#pro-equality

[progressive-memes]

[itsonlypolitics]

Such rubbish coming out of social media on this.

It is not an act of violence

Biological women have rights too

Sex IS a binary and you believing otherwise won’t change that

It is not “baseless” it is based in science, common sense, and what even a three year old child is capable of identifying.

It is not anti-scientific.

It is not erasing people it is clarifying a section of law

A woman is a woman. We are just as much deserving of protection and to have the Equality Act work for us too.

Trans rights are not actually touched by this change. They are still protected by the act. Just not that particular subsection

[inkyarcturus]

Severus has back pain. Like horrible back pain to the point he spends at least 30 minutes a day on his cold hard floor in attempt to relieve it.

That���s his “stare at the ceiling and question all of his life choices” time. He wrote it into his schedule.

[fatalforesight]

Women are allowed to be annoying, bitchy, mean spirited, unkind, lousy, lazy, finicky, anxious, disinterested, disingenuous, disrespectful, and also be believed when they come forward about sexual harassment or assault. Women are allowed to be unliked and also believed. We cannot keep equating our own inability to like someone to our ability or lack thereof to believe them. I don’t see this inability when it comes to men. In fact, I think so many people love a redeeming arc in a man, but hate it seen in women. Why? Why? Why do men get to have comeback stories from things like addiction, theft, bad workplace behavior, even things as heinous as manslaughter… but a woman can’t come back from a bad interview? A bad press junket? A bad relationship? I can’t think of men so hated the way women like Amber Heard and Blake Lively are hated right now. Even beyond them. It’s so easy to hate women right now. Cynthia Erivo, Lea Michele, Jennifer Lopez, Brie Larson, Rachel Zegler, Chappell Roan, Taylor Swift, and so on. I see unprecedented amounts of hate for these women and more nearly everytime they make a headline, but I don’t see the same energy for men. And if any one of them were to come out about sexual harassment or assault, I guarantee I’d have to see more comments about how it doesn’t matter because they’re famous, or how they brought it on themselves, or how they’re probably lying because they need the engagement or sympathy. It is so much more important to believe women than it is to belittle them, even the ones you dislike or distrust. Even if she did lie, I promise you, the men that they “ruin” the career of can always come back. The internet will open their arms to any man with half a jawline or lukewarm wit.

[yournonbinarypal]

[danadiadea]

Sirius and Severus are not enemies.

They are not rivals.

They don't have a "bickering" or a "beef" or "mutual dislike".

Sirius is Snape's abuser.

He physically and verbally bullied him for years.

He murder attempted him because it would "serve Snape right".

He was an SA enabler to him, separated from directly applying sexual aggression by an incredibly thin line.

Severus has a fucking traumatic reaction to Sirius. It's not him being childish. It's him reacting on a person who gave him trauma how people who experienced trauma usually react. That's how the human brain works, since it doesn't want its owner to be injured or die.

And Severus doesn't owe Black a-ny-thing. Azkaban or not – Severus has no obligation to give a single fuck. Sirius abused him for fun, so he needs to sod off and if he doesn't have the guts to apologise, then at the very least to stop mistreating and triggering Snape further, to be a half-decent person. Severus has all the rights in the world to treat Sirius howewer the hell he pleases. And yet, in canon he still manages to treat adult Sirius better than adult Sirius treats him.

The abuser insulting the victim and the victim insulting the abuser (and Sirius doesn't only insult Severus, he tries to harm him despite Harry literally begging him not to, and intentionally hurts him in PoA when he's unconscious) are not in the same position, even if Sirius can't attack with his little friendgroup from the back and bear no consequences anymore. Breaking news – abuse leaves an impact on the mental state of an abused party, and an especially strong one during direct interactions with people who violated them.

Please stop pretending their conflict is equal. Thank you.

[proshippers-against-censorship]

I actually hate when antis use the slenderman stabbing as an example.

"Well! Erm! See! They thought he was real! Fiction DOES effect reality!!!"

Like.

Ah yes. A tragedy sparked by the early-on-set schizophrenia of 12-year-old girls who genuinely believed that their hallucinations were the real slenderman and that he was gonna kill them both unless he be appeased.

I'm not saying the two were justified at all, but like. Ffs. This isn't some Gotcha Card. Its a fucking tragedy no matter what way you talk about it.

There's talking about it from the victims side, absolutely devastating and heartbreaking.

Then there's talking about it from the other two's side, as someone who gets hallucinations NOW, I cant fucking imagine getting them at the age of 12. That's fucking sad.

Gonna say it b4 some anti says it in an accusatory way.

I genuinely, with my full heart, feel bad for everyone in the Slenderman Stabbing Situation, yes, including the two girls who stabbed their friend.

I'm happy the girls are all getting help tho.

I just wished antis would stop using the mental crisis of two 12-year-olds as a gotcha-card because it just comes off as tacky and borderline disrespectful.

- anon bc ppl scare me when it comes to my thoughts on it -

So glad you brought this up, actually. Typically folks point out that most folks aren't schizophrenic preteens, but folks also fail to remember that this event was real and horrible.

[fellthemarvelous]

Jedi and attachment

The Jedi Order was around 25,000 years old when it fell at the end of the Clone Wars.

And I've seen people say "the Jedi don't teach emotional regulation" I guess because there are some Jedi who fell, but like, the number of Jedi who didn't fall far outweighs the number of Jedi who did fall.

And that's not to say that Jedi never made mistakes, but none of them gave into their anger and fear and hatred. Mistakes are normal, even for Jedi. Failure is the greatest teacher. They were apparently able to regulate their emotions well enough to actually learn from their mistakes and grow.

I'm not sure which part of "the life of a Jedi is not easy" isn't exactly translating well for some people.

What do people think Qui-Gon meant when he told Anakin being a Jedi would be challenging?

As Yoda said, it is a lifelong struggle not to allow fear to bend into anger. Fear leads to anger leads to hate leads to suffering. The Jedi never stop learning.

The reason they avoid attachments is because attachments distract them from the bigger picture, from their purpose. They are protectors and defenders of life, and they cannot be picky about who they choose to help, regardless of personal feelings.

As Obi-Wan has said, Jedi do not hold grudges. They cannot. They can be upset, yes, but they are given the tools to handle their emotions and often utilize them.

Anakin damned an entire galaxy when he fell to the dark side. The Jedi are not to blame for Anakin's fall. Anakin made his choice, and while he spent thirteen years being groomed by Palpatine, he made the choice to follow Darth Sidious.

ANAKIN FELL BECAUSE OF THE CHOICES HE MADE.

He is the one who slaughtered Jedi younglings. He's the one who slaughtered the Separatist leaders, and even though they were the enemy, they were defenseless and trapped in a room with the most powerful being in the galaxy after being sent there by Sidious and Grievous.

The reason the Jedi were so hesitant to accept him into the Jedi Order was because of his age. He was attached to his mother and his anger over her death is what caused him to slaughter an entire colony of Tusken Raiders. He didn't do it out of love. He did it out of hatred, and revenge is not the Jedi way.

It is not the fault of the Jedi that Anakin could not properly regulate his own emotions. He lied to the Jedi for three years. He hid his relationship with Padme, so how was Yoda supposed to know how to help him properly when he didn't have the full context? Of course his advice seemed bad because Anakin was not being forthcoming about the nature of his relationship with Padme. Yoda did not have a complete picture of Anakin's anxieties at the time, and while you can teach someone how to do something, you cannot control how they put the teachings into practice. You can only hope and trust that they are doing the right thing.

And the thing is, the Jedi would have helped Anakin and Padme. Yoda and Obi-Wan loved Anakin. We saw several instances of just how much Yoda cared about Anakin, especially so at the end of season six of the Clone Wars.

Anakin betrayed the entire Jedi Order because he allowed his fears to consume him. He participated in the genocide of the order he had been part of for thirteen years just to save the life of ONE PERSON who ended up dying anyway BECAUSE of him.

No one has ever said the Jedi Order is perfect because there is no such thing as perfect, but they were not ever the villains. They were never the bad guys. They were pulled into a war orchestrated by Darth Sidious who weaponized the compassion of the Jedi as a way to destroy the order.

When you look at the handful of Jedi who fell and claim that the Jedi "don't teach emotional regulation" you're just erasing all personal accountability from the fallen Jedi WHO MADE THEIR CHOICES.

There is only ONE Jedi (that I am aware of) who fell to the dark side involuntarily, and that was Ahsoka Tano. She was corrupted against her will and then killed. Anakin was able to resurrect her, and while he did a good thing, it only made his fear of losing her again even worse.

Maul murdered Satine and forced Obi-Wan to watch, but Obi-Wan managed to control his emotions and not go on a killing spree. He actually held a dying Maul in his arms. Ahsoka was failed by the Jedi Order, but she didn't fall to the dark side. Yoda lived for 900 years and never once fell to the dark side.

There are a variety of factors that went into Anakin's fall, but he is the one who made the choice to do the monstrous things he did. He was not being mind controlled. He had Jedi training, but he threw all of that away for one person. He gambled the fate of the galaxy on the belief that Palpatine would help him save Padme from dying, knowing that Palpatine was a Sith Lord and knowing that he was the one who was actually responsible for the war. He made a selfish choice at the expense of everyone else in the galaxy and the only person who won in the end was Darth Sidious. It was the biggest lesson that Anakin ever learned.

This is not a failure of "teaching emotional regulation". This is the failure of someone who allowed his personal feelings to overshadow his Jedi training, and he is responsible for the consequences of his own actions.

End note: This is not an Anakin Skywalker bashing post. I love Anakin Skywalker, but he absolutely is to blame for his fall to the dark side. He's a fascinating character. I could write a whole ass separate post on why I love him so much. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader is an icon.

[pro-sipper]

"Fiction affects reality because you cry at movies" antis ONCE AGAIN thinking they're pulling a gotcha when in reality all they're doing is putting something harmless on the same level as "wanting to go out and rape somebody"

[progressive-memes]

[skywalkr-nberrie]

Friendly reminder that Padmé isn’t supposed to be considered ‘unreasonable’ for falling in love with Anakin nor choosing him because she’s “messy and traumatized” (I mean she is traumatized, but that’s a whole other in dept nuance in her character, worthy of analysis.) and that she only wanted to live out her “fairytale fantasy” and that’s why she chose to marry Anakin. No, she chose him because she saw the goodness and beauty of him. She loved him for his soul, his sincerity, for his passion, etc. It’s actually reasonable why she chose him and married him. It’s just a misconception that she had to be as insane as Anakin for her to ever choose him, because a good hearted and morally righteous woman could never want someone like him.

Padmé is traumatized, her story parallels Anakin in many ways, she has the sort of nuance that pars even Anakin’s character, she had to put up with running a whole planet at the age of 14, and she had her whole life stolen from her at a very young age. She feels like she’s made to live in servitude and her duty rather than dream of her own life. She had multiple handmaidens that upheld the system of pretending to be her for the sake of taking her spot in case someone puts her in grave danger, robbing Padmé of her self identity, and burdening her with the guilt of someone else dying for her. Her only real friends are all people from her work, aka her colleagues.

So yes, indeed Anakin is her safe spot, her breath of fresh air, her happiness, her everything. He’s her perfect ‘fairytale ending’ that she always deserved, but that’s not why she fell in love with him. Padmé’s love for Anakin and decision to be with him isn’t in anyway associated to her trauma (in the way most people think, I mean.) or that it means she’s insane. It’s a reflection of how passionate, sincere, romantic, hopeful, domestic, emotional, and spiritual she is as a person. She is like Anakin in that way too, and that’s why they connected so deeply. Padmé was aware of all of Anakin’s flaws, and darkness and she still loved him because she was capable of seeing that the greatness in him was more.

“But though she loves her husband without reservation, love does not blind her to his faults. She is older than he, and wise enough to understand him better than he does himself. He is not a perfect man: he is prideful, and moody, and quick to anger—but these faults only make her love him the more, for his every flaw is more than balanced by the greatness within him”

- Revenge of the Sith novelization written by Matthew Stover.

[theartofsimpatry]

As a victim of multiple pedos in my childhood. Its a fucking disgrace that antis fling around the word “pedophile” to anyone that even slightly disagrees with them. Pedophiles are predators that are an active danger to children and there are RARELY truly non-offending pedophiles in this world.

Actual pedophiles aren’t here harmlessly shipping fictional characters or writing fanfics. Actual pedophiles are on the dark web looking for CSEM and taking advantage of children within their vicinities, family or not. They don’t want fictional characters, they want REAL CHILDREN TO HURT.

And for fuck’s sake: Person you don’t like =\= PEDOPHILE

[queenvhagar]

By the way, just so we can compare this "son for a son" thing that so many Team Black stans think is justified because of Lucerys' death:

Team Black's loss: a 14 year old boy, sent on dragonback to secure support for an uncertain ally on the eve of a war, gets ambushed by his slightly older uncle, whose eye he once cut out without remorse and whose enormous dragon instantly kills him and his dragon with one bite

Team Green's loss: a 6 year old boy, getting tucked into bed by his mother, is suddenly woken in the middle of the night to two strange men when one puts his hand over his mouth and proceeds to begin sawing his head off with a knife as he lays there watching, doubtlessly feeling everything as he dies after a few moments of the blade cutting back and forth across his throat, his only ever crime stealing a small council ball and having an uncle willing to pay for his head to satisfy a need for vengeance

[turtleblogatlast]

Every day I’m haunted by the fact the boys happily swim in sewer water

Even if it’s filtered somehow there’s no way it’s not still nasty 😭 Bet they can defeat any of their villains just by accidentally giving them diseases I swear

[ghostinwinterfell]

every time someone calls daenerys targaryen a colonizer, grrm delays the next book another 10 years.