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Miss Piggy's response to misogyny and fatphobia is physical violence and I think we should all take something from that

actually sooooo fucking annoying how good of a character jaime lannister is. most pathetic obnoxious bratty guy. he canonically peaked at 19. and yet he really is the goat. "there are no men like me" fuck OFFFF WHY ARE YOU RIGHT

i like when fiction treats love as a more complicated force and not something that is inherently pure or redemptive. portray it as flawed and complex as any other human impulse. give me love as prejudice, love as possessive stasis, love as addiction, love as blindness, etc.

at that, i find it disingenuous to frame it as “if the person hurt you they could not have loved you. that is not love.” just not a productive definition of the word to me

In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio called Tybalt "Prince of Cats" because there was a book, popular at the time, with a cat prince named Tybalt in it. He was making a pop culture reference. Therefore, I move, that in a modern Romeo and Juliet retelling, Tybalt should be named Garfield.

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

ever since streaming inflated the tv market in the late 2000s and into the 2010s, we have culturally switched from valuing quality to quantity in our shows and a monocultural virality model where every single show must immediately do mega numbers or get mega cancelled. since then, the public has lost the art of differentiating between a well-written show with a bad budget (such as the x files or star trek) and a poorly written show with a good budget (stranger things, house of the dragon, yellowjackets, etc). but the writing in a relatively cheap show will always stand the test of time whereas high production value for a badly written show will only fool the public for a couple seasons before it eventually fails to suffice for a bland nonsensical story that is miserable to watch

brienne's truly pathetic crush leads her down the funniest thought spirals... "jaime did this incredibly kind and sincere thing out of the kindness of his heart" okay. true. "it was probably a mean joke..... except that he would never do that" girl he would