Malu

on YT everyone’s like: “amazing!!! one of the most talented artists of our time!”

The notion that women didn't meaningfully work outside of the home before the 60s is weird and sexist, but it is also classist as fuck.

Women have always been in the workplace. Women often worked jobs that were extremely dangerous, where they were horrifically taken advantage of – not only because they were women, but also because an awful lot of them were factory workers. The image that people have of women in the early 1900s happily staying home to nurture children is a fiction that only makes sense if you completely forget about the existence of poor people.

Basically, a lot of truckers feel VERY attached to their trucks, to the point where it's common for truckers to refer to them as their "first baby".

So, knowing this, this trucker's wife organised a photoshoot where her husband's "first baby" got to meet his "second baby". Kind of like those pregnancy photoshoots with dogs?

I've always had the opinion that Brother Bear is a better film than Brave in terms of "human transforms into a bear in order to experience a stronger bond with someone" films. And upon rewatch I still believe that. Don't get me wrong, Brave is probably a stronger film structurally- but it's so much of an emptier story. And Brother Bear isn't perfect either (the film drags in its inclusion of comedians taking away from the pathos of the brothers), but especially from a "let's look at this media through a nature perspective" Brother Bear is a stronger piece of fiction in its portrayal of nature vs humans.

Brave's inclusion of bears is purely as a stand in for "powerful evil mindless monster". The comedy is getting a lady like queen to inhabit this "brutish form" or the silliness of three rambunctious little brothers to transform into bear cubs. But the twist that an ancient prince was transformed into a bear relies on the belief that bears are evil violent creatures. That this prince from earlier in the story had lost his humanity- and soon the queen will too. The conflict is resolved when the evil creature is killed, and the human soul trapped within it can move on.

Meanwhile Kenai starts Brother Bear with these very assumptions. He thinks it's ridiculous that his totem symbolizing love takes the form of a bear. "They don't think, they don't feel" he says. His needless murder of a bear (who was never at fault for his brother's death) is punished. Kenai as the rambunctious youngest brother, is suddenly placed as the protective older brother of a bear cub (Koda). Through this he gains a radically different perspective on nature and creatures he once assumed were mindless brutes. There's such a special touch in the moment he learns that bears know about The Spirits. Even once Kenai learns his lesson, he knows Koda won't survive without his mom. And so he takes the form of the life he needlessly took away.

Keep up the good fight, AO3 writers

Things when bad: kids and children are involved!

Just look around: A housing shortage, crime, pollution; we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there’s work to be done.

So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs? It’s a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs, a world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business.