Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.
Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.
Isaac Asimov.
yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point
If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels
Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms)was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it
even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?
PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame
And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.
Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:
Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.
Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.
You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905.
The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.
Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it
I have literally been telling people this for over a year.
the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman
The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).
The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.
Shoutout to people who grew up with emotionally unsupportive parents and have to hear other people talk about how supportive their families are while you’re basically guiding yourself through life. You’re strong and brave.
She broke your heart and saw ye cry, Salt, boy, drink it down! Spat yer future in yer eye, Swallow down, ye salty boy!
[CHORUS] Darkly the waters flow Salton blood of a zailor!
Away, girl, away to Zee, Salt, girl, drink it down! The sweat, the spray, the ecstasy, Swallow down, ye salty girl!
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Hunger-struck, the madness fell, Salt, man, drink it down! The meat of Man, the taste of hell, Swallow down, ye salty man!
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Now she has her captaincy, Salt, lass, drink it down! Salton God of the Unterzee! Swallow down, my lady!
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Dear self-congratulatory internet. I have some issues with this.
1. This Is Bill pictures have got to stop. It has got to stop. It’s like pie charts that are all one colour, or Not Simply Going Into Mordor. STOP. DOING. THIS.
2. Using jpeg compression an image that is 90% text. Look at the fucking state of that text. It looks like it’s been pissed on. Please stop doing this.
3. Yes, shutting down these meetings was a good thing. (I mean, they mostly took place anyway, but much smaller and more furtively, and feeling like these meets are not accepted by the community at large is important) Yes, Glasgow did a spectacular job of coming together and making this hostility known. Yes, Glasgow should feel good about that.
But what Glasgow did not do was stop a rape conference. Roosh V is a rapist. Some of his follower probably are - as are some of the people you know and love, I expect. But the shared values these men wanted to talk about and reinforce were not “yay rape!” but something much more insidious and fundamental. They were MRAs, PUAs. A whole spectrum of misogynists, in a word.
Thinking that you have kept rapists out of Glasgow is both dumb and dangerous. This group was not some roving cult, but a codified, organised facet of a massive cultural problem that is everywhere, something bigger and quieter and much, much harder to identify and tackle than Rapists.
If a cholera epidemic is ravaging the city, then killing a stray dog, calling it “cholera” and parading it around while you slap yourselves on the back is dangerous, simply because you are telling people that you’ve stopped cholera. I don’t care if it makes you feel good, because it’s stopping people washing their hands, undertaking difficult & expensive civic sanitation works, and investigating the true source.
People will still get sick and die, and probably a bit more so because you’ve told them it’s all better now.
There is a fundamental sickness in our society that leads to many men feeling that women are slightly less than people, that they are unfairly withholding a man’s rightful sexual gratification, that when the chips are down and a man is horny, they are somehow undeserving of simple respect and complete autonomy. It’s such an insidious attitude that you and everyone you know has internalised it to some extent, and women are subjected to the most heinous overt or subtle shit every day because of it.
It is going to take a HELL of a lot of time, energy, pain, structural reform, education and generations of unlearning before this problem is solved, and until it is women are still going to be raped, mistreated, overlooked and made unsafe just for being women. Most of the people who were going to attend the meeting probably don’t see themselves - didn’t realise they even are - rapists or rape apologists. They think that’s a total misrepresentation of their views. But tearing down their bitter delusions is a lot harder work than calling them rapists and threatening them with physical violence, isn’t it. Not that you’ve changed their attitudes one bit, mind you.
Hell, I guarantee there will be men sharing in the vigilante blood-lust who are rapists (or something approaching it) who honestly don’t know it. They’re out poking metaphorical bushes looking for guys in ski masks today, but they’ll be going out on the town tonight and fucking a girl who’s too drunk to stand, let alone say No.
You know. Like Roosh V does. The rapist.
This isn’t a competition. Nobody cares if you hate rapists more than the next town. This isn’t even about rape, it’s about a lot more than that. You don’t stop rape by hunting for rapists. If you think you can solve systemic cultural problems by crowing about how you’ll physically hurt anybody who steps out of line, you are never ever going to solve the problem.
Trigger Warning: child sex. I mean, obviously, but…
So Doug Richard, dragon of the Dragon’s Den, advisor to the UK govt, was cleared of child sex charges, in spite of having sex with a child. It’s horrible and nasty and highly suspicious, but… legal, in this case, and I’m sorry to say that the jury took only four hours to acquit him because they had one simple judgement call to make, and thereafter the law was clear. It’s so obviously wrong, and yet there was nothing else they could do. I’ll explain to the best of my untrained knowledge, because getting the awfulness out in words will help get it out of my head.
this whole discussion about a Mulan life-action baffles me. Like… I love the fun with Mushu and all but? Why do we need a Disney remake of the movie when there is
a pretty much epic
beautiful
actually Chinese version
with great characters
and Mulan’s more accurate story
readily available???
Since 2009??
Well I know what I am watching now
UPDATE: I just watched this and I have so many emotions. Seriously, check this out
OOH! On my list!
i didnt know this existed!!! ok
I’ve failed all my followers for not letting them know about this immediately. I’m sorry you guys missed out.
Here is a link to watch it free online with English subtitles.
Just as a warning, it is a little violent, some horses are killed during the battles, and there is a scene where Wentai cuts open his wrist. It is a very good movie, I just finished watching it and would recommend everyone watch it.
Omg I need to watch this.
Holy shit, why have I never heard of this!? She was astonishing in Red Cliff.
