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mosoli: im still laughing at this

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:25:10 +0200

mosoli:

im still laughing at this

kahtiihma: the fuckING PENCIL SHARPENER ONE BRILLIANT THANK...

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:07 +0200

kahtiihma:

the fuckING PENCIL SHARPENER ONE

BRILLIANT THANK YOU

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Wed, 22 May 2013 19:02:58 +0200

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Wed, 22 May 2013 19:01:28 +0200

Private Gardens at Athelhampton House by Andrea Cooke

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:21:40 +0200

Private Gardens at Athelhampton House by Andrea Cooke

themoosethepietheassbutt: congragulation: u know what would be cool. if you could wear whatever...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:03:14 +0200

themoosethepietheassbutt:

congragulation:

u know what would be cool. if you could wear whatever you wanted whenever you wanted without having to feel bad or weird or shamed about it. show up to work in plated armor. show up to a staff meeting in full cosplay. wear a dress to play tackle football. wear a bikini at the dinner table. dress in scuba gear for your wedding ceremony.

did you mean sims

thewaroffivequeens: screams i just installed xkit and i...

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:15:17 +0200

thewaroffivequeens:

screams i just installed xkit and i accidentally posted this without tagging for trigger warnings or before my answer was even done i’m sorry

okay now to the answer

The entire thing was revolting and I wanted to fucking vomit.

Firstly, I have a really hard time believing Gendry would just jump into bed with Melisandre, but of course we can’t have men on this show who aren’t Real Men, and Real Men want to jump right into bed with a hot woman as soon as they see her.

Now, I still haven’t seen Theon’s sexual assault scene in the previous episode because I’d run to the bathroom during that bit and why would I go back to rewatch the episode just to see Theon get raped? I don’t want to do that????? There are literally nine million less horrific uses of my time I could come up with than watching that scene. In any case, I understand, from others’ thoughts on the scene, that Theon was flat-out raped.

The Melisandre scene is pretty much identical. Melisandre seduces Gendry, they get into bed, it’s getting hot and heavy, lots of moaning, yawn ad nauseum—

And then Melisandre ties Gendry up and starts sticking leeches on him.

Further, it was rape, but it was portrayed as sexy rape. Through the majority of this scene, Melisandre was naked. Gendry might have been shirtless, yes, but Melisandre was completely buck-ass nude. The emphasis in this scene was completely on Melisandre: her body, her voice, her movements. The camera pans lovingly over her breasts in case any of the neckbeards missed them both times last season.

The emphasis was not on Gendry’s horror at what was being done to him, but on Melisandre, and Stannis, and how far they’ll go out of their fanatical devotion. Gendry was reduced to less than a person in a single scene. He was raped and his rape was used to characterize his rapist.

Note how again!!! They had genital mutilation of a man!!! And did not show the affected region of the body like they did with Ros!!! So by this point we have:

Visible female genital mutilation and eroticized graphic death

Two instances of invisible male genital mutilation

The eroticization of female-on-male rape

For no reason whatsoever.

From a storytelling perspective, the inclusion of the consensual sex-turned-rape was absolutely pointless. “The fear spoils the meat,” Melisandre says. It looked to me like he was pretty fucking terrified when she tied him up and started taking his blood. How the fuck was that “unsuspecting”? It would have made more sense to, I don’t know, put him at his ease, set him up with comfortable rooms, feed him something and slip a little bit of poison into his food—not enough to kill him, but enough to justify a leeching of the blood for “medical” reasons.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 09:03:46 +0200

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Tue, 21 May 2013 22:52:08 +0200

rejoining: ♕ vertical ♕

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:43:25 +0200

rejoining:

♕ vertical ♕

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Tue, 21 May 2013 20:42:44 +0200

lozzlogan: Itty bitty walt doodle thing.

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:01:10 +0200

lozzlogan:

Itty bitty walt doodle thing.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 13:29:44 +0200

blackwomenworldhistory: indifference-online: Women in Ancient...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:19:15 +0200

blackwomenworldhistory:

indifference-online:

Women in Ancient Egypt

It is quite fascinating to notice that, by historic evidence, ancient Egyptian women received equal rights economically and legally. They could own property, they could sign contracts, they were considered legitimate witnesses in court. They could sell property, divorce, and could be considered a partner in contracts. Women were also “entitled to sue at law” as well.

Most women were working women. They helped along with agricultural work and would manage farms and businesses in the absence of their husbands. Some women were the heads of their own businesses; others became doctors. Women could also work as musicians, and noblewomen could be apart of a priesthood.

Contraceptives were allowed. When a woman was giving birth, her head would be shaved. There would be many midwives to assist her as well. The discovery of finding out weather or not the child was a boy or a girl originated from Ancient Egypt and eventually spread.

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grrrl-foxxx: This weekend, activists in Uganda - a country...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:14:59 +0200

grrrl-foxxx:

This weekend, activists in Uganda - a country where homosexuality is punishable by death - held their first Pride.

heroes

A Royal Affair (2012)

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:10:27 +0200

A Royal Affair (2012)

cumaeansibyl: Ruby Rhod is one of my favorite characters in...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:09:34 +0200

cumaeansibyl:

Ruby Rhod is one of my favorite characters in sci-fi ever because he is Luc Besson’s vision of the hetero sex symbol of the future: a flamboyant, emotionally labile man who wears skin-tight leopard print or decks himself in roses, a man who accessorizes with big jewelry and dabbles in cosmetics. And the ladies love him. Everything about him screams “gay” according to our stereotypes, but he’s portrayed as a 100% straight sexual dynamo.

Besson is one of the few directors I’ve seen who actually recognizes that our ideas of sexuality and gender performance might have changed drastically in the future.