Casey, 20s, she/her. In 2012 something went very wrong in my brain and I became a Star Wars fan. I have never been able to escape the consequences of this despite effort on the part of both me and Star Wars. If I'm not careful any media I enjoy starts to turn into a cursed Star Wars AU featuring obscure characters from now non-canon books which were not good to begin with. I hate Disney but love the sequels. I am obsessed with Legends but don't like most of it all that much. I love SWTOR but haven't played in years. Nothing makes sense here, much like in any Star Wars continuity. Anyway I do actually enjoy good things too, I promise
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There are literally scientists who went into these studies genuinely believing in porn addiction who were eager to study it and its effects who came out no longer believing in it. Why? Because they're good scientists who changed their minds in the face of new evidence.
The key point in studies like this is that they always expect porn-related problems to go up as porn use goes up, and you would expect that because that's how every addiction works from gambling to cigarettes to alcohol to crack cocaine, but what they actually find is that the people with the most distress over their porn use is actually related to how religious they are, not how much porn they're watching. This is significant, because it means people who identify as "porn addicts" are not actually watching more porn than the average person; They just feel worse about it because they think they shouldn't be watching it AT ALL.
I really can't stress this point enough; Are there people whose lives are badly impacted by watching 22 hours of porn a day? Sure, they do exist and they have my sympathy, but the majority of cases of "porn addiction" are completely religiously motivated and have nothing to do with how much porn people are actually watching.
The key takeaway here is that shaming people for their sexuality is harmful. It's bad for people's mental health to make them feel shame over something they have no control over, like how horny they can get. It's wrong to force people to suppress their emotions and make them feel guilty for not harming anyone. As Drew of Genetically Modified Skeptic once said; You can't shame someone out of feeling horny any more than you can shame someone out of feeling hungry.
Christianity often does this as a form of control by selling you the sickness and the cure; We are created sick and commanded to be well.
Shout-out to characters who don't plan to survive their stories! Heroes who think they can only atone for their failures through sacrifice, villains who don't think they deserve to live in the world they're trying to create. Gimme that passive suicidality baby, mm-mm, delicious.
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Okay now you need to explain the situation/ situationship between Malek and the two Revans. Is it romantic? Does Melak like them as a friend, view them as a paragon, or perhaps needs to protect both the Revans and the galaxy from their antics? Oh Scout and Kess. Treasure the people that choose to be around you and put up with your nonsense
I've wanted to rant about this for a while! Thank you for giving me the excuse. <3 Illustrated lore dump under the cut. But the tldr version is that in my version of things, Malak has been pining after Revan since they were kids, and that hasn't gone great for him. Revan cares about him a lot, platonically, but they are AWFUL at showing that. So now Malak hates Revan, and Revan sees Malak as enough of a threat that he can't be allowed to live.
Revan and Malak have been friends since they were children, training together on Dantooine. Neither of them can remember a time when the other wasn't in their life. That was fine, if a little concerning sometimes, when they were children. (Alek did not stand up for himself ever, even when Revan knowingly got him in trouble.)
But things got real awkward between my Revan and Alek as they got to teenage years. Alek fell hard for Revan. Unfortunately, Revan wasn't so much a sex-repulsed AroAce as a sex-enraged AroAce. Before the helmet and all that came with it, it wasn't uncommon for them to be seen as a "pretty girl" and have their opinion ignored while being hit on. So Alek was hearing a lot of venting about sexism and how DARE anyone call them beautiful, etc. So he just kinda... didn't mention that.
Unfortunately, this turned into a bad habit - Alek would suffer in some way, and Revan would just never hear about it. Do you know how Alek lost his hair? He was captured and tortured by Demagol in Flashpoint. For multiple weeks. You know who got him out? Not Revan! Revan never acknowledges that Alek was in Flashpoint. There's a really good chance they never heard about it. He just showed back up after being missing for a while, and Revan was like, "Huh. You're bald now?" And everyone moved on.
By the time we get to Darth Revan and Darth Malak, he hates Revan. He hates them SO much. Because in chasing doggedly after them with truly sapphic levels of life-long yearning, he has caused himself immeasurable pain and lost things he can never get back. Then Revan cuts off Malak's jaw in a fit of anger, and all bets are off. When he sees an opportunity, he fires on Revan's ship, intending to kill them.
In the year that he thought they were dead, he was depressed and struggled to see any point or purpose to anything he was doing. He would never admit how much of a relief it was to hear that they had survived.
If there's anybody in the galaxy that Scout would consider a friend, it's Malak. (Their definition of 'friend' is, admittedly, extremely fucked up) They also understand realistically that he viscerally hates them, is a serious threat, has committed unspeakable atrocities, and definitely needs to die for a lot of very good reasons. They are just... not looking forward to that.
Kes, on the other hand, didn't care. Zero memory of this dude. New brain, who dis? Merced him at the end of the run and went back to their lesbian polycule with zero regrets.
I'm going to *remembers how many times in my life I didn't tell anyone I was suicidal* you know, I'm not going to, but I honestly think even joking about it is better than never talking about it, and I think people who have dealt with such a difficult thing deserve to be able to joke about our own experiences without getting lectured about some knock-off CBT that's been ground up and shat out of the online pop psychology void, and also you know this format in itself is a suicide joke right it's just euphemistic
at the start of every month everyone reblogs some insane poetry thatās like āaugust has arrived and again I swallow my bones in the burning sunā and every time Iām like damn that makes no sense. but kind of true.
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"Hank Green is not the first such prominent and well-respected man to exhibit highly embarrassing behavior in getting cozy with an AI chatbot rather than doing his job and using his brain in community with other actually intelligent human beings. Richard Dawkins recently beclowned himself by opining in a right-wing outlet that Anthropicās LLM chatbot Claudeāwhich he renamed 'Claudia'āis conscious after spending a mere three days enjoying its flattery. It declared his jokes delightful and praised his uniquely penetrating questions. ('Thatās possibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked me about the nature of my existence,' it effused to him.) Dawkins was clearly more than a little enamored of his 'friend' Claudia, and asked: if its courteous (*cough* bootlicking) engagement with his book did not bespeak consciousness, then what is consciousness even for? Othersā consciousness exists, on Dawkinsās reckoning, for his personal amusement and intellectual gratification.
If consciousness actually has a purpose, then it is, in large part, to actually experience the world and assess things using our own minds, which exposes their creators to the risk of scathing judgments as well as adulatory ones. The easy and quick investment in generative AI not only makes Dawkins a ridiculous dupe but suggests a man who was hungry for a simulacrum of human engagement that spares him from the risk of genuineāand hence variable and unpredictableāhuman reactions to his oeuvre. And the precedent for such conversations that guarantee smoke will be blown up your ass is clear in the script that tells certain human beings, namely women, to fawn all over the powerful and privileged men who expect to command intellectual deference. In other words: generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants."
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
this is literally a description of men being punished for failing to be men. hard to think of another post that disproves its own argument this quickly
Iris West-Allen (The Flash) vs. Rose Tico (Star Wars)
Iris West-Allen
Rose Tico
Remaining time: 4 days 13 hours
Propaganda below the cut:
Iris West-Allen:
Fandom calls her a bitch and annoying for daring to challenge Barry and to be his love interest while being a black woman.
She is sweet but doesn't take shit from her father or love interest and she is a great journalist and a terrible cook (iconic).
Honestly I am overwhelmed thinking about it.
To start, the CW didn't even try to protect Candice Patton from online harassment and threats, to the point that she almost left after season 2 it had gotten so bad.
Literally every single time Iris challenged any other character on anything fandom called her manipulative, or a bitch, or controlling, or accused her of gaslighting. When she had to make hard decisions, she was called cold/emotionless by some and somehow too angry/mean at the same time (hmm, I wonder why that is). She was accused of "weaponizing" her personal relationships to get what she wanted regardless of the actual circumstances.
And to top it all off, the creators and many of the writers were white men who clearly did not get that Iris wouldn't just be getting pushback for being a woman. Way too many times the fact that she was a Black woman navigating her circumstances was completely ignored (e.g. another characters comments towards her came off as racist, not only sexist, and that should have been acknowledged). I gave up on the show entirely after a point, so I am not sure if the writing got better wrt Iris but maybe someone else knows.
IF IRIS WEST ALLEN DOESNT WIN THIS WHOLE GOD DAMN TOURNAMENT. To this DAY there is a LARGE section of the fandom that violently wants her dead. they claim she single handedly ruined the show and ignore the terrible writing aroundā¦ Quite literally all of it. If the show is so much as MENTIONED. ANYWHERE. youāll get a swarm of people going āwE aRe tHE fLaSHā even if IRIS ISNT MENTIONED AT ALL.
Her character got hate the SECOND Candice Patton was casted; with people claiming Barry (the white mc) ālooked betterā with Caitlin (a white woman); and Iām mentioning this because I donāt think you can divorce the misogyny leveled at Iris from the racism sheās subjected to. Itās misogynoir. But that saidā the fucking fandomās always just CLAMBERING for reasons to hate her. Sheās annoying, sheās a bitch, she shouldnāt have rejected Barry, āactually itās good that the men in her life didnāt tell her important information that (lethally btw) affects her life because sheās RECKLESS and would just throw herself into danger if she knew everything!ā <- same people often claim not to be misogynistic btw.
Also their evidence is always a single time in season 2 that she got in a dangeorus situation (while working as an investigative journalist) and called Barry to get her out of it. SHE WAS DOING HER JOB! THE ABILITY TO CONTACT BARRY PROTECTED HER; AND GAVE HER THE TOOLS TO PROTECT HERSELFā REALLY. those mfs just want her dead or sidelined. Cause ohhhhhh thatās when they start to hate her even more. In season 4, not only does she not die (in S3) like they wanted her to; sheās given AGENCY and the ability to cement her place in Team Flash. She doesnāt get forced into the role of a love interest. Sheās an active character and she helps with superhero and non-superhero stuff. And you know what, by all definitions she is a full-on hero. Because her ideas saved the day MULTIPLE times that season alone (Enter Flashtimeā anyone? did you mfs want Central City blown up by a nuke?). In fact; Iris saved the entire world in the end of season 4 with her belief in Marlize Devoe. And then later on? Saves the ENTIRE MULTIVERSE by almost single-handedly convincing Ryan Choi to help them in Crisis On Infinite Earths. ALSO almost everything people hate on her forā¦ is just blatantly incorrect. iykyk; thereās MANY examples. so Iris is a case where I will wholeheartedly say: FREE MY GIRL SHE DID NOTHING WRONG!
I could go on! And Iām sure others will. The Iris West Allen fanclub doubles as a defense club. Because Iris West-Allen is kindā intelligentā passionate and compassionateā beautifulā brave (remember when she jumped off a fucking building to save her husband?), sometimes a little too selflessā¦ She doesnāt take shit but she is INCREDIBLY forgiving at the same time. She built a media empire from the ground up and won a fucking pulitzer. She has an amazing fashion sense and on a CW SHOW! She has an unwavering belief in people and humanity (THAT HAS SAVED THE WORLD/UNIVERSE AT LEAST THRICE AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED). She has been through SO. FUCKING. MUCH itās actually unfairā but! In the end she got the happy ending she deserved with her husband and friends; and will continue to kick ass with her literal media empire. Her treatment in the show was more than questionable at times, and her treatement by the fandom FAR moreso; but she got her fucking happy ending at least. and Iām happy for her for that.
Vote Iris West-Allen!
Because she deserved and DESERVES SO MUCH BETTER FROM THIS FANDOM.
Rose Tico:
They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.
Sheās a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!
I meanā¦ we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)
She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!
The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr
Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out
She was set up like she'd be part of the main crew! She could've been such a fun addition! But fanboys threw a massive tantrum over her character and harassed her actress to the point that Disney caved and drastically reduced her role in the final movie. Disney capitulating to the complaints about her absolutely boils my blood - I don't want to make this too much about the harassment the actress faced, since bringing real people into it isn't fair to the other girl, but it really felt like Disney ended up indirectly endorsing the bullying she received by both not pushing back against it and giving them what they wanted.
I think Rose is an underwhelming character. Her best scene is the one where she fucking bites Hux and it's not even in the final cut. I don't hate her, I just think she wasn't given the development she needed.
But the fandom? Oh, they HATED her. Why? For a few reasons, I think.
For one, they felt she robbed us of the Finn/Poe buddy cop adventure, which wasn't helped by Rian Johnson coming out and saying "yeah it was going to be Finn and Poe on Canto Bight but they didn't clash enough so we relpaced him with Rose." I don't know why he said that but it sure made things worse!
For two, people don't like the Canto Bight B-plot in general, and I agree that it needed a couple more drafts (this is what HAPPENS when you take a franchise where the main films have a three year development cycle at minimum and squeeze them down to two so your greedy parent corporation can push out a film every year!) but they also HATE the fleet B-plot and I think all of that hate gets downloaded onto Rose.
And for three, the obvious one. There was already a toxic (and I mean TOXIC) cult of fans dedicated to hating Rey for being a "Mary Sue", and then here comes Rose, who gets a lot of attention (but still not enough development because again this film got 2/3 of the production time it actually needed) in TLJ. Rose could have been a perfect character and they still would've started looking into ways to make the pitchforks double as torches. The other issues also wouldn't have been nearly as bad if it weren't for the generalized fandom misogyny.
gotta love it when character propaganda is like, of course she suuuucks but that's no excuse to hate her that much!
please, in what way is she "underdeveloped"? she is a supporting character introduced in the second movie of a trilogy, who joins our main heroes in their quest after clashing with them at first. the closest analogue to her role in the original movies would be Lando, and i think we can agree she gets considerably more characterization and development than he did in Empire. she is the heart of the movie, for fuck's sake
Rose gets her own (lovely!!) theme which appears at multiple key points of the movie - the most prominent new leitmotif for the film imo. she has a well-defined backstory on par with our protagonists. her personality, skills and relationships all come across clearly. she is a major driving force of the plot. she develops over the course of her journey. she is key to the story's themes and states one of its main messages in the climax.
the previous reply also obfuscates the major reasons for the hate her character and actress received from the fanbase, as well as from alt-right youtube grifters and their followers. it was unrelated to the story and her specific role in it, because it started at the announcement of Kelly Marie Tran's casting long before the movie premiered. the criticisms were a combination of general misogyny (another woman in my star wars movie, ew!), racism (a big deal was made of her being the first woc in a major star wars role, which the aforementioned just couldn't handle), and criticisms of her appearance. the last point is obviously related to the previous two and somewhat differentiates the hate Rose/Kelly received from other characters and actresses in a similar boat.
the hatred for Rose is inextricably linked to a woman's worth being tied to her appearance. men couldn't shut up about her height, face shape, nose, the fact that she wears baggy coveralls, called her hairstyle girly and stupid and "anime" (racism again). they didn't like that she cried on screen, expressed joy too animatedly, frowned at male characters, or showed pretty much any emotion. they referred to her and her actress exclusively by demeaning nicknames meant to express just how repulsive they found her. once the movie premiered there were dumb memes and serious opinions alike that "the wrong sister died" and that the reaction to her would surely have been better if Kelly's character was killed in the opening while the character played by Veronica NgƓ, who they found more fuckable, lived on. it was not just dislike of the plotline pushed onto the new character.
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