“sex positivity” was a mistake. it’s not being utilized in a way that lets people (especially young girls, people of color and lgbt people) have proper access to information about sex and STDs, consent, or rape culture but instead it just promotes a “fuck whoever you want whenever you want and never think about the consequences!” mindset. it leads to a lot of minors making god awful decisions and then regretting them later with nothing they can do about it. it leads to “being open about your kinks is progressive!!!!” which in turn ends up with men pressuring women into violent sex and saying that if she was a #Real sex positive feminist, then she’d have sex with him how he wants her to.
sex positivity should’ve been used to promote education of safe sex, to lessen stigma around sex (especially between sga and trans individuals), to give sex workers a voice, to spread proper information about STDs and prevention and treatment, and to teach about rape culture and consent. but as with most movements like this all it ended up being was a red lipstick and black heels “fuck the patriarchy” type thing while doing literally nothing progressive! and of course i’m not saying there’s nobody who does this, but with the way the sex positivity movement has gone, i doubt these people have the energy to try and have a loud enough voice in a community spewing the opposite of the message that should be gotten across.
@aymaabdullahmalik in general, i tend to dislike hinata’s character type (meek, fairly helpless, overall tends to rely on pity to glide through life) but that wasn’t necessarily enough of a reason for me to completely despise her. in the end, the thing that really did it for me was how the fans treated her. despite not being a very prominent character back when i was reading it, every time i went on a forum all the comments would be like “when is hinata coming back” and “hinata is so cute wwwaaa i love hinata” which just became super grating after a while. i didn’t think she deserved all of the attention, and that made me really despise her.
Thanks for your opinion 😆 It’s nice to hear an outsiders opinion without it being clouded with their own biasness!!
Yeah I get what your going with. I don’t really hate Hinata but the way her fans love to wank her WHILE simultaneously dragging Sakura down? Got me a little pissed.
Everywhere I went to search about people opinion on Naruto all I read was: “ Hinata is so pretty!! Unlike that flat-chested big foreheaded pink bitch!!” “ Hinata is so kind!! Unlike that useless pink trash who does nothing but cry!!” “ Hinata is so fucking powerful!! Unlike sakura who can’t even compare!!” And let’s not forget the best one!! “ Hinata is the heroine unlike Sakura”
Honestly these Comments made me really hate hina-wankers( I mean not all of them are like that but still) all their arguments show that they never read the story at ALL!!
Like sakura isn’t flat-chested, she is one of the females that has been called beautiful countless times, Sakura is also one of the kindest Characters and like improved so much!! She became the most powerful konuichi in the world!! And kishi called her the heroine all the time!!
Their is absolutely nothing wrong with liking a character but one shouldn’t go dissing another to make your fav shine!!
I don’t hate Hinata I really don’t! But her fanbase is just too much
( Sorry for ranting here 😌😌)
This is really pertinent to the issues of fandom. Adulating a favourite character doesn’t need to be done at the expense of another character, especially when it involves absurd grounds of debasement like one’s physical attributes.
I confess I’m no Hinata lover. But casting aside my subjective appraisal as well as the vitriol spouted by Hinata zealots, a number of criticisms can be made with considerable objectivity.
First of all, Hinata is a a clear embodiment of a female character modelled as an object of chauvinistic male fantasy. Generous amounts of cleavage and a docile demeanour: commodifying a female couldn’t be any more blatant. The most vociferous fans of Hinata aren’t fans in a honourable sense – they fetishize her.
Secondly, the argument that Hinata’s lack of self confidence should elicit sympathetic response, not callous contempt, is rather flimsy since Hinata’s demure nature isn’t an individualising stamp that seeks to delineate her personality by itself by centring focus exclusively on her and her only. It is an attribute that defines her with reference to Naruto. It seeks to use her as props to accentuate a particular characteristic of Naruto. If you carefully consider the two most important scenes featuring Hinata, one in the chunin prelims and the other during Pain’s invasion, you’ll find a similar pattern. In both the instances, her function is to provide impetus for drastic character development of Naruto. Note that it doesn’t effect any enduring change in her personality (she’s hardly ever there for that to happen). She remains a static, one dimensional character.
This is, in fact, a classic rendition of casting a female as an other, a shadowy extension of the male ego. In other words, her essence (or lack thereof) is predicated upon Naruto’s presence. Eliminate Naruto from the scene and she becomes virtually irrelevant to the context. Now the plot unquestionably revolves around Naruto, but other MCs have well defined boundaries of the self that identifies them as discrete individuals owning distinctive personalities apart from their being inextricably entwined with the life of Naruto.
Lastly, the most recent factor responsible for a marked dislike of Hinata is the forceful superimposition of her character upon the post-war part of the story to magnify her importance in ways that haven’t been previously anticipated in the plot. In the most obvious cases, her character development actually invalidates (with amazing levels of absurdity, if I may add) what had been indisputable tenets of the story. Like disavowing Naruto’s feelings for Sakura. Hinata practically usurps the storyline, sidelining the real MCs and undermining their significance with wantonly contrived revisions.
I didn’t originally dislike her character. She had hardly merited concentrated focus before. Sure, she pandered to patriarchal tastes. But that was easily ignored with her thoroughly being a side character. But the shenanigans of the creators post-698 have assured my loathing for her.
And based on being unwilling to admit she HAD no plan, and WAS in fact just trying to bail everyone out and see how many, if any, survived. She didn’t ram the Supremacy until almost every escape pod had been destroyed. HOLDO caused the deaths of far, far more Resistance personnel and soldiers than Poe ever did. HOLDO let her vanity and vainglory get in the way of effective leadership – if the people ON THE BRIDGE, FUELING YOUR TRANSPORTS, are helping to organize a mutiny against you because your plan is bad and going to get them killed, that’s a bad plan.
Holdo’s entire action was based on wanting Leia to be proud of her, and not Poe, honestly. And granted: that’s a perspective we know that Poe can have, too, but what Poe wants more than anything else is to make sure the Resistance survives and the First Order is brought down without a chance of restarting the way the Empire did. Holdo mainly seems to want to be in charge and restart the New Republic that failed to stop the Empire’s roots to grow into the First Order in the first place, and she was unwilling to ACT against the First Order until what, twelve Rebels were left?
She could have saved all of those unarmed, unshielded escape pods if she’d rammed the Supremacy as soon as the last pod detached from the cruiser. But she didn’t, because she never planned to take any actual actions to stop the First Order. Holdo’s idea of resistance was so passive, so laissez-faire, that she might as well have been a First Order mole for all the good she did.
The difference between “the fire that will restore the Republic” and “the fire that will burn the First Order down” is immeasurable.
Holdo – quintessentially in a White Feminist move – wanted to “rebel” only as far as it restored her own place of power in the Galaxy as a Senator in the broken New Republic that ignored the growing threat of fascism until the NR itself was destroyed. (This New Republic she wants to restore being the same one that allowed slavery to flourish “in secret” across the Galaxy, allowed for poverty like that on Jakku, allowed for the immoral disparity of wealth and power on Cantonica).
In Bloodline, Holdo doesn’t stand up for Leia when Leia presents evidence that the First Order is a real threat. Why would Holdo have a ranking position in the Resistance when she didn’t think there was a need for it?? (BAD WRITING, THAT’S WHY. GODDAMMIT, STORYGROUP, WAS THIS NOT YOUR ENTIRE PURPOSE AS A THING? TO MAKE A STORY OF THIS SCOPE ACTUALLY MAKE NARRATIVE SENSE???)
In LPoA, Holdo’s “rebellion” doesn’t actually exist – she cares about people, specifically her own friends and the people for whom she is the Junior Senator, on Gatalenta. Holdo doesn’t really care about the good of the Galaxy. She cares about herself.
Poe doesn’t care about restoring the New Republic. The New Republic is who looked him in the face and said that deaths caused by the First Order didn’t matter – or didn’t exist. They were corrupt and complacent, and they refused to acknowledge that the ideals of the Empire had not actually died down. Their treatment of poor, disenfranchised Systems – those whom the Empire had most exploited, in some cases – caused those same Imperial ideals to take root again and blossom as an open secret. They allowed for the Centrists’ (literal) xenophobia to be communicated like a legitimate viewpoint, keeping some Imperial POVs mainstream when they could have been condemned. The New Republic did not deserve to be destroyed with Starkiller Base, but it also didn’t do enough good to warrant being restored as it was.
Poe cares about ending the First Order.
Holdo doesn’t.
If Holdo doesn’t care about preventing the tyranny of the First Order, then what exactly is she resisting…?
me: when determining whether or not a series fits into the magical girl genre, it’s important to differentiate between the theme of the individual characters and the theme of the overall story. while all of ikuhara’s works undeniably take inspiration from magical girl imagery, i’d only categorize utena and yurikuma as magical girl anime, and not penguindrum. the princess of the crystal is, by all means, a magical girl, evidenced by her extravagant outfit and henshin sequence, but she does not fit into a larger ensemble of magical girl characters. she is an example of a magical girl character in a series that cannot be defined as a magical girl series. similar instances of this can be found in series such as re:creators, concrete revolutio, and myriad colors phantom world. essentially, in order to exist in the magical girl genre, the protagonist herself must be a magical girl and the supporting cast ought to be predominantly female as well; ideally, the protagonist should exist as a member of some kind of “team” unified by common design motifs. but this beckons the question, how is the term “magical girl” defined? the first thing to understand is that its social connotations have changed greatly since the origination of the term in the 1960s. originally, the term was quite literal; a magical girl was just a girl who used magic, commonly interpreted as a witch. sally the witch, regarded as the first magical girl anime, further pronounced one important element; while a magical girl series obviously must contain fantastical elements, it cannot be defined as “high fantasy.” the common world that it exists in must be realistic in its unawareness of magical phenomena, often making secrecy a vital part of the magical girl experience. this definition would exclude titles such as little witch academia from the genre; despite the fact that little witch academia is a show about girls who use magic, it is not necessarily a “magical girl” show. in the same sense, series such as magic knight rayearth are considered “plays” on the magical girl genre simply for existing in an alternate dimension. by all accounts, a magical girl’s ability to exist in both the human and magical world is vitally important. this doesn’t mean that the world has to resemble our own, however. princess tutu, for example, exists in a fairytale-based world in which talking animals are commonplace. however, the main cast is still expected to keep their identities as power users a secret from others, if only to protect themselves from their enemies. it’s interesting to look at the genre through this lens, especially because i had always considered little witch academia to be a magical girl series without question, likely due to it’s peppy protagonist and emphasis on female friendship. with this in mind, another approach is to define the genre through imagery, but this can be dangerous as well. series such as panty and stocking or kill la kill utilize traditionally magical girl animation techniques such as henshin, exaggerated transformation scenes that are frequently repeated from episode to episode. while panty and stocking could certainly be classified as a parody of the magical girl genre, kill la kill is more tricky. the series does not just parody the magical girl genre specifically, it parodies tropes from a variety of anime genres. to call it a magical girl anime would be as accurate as calling it a shounen anime. this ultimately ties back to the point that i was making about penguindrum, namely that a series can use magical girl imagery and even have a magical girl as a character without actually fitting into the overall magical girl genre. what do you think?
my girlfriend: babe i love you but can you please go the fuck to sleep
one of my patients came in for an emergency visit, because she snapped the wire on her retainer watching the movie when MBJ took his shirt off she clenched her teeth so fucking hard she snapped it. that is the fucking funniest shit ever to me this tiny 17 year old girl thirsting so goddamn hard she busted steel
I’m someone who used to moderate for several of the “Sandsverse” blogs. I’m keeping my identity and main blog secret for the moment, since I’m not sure how the people behind the blogs will react to this information going public. I think it’s for the best, though, and I hope they understand.
I’ve seen the blogs become very popular and I know there are a lot of people who are curious about who runs them, what the idea behind them was, that kind of thing. I’ve kind of been sitting on this information for a while and I finally worked up the guts to post it.
Here goes.
I didn’t create those blogs, first of all, though I know (or used to know) who did. I just modded for them along with some friends for a while.
The people who created them were all these weird guys with really long tumblr usernames in foreign languages. I don’t remember any of their actual usernames (and even if I did, I’m not sure I’d want to put them here), but I remember copy-pasting one into google, and it was some kind of phrase in Akkadian or Assyrian or something. I think that one was the fruitsoftheape guy’s username. They were all pretty similar, so that’s the only one I tried.
At first they were really upfront about running the blogs (that’s how we met them, they used to have the “author portrait” thing turned on so you could just see the main blog of whoever made the posts) but they started being way more secretive once they got popular, said they wanted to be “professionals” about it.
The weird typing that the blogs use isn’t a gag; that’s how those guys talked literally all the time. I don’t think they spoke English very well, I remember the Seymour guy saying he was from central Turkey or something, not sure about the rest. Pretty sure most of them lived in the Middle East or eastern Europe, though. We never learned their real names, they insisted on being called by the animal blog character names.
Anyway, we were in a Skype chat with all of them for like a year or two. They’d be on there literally all the time, 18 or 20 hours a day, arguing with each other about the most banal shit. Running the blogs for/with them was super fun, but these guys were unbelievably annoying; they had these absolutely inscrutable political views, like weird internet monarchists times a million, and they’d always get into fights over, like, the Arian heresy or the Minoans. Just really bizarre, specific shit that I had never heard of before that they were weirdly invested in.
Their politics were a big part of why we eventually started to lose interest. It never felt like these guys were seriously malicious, but it was just… uncomfortable, like a bad joke that they never gave up on. They were so strange and so earnest about everything that we started to feel like we were taking advantage of them, like they weren’t in on the joke. I don’t think they ever referred to the blogs as being joke blogs, humor blogs, or anything like that, ever. They were super serious about it.
I should mention that me and my friends only constituted a few of the many people these guys had enlisted to take care of their blogs for them. We were the main ones, kind of like officers, since we had been doing it for the longest, but they’d constantly bring in new people seemingly at random. I have no idea how they managed to keep it all under control. I guess nobody could think of anything more weird and troll-ish than the type of stuff they told us to post in the first place, so nobody messed around with them.
We were going to back out eventually anyway, but around late 2016 they started relying super heavily on us, giving us their passwords for all sorts of services that they apparently were too lazy to take care of themselves, even going as far as their bank accounts.
Around then, we realized that there was something seriously weird and even potentially illegal going on. They’d ask us to make massive purchases of random shit all the time, literally thousands of dollars a day, from all these shady websites. It was mostly military surplus type stuff and building materials like marble and granite. They were spending so much money and acting so weird in general that we kind of freaked out, backed out of everything one day, and blocked them on everything. It was like some Tommy Wiseau type stuff and we just didn’t want to be involved, it was honestly pretty terrifying.
I don’t have any records of the Skype conversations we had, but there were tons of other people in that group chat. I’m going to try to get in contact with them and see if they have anything saved. For all I know they might still be in contact with these guys.
Words can’t express our devastation, fury, and sorrow. Our hearts break thinking of the lives that will go unlived, and the families left behind.
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Where do we go from here?
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Tens of thousands of people will be killed by guns before we can wrest control of Congress from the gun lobby. Many hundreds will be students sheltering in classrooms. But change is possible.
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Thanks staff! But if you’re so against the violent behavior of America’s criminally insane, why don’t you stop giving a platform to Nazis and pedophiles?
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