Herbert Leupin, advertising poster for Maya soap, 1948. Frederic Steinfels, Zürich. Switzerland.
nice text post where’d you get it the toilet store
Why would a toilet store sell text posts?? That doesn’t seem like a very lucrative good to sell at a toilet store……..
shane i’m gonna fill a pillowcase full of bars of soap and beat the shit out of you with it
maybe you can buy the pillowcase and the soap at the toilet store now that they’ve expanded their merchandise offerings
nice text post where’d you get it the toilet store
Why would a toilet store sell text posts?? That doesn’t seem like a very lucrative good to sell at a toilet store……..
shane i’m gonna fill a pillowcase full of bars of soap and beat the shit out of you with it
maybe you can buy the pillowcase and the soap at the toilet store now that they’ve expanded their merchandise offerings
i really want to give my friend a birthday present but should i??? is it still a thing for normal 20 years old?? the party is one week after her birthday should i conclude its a birthday party??? im supposed to bring coke but can i also bring a lush soap bar or something?? is a lush soap bar even an appropriate gift?? she’s holding the party with a friends of her who’s also really fucking cool, should i bring a gift for him??? WILL SHE HATE ME?????
βI would get up at one or two a.m. and I would call every gay bar I had the number to from the 1940s. I wouldnβt say anything. I would just stay on the phone and listen to the sounds in the background. I would stay on until they hung up, and then I would call another one of my numbers, until I had called all the numbers I had β¦ That phone. Those numbers. That was my lifeline β¦ It meant there was a place somewhere β even if I couldnβt go there β that place was out there. I could hear it. Freedom.β She called the bars two to three times a week like this β for fourteen years.
A couple weeks ago The Mary Sue announced they weren’t going to cover “Game of Thrones” any more after yet another female character being brutally raped. The thread is still being invaded by trolls periodically, and there are more than 12,000 comments on the article, which is a site record and probably an internet record. (12K comments because a single website said “We’re not going to recap or promote this show any more.” Baffling.)
Tons of trolls have thrown out the “but THINGS WERE JUST LIKE THAT BACK THEN!” argument ad nauseum. Which is total bullshit, of course. Now with the season finale of “Outlander” (which, spoiler, also included rape) the trolls are coming back.
I just want to ask, why is it whenever producers/directors/writers want to demonstrate “gritty historic realism” it’s ALWAYS RAPE? It’s always sexual violence toward women/girls.
You know what would be gritty historic realism? Dysentery. GoT has battles and armies marching all over the place. You want to show “what things were like back then”? Why aren’t we seeing 500 guys by the side of a road puking and shitting their guts out from drinking contaminated water while the rest of the army straggles along trying to keep going? Or a village getting wiped out by cholera? Or typhus, polio or plague epidemics?
You want to show what it was like back then for women? Show a woman dying of sepsis from an infection she caught while giving birth. Show a woman coping with ruptured ovarian cysts with nobody know what it is. Breast cancer that the audience will recognize immediately but the characters think is some mark of the devil or some shit.
But no, it’s always rape. And we all know why that is. Because these douchecanoes that do this, though they’ll deny it, think rape is sexy. Because they can’t make a modern set story where women get raped in every god damned episode without being called monsters. So they use “but but historical realism!” to cover their sexism (see “Mad Men”) and misogyny. Then they tell us “That’s just how it was back then!” with the clear implication “Shut the fuck up bitch, because that could be you and you should be thanking me that it’s not.”
Can we propose a rule for “realistic” historical fiction/fantasy? Twelve graphic cases of dysentery for every one graphic rape?
^^ I like this idea.
And the worst part about it is that, by their own logic, their argument isn’t even a valid one. They’re saying that rape is “historically accurate” in Game of Thrones, a show which
So no, there was no “back then” because we can’t go “back” to a “then” that never existed. And as far as I can find, Westeros is ~12,000 years old. You wanna make a historically accurate drama set on earth in 10,000 BC, be my guest, but it ain’t gonna look like Game of Thrones.
So when all of the writers for the TV show keep putting rape scenes in the script, they aren’t thinking “yeah, this would’ve been realistic,” they’re thinking “haha let’s see how much I can torture women on this show.” If the logic you’re using doesn’t even hold up to the thing you’re discussing, you’ve really gotta examine why you’re so enthusiastic about defending rape as a plot device.
A couple weeks ago The Mary Sue announced they weren’t going to cover “Game of Thrones” any more after yet another female character being brutally raped. The thread is still being invaded by trolls periodically, and there are more than 12,000 comments on the article, which is a site record and probably an internet record. (12K comments because a single website said “We’re not going to recap or promote this show any more.” Baffling.)
Tons of trolls have thrown out the “but THINGS WERE JUST LIKE THAT BACK THEN!” argument ad nauseum. Which is total bullshit, of course. Now with the season finale of “Outlander” (which, spoiler, also included rape) the trolls are coming back.
I just want to ask, why is it whenever producers/directors/writers want to demonstrate “gritty historic realism” it’s ALWAYS RAPE? It’s always sexual violence toward women/girls.
You know what would be gritty historic realism? Dysentery. GoT has battles and armies marching all over the place. You want to show “what things were like back then”? Why aren’t we seeing 500 guys by the side of a road puking and shitting their guts out from drinking contaminated water while the rest of the army straggles along trying to keep going? Or a village getting wiped out by cholera? Or typhus, polio or plague epidemics?
You want to show what it was like back then for women? Show a woman dying of sepsis from an infection she caught while giving birth. Show a woman coping with ruptured ovarian cysts with nobody know what it is. Breast cancer that the audience will recognize immediately but the characters think is some mark of the devil or some shit.
But no, it’s always rape. And we all know why that is. Because these douchecanoes that do this, though they’ll deny it, think rape is sexy. Because they can’t make a modern set story where women get raped in every god damned episode without being called monsters. So they use “but but historical realism!” to cover their sexism (see “Mad Men”) and misogyny. Then they tell us “That’s just how it was back then!” with the clear implication “Shut the fuck up bitch, because that could be you and you should be thanking me that it’s not.”
why are male protagonists always so boring and annoying
writers often strive for realism so
Anonymous asked:
goodbadalive answered:
What, are you saying bisexuals hadn’t been invented yet?
#as a historian i can 100% confirm that the first bisexual came off the factory line in the 1980s #and mass production of bisexuals did not begin until almost a decade later #pls fact check before u ship ur ships guys #we wanna make sure our fake characters’s fake relationships are totally historically accurate (via)
*gay activists put their lives on the line to advocate for gay rights in the 1940s - 1960s* um all they did was walk in circles with signs :) sweaty :)
JACK HARKNESS MEETING BUCKY AND STEVE IN THE 1940s AND FLIRTING FURIOUSLY WITH BOTH OF THEM
JACK HARKNESS SEEING THEM AGAIN IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND THEY’RE ALL EQUALLY CONFUSED AS EACH OTHER
