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Ain't even surprised at this point

THIRTY TWO??????

And if the Bechdel test is a relatively old example, this is a phenomenon that keeps cropping up. "Some artifacts in museums were stolen or looted, with colonialism and racism providing a cover for acts that in other circumstances we'd easily recognize as criminal" has become "all museums are piles of loot and stealing from them is righteous even it it's to melt the artwork down and funnel the profits to organized crime." "Zoos sometimes abuse their animals and the goal should be to reintroduce specimens to the wild" has become "open all the cages and let the animals out (to spaces where they will almost certainly die/be killed to stop them killing people)". "Ethnic foods are sometimes treated as more palatable, and sold for more money, when they're marketed by white people" has become "people should only prepare and eat food from their own ethnicity". Again and again, it feels like these ideas that were meant to make us think, to pause a moment and notice the unspoken assumptions and elisions that exist in our world, have been turned into catchphrases that shut down thought. I think the reason that happens is that people enjoy the feeling of righteousness that comes from calling out institutions like museums or the film industry, but along the way you can become just as dogmatic and tunnel-visioned as the bodies you were calling out.

I'm not saying this to tear down the adaptation, or the broader point that the above post is making, but I do think there's a secondary point to take away about how willing we often are to see people talking about gender/race/sexuality-based issues in fiction as ignorant. Even when we basically agree with the notion that sometimes fiction contains offensive stereotypes or tropes! It's still so tempting to let a rando's incorrect "that's factually wrong" win out because we buy into that narrative. "Newsflash. dipshit" sounds great, but witchofbonnechere isn't a dipshit, at least about this.

The bar is so low for people that if two female characters speak to each other ONCE about something other than a man, that makes the entire story a feminist tract.

(also to be clear I ADORE 2025 Frankenstein. I'm writing fanfic for it and I do broadly consider del toro to be a pretty decent filmmaker re: feminism. I'm just also aware of its...not shortcomings, I would say, because Elizabeth's and Claire's isolation in a world of men has a Point. but more what it does have, representation-wise, and what it doesn't)

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

amazing things happening in late series columbo episodes

why do i end up sitting straight up in my sleep. ignore how many blankets I use.

NOT WHEN ITS 2 DAYS AWAY

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

Gameboy peripheral PediSedate was designed for dentists and dosed kids with nitrous oxide as they played games.

happy pride month from the tribbles