Im not saying that people should just stop watching and go hate on twilight but why are so many people on here suddenly acting like twilight had been good all along and that everyone hated twilight just bc of internalized misogyny and its huge teenage fanbase??Like yeah alot of people DID hate it bc of that but ALOT of people also disliked it mainly because of the glorification of abuse , grooming and toxic relationships in it and how it was all sold to teen girls as “True love”.
Did everyone forget that edward and bella’s relationship met ALL FIFTEEN criteria set up by the national domestic violence hotline of being in an abusive relationship???Or that bella allowed her SEVEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER to be romantically with jacob who is the same age as bella just bc of “destiny”???
Did people forget how most of the “savage” and “wild” werewolves on were native american and all the vampires were white for no reason??Or literally ALL of the racist undertones??(check out our #twilight tag) Or how leah clearwater’s cousin is physically attacked by her ex boyfriend which left her scarred permanently yet they ended up together coz it was their “destiny” ???Or how bella literally left her family,education and single father to raise a family with edward for the sake of “true love”??
Are we just gonna ignore the glorification of stalking and controlling boyfriend behavior and the “not like other girls” form of internalized misogyny??
I could go on and on but please stop acting like twilight was anything but a crappy YA paranormal novel which got popular for some weird reason.The memes and jokes are funny and people headcanoning the characters as gay/lesbian/bi etc is good and all but please please remember why twilight was so much criticized by many many feminists too and stop introducing it to other teens bc the REAL twilight is a shitty and problematic mess which sells a very horrible image of “true love”
You can check out FHPOC’s twilight tag where other mods have discussed about this in detail.
-Mod ro
Also meyer literally took the name of an actual indigenous tribe and just wrote over their history for her dumbass book
I know Tumblr tends to be very US-centric, but there is something happening in my country that I absolutely have to share.
Soon, Brazil will host presidential elections. These are the first elections since the impeachment of our last president Dilma Rouseff.
The leading candidate is currently Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro is a man who has made racist, sexist, and homophobic claims such as, “I would rather my son die in a car accident than be gay,” and, “my sons would not date black women as they were well educated.” He even said to a woman that she was, “so ugly” that she, “didn’t even deserve to get raped.”
A few decades ago, when Brazil was under a military dictatorship, the government tortured many people for speaking out against the regime. Bolsonaro has said that, “their only mistake was not killing those people.”
However, something incredible has been happening.
A movement called Mulheres Unidas Contra Bolsonaro (Women United Against Bolsonaro) has been surfacing. The hashtag #EleNão (#NotHim) has been getting popular and gaining international attention.
Yesterday, women all over Brazil (and the world!) protested against Bolsonaro.
Here are some pictures.
São Paulo, Brazil:
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:
Ilhéus, Brazil:
Cuiabá, Brazil:
Porto Alegre, Brazil:
Brazilians living abroad also joined the protests!
Zurich, Switzerland:
Madrid, Spain:
Melbourne, Australia:
New York City, US:
Protests occurred in over 62 cities around the world.
Even if you’re not Brazilian, please share this post! Show your support and raise awareness of the movement!
You know the “fortnite dances” as people are referring to are like, all popular dances from hip hop artists that were taken without credit, acknowledgement, or royalties right?
Black artists specifically
Almost every single one of them were thought of by black people and artists, then fortnite trademarked then without credit. This is literally cultural appropriation.
I dunno if they trademarked them but they ABSOLUTELY monetized them with no royalties paid out. Like I still don’t support bothering little kids over Fortnite dances or whatever the fuck but check this out:
Even the dance that is often classified as THE Fortnite dance was straight up stolen from black actor and performer, Donald Faison. He improvised the dance for an episode of Scrubs in 2006.
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“Right now, I think they will kill us all,” Sao told The Cincinnati Enquirerin on a phone call
from an ICE detention center in Louisiana on Thursday, the same day as
the White House human trafficking event. “I will be killed. That’s all I
can say. I will be tortured and killed. That is what they do to us.”
“rolls requiring skills that could not be readily found in the Asian community […] such as stunt men, dancers, and camel handlers”
You could literally only find white people to handle camels, not a single person of color, really?
You couldn’t find a single Arab person who could do Arab dance, REALLY?
Nobody? Nobody at all, R E A L L Y?
Disney has a crap ton of money and resources to throw at whatever they want and they can’t be bothered to get this one simple thing right. The live action remakes are cynical cash grabs and garbage anyway, but you would think they would have learned something from the pressure they got to hire actual Chinese people for the live action Mulan.
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