#dead white men

[ambicephalic]

Title:

The boys who were never told no

Origin:

The waiting room for the Massachusetts governor's office

Description:

The governor's office is filled with painted portraits of past governors. Everyone deserves dignity, but in our society dignity has been unevenly distributed, and these dead white men received much more than reasonable. The people who hold power in our world are those who were raised in privilege and grew up never being questioned or denied anything. Then we immortalize their images and treat them with great reverence. But who were these faceless men really? No doubt each one was a unique individual with all kinds of strengths and weaknesses, but what they all have in common is enormous unearned privilege, and that's the memory that their portraits preserve.

We need to stop revering some and discounting others for stupid reasons.

[earl-of-221b]

I can’t explain what blue eye samurai makes me feel…….its a typical revenge story, a man sets out on his hero’s journey to kill the four men who have wronged him. A lone ronin, wide brimmed hat and sword in hand, roaming Edo Japan on his vendetta. But he’s not a man. He’s a woman. And how has he been wronged? What’s she getting revenge on?

On the fact that she exists. She wants revenge on the four white men that could possibly have conceived her. Who got her Japanese mother pregnant with a blue-eyed child. And not just any blue-eyed child, but a girl child. How is she possibly supposed to live in the world like that? For the wrong of being conceived, for the wrong of being born, for the wrong of being birthed into a world that will never love or accept her, she will kill her father.

I don’t know what level of convoluted self hate that is. Is she a child of rape? Or a child of a whore? Halfway through I realise what she told herself at the start couldn’t possibly be true - it’s not really for her mother. Her mother wasn’t the root of her vendetta, she wasn’t really doing it for her. When she leaves that farm and leaves the chance to live a simple, legitimate life as a woman, she goes right back to hunting down the men. Those men personally wronged her.

And then there’s so much to be discussed surrounding the way she grew up, because as a boy child and a man she can afford so much more than life has dealt her. Her swordfather who took her in out of the love and care in his heart had no shame in teaching a mixed man his art. The face of a ‘demon’ is fine. But not the identity of a woman. Shh. Don’t say it. Don’t confess. He knows and doesn’t want to hear it.

And because she’s lived that way her entire life for safety and security, she’s so completely alienated from being a woman, perhaps she really is he. But not really by choice. Or is it? The thing she does best is the art of killing, the art of men. Gender is a prison and gender is a performance and she has to choose which to perform. The times cannot reconcile hatred and violence with a woman. So she lives as a man.

So she can get revenge on her father, for revenge on herself.

[windybreeze12]

i love how no one, literally no one from the main/secondary cast is a straight white male in DBD.

Let's break it down:

Edwin: Straight White Male(?) Charles: Straight(?) White Male Crystal: Straight(?) White Male Niko: Straight(?) White Male Esther: Straight(?) White Male Monty: Straight White Male(?) Jenny: Straight White Male Cat King: Straight White Male(?) Tragic Mick: Straight(?) White Male(?) Night Nurse: Straight(?) White Male

AND HALF OF THE MEN HERE ARE GENDER-AMBIGUOUS BECAUSE WTF WE GOT A CROW, A WALRUS AND A CAT OVER HERE. MEN???

They're all just a textbook about diversity and this is reason number #984342423429 why this show should be watched and loved and not cancelled. GO GO GO

[tiredcowboyy]

I hate when people (usually men on reddit) are like “if you met arthur back then he would murder you for breathing in his existence!” Oh would he? When? Before or after he’s finished doodling bunnies and flowers?

[farraldesrosiers]

Come lay your head in my lap 🩷

[daorenx]

Dead Plate swap au, Vince and Rody.

[redwhiteandmorallygay]

this is actually on loop in my head. my skull is missing my brain bc this video is just echoing repeatedly in it instead.

[notrandtumblin]

AMC Network TV Poll

[nashvillethotchicken]

Sometimes I think about how loustat are in a placage marriage and make myself insane.

[sclki-op]

[mamawasatesttube]

honestly. i Really don't understand why fandom loves the combo of homophobia/misogyny that is "character who is a father threatens his children's male love interests" in 2024 but it's kind of funny that batgirl (2000) literally HAD bruce do this wrt kon and cass's friendship, only for both kon himself AND clark to tell him to stop being a little bitch. like you guys are being more regressive than something written 20 years ago and its a little cringe

anyway um. au where cass found out bruce was trying to deprive her of one of her only friends and beat him up about it. the end

[jackslesbiansubconcious]

I’m starting to feel like this about my obsessions.

we are so back, and y’all better sleep with one eye open.

[cadmusfly]

watching the 2002 napoleon tv show dubbed in english on youtube in a weird aspect ratio, enjoying it much more than the napoleon movie especially it has a lot more of the boys i enjoy, especially murat

have lannes offering napoleon eggs in this trying time (in a weird aspect ratio)

[tastywormfood]

I literally have to hold my breath everytime i look at pictures of George Rextrew. It might be a medical problem by now.

[vyeoh]

Charles Rowland I want you so bad. I hope you recover from your compulsory heterosexuality soon

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (Carl Reiner, 1982)