You've heard of the French Beast, time to hear about the French Final Boss : Etoiles' mom
EDIT : Okay some people are being confused, let me clarify, ETOILES IS NOT 45 lol. It's a very common French humour thing where we exaggerate to a ridiculous degree to emphasize something (for example the fact that Etoiles streams trivia games that is known for having a public that's mostly retired people). Etoiles was born in 1996, he's 27 hehe ! DO NOT PANIC
Might delete this later because people online can be a little strange, and the last thing I'm interested in is arising some sort of internet debate, but:
I don't know what it is about the jokey mirror sex comic specifically that's getting so many people to react strangely at the prospect of a certain character topping in a relationship, but I will brazenly admit: It weirds me out a little bit!
Now, this came from a quiz on the top 3 hated anime characters (the results coming from sites like MyAnimeList, Anime Planet and AniList. So don't hate the poster) and I'm not surprised by the results for MHA.
Keep in mind, yes, a very popular character can also have a lot of haters.
One of these characters is a prime example of that.
fighting everything cynical and spiteful in me because I still want to love and believe in people regardless of their flaws, but fucking hell I've hardly ever been tried on such a wide scale before. a lot of people, including people I really love, are making it really really hard to not only hold onto hope that there is a better future than this, but to feel like it's even worth it to try.
I had an inkling there would be a war on mental health on top of everything else going on, and thanks everything I am at a place in my life where it's not enough to send me tumbling down the deep end, but the thread remains thin. And it's genuinely super important to refuse to fall apart, it's absolutely necessary to find a way to persevere in the rise of a worldwide technofascist order because fuck them they don't deserve our despair, but. Yeah. I sincerely doubt it's going to get any easier any time soon, and given they're trying to destroy solidarity, to both monetize and punish self-expression and self-identity, mangle the essence of art and creation, force everybody into poverty and precarity, hunt down any indesirable in more and more unhinged ways and gradually restrict the consumption of everything... Yeah it's going to be a fucking nightmare moving forward.
My heart goes to everybody who's worse off than me on any of these topics, and who's already running on limited options and drained-out mental health. I don't know how to circumvent this entire situation we're facing, and specifically all the surgical ways they're trying to blot out hope and shut down solidarity. I just know it's absolutely necessary to find a way regardless.
If you're not fat and/or not in fat liberation spaces, you might not notice the problem in this screenshot.
This is an image of clothing currently being sold on the Hot Topic site. On the left, we have the straight size model in this cardigan. On the right is the "plus size" model in the same cardigan.
Here is the problem.
The photo of the thin model shows her face. In fact, all but one of the photos of the cardigan in the page itself shows her face.
The fat model is headless. In fact, she's headless in every single picture.
This begs the question of why. Why is it important to show the thin model's face (the thin model who vaguely resembles the elfin character the cardigan is supposed to be for) but unimportant to show the fat model's face? Or, maybe, more to the point, why is it so important to NOT show the fat model's face?
Even the photos of the back of the cardigan, it's the same. The thin model's head and hood are in the picture; the fat model is headless.
The only picture of the thin model where you can't see her head is a close up of the cardigan stitching detail.
It's a little thing in the grand scheme of things, yes. But it's deliberate. It's consistent. It's that little extra bit of dehumanizing that fat folks get that their thin counterparts don't.
Sure, you can wear the cute outfit, as long as you don't make us look at you. You can't be Arwen; you're fat. You're not a graceful fantasy character; you're fat. How dare you think you deserve to be seen?
Spending the last half of a day on the Sims crossover thingy has meant I've come back to the mutual's banter of the day. Ace is being accused of being a Shinnie again