Teach girls it’s okay to not want kids. Or even like them.
That they can be functional people without being a mother.
That deciding into their 30s they want kids isnt bad and they’re not “too old.”
Teach girls that they don’t have to sell their youth to kids.
Because motherhood isn’t for everyone. And we need to stop acting like it is.
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these are real people who don’t exist for your pleasure.
The only people who get upset when you set boundaries are the ones who benefited from you having none.
That’s why they perceive it as a personal attack— because your boundary encroaches on space they’re used to owning: eg, yours.
I’ve got a friend and they mean a lot to me.
For anyone that has and is fighting depression and that feels alone.
Remember: You have everyone that has fought and is fighting depression on your side, even if you don’t hear them.
women who perform sexual acts on underage boys deserve to be thrown under the prison never to see the light of day again right next to the men who perform sexual acts on underage girls
and if you disagree you don’t deserve to be around kids. i wouldn’t trust you with my toenail much less a child
Every time I reread the Hunger Games trilogy I become more furious about the movie representation.
These books were about an indigenous woman (with a brain injury in book 3) living in poverty overthrowing a corrupt white government.
She was demisexual, had stomach hair, was not even remotely romantically driven (and canonically didn’t even find romance until after she had finished a revolution.)
And Peeta was disabled and physically abused as a child and they both suffered from mental health problems and the parallel between the Capitol and the ruling rich was so very transparent.
And I’m seeing fun coloured makeup in stores labeled “Capitol colours from the Hunger Games”!
These books were about the revolution of the most oppressed taking over the extravagance and elitism and decadence of the ruling class while citizens starved.
These books were a parallel to our current social dynamics, they were a call to arms. They were a battle cry for the impeding ruin of the rich white ruling class.
And the movies portrayed them as a fantasy, a romance story, a cute little tale. When the real story in the books was one of strength and upheaval and shifting paradigms and revolutions.
And like…… the death of a young Black child sparked the rebellion.
When Katniss thinks about running away in the second book it is the memory of Rue that makes her decide to stay and “cause all kinds of trouble.”
That is an indigenous woman deciding that the death of a Black child is so horrific and unacceptable that she needs to start an entire uprising about it. That is WOC solidarity.
Then again, when Katniss is talking with Peeta about not leaving he literally, canonically and verbally SAYS it’s because of Rue.
The movies did not lend enough weight to the injustice and violence that Black women face; they didn’t waste any time in deciding the rebellion came from their White Katniss’s determination to overthrow the Capitol.
The movies purposely and aggressively erased all of the racial oppression and power and dynamics that were so apparent in the books.
They made Katniss white, they made Gale white, they erased Peeta’s amputation, they seriously diminished the PTSD both of them faced (which was actually one of the more accuract accounts of PTSD I had ever read in the books), they drastically lessened the weight and importance of Rue’s death.
Anyway, fuck the movies. The books are miraculous. Right down to the respect of survival sex workers. Right down to the power imbalances of society being set in the hands of a violent old white man who has surgery to appear younger.
The author said these books was based on her interpretation of kids’ experiences in war torn Vietnam and Iraq. None of these kids were supposed to be white.
I’m SO glad I read these comments, because the movies discoureged me from reading the books. Fuck the movies, I’m so going to read the books now and see the real deal, and not find just another “white teenage romatic novel”
Tonight at Walmart I saw a little boy ask a little girl if he could hug her because he liked her sweater. The girl (these kids looked to be about 5, MAYBE 6) said no, so the boy said “okay. I like your sweater. Bye.” And then ran back to his parents.
He said to his Dad “I didn’t hug her because she said no, but I told her I liked her sweater!” And his dad said “Cool buddy!” And they went on with their shopping trip.
If a small child understands the ‘complex’ concept of consent, and the meaning of the word ‘no’, then so should everyone else.
Yes, yes they should
the posts that demonize gay people for being comfortable enough to be sexual in lgbt spaces and bars are so particularly evil because historically gay people have been arrested in gay bars during police raids for lewd conduct for even having their hand on their partners knee. like genuinely go fuck yourselves if you’re going to criticize gay people for being “too sexual” when even the slightest affection has always been policed figuratively and literally and been a cause of violence against us.
Getting so damn tired of “progressive” men who think it’s okay to throw around b*tch and c*nt. I don’t give a fuck if you’re a gay man, I don’t give a fuck if you’re a man of color. I don’t care how much you disagree with a woman, or how vile she is. Men don’t get free passes to throw around gender slurs at women. What really gets me is how common and acceptable it is even in “progressive” circles for men to throw out vile sexist comments and insults at women, then nobody who claims to care about “progress” and “equality” bats an eye, and he’s even hailed as a progressive liberal hero for throwing sexist vitriol at women. If you’re a man, find more creative ways to insult or call out the women you disagree with, or check your privilege and shut the hell up.
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