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I'm very on board with this. There are so many other aspects of reproductive health that get completely ignored or worse. Abortion being the most obvious example but of course there are so many others--much of which you mentioned in your tags! Thanks for clarifying. Researchers and providers who focus on pregnancy often do so at the expense of the pregnant person's well-being vs the zygote/embryo/fetus, as well as being very negligent when it comes to any other reproductive healthcare need. I'm with you that all of this is definitely irrational and discriminatory.
i think it would surprise most people that the challenges of menstruation have never been even slightly exaggerated
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I was with you up until the part about pregnancy and childbirth. That "almost irrationally respected status" is only for the concept of pregnancy and childbirth, not for the actual people experiencing it.
There is no Acceptable Way to be pregnant (or to be a parent, unless you're a cis father). And pregnant people are often misled about their own health and the medical realities of pregnancy and postpartum life, which makes them even more vulnerable to abuse--especially if they're otherwise marginalized.
These things don't reflect respect, much less some irrationally special status. We can talk about the hard realities of menstruation without dunking on pregnancy and pregnant people, who frankly have it hard enough already.
i think it would surprise most people that the challenges of menstruation have never been even slightly exaggerated
#pregnancy#pregnant people#menstruation#I get that folks (esp conservatives) will go on all day about how special and beautiful pregnancy is#but the way pregnant PEOPLE are treated is far from special or beautiful#it's all lip service that covers up severe mistreatment#both personally and medically#and this is true whether you choose to keep a pregnancy or terminate one
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You were very much in love with her. And you鈥檙e still in love with her. But it amused me to make you ashamed of it. You gave up on the first person you ever loved because I threatened your reputation. Don鈥檛 you get it? You鈥檙e just a toy, Sebastian. A little toy I like to play with. And now you鈥檝e blown it with her. I think it鈥檚 the saddest thing I鈥檝e ever heard.
Sarah Michelle Gellar as Kathryn Merteuil in Cruel Intentions (1999)
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mickey just moving in with ian one day is so fucking funny because officially 2 people in the house (out of 5) know that ian is gay and only one of them knows that he had had a situationship with mickey so to the rest of them ian just randomly brought home this dude that tried to kill him once and then became his coworker
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Team 7 in official art
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children existing in public spaces is genuinely like. necessary for the continuation of society. it doesnt have to be your kids you dont have to volunteer at a daycare or whatever but you need to be able to tolerate the presence of someone who is learning how to exist as a human and interact with people
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@hamspamandjamsandwich this has your name written all over it
there鈥檚 a website where you put in two musicians/artists and it makes a playlist that slowly transitions from one musician鈥檚 style of music to the other鈥檚
it鈥檚 really fun
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#LMFAOOOO#it's so hard to pick a favorite#though there's something about the simplicity of the HELL shell station that cracks me up#but yanno IMHURT takes the cake actually
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important concept: what if they'd met as teens in the matrix
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You should see the other guy.
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[鍥為兊槌 - reposted w/ permission
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These shots remind me of Dante Basco's and Mae Whitman's headcanons that one of the greatest obstacles to Zuko and Katara getting together would be their fear of hurting Aang's feelings, since they both respect him so much.
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Katara - NATLA Edition: Southern Watertribe Culture
Something that I LOVED that the live-action added to Katara's character was actually something they added to the entire culture of the Southern Water Tribe: they made them resistors (even the ones who stayed in Wolf Cove) rather than complete victims of the Fire Nation like the cartoon showed them.
The culture of the Southern Water tribe was attacked and the Fire Nation attempted a complete and total cultural genocide against them. They killed or captured all the waterbenders and forbid any from being trained again. All that is in line with the cartoon, but what the live action added was how the SWT actually fought back against that.
Just as with so many cultures invaders sought to destroy, they hid important artifacts, they kept alive the traditions in secret even from the younger generations, and they told the stories of the times before the colonizers brought their violent and oppressive ways.
I love that they emphasize that Gran Gran is the one who told everyone the story of the Avatar disappearing from the world - and what the Avatar had done before their disappearance. In the animated version, Katara just nebulously knows about the legends - it's not really shown how she knows and one would be forgiven for just assuming she knows because the plot demands it. In the live action, they show an elder keeping the knowledge alive.
Not only that, but they kept knowledge forbidden to them by their oppressors hidden until the time was right to teach one of their own the ancient ways. While I understand that Katara stealing back a part of her culture that was stolen by the pirates is a great story line, I think an equally great way to include the scroll is to have it be preserved by her own people in defiance of the Fire Nation attacks and threats to be handed to her when the time was right.
It shows that the SWT were not complete victims until our protagonists decided to change things, but rather they were actively keeping their culture alive and fighting back in the small ways they could, even if it wasn't direct combat. It gives the SWT agency as a people in that they were STILL fighting back, in their own small ways, and the entire history of Katara's people were ready to have her back once she needed the resources to fully stand against their oppressors.
I think there's too much emphasis on individual power in so many stories and community support is seen as 'weakness' or the character 'getting everything handed to them'. Community support - especially from a community who has suffered from oppression - is an incredibly powerful thing to see. I love how the live action Avatar adaptation really leaned into that. 聽It's Katara's culture embracing her and letting her know that they'd never stopped fighting, that they were here to support her and help her learn once the time was right.
This is echoed in the women of the North standing with Katara, ready to fight. It wasn't Katara alone who broke the sexist views of Pakku - it was ALL the women in the tribe who looked to have been organizing and subtly planning for this time for awhile. They just needed a catalyst and the fire nation's siege was that moment. Katara isn't the token 'feminist' among the tribes - she has the support of many within her own culture.
The live-action took a lot of time with Katara to explore what it's like to try to hold onto your culture when oppressors tried to wipe it out - the struggles people face when trying to decide how to fight back without being wiped out as a whole people.
It's not an easy decision to fight against oppressors who have no problem with killing ALL people in a culture, not JUST the ones who stand up to them. You have to weigh your actions so carefully when an entire people rests on your decisions - right or wrong as that responsibility is.
Katara's arc was about embracing her culture and healing from the trauma caused by the fire nation as they sought to destroy it - killing her mother and punishing all waterbenders in the process.
Katara had to figure out how and when to fight back so that her culture could survive - not be slaughtered because she revealed herself too soon or didn't have the resources to back up her defiance of her oppressors.
She fought against both the outward, physical manifestation of that trauma in Zuko and the fire nation fleet of ships in the North, but also the internal trauma plaguing her mind and spirit that suppressed her bending - the physical manifestation of her culture.
To me, the live action added so much depth to Katara's waterbending journey and her characterization as a whole.
Yes, she's angry - so, so angry. But she's also hurt. I think the live-action really SHOWED her hurt better than the animated show where the only time she mentioned her hurt (in Season 1) was in an effort to connect with men. The live action showed how her hurt affected every single aspect of her being and also showed her overcoming it with the help of herself, her friends, and her community.
To me, she and Zuko both embody the quote by C.S. Lewis "I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief."
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Revenge.馃└馃敧
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