The caption reads: “Defeated by roses. Near Turin’s Lingotto station, along a lonely path, Miss Guida Concetta Rinino, 28 years old, who was bringing a nice bunch of roses to a relative, was accosted by an unknown young man. The young woman, rather than losing heart, defended herself with extraordinary energy, using the bunch of flowers as a weapon. So it was that the scoundrel, his face all scratched up, had to flee. (Drawing by Walter Molino.)”
Incredible. At a distance I understand how the woman might appear to be the abuser and the man the sympathetic victim, but the second you zoom into the man’s face the pink-cheeked rage- not remorse, or rejection, or embarrassment- not heartbreak or despair- but RAGE- the deeper story speaks itself into your suspicions.
And the bit where they’re HER roses? Almost a relief, but also sadder, as she will arrive at whatever event without them, or with them destroyed.
Do you think when the righteous anger and anxiety and annoyance fade, when she arrives at her destination- will her loved ones applaud her? Will she be proud? Will her hands shake? Will she walk home with company from then out, and for how long?
In this moment, she is provoked into anger. Anger is good- it appears strong. But look at his face. Would you put it past him to linger there after dark, in case she returns alone?
What story will HE tell, of ‘I was perfectly polite, but she didn’t even give me a chance- women like that, they’d swoon for a jerk in a heartbeat, but kind and flattering men like me?…”
I love this piece. It paints both stories while illustrating the power dynamics and struggles at play. This should be shown in art classes
This confident and curious otter explores the world with her teeth. Behind Opal’s fluffy whiskered face is a powerful bite rivaling the king of the jungle! 🦁
Orphaned Opal was rescued and raised behind the scenes as part of our sea otter surrogacy program. Now this sparkly otter’s making a splash by inspiring conservation and awareness for her threatened species.
We’re working with Opal in hopes she’ll become a surrogate herself one day, giving orphaned pups a second chance at survival by teaching them the skills they need for re-release into the wild. 💙
caption by @/ashleytheebarroness on tiktok: People reach for the Gestapo comparison because it sounds extreme and foreign. It lets white Americans pretend this kind of policing came from somewhere else. But ICE looks closer to slave patrols because that’s our history. Local enforcement. Racialized suspicion. Vague authority. Taking people first, justifying it later. Gestapo is a warning. Slave patrols are a mirror.
Yeah I said something similar yesterday but we can NOT let what happened to Renee Good cloud what happened to everyone else at the hands of these SS Demons!!!
Because we can’t disregard one person if we’re for human rights!
The Time That Remains is available free on youtube (with baked-in English subtitles). It is a semiautobiographical film by Elia Suleiman, that follows his Palestinian family across the years from 1948, the beginning of occupation to the then-present day in four chapters. I highly recommend it, a favourite of mine.
isff defenders should read the zoosadist leaks and read the oddballs and pediverse situations.
do you want to be associated with animal abusers, rapists, and murderers? do you want to be associated with pedophiles who tout about their desire to rape children, to groom children? do you want to be associated with people who believe that rape - not cnc, not roughing, rape - should be normalized?
i’ve even read some who wrote about their sexual fantasies of wishing to abuse a child. to mutilate the child, then rape the child. not minor - minor downplays the seriousness of this situation.
look up kero the wolf. look up snakething. look up tim win. hell, she’s not related to them directly, but go on and look up hypnotist sappho! find the audios of them mutilating and/or raping animals. you can probably find the videos with ease. look at them, and then tell me you still don’t give a fuck about the normalization of zoophilia and pedophilia. go watch a video by the cult of cat murderers. or the monkey torturers.
this is beyond a silly “you can become a girl!” post. this is beyond a sissification fetish turned into some fucking wannabe political movement. this is not transfeminism. you do not care for us, your sisters. you do not care for your brothers. you care for entitled, individualistic, selfish needs. not community. not safety. and sure as hell not children and animals!
it was not normal for isff to say that removing pedophiles from the lgbt community is the equivalent of “dropping the t”. it was not normal for isff to defend someone who claimed that “pedophilia is the most oppressed sexuality”. it is not normal for people to claim that you can “safely practice pedophilia”.
The reactionary backlash to media analysis is a natural part of the wider “fascists hate anything intellectual” phenomenon, btw.
Wanting you to ignore the politics of Star Wars comes from the same exact place that wants you to substitute the germ theory of disease with the ‘sickness comes from failure to be a good christian and most people who claim to be sick are just faking anyway’ myth.
the vibes dissonance of ppl online can be crazy. did you know the artist behind those cutesy crow comics that do big numbers on here ran hiveworks into the ground so hard that 100 artists who worked w them came together to put out a statement abt how they and their work had been absolutely fucked by the incompetency and malice of it all
