#class discrimination

Like, the Fuck, Odachii?

You won’t even let us see the face of the woman who gave birth to Shanks?

But given the current political climate, I think this is apt! To people like Garling, women and, by extension, children are nothing but property.

If he treated the mother of his children like this, no wonder he would’ve tried to win Shakky in a competition like she was a brood mare.

Look here, ladies, and even the men of this world.

One Piece is your periodic reminder that in a dystopian world you as an individual are seen as nothing but “bodies” to be used for the pleasure of powerful men, bodies to be exploited for labour, and then for people with wombs to become “host bodies” for incubating babies. Even if you think you are protected because you gave birth to your overlord’s children, you are still a slave, a replaceable biological device, just like what Garling did to Shanks’ mom! He never saw her as his life mate or loving mother of their children but as a sex slave who gave birth to “his children”, like the womb she is! She was simply a medium to an end!

Every woman, man, and child who is not born to the top 1% is a potential slave to the power-hungry men’s greed.

We already saw what happened to Fisher Tiger, Ginny, the Boa Sisters, Caimie, Jinbei, and Jean Bart: it doesn’t matter how strong or influential you are; you are an object to be bought, raped, used and killed after you have satisfied their boredom. And it never ends; there is always a new target. There is always a new shiny human they want to rape. Hence, they came for Shakky because she was a free woman, living life on her terms and choosing to love on her terms. The very idea of a woman choosing to live and love on her own terms makes the celestial dragons want to enslave her. Because how dare you? How dare you rise above your station as men’s property?

I think we cannot distil it any more than this; exerting one’s will over another is about control. Power is power.

And given how right-wing media has fuelled red-pill content, this arc came at the right time!

Shanks kill Garling, okay? You must avenge your faceless mother’s death.

This is my hate blog, I have THOUGHTS about Harry Potter and I WILL SHARE THEM. It's not my fault JK Rowling is an infected boil on the ass of humanity.

Okay so the thoughts.

SNAPE was from the North right...like he's quite obviously from a depressed mill town in the North of England, which means his accent would've been northern (if you don't know what that is think Chris Eccleston's Doctor from Doctor Who). Also since Harry's mum and Snape were friends as kids she too would've had a northern accent, and fucking Petunia.

This was a very poor depressed area of England, very working class, and then mills started shutting down in the 60s and 70s meaning a lot of poverty. This is the area of England that birthed the Punk counterculture and the anarchy that came with it.

Also we see from the brief glimpses of Snape's childhood that JK gives us some of this poverty and the trauma and abuse it birthed.

So like realistically Snape could've been a punk!

Also, this opens the mind to the possibility that the reason Lily never viewed Snape as a romantic interest is because he was poor and she, just like her sister, was looking to move up the class ladder a bit which is why she landed on rich boy Potter.

And Potter WAS the rich boy, for American's think of the preppy Lacross captain at your local private school. Just old fucking money and idealism all wrapped up in one douche-tastic package.

Which makes me think like why is he so hell bent on "equal right's" like what do Potter and their wealthy ilk understand of poverty and inequality. Like they're so totally the fake "woke" ass hats right.

So here's the thing.

JK Rowling was poor, but she didn't see herself as a working class person, she saw herself as upper class which means that in her story the rich people are the heroes!

Snape is a poor man, he goes from poverty stricken childhood to educated working class adult (teachers are working class) and he has to have a whole fucked up redemption arc that doesn't really absolve him of his abusiveness.

The Weasleys are the only truly poor people in the story and you get the sense that they're poor simply because Arthur's preferred profession is undervalued and also something that feels vaguely akin to anti Celtic and/or Catholic sterotyping but I can't be sure because I'm American and don't really understand the prejudices or lack their of against red-heads.

anyway someone else can be more thoughtful I'm just rambling but basically I think JK Rowling is a class traitor and a fucking cunt and she wanted to be rich and that fact is VERY apparent from the way she treated the classes in her books. Like she TRIES to make the rich all evil but she can't do it... look at the empathy she builds for the Malfoy's (actually rich) vs the absolute lack there of for Voldemort (born poor).

and this is why you shouldn't just stop reading shit because it's problematic because conversations about class, the aspirations of the author, and it's affect on literature are important to have and we need to dig into this shit and discuss it.

How many struggling adults who are just trying to get to work so they can have enough money to barely pay rent and maybe eat sometimes warrant the MTA wasting all their precious advertising space on lecturing us about care evasion?

Got to watch Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite last night and several scenes from the film reminded me of this painting 'Undone' that I had created some time ago.

I saw his 2013 Snowpiercer when it was first released and thought while there were revisits of social issues concerning class discrimination in Parasite, the latter was way more provoking and compelling in revealing the complexities relating to greed and class struggles.

I enjoyed the movie's very dark comedic portrayal of an issue that has always been prevalent in our society. Go catch it when you get a chance and tell me if you like it.

“I judged Chuck based on his paycheck - I concluded he’s wasting his life, the truth is what am I doing? Like...there was this guy in school that had a bumper stick that said ‘Guy who dies with the most toys wins’. That’s what I’m doing, that’s my plan for happiness, it sounds so pathetic to say it out loud.”

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