#Tropes

Deep at the heart of sexism is the policing of gender and "othering" males who appear feminine. When we describe/define feminine males with the words "woman/girl" it only aids in
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Somewhat random Ao3 advice thread:1) Rate your fic. It helps you pick up visibility, and fics without a rating tend to get overlooked because people search for either explicit or
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Ooooooooo...Turrrreeeeek. Do you have a deconstruction fancy that you want us Ex-Christians to tickle?Are you tired of the usual, boring tropes from former believers who tell you that they left
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I actually find this really telling about the antisemitism business. The history of very much normalized British antisemitism is perfectly acceptable; Corbyn meanwhile is somehow Otherhttps://twitter.com/MikeSegalov/status/1200334834045837314 (Like,
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edelclaude fans, we need to have a talk about racism.i've seen a lot of support for this comic by @/theyoungdoyler. i get it--we're a tiny ship with little new content,
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I think I finally noticed MK11’s biggest issue with their Story. It isn’t the concept or Overall narrative, It’s the CHARACTERS. Now, MK11’s Story is in and of itself... stupid.
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By attacking the al-Aqsa mosque and encouraging settler violence in #SheikhJarrah, Israeli security forces aimed to push Palestinians to a violence. This can be held up to the world as
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Yes, you can.Obviously some folks have never read the Weekly World News. https://twitter.com/tylerwinklevoss/status/1266118486985715712 What it means is that social media is no more news than the Weekly World News, and
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Sunday’s episode of @LovecraftHBO introduced an Indigenous character. We have thoughts...*spoilers below* @HBO #LovecraftCountry At the end of episode 4, Yahima Maraokoti was introduced. Yahima is not understood by
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How to criticize Israel without being anti-Semitic:- criticize actual policy - speak from a place of knowledge, accuracy & context- suggest or work towards solutions, not the destruction of Israel-
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~It's Time for a #nanowrimo2020 thread~Sorry For The BloodThe Magicians X American Gods 'Human and Magician societies have existed in a tense, bitter truce for hundreds of years. So it
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"Ugh! Normal people do not find (insert taboo subject) okay in fiction!"Game of Thrones was one of the most watched shows in modern history, and it has literally every single
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It definitely matters that the Communist Party rules China instead of some other group, but not as much--or for the right reasons--as China hawks assert.  /1 A Populist, militarist regime
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Tim Burton’s #SleepyHollow is one of my favourite films, and rewatching it tonight, I noticed layers I never had before, specifically in how consistently it subverts tropes of Christianity defeating
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I think people get the idea that we don’t have culture shifts between decades because it’s hard to parse those shifts until hindsight when time flattens all things, but Zoolander
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6 reasons why I adore male/female platonic relationships in fiction, A Thread! 1. It's something we don't see much of. Deep feeling and meaningful r'ships are SOOO sexualised in this
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