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ambiguouspuzuma · 10 months

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This is a Let People Write What They Want blog, but I really am personally tired of certain tropes. I remember when I started writing over a decade ago, in the aftermath of Twilight and its partners in crime, when writing spaces were saturated with romances (under the cover of all other genres) in which the perfect, beautiful-but-doesn't-know-it female main character meets two unrealistically sexy men who both fall for her and her main focus is then the torment of having to choose between them. You know, the classic hetero FMM love triangle formula.

I was tired of it then, enough that one of my earliest planned works was a satire where the two guys go off together and leave the shallow protagonist behind, but I still come across it too often ten years on! I find it nauseating, not just because of the oversaturation, but because of the way so many of them are written. Part of it is that the protagonist usually feels like a stand-in, like we're party to the author's personal idyllic fantasy, which I'm fine with them having but don't really want to be a part of.

I'm assuming the idea is that the reader shares this dream of being fought over/having to choose between perfect love interests, or finds that sort of conflict particularly hot, although I'm not sure how ubiquitous that fantasy actually is. But if the protagonist is a stand-in, their behaviour is a bit questionable: the male characters are not only held to ridiculous beauty standards but seem to have no personality other than being a love interest for her, and she is able to lead both of them on or discard them without having to worry about their feelings whilst still being described as a sweet and lovely girl.

On its own this is all well and tolerable - after all, every other action film still has a male lead working through a cycle of beautiful but hollow and disposable women - but with the stand-in element I do sometimes struggle to disconnect the art from the author. For example, I struggle to read thrillers like the Jack Reacher series because it's clear that the chauvinistic author is just living out his own macho fantasy where everybody respects him and all women throw themselves at him, and as a reader it feels like you're encouraged to join in, which makes me feel icky and uncomfortable.

In one book the hero goes to his friend's funeral and hooks up with his daughter, whom he has apparently admired since she was a teenager. That grooming is justified in-text by presenting them as soulmates, but she is immediately discarded in the next book when Reacher visits his brother's widow and hooks up with her instead whilst wearing his brother's clothes. It's clearly some weird power fantasy that the author's inviting us to share his thrill in, and I can't stomach it at all.

I think the root of it is that the female characters aren't given agency. They exist just to fawn over the hero, and are just as easily discarded once their usefulness to him is served. It's degrading and dehumanising, because they aren't treated as people in their own right, just objects for the main character to interact with. They don't have their own existence beyond him.

As a counter-example of a male author writing an excellent female character, Terry Pratchett once wrote Granny Weatherwax as saying "sin, young man, is when you treat people like things". I think that applies to writing too. You can write antagonists who are unlikeable and evil and designed for your readers to hate, but at least do them the decency of viewing them as people - and you'll also find you write them better in the process.

Many genres are male-hero, male-author, and male-reader dominated, and feature chauvinism like the Reacher books due to a failure to respect women as individuals, but the same goes for any out-group being portrayed by an in-group. If you don't respect X as people, you're at risk of writing horribly strawmanned and objectified X characters just for the purposes of projecting whatever issues you're going through onto them, and it can make your writing unreadable by anyone who sees that.

Other genres (especially those concerning romance) can be predominantly female in both their authors and readership, allowing similar attitudes to cultivate in another direction. There are many such novels written by women who do not have healthy relationships with men in their lives, as demonstrated by the way they write these two-dimensional, stereotyped, idealised men who exist purely to throw themselves at their stand-in characters and who have no inner life and don't need to be respected as human beings in turn.

It's not just bad characterisation, which I can live with, but being able to tell that this leads back to somebody's actual fantasising - that this is actually how somebody thinks about men, which as a reader you feel you are tacitly endorsing. That's the issue. You can write whatever you like - personally, I do prefer writing female protagonists, and I've written more than my fair share of femme fatales who straight up murder the men in their lives. There's nothing wrong with writing that, if it makes for a fun story. But you should write it for the right reasons.

However I mistreat them as characters, I understand that people of all genders, at least on the individual level, are rounded human beings capable of having any type of personality, and that their gender is just one of the many features we use to describe the person underneath. This is instead of applying a blanket stereotype to one group or another as some inherently untrustworthy, or treating them as incomprehensible aliens from Mars or Venus as appropriate. If I actually wanted the men in my life to die, those stories would become uncomfortable and I wouldn't expect readers to want to be involved in that fantasy.

I'm worried that a lot of these two-dimensional portrayals have less wholesome worldviews underneath. I was recently recommended a book with a love triangle in which I see reviews have raised concerns about the way the strong female character has insta-lust for the male characters, who are all tall, muscle-bound, sub-human monsters, but praised the way that she isn't afraid to discard a lover or give them the comeuppance they deserve. All fine, on its own. There's nothing wrong if that's your character. But then I looked up the author, and saw that this was literally the way she saw men in real life.

She is on record making comments like "I don't understand men, and the more I see of them the more I'm certain I don't actually want to", or "I am attracted to men, I just can't see myself dating one", or "I am an equal opportunity misandrist, there is plenty of hatred in my heart to go around", or "you do not owe men any entry into your life", or "I wish life could be a women's only event". She says that she hates damsel in distress tropes, not because of the female vulnerability, but because "I don't trust men to be saviours", again lumping them all together as some lesser beasts. All of a sudden, that story becomes a political manifesto.

In this context, the depiction of male characters as this inherently evil race of human-like monsters, who exist only to be muscular sex objects to be fucked and thrown away, takes on a toxic new light. The author is projecting a bitter and unhealthy worldview into her work, and encouraging us to endorse it in enjoying what we think is a fictional ride where this just happens to be the case. But it's hardly a coincidence, as I see she also mentions she is next working on a "a grimdark world based on misandry" and has committed after this project to never again make a female character love a man.

I think that's probably for the best - in general, I would say that people should not be depicting stereotyped characters of a demographic they have no interaction with in real life and seem to actually view as subhuman. Funnily enough, some of the reviewers who didn't have this background information still picked up on the toxic vibes in the characterisation, although they misdiagnosed them as racism instead:

Yes, she's dehumanising and objectifying them, but that's just because they're men. She sees all men as subhuman monsters, and so she creates them as such. Of course our female protagonist uses them both, or seizes the feminist victory in spurning them. On its own, that could be a perfectly enjoyable narrative about a strong, well-developed female character blazing her own path through the world. But I find it hard to cheer for her, knowing the type of person she's standing in for.

We're back to trying to separate the art from the artist, but I don't know how you can enjoy the book knowing her worldview - how you can celebrate that victory over the monstrous men, knowing you are being encouraged by somebody who has stacked the deck that way on purpose, just to play out and validate her own real-life hatred - especially as it has clearly bled enough into the art that people are finding it icky without even knowing the real reason why.

Write what you want, if it helps you work through the issues, but don't then promote that manifesto to other people. In general, I think people with outdated, gender essentialist views shouldn't really be writing unhealthy romances for mass consumption, whether their avatar is the tough action hero or the radiant princess. If you can't write a character respectfully, find one that you can. If you hate other genders, write a beautiful same-gender romance instead, and then it won't be actively uncomfortable to read. Write out of love, not resentment. I guess that's a compromise: Let People Write What They Want, but discourage them from Writing What They Don't Want.

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nahalism · 1 year

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“There are people in the world who do vile things” well statistically, it’s males meaning men who do most of those “vile things”, you have every right to not believe me but I doubt the Federal Bureau of Investigation is making it all up with their statistics. It’s not what “some men” do to women, every man is an active participant in a patriarchal society men aren’t the victims under this patriarchal society, even the good men benefit from the systematic violence and oppression that women are constantly subjected to. I’m sure you have other female friends, so if it’s just “some men” why does EVERY single woman and girl over the age of 14 (sometimes even younger) has a story of rape or sexual assault or sexual harassment? I’m sorry, I’m not trying to “spew” rhetoric or make you change your mind on anything but I don’t think you’re as aware as you say you are and I don’t mean to be rude or snarky or bitchy saying this (I hope I’m not coming off that way sincerely, I know I can but this subject touches me) and as for the “having a son” I don’t ever want kids, I would never want to have a child when there’s more ugly than beauty in this world, this ain’t no world for a child so really don’t worry about yet another child being unwanted and mistreated, I’m usually more wary of people that want kids because when a child is being abused its always someone close to them more likely a parent. I don’t think of children as having cruel motives, I don’t look at a male child and think “he’s gonna be a rapist” I think that the people kids grow up to be is just a reflection of how WE as a collective whole, as a society have failed them. I’m not saying men are inherently evil, I don’t believe that either cause that would take away accountability, they make the choice to view women as less and to treat us as less, men are every bit capable of empathy and love but a lot of them don’t choose that, enough of them don’t choose that, that it’s dangerous to live as a woman in any country of the world, now come on now.( and when I say “‘men” I mean the class of men, not every individual man, just like when we say “white people” it’s obviously not every white person in existence)

i saw this and didnt want to reply, but i said i thought more of these conversations needed to take place and so here we go. — i dont think your rude or snarky and i take no offence to you having your opinion. however i do think your ignorant. and i dont say that to belittle you. there are things im ignorant about aswell. but i say it because you clearly dislike tate right? one of the main criticisms many level at him is that he holds derogatory opinions of women simply because he was hurt by one. if the same was said to a women it would be largely accepted that its because its easy to diminish and erase the lived experiences and feelings of women. but its been easy to diminish his pain in the same way, because given the history you reference, its almost as if when men suffer, particularly white men, they deserve the pain they are only now reaping, because its merely fraction of what they've sowed, and because its a consequence of experiencing reality without having the benefit of the privileges they previously profited from as their aid. the ugly truth is nobody is listening or seeing truth, only what feeds their feelings snd perspectives, thus their interests. humans are diminishing the suffering of other beings all day long, whether it be the rich and the poor, different ethnic groups, academics versus blue collar workers, people with different political interests, the pain of the animals, and the imbalances in our habitat, and on and on and on. that practice is futile and serves the interest of very few who profit off of that discord between us. but it does not profit us or offer a solution to ending this cycle. the bigger issue with tate is that he is not only a chauvinist, but he, through the weaponising of information that holds fragments of truth (how to get money, how to build muscles, how to 'rise and grind') tries to employ others into seeing what he says as the sole truth and as such coerce them, through what seems to be reason, into believing what he has to say. you have just done the exact same thing. whilst you have backtracked from 'not all men are bad' to it now being 'some men', you have attempted to make me feel like my opinion is not valid because i am mis or under informed. that, in itself, is a form of patriarchal debating (erasure) and serves to push and promote your agenda whilst quieting my voice and opinion, which you not only asked for, but then used as a springboard to spread your truth as a truth. what you are doing now is symptomatic of the very patriarchal regime which you have so much distain for. why is it a crime to believe what you believe, and advocate for it (not impose it), whilst letting others believe what they believe and do the same on their end. no one needs to be crushed or cropped out of the discussion. the argument you are a proponent of is merely a different side of the same coin. im not saying your reasons for feeling as you do are not valid, or that you shouldnt believe what you believe. i am saying that i choose a different coin entirely, and that is my prerogative.

i am not the most versed on every single act of terrorism or hatred that has been waged against women. but am educated on the matter and have first hand experience (not that i have to prove myself to anybody) of it. i come from a tribe of women who had fgm forcefully practiced on them, who had marriage and laws used to keep them in servitude to their husbands (upon which they endured many other abuses that im sure you can imagine), and i myself was a victim of sexual assault and grooming from before i hit double digits till the age of 13. (its important to note that the abuse i received was enforced by both men and women). i know about patriarchy and have seen what it reaps up close, but i refuse to hate what hates me for the sake of my anger. i personally (you are free to respond as you choose) want solutions that bring unity and allow me to see each individual for the individual they are and not for who their predecessors left them the legacy of being. i believe its awareness and presence, with love, that brings healing, and we can only unite, if we make space for that healing to begin. so leave me to believe and do my thing as i will. you or any others who feel called to agree or join are free to, or are free to leave. all i will say, is be mindful of your assumptions, of your bias, and of the conclusions you draw as a consequence of them. it can lead to dangerous beliefs, and as such actions. the only wars i will wage are those that bring more love. peace to you and yours

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rainbowuniversepageantsys · 8 months

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Piggyback for Inner Beauty Tip about Treat Him Like a Gentleman

How a female treats a male says a lot about her femininity. Here are some ways you can treat a guy like a gentleman, show your femininity and modesty and get him to act like a gentleman"

Be casual, be fun, down to earth and playful so you don't act like his mother or his boss.

Don't flaunt your body so much that it ends up being what you are all about. Guys love mysterious females so hides some stuff.

Give him space, time, and room to want you so you and he can be sure.

Have boundaries and don't let any guys cross them or they will keep crossing them and then you won't have any boundaries anymore. Don't compromise your values because he is hot, rich, famous or gets all the girls. You don't need to be one of the girls, you need to be "the girl".

Make family, friends, work, and school a priority before him so he knows you have a life and get by without him around, then make him a priority and you will be respected for that.

Don't drop everything because if he suddenly disappears out of your life, usually from boredom because you are too easy, you may have nothing to pick up. Learn to say no sometimes.

Let him take the lead, open doors, pay for meals , pull out your chair, give you flowers, and then offer to do these things for him. It will make him feel more masculine, competent, and he be more likely to treat you like a lady because you let him and command respect.

Ask him about God and see how he responds. The true measure of a man or youth on the road to manhood is how much time he spends with his God and if he serves God. This guy is a catch as long as he is sincere in his walk with God and not pretending.

Let him chase you and be available to get caught but don't be too easy or he won't want to try at all. This lets you know he is really in to you and you are worth the effort of the pursuit. One caveat, if he is chasing you for sex only or something else twisted then you are not worth the pursuit to be committed to and have an exclusive relationship with. If he can hold off on sex for a while he is a treasure, a jewel, don't let him go.

Have an opinion about lots of things, speak articulately, show off your intelligence sometimes and enjoy healthy competition, share your philanthropy goals and show your heart, just be yourself because it will be obvious if you are lying.

Be mature, emotionally intelligent, not whiney or a cry baby looking for sympathy all the time to get his attention or overly sensitive, that's annoying and a total turn off unless he is a male chauvinist pig. Do develop a fatal attraction to anyone or it may end in trauma. Show your strength and he will be grateful you have it and he doesn't have to hold you up all the time.

Talk about other males like they are important to you and society. They get a raw deal because most of them are sex offenders but find the ones that are not and talk about them.

That's it. Go find your gentleman, ladies and make sure he knows you see him that way!

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aucoba · 2 years

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Long story but damn this gave me so much happiness 😭 how to be a great ally and call chauvinists bullshit out :

So, This is what my mom told me happened to her earlier this week.

For a bit of context : she is a physician (53yo) in the mountains, she's the only one in the valley (so she's pretty important for the community). She also works closely with police officers, firemen (she's a medical captain), ambulance people, nurses, social workers and the entirety of the retirement home next to her office and also is a work placement mentor (yeah she does way too much, sometimes doesn't eat lunch and rarely does less than 40hours a week). In term of personality, she's, by definition, a mother who only lives to help other find their ways to happiness. She hates confrontation and never really suffered from sexism (she's not traumatised or feels the need to defend womanhood on a daily basis)

Lately, there's a new coordinator doctor (let's call him Chav) working at the retirement home. What I got from her descriptions is that Chav is an older fat white kinda chauvinist dude. She acknowledges his great sides and simply doesn't bother with the more problematic ones or remembers them enough to laugh about it with me.

On Monday morning, not even 9am, they are in her office : her, Chav, her intern (male) and a new nurse from the retirement home (male).

Our not so dear old Chav makes a misogynistic joke. Mom can't (won't) remember it but she describes it as one of the most horrific thing she's heard. Her reaction? She called his bullshit out, draw the line and clearly explained how unacceptable his statement was.

How did he react? Well, you sussed it : "oOoh, You'RE eXaggERaTinG, like thoSe cRAZy FeMINisTs thAt CaN'T TAkE a jOkE, wE CAn'T say AnYThING AnyMoRe" (or something like that). My mom doesn't budge.

Chav : "You know I love women!"

My mom : "no, you're completely against. Against it all. That's not love"

And then

THEN

Her intern turns to Chav and says "actually, I agree with her".

And then! THEN! The nurse says "yeah, she is right with her arguments"

So yeah... My mom got support from two men when she was confronting a male colleague.

The funniest part is that, after all this she thanked her two new mates and her intern said "well, you know, as a cis het man, it's also important to help however I can". And my mom didn't know what "cis" meant so she simply ignored it and immediately thought to herself "I'll ask my daughter what this means, she'll know" 😂😂😂😂😂

So yeah... My mom is a badass and the world gotta deal with it.

#story time #Family story #feminism #My mom is a badass

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nashibirne · 3 years

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Congratulations on the milestone, Nashi! 🎉

My milestone: just celebrated my 5yr wedding anniversary 🥰

I'd like a little something with Sy, please

A little about me: I'm curvy and tall-ish (175cm). I have a large tattoo of a phoenix on my back. I love to bake and to make pretty cakes.

This is the second to last of my milestone prompts. 🥳 Thank you so much for celebrating with me and for your ask @eldarwen333

I tried to make it as personal as possible and I really hope you like my little story and your husband Sy 💜

Forever And Always

Pairing: Syverson x you (Wendy)

Words: 1.2 k

Summary: Sy makes your 5 years wedding anniversary unforgettable

Warnings: NSFW, 18+, smut, mention of cunnilingus, sex (p in v), fluff

UNBETA'ED! English is not my mother tongue, so expect bad grammar, wrong spelling, chaotic punctuation and clumsy language. All mistakes are mine…

Pics for the header from Pinterest, credits for the tattoos to the tattoo artists

My masterlist

And now... let's celebrate 🥂

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"Sy, where are we going?"

You giggle with a mix of excitement and impatience, fumbling with the blindfold that covers your eyes.

"Nah, babe. Hands off, you'll spoil the surprise," Sy growls grumpily but you can hear that he's grinning.

He's been a mystery-monger all day and you love it. It's a side of your husband most people wouldn't expect because they only see the tough ex-soldier who now runs a little security company. You can hardly blame them for thinking that way. Sy is the epitome of the strong, male chauvinist at first sight. A muscle-bound hulk of a man, confident, cocky, bossy, strict with himself and others but to those who are lucky enough to call him a friend, he's much more than that. He's funny, caring, warm hearted, a bit crazy and loyal to a fault. And the combination of all these qualities made you fall for him more than eight years ago.

He's also full of ideas and today he's about to surprise you with another one. It's your five years wedding anniversary and the day has been exactly after your own heart up to now. You woke up to a very horny Sy, who went down on you as soon as you opened your eyes, before he fucked you in the shower. So he gave you two very intense orgasms before you even had a coffee.

"I could get used to that kind of morning routine," you'd told him during breakfast and his rumbling laughter had made your heart skip a beat. You are still so madly in love with him, sometimes it almost feels unreal how happy you and him are and how lucky to have found each other.

You spent the rest of the morning and almost all afternoon in bed, watching your favorite movies and adding two more orgasms to the list, after you presented your own surprise to your husband.

A sinfully sexy lingerie set that highlighted your curves perfectly. When you entered your bedroom all dressed up, Sy stared at you in goggle-eyed amazement. He scrutinized you with a lewd smirk, drinking in the sight of your tall body wrapped up in nothing but black lace and satin before he literally jumped you. He fucked you from behind without undressing you. He just pulled the panties out of the way, enjoying the way your backside looked in the sexy underwear, showering you with kisses, praise and compliments.

After almost railing you into oblivion he was so happy, he even agreed on watching a chick flick, but you weren't really able to concentrate on the movie. You felt so sexy in your outfit, so confident and desired, it made you horny again and so you did it again. You rode your bull of a man into ecstasy, showing off the front side of your spicy lingerie this time.

That was just an hour ago but now you aren't in bed anymore, you're sitting in Sy's truck and he's taking you somewhere, making a big secret of your destination.

"Just gimme a little clue," you beg your husband but he just laughs and pats your thigh.

"Don't be so impatient, my little muffin," he teases you, "we'll be there in just a few minutes."

You smile at the nickname. When he first used it after you started dating, you found it pretty unsexy but you soon grew to like it because it's not only somehow unique but also very fitting because you love baking and you and Sy met at a country bake-off. It was a charity thing and Sy was one of the judges and he didn't only like your cake.

You shift in your seat with excitement when the car finally stops.

"Don't you dare touch the blind fold, woman," Sy orders and you obey with a grin. He helps you out of the car and leads you to your destination.

"Now," he whispers in your ear and when you take the fabric off your eyes you can't help but jump with joy. You're standing in front of your favorite tattoo artist's studio and that can only mean that Syverson somehow managed to get an appointment although the guy's usually booked out years in advance.

"That's your present? I'll be getting a new tattoo?" You ask, clapping your hands in anticipation.

"Not only you, muffin. You and me," he replies with a smirk.

You stare at him. He's always denied getting inked. He loves your tattoos, the large phoenix on your back is a great turn on for him, but he has never wanted to get a tattoo himself.

"Sy…," you look him in the eyes with a frown, "are you sure about that?"

"I am," he replies, kissing you tenderly. "I've already decided this a while ago but I wanted to do it on this special occasion. I've even already chosen the motives for you and me."

He gives you a sheepish grin and you realize once again how much you love your man.

"Really? Show me!"

Sy grabs his wallet from his back pocket and opens it to pull out two folded pieces of paper. He gives them to you with a grin, scratching his beard and you can tell he's not convinced you're going to like his choice.

You open the one with his name written on it first and you can't help but grin when you see the motive. It's a vintage style drawing of a muffin with lush frosting and a cherry on top. A little label that dangles from the cherry stem says "eat me".

"That's a perfect match, babe. It will look great on you," you say, smiling at him, before you open the second paper with your own name.

You gasp in amazement when you see a drawing of Sy's dog tags that are attached to a beautiful, heart shaped key. His military tags are symbols for so many things in your relationship, for all the times you've been separated when he was deployed, for your mutual loyalty and faith and for the deep love and trust you feel for each other. The fact that he's chosen this tattoo for you is so touching, you can't help but cry with emotion.

"Hey, hey, muffin," Sy whispers softly, "don't cry. It's okay if you don't like it."

"Don't be silly," you sob, laughing, "it's wonderful...just perfect."

"You like it?"

"I love it. Where do you want me to wear it?" You ask, drying your eyes with a kleenex Sy has given you.

"On your waist maybe? Between the arch of your ribs and your hip... I'm sure it looks great on your sexy curves."

"Sounds perfect to me," you answer with a loving smile.

"You are perfect to me," Sy replies before he pulls you close to speak softly into your ear.

"Happy anniversary, muffin. I love you."

"Happy anniversary. I love you too, Sy."

You kiss him tenderly and when you look at him again, he gives you a grin.

"I'll need you to hold my hand," he says. "I'm scared as fuck."

"I'll be there for you," you smile. "Today, forever and always."

"Forever and always," he agrees and with a deep breath he opens the door to the shop.

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young-dumb-and-vaccinated · 3 years

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Cult Girl: Doctorate (Hannibal x Female!Reader) pt. 7

Hemorrhage

Cult girl visits the doctor and deals with the reality of being pregnant.

@wisesandwichshark

Trigger warnings: pregnancy, scary medical terminology, mention of alcoholism

The plan was simple, but could go wrong at any turn.

Step one: confirm with the gynecologist that you were, in fact, pregnant. While you were there, you made sure to get a new prescription for birth control.

"It's absolutely certain." The nurse midwife said, pulling off her plastic gloves. "You are, without a doubt, expecting."

"Thank you." You responded, lowering your head to obscure your face.

She sat down in her swivel chair and leaned forward with her elbows against her knees. Open, comforting body language. "Now we should discuss what's next. Have you taken some time to consider your options?"

You nodded. "I think I'm going to see the pregnancy through and put the baby up for adoption."

"I see." The nurse midwife stood up, looking concerned. "At the risk of being intrusive, may I ask for the reason why?"

You had forty-five million reasons, but none you could articulate. "I'd rather you not."

"Let me rephrase the question." She clutched her clipboard. "Is somebody coercing you into carrying out this pregnancy against your will?"

Does bribery count as coercion? You thought.

"No." You lied.

"It's just that pregnancy is a very invasive, life-altering process." She rationalized. "A woman at your stage of life shouldn't feel obligated to go through it unless she really wanted to."

Thinking on it for a minute, what she said made sense. By all accounts, you'd be the perfect candidate for an abortion. You were a damned doctoral candidate in the middle of your graduate program. But sometimes, money spoke louder than reason.

"I'm sure." You said, before you could change your mind.

"In that case," She scribbled something down on her paper. "We will be seeing a lot of each other over the next forty weeks."

"Forty weeks?" You repeated.

"You're only a few weeks along, so we'll schedule an appointment to check up on you early next month." She continued. "At that point, we can bring the father in to discuss any potential problems. But you're young and healthy, so this should be a fairly low-risk pregnancy."

"The father?" You said, almost making it sound like an objection.

She gave you a disarming smile. "I'm sorry, I should have asked. Is the father in your life?"

"Oh, yeah." You nodded, realizing what you accidentally implied. "It's my fiancée. We've been living together for, like, three years now. It's just that-"

She raised an eyebrow, urging you to finish your thought.

"He's also a doctor." You said. "A male one. Y'know how it can be annoying when another doctor is in the room, trying to mansplain everything to you?"

You stopped talking before you could dig yourself into a deeper hole.

Great work, [F/N]. You thought. Now your doctor thinks you're dating an anti-choice chauvinist asshole.

Her mouth turned into a smile, but her eyes asked if you needed help. You probably did, all things considered.

"That won't be a problem." She assured you. "Do you think I made it through medical school without learning how to handle sexist male doctors?"

"I guess not." You shrugged.

She cleared her throat. "Let's talk a bit about what to expect."

"Oh, yeah." You said, remembering where you were.

She pointed to your lower abdomen. "Your uterus is about the size of your fist. But as the baby grows, it will grow with it."

You made noises of agreement as you followed along.

"Right now, what you have inside you is an embryo." She explained. "At the end of twelve weeks, it will be a fetus. At that point, most of the major organs and muscle tissue will have developed-"

She dumped so much information that you couldn't even begin to process it all. You tried to keep bullet points in your head, but your brain kept fixating on the scary verbs like "stretch" and "rip".

"Is the third of February good for you?"

You snapped back to reality. "Huh? Oh, yeah."

"Great." She scribbled on her clipboard again. "I will see you then."

She shoved several handfuls of colorful printouts and infographics into your arms before seeing you out.

Before climbing into the car, you sent Hannibal a text.

[F/N]: Definitely, 100% pregnant.

You expected him to take his time, but your notification sound chimed before you could even start the engine.

Hannibal: That is to be expected. I'm rarely wrong about this sort of thing.

You rolled your eyes and fired off another message.

[F/N]: You did this to me and I'll never let you forget it.

Hannibal: I could live with that.

At home, you sat at your computer, trying to familiarize yourself with every unknown word the nurse midwife threw at you.

“Hey babe?” You called out.

“Yes, dear?” Hannibal cooed back.

“How do you spell ‘hemorrhage’?” You asked. “Is there an ‘ae’ or not?”

Hannibal stepped out of the bathroom, wearing a towel around his waist. “I think it’s spelled with an ‘ae’ outside of the United States. Why?”

He peered over your shoulder at the search results for ‘antepartum hemorrhage’. He wasn’t fazed in the slightest by the results, but could sense your discomfort. You clutched a stray pamphlet titled ‘First Trimester Dos and Don’ts’ in a tight grip.

“Are we having second thoughts, my love?” He asked, with no indication of whether this was a good or bad thing.

“I don’t know.” You sighed, closing the laptop in frustration. “I don’t know if I’m just emotionally numb or in complete denial, but all these scary medical disasters don’t scare me as much as having to give up wine for the next nine months.”

“And sushi, most organ meat, and charcuterie.” Hannibal added. “Also, anything too high in caffeine.”

You threw your head back and groaned. “Kill me.”

Hannibal smirked to himself. You turned on your swivel chair and glared up at him.

“Enjoying my misery?” You asked, folding your arms.

“Just admiring the fact that in the face of life-threatening medical emergencies,” He placed his hands on your shoulders. “Your biggest concern is not being able to partake in the culinary adventures to which you’ve grown accustomed.”

You turned back to your computer. “I’m sure, one way or another, we’re going to come across some fresh meat. I’ll just have to pair it with Sprite or something for the time being.”

“The infographic doesn’t say anything about properly-prepared human meat, does it?” He tilted his head.

You leaned back in your chair. “Nope.”

#hannibal lecter #hannibal nbc #hannibal #hannibal x reader #hannibal x you #hannibal lecter x you #hannibal lecter x reader #cult girl #cult girl 2 #more cult girl

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Unpopular opinion - Sylvie is just a Mary Sue

Slyvie is a horrible Mary Sue, and that’s sad. If I want to see/read some Mary Sue story I open wattpad. She is totally wasted as a character I see almost zero chemistry between her and Loki (not just in a romantic way, any way). Loki’s power is unbalanced, he’s sometimes extremly powerful and in the next moment he’s beaten up by some ordinary soldier, all of this because in this way he cannot overshine Slyvie and that’s disappointing. Loki runs after Slyvie like a puppy meanwhile Sylvie insults him (clown, idiot, etc), treatens him (btw, if Loki would treat her like this I’m sure he would be a male chauvinist). Loki is brilliant, a genius - at least, he was, but no, Slyvie is the “superior one”, only she can have a plan, only she can solve everything. She is the “chosen one”. And I don’t know, but why did they show us (on paper at least) that Loki is genderfluid if Sylvie is the only female Loki? Sorry, but this makes no sense. I’m a huge fan of the Marvel Universe and Loki, and this writing really makes me so sad. This series had a huge potential, but now I’m just disappionted. The actors are amazing and Sophia di Martino is just WHOA, and the problem with Slyvie is not her fault. It’s the writer’s.

#loki #loki series #sylvie #mary sue problem #mary sue #sophia di martino #tom hiddleston

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zae82 · 3 years

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This isn’t working…

Turns out Nat delayed filing a formal divorce so they did their twice weekly now thrice weekly sessions with their therapist/counselor. She thinks it’s not working. Their marriage was nothing but a lie. A sham even.

And it sometimes ended up being screaming sessions.

“There’s no fuckin way I’m divorcing you! No fuckin way! I’m Irish Catholic. Marriage is for life.”

His Brooklyn accent gets thicker when they argue.

“We didn’t even wed in a church Einstein…” Nat sneered. “And I’m half Jewish.”

“Like I said Nat, there’s no way I’m divorcing you. Over my dead body…”

If it needs to come to that… Nat thought evilly in the furthest corner of her mind.

“You know what Steve, you’re an Asshole. You really are. I never realised that. But you’re a male chauvinist pig who’s also a manipulative Asshole…”

“Stop playing the victim here Nat! I didn’t force you to quit your job. I didn’t make you give up your career. Some career it was… You wanted to stay home. You wanted to raise the kids…”

“Because that’s what was best!” She fumed. “I didn’t even want to have children. I never planned to. I had kids because I was in love with you or she was in love with you… and She was so stupidly in love with you, she’d give up the world…”

Somehow it’s easier to refer to the old Nat who didn’t remember the events of EndGame as a third person. And that Nat was crazy over Steve.

“Wow Nat. Seriously. You didn’t want children?” Steve just stared at her. “You’re telling me you regret having our kids?”

“I should have been left for dead. That’s what should’ve happened. That would have been best. Me dead in Vormir and you back in the forties with Peggy.” She huffed.

“You know I hate to say this but you can really be a cruel B word sometimes.” Steve said bitterly

Just fucking say the word. Bitch. The word is Bitch… Enough with your forties delicate sensibilities.

The therapist left to attend to an urgent call from another patient. And well the arguments lead to other things.

And she knows she’s weak. Probably ruined for life by his serum enhanced…

Well… Maybe they can still salvage whatever’s left.

“No stop I can’t do this.” She pushed him away. She doesn’t want to be weak in the knees anymore.

“I love you Nat, you know this.” He whispered.

“I don’t know if I love you anymore…”

Well that stumped him. He turned around and faced the window.

“I’m sorry Steve. It’s just.. it’s not working. This… Us… it’s not working anymore.”

“No..” Steve shook his head. “I’m not giving up on us…”

#sims 4 #steve rogers x natasha romanoff #romanogers #capwidow #stevenat #my babiesss #i will go down with this ship #my ship is better than yours #angst

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random Amira (twst) headcanons

,,are those headcanons if she’s my oc? dunno

am just vibing ok (more headcanons here)

Amira likers (if you do even exist) come get yo juice

• Singing voice claims! I don’t really find a JP voice that would suit her but I did find quite some songs with the pitch I see for her! please click on the links for the songs!

Ashes (Promare) - Hiroyuki Sawano feat. Gemie (especially the second part ≈2:12, it’s more potent)

BAR2NG4女14yoN (Promare) - Hiroyuki Sawano (voice at 0:30 but the part at 1:03 is very potent too)

Poor Unfortunate Souls/I Put a Spell on You - Voctave ft. Rachel Potter

Gurenge - AmaLee cover (I see Amira’s voice as more velvety or warm, but the pitch is thERE)

Arabian Nights (Aladdin) - JADA cover

Tick Tock - Clean Bandit & Mabel ft. 24kGoldn (this voice is a bit different from the others but I still see it a pretty good match)

linked to the previous point, her voice generally would be pretty potent and energetic. she probably uses to sing when she’s feeling a bit stressed, but also hums mindlessly when she’s doing something like cooking or tidying

likes to cook a lot! she didn’t have to do that since there are maids at her place, but still really enjoys it. it started as a challenge to herself when she was younger; she desperately wanted to be proud of herself by not letting people making her things, and found it enjoyable quickly. she also helped Jamil to cook from time to time (cough sneakily cough),, she can cook lots of plates now and still wants to expand her knowledge! also man her cooking is delicious

linked to the previous point!! she has nO IDEA how to cook seafood tho, especially mollusks,, those aren’t common at her place, and she never had the chance to lay a hand on them pls help her. I also hc that Jamil also doesn’t have much of a clue to cook them, so they’re just confused together. Of course I can’t talk for him, but I think it’d be pretty funny (the Yuu in the last pic is Carol, @fumikomiyasaki’s Yuu)

her sunglasses aren’t there for display!! Amira’s flirtatious (?) personality sometimes hypnotizes accidentally. her UM requires her to look seductively at someone. by training this magic, she involuntary got used to it, to a point that it made part of her behavior. the sunglasses block her red eyes light, so she doesn’t hypnotize someone unknowingly.

maybe I've already mentioned this before, but she has three siblings, all younger than her

Amira was a very mature kid for her age because she had to look after her mom😩

about Amira’s mom: she was forced to marry the son of a wealthy man. Her family is wealthy too, so the marriage was arranged between the children of two high-statused friends. she wasn’t too contrary to the marriage since she started to feel something for his fiancé. during the marriage, she genuinely fell for his husband, but he had to be away during prolonged times due to business. she then realized that the marriage was like a cage that she couldn’t be freed from, and slowly but surely developed a depression. she fell out of love with her husband, thus worsening her state. now she’s most of her time in her room and doesn’t get out too often. she looks tired and melancholic.

about Amira’s dad: absent father 102%, both physically and emotionally. he’s a quite reckless man, full of himself and pretty narcissistic as well due to how well his business goes.

OVERBLOT REASONS: arson since Amira’s twisted off Jafar’s staff, there HAS to be manipulation somewhere. She had pretty many reasons to overblot (looking after one of her parents; being looked down by men; being turned down numerous times by her father), that grew in the span of a year.

may I say that her place is quite male chauvinist,,her father is passive-aggressive to her and her younger sister (who would be the “next in line” before a boy) only because they’re women

Amira’s family is wealthy and known for this along her land, and has a small nobility title. But not high enough as her father wants.

Amira’s father wanted to get her married to a son of a noble family. She is VERY contrary to this, however. The father, then, decided to make a bet with her; enroll her in NRC, a male-only school, and force her to study there for three years. If the school didn’t kick her out for being a woman, she wouldn’t get married. If it did, she’d marry the eldest son of a friend of his. She was terrified of this, so she kept a cover for the first year that blew out at the beginning of the second year due to her overblot.

I KNOW THIS SOUNDS SO CLICHÉ OK BUT IT’S THE BEST I COULD CAME OUT WITH

the subtle manipulation would continue even at the school due to the cover and create her pain. She had to cover her outgoing personality, not to mention voice, movements and face traits, to keep her safe. She would stray away and just look like a shy boy, avoiding crowds and groups of people.

but everything would burst when there’s an argument between her and Jamil (probably about a small thing, but things heated up), and he yelled that he was using her all that time; Amira is close with him since childhood and many times offered to help him with chores. He’d say he used her kindness to shorten the tasks, when that wasn’t true at all. Jamil was skeptical of her at first, but then genuinely opened up and warmed up to her, he only said that to hurt her feelings. Which did.

and boom overblot time. Maybe I’ll draw it one day, but she’d have a big black and red cobra around her neck, and the figure behind her would be the same cobra as in the snake staff, but black with red and golden ornaments.

ALSO IF YOU HAVE AN OC BASED OFF ALADDIN TELL ME SO WE CREATE TENSION BETWEEN THEM AND AMIRA SINCE ALADDIN BROKE JAFAR’S STAFF

sadiq very probably had a crush on Amira at one point, but it was delusional

she dislikes coldness wiTH A PASSION

she loves lanterns!! especially the ones with warmer colors!

and I see that whenever she feels sad, she would hide inside a closet or under a desk. it makes her feel covered and helps her calm down faster.

THANKS FOR STAYING UNTIL THE END HERE A SMOOCH

MWAH

#twisted wonderland #twst oc #amira hassan #twst amira #scarabia oc #twst

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How does abstaining from dating men make someone a better feminist? Genuine question. I know there are many good reasons to abstain so that's not what I'm asking, I just wonder how doing so makes you better? Surely women can believe in radical feminist ideology and do activism just as well regardless of who they're in love with?

It's a really difficult question. I'll be clear that I'm not an expert of feminism like some of my peers. Also to be clear, I'm a straight (i think) woman and wants to date a guy at some point. Some of my closest radfem friends are older women, married, and with kids. They're still feminists. They're activists and they're more involved than i can be (at least currently with my education and age).

The problem with any female-male relationship is that it's never, ever equal. For many radical feminists, romance is something created by men to subject women in a more charming way. For them, there can't be romantic love between a man and a woman because men see women as no more than a vessel for their sexual gratification. I do not think that all men think that way, but i do think that actively engaging in such power dynamics willingly is non-feministic. It is not antifeministic. The only thing i think is that of you do not recognize the existing dynamics between females and males in society, which will always affect the dynamics in the relationship, and you're all talk in private, and never do anything, it's maybe "less" feministic unless it's threatening your livelihood or life.

I am not at all in the opinion that abstaining from dating men makes you a better feminist, although as i delve more into feminism, i less and less want to pursue dating men. Even just reading the news does it, but moreso when i realize it truly always has been this way.

What i do think make you a better feminist regarding dating men: stop contacting with men who watch porn if they don't want to try stopping (not only while dating, also in-between. This is an important question to ask. If they don't agree to hear any of it, or go with the whole "it's their body their choice/just like any other service job." tell them they're gross and misogynistic). Same for prostitution (if they say "my friend went once because he needed to, it's biological." Tell them it's also your biological need to slap them across the face but you don't do it, then this friend can keep it in his pants and use his hand, or whatever. Dating someone who condones any form of abuse supports their view that "if a woman agrees with me, then it's not misogynistic" mindset, also it condones his support of the inequality and in a way is antifeministic. It's not if he's ready to change though, and tries to.

Marriage (religious one especially), if not coerced, can be considered antifeministic because religions, most often than not, commemorate class sexism and male superiority over female inferiority. Even the word husband itself is somewhat annoying to some feminists (i do say spouse usually, but i don't call out women using it for their spouses. (Although i hate when my mom says in Hebrew הבעל שלה more often than even בעלה, which while meaning the same, has more connotation of ownership in the first one). But with that said, feminists who oppose heterosexual marriages because it's not feministic enough are usually very extremist and in some cases female chauvinists, who sometimes even say that a woman marrying an abusive man did it to herself because she married him. At some point, it's no longer feminism but female chauvinism.

tldr: it doesn't make you a better feminist to abstain from dating men, it makes you a better feminist to acknowledge the dangers and inherent inequality of it, and also educate the man you're dating, and raise you sins if you end up having some the best way possible for them to not be part of the horrible statistics of male violence against women and rather be that guy that feminists would let their daughters to date.

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I went to visit my family for Thanksgiving, and as usual, I was confronted with numerous blue pill beliefs. While I’m no longer annoyed by these things, because I’ve gone through the “Return Journey” phase of swallowing the red pill, I did notice something that was extremely disturbing.

As I grew tired of arguing over basic political, economic, and gender points, I meandered downstairs to my family’s recreation room. There was a group of my younger relatives, aged 16-20, watching some show on Netflix about trans-gendered individuals.

I don’t know what the show was called, but one thing that really struck me was the show’s uncanny ability to use emotionally charged scenes and drama to elicit a feeling of compassion for the characters. In other words, numerous TV shows are now starting to take advantage of our natural empathy, and using it to sway our political and social opinions.

Emotionally Gripping

As I stood behind the couch watching a few minutes of this transgender show, I saw a very heart wrenching scene take place. Although the nuances of the story line were lost to me, I gathered enough information to see what was going on.

Basically, some guy was getting surgery to turn into a woman. As he was in the operating room, something went terribly wrong, and despite the surgeons’ desperate attempts to save him, he ended up perishing.

The following scene was comprised of extremely grief-inducing piano music played to various clips of the man’s children all mourning their loss. While this may seem innocuous, or like it’s just “creative, dramatic television,” I believe that it’s actually something far more sinister.

What’s going on here, is that the elites (because remember, this is a top down operation) are trying to traumatize the average American youth with images of the “horrors that transgender people go through!” They’re using television to create these emotional “triggers,” if you will, that will be ignited anytime someone says something against transgenders.

In other words, the trauma that occurs from becoming engrossed in this TV show (in our example) leaves an emotional residue of sorts, so that whenever the topic of transgenderism is brought up in conversation, the viewer subconsciously remembers the emotions associated with the topic which the TV show implanted into his mind.

Emotional Triggers

This became abundantly clear to me as I was arguing with a friend from the West Coast over transgenderism. I very calmly said that I believe it’s a mental illness, and should be treated as such. I said that these people need help, and we shouldn’t encourage them. I backed my assertion by referencing how the chief psychologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital has vehemently called out doctors who perform transgender surgeries as “collaborating with a mental illness for profit.”

Despite my calm and collected assertions, she grew EXTREMELY emotional and automatically assumed a whole host of things about me:

I’m a disgusting, careless sociopath

I have no sympathy for others’ suffering and I’m a cold-hearted bastard

I vehemently hate anyone who’s different than me

Despite the fact that none of these things are true, it became clear to me why she automatically believed this about me: the TV shows that she watches had been subtly implanting little emotional biases into her brain. This is how manipulative our “real” media is.

What happened, in psychological terms, was that as I was calmly explaining my perspective on transgenderism, her subconscious was flooded with all of the EMOTIONS that she associates with the topic:

All of the pain and grief she experienced from TV shows depicting transgender “issues”

How Bruce Jenner is a “hero,” and how much mainstream “opposition” he encountered when coming out

All of the anger she experienced when the token “anti-transgender person” in each show was a huge dick to the main character (more on this in the next section)

All rational thought was completely stopped, as she had literally been trained to elicit a certain response whenever the topic of transgenderism is brought up. Do you see my point? By repeatedly exposing people to scenes that elicit sympathy for transgenders, the media is engineering a widespread social response in favor of it.

Token Characters

As I alluded to before, another underhanded tactic that mainstream TV shows use is that they never have a rational, level-headed man who supports traditional marriage and normal heterosexuality. Any time someone in mainstream media doesn’t support the main character’s disorder, he’s always portrayed as a complete asshole.

This can take the form of him beating up the main character, bullying the main character, or what have you. I recall several years ago there was ample talk at the work place over some “anti-homosexual” character in glee that smothered a smoothie onto a guy just because he was homosexual, or something ridiculous like that.

Despite the fact that NOBODY I know would do something like this, the elite-sponsored TV utilizes token characters in order to implant a certain idea into our heads—the idea that everyone who opposes deviant sexual orientations is a cold-hearted bully. I recall that this was pointed out to me by a Catholic high school teacher, and it didn’t make any sense to me back then (before homosexuality was normal).

Now, in retrospect, I’m extremely thankful that he planted that seed in my class’s mind. The more that I look at television through this lens, the more I see what he was talking about. There’s never a level-headed, confident, genuine man that has game, either. It’s always either a completely meek beta male, or a chauvinistic “bad boy” Hank-Moody type character (although I do love me some Hank Moody).

This phenomena is taken even further as the transgender or homosexual person in mainstream TV is almost always portrayed as some brave, sweet, sensitive soul, with a hard life. In other words, the elites are engineering a dichotomy as Roosh has referenced before.

The dichotomy is that you’re either a sweet, empathetic, gentle-hearted person who supports transgenderism and deviant sexual preferences, or you’re a complete asshole who bullies and berates people just because “you’re mean.” This use of labeling brainwashes others into IMMEDIATELY putting you into the “sociopathic jerk” category if you don’t support transgenderism, making any and all rational discourse folly.

Subtle Desensitization

Another terrifying event that comes to mind of the media’s disgusting methods was when I was watching a popular kid’s TV show known as “Adventure Time,” a year or two ago. Again, I was with my family for some holiday event (I can’t remember which), and recall some of the kids watching this show.

Despite the fact that it’s labeled as a kid’s show, I saw an insidious little dialogue take place that was meant to desensitize children to pedophilia. In the show, there was some ball going on (I assume it was like a “prom” type deal), and the old wizard was looking for a partner.

He ended up going with some underage girl, who was probably 60 years his prior, and when the main character pointed this out, the old wizard simply stated: “Age…is nothing but a number!” Upon which the characters started dancing and doing comical things to prevent any sort of rational thought occurring after this was said.

After seeing this I became extremely disgusted and turned off the television, but that’s beyond the point. Why is this type of dribble being used to brainwash our youth? Anyone with half a brain can see that the point behind this scene was to start subtly implanting the seeds of pedophilia into a child’s mind.

Again, the words of my wise old Catholic high school teacher come to mind. I’ll never forget when he told me that “in 15 years, pedophilia will become normal.” My entire class was shocked, and couldn’t comprehend such a thing happening. He said this in 2009, and it seems that his prediction is coming true.

“First it will start with the media,” he said. “They’ll have some show where they make jokes about it and they’ll keep the humor very lighthearted, never showing the actual act. They’ll begin the process of desensitizing you, then eventually some politician will bring it up, and it will be an official stance that other politicians will be forced to take. This will begin the process of slowly normalizing it.”

My God was this man spot on, because this is EXACTLY how the media sways our opinions.

Keep in mind that their methods are SUBTLE, and that’s the point—they want to keep it below the level of thought so that you never question what they’re teaching you. Any time a strange or ridiculous belief is asserted, they very quickly move into a joyful scene or celebration to not only prevent you from thinking too much about the ridiculous belief, but to have you associate happiness with it, as well, which brings me to my next point.

Association And Correlation Bias

There’s a very powerful phenomena in psychology known as association; this is sometimes also called the correlation bias, or “Illusory Correlation.” This is basically your mind’s tendency to look for relationships where there aren’t any.

For example, why do you think most modern girls aren’t girlfriend material? Why do you think that the average man is weak, pathetic, and emasculated? It’s because of the media’s tendency to slowly create illusory associations within your mind.

The media causes women to associate happiness and a successful life with the following:

Being a man-hating feminist, who can’t submit to a strong, confident man

Not cooking or cleaning, because that’s “sexist”

Riding the alpha male cock carousel, and not getting married, because marriage is “oppressive”

The media creates a false correlation in women’s minds by constantly portraying bitchy, overly-masculine, slutty women as being empowered, sought-after, and happy. As any man who’s been learning game knows, this is absolute nonsense.

It doesn’t matter, though—once your brain has an association, it’s extremely difficult to get rid of it. This is why so many men are emasculated nowadays. It teaches us to associate:

Being a weak bitch with getting a hot girlfriend

Being a feminist and leftist with having girls think you’re noble and heroic

Courting a slut with being a gentleman

As any modern man who reads the manosphere knows, these are completely fallacious beliefs. Being a weak, low-testosterone man will not in fact land you the girls. Being a screaming leftist who holds those “I’m a feminist because,” signs will not get you the approval of women, and courting a washed up slut does not make you a gentleman (it makes you stupid).

Despite the obvious illogical nature of these beliefs, because the mainstream media has 8 hours a day to indoctrinate us, most men end up buying into them wholeheartedly, and will even berate you for having game when you CLEARLY get more women than them.

“So What Can I Do?”

First things first, stop watching mainstream media. In case you haven’t noticed, the MSM is starting to feel the effects of men waking up; in fact, they’ve recently gone on a long, drawn-out tirade about “fake news,” or in other words, news that is red-pilled.

I haven’t watched mainstream media EVER—the only time that I ever watch MSM is if they’re interviewing a pickup artist, a manosphere blogger, or if I’m trying to debunk their ludicrous reporting. I get almost all of my news from sites like ROK, Danger And Play, Info Wars, Natural News, and the people that I follow on Twitter.

In addition to only consuming a red-pilled information diet, ensure that your children don’t watch TV unarmed. I saw a phenomenal post recently on “How to Raise Red-Pilled Daughters,” and the ROK author talks about how he doesn’t flat out ban TV, but rather teaches his daughters to think rationally and learn to see the foolishness of MSM.

Aside from not watching MSM and raising your family to be skeptical of it, you can also support alternative media sites by simply tuning in. You don’t have to buy any of their products (although it helps); simply giving them your attention and leaving a thoughtful comment or two is enough to generate interest.

All in all, we’re facing extremely tumultuous times. More and more people are starting to break free of the MSM’s grip on their mind, but the men who get left behind end up more brainwashed than ever. Eventually, once the MSM dies, we can begin the long and arduous process of reclaiming our country—and this, my friends, is something I believe is worth fighting for.

Read More: Fact Checking Emotional Propaganda

When I was making a purchase at my local bookstore last week, the cashier solicited me for a donation. This donation was for a charity dealing with sick children or something. I told cashier I came here to buy a book not make donations. I guess she realized I am not one to be guilt tripped into doing things and told me that many people do not have the courage to say no. This pressure to comply due to emotional appeal has run rampant in America. When people make decisions on how they feel or manipulated by their feelings, not many good things can come of it.

Usually I do not delve into the details of the various schemes and manipulations that powerful people do in order to influence people’s behaviors. Someone actually fact checked one sales pitch for the limitation of guns. This exercise in breaking down an argument outside of the emotional shows that emotion is all it has. While the premise is guns, the method is pure emotional appeal.

The Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg has decided to throw his hat in, as well as his capital, in a political fight against the NRA by spending an estimated fifty million dollars to start up Everytown for Gun Safety @ Everytown.org. If you go to his website, one of the articles pops out on the front page is an “analysis” of the over sixty “school shootings” that have taken place since the Newtown massacre on December 12th, 2012.

In this era of political rhetoric and ideological echo-chambers, there is little in the way of fact-checking and realism with statistical data. The media is off panicking the masses of soccer moms and metrosexual dads that mass shootings are a growing epidemic, apparently none of whom look at the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports of homicides every year. Of the sixty-two incidents on Everytown’s “analysis”, only one can be classified as a mass murder. The FBI is quite clear that a “mass murder” involves the homicide of four or more individuals with no cooling off period between the murders. The article would lead readers to believe that there have been sixty-two incidents of similar scope as the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. But this is simply not the case.

With a total combined death toll between the sixty-two “school shootings” of 39, it’s hard to match them up to Newtown, which in one incident saw 28 deaths, including the perpetrator, Adam Lanza. Despite what the media might portray for politics, ratings, or profit, such shootings are exceptionally rare. Of course, a large amount of the focus is on the AR-15 reportedly used,the gun control advocates would like gullible Americans to think without which Adam Lanza would not have been capable of such carnage. But if you remember the Virginia Tech shooting on April 16th, 2007. Seung-Hui Cho managed to kill 32 people, then himself, with nothing more than a .22LR caliber Walther P22 and 9mm Glock 19; the Walther with a magazine capacity of ten rounds and the Glock a bit more at fifteen. There is little discussion of firearms in the Everytown analysis, probably because they are virtually all handguns or the suggested firearm for home defense of Vice President Joe Biden, a shotgun.

Let’s look at that the lack of analysis this “analysis” gives us, as it’s little more than a picture of a crying woman and a list of schools at which a firearm was discharged on or nearby campus grounds since December 2012. Thirty-nine people dead, because of school shootings, between December 13th, 2012 and mid-April 2014. It’s hard to find statistics for causes of death even near that number. The United States averages roughly 51 deaths due to lightning strikes per year, over the last 20 years; according to NOAA. According to the CDC, there was an average of 3,533 unintentional drownings per year for the years of 2005-2009. Yet where is a politically motivated and affluent billionaire to launch a safety campaign outlining the dangers of pools or thunderstorms?

The fact that Mayor Bloomberg has taken Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s now infamous quote “never let a good crisis go to waste” to heart, is no surprise. But who thinks about the political realities of why someone is making moves against one of the GOP’s biggest political lobbies, using a tragedy like Newtown as the crest on their flag; when they are busy being emotionally compromised by the idea of children being gunned down in their school classrooms?

Among the 39 deaths, there is a justified case of self-defense, a possible case of self-defense, and seven cases of nothing more then suicides by firearm. The biggest trend among these “school shootings” is the shooters and victims are young black men. This reality is in stark contrast to the media image of upper-class white elementary school kids gunned down by socially awkward psychopaths with AR-15’s or other “assault weapons”. Few if any of the mainstream gun safety campaigns reflect the reality of gun violence. Remember, you are more likely to be killed by bee stings than you are to be shot on or around a school campus.

In conclusion, this emotional appeal by Mr. Bloomberg seems to be all about coercing a population into following his politics through emotional appeal. His advocacy gives them an audience of motivated people controlled by their emotions. What could a powerful person do with this audience aside from campaign against guns. I signed up at this website to get the newsletter. This newsletter only talks about political activism for those that seem to not be able to make up their own mind. Be aware of those that appeal to your emotion, because they may not appeal to your interests.

Note: The author received help from “Glocktopus”, a member of the notorious “Donk Chat” in writing this article.

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Thread: I was sent this and felt the need to thread it here on Twitter. It will be long. It is purported to be an anonymous, open letter from a professor at UK Berkeley in the History Department. The only comment I will make is to say it is worth every moment of the read.

C Berkeley History Professor's Open Letter Against BLM, Police Brutality and Cultural Orthodoxy

Dear profs X, Y, Z

I am one of your colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley. I have met you both personally but do not know you closely, and am contacting you anonymously, with apologies. I am worried that writing this email publicly might lead to me losing my job, and likely all future jobs in my field.

In your recent departmental emails you mentioned our pledge to diversity, but I am increasingly alarmed by the absence of diversity of opinion on the topic of the recent protests and our community response to them.

In the extended links and resources you provided, I could not find a single instance of substantial counter-argument or alternative narrative to explain the under-representation of black individuals in academia or their over-representation in the criminal justice system. The explanation provided in your documentation, to the near exclusion of all others, is univariate: the problems of the black community are caused by whites, or, when whites are not physically present, by the infiltration of white supremacy and white systemic racism into American brains, souls, and institutions.

Many cogent objections to this thesis have been raised by sober voices, including from within the black community itself, such as Thomas Sowell and Wilfred Reilly. These people are not racists or 'Uncle Toms'. They are intelligent scholars who reject a narrative that strips black people of agency and systematically externalizes the problems of the black community onto outsiders.

Their view is entirely absent from the departmental and UCB-wide communiques.

…

A counternarrative exists. If you have time, please consider examining some of the documents I attach at the end of this email.

Overwhelmingly, the reasoning provided by BLM and allies is either primarily anecdotal (as in the case with the bulk of Ta-Nehisi Coates' undeniably moving article) or it is transparently motivated. As an example of the latter problem, consider the proportion of black incarcerated Americans. This proportion is often used to characterize the criminal justice system as anti-black. However, if we use the precise same methodology, we would have to conclude that the criminal justice system is even more anti-male than it is anti-black.

Would we characterize criminal justice as a systemically misandrist conspiracy against innocent American men? I hope you see that this type of reasoning is flawed, and requires a significant suspension of our rational faculties. Black people are not incarcerated at higher rates than their involvement in violent crime would predict. This fact has been demonstrated multiple times across multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries. And yet, I see my department uncritically reproducing a narrative that diminishes black agency in favor of a white-centric explanation that appeals to the department's apparent desire to shoulder the 'white man's burden' and to promote a narrative of white guilt.

If we claim that the criminal justice system is white-supremacist, why is it that Asian Americans, Indian Americans, and Nigerian Americans are incarcerated at vastly lower rates than white Americans? This is a funny sort of white supremacy. Even Jewish Americans are incarcerated less than gentile whites. I think it's fair to say that your average white supremacist disapproves of Jews. And yet, these alleged white supremacists incarcerate gentiles at vastly higher rates than Jews. None of this is addressed in your literature. None of this is explained, beyond hand-waving and ad hominems. "Those are racist dogwhistles". "The model minority myth is white supremacist". "Only fascists talk about black-on-black crime", ad nauseam. These types of statements do not amount to counterarguments: they are simply arbitrary offensive classifications, intended to silence and oppress discourse. Any serious historian will recognize these for the silencing orthodoxy tactics they are, common to suppressive regimes, doctrines, and religions throughout time and space. They are intended to crush real diversity and permanently exile the culture of robust criticism from our department.

Increasingly, we are being called upon to comply and subscribe to BLM's problematic view of history, and the department is being presented as unified on the matter. In particular, ethnic minorities are being aggressively marshaled into a single position. Any apparent unity is surely a function of the fact that dissent could almost certainly lead to expulsion or cancellation for those of us in a precarious position, which is no small number.

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The vast majority of violence visited on the black community is committed by black people. There are virtually no marches for these invisible victims, no public silences, no heartfelt letters from the UC regents, deans, and departmental heads. The message is clear: Black lives only matter when whites take them. Black violence is expected and insoluble, while white violence requires explanation and demands solution.

Please look into your hearts and see how monstrously bigoted this formulation truly is.

No discussion is permitted for nonblack victims of black violence, who proportionally outnumber black victims of nonblack violence. This is especially bitter in the Bay Area, where Asian victimization by black assailants has reached epidemic proportions, to the point that the SF police chief has advised Asians to stop hanging good-luck charms on their doors, as this attracts the attention of (overwhelmingly black) home invaders.

Home invaders like George Floyd. For this actual, lived, physically experienced reality of violence in the USA, there are no marches, no tearful emails from departmental heads, no support from McDonald's and Wal-Mart.

For the History department, our silence is not a mere abrogation of our duty to shed light on the truth: it is a rejection of it.

…

Most troublingly, our department appears to have been entirely captured by the interests of the Democratic National Convention, and the Democratic Party more broadly. To explain what I mean, consider what happens if you choose to donate to Black Lives Matter, an organization UCB History has explicitly promoted in its recent mailers. All donations to the official BLM website are immediately redirected to ActBlue Charities, an organization primarily concerned with bankrolling election campaigns for Democrat candidates. Donating to BLM today is to indirectly donate to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign. This is grotesque given the fact that the American cities with the worst rates of black-on-black violence and police-on-black violence are overwhelmingly Democrat-run. Minneapolis itself has been entirely in the hands of Democrats for over five decades; the 'systemic racism' there was built by successive Democrat administrations.

…

Given the direction our history department appears to be taking far from any commitment to truth, we can regard ourselves as a formative training institution for this brand of snake-oil salespeople. Their activities are corrosive, demolishing any hope at harmonious racial coexistence in our nation and colonizing our political and institutional life. Many of their voices are unironically segregationist.

MLK would likely be called an Uncle Tom if he spoke on our campus today. We are training leaders who intend, explicitly, to destroy one of the only truly successful ethnically diverse societies in modern history. As the PRC, an ethnonationalist and aggressively racially chauvinist national polity with null immigration and no concept of jus solis increasingly presents itself as the global political alternative to the US, I ask you: Is this wise? Are we really doing the right thing?

As a final point, our university and department has made multiple statements celebrating and eulogizing George Floyd. Floyd was a multiple felon who once held a pregnant black woman at gunpoint. He broke into her home with a gang of men and pointed a gun at her pregnant stomach.

He terrorized the women in his community. He sired and abandoned multiple children, playing no part in their support or upbringing, failing one of the most basic tests of decency for a human being. He was a drug-addict and sometime drug-dealer, a swindler who preyed upon his honest and hard-working neighbors.

And yet, the regents of UC and the historians of the UCB History department are celebrating this violent criminal, elevating his name to virtual sainthood. A man who hurt women. A man who hurt black women. With the full collaboration of the UCB history department, corporate America, most mainstream media outlets, and some of the wealthiest and most privileged opinion-shaping elites of the USA, he has become a culture hero, buried in a golden casket, his (recognized) family showered with gifts and praise. Americans are being socially pressured into kneeling for this violent, abusive misogynist. A generation of black men are being coerced into identifying with George Floyd, the absolute worst specimen of our race and species. I'm ashamed of my department. I would say that I'm ashamed of both of you, but perhaps you agree with me, and are simply afraid, as I am, of the backlash of speaking the truth. It's hard to know what kneeling means, when you have to kneel to keep your job.

It shouldn't affect the strength of my argument above, but for the record, I write as a person of color. My family have been personally victimized by men like Floyd. We are aware of the condescending depredations of the Democrat party against our race. The humiliating assumption that we are too stupid to do STEM, that we need special help and lower requirements to get ahead in life, is richly familiar to us. I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't be easier to deal with open fascists, who at least would be straightforward in calling me a subhuman, and who are unlikely to share my race.

The ever-present soft bigotry of low expectations and the permanent claim that the solutions to the plight of my people rest exclusively on the goodwill of whites rather than on our own hard work is psychologically devastating.

No other group in America is systematically demoralized in this way by its alleged allies. A whole generation of black children are being taught that only by begging and weeping and screaming will they get handouts from guilt-ridden whites.

No message will more surely devastate their futures, especially if whites run out of guilt, or indeed if America runs out of whites. If this had been done to Japanese Americans, or Jewish Americans, or Chinese Americans, then Chinatown and Japantown would surely be no different to the roughest parts of Baltimore and East St. Louis today. The History department of UCB is now an integral institutional promulgator of a destructive and denigrating fallacy about the black race.

#twitter thread #threadreader #anonymous letter #berkeley #read the whole thing

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What is Jin and Jungkook’s y/n met other wives that were treated the same way when they go to fancy dinners with other men in high standing? I’m not saying the boys would let them become friends but I think it would be interesting haha

Just like me

Yandere Jin

(B/M/N= business man’s name)

You look around the ballroom as you walk through the door, hand in handwith Jin but slightly behind him.

“Hurry up” he snaps at you, pulling you harshly to keep upwith him.

You hate these gatherings, they’re always full of chauvinistic prickslike Jin who think nothing of the way he treats you.

You maintain pace with him for a few steps before starting to drop backagain and, of course, he notices.

“Y/n~” he sighs.

“What is wrong with you tonight? Just do as I say and quit messingaround” his eyebrows are pulled together into a deep frown now that thetwo of you are face to face. He is typically quick to anger in situationslike this, however, tonight; he seems calm albeit frustrated with you.

You raise your chin and make direct eye contact so that he knows his permissionto speak is wanted.

“Go ahead"

Taking a deep breath, you decide to tell him how these places make youfeel.

"Jin, I know you have to come to these things but why do I? Do I really have to come with you?"Everyone here treats me like..like” like you is what you really want tosay.

“..like I’m beneath them. You don’t let me talk to other men andthat’s all who are here. Even if you did let me talk to them, they would talkdown to me like I’m incapable of understanding anyt-"

He raises his hand to stop you.

"Y/n, that’s enough. You made your point. My answer is yes, yes youdo have to come here. No, you can’t talk to other men and they are in fact,well within their rights to assume you have less intellectual power thanthem."

He watches your eyes dim a little as the fire that was burning when youbegan to talk, is dying under his oppression; as always.

A trace of a smile ghosts his lips and dissipates immediately; jin ishigh on the control he wields over you.

"So, firstly, well done for asking permission to talk and forstopping the moment you were instructed to. You’re learning, baby girl” heleans in and places an acidic kiss onto your forehead.

“Secondly, I actually have a surprise for you tonight. I permitteda few of the other men to bring their wives."

When his words register, you spin to look around the hall to find thewomen he is talking about.

“where?”

Jin’s large hand takes your chin and turns it back to him,

“Listen carefully. I’ll take you to them, you’ll sit down next to me andbehave. You can talk freely with their women, my men know not to directconversation at you. Understood?”

Nodding in agreement, your mind races with all the things you want totalk about. Are they feeling the same way? Are they belittled and neglected bytheir husbands too? Are they just like you?

Jin walks you to the main table where, for the first time, you saw thewives of the men you hate. They’re gorgeous, well put together and coordinated,obviously.

“Everyone, this is Y/N, my wife.”

You lock eyes with each of the three women one by one, smiling genuinelyand relaxing when they do the same.

“I’ve given my wife permission to talk to the women, I suggest you alldo the same” Jin demands of his men.

A series of agreements rumbles around the table and you take your placebetween Jin and very close to the older looking of the three wives.

“Hi” you start in a whisper, your old habit of hiding when you talk topeople is hard to drop even with the freedom to communicate.

The lady giggles and whispers back “hello.” She giggles again, clearlyexcited to be meeting you and you start to realise that it’s only her body thatlooks like that of an older person, inside, she’s just as young and fragile asyou are.

The two of you shuffle closer and turn to face each other entirely,wanting nothing more than to be close and familiar with someone who won’t harmyou and feels every bit of the pain you do.

The evening stretches on and is full of laughter and beautiful bondingbetween you and the wife of Jin’s main business partner.

“So he does the same to you?” You ask nervously, glancing over yourshoulder to see if Jin had become aware of your conversation topic.

Jin had been watching you intermittently all night long. He and his menwere discussing important business but that doesn’t mean they can ignore theirduties and leave their women unattended. Every now and then when the squeals ofdelight becomes too much, one of the husbands would clear their throat or give aharsh warning, to put you all back in line.

As much as he believes all men to be above women in society, Jinstruggles to keep cool when other males discipline you, but you needed it andfor now, he is happy to let it continue.

“Yeah, he’s been like this for a long time. We’ve been married 30 years now;it was a forced marriage when I turned 18. I’ve never even seen the world, aprisoner of my father and now a prisoner of my husband. Sometimes-“she pauses.

You watch closely as her cheeks flush a deep shade of red,

“Don’t be embarrassed, I probably do the same.” You lean in real closeand press your ear to hers.

“Jin is mean; I do a lot of embarrassing things just to get through theday”

The round-faced lady nods her head and fiddles with the gemstones on herdress.

“Sometimes I get so lonely that even at my age, I talk to my stuffedanimals. Thirty years of isolation and total domination does crazy things toyou.”

You gaze at her empathetically and wonder if, in many years time, you’llbe in the same situation.

Jin is smart, he knows that eventually the four of you would turn to a conversationthat he wouldn’t approve of and so when he notices how you have gone quiet andare sat further from him than you should be, he begins to pay more attention.

The woman quickly takes your hands into hers and grips them tightly. Withwide, panicked eyes she stares into your soul

“Find a way to leave him Y/N. You have to save yourself somehow. I havelost my whole life to a man who treats me like a dog, run, just run!”

For some reason, her words spark something inside of you. You suddenly havethis desire to get up and leave, adrenaline is coursing through your veins inresponse to the urgency in her voice.

You stand, eyes still locked with hers, hands still encased in hers,heartbeat thundering in your ears

“Now!” she shouts.

You do it, you grab your dress to lift it off the floor and turn to makethe first true escape attempt in your marriage to jin.

You spin on your heels and slam straight into his firm chest upon the first step you take.

He wraps one arm around your waist and holds you close to his body, “B/M/N,did you not explain to your wife how fortunate she is to have been invitedtonight”

The man quickly stands and bows in apology to Jin,

“I did. I’m sorry MrKim, she knows better than this. I can assure you she will be taught a lesson,anything you want from her, take it. She’ll apologise in any way you want”

Jin waves his hand like it was nothing

“Just ensure that she nevercorrupts my Y/N like this again. If she can’t be trusted to behave in publicthen perhaps her place is in the home. Come, Y/N, you have your own lessons tolearn”

As Jin pulls you to the exit, you hear the cries of your new friendafter every sound of a slap.

“He’s beating her!” you exclaim and struggle in his hold.

Jin finally snaps, he launches you into the side of the waiting car andtips his head back, releasing a strained growl.

The driver moves to help you up but is stopped from doing so.

“Leave her. She needs to learn that beneath me is where she belongs.”

You sniffle and move into a seated position, watching as his eyes soakup the moonlight and swallow it entirely.

“j-“ You wanted to plead for forgiveness but know better than to talk.

“So you wanted to leave right? Wanted to be brave for once and escapeme. Well as expected from a woman, your plan was flawed and ultimately failed.”

The sound of glass breaking redirects your attention to the directionyou came from

“No, eyes on me. Good girl. Now I know you know who owns you, don’tyou? You’re not completely dense”

You shake your head in agreement and rise to your knees in front of him,more than willing to beg and be spared some pain. A small crowd starts to formbehind Jin and the eyes of the driver weigh heavily on your back as you displayyour submission to your husband in such a public manner.

Jin steps closer and pulls you to your feet by the hair,

“This is whyyou’re not allowed to talk to others, you’re easily manipulated and that couldget you hurt. Speaking of which..”

His lips brush yours as he continues to speak

“You’re going to hurt forthe next few days, walking, talking and sitting will be a problem for you but that’swhat happens when silly little girls try to make their own decisions”.

@v-2bucky @jinnenchimchim @aria101404 @hxfflepxff

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