#respect the victims

[alyceinwonderland777]

⚠️TW⚠️: RAPE MENTION AND DENIAL OF WOMEN'S AGENCY

Basically @ohtheperipheryy believes that the fact that we are women automatically makes us mindless amoebas who are unable to choose when and who we want to have sex with. It's true that we live in a heteronormative society, but this does not take away the fact that sexual orientation is not a choice. Speaking about Andrea Dworkin, what she meant was that our society portrays sex between men and women as something that men do to women and that women passively endure, not as something that men and women do together. She herself later explained what she meant:

@ohtheperipheryy even compared consensual sex to sex work. I agree that @preachbubly could have put it another way, but that comparison is just disgusting. Andrea Dworkin herself was forced to be a prostitute, so if she were still alive she would hate @ohtheperipheryy's guts.

Furthermore, with this rhetoric she is invalidating not only women who have been sexually abused or sexually harassed by men but also women who have been sexually abused or sexually harassed by other women. Is she implying that a woman forcing herself on another woman or coercing another woman into having sex with her isn't rape because they're both women? 🤔

Obviously I'm not excluding or invalidating male victims. They are just as valid as female victims, but right now I'm focusing on female victims because given the topic it's easier for me.

In conclusion, be careful what you say and educate yourself before talking about someone or something, because you risk doing more harm than good.

Anyway here is the whole thread if you want to take a look to what that clown with the dog pfp said 🤡

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[lectern-fullcauldron]

my thoughts on this are that if one (former) hermit has let us and his community down majorly, the rest of the hermits have done themselves proud in their response. they were accessible for the victims to reach out to with their complaints. they then sought to verify them, and once they had, they directly addressed the situation in a swift and efficient manner. their statement allowed for the victims to offer their perspectives with their own voices, on their own terms, whilst preemptively warning us that they would be coming, and they had been confirmed and acted upon.

this has been dealt with extremely professionally, with care to protect the victims, and with clear decisiveness (especially from a server that is so famously indecisive, it required a coup to start its second season). this was not dragged out. allegations were not dragged through the mud and victims ripped apart by the jury of the internet. the hermits brought us a situation already resolved and within one day, we are already in the aftermath

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

News spreads fast.

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[theunholyvirginemilyprentiss]

I feel like in Evolution, Paget Brewster has become to Criminal Minds what Mariska Hargitay is to Law & Order: SVU.

THEN…

2006/ 1999

NOW…

2024…

[ducktracy]

there are a lot of evil people in the world and a lot of darkness in the world and so it’s very important for me to stress that now more than ever is the time to spread kindness and compassion. combat the evil by not only not partaking in it, but actively refuting it. destroy the notion that being compassionate or generous or kind to someone is uncool or embarrassing or even scary. be the change you want to see. start a chain reaction. positivity only breeds more positivity. do an act of kindness for someone so that that person who is too afraid to do it themselves can see you, realize that they’re not alone, and perhaps sheepishly follow your example. and then the next person who is too afraid but sees that person can do the same. when bad news comes out about bad people or horrible atrocities in the world it’s such an easy impulse to despair, and obviously it’s important to feel what you need to feel. grieve. be angry. be sorrowful. be empathetic. but dust off your pants and get up and be a part of a chain reaction that, no matter how small the scale, and spread compassion and love and care. all the reasons why you might not—“it’s hard! it’s scary! people will make fun of me! it’s useless because there’s too much evil!” are all grade A arguments as to why you should. you have no idea how many people you could inspire to do the same. even if it doesn’t get you anyway far, you can at least say you have the nobility of trying. please choose love and please choose life. you are worth loving and you are worth inspiring others to love

[anetherealpoetess]

Neil Gaiman, let’s be realistic. A 21-year-old working in the home of a man four decades her senior cannot truly give meaningful consent to any type of sexual encounter, let alone within mere hours of meeting him. Even though you are denying it was not consensual, the fact you have conceded the sexual encounter did happen at all is a full confession. You are, by your own admission, a predator.

[sneezypeasy]

If Katara became Fire Lady, the person who this'd suck the most for isn't actually Aang, it'd be Bato's kid (or whoever's mum or dad happens to be good friends with Hakoda). Can you imagine? Your mum's voice?!?! Hakoda's kids are your age and they're out there being chief of the SWT and co-ruling over the Fire Nation. Who are you chieftain of?? You can't even govern a penguin. Disgusten.

[moeblob]

North and Simon: (shaking hands on killing Simon potentially)

[erinwantstowrite]

the past couple of days i was doing a lot of stuff but mostly deep cleaning our house and something i noticed while listening to my mom's true crime videos was that you can rarely find a channel that doesn't add stupid fucking music to the background like it's a horror movie- or even more inappropriate cheerful music.

and that REALLY bothers me because these are people's REAL lives we're talking about here... when i watch true crime anything i have to go out of my way to find channels that don't sensationalize it or disrespect the victims in any way. recently, one of the channels i watch has started showing signs of leaning towards this kind of content, when previously they hadn't done so. and it's disappointing. i'm a big believer in music elevating a story but it just feels gross to put it here. or to keep doing moments like "but this horrifying secret will come to light later", etc etc

[thorough-witness-enjoyer]

Maybe it’s my experiences with my culture and having relatives who are immigrants, but the conflict between humanity and the eliksni reads more to me than just a message on xenophobia.

To me, it’s also about how groups who have experienced oppression are often pitted against each other by the circumstances created by their oppressors to keep them stuck in a cycle of violence and mistrust with one other. This cycle keeps groups who share similar pain and plights from extending mercy to each other and joining forces to fight against the systemic forces that brought them both into a hostile state, which is exactly what those forces want as it keeps those groups powerless and unstable.

[alyceinwonderland777]

⚠️TW⚠️: INFANTILIZATION AND MENTION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Me: *Trying to explain to him that a person over 30 or over 40 is now completely mentally mature and that a 45 year old dating a 40 year old is not the same as a 25 year old dating a 19 year old and mentioning what happened to me to make him see reason*

Him: "Blah blah blah blah!"

When will y'all fucking stop infantilizing grown ass adults? Can't you see how problematic your behavior is? Can't you see that you are not helping victims? Can't you see that denying a grown ass adult's authonomy is stupid and damaging? Adult grooming exists, but generally it happens only under certain circumstances. A grown ass adult dating another grown ass adult IS NORMAL while a grown ass adult dating a BARELY LEGAL adult IS ACTUALLY PREDATORY.

If this topic is really important for you EDUCATE YOURSELF FIRST. Until then SHUT THE FUCK UP.

Thank you. ❤️✨️

[somepinkthing]

Since I'm getting back into comics, ig this is where I admit that I didn't get the tim drake hype until I read jason's return arc and damian's intro to the family? As in, it wasn't his own content that caught my eye but instead the way he was treated when seen through someone else's pov. Because ppl were always talking abt how much he was asked to put up with and I didn't not believe it but I was like well yeah but that's being robin for ya. BUT THEN the guy literally has two people try to kill him??? Only for his own family to essentially expect him to get over it?? And the general fandom agreement is that he should??? AND THEN HE JUST DOES?? And then I read Red Robin(2009), where we find out that he still considers damian dangerous and isn't totally over the whole almost-being-assasinated thing...and the response from both canon and fandom is that he should have gotten over it harder??? That he should apologize for not doing so?????

Not to mention, dick and jason both lost their minds when they found out that robin had been picked up by someone else only for dick to give it away right in front of tim's face, while he was still using the title!!! And his reason was "tim will be fine" and was super shocked when he wasn't!!! Dick babe ilu but im ngl, I would be lacing ur shit with arsenic. In fact, if I almost died multiple times only for my own family to focus more on the emotional wellbeing of my would-be-murderer than me? I'm blowing the whole place up idgaf what the circumstances were (hi jason). But tim just. Doesn't? Like he's majorly understanding and that's treated as normal.

To top it all off, the entirety of damian's and jason's arcs gives tim like two sentences even though their early interactions with him were major stepping stones for the start of both of their arcs! Which, when you think about it, mirrors how his stint as robin both started and ended—like he was just some stepping stone until the "real" robin came around and picked it back up. And you can't expect me to not be facinated by a dude getting the "girl getting in the way of the canon couple" treatment.

The majorly gay and about one canon event from losing the plot thing was just the cherry on top.

TLDR tim drake is my girliepop and will have my full support whenever he decides to finally lose it

[rmbunnie]

Something kinda tasteless about the way that alongside the concerns of "Batman needs someone to rein in his aggression/edginess" (mostly a meta concern,) "Robin is a symbol of undying hope right alongside Batman, Superman, and the police system," and "now that the thought's crossed my mind I think being Robin would be pretty sweet actually," one of Tim's points for why he should be Robin at the end of A Lonely Place of Dying is "we need to show the criminals of Gotham that they can't just kill Robin and expect to get away with it!" Because. They can. That's exactly what happened.

Using that line of reasoning, Tim makes the claim that the idea of Jaybin's life as disposable and inconsequential is heinous and bad, his killing something impermissible, but instead of disproving said idea they allow it to become true and devote their energy to making sure it doesn't become widely known as such. By covering his death up, they actually are permitting his murder to go unaddressed and deeming it acceptable, even taking away the opportunity for it to be consequential to anyone outside of Bruce's inner circle by not spreading the news. As much as we say "oh Bruce was a great dad because losing Jason crushed him" and "he almost considered trying to kill the Joker one time," he in all tangible areas did not do anything about Jason's death. Setting aside the question of killing the Joker or not, it's still shown in Batman Year 3 that Bruce's reaction to Jason's death in the time til Tim showed up was to hide away everything Jason owned and carry on with business as usual, a little angrier. Bruce didn't make any changes or actually evaluate anything in a significant way after the warehouse and Jason's death didn't warrant any tangible consequence, that's evident from reading the comic. I know some may disagree, and I acknowledge the room for interpretation, but in order to discuss Tim's reason we have to concede that it is explicitly written into this specific comic as something Bruce and Tim both recognize as fact, because it serves as the foundation that this reason is built on: there is good reason for the criminals to believe there would no punishment for killing Robin based on the actions Bruce did or didn't take in response. The concern about the public realizing there are no consequences for killing Robin wouldn't be reasonable if it wasn't true, if there actually were.

While they recognize that Jason's death came to pass largely without consequence, the fact itself is less of an issue to both Bruce and Tim than letting criminals actually find out that it doesn't have consequence. They know it's unjust, the notion that Jason can be killed without repercussion (and in making an effort to minimize his murder confirm it to be true,) but their concern isn't for what actually happened to Jason or the lack of proper response. At least on the vigilante side of things, the problem is public perception and continuing to uphold an image of Batman as just and diligent while permitting him to ignore injustice against those close to him. There's no efforts taken to actually disprove the idea that killing Robin would lack impact, what Tim proposes is just making it harder to prove right.

I think the best way to word what comes across tasteless for me here (aside from the side commentary on the unstoppable might of the institution of police and how it's an exemplar of heroism) is that beyond Tim's victim-blaming of Jason during his stint as Robin, (discussed in more depth by people who can word it better than me,) in the base text of a Lonely Place of Dying, it is foundational to the initial premise of Tim as Robin that part of his motive for being Robin hinges on accepting what happened to Jason as something that cannot be allowed in their pursuit of justice or go unaddressed for reasons completely unrelated to the actual harm, and then intentionally erasing the event and the way in which it was allowed and did go unaddressed. No matter how much it's claimed in later comics that Bruce was faultless and Jason doomed himself, Tim's Robin came to be at least in part (in-universe) as a cover-up for the lack of action taken about Jason's death, and by extension as an effort to overwrite his time as Robin and an individual entirely. And thought it wasn't the way his character viewed it, Tim wasn't passively complicit in it or going along with a poor grieving man, the intentional and deliberate erasure of Jason as a murder victim and the injustice of his posthumous treatment was part of his opening pitch.

[sammygender]

its so so insane how dean has like. the huge fanbase he does. he is AWFUL!!!! i love him truly but im known for loving awful characters in fandoms im used to characters who act like him being viciously hated!!! and the only explanation i can think of is that hes played by jensen ackles (aka pretty white man). theres the fact that the narrative favours dean a lot when hes not actually right (a la s4) but thats not just it because dean is pretty clear-cut presesnted as getting morally greyer to the point of antihero territory in like s9 (where im at) at least. and Yet. he is unproblematic ally king to all??? supportive brother of the century??? Girl what???? do you know who dean winchester is? he is a controlling possessive clingy manipulative aggressive unstable thirty five year old who cant grow past his own damage and never really will because the narrative is perpetuated by the cycles he keeps perpetuating

[icyandthefrostbites]

There's been deepfake ai porn of a lot of people since 2019, and it's only gotten worse over the years. The fact that people are only paying attention NOW bc it's Taylor and the images went viral on Twitter, is the most maddening thing for me.

I've seen so many people over the last two years alone be absolutely destroyed bc of graphic images. I've seen the people storing and distributing those images get little to no repercussions.

Like, it shouldn't have gotten this far and it did. Bc no one listened to the victims.

This isn't the way everything should have gone down, but I pray to fucking god that shit will change after this.

Today is just an anger kind of day.

I'm heartbroken and irate about the ICJ ruling.

I'm infuriated about the deepfake Taylor Swift porn.

I'm bitter towards politicians and their reactions to both.

This is just

I'm so tired. I would say I'm glad it's Friday, but everything's just going to get worse over the weekend.

[urproblematicfav-arsonk]

Hey, you know what else sucks about the new helluva ep.

So, Brandon's been hyping up the fact that Blitz was finally going to sing for AWHILE now. Its narratively relevant that this is a musical, where Blitz somehow never actually sings it in. It's SUPPOSED to represent the fact that he's emotionally closed off, and lacks the connection that everyone around him has.

And I get that, but there's something almost dehumanizing about the fact that Blitz finally opens up, and gets to be apart of this musical world, and it's...only for a man.

If Blitz was a woman and her entire character arc was "I had to fuck a guy I didn't want to be with to survive, and the only moment I got to be authentically myself is as a romantic interest and be in service to a Man's character arc", I think more people would see how weird it is.

It sucks that Blitz' only function in the main plot is to be a victim, savior, and sex object to Stolas. They have no romantic chemistry, no development or emotional build, nothing. Like, this is full on Manic Pixie Dream Girl and Fridging shit. I wish it was just a teeny tiny bit better, with a little more nuance. Like, Bryce Tankthrust and Bobby Worst had a better, more complicated and well executed romantic storyline then quiet literally anything in helluva.