I would just like you to know a few things while I keep writing;
Brobot quote-on-quote “molesting” Jake while on novice mode is provably false. The word “tender” has a lot of meanings and I don’t think I need to state that Jake has archaic wordplay. “Robogrope” was a word used by Hal to bully Jake and make him uncomfortable and that’s the only clear connection to unwanted touching that we see. Also Prince of Heart: Rise Up had a fight with Brobot on novice mode the whole time. No molesting happening there. Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is provably wrong and you only need to point them to one flash to tell you that!
Jake does stand up to Dirk/Hal/Brain Ghost Dirk. Like a lot. It’s in every single log that he has any conversation with them in where he’ll argue back or tell them to hush, with the exception of the Derse cell scene where he’s hurt and drawing upon BGD for comfort.
Jake isn’t scared of Brobot, he has two conversations, one with Roxy and one with Jane, while Brobot is standing around in the background. He speaks perfectly calmly and dismisses Brobot’s presence completely.
All the Beta kids sparred with their guardians to prepare them for the game and Dad and Mom both stalked their kids around the house.
Dirk is incredibly empathic and has been seen cheering or reassuring every Alpha kid at least twice. Even with Jake and Roxy with whom he has like one log with. Each.
No, Dirk never said he owed it to Jake to leave Hal running. He owed it to Hal to leave Hal running because Dirk was attempting to give Hal room to grow. He is treating Hal like the autonomous being. Also he temporarily disabled Hal after Hal’s first log with Jake, so it’s not like he totally WON’T disable Hal under any circumstances.
Dirk is not his splinters and their actions do not reflect his character.
Dirk is not his splinters and their actions do not reflect his character.
Dirk is not his splinters and their actions do not reflect his character.
I’m dead serious guys I am so tired of seeing this. If Hal does some skeevy bullshit, that’s on HAL, not Dirk.
Dirk even realized how wrong he was to let Hal in on the Jake thing and berates him at length for his actions.
Hal and Dirk are not the same person.
Stop saying they are, or that they’re “so similar that if Hal does something that must mean Dirk is willing to do it too”.
Stop.
Please go back and read canon sometime and evaluate all these meta posts critically. Yes, even this one.
Hal is the one who gets pushy/forceful with people.
Seriously, please show me one example of Dirk himself being pushy/forceful with someone.
Hal =/= Dirk, learn 2 distinguish.
If someone tries to tell you that you can construe facts about Dirk’s personality based on Hal, they are wrong.
Seriously go read canon and actually COMPARE Dirk and Hal.
“malala is a role model for EVERY LITTLE GIRL regardless of race and religion”
no no n
o
no no fuck stop it
it is not regardless of race and religion she is a role model SPECIFICALLY for muslim little girls around the world. little white girls around the world have TONS of role models. everywhere. literally all over television, books, you name it. admire Malala, yes. that’s not what is being said. do not take something that is meant for a specific culture simply because you want it.
do..you.. know anything about Malala? because I’m pretty sure she would read what you just said and be severely disappointed.
this post makes me so angry. you are actually implying that this little girl is not allowed to be inspired by Malala because this girl isn’t Muslim, and that is just… so wrong. That’s terrible.
My philosophy of non-violence was only meant for Indians! Everyone else should just ignore me.
My charity was only meant to inspire my native Albanians. Everyone else should just forget about it
My courage and perseverance should only be a light unto fellow disabled people. Other people should realize I am just “not for them.”
My discoveries? GERMANS ONLY!
My charity work was really only meant to inspire Brits, not actually help anyone who isn’t my skin color and nationality.
I only care about Tibet. The rest of the world can suck it!
….seriously?
-Jafar
i literally cannot believe someone just got schooled by jafar from aladdin
Did none of you read the first thing? Did none of you look at the picture?
That little girl is wearing a towel over her head to mock a bindi in order to be like her idol.
You people are so closed and stupid its like no one can want their culture to be sacred. That child has received global attention and is an inspiration to many but you do not get to appropriate what her culture means to her and what she means to her culture
Jesus what is with you people and stripping the culture and color from everything gotdamn
As a practicing Malaysian Muslim woman, I had absolutely no idea this girl was wearing a Bindi because well, she isn’t 8/ And people need to stop appropriating headscarves to Muslims only, given that other cultures from Indian to Russian actively partake in it as well. Covering one’s head is not an exclusively Muslim trait. We do not own it. Nor does it denote anyone of high faith.
This is at most, an innocent 7-year old with little no comprehension of the cultural boundaries set between her and a pretty, brilliant girl who did great things to advance women’s rights in her country and this child, on a whim of a moment decided to play a bit of dress-up (I assume they had no headscarves lying around) with what she could find to pay a small tribute and somehow people actually see this as malicious mocking?
It’s a seven-year old child who playfully wants to look a little more like the girl she admires who comes from a different culture.
Let this child be a child and admire her idol her own damn way.
She will learn how to better channel it as an adult if she so wishes and I for one will be extremely happy for her if she does.
Why on earth would you need to relegate a child’s idol to the color of his or her skin or what god they believe in? Muslim children look up to both Western and Middle Eastern figures, I see absolutely no reason why white children can’t do the same.
It’s not like they’re treating other cultures like theme park attractions.
I’d love to see more of them learn about the pioneer of medicine Ibn Sina and the great traveller Ibn Battuta. I’d love for them to know more about and admire Salah-Al-Din as much as they do King Arthur. I’d absolutely adore it if they were inspired by the Prophet’s (PBUH) wife, Khadijah who was an excellent bussinesswoman and chose her own husband younger than she was, and Khawla Binti Al-Azhar’s absolutely militant kickassery in a time where everyone thought Muslim women were oppressed.
Yes, I want my religion to be sacred and not commoditized, but I don’t want it to be so sacred that no one else has the right to approach or learn about it. Islam has never been about one specific race or one specific country——anyone can learn from it, anyone can be inspired by their teachings. .
reblogging because the last comment is great. and yeah, you actually harm the fight to call out the most harmful forms of cultural appropriation when you misuse it in situations where it should not be applicable.
What if
all women were bigger and stronger than you
and thought they were smarter
What if
women were the ones who started wars
What if
too many of your friends had been raped by women wielding giant dildos
and no K-Y Jelly
What if
the state trooper
who pulled you over on the New Jersey Turnpike
was a woman
and carried a gun
What if
the ability to menstruate
was the prerequisite for most high-paying jobs
What if
your attractiveness to women depended
on the size of your penis
What if
every time women saw you
they’d hoot and make jerking motions with their hands
What if
women were always making jokes
about how ugly penises are
and how bad sperm tastes
What if
you had to explain what’s wrong with your car
to big sweaty women with greasy hands
who stared at your crotch
in a garage where you are surrounded
by posters of naked men with hard-ons
What if
men’s magazines featured cover photos
of 14-year-old boys
with socks
tucked into the front of their jeans
and articles like:
“How to tell if your wife is unfaithful”
or
“What your doctor won’t tell you about your prostate”
or
“The truth about impotence”
What if
the doctor who examined your prostate
was a woman
and called you “Honey”
What if
you had to inhale your boss’s stale cigar breath
as she insisted that sleeping with her
was part of the job
What if
you couldn’t get away because
the company dress code required
you wear shoes
designed to keep you from running
And what if
after all that
women still wanted you
to love them.
"
—
For the Men Who Still Don’t Get It, written 20 years ago by Carol Diehl.
She wrote a post about the history of this poem that is worth reading.
The Iron Throne as described in the novels, officially endorsed by GRRM on his blog as the most accurate artistic representation thus far. By artist Marc Simonetti.
Oh
What the fuck that isn’t safe
No, it’s not. The histories talk about how the throne is cruel to unworthy kings. Jaime would talk about how Aerys Targaryen would constantly be covered in scabs from sitting on the throne carelessly.
‘No man should sit comfortably upon the throne’
It is meant to be an ugly, monstrous beauty. And several times during the books Joffrey cuts himself on throne.
