canadiankazz:

skeletalroses:

freshfruitforrottingvegetablez:

funnytwittertweets:

The old horror movies also had deep symbolism you were just to young to know it!

Alien? Full of metaphors about sexuality and rape

Nightmare on Elm street? Metaphors about generational trauma and violence

Halloween? The inevitability of death

Friday the 13th? Fear of sexuality

I COULD GO ON!

HORROR HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT EXPLORING THE DARK UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF HUMANITY AND PIGEON HOLING IT AS LESSER ART IS A MISTAKE

Horror also reflects the anxieties of its time! The nuclear era of the 1950s showed us lots of mutants, monsters, and science gone bad. The ‘80s saw the golden age of serial killers (carried over from the ‘70s), suburban excess, reactionary conservatism, and Satanic Panic; thus we get slashers carving up wild-partying teens, plus creepy neighbors and home invasions. Current horror often deals with themes of alienation, gentrification, apocalypse/societal collapse, and pressure to perform an Instagram-perfect social veneer—you know, #JustLateCapitalismThings.

And yes, horror is in fact the Most important genre, culturally, politically, artistically, and philosophically.

Even going further back…

Dracula is about a fear of foreigners, sex, (and sexy foreigners) and death.

Frankenstein is about mankind’s desire to mess with nature and the consequences of that.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde is about seemingly nice, “respectable” men secretly being monsters.

The Tell-Tale Heart is about guilt.

weaver-z:

Will Smith was just banned from the Oscars for 10 years for slapping a guy. Unrelated but here’s an IMDb list of the most famous actors and directors who signed the letter asking for the statutory rape charges against Roman Polanski, who is not banned from the Oscars, to be dropped.

givemearmstopraywith:

in 2018, a seventeen year old black girl from kenosha, wisconsin named chrystul kizer was charged with first degree murder after killing the man who trafficked and raped her. he had previously been arrested in connection to the abuse of a dozen underage black girls but allowed to walk without bail. this is the same justice system that freed kyle rittenhouse

here is chrystul’s gofundme to raise money for her defence. 

here is a change.org petition asking that all charges be dropped.

plaidos:

plaidos:

TME non-binary folk love to pretend T/ERFs are focused on them. It is wholly, wholly inappropriate to refocus the problem of T/ERFs onto “well *I’M* non-binary so they affect me too” because it’s disingenuous of who T/ERFs are actually a hate group focused at.

I understand it sucks to be misgendered and harassed, but T/ERFs send me sexual assault threats, suicide bait, have doxxed me, have straight up lied and said I’ve done horrific shit that I haven’t, they’ve stalked me, threatened to kill me, threatened to mutilate my genitals, wished organ failure, rape, murder, homelessness, kidnapping, sex trafficking and institutionalisation on me.

If you’re not transfeminine, they’re not after you. They will happily inflict collateral damage onto you, sure, but you NEED to understand it’s not about you.

people who don’t experience transmisogyny not only can but should reblog this

emerald-studies:

“The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.”

-Malcolm X (1962)

gahdamnpunk:

If you haven’t heard there is a literal massacre going on in Sudan.

People are getting kidnapped, arrested, raped and killed. This has been going on for a few days now but naturally there’s hardly any media coverage.

THE WORLD CARES MORE ABOUT AN EMPTY CHURCH IN FRANCE THAN HUNDREDS OF INNOCENT BLACK MUSLIMS DYING IN SUDAN.

There are a few ways to help:

 - Emergency Medical Aid Donation

- Facebook campaign raising funds for food and other necessities

- International Rescue Committee

- Save The Children

Even if you can’t donate please help spread the news!!

#SudanMassacre

squidsticks:

deanoru:

I’m so tired of every show that takes place in the past (wild west, medieval, pirates etc) ALWAYS having so much sexual violence towards women like writers can cry “oh it’s realism” all you want but it’s very transparent how realism only applies when you want to hurt women on screen. If we’re talking staying realistic, why doesn’t everyone have brown teeth? Or bad skin? Or dying of dysentery? Just admit y'all want an excuse to brutalize women on screen lol

This pisses me off so much. A lot of the time if you mention realism would also involve women having unshaved legs or pits, or bushy eyebrows, or syphilis, the answer is often “well that’s gross, no one wants to read about/see that” and like…. If you think that women being ugly is grotesque, but brutal depictions of rape aren’t, then I don’t really know what to say to you other than stay the fuck away from me.