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A fandom friend of mine wrote an excellent article on feminism and the trend of “hated” female characters in popular media such as Jenny Humphrey from Gossip Girl. (Link to her Reddit post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/GossipGirl/s/qxMAWt8fJz) Very good read, really gets one thinking about the portrayal of “girl power” and the “perfect” female protagonist in the media 🩷

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(NOT MINE AT ALL) new jenny humphrey and rory gilmore article dropped with the most correct takes in all of history.

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Scream Queens

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things i’m good at:

not answering texts/chats

getting my hopes up 

daydreaming

being awkward

pissing people off

sleeping

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there's a very compelling fantasy i repeatedly hear by nostalgic? and reactionary westerners about nuclear families and abuse. if their were simply more people in the family, the patriarchs abuse would be limited. their would be a bystander to interfere. this is (a) deeply ahistorical, the rise of the nuclear family in fact seems to parallel feminist gains in the recognition of domestic abuse and (b) defacto or even dejure protections for women or children are not stronger in countries where large families are still extant, if shrinking (like india). but sure too many confounding factors to draw conclusions from.

fundamentally this story does not really understand why large families exist as they do, the people in them are not uninterested strangers who can act as good samaritans to each other. they are usually set to inherit land or a family home. they run a family business together and have for generations. they are a clan that has customary rights over resources or professions in a region that they fiercely protect from other clans. an abused child or a woman's welfare does not matter to this economic engine. in fact it creates circuits of complicity, and more importantly real motivations for abuse. we must ensure women remain compliant sources of reproductive and social labour for the family firm. we must protect the family honour, the reputation of the family firm, so those that step out of line by marrying without concern to family alliances and property, by being aberrant in anyway must be disciplined. its one thing for child services, that failing, benighted institution to interfere in a nuclear family, but to slight a clan? no, the police are more likely to fetch a runaway bride and deliver them back to the doorstep of their abusive natal family.

The Tenacity of the Hindu Undivided Family; Gender, Religion and Tax Concessions on how the HUF act empowers hindu family run firms to extend capital accumulation and power.

In The Name of Honour: Journalism on honour killings in Tamil Nadu, where families and communities collude to kill young adults for marrying for love across caste or religious lines.

We on the scary communist left recommend Abolish the Family, by Sophie Lewis as a primer.

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Yeah it isnt fair. He also shouldve been turned into fine mist together with his buddies.

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Every once in a while I think about how the Swiss have the cachet of “good chocolate” and Italy and France have the “good coffee” and well I don’t even really have the energy to get mad about it anymore

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and what are we going to do when the HP series comes out and we start seeing a resurgence of the fandom here including gifsets and fics. like are u guys gonna bring up your neurodivergence and cry "can we separate the art from the artist!!!!! you dont need to pay to watch it!!!!!its my comfort show and I'm DEPRESSED and AUTISTIC"

what then

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Malcolm in the Middle 7x10

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MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE 4.04 Stupid Girl

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today is the only day you can reblog this post

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Cute Reese and Malcolm moments (+ Renee and Mallory) - Season 4

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pretty much.

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Important to remember by the way that Israel hasn’t even paused murdering Palestinians while all of this is happening

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jess is peoples favorite rory boyfriend not because he was the best boyfriend (he wasnt) but because he actually got his own plotlines and character arcs outside of being rorys boyfriend which made people grow attached to him as a person. so when people say theyre team jess its because they like him as an individual character and ignore the fact that he fucking sucked as a boyfriend. which is why i understand why people hate dean. he only gets screentime in a rory context which makes his mistakes also stand out more because people cant put them in context or connect them to a backstory, which could explain why he does what he does or why he feels the way that he does, like with jess. but at the end of the day i just really like imagining dean getting railed by at least 3 guys at the same time way more than i do with jess, which is the reason why im steadfast in dean > jess