So uh folks are really passing around a post implying that monarchy is magically woke and benevolent if it isn’t white western monarchy?
Idk how you don’t realize that monarchs who tried to protect their country from colonial exploitation were very much the exception to the rule, and most monarchies cut deals with colonizers to let them exploit the common people because “lol k cool, I was doing that already anyway”
Oh wait I know, ridiculously eurocentric views of history and society that completely ignores non western political struggles and social/power dynamics, and repackaging reactionary ideas about the benevolent despot!
The thing that’s both awful and extraordinarily wonderful is that we’ve all known that young men of the upper classes move through the world like bulls in a china shop, leaving traumatized people in their wake. And for generations, we’ve all moved through the world treating these young men like suburban coyotes: plan your path home to stay off their hunting grounds, leave quickly if you see a group because they are most dangerous in a pack, make yourself larger, wear protective clothing that probably doesn’t work, clean your wounds thoroughly. It’s just what they do, so just adapt.
Or maybe it’s lika a vampire movie, maybe it’s the reason we find horror stories so compelling. And maybe what’s joyful is that this is the first time in my life I’ve seen people fight back against a culture that had decided generations ago to sacrifice all our safety to enabling the youthful hijinks of monsters.
My FAVORITE THING is researchers who wholeheartedly embrace the Ms. Frizzle aesthetic and wear their field of study on their literal sleeve. Everyone in the invasive crayfish consortium has tiny lobster-print shorts or socks. All the middle-aged dad scientists here at the lab have shirts with fish and/or fishing tackle patterns on them. My moss specimen and ammonite earrings keep getting noticed by women who are wearing silver fishbone-shaped or native plant-themed earrings themselves. Every single person on the outreach team has at least one shirt with an anchor pattern on it from Old Navy, and almost all the younger researchers have tattoos featuring their research interests – one fisheries biologist has a half-sleeve of native species she literally uses as an outreach tool. We are self-aware and having a blast with it, honestly.
I feel so bad for Millie Bobby Brown. She’s been sexualized since the minute she entered the industry and gained fame through “Stranger Things” (notice how her male cast mates are allowed to retain their youthful and goofy personalities, whereas she’s forced into wearing makeup and clothes that give off a “mature vibe”) and now she’s being groomed, in real time, by a 31 year old man (who also has an 18 year old girlfriend), and no one is doing or saying anything about it. This is why feminists always say that the sexualization of female celebrities begins young and why it’s connected to them facing sexual violence from men within the industry, and why those men later get away with it.
I am more and more convinced that children and teenagers just shouldn’t be in the industry, for their own protection. Especially young girls.
By the way, Beyoncé had been groomed by Jay Z since she was 15. So this happened to Beyoncé as well (and no one said anything about it), and it’s happening to Millie now, and probably to countless other teenage girls in the industry.
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