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Oh, Amy Pond. Bitterness and furious fanfiction aside, I never got over what happened to her.

Amy was callous, guarded, sarcastic, snarky, rude. She had deep-seated abandonment issues, she was sympathetic to suicide, she broke down completely in bad situations. People didn’t look beyond her mask. “She’s a blank slate. She’s barely a character. An object, not a person.”

Amy wore, on the recommendation of her actress, very short skirts. She took jobs that traded on her good looks, and she flirted a lot. People took one look at her and said, “She’s just Moffat’s fantasy woman. She’s not real, not relatable. An object, not a person.

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Amy was smart, incredibly smart, smart enough to remember non-existent things into existence and bend the universe to her will. People didn’t buy it. “The Doctor Who companions aren’t normal people anymore. They aren’t even people anymore. An object, not a person.”

Amy was the victim of a horrible sexual crime. She was stripped of her clothes and put on a white table and interfered with against her will whilst unconscious.
An object, not a person. “Amy Pond deserved better!” people furiously wrote, but how could they feel anything for her, how could they love her for surviving, if they hadn’t thought there even was an Amy Pond in the first place?

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Dear Sansa Stark: I owe you an apology

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You witnessed terrible things, had awful things inflicted on you, your
family were murdered, you were forced into marriage – and still I didn’t
really care.

Sansa’s been abused. Really horribly abused. She’s been a child bride, she’s been raped, she’s been assaulted, she’s seen her father murdered before her eyes, she’s had her whole family wiped out. But now that she’s showing some ‘power’? Well, now she’s worthy of everyone’s time. She wasn’t when she was being raped, but she is now. Because now she’s a Strong Female Character. And that’s all anyone needs.

I’ll just repost the comment I left on the article:
I can’t
help but feel that, in a subconscious but rather unpleasant way, this
article says quite a lot about how we perceive female abuse victims who
don’t fight back.

Dear Sansa Stark: I owe you an apology

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sarah531:

Guys guys

I had a file where I kept every bit of anon hate (then known as ‘flames’) that I ever got as a 13-year-old in anime fandom

This is incredible

Looking through it though, it’s actually a bit…gendered and creepy. It was mostly directed to the various female Digimon characters whom I adored, via me? So they were all bitches and sluts and cows, etc etc etc, and there’s one particularly unpleasant one from a guestbook* where a complete stranger suggests that I (a girl of 13) am going to “kidnap and rape [them]” and wow this trip down memory lane is less hilarious than I thought, my apologies.

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myshipsdontlie:

rinielle:

fxckaurl:

pettybitch:

so basically y’all will drag taylor swift for not speaking out about kesha (she doesn’t have to its not her job), but don’t give a shit that 1d, zayn malik, justin bieber, 5sos, drake, the weeknd, etc haven’t said a word. noted.

None of the men you listed have ever announced they’re feminists. You could have used better examples of men TBH. People are specifically mad because Taylor Swift talks about feminism way more than other artists and does way less for feminism than anyone else. People are allowed to point out the hypocrisy of a woman claiming she cares about women and speaking up for artists who are put down for singing about their feelings but is silent when a woman who was raped is continuously being mentally tortured by her own label. THIS is the perfect time for celebrity feminists to actually have a voice for something that’s relevant in their world and people are allowed to be upset with any fucking artist, ESPECIALLY Taylor feminist-for-myself-only Swift.

Okay but like Taylor has donated $250,000 to help out Kesha financially during the legal battle… that’s a pretty big statement that she stands behind her. Not to mention she may well be in contact personally with Kesha herself offering support.

You do not know what is happening behind the scenes of this, you do not know what Taylor or any other female celebrity is doing right now. Not every person takes to twitter to do their part or to show support. 

I really do think it’s gross that a situation like this, which is a prime example of how utterly disgustingly shitty the music industry is to young women, all some people seem interested in doing is using female artists perceived silence to drag them down. Be it Taylor or Beyonce or Adele or Nicki and on and on.

Also quite frankly I don’t understand why those men who can’t even SAY that they are feminists are being let off here. So like, because they haven’t aligned with feminism before they shouldn’t take this clear opportunity to do so now? A woman in an industry that they are big in is being destroyed by said industry and they still can’t so much as stand up and say ‘Women are being treated poorly and that isn’t okay?’

What we can’t call bullshit on women being dragged for not doing ENOUGH when nobody is even mentioning the men who are doing exactly NOTHING?

Preach.

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scottmcsalvatore:

We live in a world where: 

  • Chris Brown got away with the most minimal sentence after horrifically beating Rihanna. 
  • Roman Polanski raped a 13 year old girl but still won an oscar to a standing ovation. 
  • R Kelly raped several under-age girls but was acquitted on all charges. 
  • Woody Allen had an affair with his 17 year old daughter only to end up getting away with it and marrying her shortly after. 
  • John Lennon is one of the most worshipped artists to have ever drawn breath but has admitted to battering the shit out of women. 

And in that world it’s no surprise that Kesha’s freedom was denied. That her psychological and sexual safety were reduced to nothing. That she’s been forced to produce six more albums with her abuser. That she’s been forced to remain the creative property of the man who drugged and raped her. Because in this world our courts and culture still have a hard enough time believing women’s accusations of sexual assault even in the most clear-cut of circumstances. And when a woman as powerful and high status as Kesha can’t win, the rest of us stand even less of a chance. 

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waspabi:

agonyandagony:

alright i alluded to this on twitter but i want to say it again, i’m rly uncomfy with this whole ‘why hasn’t x woman said something about the kesha case’ that i keep seeing going on, whether about other female celebrities or women you know or whatever. the support for kesha from those who have given it is amazing and wonderful and necessary, but i think it’s incredibly important to be sensitive about what we demand from others when it comes to potentially traumatic issues like rape and abuse. given that women are statistically VERY LIKELY to be victims of rape and abuse, i’m not okay with demanding they all throw their voices into the mix or else be deemed PART OF THE PROBLEM. it’s entirely plausible that it’s not bc they don’t stand with kesha, and aren’t sickened by what’s happened to her, but because there’s a DAMN GOOD CHANCE THEY ARE VICTIMS THEMSELVES. and if you are a victim of trauma, sometimes the only way you can protect yourself is through distance. not because it isn’t awful but because sometimes it’s just impossible to even say the words, to let yourself think about the thing that has hurt you long enough to get it out. and that’s okay. those who can stand up for victims should and i’m rly grateful for those who have, but no one is obligated to put themselves at risk by doing so. if you want to demand a response, ask it from those who are in positions of power, not those who are very likely victims themselves.

#let’s not turn a situation that is about kesha being abused by men#into an opportunity to hold WOMEN responsible#for the male-dominated misogynist industry they operate within#when will we demand that MEN in the industry refuse to be complicit?(x)

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