Kitten Night Farts

they really gave us a female lead in a star wars movie & made her kind and good and angry and powerful and complex & then spent the next 2 movies revolving almost her entire storyline around a white male war criminal who abused her, abused her friends, abused her family. all the while validating all the people who romanticized gaslighting and torture. for fan service lmao 

they also gave us a strong black male lead who was kind and rebelled against his entire way of life when he saw the atrocities he was expected to take part in. He risked his life to save others and was shown to love and care deeply for his friends and willing to sacrifice himself to save him. Then the next two movies infantilize him to be this weak self preserving side character with literally no agency beyond yelling other character’s names.

They also gave us a Latino sci-fi hero who was an ace fighter pilot with a heart of gold and a wealth of courage who showed an incredible amount of support and kindness and trust towards a man who he had just met. Then the next two movies relegated him to being a chronic fuck-up and then ret-conned his ace pilot backstory in service of a racist drug dealer backstory to make him more like Han Solo

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Meryl Streep facing harsh criticism over T-shirt declaring “I’d rather be a rebel than a slave”

A lot of people were defending these shirts and saying people were over-reacting.

CAN YOU DEFEND THIS SHIT IN CONTEXT, BRUH? CAN YOU???

The use of this particular Emmeline Pankhurst quote in the promotion of the movie just demonstrates how little those involved in promoting it or making it understand the history of the suffragette movement. And it shows how they don’t understand how the current criticism over how white the movie is actually is deeper than just this movie. It has to do with the entire history of the suffragette movement and how it’s taught in schools to be all about white women and ignores women of color.

And when I say it has to do with the entire history of the suffragette movement, I mean that. Like the ways in which the abolitionist and suffragette movements where aligned and then in conflict and all that stuff makes the specific phrasing the original Pankhurst quote a lot more loaded than it might have otherwise.

So ignorance all around starting with not knowing the ways in which the original quote’s context made this a loaded phrased and then ignorance in not understanding why people are critical of how the suffragette story is being told today.