#protects rapists

[mudwerks]

(via Adèle Haenel Quits Acting, Writes Scathing Letter on French Film Industry Protecting Rapists)

French actress Adèle Haenel, most famous for her role in the Cannes-prize-winning Portrait of a Lady on Fire, announced her retirement from the film industry in her country in a scathing open letter published on Tuesday. Haenel wrote that people in power in the industry have ignored high-profile sexual misconduct scandals that have come to light in France since #MeToo and “joined hands [to protect] the [Gerard] Depardieus, the [Roman] Polanskis, the [Dominique] Boutonnats,” referring to some of the men behind these scandals.

“It bothers them that the victims make too much noise. They preferred that we disappear and die in silence,” she wrote of leaders in her industry. “They’re ready to do anything to defend their rapist chiefs, those who are so rich that they believe they belong to a superior species, those who make a show of this superiority by… objectifying women and subordinates.”

the times are indeed changing

slowly but surely

[dykedvonte]

Can you talk about trans!Curly a little bit more? I'm curios if you have any headcanons and the like

-💀

It's just such a thing in my mind because it adds a truthful sadness and differing aspect to mouthwashing.

If Curly was trans it adds the horror of the horribly selfish thought he could have easily been in Anya's situation. It could've been him but it wasn't and he so conflicted on the pit it put in his stomach that brings and the shameful relief it wasn't. In this scenario he is friends with Jimmy for a long time still. Jimmy likely knew him pretransition. Maybe he gave Curly weird looks then, maybe they never stopped after, maybe they seemed meaner. They are guys now, bros, both of them are. He doesn't really have to worry what those looks mean anymore, Jimmy just has that face with him sometimes. It's recontextualizing a lot of things for him that he was in denial about or too ashamed to admit. How naive he was being and how he let that get another person hurt.

Specifically with Anya, it's he knows the dread and fear she's feeling. He can understand it because he had to live with it for a good portion of his life, he knows it cause he still does, just in a slightly different way. It makes him think of all the times he's been alone with Jimmy, all the times he's been way more drunk off his ass and not remember the night, Jimmy was always with him the next day. Makes him think of the comments he would laugh off both because that's what guys do but because that part of being a girl says to laugh so Jimmy doesn't do something. It's the selfish realization that he was never safe and he's uncertain now too. Mad at himself for forgeting that feeling, espcially since for a long time he would've been considered the only woman on a crew (with all that implies) for a long time.

He should've taken those blinders off, step back into that position for just a moment and it's so much more painful that Anya likely came to him because he should've gotten it. Those thoughts don't leave his mind after the crash when he's in an even more vulnerable position than she was...

[raointean]

[agustdiv1ne]

i need sm to burn down.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

Honest to goodness if someone had called my stepfather a child molester before I was ready to tell what he'd done to me, I would have vehemently defended him and consequently it probably would have taken a much longer time for me to tell anyone. And you fuckers (Neil Gaiman defenders) would have taken that as proof I was lying about it. Fuck all of you.

[miamignonette]

i can’t believe that there are people who need it spelled out for them that if they vote third party or refuse to vote at all then trump will be elected and he will not only continue to support the genocide of palestinians (remember when he said he wanted israel to “finish the job”????????) he will also make literally everything else worse too. like are you guys not realizing how essential it is that we don’t let him in the white house again?

[hermesmoly]

what are the famous cases of gods saving their loved ones from rape?

Well I think the most famous case is Ares killing Halirrhothius, Poseidon's son, for the assault on his daughter Alcippe. There's also Apollo and/or Artemis killing the giant Tityos for their mother Leto, Heracles with the aid of Zeus killing Porphyrion when he tried to violate Hera on the battlefield, and in one version Zeus killing Eurymedon for Hera who assaulted her when she was young and before they were married. (Zeus also kills Iasion in a version where Iasion and Demeter's relationship was not consensual and in one version kills Tityos for his former lover Leto)

Athena and Artemis also have cases of protecting their favorite maidens from rape by metamorphosis: Athena transformed Nyctimene into her owl familiar, the daughter of Coroneus into a crow after being pursued by Poseidon, and by Artemis Arethusa was turned into a holy spring after being chased by the river god Alpheios. There's also Britomartis who straight up was immortalized by Artemis after being pursued by King Minos and the fisherman Andromedes.

[inkperch]

...i can't be the only one annoyed that the discussions surrounding Circe all assume she'd have slept with him if he didn't turn her down, right.

Like.

She had a knife.

The only thing that was ever getting penetrated in that scene was Odysseus' spleen-

[detransdniposting]

Like and share if you think that transphobia isn't sexy and that people who are transphobic don't deserve to get laid.

[serioussideblog]

With Biden stepping out of the race, now is not the time to get complacent. Now is not the time for apathy. This is the time to reckon with ourselves. This is the time to support whoever DOES end up being the Democratic nominee.

Because the only real options are a Democrat, or Trump.

A Democrat, or a convicted felon.

A Democrat, or a rapist.

A Democrat, or the guy who put kids in cages.

A Democrat, or the guy who told us to inject bleach.

A Democrat, or a religious bigot.

A Democrat, or a homophobe.

A Democrat, or a transphobe.

A Democrat, or a climate change denier.

A Democrat, or an ableist anti-vaxxer.

A Democrat, or a misogynist.

A Democrat, or an insurrectionist.

A Democrat, or the guy whose statement inspired the term “both-sides-ism”.

A Democrat, or Putin’s favorite.

A Democrat, or Netanyahu’s favorite.

Any questions?

[3416]

the nhl is so funny bc they will go great lengths to protect people accused of sexual assault or domestic violence, but they really draw the line at drugs and gambling, which is like.... isn't that WHAT your player assistance program is for? if anything..........

[burningtheroots]

I‘d suggest to read the entire thread, especially if you still don’t understand that prostitution is slavery, exploitation, a hate crime against women & a human rights violation in some of the worst ways.

[operas-phantom]

Christine, do not freeze to death.

[bride-of-frankenstein]

He literally never defended her once. Girl

[thatbitchsimone]

How to let yourself hate your mother even tho despite being horrible to you, she still cut her self to birth you and raised you even tho she was still young, she too had dreams and husband was abusive so she didn’t have a choice.

This feels very trauma dumpy but I am kind of hoping for some insight if someone else has felt this way

u can be grateful for her bringing u into this world and making sacrifices for u and hate what she became at the same time. u can understand why she did the things she did and treated u the way she did and have compassion for her while still also hating how she went about things and hating her actions. just bc theres an explanation and reason for why she turned out like she did and made the choices she made doesnt mean its justified or excuseable. being abused may be what led her to become abusive herself but that doesnt make it ok. u cant go around hurting ur child just bc ur husband hurts u. u cant let ur abuser turn u into someone elses abuser. she did have a choice, she could either treat u the way she wished to have been treated or she could treat u the same way her abuser treat her and she chose the latter and its only natural to resent her and feel hatred towards her for that. like would u treat ur child the way ur mother has treated u? or would u choose to break that cycle bc u just couldnt allow urself to hurt ur child like ur mother hurt u? exactly. theres always a choice

[silver-dragonborn]

I don't know what I'm going to call my fanfic where the Greens lose and Criston runs away to Essos with Alicent and Aegon in exile where they're forced to sell mangos for a living.

Mango Craze

Mango Dreams

Mangogate

It's supposed to be pure crack but also has a lot of serious moments where the "victims" of Rhaenyra's "tyranny" come to the startling realization while selling fruit for a copper that if they had just stayed in their lanes, they wouldn't be in this situation.