#it's sad that the police just not giving a shit is a valid excuse but. yknow. acab

[princess-glassred]

My big hot take is that even tho Myra is undoubtedly a toxic spouse towards Eddie, i think she's not exempt from the unfair and sexist way people in fandom treat female characters that get in the way of their gay ships.

I mean why do i see so many fanfics and posts that are centered around Myra and Eddie having a nasty divorce, Myra getting one upped by richie, Eddie coming to realize he hates her with his whole heart and that Richie is a million times more fun to hang out with, but people who ship Benverly never say the same about Tom and he's much worse? People barely even admit Tom's a character but with Myra it's like they get a kick out of seeing her suffer. And do not try to tell me Myra is on the same level as Tom, Myra is toxic, but Tom maritially raped Bev multiple times in the book and beats her day and night. If you think Myra being overbearing and mentally exhausting is the same as Bev getting brutalized and raped by her husband pls reconsider your life.

Pretty much everytime there's a Bev centered Fic Tom is practically never acknowledged, but Reddie shippers can write about Myra like she's a blight against humanity all they want. She even has less screen time than Tom, because in the 1990s miniseries she doesn't even exist. And yet, I never see fics where Bev goes through a divorce with Tom and spends the whole time with ben glazing him. When I was 14 i looked up all the IT characters wiki pages on the King wiki and people actually DEFACED Myra's wiki page for a while to say shit about Reddie, but Tom's remained untouched. Tom is even meant to look and act exactly like Bev's father the same way Sonia and Myra look alike, but I don't see Tom and Alvin getting raked over hot coals together. Hell, connor ALSO got in the way of Reddie and I don't see tons of people say he's satan, most people just think he's bland and boring.

There are reasons to not like Myra just like there's valid reasons to not like any member of the losers club, but come on, you cannot lie to me and say part of the reason Myra is hated so much isn't because she's *gasp* fat and *gasp* a woman who got in the way of her husband fucking a guy she'd never even met before. This shit happens all the damn time, from Zoe murphy from dear evan hansen to the countless amount of female ocs solely created to split apart gay guys for angst. This is why i usually just write for Connor and don't do stuff with Myra, i've seen too many female characters get made and ripped apart in the name of shipping when there are male characters that do much worse things. This applies to Gretta too btw.

I don't really have a solution for this, i'm not trying to yuck anyones yum or police what can or can't be written, i'm not even trying to get you to LIKE Myra. You don't have to like her if you don't want to, I just wanna point out the hypocrisy of it. It feels really sexist to me, to act like Myra is on the same level of Tom, both because it's just an excuse to villainize her more and it diminishes Bev's trauma. Eddie's life with Myra is suffocating and sad, but Bev's life with Tom is straight up hell and people just don't give a fuck cause Bev's trauma and maritial issues aren't given any kind of dues. These are the same people who say book Bev is the worst person ever because she's eleven and dares to be angry at the world over the fact she's constantly sexually objectified.

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i read the anon asks like ten times and just feel so sad about it. their crash out is so valid. i honestly really want to hear more about exactly what sorts of racially based violence/ experiences are being depicted in the story. based on my own experiences on this site, i feel like with indigenous characters, this kind of stuff is so tough because you constantly have americans that have like a great grandparent or even a great great grand parent who was indigenous and they use that to justify their portrayal/ depiction of indigenous characters. and i’m not here to identity police, if you’re interested in your family history/ connecting with your ancestry and whatever whatever, you do that. obviously blood quantum is not supported/ thought of as the gold standard for determining if someone is native american or not (by nations). most nations actually prioritize a connection to the tribe/ nation in a cultural and social sense far more when it comes to determining that sort of thing. but when i start to see the person themselves claiming that they’ve never been affected in any way by this part of their heritage, or if they’re having to do tons of research to even write the character, that’s when it becomes clear to me that you don’t have an ounce of actual lived experience that aids in writing this character. and without that it absolutely means your portrayal/ the way you go about writing CAN be harmful and exploitative. you have your family history and that’s wonderful but if you have no connection to an actual tribe/ nation in todays day and age, and again if you have zero lived experiences that have been influenced by this part of you, your voice isn’t necessarily guaranteed to not be harmful and i wish people would get that. i think in these cases people feel entitled and it just irks me.

Youre valid for your take and i def do agree with some parts of it but im sorry but to anyone whos liek “well my great grandparents were xyz” to “claim” an ethnic background, esp a native background is literal bullshit like im sorry if thay comes off cunty but its genuinely how i feel. Especially because a lot of those ppl use those excuses to perpetuate cultural appropriation, their own ignorance, and literally will defend their own prejudice/microaggressions/and downright racism w “well my great grandma was a cherokee princess!!!”like bitch what???

I feel that if you find out that you have native ancestry, if youre not going to the source via historical NATIVE perspectives or actual natives themselves to seek education on the cultures and customs, then you need to stfu snd stop claiming it. Like im sorry but being Native/indigenous in general is something very sacred and HEAVILY criticised, attacked, and policed physically and socially, not to mention the way that indigenous people are treated all over north america.

If you can claim to be native while saying youre not impacted by issues facing native people, youre an idiot and a walking contradiction. And finally, you are not native, you just took a shitty ancestry DNA test bc blood quantum is stupid as well.

But that is simply my humble opinion, and of course like i said i agree w you regarding the fact that LIVED EXPERIENCE is so fucking important when voicing opinions or portraying a culture/ethnic group. I just personally feel like ppl, esp white ppl are too quick to claim native ancestry when theyre ignorant morons who dont give a shit about natives.

[darklight572]

Its Not That Complicated.

The israeli state are "Zionists", which is a nationalist ideology that seeks to fold palestine into the isarel as practically 'god-given'. When a country funds isarel they are funding zionist and colonialist genocide. A lot of people would protest at the word "genocide", would argue that Hamas is hiding behind people, but... if you look back at the examples of media of characters who are supposed to represent whats right, you'd see a lotta' people refusing to kill BECAUSE of the human shields.

Human shields are only effective if the people shooting care about the people on the other side. If they didn't, you'd just be wasting potential supporters. Obviously the IDF doesn't care about the people on the other side of the shields, or at least, their actions are not consistent with such "care". Why the hell would Hamas waste so many resources on a strategy that doesn't work? If they're capable of going toe to toe with Isarel?? Whose being funded by the United States??? How would they still exist if they used strategies that don't work?

They wouldn't. And they aren't. Hamas is not, by the large, hiding behind every destroyed building and elderly in Palestine. The whole "hiding behind human shields" excuse is simply state propaganda. Come on fuckin Americans you should be able to SEE this shit? When George Floyd fucking died y'all knew that the "he was resisting" and "he didn't die because of we were kneeling on his neck" were fucking BULLSHIT, obviously, we had proof! And fucking look, we have PROOF. Several times Isarel has lied about having information that told them Hamas was sitting in a target they bombed.

EVEN IF you bought the whole "hamas is hiding behind human shields" excuse as valid, you can see the IDF evidently not giving a shit. However, and this is important, ITS BULLSHIT. Even if Hamas were hiding behind "human shields" that would not give you justification to fucking murder the shields. The whole point is that you don't kill the innocent people dragged into this. But- well, you see this excuse less and less. Instead you argue, "every person in palestine is hamas, every worker and child."

That gives the whole game away huh? Its really fucking sad to say this, but it has to be said, you wanna know who else claimed that? Fucking Nazi's. And the United States when it wanted to justify blowing up countries it wanted to exploit. Lets just be honest, if you support Isarel you think the palestian people don't matter. You think their lives are worth less than Isarel having their "holy land". Just fucking say it plain.

I know my usual style is more organized and usually more about animation and stuff, but I cannot be silent about this. To be silent is to be complicit. I don't have a massive following, but it seems there are a few people who read my posts. Speak up. Even if its just on facebook, or instagram, or tumblr- every post you make plants a seed. Maybe someone starts doing research just to prove you wrong, and then they figure out "oh shit, i was wrong." Or maybe they already saw the videos and would rather not choose a side. EVERY. POST. MATTERS. Its okay if too scared to protest, frightened of the police coming and arresting you, its okay if you don't have the support of other folks around you. Thats what the internet can be used for. FREE PALESTINE!