The idea that to be beautiful means to be good and to be disfigured means to be evil is not new. It’s a really tired, unoriginal trend in the movie industry, and only perpetuates damaging beliefs about individuals with facial differences.
I know this is going to be dismissed as some fucking snowflake nonsense but I work in a paediatric burns unit and the effects of this trope are gut wrenching and so, so damaging.
Hollywood’s Disfigured Villain Trope Does Major Harm to Disabled People
This is a really helpful page in my CBT textbook for tackling some of the maladaptive beliefs we often hold. The first column lists the rules and assumptions we often may tell ourselves, while the second column is a more functional belief. Just thought I would pass this along. Be kind to yourselves, friends❤
Oh my god, number 5. And 6, and 7.
I frigging needed that.
Failure is not a permanent condition.
The text on the image:
- Maladaptive belief:
If I don’t do as well as others, I’m a failure.
More functional belief:If I don’t do as well as others, I’m not a failure, just human.
- Maladaptive belief: If I ask for help, it’s a sign of weakness.
More functional belief: If I ask for help when I need it, I’m showing good problem-solving abilities (which is a sign of strength).- Maladaptive belief: If I fail at work/school, I’m a failure as a person.
More functional belief:If I fail at work/school, it’s not a reflection of my whole self. (My whole self includes how I am as a friend, daughter, sister, relative, citizen, and community member, and my qualities of kindness, sensitivity to others, helpfulness, etc.) Also, failure is not a permanent condition.
- Maladaptive belief: I should be able to excel at everything I try.
More functional belief: I shouldn’t be able to excel at something unless I am gifted in that area (and am willing and able to devote considerable time and effort toward it at the expense of other things.- Maladaptive belief: I should always work hard and do my best.
More functional belief: I should put in a reasonable amount of effort much of the time.- Maladaptive belief: If I don’t live up to my potential, I have failed.
More functional belief: If I do less than my best, I have succeeded perhaps 70%, 80%, or 90%; not 0%.- Maladaptive belief: If I don’t work hard all the time, I’ll fail.
More functional belief:If I don’t work hard all the time, I’ll probably do reasonably well and have a more balanced life.
wow
External imageJolene (33 R.P.M) – click for .mp3
Unsure where this came from, if not the palsied hands of the good Lord himself.
Simple premise: Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” slipped from 45 to 33 rpm. Nothing more; no studio trickery, no trip hop drum breaks. The guitar lopes back in and around itself. The bass becomes elastic, hot rubber. The violin stabs become sustained cello lines. The backing choir’s split harmony rattles around, slinking ghostly into the corner. And most importantly, Parton’s once-frantic vocal is transformed from bubblegum country scrawl into something approximating field holler reverence.
An already perfect song made transcendental..
Had a dream last night about a pair of lesbian super heroes who were a couple. One had more strength based powers and one had more magic based powers. And it was pretty obvious they were together.
But then they ran into someone who was like, “…wait, are y’all…*together*?” And they like, “how did you not realize that sooner?
Not one bit and the people who say you do, those people have no idea what you’re going through. We know it could be worse it doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck right now.
!!!!!!!!!❗️‼️❕‼️❗️!!!!!!!!!
In case you were having a bad day, here’s a photo of Nichelle Nichols covered in tribbles.
Work radio station doing a “back to school” theme today.
It sounds suspiciously like Kidz Bop versions of songs.
The
Justice Department filed an amicus brief Wednesday saying that Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not cover employment
“discrimination based on sexual orientation.”The
DOJ filed the brief in the case of Donald Zarda, who had filed suit
against his former employer Altitude Express in a case that questions
whether sexual orientation is included in Title VII’s protections.Title VII prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.
As awful as this is, I think it’s worth noting that this is not a new policy- the Supreme Court and every circuit but 1 have held that sexual orientation is not a protected category under title VII. Also, an amicus brief has little weight, and the court doesn’t have to care what any amicus brief says. So this could still go either way, but it’s not taking away a remedy that already existed for LGBT employees.
DOJ files amicus brief that says Title VII does not protect sexual orientation
The Talented Mr. Ripley is actually a very different film from what the 1999 trailer led 13-ish-year-old me to believe.
But that’s probably true of, like, half the trailers in the ‘90s.
One function of antisemitism is to protect established elites from revolutionary movements. Directing left-wing sentiment at the Jews as a collective has protected abusive authority for millennia. Left-wing antisemitism is fundamentally misdirected and self-destructive.
lefty goyim: reblog this shit
Kirkwall Was Totally Built On a Hellmouth 