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It’s not even just Belinda. This entire era has been weirdly pushy on enforcing motherhood as the purpose of women

Donna is confirmed to have settled down and had a child as soon as she left the doctor

Ruby is only 19 and from the very beginning she’s in a maternal role. She looks after the children Carla fosters. In space babies she immediately assumes a maternal role to look after the children.

Anita was sad and lonely and now she’s happy and pregnant (from an accidental pregnancy, isn’t she so glad that happened without her deciding to do it!)

The ranis motivation is grief about her infertility, and her plan is to create loads of new time lord children. One of her incarnations describes herself as the mother of the other.

This entire two series arc has been building up to the statement that women should be mothers, and would be so much happier if they were mothers. Whether they want it or not. When it happens they’ll realise it’s what they wanted the whole time. It’s gross and I think one of the most misogynistic plots from a modern show I’ve seen.

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People call moffats era misogynistic but it has NOTHING on this. Belinda had a whole set of memories and a life where she was living in a shared house working as a nurse being a woman in her thirties who didn't conform to the patriarchal ideals of motherhood. And that whole version of herself has been erased and replaced by a 'happy ending' when she had a daughter all along. But she didn't have a daughter all along??? Poppy only existed because of conrads wish. Conrad, who wished for a misogynistic, queerphobic, and ableist world. Why is this version where she is a mother the better ending? Why was Belinda and the Doctor's excitement at travelling together when Poppy was being erased framed as something tragic and wrong?? Say what you will about moffat but at least he explored the horror of unexpected motherhood in series 6. Why was Belinda nothing but happy and fulfilled at being a mother?

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billie piper returning isn’t an awesome feminist moment or “haunting the narrative” or the story going full circle. It’s keys being jingled in front of our faces like babies

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i'm trying to prove a point to my mom

reblog if you love killing and eating innocent civilians

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i keep meeting transfems whose personalities are like, gaping wounds. girls who've been stomped on over and over until they start thinking they're uniquely evil and they deserve it. people shouldn't be allowed to treat us like this.

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I've lived with cats my entire life, which is why i don't think i could ever eat cat meat personally, but i would like to try dog meat at least once in my life before i die.

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"is it possible for a [thing] girl and a [different thing] boy to be in a relationship? 🥺" i'll stop you right there. get a notebook cause i'll only tell you once. men and women are not allowed to date each other

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a lot of people seem to have trouble accepting that cynical embittered teenagers are literally right about the education system. in fact when people express that something is making them suffer suicidally it generally means there is something wrong. big news for people who desperately fucking hate kids

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there is something so “eve tasting the forbidden fruit” about spike getting his soul back. he had a sort of innocence in his soullessness, but that’s gone now. he knows what sin is, and he’s ashamed, because all he’s ever done is sin. he tries to hide his shame by clothing himself but he can’t hide it. he can’t escape it. he embraces the cross but it rejects him. he rebelled against the natural order of things and now he’s being punished for it. maybe he’s adam rather than eve, because he reclaims his soul for the same reason that adam tastes the fruit after eve. “why does a man do what he mustn’t? for her. to be hers.”

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We joke and all but some of you really forget that people hate women.

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Mayor Petion was a nothing ever happens patriot

Marat and Pétion meet for the very first time

In the beginning of last August (1792), I saw Péthion [sic] for the first time. As I knew very well that he was continually possessed by Brissot’s faction I wanted to probe him. As a result, I asked that we meet under pretext of obtaining a passport. He was holding council and sent me back the following morning. I was received with this simple joviality which characterizes him: ”It’s really him! Oh! It’s really him!” the good man cried and held me in his arms. I was a bit surprised by his embraces, I attributed them to the hope he had of seeing me leave soon. My conjecture changed into certainty, when I saw his expression darken, hearing me tell him that I was not leaving, and urging him to give me two of the presses seized from Durosoi.

The blind security he showed in our interview had reason to astonish me. We were approaching the moment of major events, he rejected, mockingly, the news of the invasion of the Prussians, for the inaction of which he vouched; he likewise rejected the idea of ​​the perfidies of the plotters from within; and as a true opium giver, according to his honorable custom, he assured that the true way to finally be free, invincible and happy, was to keep ourselves quiet and united, that is to say, to let our enemies do their thing, by discussing with them. It took the cruel events of the tenth [August] to prove to the public that he was only a dreamer, whose foolish confidence had exposed us all to having our throats slit.

Péthion is a good man, I’m sure of it; he was a wonderful candidate for the position of justice of the peace, arbitrator, municipal clerk, college rector, and district collector. But he has eyes that see nothing, ears that hear nothing, a head that meditates on nothing: he turns white at the sight of a naked sword, he wants to repress the counter-revolutionaries by lecturing them, he pretends to ensure the triumph of patriots by rendering them useful to aristocrats; and save the homeland by shouting to everyone: peace, gentlemen, let us listen to each other and let us be brothers.

Marat in number 685 (September 21 1792) of l’Ami du Peuple. Marat ends the number with asking Pétion to resign as mayor.

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Couthon

How often do you ask yourself “What Couthon thought about it?” when you read Robespierre’s and Saint-Just’s opinions about something?

It seems to me (at least this evening) that Thermidorian propaganda was most cruel, albeit unintentionally, to Couthon.

Both Robespierre and Saint-Just were demonized, one as a bloody dictator, another as an “Archangel of Terror”. But these images, though far from reality, were magnetizing. Thermidorian propaganda turned people into a kind of myths characters, into symbols. And they are attrecting (not attective), they make you want to learn more.

What French Revolution movies tend to depict? The Reign of Terror. What people far from the Revolution remember the best? Bastille and the Terror – and so they know Robespierre as a dictator, and maybe they know about Saint-Just, his supporter.

And now we have two points:

Couthon didn’t get a dark legend that could attract. His function was to be the third in Triumvirate, while the ones who were usually named, acted in person and really bothered and offended thermidorians were Robespierre and Saint-Just. That deprives Couthon of his identity, so when he is finally named it’s like: Couthon in Lyon acts the way triumvirs thought was right; Couthon in Prairial suggested the Robespierre’s law.

Couthon was a deputy of Legislative Assembly, but who cares? Legislative Assembly is an approaching of the war, is the beginning of the ‘suspects’ politics, is a march to the republic, is Girondins rise and shine.

 On 5th October 1791 Couthon gave a stunning speech about why the pomp around the executive should be reduced and the king should be addressed only by “the king of French” (the decree was enacted the same meeting, repealed the next day). Moniteur

On 7th October 1791 Couthon gave a speech criticizing the priests who didn’t take a civil oath. It was the first speech of that type given in the Legislative Assembly. Moniteur And then disappears from history books until he meets Dumouriez and then until the National Convention. I can’t believe he ceased acting. But I have no time to search for his name in every issue of the Assembly period.

I don’t say no one studies him. My point is different.

When I searched for “Couthon” on Internet Archive, I got this:

With “Couthon” in a title:

On Gallica with “Couthon” in a title:

And this:

How is he usually depicted in movies? Sitting here and there in his wheelchair.

What will someone without special interest in him mostly remember about him?

Lyon mission

Prairial law

A dog

Paralytic

Member of CPS, Triumvirate

A friend of Dumouriez before his treason

Not much, and not much politics.

And that is my point: Thermidorian propaganda put a “Nothing interesting here” sign on him.

That big one, that what made me seriously think about Couthon was a biography of Vergniaud, where he acted by his own.

If anyone knows a good biography of Couthon, please, share it.

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I can never understand the argument that “Robespierre was unlike Stalin because Robespierre was a principled and selfless person, whereas Stalin was a psychopath”, because the thermidorians were smarter liars than Khrushchev ever could be, and it would be pitiful to see through the lies of the former, but be duped by the latter.

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The Best Sith Lord

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