#misogeny

I’m gonna be honest, I dropped this series for a couple of years and I did after watching “the circus. “ to me making Stella evil since birth just so Stolas can be let off the hook (rather than having an interesting and nuanced situation where maybe both characters are imperfect) just felt like such a BAD writing choice. Every now and then, the writing kindaaaa reeks of…misogyny maybe? Regarding Stella and the way she’s written so Stolas can be an uwu innocent gay bean. Keep in mind, I LIKE Stolas, I just wished this part of the story had been written better.

Anyway, I actually got back into it because someone told me that Striker came back again so. I guess if Stella didn’t put a hit on her husband, striker wouldn’t exist so silver lining

Edit:and let me add-it’s not like I don’t like Stella at all. I like her, she IS a funny villain and her toxicity kinda amuses me tbh. I love seeing women crash out. I think despite the bad writing, the VA’s performance REALLY saves her, but I also feel irked by where said writing is coming from and the fact that we COULD have had better.

1. is she boring, or are you saying that because she’s a girl?

2. is she annoying, or are you saying that because she’s a girl?

3. is she a bully/overly aggressive, or are you saying that because she’s a girl?

4. is she a crybaby/overly sensitive, or are you saying that because she’s a girl?

Like Elliot literally admits to his captain’s face that he dropped the ball on a case specifically because he was imagining his daughter in the place of the person who wound up being the perp, and that *Olivia’s* objectivity is what saved the case… and yet Captain Cragen is SO NICE and understanding about it??? And reassures him that feeling things in the sex crimes division is okay—it’s when you STOP feeling things that you have to be worried—but yet the same man literally threatened Olivia Benson with losing her JOB in the pilot for essentially the same reason??

Obviously, I know there’s a double-standard at play, so this isn’t “news,” but still???

How did none of the writers realize that within the first five episodes of the show, they blatantly demonstrated that Stabler gets a free “pass” for getting emotionally involved in cases for personal reasons, while in the pilot (literally ONLY FOUR EPISODES EARLIER) Olivia is told there is only one “get out of jail free” card in the pack, and treated like a bad cop for being emotionally involved in a WAR CRIMES case where the “victim” by all accounts deserved what he got?!!?!? Like.. what???

Me(40M, omega, he/him) and my wife(42F, alpha, she/her) recently went on a 2 week vacation to the Bahamas without our daughter(17F, omega, she/her).

Our daughter is very self sufficient, and very obedient so my wife and I weren’t too concerned about leaving an omega alone during our trip since we would check the front and back door cctv every once in a while.

Well after we booked into our hotel, I decided to check the cctv while my wife went to fill the bathtub, and lo and behold there were a few people at our door. They’re my daughter’s friends and after she let them in I closed the cctv tab.

A few hours later my daughter called me and she was hysterical and sobbing and I could barely make out what she said. I called my wife over and she managed to calm her down. My wife put the call on loud speaker so I could listen in on the call, my jaw dropped as I listen to my daughter confess that she was in heat because she hadn’t been taking her repressants and had invited her alpha friends to knot into her. My wife calmly tells her to take my plan B pills that I keep next to my bedside drawer and then she’ll get a stern talk once we get home.

My daughter then proceeded to tell her that she planned to keep the baby but none of the alphas she slept with was willing to claim the baby, I blew it and I told her how ashamed I was that as an omega, I didn’t instilled the values of a good omega into my daughter like I thought I had and various other things I don’t remember.

My wife proceeded to use her alpha voice to shut me up because “shaming” my daughter isn’t going to solve anything and how it’s my fault I threw away her knot toys when I was cleaning her room and that we’re booking the first flight back home.

In my last rant about British politics I discussed the Tory move to the right and highlighted the United Nations concerns regarding increased police powers and the threat that poses to our democracy.

We all know that the Metropolitan police have been found to be “institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic.”  Now we have direct evidence that Leicestershire Police also has misogynistic questions to answer after the appalling way it has treated Labour MP Stella Creasy.

Ms Creasy was subject to an investigation by local social services because they had received a complaint from a man claiming Ms Creasy’s "extreme views” were a threat to her children because they might adopt her beliefs,  and they needed to be taken into care for their own protection.

A safe-guarding review was carried out by a panel of people from social services, the police and schools, and the complaint was dismissed as being completely unfounded. The panel then contacted Ms Creasy because they thought she and her children might be at risk from the complainant.

The man in question had never met Ms Creasy or her children. This man, who used an alias, was contacted by Leicestershire Police, and was given an informal warning and a community resolution after it was found the man had repeatedly emailed Ms Creasy’s office, angered by her “man-hating" politics.

Ms Creasy now has a social services record that cannot be legally deleted from the files. To add insult to injury, Leicestershire Police said the man was  “legally entitled" to express concerns to social services and that she should "expect to be challenged" because she is a woman MP in the public eye.

In short, Leicestershire Police have sanctioned the weaponising of the threat to have your children taken away from you if someone disagrees with your views. How can there be free speech if women with something to say can be subject to misogynistic trolls?

Have we really reached the point in this country where the police accept attempts by intolerant individuals to have peoples children taken into social care simply because they do not agree with the views of the mother? What if you don’t like the beliefs of the father? Will the police sanction similar complaints against male MP’s?

As Ms Creasy said:

“The normal reaction would be utter horror at the suggestion my children should be taken away because someone disagrees with my views.”