Drew Barrymore at the Ever After premiere 1998
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The desperation of Viserra to jump into her brother’s bed always makes me so sad.
I always question where this idea comes from of Targaryen women having so much “power” before the dance comes from.
This girl was praying her brother would who took one sister would surely find another desirable as well and save her from an unwanted marriage.
She wasn’t seeking Baelon to protect her as a brother, or as a friend who would understand her plight.
This wasn’t a Sansa or Arya Stark situation longing for their older brothers Robb or Jon to save and avenge them.
No Viserra went to Baelon’s bed naked hoping he would “desire” her and thus save her from an unwanted marriage.
This incident is framed as 15 year old Viserra attempting to beguile Prince Baelon out of lust for power.
However it ignores that Viserra is SO drunk when she waits in Baelon’s bed that she needs two maids and a knight to help her back to her room when Baelon rejects her.
Targaryen family dynamics are so twisted and deranged!!!!
So much power Jaehaerys presses his claim over Rhaena and her daughters, lords over Alysanne and his daughters.
#Sansa and Arya see Robb as their protector#Sansa wants him to save her from Joffrey#Arya wants to be brave like him#because he’s their brother#so the only man that won’t harm them#but Targaryen women don’t have this protection#because their brother is their husband#he is the Joffrey to their Sansa#and they don’t have a Robb to protect them#house Targaryen#got women
I love the x-men so much because that's just what leftist infighting is like! that's literally all it is! xavier is a sellout and they all hate him but he's the only one with any money. everyone complains about "they keep switching sides and dating each other it's so fucking confusing" like my dudes have you never been a part of any socialist organisation, ever. then people will go "magneto is so strong how has he not killed a bunch of teenagers" HE DOESN'T WANT TO KILL THEM! this started in a goddam basement over coffee he does not want to hurt them he just wants them to shut up and listen and will fling cars to do so
Tom posting Olivia and Fabien coz he knows who Aegon's parents are 🙏🏾
“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”
a hero emerges
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And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.
And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.
Teenage girls are amazing.
Sometimes they’re not even teenagers
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Reblog every time a girl is discredited/ignored
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Who they are:
Emma Gonzalez
Malala Yousafzai
Ruby Bridges
Greta Thunberg
Mari Copeny
Autumn Peltier
Afreen Khan
Sophie Cruz
Charlottesville Black Students Union
Naomi Wadler
DAPL protestors (names not found)
Ahed Tamimi
This isn’t a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and that’s a lot more true nowadays with social media.
Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.
Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.
7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.
Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital.
Our history books may like to showcase male figures, but behind every movement is a young girl ready to make a change. It was true then, it’s true now, and future generations of teenage girls will go on to inspire progress, whether they’re credited or not.
We were raised on these stories of fighting back against oppression, but then the people who wrote them or read them to us act shocked we turned out ready to fight facism even while being anti-social.
There are many reasons why women’s history is so often elided or erased in our education. But one of those reasons is that so MANY of the women who made history, did so for reasons that challenged existing structures of power…and usually in accessible, related ways that modern day institutions feared students learning from.
The way this video lives in my head rent free and the number of times I find it applicable to so many instances throughout my day is unreal
“So he realized that where violence failed, perhaps marriage could bring an end to hostilites and so he uses his sister to make an alliance with the prince of Dorne.” -George R.R Martin
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WOW. Lmao
All of that bullshit for this one gif are you kidding me
The original problem the Reformation created was a glut of daughters. Fathers had always married off their daughters to the best possible suitors to keep their wealth as concentrated as possible and to create powerful strategic alliances. Until the Reformation, many rich European families would invest all their money in their “best” daughter and send the daughters they deemed less valuable to convents to avoid having to dilute their fortunes by providing each one with a dowry. The family would pay a nominal fee for the daughter to live in respectable seclusion, which some young women preferred given that they were not choosing their husbands.
When Henry VIII separated from Rome and dissolved all the Catholic institutions in England, these fathers were no longer able to cloister their unmarriageable girls and had to find ways to pair them off. Because marriage was the only remaining respectable path for women, a daughter’s failure to marry could embarrass her family and keeping her at home was more expensive than the convent. So, by the time Mr. Bennet throws up his hands in exhaustion about “what’s to be done with all these girls?” in the early pages of Pride and Prejudice, the daughter problem had already been brewing for several hundred years.
Sending unwanted daughters to a convent has always been seen as a punishment but imagine how many young women felt empowered. Nuns would learn to read and write, they'd be wholly independent from men, they couldn't be forced into abusive marriages where they're used as breeding mares etc. I for one think Mary Bennett would have loved to become a nun.