A very special piece of taxidermy arrived home today. He’s by far one of the most stunning pieces in the taxidermy collection.
Head was done by Kanato Dolsrin, body was finished by Ellie over at FrontierFurs.
Complete and utter lack of respect for the being that once inhabited that little body. How would you like your mother’s corpse to be skinned, stuffed and paraded around like a novelty item for strangers without her permission? Vile.
I’ll be sure to let you know when it becomes possible to ask foxes permission. Until then rest assured they don’t bury their dead and probably don’t care what happens to their bodies after they die.
As far as novelty items go, I just got back from a funeral where an actual dead body was literally paraded around a church full of strangers and then down the street in a hearse while people gaped ar it so maybe the concept of respecting the dead is subjective and bitching about it doesn’t actually matter.
Right, because making up myths about rape, the wage gap, some fabled patriarchy, ignoring mens’ issues, and blaming men for everything bad ranging from oppression to first world problems have nothing to do with it, amirite?
Men aren’t angry about your egos, ladies. Which is kind of ironic considering your egos are what gave you this ridiculous notion to begin with.
I’m a woman who’s pissed at feminism because you ladies are too busy “loving yourselves” to pay attention to reality and be all around decent people. Get your heads out of your assess.
I’m curious how you can be so pissed at feminism when this post is such a remarkable display of how little you actually understand it.
If feminism’s not your thing, that’s cool, but these are supremely harsh accusations that can literally only be attributed to willful ignorance.
Judging by your URL, you probably think the hatred of approximately 3.5 billion people is a joke.
I’m personally pissed at western feminism because every time I hear “kill all men” and “men’s rights are a joke,” I think of my brother, my father, my boyfriend and my best friend and remember that they can still be legally drafted. They are 20 times more likely to die at work. They are more likely to be victims of violence. It’s still legal to mutilate the genitals of baby boys.
Now tell me, why is it we need a gender-specific movement in modern western society for the less oppressed gender? What oppression are women in the west facing? When convicted of a crime, we get lighter punishments. We don’t get any punishment for falsely accusing somebody of rape. We don’t get genital mutilation, we have equal job opportunities, we don’t even make up ¼th of the homeless population, and we have vastly better reproductive rights, and are favored over men in child custody battles.
Feminism was relevant when women were actually oppressed in our society. Back when women didn’t have the right to vote, run for office, could barely get any work, or do much more than get married and have children. But things aren’t like that anymore. The only “problems” I’m finding are difficulties getting sterilized, and conspiracy theories about some “patriarchy” and how issues that actually infringe on the rights of men are somehow caused by the myth that “women are weaker”.
So please, tell me about how I’m willfully ignorant. And next time, be specific. If I’m wrong, use sources. Tell me how MRAs only hate that feminists “love themselves” and how they DIDN’T shut down mens abuse shelters, and deny them the rights to see their own children.
But in the meantime, if you continue to think that:
MRAs are mainly pissed because feminists are too busy loving themselves for once, instead of worshiping men.
Then I’m curious how you can be so pissed at the Mens’ Rights Movement when this statement is such a remarkable display of how little you actually understand it.
If Mens’ Rights are not your thing, that’s cool, but these are supremely harsh accusations that can literally only be attributed to willful ignorance.
Good day.
Of all the things I know about the Men’s Rights Movement, the best thing by far is the fact that MRAs are officially listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which, to its credit, is a very impressive achievement and worthwhile contribution to society.
Then you don’t know much about the movement. Here’s a list of things that the MRM has fought for: -Men are 99.99% of combat deaths. -97% of the combat deaths since the Gulf War were men. -Men are required by law to register for selective service and women are not. A draft may not have happened since the Vietnam War, but it can still legally happen again. -Men are 76% of homicide victims. -Men are 80% of suicide victims. (The 11th cause of death in the United States.) -Male rape victims are rarely taken seriously by society. Prison rape is an issue that isn’t being dealt with. And before you say that those men are criminals who deserve it: -There is blatant anti-male discrimination in the criminal justice system and the sentencing disparity between men and women exceeds that between whites and any other minority.Average sentences for crime by gender: Female – 18.51 months Male – 51.52 months -Men are half of the victims of domestic violence but get no state funded shelters. One of the male domestic violence shelters was shut down because of feminist protests, and the founder, a male victim of domestic violence, committed suicide.
Is it any wonder that the MRAs are pissed off? In this so-called patriarchal society, they are dying. Men are dropping like flies. Having pieces of their infant dicks cut off. They are the majority of the homeless. They get little to no help if they are raped or abused. They lose the rights to their children for no good reason at all. Are you really so egocentric that you think this is about women not worshiping men? Or even about women at all?
Now let me ask you something a bit more personal. Why is it that you can accuse one group of being hateful, and agree with Southern Poverty Law Center, when you yourself label yourself with a word that has hate in it’s definition, Ms. Misandrist? Do you think the hatred of men is funny? Do you think it’s non existent or a joke? Let me tell you something. My mother abused my younger brother when he was younger than five years old simply because he was a boy. Do you think that’s funny? Do you think that was justified? A two year old child being thrown against the wall? Being beaten to the point he was covered in bruises when he was five? Do you think he deserved it because he had a penis? Or do you think that my boyfriend or brothers deserve to be drafted one day into a war that they don’t believe in? Don’t you have any male family members? Do you want to see them get killed at work? Paying child support to their rapist’s kid?
Misandry is real and it’s hurting people. Men have their rights infringed on daily by either feminists or the general populace. Women in our society aren’t equal in the sense that we are considered to be more important and higher class citizens then men, not in the idea that we are oppressed. And for some reason, anybody who speaks out about these injustices are automatically labeled misogynists. A “hate group”.
One final question: How does knowing all of these facts and speaking out against a false generalization you had on your page make me the ignorant one?
So why can’t we normally be in stories like cis straight people are?
You know full well, why.
B/c
when we are, when those characters are, we get lengthy screeds about
Death of the Author, how those characters Don’t Actually Count, how they
Aren’t Good Enough, or we get a wild accusation that the author
secretly hates lgbt people. All of which are arguments you, in fact,
have made. Mostly about Dumbledore, but that’s beside the point.
You know full well why these characters can’t just normally be, in fiction.
It’s
b/c of people like you who expect every story to be politically charged
statement in favor of diversity and inclusivity. It’s b/c of people
like you who think “this story lacks in lgbt representation” counts as
actual valid criticism. It’s b/c of people like you who get so wrapped
up in the Assumed Straight By Default discussion that you end up
concocting some fantasy about how the only people who like Dumbledore
are homophobes who hate openly gay people. It’s b/c of shit like this.
B/c
when marginalized people write from their own fucked up, problematic
experiences, people like you descend upon them like vultures, picking
their work apart to find and discuss every morally disagreeable thing
under the thin veil of ~criticism~. Then, after the author has long
since fled the creative sphere due to the harassment received, you
bemoan the lack of marginalized creators, and then place the blame
solely at the feed of w/e convenient social structure you desire. B/c
you make this shit worse for us, and then act like you’re doing us a
favor by trying to manipulate everyone into adopting your personal
preference regarding lgbt representation.
We can’t just be in stories, b/c it’s never fucking good enough for you.
And
you will move those goal posts as soon as anybody makes any effort to
meet you halfway, b/c as far as you’re concerned you are right, and they
are wrong. B/c you’re so far up your own ass, that you’ve lost the
ability to empathize with other people. B/c I’m literally saying the
exact same shit I said over a year ago, and you dismissed it then,
you’ll dismiss it now, and by god you’ll dismiss it the next time it
comes up.
Oh good, I get to debunk fairy tale ridiculousness again. It’s been awhile since I’ve been able to use my fairy tale knowledge on here.
Okay, first of all, there is no such thing as an “original” version of a fairy tale; there are only “popular” or “accepted” versions. All versions of fairy tales are as valid as any other version given their history as oral tales; each tale twists and changes as it spreads to other cultures, and several tale types have similar tales that formed independently of each other in various places around the world (Cinderella is the most famous example, with over 1,000 recorded variations and some of the oldest versions being found in Greece, China, and Egypt).
Second of all, several of these are patently false. I’ll just go down the list.
Snow White and Hunchback are the two that are actually true. In the Grimms version of Snow White (”Little Snow White”), the Queen does ask for her liver and lungs (though this was later revised to the Queen asking for her heart) and she is forced to dance in red hot shoes until she dies. This is the norm for Snow White tales, though the specifics vary quite a lot. Hunchback is similarly grim, which makes since given that it’s based on a book by Victor Hugo (like, come on. This is the same guy that wrote Les Mis. You expected something different?). The Rapunzel one is also more or less true, as is the Hercules one.
Clarification on the Little Mermaid one: she doesn’t actually wind up in purgatory. Since she was a mermaid and not a human, she didn’t have a soul and so when she killed herself, became a “daughter of the air” and can earn a soul (and thus proceed up to heaven) if she does good deeds for mankind for 300 years. Purgatory is a Catholic construction, and the probability that Hans Christian Andersen was Catholic is very very small considering that Roman Catholicism remained illegal in Denmark for nearly three centuries after the Lutheran Reformation in the mid 1500s.
Cinderella: This is only true in the Grimms/German version. I’ve actually written a paper on revenge and retribution in Cinderella tales across the world, so I can tell you with a great deal amount of certainty that it greatly depends on which Cinderella tale you’re looking at for the fate of the stepmother/stepsisters. Perrault’s Cinderella/the French version, on which the Disney movie was based, ended with Cinderella forgiving her stepsisters and inviting them to live with her in the palace. The only thing they are denied is the ability to marry the prince.
Pocahontas: this one is pretty half-and-half; there is absolutely no evidence that John Smith raped and impregnated Pocahontas before, during, or after his time in Jamestown. Historical accounts maintain that Pocahontas was friends with John Smith and often visited Jamestown during the years he was there. When the English reported that Smith had died after being sent back to England to treat him for injuries from a gunpowder incident, she stopped visiting the settlement for a couple of years. It’s also maintained in the historical accounts that when she visited, she often brought food and kept several of the settlers from starving. Historical accounts do not say that they were lovers, that she was of suitable age for a relationship (period), or that there were any sexual implications to their relationship. It is only in fictional accounts of their relationship (particularly in the Disney version, where she was significantly aged up) that that relationship is portrayed as romantic.
(cont) There are a couple of scholars that say she was raped during her captivity by the English (which happened long after Smith left for England), but the majority of the scholarship agrees that she was not raped.
Her only child is by John Rolfe and he was conceived after they were married, so the ‘raped and impregnated’ claim is wrong as well.
She was also not kidnapped and taken to England. She and John Rolfe were married before they left for England…for a good two years, in fact. She and Rolfe traveled to England, stayed for a year and a half, and then boarded a ship to return to Virginia, where Pocahontas died of an unknown disease along the way.
Mulan: false. I’ll let this post do the explaining for me, because it explains it better than I ever could. The actual ballad of Hua Mulan says no such thing; the ending this post describes is from a book called the “Sui Tang Romance” and is basically fanfiction of the actual Hua Mulan legend. The tragic end is “a detail that cannot be found in any previous legends or stories associated Hua Mulan.”
Beauty and the Beast: patently and blatantly false. I have never been so insulted by a statement about a fairy tale in my life, and I argue about Cinderella on a regular basis. There is no BATB variant tale where the Beast ends up eating the girl after the wedding. The Beaumont/French tale (again, the version on which the Disney version was based), has the Beast dying of heartbreak because Beauty was late returning to the castle, but ends with the Beast and Beauty happily married after she proclaimed her love for him. Here are links to BATB tales around the world, just because I want to correct the awful monstrosity that was “the Beast ends up eating Belle after the wedding.” Also, here’s a link to my favorite BATB variant, the Norwegian “East of the Sun and West of the Moon,” and a link to “Cupid and Psyche,” the tale on which many BATB tales are based. The Aarne-Thompson tale type for Beauty and the Beast is 425 for anyone interested (425A tales are Cupid and Psyche tales and 425C tales are BATB tales).
Basically, this post is a hodge-podge of mostly true to embarrassingly and infuriatingly false information. Do your own research, and don’t believe everything the internet tries to tell you about fairy tales.
Also, the Huncheback is right, but it’s missing lots of stuff. In the novel, he is deaf (which both the disney movie and the musical erased btw) so when Esmeralda’s friends come to rescue her (like, hundreds of them?) Quasimodo thinks they’re coming to kill her, and MURDERS HALF OF THEM DEFENDING NOTRE DAMME LIKE A FORTRESS.
Also Phoebus was a TOTAL DICK who had a fiancée named Fleur-de-lys and who wanted to bang 16-year-old Esmeralda as a final “treat” before his wedding.
But surprisingly enough, the goat was 100% real in the book.
Deleting all comments because only in this site you will find people throwing shit at a 17 year old boy who has voluntarily fed 80’000 people by starting his own business because he has a very particular idea lf masculinity which happens to threat only people with paper feelings.
Feminists would gladly see any number of people starve to death as long as a man didn’t receive accolades.
People aren’t going to starve to death if he stops selling his shitty misogynist candles oh my fucking god he’s donated less than eighty thousand individual cans of soup to soup kitchens (not even the cans but the contents of the cans which…how?) which feeds what maybe one or two people one meal per can he hasn’t fed 80,000 people he’s given ONE meal (canned soup – how nutritious and filling) to maybe 80,000 people like it’s better than just throwing the soup out but pleeeease stop acting like he is single handedly keeping hunger at bay for the entire food insecure population of the United States rather than doing the absolute bare minimum of generosity that any wealthy business owner should demonstrate. His candles weren’t designed to help the less fortunate, they were designed to protect the fragility of the men’s ego. He uses misogyny and false and misleading charity to get people to buy them. Stop letting teenagers think it’s acceptable to hate women in 2k15
Explain how selling male focused products is misogynist when women have thousands of candles marketed to us and why him feeding eighty thousand people isn’t enough to you? How many cans of soup have you donated with a business? How many start ups have you made based on your observation that a product had a good consumer base for it? Explain how a young entrepreneur is misogynist because he doesn’t personally like super girly scents. Explain why men breaking out of their gender roles in small ways is worthy of mockery.
Face it, you’re grasping for straws because you hate this kid without even fucking knowing him. You think masculinity is fragile? People like you who would rather mock than support men breaking out of that macho idealism are why masculinity is fragile.
If you’re a feminist, you fucking suck at it.
He has a whole line of cans called Shecans.
If op doesn’t care that this kid has fed 80,000 people, I highly doubt she cares that he’s an equal seller.
That one time a tumblrfem got upset because a kid made gendered novelty candles.
Of course, I strongly doubt there’s anything keeping women from buying coffee-scented candles. Incidentally, there’s a “girly” melon candle across the room from me right now.
The clip starts with Arizona Diamondback announcers Steve Berthiaume and Bob Brenly asking fans to tweet their strongest photo, but quickly devolves into the two men making fun of the girls for doing exactly what they asked. Besides this hypocrisy, this is pretty troubling considering the sexism and stereotypes surrounding female sports fans.
Here is an uncut video of the incident in question, if you don’t want to support micdotcom’s pitifully obvious bait. The announcer didn’t make fun of them for being women. At no point does he say anything reflecting, “Women are silly for taking selfies at a sporting event.” The announcer poked fun at them not because they were women but because they were so absorbed with their phones that they were missing the game they shelled out money to see. If anything, the announcers were poking fun at current generations of young adults becoming more and more obsessed with phones and the excessive amount of time people spend constructing a “perfect” image of themselves on social media. It’s not the most original commentary, and it was poorly-timed, considering it immediately followed an announcement to submit photos to twitter. But it was not an issue of sexism. Maybe instead of reaching to the moon to find sexism where it isn’t, you should try paying attention to where it actually exists.
this comic rubbed me the wrong way and I felt uncomfortable reading it and then I saw the source was plebcomics and I knew why
Well, that’s your fault. Quit telling artists what to do
I love that you went back to reblog this post a second time just so you could specifically say this to me as if you’re so smart, you’ve come up with the comeback of the century.
I am an artist. I enjoy headcanons and ocs just as much as anyone else but I’m not forcing them on anyone. the problem with this comic is that it’s a half assed, regurgitated excuse to not include diversity in their story. it’s really, not that hard to include that little slip of diversity in your characters or story, and pleb is just coming up with excuses as to why she shouldn’t- her shitty history of being a dick aside. not to mention the “fan” in her comic reacting to being told to make her own characters is some of the furthest shit I’ve ever seen. this comic is just a way for pleb to take a stab at “sjws” for something a radical probably only ever did once, pat herself on the back for it, and then move on to the next bullshitted excuse she decides to throw out there.
and I’m only replying to you once because not only is your url some of the stupidest shit I’ve ever seen, I can tell after scrolling your blog for 5 seconds that you’re an asshole to everyone. congratulations!
hi lancerdiarmuid. youve been reblogging the shit out of this post and i couldnt help but notice.
this comic is legit a direct quote-on-fuckin-quote of the sourced exchange i linked. im sorry that you seem to take issue with the fact that not everyone takes too kindly to having their creative works shit on, even if you dont think (aggressively) suggesting changes to said works counts as shitting on it.
another user commented in agreement with you, linking to a ridiculous article from a wildly bias “news” source (comicsalliance, if anyone cares, which is a hilarious joke of a site on its own since its whole owner/editor base is a bunch of nepotists with everything to gain by shilling each others comics) about why its every creative individuals mission to include diverse characters in their own creations. which you know, it’s not, but thats neither here nor there.
its nobody elses business to do “your” work for you. if you feel under-represented in comics, cartoons, stories, fiction, etc, start creating things you can identify with. it is absolutely insane to suggest that another artist, or writer, or whomever, who already have an established work, to change up THEIR work to better suit YOUR needs. you don’t go to a friends party and demand their change their cake from vanilla to chocolate just because you want chocolate. sure, you can request it, but they’re not obligated to humor that request. so, your options are what here? either dont go to the party because they dont have chocolate cake, OR, maybe bake your own chocolate cupcakes and bring it to the party yourself. maybe some people will love your fuckin chocolate cup cakes. maybe your chocolate cup cakes will be a big hit. never know unless you fuckin’ TRY instead of, iunno, throwing a big baby tantrum because there wasnt chocolate cake in the first place.
i hope that analogy makes sense to you and you dont take it as a literal fuckin suggestion about friends and party/cake and how your FRIENDS should just be CONSIDERATE of EVERYONES WANTS because that would just be another way of saying that you are entitled to be a bossy piece of shit who wants everything to be about themselves.
point is, is that no, you dont have the right to demand people include THIS or THAT in their works, and you sure as hell dont have the right to run a smear campaign against an individual because they didnt include THIS or THAT in their works at your “request”. you can ask, yes, but realize that their world doesnt necessarily revolve around you. realize that you have the creative power and ability to do your own thing and make your own works. i implore anyone who has ever felt slighted by an individual (or company, whatever) to, at the very least, try to make their own… representational, diverse…. thing.
… and then, you know, see how much you like it when someone barges in and makes some “suggestions” for your creations and then proceeds to lash out and accuse you of being a bigot or whatever because you didnt humor them.
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