Disability awareness this autistic awareness that trans awareness blah blah blah, please understand that plenty of people are already plenty “aware” of marginalized demographics like this, and simply believe they should be eradicated.

Awareness is absolutely an important piece of the fight but not a worthwhile fight on its own because the people that most need awareness are the people that will reject it every time and instead cling to their prejudices for dear life. The same people that have used ignorance as a tool to carve out a comfortable life in the dark for themselves. Again, they’re plenty aware, they just don’t care. or worse.

So give up “awareness” and go with advocacy or acceptance instead

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I think we really need to get to a point where we realize that straight white men aren't inherently evil, predatory, abusive and oppressive.

When people say that all men or white people are the same thing:

(That means if a white person or a man is bad, all men or white people would be bad)

My reaction:

To love something that prejudice can kill.

the way outspoken bigots use FREEDOM OF SPEECH as an excuse to say as many prejudiced garbage as they can, is alarming.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. And there should be so many consequences for it, but there isn’t.

I wrote this when I was 15yo in 10th grade. It was in a schoolwide publication and now I'm 50yo. 35 yrs of doing what I can to fight prejudices of all kinds while challenging and changing the way we think.

Real talk...being born and raised in “communist” China didn’t make me communist in the slightest but getting into the French Revolution has made me a full blown socialist reading actual academic leftist theory

I hate girlboss x malewife ships where it's a pathetic guy who's obsessed with a cool girl who's not nearly into him as he is her and people call it bisexuality.I want them BOTH down bad,i want them BOTH pampering eachother nonstop,i want them BOTH going to the ends of the earth for their love,i want them BOTH to be actual characters instead 'She's everything,he's just Ken' and acting like that's feminist instead of writing women as perfect and men as people.Forget girlboss x malewife,i want Equalit4ty

On March 16, 1991 Latasha Harlin’s short life came to a violent end in the midst of racial tensions in LA, and became a major spark for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. By the late 1980s, racial tensions were high in South Los Angeles. After the change in national immigration laws in 1965 a large number of Korean immigrants arrived in Los Angeles and by 1968 the first Korean-owned market opened in South Central LA. Longtime African American residents in the area at first welcomed the Koreans but eventually grew angry with them because they refused to hire black employees and often treated their customers poorly. By 1990, 65% of South Central businesses were Korean-owned and a 1992 survey of these storeowners revealed considerable racial prejudice against black customers and black people in general. Koreans in response argued that their attitudes evolved from high crime rates in the area and shop owner fears of shootings and burglaries. Latasha Harlins became a victim of these racial tensions on the morning of Saturday, March 16, 1991. She entered a store owned by a Korean family, to purchase a bottle of orange juice. As she approached the counter, Soon Ja Du, accused her of stealing after seeing her place the bottle in her backpack, despite her holding the $2 payment approaching the counter to pay. Du grabbed the bag and the two women had a violent scuffle. Harlins threw the juice bottle back on the counter and turned to leave the store when Du pulled a .38-caliber handgun and shot 15-year-old Harlins in the back of the head. Du was arrested and her trial was held on November 15, 1991. Security-camera footage which showed Harlins’ attempt to pay for the juice and the subsequent scuffle between the two women convinced a jury to find Du guilty of voluntary manslaughter. The Judge, Joyce Karlin, rejected the jury’s recommendation and instead sentenced Du to five years probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $500 fine.

One of the many reasons black people don't f*** with Asians like that and we should collectively drive them out of our neighborhoods

if one more alt character gets saddled with the "smells bad/doesn't shower" headcanon i'm going to start swinging

So I do think the lady who wrote this stupid book has a point about modern media excusing terrible behaviour with tragic backstories, because I read a lot of justifications of Darcy that are centred in Darcy having TRAUMA. Poor boy didn't mean to be rude at the Meryton assembly, he's a poor little orphan who just had sister troubles.

Except that blaming this trend/trope on Austen is insane, because Darcy does not excuse his behaviour in this way AT ALL. He does blame his education somewhat, but if anything his excuse is that his parents loved him so darn much that he became a brat. That's not trauma, that's Trust Fund Baby Syndrome.

In fact, the one person who attempts a trauma explanation of Darcy is... Wickham! He claims that Darcy Sr. loved him more than Darcy Jr., causing Fitzwilliam to be jealous of Wickham. Which would be kind of understandable, if it were true, but Darcy doesn't really seem to care about this and clearly loved his father, so if anything Wickham was a minor annoyance in his life pre-Ramsgate.

The narrator says clearly that Darcy has always been like this, it isn't a trauma reaction, "He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious; and his manners, though well bred, were not inviting... Bingley was sure of being liked wherever he appeared; Darcy was continually giving offence." And Darcy confirms this, he's been rude "from eight to eight-and-twenty" The only time he brings up the whole Georgiana thing is to tell Elizabeth about it, he never blames that event for his behaviour.

If anything, Jane Austen was a proponent of "explain but not excuse". Lucy Steele is mercenary because she is barely clinging to her status in the gentry, but she's still portrayed as a villain because the way she goes about trying to secure Edward (and later Robert) is fundamentally wrong. Mary Crawford has a back story full of trauma, she's an orphan twice over, her uncle sounds like a misogynist creep, and yet Austen doesn't accept it as an excuse, Mary must become better to be worthy of Edmund. Willoughby is an orphan, he's in debt, he's made bad choices, but he needs to do better and because he doesn't, he's not worthy of Marianne.

My Point: Don't blame Austen for the trauma excuses all bad behaviour trope, because she didn't start it and she frequently subverted it!

Pride & prejudice: the summary

this is so fucking ridiculous btw. "ao3 stans be like: banning 'bad' content is a slippery slope of censorship because then lgbt stuff will eventually be censored as well and they're the same thing!" like noooo. people who are familiar with how prejudice operates within a society and is given power within a system of government that thrives on systematic oppression are saying that placing limits on one's freedom of expression at any level gives those in power the ability to decide what concepts should be criminalized and how speech should be restricted as a result.

for those who are familiar with history, it is very easy to see how these concepts and identities that are considered "taboo" by many could in fact be censored as well. this isn't fucking rocket science. not every bigot knows what they're thinking is bad and they just do it anyways for funsies! most of them think lgbt people and other marginalized communities are just as bad as the taboo subjects you're mentioning - and that they deserve to be held under the same umbrella! that's the slippery slope of censorship, and it is a very real threat. read a fucking history book.

people aren't saying they think lgbt stuff and "taboo" subjects are the same thing. they're saying others do, and that you are handing your oppressors a very real weapon to turn right back on you when you give them the power to determine who is deserving of such rights. literally stop with the fucking fallacies before you hurt someone. goddamn.

Warning/disclaimer: This post has a mockery tone, but it's all a joke and everyone is entitled to their opinion.

I will never understand how Zuko wanting to earn Katara's forgiveness is a selfish motivation. It's really common in media (especially romance media) for one character, usually the guy, to screw up and try to fix it with the Grand Romantic Gesture™️ (Not that Zuko was in love with Katara, it's just that the gesture is consistantly framed as selfless).

Mr. Darcy:

Zutara Antis: