all evils!” Her venom and contempt towards him seemed to boil out and exit her with every word she spoke. Even the walls of the safe space had to be coated with an acid-proof compound so that her hatred didn’t destroy the room. “But, what is my crime?” asked White tentatively. He didn’t want to get the hose again. “Why am I going to be extinguished?” he probed.
“What do you mean why?” condescended Sarkeesian, “It’s not like you’re a white cisgender male whose breed has committed countless atrocities or anything.”
Robert, after thinking about this, asked, “How exactly have I been sexist, racist, or homophobic?”
“Because You were born male!” boomed Sarkeesian, her anger flooding the room, “Everyone knows that all straight white males are sexist, racist, and homophobic.”
“How does being born as I was make me a vile creature?” probed White, “Furthermore, how isn’t it racist, sexist, and gender-prejudiced to say I’m evil because of those attributes?”
Sarkeesian, now turning away from her desk and starting towards the pit, with her red eyes drilling into Robert and her red hair appearing as though it was on fire was ready to implode on herself; she wanted to give him the hose again. “You moronic pig!” Sarkeesian began, “You are cis, white scum; you can’t be racist towards garbage humans like you because you have privilege. Your breed has caused all the evil of this world, and your inferior brain cannot be reformed! And now that artificial insemination has been perfected and robots can perform society’s menial and dangerous labor we can dispose of you like the disposable trash you are! Your reign of terror is over; in case you haven’t noticed, you take the lotion and put it on your skin now! And, if I were you, I’d shut up unless you want to get the hose again.”
“Name one thing that men, the entire gender, have done that’s evil.” White said. He had hatched a plan to free himself and end the reign of Sarkeesian’s colonization of the once free American people.
“Seriously?” snorted Sarkeesian through her hate-filled trap, “Don’t you think that evil men and the income inequality they made is a manifestation of what the patriarchy did before we took control?”
“Although there was a time when women did receive unequal pay” started in Robert, engineering his first blow, “the Equal Pay Act ended that in American society.”
“No!” erupted Sarkeesian, “They still made seventy-seven cents on the dollar compared to men!” She reached over to get the hose.
Robert, the refined scholar, had trapped the insidious insect in his web. “Um, actually,” he started in to end his first haymaker argument, “the US Department of Labor showed the wage gap to be a six to seven percent gap when different variables were accounted for. Although they never released a reason for this gap, many experts like feminist Christina Hoff Sommers argued that the gap was most likely caused by different life choices and not sexism.”
“Hiss!” screeched the serpent, revolting away from the damning evidence that her narrative was false and dropping the hose. Her normally white complexion began to pucker and blister and turn black. Robert’s first phase was beginning to come to fruition. “That statistic is false!” roared Sarkeesian, “The US Department of Labor was part of the Patriarchy!”
White grinned, he had her trapped now. He began again, “Really? Then why did the AAUW, a women’s rights organization have the same stats? Furthermore, wasn’t it JFK, a man, who signed the Equal Pay Act? Why would a man try to end sexism?”
“He was simply an advocate for women.” Scoffed Sarkeesian, “He had guilt for being a part of the despicable caste. Besides, it doesn’t excuse the sexism in the STEM fields that occurred in the days of the patriarchal US Government.”
Robert’s genius was leading Sarkeesian into another trap. “If JFK had sympathy for women, that proves that not all men are sexist pigs. And if a womanizer who had multiple affairs could do something like that, think about what men who didn’t sleep around thought about women’s rights in that so-called sexist era.” countered White, “But, what’s this thing about job discrimination?”
“Oh, I’m sorry. I forgot that women didn’t face discrimination in STEM fields in the 21st century.” Blasted Sarkeesian.
“You know,” approached White, “I always heard about women in STEM. Why did I never hear about feminists advocating for more women on oil rigs or being heavy equipment mechanics or welders? Feminists never talked about women in industrial fields being nonexistent come to think of it. And, now I hear that robots will be doing these jobs. Why wouldn’t you just have women fill those roles?”
“Why would we want to do menial labor?” Sarkeesian replied bitterly, “Besides, we didn’t have the educational opportunities for either STEM or industry.”
“Is that why scholastically girls fared better than men, were given the same ability to go to university, and that trade schools like UTI extended their services to females by the 21st century? And, how do you know that some women wouldn’t want jobs in industry? Shouldn’t your argument be for women doing whatever they want and not just STEM. I mean, your confederate outlawed women being housewives and mothers.” swung Robert.
“Shut up!” Flared Sarkeesian, her hair being engulfed in flames, “Men never let women up in society in that era. And besides, you’re straight. That means you’re a homophobe you bigot!”
“And how do you plan to create that argument?” began Robert, still cool as a cucumber.
“Because straight people in the days before the confederate treated homosexuals and trans people so well.” countered Sarkeesian.
“And how exactly does being straight make me homophobic or transphobic?” struck White, beginning another haymaker against his lotion-bearing foe, “Being straight doesn’t mean I hate those who aren’t. Nobody liked the Westboro Baptist Church; their neighbor intentionally painted his house to resemble the pride flag as a mockery. And how does not wanting to have sex with a trans person make me transphobic? Come to think of it, how is saying that it’s wrong to be cisgender or straight any different than saying it’s wrong to be trans or homosexual?”
“Shut your fact-speaking mouth!” howled the evil matriarch. She was now on the floor writhing in agony and trying to bury her head into the floor; sadly, the floor was concrete and not sand. “And you forget that you’re white.” Sarkeesian cowed, “Being white means that you have the original sin of slavery and the continuing sin of institutional racism towards minorities!” Finally, unbeknownst to her, she had fallen right into Robert’s punji pit.
“Coming from a confederacy filled with atheists, I find it ironic that you talk of an original sin.” Robert said, now with a massive grin on his face, “Don’t you think it’s obscene to punish people for things that happened centuries ago?”
Sarkeesian began to go into full-blown convulsion now and her skin began to blister everywhere.
“Furthermore, if you wish to talk of slavery, I am certain that you know that more slaves were imported to Portuguese and Spanish territories than to America” White continued to orate, “And, whites and blacks both flocked to the abolitionist cause; moreover, by the time you usurped power, nobody except inbred bumpkins who humped horses were slavery apologists. And, slavery can be seen throughout all of human history. Slavery is not a skeleton in the closet of United States history: Slavery is a skeleton in the closet of human history.”
Sarkeesian, the de-facto devil, was now back on her feet; she thought that she could derail Robert. She began to reel back in her prized catch, “You forgot institutional racism.”
“You mean the all whites are racist narrative? Then why was the cow cornholing club known as the KKK mocked by anybody with a brain?” Robert White struck back, “And, if you’re speaking of the so-called atrocities exposed by Black Lies Matter, you need to examine the fact that Michael Brown was a thug that robbed a convenience store and attacked a cop. If you care to talk of the politics side, consider that Trump was dragged out of office in 2018 by the American people because he tried to ban Mexicans and Muslims; the people that did so proceeded to tar and feather him on the White House lawn.”
Sarkeesian, now desperate to strike the final straight white male down — she didn’t want to waste all that lotion — posed one final point, “No cis white male ever did anything to better society. You still belong to the same dead caste as Hitler.”
“Really?” scoffed White. “No predominantly white nation sent their men to fight and die to stop Hitler? What about Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke who spoke of individual rights? Wasn’t Thomas Jefferson against slavery? Didn’t great scientists like Einstein and Hawking make life better for us with their theories? And, aren’t you like Hitler? Your plan to exterminate my kind is called the final solution. You literally want to wear my skin as a coat for Carl Sagan’s sake!”
Sarkeesian still persisted in her counterclaim, “You are so sexist, racist, and homophobic that you cannot name one woman or minority or LGBTQ individual that has made life better! Hah!”
“Elizabeth Blackwell was the first American female doctor.” Robert White began to shoot Sarkeesian down in her frivolous angle, “Rosalind Franklin, the true discoverer of DNA’s structure; for the record, biology classes did talk about her. Sally Ride, American physicist and the first female Astronaut; she also happened to be lesbian. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was a black astronomer who intrigued many minds and became a public figurehead for science. How about Barrack Obama who served two terms as US president? If you think Muslims are worthless, you must be ignorant of the Islamic Golden Age. And, let’s not forget the countless civil rights advocates who fought for actual rights; you are a disgrace to Susan B. Anthony, Dr. Martin Luther King, and all those who fought for true equality and not the totalitarianism that you have the gall to call equality!”
“How do you know this?” questioned Sarkeesian, still on the floor.
” Because I’m not blind.” began White, “I see both men and women as capable of achieving the same success. Neither gender deserves to be superior or inferior to the other. What you identify as or who you see as attractive is nobody’s business but your own. Regardless of skin color, nobody should be discriminated against. Whether cis white male or trans black attack helicopter, we need to treat everyone with dignity and make judgements based on character and merit.”
Sarkeesian looked up. Puzzled, she probed “But, that’s what the SJW Confederation stands for.”
“Is that why you have exterminated all straight white males but me?”
“Oh! my Flying Spaghetti Monster!” Exclaimed Sarkeesian, “You have exposed our true nature! Noooo!” And with that, Sarkeesian’s satanic body melted and decomposed into a pile of goo on her safe space floor.
Luckily, in her haste Sarkeesian left the rope used to lower the lotion down at the bottom of White’s cell; he hoisted himself out of the hole using it. He then proceeded to disband the SJW Confederate and re-established UC Berkeley as a college dedicated to teaching what true equality meant. The United States Government was reestablished under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. In American high schools, history textbooks didn’t whitewash history; however, history classes now taught that these past events do not justify modern-day “oppression Olympics.” The practice of affirmative action was removed from the American college system. And, for the first time in over a century, people were judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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❝ IF IT DOESN’T CHALLENGE YOU, IT WON’T CHANGE YOU. ❞
Hunter Clarington is a 19- year-old who identifies himself as questioning. Now a (freshman/sophomore/junior/senior/job), studying (characters major/minor), they have joined…
● FRATERNITY BLAH BLAH ●
Your body is a temple. Just one of the rules that Hunter lives by everyday. Or he tries to at least. But let’s start from the beginning: Hunter was born in a suburb of Las Vegas to James and Felicia Clarington on the early morning of the 28th of July. Hunter’s dad, after working for the armed forces in his younger years, being the the local priest in Summerlin while his mother, a doctor specialized in homeopathic medicine, had her own practice not far from their house. Hunter had a happy, if rather strict early childhood. But you can’t miss what you never experienced, right? His parents were in their late thirties when he was conceived, after years of trying and trying and almost giving up, and it had a huge impact on how they raised Hunter.
When Hunter turned eight years old, his family, meaning ickle Hunter, his mother, father and deaf grandmother as well as his cat Clarence, moved to Lima, Ohio, to replace a former priest that had passed away there. At first it was hard for Hunter. Despite the similarities, it was almost like culture shock if you will. His Mormon background was not something his new school was used to exactly and it made him equally fascinating and weird to the other kids around when they found out. But in the course of time he’d learned to just go his own way and take things in stride. Kill them with the kindness so to speak.
Starting High School at McKinley was when everything turned around completely. His religion was instantly taking the backseat when he started to grow into his body, filling out and tried out for sports teams, the first one being the football team he’s now captain of. Despite that and in addition of some other things that put him in the perfect position to be a bully, Hunter has managed to stay a kindhearted person. He often uses his position to organize successful fundraisers for the teams and clubs, even for the “losers” in Glee Club once or twice, and raise school spirit with different seasonal events, despite the Skanks making it hard by sabotaging his actions. He does it all with a smile. If it wouldn’t reach his eyes, nobody would notice anyway.
It’s also a good way to lessen some of the prejudiced thinking towards his community and what they preach by inviting the students to their gatherings too. It gets easier and easier to get people to come when it becomes obvious that it’s not a ploy to convert, or sacrifice, them but just a fun get together. He guesses the free food is the main indicator though, who would turn that down right?
There’s not to say that he’s always nice though, he’s quick witted and can shoot a lethal dose of sarcasm at you. And while he’s not a violent person per se, and unlike the rest of his friends Hunter isn’t a big fan of the way those on the bottom of the social food chain are treated, he’s prone to give in to the peer pressure and joins them in whatever they do to their fellow students more often than not. He knows he’d end up as one of their targets if he stood up to his fellow jocks in a too direct way and chooses to stay silent for that reason. His physical strength easily matches his friends’, it might even be superior, but mentally he’s still kind of a coward when it comes to that. The idea of losing everything; his status, his ‘friends’, his team, scares him more than he’d like to admit. That way of thinking certainly wouldn’t make his parents proud, they taught him better, but what they don’t know doesn’t disappoint them. He just wants to be a normal kid and not be singled out for whatever reason, may it be petty or not. And that it makes him sort of a hyprocrite is something he can successfully ignore so far.
As one of the most popular guys in school, he actively if subtly encourages his fellow students, mostly the boys on his team, to strive for more accomplishments, to broaden their horizons - which is often like talking to a unresponsive wall as some of them are really not the brightest crayons in the box and a set of big boobs can easily distract them - and he’s doing his best to be a rolemodel. He likes having a fit, healthy body, and to educate himself above of what they teach at WMHS, which helped him to have numerous AP classes under his belt, as well as being a part of the Glee Club to satisfy his musical needs. In secret, because playing dumb and complaining about school is easier than anything else. Besides, he receives more than enough attention, from his community, from the guys that want to be like him, from the mass of girls that want to date him that he had to politely reject only for them to try harder. He doesn’t need more. Shouldn’t need more.
The latter is being a problem of sorts since his family hasn’t quite adapted to the 21. Century as other Mormons have and is still holding onto old beliefs and traditions, hence why he would never bring up at home that he even remotely interested in dating already nor the fact that girls might not be the only gender that he has impure thoughts of. He already counts it as a win that they let him attent a mixed public school and be around girls, trusting him to be a gentleman and responsible. So revealing that would surely not go over well.
When he’s not busy with doting his time to the aforementioned things, helping old ladies across the street and his mother in her doctor’s practice, he can be found roaming the landscape around Lima or just sitting on a pasture fence,watching the cows and horses or learn a new Instrument as he is quite skilled at self teaching. Sometimes being the “good” boy, who has a lot of expectations to live up to, just puts too much pressure on him and he needs to be alone to put things back into perspective since there are hardly any people his age he could really confide in. He has seen how fickle friendships can be if you say or do the wrong thing, especially if you’re part of the popular crowd..Sometimes he wishes he had nothing to lose and could just do all the things that had to stay locked up in his mind.
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