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foxespsu · 4 years

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01 / BASICS

Full Name: Casey Isaac Hendrix

Nicknames: Ace (their nickname from the Buckeyes)

Birthday: January 13th

Gender: Nonbinary (they/them)

Orientation: Bisexual

Astrological Sign: Capricorn sun, Pisces moon

Spoken Languages: English

Birthplace: Stillwater, Oklahoma

Relationship Status: Single

tw discussions of addiction, pill usage, etc

02 / PHYSICAL TRAITS

Hair Color/Style: Brown, wavy. It’s usually messy in the way that says i’ve styled it this way. Sometimes, it’s just messy.

Eye Color: Blue

Face Claim: Thomas Doherty

Height: 5′11

Tattoos: N/A

Piercings: N/A

Unique Attributes: They’ve got a touch of that accented d r a w l no matter much they’ve tried to shake it over the years.

03 / PERSONALITY TRAITS/TYPES

Positive Traits: Compassionate, ambitious, hard-working, selfless.

Negative Traits: Self-critical, pessimistic, indecisive, intense.

Hobbies/Interests: Exy, Exy, Exy. It was supposed to be their golden ticket, their way to escape and to provide for the family they left behind, so how could they afford to give it anything less than their all? When they crashed and burned in Ohio though, Exy left a black hole in its wake. They went home, spent a year drifting from room to room, listlessly picking up and dropping hobbies. Books went unfinished. Journals kept their empty pages. When Ohio told them they couldn’t come back, Casey finally focused and started again, went through every school they could think of until it lead them to David Wymack. They didn’t want to be a Fox, but they are now, and it’s only fair. This is what they deserve—and as scared as they are to step foot on that court again, they can’t help feeling that maybe, just maybe, they can get some of that dream back again.

Major/Minor: Exercise biology major, no minor.

Insecurities: Almost too many to count, but there are a few that repeat themselves more often than others in Casey’s thoughts. Exy wasn’t only a way out of Oklahoma. Exy was a means to stardom too and Casey loved it in all the ways they shouldn’t. They defined themself through it; Casey the captain of their high school team, Casey the breakout star of the Buckeyes. Without those titles, they’re struggling more than they’d admit with their own identity. Who were they that year without Exy? Who are they now if they’re just a Fox? Maybe it’s because Casey knows how easily they can be set aside. After all, their own family hardly knows what to do with them when they’re home now. Their mother and their siblings love them, Casey’s never doubted that, but they don’t know them—and Casey doesn’t know their family either, if they’re honest. They haven’t forgotten those pills either, how strong they’d felt on them, how powerful. Untouchable, at least before it all fell apart. Casey’s determined not to relapse, but they’re still terrified they’ll never be that good again. Never feel that good again. This is sobriety, this endless string of frustrating days and monotonous tasks, and some days it’s harder than others to remember why they want this.

Quirks/Eccentricities: Laughs too loud, runs their hands through their hair constantly, paranoid about their clothes looking too worn down.

MBTI Type: EFSJ, “the Caregiver”. Kind, loyal, sensitive, needy. They make decisions based upon their personal feelings, for good or for ill. Their need for approval is a double edged sword.

Enneagram Type: Type 3, “the Achiever”. At their best, type 3′s are self-directed, compassionate, authentic, and ambitious. At their worst, they are obsessed with their mistakes, covetous of success, and willing to do whatever it takes to achieve that for themselves.

Moral Alignment: Neutral good.

Temperament: Repressed Choleric

04 / FAMILY & HOME

Immediate Family: Their mother is Maya Hendrix. Of the Hendrix children, Casey is the oldest, but they’re far from the only one. Kennedy is the second eldest, currently 19. In Casey’s absence, she takes care of most of the domestic duties while their mother works. After Kennedy, there’s the twins: Aiden and Evan, age 17. Next is Cooper, 15, Nevaeh, 13, and finally, the baby of the family: Cheyenne, 11. Casey moved out for boarding school when she was only four years old. They don’t all share the same father, but when none of those fathers stick around, what does it matter?

Other Family: With a family as big and sprawling as theirs, they’ve had to rely heavily on their extended family too. Casey’s grandparents had an active hand in raising them, as did some of their aunts and uncles in the area. It takes a village, as they say, and the Hendrix family practically is a village in its own right.

How do they feel about their family?: Casey loves their family. When they first dreamed of Exy, it was attached to thoughts of buying their mother a bigger home, a better car, boarding schools for all their siblings without the stigma of scholarship. Obviously, that didn’t work out. Now, despite that love, they feel distant from them too, in the worst of ways. Boarding school was more a home than Oklahoma, and then the Buckeyes too, before it all went wrong. Although Casey helped raise their siblings once upon a time, they also moved out young enough the family looks to Kennedy as the eldest now. Casey doesn’t know how to fit back into the dynamic. Cooper, Nevaeh, Cheyenne, the twins—they all grew up without Casey there and now, when Casey has finally showed up in their lives again, it’s only because they’ve failed so horribly in Ohio. They feel guilty too. After all they weren’t the only one who gave things up for Exy. Their mother did too, making what little money that had stretch further so Casey could pursue their dream. They can’t help but feel like they’ve thrown it back into her face, wasted the chance she paid dearly for. That isn’t the legacy they wanted for themself, for their family, but it’s their legacy nonetheless.

How does their family feel about them?: Their family loves Casey. Maya worries about them—her quiet, headstrong eldest, who won’t tell her the full truth of what went wrong. Kennedy used to idolize them, the one who escaped Oklahoma, but there was a bitterness there too. They escaped but she stayed. She took care of the people left behind, taking up Casey’s mantle as the de facto parent when their mother was busy or working. Those feelings only grew when it was clear Casey had moved on without her or the rest of their family, that their life was full of glamour and arrogance she could never match. Now that they’re back, she’s torn between concern and a strange schadenfreude. If nothing else, now Casey must know they aren’t better than their roots after all. For some of the younger siblings, it’s far less complicated. They’re distant. They hardly know Casey. Overall, no one in the family is quite sure how to speak to them—whether it’s about Exy, Ohio, the Foxes, or simply their shared history.

Pets: Dorms, whether in boarding schools or college, rarely allow pets. And, with as many mouths as they had to feed back home, pets were an impossibility. Every now and then someone would abandon a litter of kittens or an unwanted puppy at their doorstep in Oklahoma. Casey and their siblings would always nurse them back to health, but they could never keep them. Thankfully, their local shelter always made room.

Where do they live?: Casey has only recently moved into the dorms. Before that, they spent a year in Stillwater, Oklahoma, living in their now unfamiliar childhood home.

Description of their home: Cramped. Messy. Crowded. Casey’s family still lives in the same home they grew up in, but everything about it has changed in the years they were gone. Most of the siblings share rooms, although their mother and Kennedy have their own. There’s a huge tree in the front yard with a tire swing and a frayed rope ladder. Those Casey does remember.

Description of their bedroom: As the oldest, Casey used to have their own room. That honor went to Kennedy once they moved out for boarding school and they could hardly ask her to relinquish it when they returned. This past year, they shared with Aiden and Evan. No one enjoyed it.

05 / THIS OR THAT

Introvert or extrovert? Extrovert.

Optimist or pessimist? Pessimist.

Leader or Follower? Formerly leader, current follower—or trying to be, at least.

Confident or Self-Concious? Self-conscious.

Cautious or Careless? Cautious.

Passionate or Apathetic? Passionate.

Book Smarts or Street Smarts? Book Smarts.

Compliments or Insults? Depends on what’s more honest.

06 / FAVORITES

Favorite Color: Yellow

Favorite Clothing Style/Outfit: Jock™️ albeit one with lots of bright colors. Athleisure, tank tops, hoodies, sweatpants, sneakers, etc. Casey is always ready for a workout.

Favorite Bands/Songs/Type of Music: Pop, hip-hop, rap, rock—anything that makes them feel awake and ready to move on a cold morning.

Favorite Movies: Back home, they didn’t have cable, but they did have the same dusty DVDs to watch over and over. Mary Poppins, Jurassic Park, Bring it On. Casey’s seen them all too many time to feel anything but nostalgia over them now.

Favorite TV Shows: They didn’t watch much TV growing up. Exy always felt more important. During their latest year back home though, they borrowed someone else’s Netflix login and marathoned far too many terrible TV shows instead of doing something better with their time. Already, Casey can barely remember half of them.

Favorite Books: They don’t read much now, but they’ve been known to enjoy a good adventure novel. Their mom used to drop them all at the library for the bulk of the day when they were too young to be left at home, and Casey read their way through most of the Animorphs series.

Favorite Foods/Drinks: Casey’s an adventurous eater, which is a kind way of saying they’ll eat anything and probably enjoy it. And, yes, they still enjoy the foods they grew up on too—burgers, fried food, too much ranch, okra, cheese, and gravy. They drink too much coffee, prefer Blue Gatorade to anything else, and choose craft beers on the few occasions they feel like a drink.

Favorite Sports/Sports Teams: Exy, obviously. They follow all the other teams, although now it’s out of a jealousy they don’t want to feel. Wymack is taking a chance on them, after all. Before it all fell apart, Casey was a loyal Buckeye.

Favorite Time of Day: Morning

Favorite Weather/Season: Spring

Favorite Animal: Dogs

#drug abuse /#addiction /#inspo: casey #about: casey

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jewlwpet · 5 years

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I finished the 1984 anime adaptation of Glass Mask.

My overall verdict is that it’s... quite a good adaptation of Glass Mask, although there are some choices I didn’t like; I already made a whole post about how I was disappointed in how Ayumi’s character was portrayed. However, it ended on a note that I was surprisingly okay with, even pleased by. I think the manga would be a lot better if it ended with this. There’s room to imagine whatever future one would like. Basically, I love this outcome, in comparison to what I was expecting.

I’ll talk about the ending in depth under the cut; naturally, this means spoilers. Because I’m comparing it to the manga, there will be spoilers for that too. Also, content warning: Hayami Masumi.

Masumi. He’s a man I really hate. This version of him is... better. I have mixed feelings about that, but since I don’t have the impression that the manga will ever acknowledge what a vile human being he is... romanticizing him but making him more palatable is an improvement.

Manga Masami is like Touga (Kiryuu). He seeks power at all cost because he believes, due to his upbringing, that this is the only way to be safe; he believes in a strictly dog-eat-dog world. Which makes for a really fascinating character. I find both their stories compelling; only in Masumi’s case I’m intensely dissatisfied with the direction his story takes.

Manga Masumi, in my opinion starts out seeing Maya as just another tool to use for profit (and to beat his abusive adoptive father at his own game. From the beginning, he wants to gain total control of her career and is willing to manipulate personal feelings to get it, so he sends her anonymous messages of encouragement while upsetting her for his own amusement every time they meet and using his career to undermine her independence and take advantage of her success. For instance, he finds out that Maya’s mother is blind, has tuberculosis, has been fired from her job, and is separated from Maya, with Maya knowing none of this... so he decides to take personal action to ensure they stay separate until the most strategic time for her publicity. He does this by paying doctors and nurses to keep Maya’s mother confined with no visitors allowed and no television or radio. She ends up dying, with Maya never getting to see her again.

He starts feeling sad about the fact that she hates him when his obsession starts to take on a more personal nature. His secretary tells her he’s “in love with her,” and with her encouragement, he pays less and less regard to his reputation and grows more and more demanding of her company, though he has qualms about having such feelings about a teenager eleven years younger than him and decides that she is “too young for a love scene.” Everyone is surprised to see him “smiling and laughing with a girl,” but they all assume it’s good that he’s showing interest in a person outside of the realm of business. Even Maya starts to doubt whether he’s really a bad person, though his possessiveness is stronger than ever. He wants her to be happy and successful, now, but he considers it unacceptable for this to come from anywhere other than him and his own goals. When she finds out that he was the one sending her the anonymous support that sustained her when she had no one else (because he isolated her from her friends.), she instantly forgives him for everything.

For a long time I was crossing my fingers for Maya to eventually realize that he was bad for her and leave him, but while in theory this could still happen as the manga remains unfinished (and the creator maintains that she is still working on it, just very slowly), it appears very unlikely at this point.

1984 Masumi seems similar at first, the only visible difference being that from the start, he’s already dissatisfied with the life he lives, feels like he’s playing a role, and so he secretly envies and admires Maya. I believe that this was a plausible interpretation of the manga character at the time, when less was known about him. I figured it didn’t matter since it didn’t justify his future behavior--which is still true--but he actually, to my surprise, did end up making better choices than his manga counterpart in very important respects.

He still openly disregards her personal boundaries to upset her and starts harboring a dangerous sense of attachment to her and even sexual desire, which he knows is inappropriate given the fact that Maya is a teenager eleven years younger than him.

But when he starts feeling bad about this, he doesn’t take the course that manga Masumi is, which is to repress that feeling and carry on with the same behavior. When his secretary tells him that he is “in love with” Maya and that he ought to stop hiding behind roses and show his “affection” openly, he realizes he has to make a choice, and he actually makes the right one, which is to back off before this gets any more serious!

He decides that a) he shouldn’t romantically pursue a sixteen-year-old (this part happened in the manga too, but in the manga we see him spend the next few years grooming her for his future plans), b) he should stop being deliberately cruel to her for his own amusement rather than sitting around moping about the fact that she hated him, and c) “She doesn’t need that purple rose person anymore.”

He is quite right about that; we see that Maya’s inspiration to keep going has now shifted from the purple rose person to Ayumi, someone who actually supports her (though the anime doesn’t do a great job of showing it). This happened in the manga too, but in the manga, he did everything he could to curb that and make her dependent on him both as the purple rose person and as the head of Daito Entertainment... including isolating her from her friends and family. The Masumi in this anime decided to do exactly the opposite.

This is incredibly reassuring because it means that this Maya will not have to go through all the terrible suffering that he caused her in the manga, and it also means that, having let go of the “purple rose person,” once she finds out that he’s really Hayami Masumi, she’s much less likely to instantly decide this is true love. It’s even possible that Masumi himself will move on from her and maybe even find the courage to quit his job and “become poor and free” like in his fantasies.

#glass mask #glass no kamen #hayami masumi #masumi hayami #glass mask (1984)

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sage-nebula · 7 years

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provided you're still taking these [and no one's asked it yet] ace attorney for the five things you'd changed meme? [if that's been asked then fire emblem awakening?]

I’m so sorry! I totally didn’t mean to ignore you. I took a break after a huge batch of these when I first posted the meme because my hands ended up hurting from typing so much, and then I got caught up watching the Switch presentation, and then I sort of … forgot that I had these in my inbox/got distracted every time I remembered. I’m sorry! I’ll go ahead and answer this now, though, so I hope it’s not too late.

As a reminder, this is for the “five things I would change” meme. Others I’ve already answered are:

Pokémon XY&Z AnimeDreamworks DragonsPokémon Sun&Moon GamesHarry PotterGravity FallsBlue ExorcistYu-Gi-OhFire Emblem: Awakening

(Yeah, I copy-pasted the apology from another response, but hey: it applies in both cases.)

And as for Ace Attorney . . .

First and foremost, I would completely remove the Khura’in element from the sixth installment. The Kingdom of Khura’in needs to go, entirely and completely. And for that matter? Playing as Phoenix needs to go, entirely and completely. I can understand it in AA5 since they both wanted to give him his badge back (though it’s ridiculous he lost it in the first place, but whatever), and also because there are periods over the course of the plot in which Athena cannot defend because she has been arrested, and Apollo can’t because he suspects her. We need a lawyer at that point, and so it makes sense that Phoenix would step up. However, there’s no reason to do this in AA6, and no reason to keep billing him in the title of the games. His time to shine is over. His part of the plot is done, unless you want to bring back Kristoph Gavin and tell us what those black psyche-locks are hiding (but more on that in a bit). The fact that we wasted so much time on him in AA6 when we have two other lawyers that we need to know more about/have more time with is ridiculous. I’m so beyond tired of Phoenix Wright. I want more Apollo Justice and Athena Cykes, and that means reworking the sixth game completely.So that said? No more Khura’in. This does mean that I lose my darling daughter Rayfa, but in all honesty that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make. No Khura’in, no Phoenix acting as a lawyer, no Maya coming back just to be a damsel in distress yet again with nothing significant gained from her appearance. Instead, AA5 needs to take place solely in Los Angeles (/Japan/Japanifornia) once again, and the lawyers need to alternate between Apollo and Athena, both of them serving as the other’s co-counsel at different points. And, more to that point, Athena needs to be treated with respect. She’s still new, but she’s a competent lawyer and she has proven this. Treat her like it.But yeah, the Khura’in cases were godawful and a damned chore to get through. None of that. Chuck that in the garbage bin where it belongs. Worst.

Apollo and Trucy need to know that they are siblings yesterday. Ideally this would have come out a long time ago, but at the very least it should have come out in AA6, particularly since it was teased with the second case focusing so heavily on the Gramaryes. And to the end, how much more powerful would it have been if Reus had been the final villain of the game, screaming “GRAMARYEEEEE” after it has already been revealed that Apollo himself is a Gramarye? Because as it stands, Reus and everyone else thought he was simply cursing Trucy and his family, even though Apollo was the one who brought him down. If it was revealed that Apollo was a Gramarye as well, that would have been so much more powerful for all of the characters present. As it stands, it was a waste. A waste and a shame.But yeah, Apollo and Trucy need to know. That plot thread needs to be tied up. The fact that we’re going on ten years---an actual decade---of having this dangling is absolute nonsense. There’s no reason for it, particularly since Capcom felt they had time to retcon chunks of Apollo’s history and introduce a ridiculous new country just so they could push a courtroom gimmick, make an excuse for Maya to appear as a damsel yet again, and act like Phoenix still has any relevance to the ongoing narrative. And speaking of dangling plot threads . . .

KRISTOPH. GAVIN’S. BLACK PSYCHE-LOCKS. This is the only remaining business that Phoenix has left unfinished---the only relevance he has beyond being a father and mentor to the current main cast. We need to know what those black psyche-locks are, we need to finish that up. I am concerned at this point that nothing Capcom reveals will be good enough, that any dark secret that Kristoph has buried is going to be underwhelming given that we’ve had a decade to think of possibilities---but I don’t care. I still want to know. They introduced the black psyche-locks in AA4 and refused to let us break them. They created that dangling plot thread. They then explained what black psyche-locks are in AA5. That is the perfect opportunity, then, to let us go back and break them---and yet it was an opportunity wasted. It could have been explored in AA6, particularly if we went back to the true heritage plot thread that was left dangling from AA4 as well, but again, that didn’t happen. So that said, I would make it happen. I don’t know what it is that Kristoph is repressing (I’d have to replay that part of AA4, because to be honest I don’t even remember what triggered the black psyche-locks), but damn, I really want to know.

I do want to see original trilogy characters again, but I want to see them incorporated in ways that are new and show that they’ve actually grown as people over the past ten (now!) years. This was done well with Ema, in that we see her as a homicide detective and then as a forensics investigator like she always dreamed. We see that she grew up, that she’s doing different things with her life, that she has changed as a person. This was done less well with characters like Pearl and Maya, who act almost the exact same as they did in the original trilogy with very minor design differences, almost as if Capcom was afraid to change them too much. In my opinion, this was done to their detriment. The most glaring example of this was in the DLC case for AA5, in which Pearl---who is a seventeen-year-old junior/senior in high school---saying “for-en-sick-ing” as if she’s still an eight/nine-year-old who doesn’t understand the word. That’s horrible. Pearl was shown to have grown up in some ways, but in others she acted as if she still had the intelligence and mentality of a small child, which is rather insulting to her character (especially since she was always supposed to be quite bright). Maya was a little better, but not by much. Often times she still acted so immature that moments in which she was supposed to be ~mature and wise~ (such as that moment with Rayfa that they flashbacked to 9882348309232 times as if to hammer home, “LOOK SHE’S ALL MATURE AND STUFF NOW!!!!!11!”) felt out of place and out of character. She simply didn’t grow enough to sell it. And if that’s how they’re going to treat OT characters, then I’d rather not see them in the present day games.So that said? While I do want to see them, I want to see growth and change. The next time I see Gumshoe, I want to see that he is actually Chief of Police, happily married to Maggey Byrde with some kids of his own. The next time I see Lana, I want to see that she did her time in prison and is either head detective down at the precinct, or---if her record prevents her from serving on the force again---is acting as a consultant for the police force. The next time I see Kay, I want to see her as a prosecutor, and so on and so forth. I want to see these characters having grown as people, having changed while still being recognizably themselves. This shouldn’t be beyond Capcom. They did it with Ema and Edgeworth, so I don’t see why they can’t do it with the other characters as well.

Lastly, I would make Phoenix and Edgeworth in a committed relationship at the least by the time AA5 rolls around, and probably engaged by the time AA6 does. Not only would it be amazing confirmation that Phoenix is bisexual (and having more bi visibility is always a good thing), and not only would it be a concrete reminder that Edgeworth is canonically not interested in women (and no, it’s not that he’s just ~married to his job~, but that’s a rant for another day), but it would also be a fantastic culmination of all the relationship development we’ve seen between them over the years. It would also be fantastic representation of a relationship that is, and has always been, on equal terms both in terms of dynamic in the workplace and in how they treat one another. I would love for it to actually be canon, particularly since it’s not as if a whole lot would have to change. Trucy calling Edgeworth “Papa” (in contrast to how Phoenix is her daddy), and a couple lines of banter about an upcoming wedding between them is all it would take. (Which is also fantastic representation, because it shows that, hey, they’re people in a relationship just like anyone else! LGBTQA people are just people, how shocking.) So yeah, I would definitely make that a thing, and it would be great.

#five things i would change meme #travelerofstars

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marcusssanderson · 5 years

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50 Feminism Quotes About Empowerment and Equality for Women

Our latest collection of inspirational feminism quotes to make you feel empowered.

Throughout history, women have been battling against patriarchy and a predominately misogynistic society. Women have banded together to fight for their right to vote, combat discrimination, disband rape culture and portrayal in the media, and reprimand crimes against the female gender.

Feminists have won some great victories, but the battle for gender equality has evolved into a powerful movement with ambitious feminists leading the charge.

The most recent #MeToo campaign has been shedding light on discrimination and exposing the predation of women in the entertainment industry. It has offered a necessary outlet for victims of sexual assault and opportunities for more women and men to learn about and align with feminism.

It takes a courageous person to fight injustices and speak up for what is right. To help fuel your feminist flame, below is our collection of inspirational, wise, and powerful feminism quotes, feminism sayings, and feminism proverbs, collected from a variety of sources.

Feminism quotes about empowerment and equality for women

1.) “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” – Brigham Young

2.) “Feminism is not a dirty word. It does not mean you hate men. It does not mean you hate girls that have nice legs and a tan, and it does not mean you are a bitch or a dyke, it means you believe in equality.” – Kate Nash

3.) “We need to encourage girls that their voice matters. I think there are hundreds and thousands of Malalas out there.” – Malala Yousafzai

4.) “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” —Margaret Thatcher

5.) “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” ― Jane Austen, Persuasion

6.) “Though we have the courage to raise our daughters more like our sons, we’ve rarely had the courage to raise our sons like our daughters.” – Gloria Steinem

7.) “Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating.” – Andrea Dworkin

8.) “Feminism is about giving women choice. Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with.” – Emma Watson

9.) “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

10.) “My coach said I run like a girl. And I said if he ran a little faster he could too.” – Mia Hamm

11.) “[Unlikeable women] accept the consequences of their choices, and those consequences become stories worth reading.” – Rozane Gay

12.) “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” – Madeleine Albright

Feminism Quotes about Self-determination and freedom

13.) “My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it’s very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.” – Ani DiFranco

14.) “Women, we endure those cuts in so many ways that we don’t even notice we’re cut. We are living with small tiny cuts, and we are bleeding every single day. And we’re still getting up.” – Michelle Obama

15.) “A huge part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.” – Lena Dunham

16.) “I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” – Madonna

17.) “ I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be.” – Chimanda Ngozi Adichie

18.) “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” — Madeleine Albright

19.) “Feminism is not just about women; it’s about letting all people lead fuller lives.” – Jane Fonda

20.) “Feminism isn’t a cloak that I put on in the morning and take off at certain times. It’s who I am. I look at the world through eyes that are very alert to gender injustice, and I always will.” – Chimanda Ngozi Adichie

21.) “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminisn is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that distinguish me from a doormat.” – Rebecca West

22.) “There’s just as many different kinds of feminism as there are women in the world.” – Kathleen Hanna

23.) “Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don’t like the term, change it for Goddess’ sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn’t matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.” – Isabel Allende

24.) “More than ever, I am aware of the need to support and celebrate each other. I like to believe I am part of a global support group network of 3.4 billion. Imagine: if you can fall back on the 3.5 billion sisters, and the many good men who are with us, what could we possibly not achieve?” – Nicole Kidman

25.) “They tried to bury us; they did not know we were the seeds.” – Mexican Proverb

Feminism Quotes to help you feel like a badass everyday

26.) “There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” – Virginia Woolf

27.) “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” ― Irina Dunn

28.) “We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” – Malala Yousafzai

29.) “Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” — G.D. Anderson

30.) “Feminisim’s agenda is basic: it asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.” – Susan Faludi

31.) “I want women’s rights to be equally honored, and uplifted, and heard…but I want to see us fighting the fight for all women — women of color, our LGBTQ sisters, our Muslim sisters. I want to see millions of us marching out there for our rights, and I want to see us out there marching for the rights of women like Dajerria Becton, who was body slammed by a cop while she was in her swimsuit for simply existing as a young, vocal, black girl. I think we are inching closer and closer there, and for that, I am very proud.” – Solange Knowles

32.) “There’s a strong chance the next Bill Gates isn’t going to look anything like the last one. So I’m interested in finding solutions that will help ensure we recognize her when we see her.” – Melinda Gates

33.) “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” – Charlotte Bronte

34.) “I believe the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st Century.” – Hillary Clinton

35.) “I’m a feminist. I’ve been a female for a long time now. It’d be stupid not to be on my own side.” – Maya Angelou

36.) “Why do people say “grow some balls”? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.” ― Sheng Wang

Other Inspirational Feminism Quotes

37.) “Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.” ― Cheris Kramarae

38. “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde

39.) “You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.'” —Erin McKean

40.) “I am not ashamed to dress ‘like a woman’ because I don’t think it’s shameful to be a woman.” – Iggy Pop

41.) “Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. – Unknown

42.) “A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.” —Melinda Gates

43. “We need everyone to be a feminist. Feminism is the fight for the equality of sexes, not for the domination of one sex over another.” – Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

44.) “No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.” – Betty Friedan

45.) “Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.” – Maya Angelou

46.) “Your silence will not protect you.” – Audre Lorde

47.) “One isn’t born courageous, one becomes it.” – Marjane Satrapi

48.) “I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.” – Mary Shelley

49.) “No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens.” – Michelle Obama

50.) “We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful, but not too successful. Otherwise, you would threaten the man.

Because I am female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important. Now marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage and we don’t teach boys the same?

We raise girls to see each other as competitors not for jobs or accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Did You Enjoy These Feminism Quotes?

Feminism is a commendable crusade for women’s rights. Gender parity is something that women have struggled to achieve for years. Although there have been accomplishments along the way from outstanding and heroic women, the fight is certainly not over.

When things feel tough or if you’re needing an extra push of encouragement, nothing will make you feel prouder to be a woman than to read empowering feminism quotes from feminists who understand the struggle for the freedoms we have today.

Did you enjoy these feminism quotes? Which one was your favorite quote? Let us know in the comment section below. Also, take a minute to share with your fans and followers.

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Here's how YOU could land a role in Stranger Things 3

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Here's how YOU could land a role in Stranger Things 3

Prepare to journey back to the upside-down world as Stranger Things is about to launch a comeback of supernatural proportions – and now there’s the opportunity to STAR in the show as Netflix has announced they’re looking for extras.

You have to be over 16 (obviously) and know how to play an instrument, as the casting is for people to be in a marching band, but you get to play two songs in the series so, y’know, next stop is Wembley.

They’re also casting adults for various roles including photo doubles.

The bad news, however, is that filming takes place in Atlanta, so unless you’re based there, planning a trip or just really really desperate to be in the show, we’re out of luck.

Teasing the release of season three, [link url=”http://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/topic/netflix”] the latest trailer for the award-winning show presented us with a 1980s throwback Mall commercial.

Kitsch? Yes! Beyond great? Yes! Showcasing the new Starcourt Mall in Stranger Things’ location, Hawkins the infomercial describes the shopping centre as, “a shining example of the American dream.” Well, if the American dream includes stores like The Gap and Claire’s at their 80s peak then sign us up for a trip!

The mall, it appears, is set to provide a new location for Stranger Things alongside the infamous Arcade, the lab and the school. But the mall isn’t the only new addition to the show as the commercial teases the appearance of Hawkins newbie, Robin who is played by Maya Hawke and will play Steve’s new co-worker at Scoops Ahoy Ice-cream Shop. Their uniform comes complete with sailor hat and neckerchief. Chic, much?

However, whilst we get beyond excited about the show, you might want to curb your enthusiasm until at least December as at the end of the trailer, it states that the mall is coming, ‘next summer.’ So you may have to wait until summer 2019 to see season three of Stranger Things. Woe. Is. Us.

Stranger Things started filming season three in April and ever since there’s been much speculation about the plot twists the season will take, Shawn Levy, Executive Producer of Stranger Things, decided to set the record straight.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Shawn shared new details about what’s in store for us. The season will be set one year in the future, and we’re bound to see the groups’ relationships at new stages:

“Mike and Eleven and are going strong, so that’s a relationship that continues, and same with Mad Max and Lucas,” he told the publication.

How cute?! Even though that was enough to get us excited, what he revealed next will get fans (and meme pages) buzzing… Dad Steve is back in a big way!

“We’ll definitely get to see some more of Steve Harrington in season three, and I’ll just say we won’t be abandoning the Dad Steve magic. I don’t want to say much more, but I literally feel that we were walking along and we stumbled onto a gold mine with Dad Steve,” Shawn confirms.

Our favourite actors are probably just as thrilled as we are about the new season, because not only are they all signed back on, they also got a massive pay rise to continue starring in the show.

A source confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter early this month, that ‘intense’ negotiations wrapped up at the end of last week, and that the child cast ‘are worth roughly 12 times their previous deals’. As for the adults in the show, Netflix has renewed their contracts at $350,000 per episode. Wow.

The source also explained to the publication that the cast is divided into different pay tiers. Winona Ryder and David Harbour, the ‘adults’, are considered A-tier and are in for $350,000 per episode next season. The ‘kids’, or B-tier, includes Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Noah Schnapp, who will cash in $250,000 per episode. And the C-tier – the ‘teenagers’ like Natalia Dyer, who plays Nancy, Charlie Heaton, who plays Jonathan, and Joe Keery who plays Steve – are earning roughly $150,000 per episode.

As for our lead, Millie Bobby Brown? Well, the star of the show does not fall into the B-tier along with her mates. Last year, Millie separated herself from the rest of the cast during the renegotiation. And her crew has been tight-lipped about the new deal, which is rumoured to be between $250,000 and $300,000.

Production on season three is scheduled to begin April 23 – and as you can expect, there is a lot of speculation about what’s in store.

At the beginning of the year, we were given an extra special bit of information that got us totally hyped – there will be THREE new characters! According to That Hashtag Show, the trio are heading to the town of Hawkins. Their source has even given the names of the characters, but these could potentially change.

Mayor Larry Kline is apparently a classic 80s politician. Driven only by his own interests, he’s described as ‘pathetic’. The studio is looking for a male aged between 40 and 60 to fill the role.

Bruce is a sexist, overweight and bedraggled news reporter in his 50s, and Patricia Brown is dubbed as the sweet neighbourhood elder. The part will be played by a woman in her 70s and she’s apparently going to offer advice to the kids as she potters around her garden.

The information hasn’t been confirmed by Netflix yet, but we’re stoked to see what comes of it!

Here’s everything else we know about Stranger Things 3 so far…

Is it definitely happening?

Netflix officially greenlit a third season for Stranger Things on December 1 2017, which isn’t a huge surprise – especially following the success of the second season.

While discussing the second season, the Duffer brothers revealed that they had so many ideas that they’ve already got stuff lined up for season three.

“As the episodes were written by the Duffers, they realised that there was too much story for nine episodes. So it forced us to be judicious in which stories we tell this season,” executive producer Shawn Levy told Mashable. “So one of the surprises was, not all of our grand ideas are going to be serviced in one season… If we had 40 ideas going into the season, 30 [we] are going to pick, and the rest go in the back of our head for, hopefully, future chapters.”

In fact, the creators have even teased a fourth series while executive producer, Levy has hinted there could be a fifth.

Speaking to EW, Levy said: “Hearts were heard breaking in Netflix headquarters when the brothers made four seasons sound like an official end, and I was suddenly getting phone calls from our actors’ agents. The truth is we’re definitely going four seasons [sic] and there’s very much the possibility of a fifth. Beyond that, it becomes I think very unlikely.”

Ross Duffer added: “If we’re able to, there will be at least four, there could be more. I think there’s going to come a point where why aren’t these people leaving Hawkins? Like we’re going to stretch credibility. It wasn’t intended to be a seven-season thing.”

When will the release date be?

Judging by the release dates between the first and second seasons, we predict season three will hit Netflix in late 2018 or even 2019 as some of the key cast members are rumoured to be involved in upcoming Hollywood flicks.

Millie Bobby Brown has been already confirmed to star in Godzilla: King of Monsters while Charlie Heaton (Jonathan) is starring alongside Game of Thrones‘ Maisie Williams in 2018 film The New Mutants.

It won’t just be set in Hawkins…

One of the major highlights of season two was the episode titled The Lost Sister which saw Eleven branch out of Hawkins and head to Chicago to find her telekinetic sister, Kali (aka Eight). This established a storyline outside of Hawkins which is likely to be revisited – especially since Eleven and Eight have unfinished business.

“It feels weird to me that we wouldn’t solve [Kali’s] storyline,” Matt Duffer told The Hollywood Reporter. “I would say chances are very high she comes back.”

The Mind Flayer isn’t done with the kids just yet.

The final episode Stranger Things 2 may have seen Eleven shut the gate on the Mind Flayer, but according to the Duffer Brothers, that isn’t the end of it. “They’ve shut the door on the Mind Flayer, but not only is it still there in the Upside Down, it’s very much aware of the kids, and particularly Eleven,” they revealed. “It had not encountered her and her powers until that final episode. Now, it knows that she’s out there. We wanted to end on a little bit of an ominous note.”

Well, they can certainly tick that off.

It will be more about the characters and their individual storylines.

As much as we loved all the creepiness of the Upside-Down, future seasons are keeping the characters front and centre.

“As much density of story as our show has, we have to service the characters — and the moments and relationships between characters — above everything,” said the show’s producer, Shawn Levy. “If we stop being character-anchored, and we become pure genre, I think we take the beating heart out of Stranger Things, and we take the thing that people maybe don’t write articles about the most, but I think it’s what they love the most — these characters on screen.”

Matt Duffer added: “It’s not necessarily going to be bigger in scale. What I am really excited about is giving these characters an interesting journey to go on.”

Because the actors playing the children are ageing it’s also expected series three will start a year after series two ends.

Matt told The Hollywood Reporter: “Even if we wanted to hop into the action faster, we couldn’t. Our kids are ageing.

“We can only write and produce the show so fast. They’re going to be almost a year older by the time we start shooting season three. It provides certain challenges. You can’t start right after season two ended.

“It forces you to do a time jump. But what I like is that it makes you evolve the show.”

The gang will be off to High School next year and along with that comes drama, puberty and more girl trouble. While Lucas, Mike and even Will (who was that girl at the school dance and will she be joining the ‘party’?) may have already figured out the latter, we reckon season 3 will see Dustin blossom into Steve’s mini me.

Oh, and surely Nancy and Jonathan will finally become official? Although we’ll always be #TeamSteve after his heroic role in season 2.

As for bad boy Billy, we reckon there’s a lot more to him than meets the eye. Will he start an affair with Mrs Wheeler (aka Mike and Nancy’s mum) or will he have a bad-boy-one-good type transition like Steve?

One thing is for sure – we’ll be seeing more of Lucas’s sassy younger sister Erica Sinclair, and to be honest, that’s all we need to know.

“There will definitely be more Erica in Season 3,” Ross Duffer told Yahoo. “That is the fun thing about the show — you discover stuff as you’re filming. We were able to integrate more of her in, but not as much you want because the story [was] already going. ‘We got to use more Erica’ — that was one of the first things we said in the writers’ room.”

Amen to that!

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My favorite parent-child relationship

Phoenix and Trucy are the obvious winners here, but with that said I have a true soft spot for Byrne and Kay Faraday as well. We only see a tiny bit of them, and we don’t actually get to see them interact at all, but it’s obvious how much Byrne loved and cared for Kay, and how much she continues to take everything he said to heart and do her best to carry on his legacy after his death as well. Phoenix and Trucy are definitely sweet, particularly with the way he adopted her when she had nowhere else to go despite how his own life was falling apart (and how he keeps a locket with her picture in it with him always!), but I also appreciate what little we got to see of Byrne and Kay as well.

My favorite sibling relationship

Apollo and Trucy, hands down. My favorite part of their relationship is how much Apollo acts like her big brother even though, due to circumstances beyond our control, neither of them actually know that they’re related yet. (Going on ten years now, Capcom. This is unforgivable.) He’s so protective of her, and so tolerant of the shenanigans, and she teases him even though she very clearly looks up to and believes in him as well. They’re precious and I adore them, wholeheartedly. ♥

Runners-up are the Skye sisters, though. Every time I replay 1-5 I fall a little bit more in love with their sisterly bond, and I hope that Lana can make a comeback in AA7. Come on, bring her back, Capcom. You know you want to!

My favorite family relationship (other)

Maya and Pearl as best cousins, + Maya as best Promoted to Parent. Maya had to be like Pearl’s cousin, big sister, and mother after everything with Morgan went down (er, both times it went down), and I think she did a wonderful job stepping up where needed. At the very least, it didn’t seem like Pearl wanted for anything, and it was clear that Maya was making a concentrated effort to take care of her. Credit where credit is due, their relationship is truly sweet and special. (And that said, I don’t think we actually got to see the two of them interact in AA6, did we? A shame, that is.)

My favorite friendship between two people

If I’m excluding ones that I also ship romantically, then Phoenix and Maya---at least, in the original trilogy. Their banter was always wonderful and it’s obvious how much they care for one another. I do cherish that about their relationship. That said, AA6 exhausted me and has made it so that I don’t want to see Maya in the main series at all anymore, so my opinion on this one is a bit soured now. Thanks, AA6. Thanks so much.

My favorite friendship between a group

The Wright Anything Agency as a whole has a wonderful dynamic (and, tbh, is better than the original trilogy’s Wright & Co. Law Offices). I especially love the power trio of Apollo, Athena, and Trucy, but Phoenix as the Team Dad is wonderful as well, A+++.

My favorite mentorship

People give a lot of flack to Phoenix for not being a good mentor to Apollo, but I honestly disagree? It’s true that, especially in AA4, Apollo had to put up with a lot of nonsense due to all of the secrecy and machinations in the background, but at the same time I think that Phoenix gives Apollo the kind of mentorship that he needs. Apollo is pretty anxious beneath his Chords of Steel smokescreen and second-guesses himself a lot; it’s clear early on in AA4 that he doesn’t really have confidence in himself to know what he’s doing, however much he tries to convince others that he does. By tossing him into the think of things and then pulling back the lifeline, it’s true that Phoenix is inciting Apollo’s anxiety---but he’s also forcing Apollo to see that he can do this, that he does know what he’s doing, that he can hit the ground running and still make it to the finish line. The Apollo that we see in AA6 is far more confident in himself in just about every way, to the point where he can tell Phoenix to his face to “stand down and be quiet” --- and I firmly believe that this is because Apollo has had to fight through the fires of his own self-doubt and insecurities, and that he had to do so because Phoenix refused to hold his hand (and thus hold him back). And it’s worth noting, too, that this is far different from Kristoph’s approach; Kristoph was the type to stand over Apollo’s shoulder, hold his hand, and critique every little thing in order to mold Apollo into a little mini Kristoph Gavin. Phoenix didn’t do that. Phoenix tossed Apollo into the fire, and as a result, Apollo came into his own, as his own person as well as his own attorney. Apollo thrived under Phoenix. He never would have under Kristoph.

So all of that said? Phoenix and Apollo are my favorite mentorship. Definitely.

My favorite rivalry

I mean, what other one is there other than Phoenix and Edgeworth? As much as I do ship them romantically, any case that they’re both working on together is guaranteed to be fantastic not only because of the content of the case, but also because of the banter that will be tossed back and forth across the courtroom. It’s only worth it to play as Phoenix if Edgeworth can be the prosecutor, full stop. (And I mean, I do love Franziska a lot, but let’s be honest: She does her best work when Edgeworth is pretending to be a defense attorney, and we all know it.)

My favorite hatred/antipathy

PHOENIX AND KRISTOPH, PHOENIX AND KRISTOPH, PHOENIX AND KRISTOPH!!

Kristoph Gavin is, in just about every way you care to name, Phoenix’s shadow archetype, and I love shadow archetypes. I love them. And that, coupled with the fact that we have unfinished business with Kristoph (we don’t know what he’s hiding behind his black psyche-locks, we know that he has to still be saltier than the Dead Sea after everything that happened, et cetera), means that I really want him to come back and I want another showdown here. We sadly didn’t get to see Phoenix truly react to Apollo emulating Kristoph in AA5, and the way that Kristoph gaslighted and manipulated Klavier was so subtle in AA4 that many people missed it, but both of those things could make a comeback. Kristoph’s hand in Trucy being abandoned could make a comeback. Kristoph could use Athena, given that she never knew him, in order to get the ball rolling (because he’s very good at coming across as classy and non-threatening, and it’s possible that he could fool even her ears), et cetera. There’s so much that could be done, and I want it to be done! BRING THIS BACK, CAPCOM!!

My favorite potential relationship between characters who never talk in canon

Aside from how they are part of rival fandoms (Steel Samurai and Jammin’ Ninja, respectively), I really would love to see how Maya and Kay get along. I think that they have similar temperaments, and that Maya would be starstruck by Kay’s chosen career path as a “phantom thief,” and that likewise Kay would be very interested in Maya’s spirit channeling. (Maya could also channel Byrne for Kay, if she wanted, which I think Kay would very much appreciate.) I would love to see the two of them meet and interact at least once; I think it would be amazing!

Likewise, I’m still waiting for Kay to come back as a prosecutor who forms a new Yatagarasu, with Athena as the defense attorney and Ema as the detective. I’m waiting, Capcom. Deliver this to me! DO THE THING, CAPCOM! Do eeeet.

#gen relationship meme #tangelomadness

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50 Feminism Quotes About Empowerment and Equality for Women

Our latest collection of inspirational feminism quotes to make you feel empowered.

Throughout history, women have been battling against patriarchy and a predominately misogynic society. Women have banded together to fight for their right to vote, combat discrimination, disband rape culture and portrayal in the media, and reprimand crimes against the female gender.

Feminists have won some great victories, but the battle for gender equality has evolved into a powerful movement with ambitious feminists leading the charge.

It takes a courageous person to fight injustices and speak up for what is right. When you need to fuel your feminist flame, read these 50 feminism quotes to feel empowered.

50 Feminism quotes about empowerment and equality for women