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The Majority Of This Post Is Stolen Whole-Cloth From Octopedingenue
Except this, which is another example of why it literally makes me see red when I hear girls say they aren't feminists. Like, what, you want to to be paid 3/4 or less of what a man is for the same amount of work while simultaneously spitting on everything you mother did to get you where you are now? Get the hell out of my gender. (And yes, I DO understand some of the stereotypes that are attached to the word 'feminist' but what it actually means is that you think men and women are equal, and disassociating yourself from that is a HUGE step backward, imho.)
On a happier note, check out the translation of the book Rue drops in episode 5 of Princess Tutu. (Translation is in the comments.) Now, I wibble a lot over Rue, but this just makes me wibble harder.
Also, this is totally a Fakir song:
On a happier note, check out the translation of the book Rue drops in episode 5 of Princess Tutu. (Translation is in the comments.) Now, I wibble a lot over Rue, but this just makes me wibble harder.
Also, this is totally a Fakir song:
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The video is incredibly amusing. ^^; The song I've always associated with Fakir is "Mockingbird Song" by D.C. Simpson
Free Download on the artist's site: http://music.download.com/dcsimpson/3600-8575_32-101035171.html
Lyrics: http://www.simpsonmusic.org/shiveralbum/mockingbird-lyrics.txt
(Not sure who the speaker would be. Duck?)
Also, EEE! Translated "Prince and the Raven" sentences! Yay, yay, awesome! Also, yes, that does make one feel even more empathy for Rue . . .
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AND THAT IS WHAT FEMINIST REALLY MEANS! IT IS NOT A DIRTY WORD, PEOPLE!
I believe that everyone should be equal and that both genders had the capacity to fulfil each and every role in our society and also that, guess what, as un pc as it is, there ARE some biological and phsiological differences between men and women and THAT IS OKAY and that it DOESN'T MAKE ONE GENDER BETTER OR WORSE.
And I'll totally give that song a listen when I'm at a computer where I can.
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That's what I assumed. It's a great car commercial, but I figure Fakir didn't design it. (Fakir: Writing the Automobile into existence?)
That song is lovely, and I definitely agree.
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Paritally because I feel that it disassocaites with all our foremothers who fought for the rights we all have, and partially because I feel that it somehow implicitly implies that sexism is... less of a blatant, specific problem than it is.
Now, I'm not saying that men don't have unfair things to deal with regarding our culture, but they certainly don't have anywhere near the systematic pressures against them that women do.
And nothing gets me more frustrated than girls going, 'I'm not a feminist' with no codial, or instead of 'I actually label myself as...'
And Rue just gets more and more huggable as the series goes on.
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Don't worry, I totally get it.
Bleah. I've seen enough girls do that, especially in a "the boys like me because I'm not one of those feminists" way, that I can understand the frustration. Ladies, respecting yourselves should not be that stigmatic.
Yes! God! That! It makes me crazy! It's like, you can be a feminist and a.) like boys and b.) shave your legs. Trust me on this; I know whereof I speak.
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But I know exactly what you're saying. I really don't understand the women who honestly believe they're second-class.
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But I know exactly what you're saying. I really don't understand the women who honestly believe they're second-class.
Most of the time, I know they don't. It's that they a.) don't realize there is still sexism and b.) take for granted the rights that they do have and c.) are dumb.
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It's like Ann Coulter. If I ever saw that demon-spawn, I'd tell her "if you think women should sit down and shut up, do everyone with a vagina a favor and sit down and shut up."
Argh bargh ranting in ur el jay.
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Goddamn. It just misses me off so much that people act like sexism is gone.
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I wanted to make some sarcastic comment about how sexism went away ages ago involving making someone a sammich, but you know, I'm just too damned pissy to make jokes. Just pretend I did.
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And your joke is noted.
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1. Yes, this is a great song. It's on my list of character songs I associate with PT.
2. In my head, Fakir the writer grows up to pen popular works of fiction. The Last Unicorn? So totally Fakir. The Wizard of Oz? That was him too. Except, in an unwritten fanfic that is burned across the back of my eyelids, the story of Oz is real.
Without the weight of the Raven and the Prince's curse, Kinkan Town has been transformed into a booming economy of green glass and shining crystal, the center of art, music, dance, and beauty. But the higher the buildings rise, more love was drained from the inhabitants, so corruption might fester. Drosselmeyer is a Wizard now, fat and cackling in his tower. Mytho is a doll stuffed with straw, because when his body could not contain his spirit any longer he had to trade more than just his mind. In the face of slow-approaching doom Rue bleeds away her once-bottomless well of courage until she fears the very night she once commanded. And Fakir...
Fakir has lost his heart.
And it's all starting all over again. There are power lines in our bloodlines.
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Anyway, that would make a FANTASTIC crossover story.
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Well, just general "yeah, go feminism! people are stupid" sentiment, really. I thought I'd brought of feminism at some point, or that it was obvious through my fandom tastes, but sometimes I get LJ conversations mixed up so who knows.
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It makes me think SO BADLY of them - I'm not sure if they're just afraid to be judged or honestly don't know what the world 'feminism' actually means.