i don't mind being talked to right now! i like questions and i would very much enjoy things about my canons and special interests!! or just general questions about stuff.
currently playing mass effect 3, dai and skyrim, romancing garrus vakarian in ME and solas in inquisition.
dont follow me if you baby cole or merrill, ignore anders' mental health and think cullen did nothing wrong.
why are people so against negative character development? characters don’t need to improve and become better people they can get worse and make mistakes and end up in a worse state than when they began and it’s just as interesting and entertaining as characters developing positively
I watched Hocus Pocus last weekend and how come no one ever talks about the fact that 2/3 of the sisters are played by Jewish actresses. A demographic that’s been associated with that stigma for hundreds of years
They thought Christianity was evil and they “died” via incineration
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. This isn’t just the Sandersons. Jewish actresses are cast as witches all the time.
Here’s Idina Menzel in Wicked
Here’s Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter Movies
Here’s Rachel Weisz as the Wicked Witch of the East in Oz The Great and Powerful
Here’s Mila Kunis as the Wicked Witch of the West in the same movie
Here’s Alyson Hannigan as Willow on Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Here’s Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castavet in Rosemary’s Baby
While there are exceptions, this is far too common to be coincidence. Witches have historically been Jew coded throughout the history of European folklore. So when casting directors think “witch,” they’re probably already thinking of Jewish women to play the part.
Note that the Wicked Witch of the West shows up on this list twice (even if these are more nuanced portrayals than in the original Wizard of Oz). Also notice that “good witches” are usually portrayed by blonde goyim. There’s a reason for that.
It might be somewhat relevant that the non-Jewish actress playing one of the sisters in Hocus-Pocus is Lebanese-American. The joy of Semitic features, I guess
Gomez gives out better relationship advice than like 90% of dudes.
Gomez Addams is a suave motherfucker who loves his wife more than his own life.
Everyone should want a Gomez. He’s p cool.
Gomez and Morticia Addams actually have a very loving and extremely healthy relationship, both in the old TV show and in the more recent movies. They were also one of the first television couples to be shown to have an active (albeit offscreen) sex life. Their frank attitude towards sexuality was shocking in its’ time, but their relationship and their family dynamic is actually more functional and more…dare I say it…sane than most families portrayed on TV.
The comedy in the show came from the family’s “odd” lifestyle, rather than from infighting and petty bickering, or worse, as was common on other shows of the time, thinly veiled references to spousal abuse. They didn’t make fun of each other or act like their children were creatures from another world. Were they strange and outside of social norms? Yes. Were they united in creating a loving home and being good, supportive parents? Absolutely.
These two support and adore their children, care for an aging mother and an estranged brother, put family before everything, and they love each other, wholly, fiercely, without reserve. They are every bit as much in love after at least a decade of marriage as they were the day they met.
Relationship goals. LIFE goals.
Just remembered in the second movie when their third child became “normal” for a period and although they were shocked and didn’t know how to handle it, they didn’t mistreat the child or love it any less. They accepted the difference, even though it was hard for them.
Listen up feminists and LGBT activists! Yes, you who worship the holy trinity of “sex, gender, and sexuality” in your educational literature! Yes, you who suddenly discovered transgender folks sometime during the 1990s and decided that, for their sake, it would be super important to draw a clear distinction between “sex” as a biological, bodily fact and “gender” as a mode of social identification!
You’re doing it wrong.
Sex is not “what’s in your pants.” Sex is not chromosomes. Sex is not hormones. Sex is not biology. Sex is neither a penis nor a vagina. Sex is not breasts, nor is it chest hair, prostates or ovaries.
I’m a transgender woman. For the next few months at least, what’s in my pants is a penis. I have a prostate gland. I have a Y chromosome.
“Aha!” you say. “So your sex is male but your gender is female! That’s what makes you transgender.”
Wrong. Try again! “Sex” is a social decision made at the moment of birth (or earlier if your parent[s] get a sonogram). We only assign children a “sex” because of gender, because we feel the cultural imperative to sort people into two dichotomous populations based on the presence or absence of a tiny bit of flesh. “Sex” is gender in doctor’s clothing: nothing more, nothing less.
Yes, we have bodies. Yes, those bodies have characteristics. Yes, those characteristics have gendered meanings in a cisnormative world. But this “sex” you keep on looking for, that you incorporate into your ostensibly trans-inclusive curriculum? It. Doesn’t. Fucking. Exist.
The only people who need to know details about my body parts are my doctors and my lovers. Do you fall into one of those two groups? No? Then you don’t need to know what’s in my pants! You don’t need to know what my chromosomes are. You don’t need to know my estrogen levels (although they’re quite high, thank you very much).
All you need to know is that my name is Samantha, I use she/her pronouns and I pee behind the door with the dress on it. Guess what? We can teach people all of those things without them knowing anything about my body.
In fact, you should just quit talking about “sex” altogether. Try using “assigned sex” to talk about doctors’ decisions and the ways in which those decisions affect peoples’ lives. But quit trying to act as if we can empirically sort bodies into two categories that pre-exist gender norms. We can’t. And you’re hurting precisely the people that you think you’re helping with your convenient sex/gender split.
“Sex” is gender in doctor’s clothing: nothing more, nothing less.
