The White Death Note thing on netflix has me so worried
I mean. You realize you’re literally making a movie about a white boy “cleansing” american prisons right. You realize what the american prison system is right. You do realize your country already has enough problems with “lonely” white boys who think they can get away with murder without punishment for being white right.
You can’t grab a story like that and completely change the context without it turning into a huge fucking mess
Its downright ugly. There are nuances within the story that simply CANNOT and SHOULD NOT be whitewashed. Then to have a white boy play judge, jury and executioner at his own whim is a dangerous image to see glorified, no matter how the story ends.
To all those rolling their eyes or throwing up their hands about people blowing things out of proportion, educate yourselves. Making an westernised, whitewashed version of Death Note doesn’t happen in some magical utopia, its not without reason that people are troubled. Some random white boy with the power to thin out the American prison population is disgusting.
There are no tropes being cleverly subverted here. This is saying 1) we think Japanese people are such non-entitites we’re going to erase them from their own narratives 2) Set it in america because to hell with Japan and its culture relevance to the overall story 3) Non-white characters arent relatable, everyone can relate to a “lone-wolf” white boy who kill indiscriminately 4) Everyone hates prisoners, we’ll just have random white dude excute who he see fit 5) fuck the moral ramifications of a white boy lording power over a American slave institution consisting mainly black/brown people who he can kill at will
Nothing happens in a vacuum. Creators don’t get to babble about staying close to source material while whitewashing. Ignoring how significant the origin culture is in the source material. Then ploping in into another country so rooted in racism without even looking at the how that impacts the story. Nope, its irresponsible. Look if i wanted to see white boys get away with murder, I’d just watch the news.
Personally i hope this dies a death like Iron Fist.
So for all you feminists out their who think that all men should die, remember, you are not a feminist.
reblogging for the last comment
Yes
Legit question, I’m not trying to hate on feminists or anything. Why is it called feminist if they’re for equality?
That’s a very good question and thank you for asking so politely.
The word feminism was coined by Charles Fourier in 1837, a French philosopher who advocated for the emancipation of women because he believed society treated women as slaves. We weren’t allowed to vote, own anything, or work a real job. Women were ruled by their fathers/household patriarch until they married at which time they’d be under the rule of their husband. If a woman did not belong to male household she was shunned by society and had very little means to make money, most of them unsavory. You know the idiom “rule of thumb”? That comes from a running joke that started in the 1600s, and was still around in Fourier’s time, that said it was okay for a man to beat a woman with a stick as long as it wasn’t any thicker than his thumb.
The point of the word feminist, and the feminist movement, has never been to say that women are better than men. The point is that women and things associated with women have been given a lesser place in society and we want to bring those things up to a place of equality. The focus is on the feminine because that’s what’s being pushed down. However, focusing on the feminine does not mean we’re focusing only women. Men are belittled and called “less of a man” anytime they portray a trait that is associated with femininity. If women and the feminine were equal to men and masculinity then that wouldn’t happen. Feminism is about raising up things associated with females to have an equal place in society as the things associated with males. It’s called feminism, not equalism, because the focus is on raising up not tearing down. Equalism would suggest that male things need to come down to a lower level so that female things can meet it in the middle. That’s not the point. The point is to raise up the feminine so that it’s on the same playing field that the masculine is already on. We don’t want men to lower themselves, we just want them to make room for us.
This needs to be spread far and wide to everyone on tumblr.
1. Intro: I Switched My Robot Off 2. Ascension (feat. Vince Staples) 3. Strobelite (feat. Peven Everett) 4. Saturnz Barz (feat. Popcaan) 5. Momentz (feat. De La Soul) 6. Interlude: The Non-conformist Oath 7. Submission (feat. Danny Brown & Kelela) 8. Charger (feat. Grace Jones) 9. Interlude: Elevator Going Up 10. Andromeda (feat. D.R.A.M.) 11. Busted and Blue 12. Interlude: Talk Radio 13. Carnival (feat. Anthony Hamilton) 14. Let Me Out (feat. Mavis Staples & Pusha T) 15. Interlude: Penthouse 16. Sex Murder Party (feat. Jamie Principle & Zebra Katz) 17. She’s My Collar (feat. Kali Uchis) 18. Interlude: The Elephant 19. Hallelujah Money (feat. Benjamin Clementine) 20. We Got The Power (feat. Jehnny Beth)
Deluxe Edition:
1. Interlude: New World 2. The Apprentice (feat. Rag‘n’Bone Man, Zebra Katz & RAY BLK) 3. Halfway To The Halfway House (feat. Peven Everett) 4. Out Of Body (feat. Kilo Kish, Zebra Katz & Imani Vonshà) 5. Ticker Tape (feat. Carly Simon & Kali Uchis) 6. Circle Of Friendz (feat. Brandon Markell Holmes)
Hemingway: drabble challenge, 100 word challenge, yes the title is included in the word count, fight me, angst, sad, baby shoes
F Scott Fitzgerald: idk what I’m doing, lol party fic, I’m supposed to be working on something else right now, the real otp is despair
Virginia Wolfe: stream of consciousness, tw: depression and anxiety, tw: food mention, not sure what else to tag this as
Sylvia Plath: esther is not like other girls, depression, suicide, hurt/comfort, fuck the patriarchy
Edgar Allan Poe: detective au, everyone’s a suspect, darkfic, this was supposed to be satire, I’m not sure what happened,
Shakespeare: historical au, for Lizzy ❤ ❤ <3, either everybody lives or no on lives I haven’t decided yet, dick jokes, puns, stole this from Marlow not even sorry lmao
Jane Austen: hurt/comfort, fluff, angst, true love, dancing!, slow burn, don’t worry they all get there in the end (:
Jules Verne: long fic is long, technoporn, not in that way lol, genfic, unless you have your slash goggles on
Oscar Wilde: gay sin, major character death, suicide cw, only god can judge me, oh wait i’m an atheist,
Dostoevsky: moral degeneration, we all spiral towards despair, tw:epilepsy, tw:drinking, tw:mortal sins, tw:Europe mention, tw:suicide, tw:character death, crime fic, Jesus Christ returns!AU
Emily Bronte: landscape is a character, everyone is a jerk, tw:racism, tw:abuse, tw:loveless marriage, tw:major character deaths
Victor Hugo: period-typical racism, period-typical sexism, infrastructure, religious themes, poverty, nuns are fucking great ok, slice of life, linguistics, rambling, this latest chapter wasn’t supposed to be this gay, OR WAS IT, i just have a lot of feelings, (about poop), the land of a million tags, i do what i want, fuck you bugpipes is a word
This got so much better since the last time I saw it.
Charlotte Brontë: slow burn, fic of a fic, yes that’s yours hi Jane, hurt/comfort, child abuse cw, death cw, listen I just took this girl from jane’s fic and went ahead ok, just read it, btw helen is a cinnamon roll and must be protected
Arthur Conan Doyle: casefic, multiple ones actually lol, I have no idea what I’m doing, this got long, why can’t y’all let me rest I’m tired of this idiot??, Holmes/Watson if you squint, and I know you’re squinting Oscar, I could add so much cw stuff but nah, just don’t read it you’ll do us both a favour, tell me again why I didn’t let him stay dead
Salman Rushdie: food metaphors, animal metaphors, dance metaphors, sexual metaphors, geographic metaphors, religious metaphors, historical metaphors [fic is a Hetalia AU about the author’s India and Pakistan OCs]
H.P. Lovecraft: period-typical racism, period-typical xenophobia, period-typical preoccupation with viscerate texture, period-typical
sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality so alien
and abstract that merely contemplating it will destroy one’s sanity
T.E. Lawrence: some people?? write noncon??? to cope?????
my favorite side effect warning is for antidepressants
pros: you won’t want to kill yourself
cons: you might want to kill yourself
Back when I was in a psychiatric hospital, and was offered antidepressants, my mother had declined them due to that apparent side effect. So the staff actually explained about this effect antidepressants have, that give reason to that warning. When first taking antidepressants they raise up your energy first. So that you have the energy to do the tasks you might have avoided doing due to your depression. Because of this those who were already suicidal, now have the energy to go do so. Which is the ones this warning is given for. It’s not that a side effect of antidepressants magically makes you want to kill yourself, it’s the energy it gives those who were already struggling with suicidal issues, to actually attempt the act.
Very informative…
Wow. I’m so glad you explained that. Now I understand
My high school choir/psych teacher actually told is about this. She also said if you have a suicidal friend who starts seeming like they might be getting better because they have more energy, that’s the time to be cautious because that’s when they may still be suicidal but they’ll actually have the energy to go through with it
THIS. a thousand times THIS. I had it explained to me in my AP psychology class in high school. super fucking important.
THIS IS SO IMPORTANT and I wish my doctors had explained it to me this well when I first started taking them.
JUST GONNA REBLOG THIS AGAIN TO ADD that my younger sister in law recently started on anti-depressants among other medications in juncture with therapy to help handle an extreme case of OCD and anxiety, and I was the one who had to explain this to her. Her doctor only explained the risks, and not WHY they would actually be considered risks, which put her off of taking medication for most of her life. I explained it, and she understood, and THAT is why she is now on medication that is significantly improving her life. DOCTORS NEED TO TELL US THIS SHIT.
Best description of why ‘increased risk of suicide’ is included in the warning for anti-depressants I’ve ever read.
it’s not like i’m on fire. i sort of miss being on fire. when i was on fire at least i knew it wasn’t just me, that my illness was alive, scorching. there were claw marks in everything. it was so bad it was a brand. everyone could see, you know? but now i am just lazy. now there’s nothing but empty. now i’m an adult and i’m handling thing. the fire is still burning, it’s just that most people die from the smoke inhalation, you know? like i look fine. but my lungs don’t work. i’m saying i fucked up and my future is dying. my dreams are curled up somewhere, smothered. i’m handling it really well. everything looks good. i think. it’s just i can’t even feel what’s been happening. it’s just i think i should feel what’s been happening, and i would be scared about what this means, but i can’t be. did you know you can be in the burning house and also outside of it at the same time. my therapist says this is disassociation. i tell her. if some part of me is in and some part is out, we both win. it’s just it got too heavy to carry so i left my heart in there. it might actually even be a good thing. i don’t know. i can’t tell. i can’t feel anything.
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