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A trend I've noticed in media is this thing where a fat character is essentially "forgiven" for being fat. Especially in medical shows.
Instead of "everyone has a different body type," it's"It's not their fault, this super ultra magic medical condition prevents them from losing weight!" and this is the only reason other characters are wrong for bullying or discrimination. Not because it's cruel and terrible, because it wasn't actually something the fat character could be "blamed" for.
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Something that's profoundly stupid to me is that people treat basic morals as some Puritan thing or something only overly sensitive people care about. This ideology is probably a bit more common online, but it's definitely found in "real life" where people are just pieces of shit. I think this also plays into victim blaming.
The basic idea is that if it's not illegal, then it's fine. Which is just... not true at all. This applies especially to recording random people and posting their faces online without their permission, which is apparently legal in the U.S. This is not only shitty and rude but selfish, too. And yet the best argument people have is "just don't go out in public" or "what about security cameras?" Except... public is not your recording booth, and security footage is not posted online.
This also adds to the problem where standing up for yourself and telling people to knock it off when you're being shitty makes you rude and entitled. Especially if you're a woman, then you're just called a Karen (cause misogyny also). Because they're not doing anything illegal, you must just put up with it. That's the logic.
We should stop treating morals as some cringey snowflake thing. Morals are a good thing.
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I think we should talk about how every little thread of our society is filled with victim blaming down to the smallest scenarios.
Someone was recording you without your permission and making fun of you? You shouldn't have gone outside. The food you ordered made you sick? You shouldn't have ordered the food. Bad service or product from a company? You shouldn't have brought from the company.
The country you live in is enacting harmful laws and policies? You shouldn't have chosen to live there. Someone assaulted you? Well, you shouldn't have been out having fun. Someone was a bigot toward you? You must have provoked them. People are being ableist to you? Well, if you're disabled you shouldn't be outside.
I actually want to tear this open and examine it. It's so weird. People would rather you just sit on your hands at home than hold others accountable for their actions. Is this a fear of change to the status quo? Brain washing? Brand loyalty? I just don't get it
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Crazy how people excusing parents being shitty is resulting in kids being unable to read. There is an outcry about this, and they're blaming schools, technology, the kids themselves, everything but the parents.
Who do you think is giving kids phones and tablets instead of sitting down to read with them? Who do you think is sitting on their phone posting about their kinds lack of reading?
We need to stop making up excuses for parents and hold them accountable.
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It's really annoying when people remove context and nuance to claim double standards. "Oh so when x does y it's fine but when z does y then it isn't?" Yes. Because the situations and context are not the same. It is not as black and white as you think.
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I'm sorry but if a whistle-blower is found dead shortly after exposing a company and you legitimately believe it's suicide and think everyone saying it's murder are just conspiracy theorists and evidence is needed, you are a brainwashed idiot.
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The burning hatred I feel for people who abuse their cats and then are like "lmao typical cat assholes" when the cat tries to defend itself is immeasurable.
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Something that irks me about fatphobia is the way people defend it by insisting that you can't coddle people who don't care about their health, or rant about how bad being fat is for you, when there are many normalised things that are even worse.
What about smoking? Drinking alcohol? These are things portrayed as cool in movies. The jaded main character that stops to smoke while having a conversation or contemplating the plot. The suave ladies man who orders a fancy drink from the bar or the soldier that knocks back a cold one.
Smoking causes cancer and destroys your lungs. Second-hand smoke inhalation from non-smokers is also harmful for them because they also breathe in all the chemicals.
Some people get drunk and then drive, which leads to killing people in a car accident. Many alcoholics are violent and abusive.
Why are we treating being fat as some horrible moral failure, when it doesn't even affect others, while these addictions that do cause harm to people and harm to the addict, are uplifted as something that cool characters do? Something that's normal and even relatable?
If you were to harass someone for smoking or drinking alcohol, then you would be the asshole that shouldn't dictate what other people do. But if you harass and insult someone who's fat, then "well maybe they should lose some weight and stop being sensitive because they're unhealthy."
It's just so stupid
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Why do people insist that the Christian Bible is actually not bigoted and just mistranslated and misunderstood. Why are we so desperate to make it "right" or ''correct". Why do we need Christianity to say people's lives matter and that they are humans deserving of basic human rights.
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"Not all Christians are like that" "those verses are just misinterpreted" "the translation is actually wrong" "see those guys aren't real Christians" can you shut the fuck up
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Narcissist is not a synonym for selfish or asshole please and thank you
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Writers please for the love of god stop reblogging posts bringing attention to real world suffering and crisis like Palestine or the heatwaves in India or flooding with "hum hum this is good for realistic stories" Shut the fuck up that should not be your first thought reading this stuff.
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It's really funny seeing videos like "Jax changed" or "the decline of Jax" and people trying to figure out why he's "different" now.
Ya'll.
It's the second episode. He was an asshole in the pilot. We just have more screen time with him now. You guys were characterising him the wrong way in the first place, even the creator said he was going to get worse.
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Other people have pointed out how childish Viv and the other writers' ideas of what "mature adult content" is. Drugs, alcohol, sex, and murder. And yes, it is childish. But even their depiction of this content feels childish, like it was written by a twelve year old who doesn't actually understand the effects of these "cool badass adult things" but knows it's a bad thing.
I'm not going to focus on sex or murder here, just drugs and alcohol. Most HH or HB characters are often found chugging drinks like crazy or say they've taken drugs. If they're drunk, they'll have slurred speech and stumble around maybe act a lil crazy. If they're high... maybe the act a bit crazy?
It's, again, a child's idea of the effects of drugs and alcohol. Of course there's slurred speech and that, those are symptoms of being drunk, but it's stuff you see on TV when a character gets drunk. Drugs? Either the characters act normally or just "crazy" because that's what drugs do, right?
However if you actually research the long and short term effects of alcohol and drug use (of course different drugs have different affects) the characters are lacking in these traits.
The short-term effects of alcohol are:
•Initially causes a feeling of happiness, then leads to:
•Blurred vision
•Problems with coordination and balance
•Loss of inhibitions
•Nausuea
•Memory loss
•Slurred speech
•Alchohol poisoning or even death can occur after excessive consumption in one sitting
Okay, that's 4 or 5 out of 7 boxes ticked for the show. That's pretty good. But it would be nice to see some of the other effects.
As for the long-term effects, however:
•Damage to central and peripheral nervous systems
•Increased risk if multiple medical problems such as: cirrhosis of liver, sleep disturbance, infections, memory loss, anxiety and depression
•Increased aggression
•Coma and death
•Foetal Alcohol Syndrome if the consumer is pregnant
Many characters of both shows drink frequently or are confirmed alcoholics and we don't really see these effects. We just see the effects that are mostly shown on TV when a character gets drunk for laughs or whatnont. If there incidents of depression and anxiety, aggression, etc it's caused by something else in the shows.
Effects of drugs (non-specific for now):
•Bloodshot eyes
•Dilated pupils
•Change in appetite
•Sudden weight loss
•Change in sleep pattern
•Tremors, slurred speech
•Loss of coordination
•Mood swings
•Anxiety and paranoia
•Personality change
Effects of PCP (Angel Dust):
•Numbness of the extremities, slurred speech, and loss of coordination may be accompanied by a sense of strength and invulnerability.
•A blank stare, rapid and involuntary eye movements, and an exaggerated gait are among the more observable effects.
•Auditory hallucinations, image distortion, severe mood disorders, and amnesia may also occur.
•Acute anxiety and a feeling of impending doom, paranoia, violent hostility, a psychoses indistinguishable from schizophrenia.
Angel Dust is a character who is a drug addict, and even takes Angel Dust if I remember correctly. He displays none of these symptoms. He's just his regular horny, sassy, asshole self.
Hazbin Hotel is meant to redeem sinners and help them get better, and yet something as damaging as drug abuse is treated more as a quirky character habit and not an addiction that destroys your health and your life.
Drugs don't just make you "crazy" or "hyper energetic". Like I said, different substances have different effects, but none of that is acknowledged or delved into. It's simply a child's idea of drugs with little to no effort or research put into it.
I would also like to say, it was a lost opportunity to not only delve into the causes and effects of drug and alcohol use, but also how it effects those around you. Having a family member, for example, who is a drug addiction or alcoholic is an extremely traumatising experience. This is shown well in Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi. It's an excellent book and I recommend you guys give it a read.
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Can we stop throwing around "psychotic" "insane" "narcissistic" "delusional"
Often people are just assholes. People are just stubborn. HHell, some people are just idiots. Armchair diagnosing them is just makes you shitty.
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I think another reason "It's hell" is an irritating excuse is because the hell in HB/HH is heavily inspired by the Christian hell and has figures from the bible there.
Do you people who use this excuse just think every non-Christian says "fuck" 100 times a minute and makes sex jokes like a 12 year old that just learned the word penis? Do you think every non-Christian is just a sex obsessed asshole who assaults people and treats them like shit?
See, that is the problem. Every single character is exactly the same copy pasted 100 different times in 100 different fonts. And yes, it's hell, but you can still make it clear that certain behaviors are in fact bad in some way or another, which the show does not do!
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I think we should talk more about the mysgony when it comes to parents in media, and how fathers are favoured and praised for the most the most basic shit while mothers are demonised for making mistakes or being bad. This is gonna be a long one, buckle up.
I hate Mrs Rosehearts as much as the next guy, but it's unfair that Mr Rosehearts is not given similar criticism for allowing his wife to treat Riddle the way he does. I hardly see people bring him up apart from mentioning that Riddle's parents probably have an unhappy marriage, and some people say something along the lines of "poor Mr Rosehearts, struggling with a wife like that".
Of course, we don't know enough about his character to gauge how Mrs Rosehearts treats him, bit it's clear he just passively stands to the side when it comes to whatever Mrs Rosehearts wants to do with Riddle. That itself is very harmful and it's own form of abuse, imo.
The same applies to Alador Blight from the Owl House. He's praised for being a wonderful dad that finally came through and stood up to his "horrible wretched bitch of a wife" (who, if she was a guy, would probably have more people analysing her and trying to find ways to sympathise with her just saying)..
And while, yes, he did stand up to her and that's a good thing, the general consensus is he was a brilliant dad from the start that was held back by his wife's wicked ways. But... that's not true? His first appearance is him telling Amity to stop being friends with Willow. He ignores his children constantly, and, like Mr Rosehearts, stands passively to the side when Odaliah treats her children like her property.
He's a neglectful parent at best and just as concerned with image and status at Odaliah at worst. But... that stuff is just forgotten. Most people just say "we thought he was bad but it turns out he was manipulated by his wife". He is HIS OWN PERSON. You cannot just blame everything on his "evil manipulative wife" (which is also smt that sometimes happens irl when both parents are abusive). He is still fully capable of making his own decisions.
And again, it's unfortunate, but if Odaliah were to be given his treatment or if Alador were a woman, the general response would be "That's sad but not an excuse! I can't believe she was forgiven!"
The worst I can think of atm, is Silco and Vi from Arcane. Now ofc they're not married. But the circumstances are similar.
Silco is praised to the high heavens for being one of the best dads in animation (#1 goes to Doofenshmirtz ofc, which I agree with) and the reasons for this are because he... shows his care, puts Jinx first, and loves her. Wow. Fucking groundbreaking am I right. The bar is soooo high/s
The thing is, Jinx is a child soldier. She works for Silco, protects his shipments of Shimmer, takes out the enemies that need taken out, etc. He found her as a young child, and when we cut to the present, she's murdering people without so much as flinching, even delighting in it, and suffering badly from trauma and hallucinations.
Obviously, Jinx was not given the care she needed, and was instead trained to assist Silco.
Am I denying Silco loves her? Of course not! He clearly does. But that's just not good enough. He's a loving dad, but not a good one. He's not the father that neither Jinx nor Powder needed.
Meanwhile, we have Vi. Vi loves Powder, protects her, cares for her, tries to keep her out of harm, stands up for her, and so on. She cares so deeply for Powder, and you can see it. The moment she got out of prison, her first goal was to find Powder.
However, because she hit Powder once, and shouted at her, she's apparently an abusive monster who never cared about Powder. Reminder, she hit Powder because her entire family was killed in front of her and then she learned Powder was the reason that happened. She was like... 14? And she immediately left to calm down. She did not abandon Powder, she left to take a breather because she realised she was too angry. And when she came back, she was drugged and arrested.
Silco is a grown adult who purposefully flooded the streets of the Undercity with a highly addictive drug, turned Powder into a soldier, and is generally a terrible person, even if he is a three dimensional amd well written antagonist.
Vi started the story as a teenager suffering poverty and discrimination just like Silco, had to deal with her own parents death, then her adoptive family was killed in front of her, and then she was forcefully taken from her sister. And yet, people are convinced Vi is a terrible and abusive sister who never loved Powder?
The only example worse than this, methinks, is Stella and Stolas from Helluva Boss.
Stella is a shitty mother who ignores her daughter, which the the audience is shown via a scene were Octavia is having a nightmare and she tells Stolas to deal with it. She frequently screams and swears at Stolas and throws things at him, with no regard for her daughter's presence or feelings.
This is pretty terrible, right? Of course! Everyone knows Stella is a horrible mother.
Stolas on the other hand, is praised for being such an loving and caring father, who tries his best. He even has a song with Octavia!
Well, he also: openly talks about having sex with Blitz and how much he likes it while she was right there, told her people want her money and her body, generally doesn't pay much attention to her either bc he's wallowing about Blitz not loving him back, and doesn't give her feelings much regard.
And yet, the misogyny extends beyond just Stella because people generally agree that Octavia is ungrateful and doesn't appreciate Stolas enough. They get mad at her for disliking the fact that Stolas is cheating on her mother with an imp who's been nothing but rude to her and ruining their family further, and even mock her for feeling unloved. Hell even Brandon, one of the creators, has allegedly recently called her a "cockblocking slut" which, frankly, is a disgusting thing to say about a 17 year old girl.
Idk man I'm just tired.
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