Later, as Joe has Angharad's baby cut out, it's Miss Giddy alone who covers her dead eyes, who holds her hand - who sees HER, not a body.
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As a rule of thumb, the kind of guy who thinks female strength & competence are rare is oblivious to how much of both his ignorance fuels.
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Women who work with sexists have to do twice as much to avoid the roadblocks those asshats throw down, both intentionally & by default.
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Watching MMFR, I was reminded of all the gun-toting survivalists who keep "prepared" for the End Times. THAT'S how you get war boys, folks.
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Just today I saw an image of armed white supremacists wading through floodwaters in Houston to "stop looters". Like I just. For fuck's SAKE.
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There's a dark irony in how, for a scary number of people, "survivalism" means "being the most lethal". (Angharad called bullets anti-seed.)
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You have this whole movement where survival doesn't mean helping others, it doesn't mean saving things or rebuilding better; just more guns.
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I'm wandering away from the topic of characterisation here, I know. But how many guys who protested MMFR have since picked up tikki torches?
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What really fucks me off about so much anti-antifa ranting is the idea that all this anger and willingness to punch came from nowhere.
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Which. Of COURSE you think that, if you're in the habit of confusing strength with violence. You didn't see that strength was always there.
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And now that fascist calls for violence are being met with vocal plans for retaliation, that's being conflated as two equal platforms, FFS.
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As though the act of opposing something inherently equalises you to it, either in terms of power or moral equivalence!
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Following that logic, anyone who fights ISIS is as bad as ISIS, and a gang of adults who torture a puppy are justified if it bites back.
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But yeah, sure. Let's keep pretending that "enduring, subverting and getting around sexist fuckery" isn't a form of strength w/o violence.
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Let's keep pretending that it's possible to write stories that aren't in any way informed by politics, whether the world's or the writer's.
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Or we can acknowledge that the worlds we make are universally products of the one we inhabit. Cross-pollination is inevitable, powerful.
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As Miss Giddy says, sooner or later, someone always pushes back. We are not things. FIN.
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