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Here’s the thing. You said “The knights of Ren are Sith.“
Are they all dark side users? Yes. No one’s arguing that.
As someone who is a star wars fan who studies the dark side, I am telling you, specifically, in star wars fandom, no one calls the Knights of Ren Sith. If you want to be "specific” like you said, then you shouldn’t either. They’re not the same thing.
If you’re saying “dark side users” you’re referring to anyone who uses the dark side of the force, which includes things from the Nightsisters to Imperial Inquisitors to fallen Jedi.
So your reasoning for calling the Knights of Ren Sith is because random people “call the dark side users Sith?” Let’s get Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or a humanoid? It’s not one or the other, that’s not how classification works. They’re both. A Knight of Ren is a Knight of Ren and a user of the dark side. But that’s not what you said. You said a Knight of Ren is a Sith, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all dark side users Sith, which means you’d call Prophets of the Dark Side, the Rakata, and other force adepts Sith, too. Which you said you don’t.
It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong, you know?
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Your ‘anti - ideology’ position is an ideology in itself. In believing yourself to be objective and rational, you ignore your own subjectivity. You cannot maintain a superior position above the people you criticise without enormous hypocrisy. If you actually paid attention to the latest research you would understand that the case is still very much out for brain differences between the sexes, especially in regards to where they come from, nature or nurture, and what exactly affects they have.
Your ideology is actually worse because you fail to recognise it as an ideology. You just assume that science is on your side in the same way the religious believe God is on their side and the same way libertarians believe economics is on their side. The truth is always way more complicated than that.
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Cycle of Abuse
1: Tension building
Stress builds from the pressures of daily life, like conflict over children, marital issues, misunderstandings, or other family conflicts. It also builds as the result of illness, legal or financial problems, unemployment, or catastrophic events, like floods, rape or war. During this period, the abuser feels ignored, threatened, annoyed or wronged. The feeling lasts on average several minutes to hours, it may last as much as several months.
To prevent violence, the victim may try to reduce the tension by becoming compliant and nurturing. Or, to get the abuse over with, prepare for the violence or lessen the degree of injury, the victim may provoke the batterer. “However, at no time is the batterer justified in engaging in violent or abusive behavior,” said Scott Allen Johnson, author of Physical Abusers and Sexual Offenders.
2: Acute battering
Characterized by outbursts of violent, abusive incidents which may be preceded by verbal abuse and include psychological abuse. During this stage the abuser attempts to dominate his/her partner (survivor), with the use of domestic violence.
In intimate partner violence, children are negatively affected by having witnessed the violence and the partner’s relationship degrades as well. The release of energy reduces the tension, and the abuser may feel or express that the victim “had it coming” to them.
3: Reconciliation/honeymoon
The perpetrator may begin to feel remorse, guilty feelings, or fear that their partner will leave or call the police. The victim feels pain, fear, humiliation, disrespect, confusion, and may mistakenly feel responsible.
Characterized by affection, apology, or, alternatively, ignoring the incident, this phase marks an apparent end of violence, with assurances that it will never happen again, or that the abuser will do his or her best to change. During this stage the abuser may feel or claim to feel overwhelming remorse and sadness. Some abusers walk away from the situation with little comment, but most will eventually shower the survivor with love and affection. The abuser may use self-harm or threats of suicide to gain sympathy and/or prevent the survivor from leaving the relationship. Abusers are frequently so convincing, and survivors so eager for the relationship to improve, that survivors (who are often worn down and confused by longstanding abuse) stay in the relationship.
4: Calm
During this phase (which is often considered an element of the honeymoon/reconciliation phase), the relationship is relatively calm and peaceable. During this period the abuser may agree to engage in counseling, ask for forgiveness, and create a normal atmosphere. In intimate partner relationships, the perpetrator may buy presents or the couple may engage in passionate sex. Over time, the batterer’s apologies and requests for forgiveness become less sincere and are generally stated to prevent separation or intervention. However, interpersonal difficulties will inevitably arise, leading again to the tension building phase. The effect of the continual cycle may include loss of love, contempt, distress, and/or physical disability. Intimate partners may separate, divorce or, at the extreme, someone may be killed.
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all i really want from my life is a legitimate reason to pin a bunch of photos and newspaper fragments on a huge cork board and connect them with long strings of yarn
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When a guy says he doesn’t deserve you, agree with him.
When a guy says you’re so much better than him, tell him that you know.
When he puts himself down in an attempt to get you to willingly lower yourself, don’t take the bait.
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chances are, one of your male friends has raped someone.
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Listen here cum-slut. I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in history, and I’ve been involved in numerous archaeological digs, and I have over 300 confirmed publications. Here’s the thing. You said “….fuck the croatia ,..FUCKk ashol turks”. Are they both Islamic? Yes. No one’s arguing that. I bet you 5 million dollars you don’t even know a Muslim. But guess what? I know 7.
As someone who is an anthropologist who studies Muslims, I am telling you, specifically, in anthropology, no one calls Croatians Turks. A Croatian is a Croatian and a member of the Muslim religion. But that’s not what you said. You said a Croatian is a Turk, which is not true unless you’re okay with calling all members of the Muslim family Turks, which means you’d call Arabs, Iranians, and other people Turks, too.
But say that your idiotic theory is correct. Say Tupac is alive in Serbia. You think he can get away with saying that shit in his music? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting Amnesty International and your hate speech is being recorded right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot.
If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “nationalist” rant was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot.
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Domains and Dominions
What is a Domain?
Your Domain is all that you require to live. Your mind, your body, your food and shelter. It comprises the necessities of survival. All living beings have a theoretical Domain.
What is a Dominion?When part of your Domain is possessed or controlled by another person, you no longer have the freedom to independently pursue your survival. Control over your life passes into the hands of another. These lost elements of a Domain are referred to as a Dominion.
How is a Dominion expressed in our society?Slavery is a very straightforward example. Every part of a slave’s life - where they go, what they do - is controlled by another. A slave who has accepted their fate and is resigned to their position in the world has lost every single element of an independent Domain. Their entire life is lived within the Dominion of another.
If you are walking down the street and someone reaches out and pushes you over, they have taken an element of your Domain into their Dominion, however briefly. Your ability to move your body, something which many of us take for granted, has in a moment passed out of your control through the deliberate action of another. In this act, however small, they express their sense of entitlement over you.
No matter the degree of severity, every expression of Dominion holds the same massage: you do not deserve to be an independent being.
Dominions do not have to be physical nature. Your mind is also vulnerable. Even if you surrender your Domain entirely willingly, with every fibre of your being, the person who has convinced you to do so is expressing their Dominion over you.
On a wider scale, when a category of being is collectively considered less than a person, this apparatus is expressed as a social phenomenon. Simple provocations such as the one described above serve to remind you of your status. This is not only physical in nature. For example when female humans are subjected to so-called “cat calling” they are reminded that their bodies exist for the appreciation of males. The men who take part in these activities often use the excuse that it is intended as a ‘compliment’. But this implies that the degree to which a male stranger appreciates the aesthetic quality of a female body has any actual relevance. On the contrary, your Domain exists purely for the purpose of furthering your own life. To suggest otherwise is to claim Dominion over it.
When women internalise this message and spend their time and resources to increase the degree to which their bodies are appealing to male strangers, not out of fear but out of a sense of duty, they have surrendered part of the Domain of their minds into the Dominion of men.
To grow your own food and live on your own land is to see to your own survival needs. When this ability is taken from you, you are forced to capitulate to the will of others to regain these basic necessities of life.
By controlling the land and natural resources of the Earth, they prevent us from sustaining ourselves under our own direction. To work together to survive is a consequence of nature. To work for others for survival is a consequence of Dominions.
Some may argue that it is a great burden lifted from us to no longer have to toil the land. It is true that technology holds the potential to improve the quality of our lives. But when others control this technology and distribute it at their own whim, we trade away freedom after freedom in exchange.
As the service economy deepens the economic divide within society, so too does it subject us all to greater displays of Dominion. Service staff are subjected to abuse by customers who financially speaking may be no better off. That small period in which they have power over another’s Domain eases the pain of having already surrendered their own. -
There is such a lack of variation and complexity in female characters.
Maybe so many girls are totally obsessed with disastrous and/or kind of horrible male characters with loads of flaws, not because of some female maternal desire to “fix” men or because they are into “bad boys” but because they relate to those characters.
No female characters are allowed to be that flawed, maybe this confusing kinship with certain types of male characters is giving them some hope that they can be good despite their flaws and mistakes.
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