#boys will be held accountable

[annakendrick47author]

I pledge allegiance to the fact that “boys will be boys” is not an excuse to be violent or verbally abusive. If a teacher says that this behavior is acceptable because a boy has a crush one me instead of calling his parents, then that teacher should be reported for conditioning young girls to correlate love with abuse.

Accountability and justice for all

Credit: jax on instagram

#boys will be held accountable #abuse is not love

[edenfenixblogs]

hi, i wanted to give you an update on that post of mine you reblogged. heritageposts has informed me that they were using the red triangle in this context: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231123-one-small-red-triangle-palestine-we-are-finally-looking/

i was wrong about what they meant with the 🔻 emoji and i am officially rescinding my previous statement

I am all for fact checking and I would love to believe that Heritage Posts did not mean this particular horrible thing they did.

However, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) is not a reliable source for information in this conflict. If HP is actually using MEMO for news, they should focus on more reliable ones going forward.

There are plenty of other left-leaning sources with more reliability, credibility, sourcing, and transparency.

They have failed several fact checks for misleading and occasionally false information. The publication is explicitly and repeatedly pro-Hamas, and they often omit vital information to skew their stories.

While they are not rated as an outright propaganda publication or as a source of conspiracy theories, they do often cite sources which do and are.

Finally, they are funded by donations. Of course these donations largely come from people who support the kind of reporting that people who donate to them support. They are a nonprofit organization, which is not inherently a bad thing. But this means their interests are not based in journalistic ideals but in political ideology. This is not a reason to completely discount a source, but it is something to keep in mind.

In general, with a topic this intense and with such profound consequences for so many people, I’m only engaging with sources who receive a “reporting” rating of “high” or better and a “credibility” rating of “high credibility.”

I would POSSIBLY consider a “reporting” rating of “Mostly factual” if it had a “high credibility” rating and several extenuating circumstances and reduced media bias to compensate for its lower score in another area.

Leftist sources worth referencing instead:

Forward Progressives

Haaretz

International Policy Digest

Current Affairs

And many others

Personally, though, (for this particular conflict especially) I tend to prefer sources that fall into the central three categories: left-center biased, least biased, and right-center biased.

No news source is perfect or without bias. But this conflict is so fraught that I frankly don’t trust anyone reporting with extreme ideological intentions. And I also don’t want to only read sources that make me comfortable. I am personally very leftist in all of my personal politics and voting. However, I also know that the far left has been more hostile to me based solely on my Jewish ethnicity than anyone else in these past months. Furthermore, I think politicians should be more left, but journalism should always prioritize facts and a full scope of a situation over any one viewpoint. I am the daughter of a journalist. I am deeply in favor of journalistic freedom. And I absolutely do NOT believe in “both sidesism.” Sometimes, there really aren’t two sides to a situation that are both equally worth listening to. There is no alternative viewpoint to “Black Lives Matter” for example that is not deeply racist.

There are not “two sides worth teaching” when it comes to The Holocaust.

But the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not so simple. Israel should stop its bombing of Palestine. Palestinians should have full and equal rights. Jewish people in Israel and around the world should not have to live in constant fear or attack, harassment, or murder. There are a lot of extremely valid perspectives from Palestinians, Muslims, Israelis, Arabs, and Jews. And right now, the far left and the far right are weaponizing their ideologies to reduce all of the aforementioned groups to their worst actors. That is not something that will help anyone with regard to this conflict.

Left Leaning Sources

ABC News

Associated Press

Atlantic Media

Boston Globe

The Forward (This is a Jewish source. They had one failed fact check in the last five years, but issued an official correction.)

Human Rights Watch

Institute for Middle East Understanding (This is a Palestinian source and it has a completely clean fact check record)

Least Biased Sources

Jewish Telegraphic Agency (Obviously a Jewish source)

Reuters (this has a Very High reporting rating)

American Press Institute (not only have they not failed a fact check in five years; they have never failed a fact check ever)

The Conversation

Pew Research

Foreign Policy

Foreign Affairs

Sky News UK

Right Leaning

Note: As I stated numerous times, including in this post, I am a leftist. However, something important for American readers of this post to know is that, when it comes specifically to matters involving military analysis of foreign conflicts, a slight right lean in perspective is common and sometimes preferable to leftist idealism. I say this as someone who votes and holds opinions that are about as far left as one can get. However, I also say this as someone with a background in university studies of international politics. Because analysis of military conflicts is often done by those with experience in and understanding of the military, most of the most credible and detailed analyses of foreign military affairs do tend to be more right leaning than sources of equal worth focused on domestic political matters. Furthermore, a leftist tendency toward pacifism (which I share) tends to mean less leftist involvement in military-involved political matters at all. Of course, none of this means there are no quality leftist sources on the current conflict (which I obviously demonstrated by linking to such sources above). I am simply explaining the value of such sources to those who may justifiably be skeptical of anything right-leaning after the hellish past two decades of domestic policies and US-caused violence in other countries.

Note 2: There are plenty of right-leaning sources that received “high” credibility ratings and “high” reporting ratings. I found no sources that had both “very high” credibility and “high” reporting ratings in the “right-center” category.

Boston Herald

Chicago Tribune

Counter Extremism Project

Foreign Policy Research Institute

The Jewish Press (clearly a Jewish source, this publication is geared toward the Modern Orthodox Jewish community. They have no failed fact checks)

ITV News

Jewish Unpacked (this source has no failed fact checks. this source is right-leaning by necessity because of its historical examination of antisemitism in leftist spaces making those spaces inherently unsafe for Jews—not specifically in this most recent flare up in the I/p conflict, but for years).

Right Bias

Note: I don’t personally follow or read any of these sources. But I did list leftist sources with high credibility and reporting ratings, so I will do the same here in the interest of fairness. It should be noted that all other source bias ratings had results several pages long. Right Bias sources with high credibility and reporting ratings were confined to one page only. There are no Right Bias Sources with Very High reporting ratings and high credibility.

Economic Policy Journal (no failed fact checks now or ever)

Influence Watch (tends to view liberal and progressive politics as “extremist,” but has no failed fact checks.)

I am not inclined to trust HP simply because their most recent antisemitic behavior fell short of hoping for Jewish genocide. I have a higher bar for accounts than that.

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #media literacy #I/p #israel #palestine #oh boy #I’m about to get so much hate #I’m not looking forward to it #but media literacy is important #and HP needs to be held accountable for the harm it is causing to Jews online #source evaluation

[hella1975]

it's been pointed out on here before that a lot of terf arguments are actually rooted in sexist idealology that feminists fought and died to unnormalise decades ago and that's its own kettle of fish but one thing i also find very frustrating about this so called 'radical' feminism is that it's so... defeatist? like the moment you categorically label an entire section of society as Bad and Inherently Evil then there's also the implication that nothing can be done about it, and it completely takes all accountability away. saying all men are evil is just another way of saying boys will be boys. he raped her because he's a man. he hit her because he's a man. he didn't listen because he's a man - it's almost offensively oversimplified. there's no point trying to fix this issue in society because men are just Like That, okay! so now what? it's not like they're going anywhere, so you just accept that 50% of the population are evil and will forever treat you terribly and there's nothing to be done about it bc they're biologically predisposed to it? like is that fr the argument here? you're soooo radical for that

#this is coming from someone who used to very genuinely be a misandrist #ironically it was only when i started actually analysing my own feminism that i got MORE confrontational with men #and started respecting my boundaries a lot better BECAUSE i started holding them accountable again #like when men treat me like shit nowadays i dont just write it off as 'what did you expect? he's a man' i get MAD about it #because i EXPECT BETTER FROM THEM even if it's just tiny shit women have to deal with daily #i hold them to just as high a standard as im held to and i make them take accountability when they dont meet that #and whether you realise it or not even on a subconscious level the MOMENT you black-and-white blanket statement all men as bad #you stop holding them accountable. #like it is literally just boys will be boys. do terfs seriously not realise they're sending feminism BACKWARDS #like if a girl came to me with her trauma and people - other girls no less - tried to comfort her with 'yeah all men are evil' #id be fucking furious. like no he did that because he was a piece of shit that had it normalised to him that women arent to be respected #dont you dare let him off the hook with something as simple and uncritical as 'he's a man' #i promise you men like that will MUCH prefer a blanket statement such as 'all men are as bad as each other' #than actually being point blank told they're an abuser or a rapist. because being lumped together is comfortable and even empowering #wheras isolating their behaviour with words that are Bad and Ugly (LIKE 'rapist') is not comfortable at all and has heavy connotations #idk i dont think radical feminism is always bad on its own it can be v liberating. just terfs and misandrists that i have a problem with #dropping this post in a piranha tank and closing tumblr knowing im gonna have some thirty year old karen yelling at me within 5 mins #i probably wont respond to any terf comments bc they literally mentally exhaust me with their stupidity #but that also depends on my mood and ability to keep my mouth shut LMFAO we shall see

[literaryspinster]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but

Sky dying was Viktor’s fault and him covering it up was bad actually.

#anti viktor arcane #i like him but the way y’all coddle that man is a LOT #arcane #arcane league of legends #sky young #you can tell me something bad that one of my faves did but I already know #it’s HIS fans that seem to think he’s above any criticism #literally no one is #and having to see over and over again how this Brown woman dying horribly wasn’t on him… #it’s white boy stanning at its most insidious #that would be like me saying jayce killing that boy wasn’t his fault and he shouldn’t feel bad when it was and he should #they were clear parallels #even happened in the same episode #come on now #sometimes good people do bad things it doesn’t make them irredeemable #but they do need to be held accountable

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 #p4g #persona 4 #persona 4 golden #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #oh yosuke youre not as smooth as you think you are <3 #are you really acting like it JUST occurred to you when youve always been so excited to plan gatherings and parties #for everyone #acting a lil bashful too when caught huh like OH SURE ILL PITCH IN #i know what you are #(a hypersensitive boy that thrives on the energy of his friends but also cares so much and wants everyone to be included and happy) #also i love that he brings up the Junes foodcourt like guys i dont think this was a throwaway line. #i think yosuke was being sensitive about the burden it might put on yu/nanako/dojima if they held a party at their house #he was sensitive enough to tell teddie off about bothering yu because yu was already managing all the housework #and when nanako was originally discharged for the holidays yu told him the doctor said she was still a little weak #so a party at their house wouldn't be a good idea #and hes taken that into account here!!! #ahhhh yosuke the best boy #he's good with his queue

[thegroundhogdidit]

oh when people said that ed is babygirl they really meant it in the "he's hot so all his crimes are okay" way actually. and i agree regularly like i can forgive the murder but maybe we should talk about the domestic abuse here like. he tried to make his most loyal follower and lover commit murder-suicide. hey no wait can we talk about this? murdering nameless extras is one thing but that's your husband? come back i'm serious trying to justify it with "izzy deserved it" is fucked up and cruel actually?? is that what you tell your friend whose husband hits her??? i don't think ed is irredeemable and he shouldn't be because it's ofmd but it wasn't really handled thoughtfully i don't think??

#please i'm so tired of the 'izzy deserved it' takes because um. no. he deserved getting punched in s1. he didn't deserve mutilation #and the abuse was pretty one-sided if you think about it #ed is still my babygirl but babygirl needed to be held accountable for those actions specifically and he wasn't #our flag means death #ofmd #edward teach #edizzy #listen i love fucked up ships when both sides are fucked (like anne/mary) but this is. hoo boy

[mo-ok]

family sentai big brothers - an observation

#fiveman #magiranger #gogov #gaku - thoughtful/placid/beloved aniki #makito - romantic/nurturing/beloved aniki #matoi - bastard #i kid lmao i fucking love matoi so much this is a matoi stan account my boy has done nothing wrong in his life ever #ANYWAY #i have so many feelings about these boys its not funny #gaku lost both his parents but he always had arthur #he shouldered a lot of the emotional burden but he was never “left to raise his siblings” #makito lost his dad young and became “the man of the house” but again - he always had his mum #he never had to be 'dad' - at least not until he was already an adult #BUT MATOI #matoi's parents left. they left and he didnt know if or when either of them were going to come back. #so to deal with it he held on to the family he has left and he holds on too tight and he suffocates them but he's doing his fucking BEST #i will defend matoi until the day i die tbh #2023 art tag

[deadbeatdadjokes]

Thinking eternally about how most of Lancer’s interactions/relationships with the people in his life require him to excavate fondness himself because they’ll do things for him that would insinuate affection but it’s usually heaped on by a copious layer of “It’s not cause I actually LIKE YOU OR AnyThing hope you die but u better not :((” 

Spade (on his good days), Rouxls, even Susie in the beginning, all of them on this spectrum range messily from feeling as though taking care of him is a genuine burden to pretending they’re too cool to acknowledge their attachment altogether so even if they love him it is a fuckin MESS they’ve left him to sort through and draw his own conclusions. 

So when Queen knows him for all of like 3 hours and immediately adopts him/starts looking after him he’s probably wildly confused and maybe a little suspicious bc he hasn’t done anything to ‘earn’ it yet. 

Not really trying to make a significant statement here so much as I am pointing out the comedy (and the inherent tragedy) that comes with all the important people in Lancer’s life fighting over wall space to lean against and go ‘tch’ at him as he walks by bc that trope is usually more effective if he at least already has ONE person in his life (THAT IS AN ADULT SORRY SUSIE) to take responsibility for him willingly and gladly.  

#poor kid's perception of what it means to be loved is probably warped as a result #THIS IS NOT SUSIE'S FAULT BTW but she should be held accountable for her brief contributions even though she's likely a victim herself #all of them are fist fighting each other in the parking lot for the role of 'heh not bad kid' #and during the scuffle queen points at him eating mulch like 'Anyone Want That' #and then not wait for an answer #queen probably did it to piss off her ex at first so idk if she's entirely off the hook but hey #she stepped tf up so she gets credit for that #I am BEGGING someone to treat this little boy with the love and care he deserves #he's sacrificed so much for everyone and STILL feels like he has to be useful in order to be deserving of any warmth bc bitches (Spade) #instilled that reward system into his brain and reinforced it with abuse #deltarune #lancer deltarune #susie deltarune #rouxls kaard #queen deltarune #king spade #long post #word vomit yet again groundbreaking #i know he enjoys digging y’all but cmon

[fanatics4l]

sometimes i feel like this fandom forgets that steve publicly humiliated nancy and called her a slut, which was also spray painted for the whole town to see. steve did so much fucked up shit in s1. "steve apologized right after" okay and? he humiliated and degraded his girlfriend in front of his friends and for anyone else to see. personally, a simple apology isn't enough to fix that. that shit is so fucking invalidating for a woman and it honestly makes me so mad that nancy even got back with him after how he acted over an assumption. very very misogynistic of him too. also the way he talked down at her? hmmm but yea of course he's a fan fav now so whatever 😊 he's definitely grown and has matured but if this fandom is gonna hold billy accountable for the things he did to this day, then keep the same energy for steve

#had it not been for jonathan beating the shit out of him #steve would've still been an asshole #i just don't think it's fair that steve can be forgiven so easily for calling someone a slur and publicly humiliating his gf #but billy the abuse victim can't be forgiven #that boy's last words to max were literally im sorry #if he had the time do y'all not think he would've bettered himself for her #it's obvious that in between s2 and 3 that their relationship was getting better too #i like steve guys im not a steve hater #i just think he should've been held accountable like how y'all still hold billy accountable to this day #sorry for the rant 😵‍💫

[autismjpg]

also L to justin but in MY mind the boys are actually silly friends who enjoy each others company and i think taako WOULD disclose his hot date with death to them even tho merle would try to beat him with his wooden arm over it (lovingly)

#actually i think they’ve leaned more towards them being friends #in the graphic novel #but i fr think they love each other so dearly #IN MY MIND the love they held and formed through the 100 years #is still there when they reunite in the BOB #like even though they can’t access those memories #the love is still there #honestly i think that is a little canon with the way they all interact #it’s not as like?? sweet sappy lovey dovey stuff #but all three of the boys are quite independent don’t rely on others #but as a trio they tend to take each other much more into account #than anyone else #anyways the graphic novel is so real for making them softer #taakos graphic novel characterisation is delightful especially #taz #taz balance

[mephestopheles]

I finally caught up with WBN, and oh dear gods I am so scared for them. I also have thoughts, because this whole episode felt like a giant panic attack going in two directions. This got long.

Ame can't pinpoint the moment she decides she needs to go, but I feel like it's that moment after you've realised you've partied too long and it's getting late. Like you need to go home and you're already in trouble and you know you can't fix it, but you still need to go like an hour ago. If only you could like reverse time long enough to make that decision at the moment you should have.

But it's not a conscious decision, so it's a nascent panic. That Fox is going to feel, and is going to interpret that as feeling trapped. So it ends up, at least how I'm seeing it as a feedback loop. Ame's not aware she's pushing those feelings aside, it's been fed to Fox and Fox is feeding back feeling trapped and claustrophobic and needing to run. And since it's all under the surface, it's hard to articulate, other than I need to go.

Because let's face it. These three need to have a nice long conversation about this internal shit and kind of explain how things are processing, but at the moment it's literally a "gotta go now, can't talk, words too slow"

And poor Suvi, who, like Brennan said in the fireside, has been taught from every single adult in her life that obedience is love, doing hard work you're not really into is how I show my appreciation and love, has also just walked out of her mom's place fully intending to go with Ame. It's not until that order from Steel that she stops moving because at that point, that it hits her how devastating that decision is and how in this moment she cannot cross this line. This line is too far, this line may not be the manifestation of throwing her family away but it feels like that. Decades of being the good and obedient child, the one who follows the rules to the letter all the time, every time is going up against a very new and burgeoning rebellion and possibly a search for autonomy, but I'm not willing to put words in Suvi's mouth just yet.

But I do know the feeling of panic that happens when you've always been the one who listened and followed the rules and stepping out of line here and now (I'm not ignoring the first chapter, but the first chapter was Suvi truly believing she was heading in the right direction and being stealth for safety's sake, and even the running after Ame was more a panic impulse decision) this decision here to leave her mom's place and then ignore her order is so much deeper, so much more than just "oh I need to protect my friends".

Prior to this, and even here, had Ame or Eursulon been in true danger she would have thrown hands. This is her home and even with the weirdass situation of the imperium dragging folks from their homes, Suvi knows she's safe and by extension believes both Ame and Eursulon are safe as well. So she's not sensing any of the danger that Ame is feeling, so she's not going to go against her mom. I'm assuming this is one of those "well shit, but mom probably has more Intel and that will help and if we can't get to Toma because it's super unsafe then at least we'll go to the north pole".

But unfortunately for all of them, Ame's panic is playing that weird like 5th dimensional time travelling chess with both the Fox's need for freedom, and who knows how much inherent magic and history she has just inherited as the opponent.

Maybe Suvi is right and the most they'll be delayed is 45 minutes and off they go. And maybe whatever panic is driving Ame is correct and if she doesn't get home to Toma to claim that space, the council will have an easier time destroying her. We don't know, and likely won't know even next week if this was a terrible decision or not.

Nobody is at fault, and yet they all bear some responsibility for how this happened. They're doing exactly what they feel is necessary in the situation and yes communication would help, but it cannot solve this. This is two fundamental forces that don't oppose each other but do have wildly different origins butting heads for real. Witches are wisdom based and emotional and social and have a lot of we do this because we have to take into consideration that we are important but also guests in a world built by spirits. And wizards are intelligence, and taxonomy, and strategies, and if I can get enough information I will understand this problem and find a solution.

Eursulon, is caught in the middle, but also can see that if it weren't for Suvi and by extension Steel, his life in the Citadel would be very different. So given his history with how quickly safe cities and towns turn hostile, if a witch says run, he's going to run.

I'm so happy that the dice wanted to tell a specific story and Eursulon was able to save those wizards and see all of the paths. I can't wait to see what he decides to do.

I am also devastated at the fracture that has appeared in Ame and Suvi's friendship and I'm hoping that they are able to find the path to healing. I trust the narrative and I super trust all the players, they definitely know what they're doing. I've been watching the actual plays long enough to trust that process. But until then I'm going to cry for them and gnaw on furniture until the next episode.

And the Fox is an innocent boy who added 2+4 and somehow divided by 0 to get explosion.

#wbn spoilers #wbn pod #suvirin kedberiket #ame wbn #eursulon #god i love this podcast so much #fox is a perfect boy and cannot be held accountable for his crimes #he still doesn't know if he gets vote

[nicxxx5]

we know jonathan taking a picture of nancy without her consent was bad, that’s undeniable. but can we recognize that he was like what 15? he was young and it was a mistake and he did it without thinking. again it was bad but i don’t think it justifies how much so many people villainize him. 

he’s done so much to help out everyone beyond that. he looks out for will and nancy so fucking much. i just don’t feel like he deserves to be made out to be such a horrible character because of something he did that he has clearly grown from. 

#stranger things #jonathan byers #jonathan best boy #jonathan is the best brother #nancy wheeler #will byers #byers family #jancy #tw pictures without consent #tw taking pictures without consent #tw consent #again it was bad and he should be held accountable #but some of you villainize him and make him out to be the worst character #he's grown so much from that #also he was a KID #we talk about how mike is a kid to justify his actions #these are different situations but i think it should still apply

[muirneach]

thousand yard stare. i didnt know ppl were making rpf with the guys from joker out

#remembers that esc fans are actually indeed weird #well thats what happens with boy bands i guess ppl love to rpf no matter what #like okay i was weird about it this year !! but in a normal way #well okay i wasnt NOT engaging with rpf but who can dent the allure of whatever käärijä and bojan had going on. but like #whatever i cant be held accountable for any emotions experienced in may 2023

[smallhatlogan]

not to say racism played no part in his decision–Homelander is a superpowered cop and trump allegory who dated a nazi, after all–but he knew exactly what was going on and what he was supposed to do, but he agreed with Cate and Sam's actions because he too believes supes are superior to regular people. He didn't just fly onto the scene and assume Marie&co were the attackers, he was told what to do and who to kill/subdue, went "No I'm doing it my way" realizing that Vought will have no choice but to shift the narrative to justify his actions.

#i think maybe it's just people haven't watched The Boys but #the big thing about Homelander is he is powerful enough that he can't be held accountable for anything #and he's at the point where he's outright pushing his belief of supe superiority. he didn't care about saving anyone #logan watches gen v

[monstermoviedean]

three things you need to know about dean winchester. 1) raised from age 4 to protect his little brother at all costs. 2) told at age 27 he might have to kill his little brother to protect him. 3) sacrificed his life to bring his little brother back from the dead.

#w*ncesties DNI #i was thinking about that deancrit i saw yesterday and. #look i know morality is not easy black and white. i know there is no accounting for the full measure of a person's life. #i know it's reductive to say x good deeds cancel out x bad deeds #however. this is my fictional character boy and i want to #like. if you are genuinely deancrit. not you think he did some things wrong or you just don't like him. #but genuinely vitriolic hatred because you think he's abusive #i need you to look at these three true and uncontroversial statements again #i know i haven't seen dabb era. i know many people hate dabb dean. i know he mistreats jack and cas and sam. #but i want you to look at these three statements again. #and i want you to think about how these would shape your personality. how these would alter your actions. #how they would encourage you to do awful things. #i'm not saying he should never be held accountable for his actions #but genuinely if you cannot empathize with him at any point. i don't think you can empathize with me. #like. yeah he's fictional but have a little fucking compassion. #i say this as a loud j*hn hater but despite what dabb wants you to think dean is not john. #OH and to the very kind person who advised me to stop hate reading. thank you again. #i wasn't hate reading and i haven't been dwelling on it I was just driving and thinking about Him and listening to his playlist #spn

[coolcarabiner]

listening to certain lines off So Much (for) Stardust like

#until this album lets my brain go i can't be held accountable for my peteposting #notable mentions are im in a winter mood dreaming of spring now. it's open season on blue moods. PART TIME SOULMATE FULL TIME PROBLEM #kiss my cheek baby please would you read my eulogy.... i like playing dumb letting you figure me out. please. #honestly so much of the title track. and the entirety of fake out/kintsugi kid have pete's lyricism all over 'em #and i think that's why i like this album So much :') never beating the pete wentz apologist allegations #fall out boy #so much for stardust #pete wentz #posts