Exploring the motivations of a fictional character isn’t monstrous. But I’m gonna go ahead and say that using a real tragedy to browbeat fans of a character you hate is.
‘In the center of Bebelplatz, a glass window showing rows and rows of empty bookshelves. The memorial commemorates the night in 1933 when 20,000 “anti-German” books were burned here under the instigation of Goebbels. There’s a plaque nearby that says something like “Where they burn books, they will also burn humans in the end.” ’
Interesting but rarely mentioned: most of the content burned that night came from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (institute for the science of sex) headed by Magnus Hirschfeld. The institute and Hirshfeld himself were some of the first to openly campaign for the right to have sex with someone of the same gender, the right to transition if you did not identify with your birth sex and for the general acceptance of queer people. The team had already performed the first SRS operations in Germany and in addition, the institute advocated sex education, contraception, the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and women’s emancipation. Photographs of the night of the book burning are plastered across history books world wide, but the queer movement that was destroyed that night often goes unmentioned.
‘In the center of Bebelplatz, a glass window showing rows and rows of empty bookshelves. The memorial commemorates the night in 1933 when 20,000 “anti-German” books were burned here under the instigation of Goebbels. There’s a plaque nearby that says something like “Where they burn books, they will also burn humans in the end.” ’
Interesting but rarely mentioned: most of the content burned that night came from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (institute for the science of sex) headed by Magnus Hirschfeld. The institute and Hirshfeld himself were some of the first to openly campaign for the right to have sex with someone of the same gender, the right to transition if you did not identify with your birth sex and for the general acceptance of queer people. The team had already performed the first SRS operations in Germany and in addition, the institute advocated sex education, contraception, the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and women’s emancipation. Photographs of the night of the book burning are plastered across history books world wide, but the queer movement that was destroyed that night often goes unmentioned.
yknow on one hand i love anders bc his entire character in awakening is so great and well rounded and then what happens to him in da2 is so sad and awful, like by the end of it he just loses his identity completely. if u ask hawke about him in dai (assuming u didnt romance him i guess) hawke says “im not sure there ever WAS an anders.” and just that in like act 2 of da2 he tells hawke how glad he is to have a friend like them bc theyll always bring him back from the brink, and then he just fuckin,,,loses his god damn mind at some point and no one even fucking notices until its too late. and all he ever was was just some dipshit with good intentions who couldn’t stop fucking up and made a mistake so bad that his entire self was cannibalized in the process. bc post act 2 da2 anders is NOTHING like earlier/awakening anders, like, at all.
but most of the time i just want to fucking strangle him for being such a Dic k
I hate the way that a lot of gay men talk about women lmfao I really do
like “I don’t do chicks” “I don’t like pussy” ok so why can’t you just say that you’re not into women & go.. why do you have to objectify &, yes, sexualise us, in order to say that you’re not sexually / romantically interested in us……………… it’s almost like you can still view women as sexual objects even if you’re not interested in actually fucking them. just sexual objects that have no use to you
& this (+ gay men trying to pressure women into physical contact they’re not comfortable with, gay men sexually assaulting women / grabbing their breasts etc. but it’s fine & funny bc they’re gay! or gay men being just blatantly textbook misogynistic but haha see above) really just showcases to me how misogyny does not somehow magically arise from uncontrollable desire, like a lot of ppl claim to try to make excuses for straight men.
I watched Kiki’s Delivery Service for the first time today and it’s a good movie but I couldn’t shake the fact that Tombo is Anime Griffin McElroy and it definitely took away from my enjoyment a bit
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