#the real victim of this tragedy

[sneezypeasy]

If Katara became Fire Lady, the person who this'd suck the most for isn't actually Aang, it'd be Bato's kid (or whoever's mum or dad happens to be good friends with Hakoda). Can you imagine? Your mum's voice?!?! Hakoda's kids are your age and they're out there being chief of the SWT and co-ruling over the Fire Nation. Who are you chieftain of?? You can't even govern a penguin. Disgusten.

#zutara #atla #a moment of silence for bato junior #the real victim of this tragedy #press f to pay respects

[redrosesandcharmingsouls]

The Dance is really about sons and daughters paying for the ,perceived or real ones ,sins of their elders .Its about Rhaenrya and Aegon paying for Visery's political incompetence .Its about Jahaearys being murdered and Jahaera almost getting raped and Maelor almost get killed because Aemond killed Luke .Its about Viserys neglecting his kids partially to punish Alicent for speaking her mind so her kids could be safe ,Its about the Strong boys paying for Rhaenyra's political mistakes .its about .Its about Maelor getting murdered for being Aegon's son.

#the greens #the blacks #hotd #house of the dragon #keep in mind im not actually blaming the victims ''PERCEIVED or real ones '' #also dont bring team discourse i wanna talk about tragedy #alicent hightower #aemond targaryen #aegon ii targaryen #lucerys velaryon #jace velaryon #joffrey velaryon #rhaenyra targaryen #jahaera targaryen #jahaerys ii targaryen #maelor targaryen

[dyke-ulaura]

One thing I love about Falsettos is that AIDS is never mentioned. Which makes sense - obviously - as none of the characters would have known, all Charlotte has to say is “something bad” and the audience knows exactly what is happening. We never even see Whizzer’s specific symptoms. There’s the fall during racquetball and the baggy clothes that imply weight loss, but other than that the illness itself doesn’t even really matter. AIDS is this major plot point of the second act and yet rather than detailing the horrors of the disease, falsettos is so focused on the people affected by it.

And it feels so different to media made today about the AIDS crisis. It’s not trauma porn, there’s no gay-bashing, there’s no real homophobia at all in the second act. The main focus is love, the love that Whizzer and Marvin have for each other, the love and support from the rest of the tight knit family. We see Whizzer as a lover, a friend, a father figure. Falsettos does such a good job at establishing Whizzer as a person. He is so much more than just an AIDS victim, and Falsettos is so much more than a show about AIDS

#and this is part of why I hate the whizzer aids jokes #not only are you making fun of a global tragedy #you’re reducing Whizzer’s character (and all the real people he represents) to just another AIDS victim #which misses the point of the show completely #does any of this make sense #im shit at structuring my thoughts #falsettos #marvin falsettos #whizzer brown #falsettos analysis

[selfishshipper]

you guys are surprised jk rowling is under fire for being a holocaust denier? the same woman that wrote an entire series based on a grossly misconstrued analogy of the holocaust??

#hey guys here's my magical misinterpretation of a real life tragedy! #you can tell i sympathize with the victims because i made them the good guys :) #anyways here's an entire subrace designed around antisemetic stereotypes #jk rowling #harry potter

[rubberduckyrye]

I like using Occam's Razor when I theory-craft, because often the simplest answer is the best solution.

But man does it sometimes lead to the most BORING answer known to man.

#Jacks showed me a conversation relating to Alter Ego Gonta #and for a while the comment in question had my mind reeling and coming up with tragic ideas to explain it #and then I remembered #“Oh wait. I don't think Alter Ego Gonta is aware what it means to be just an AI/is aware he's not just the original Gonta. He considers--” #“--Himself and the Real Gonta as separate entities. That means ofc he would be alarmed and concerned when this 'doppleganger' knows about-- #“--Him murdering Miu.” #Anyway that answer is so much more boring tho #AU where Miu Gonta and Kokichi all saw the Secret of the Outside World Together #And came up with the murder plan #All three of them coming to the conclusion that Gonta would be the least suspected #and Kokichi would be the most suspected since everyone fucking hates him and thinks he's always up to no good #thus leaving Miu to be the victim #The idea of Miu /setting up her own murder/ is such an interesting concept and the /tragedy/ of it all is even better #and I was very much enjoying that rabbit hole before I realized “Wait. Not only are there lots of plot holes to fill with this but this--” #“--assumes AE Gonta identifies with Real Gonta as himself--which he doesn't.” #Anyway yeah the pains of Occam's Razor #Sometimes the simplest answer really is the best option #Sometimes it's the most boring option tho

[theriverdalereviewer]

incoming!!! another hot take!!! repackaging every harmful thing in our society as being feminist just because women do it is stupid and very dangerous

#ANYWAYS I don’t even know how this rant started being about this what I was talking about was FUCKING TRUE CRIME #the burning hatred I have for true crime if you sick mfs don’t put on GAME OF THRONES OR SOMETHING #just saw a terrible take on twitter that its wrong to criticize true crime because women mostly consume it #and we’re all just hating on it because we love to hate what women like and we think women can’t think for themselves #God help me there is no hope for women #like you bitches would defend snorting coke if it was predominantly consumed by women #its just so dumb like yes using the real abuse and murder of mostly women for your entertainment is weird and should be stopped #and if you don’t find it disturbing its because youre desensitized and in that case check into therapy #and yeah I don’t find it fascinating at all #these people are able to get away with these things because they are privileged and the police are incompetent there is no magic #this isn’t criminal minds with some intriguing motive and method these are stories about freaks who are remembered better than their victims #like for those of you who aren’t understanding its weird imagine listening to the recent tragedies in the news #and finding JOY and FUN in them???? #alright ive said what ive said true crime watchers please find a hobby outside of death and destruction

[kashilascorner]

Seeing Konatsu say she won't do rakugo because that's the world of men (s2ep4) was so heartbreaking. She really was neglected by her parents just to be adopted by an extremely emotionally distant and cold man who told her time and time again she couldn't do the thing she loved the most because she is a woman to the point she, as an adult, and with now a supportive person by her side (Yotaro) and presumably a more supportive environment overall (as proven by her performance at yhe kindergarden) just gradually and quietly adjusts to the gender role she never wanted to perform. Which is crutial to the cyclic nature of the narrative in the series. She could break the circle, but now she will never do it because she's too deep into it.

#sukeroku and miyokichi were absolutely disastrous parents (though at least sukeroku did love her a lot) #then yakumo was a good guardian when it comes to providing liveable conditions but terrible in every other way #and finally yotaro is so genuinely caring and loving to her. their relationship is so beautiful #but the damage is done. sukeroku miyokichi and yakumo all fucked her up for good just because she happened to exist and then just #passed their massive trauma onto her and let her live with all that sadness hatred and frustration. #yakumo might be the real tragedy hero because of his motives but konatsu is the real victim in this game of mirrors #showa geneoku rakugo shinju #laura watches stuff

[trashcanalienist]

It's all a lot of lies, maybe not lies about how it's accusatory and reproachful, knowing commentary on the inherent voyeurism of cinema and the audience's complicity in these women's deaths, but it's all lies besides that for emotionally it's just that I am with them and we share the same eyes.

#it's only women who die like that in cinema. it's only women who stare into the camera with their deadeyes full of glass #and hate their killedness and mourn their deaths and ask you the Watcher why? why did you want this? why did you let this happen? #men don't die like that. because the personhood of men is never questioned to begin with and thus their deaths are meaningful or not #without the film taking the time to ask you why? why did you want this? because men don't die from such pointless violence. #men aren't victims generally and when they are it's never any question that their death is tragedy. to the audience i mean. #so it's only women who stare back and ask. there's one exception which is john rambo but that's not real anyways that didn't happen and it #isn't real. but if it was real it serves the same purpose. why? why did you want this? why did you let this happen? why did you do this? #and accusatory. YOU caused this. YOU killed us. #eyes #nonsense #words i speak #windows with closed shutters that still see blindly #marion jess and aarfy's poor victim is who are on my mind tonight and every night #marion and aarfy's victim most of all. mm. bad things in my head tonight. #creeptalk

[funkylittledemon]

Thinking about TMA again 😔

#just the poetry of it.... #the avatars of the fears #the fears themselves #cosmic manifestations of fear that definitely Exist #i do love me a good tragedy i have to say #and just the avatars serving the fears like they are both an agent of Fear Itself and victims of those fears #like its the thing that terrifies you most but also the thing you are drawn to #jon was scared of becoming a monster. of having any form of knowledge about those stories he read. #because if he knew about them he has to accept they are real #and those monsters are real and maybe just people and the more the story progresses the more scared he gets of the possibility it could #happen to him #and yet he stays. at the very start when he thinks its all bull he still does it #like i was sat high up on some park equipment the other day and it was terrifying but also the thought of me falling was intoxicating. #it was the source of my fear and yet also the reason i was up there in the first place #i think that's what being an avatar is about

[illycanary]

Katara's Story Is A Tragedy and It's Not An Accident

I was a teenaged girl when Avatar: The Last Airbender aired on Nickelodeon—the group that the show’s creators unintentionally hit while they were aiming for the younger, maler demographic. Nevermind that we’re the reason the show’s popularity caught fire and has endured for two decades; we weren’t the audience Mike and Bryan wanted. And by golly, were they going to make sure we knew it. They’ve been making sure we know it with every snide comment and addendum they’ve made to the story for the last twenty years.

For many of us girls who were raised in the nineties and aughts, Katara was a breath of fresh air—a rare opportunity in a media market saturated with boys having grand adventures to see a young woman having her own adventure and expressing the same fears and frustrations we were often made to feel. 

We were told that we could be anything we wanted to be. That we were strong and smart and brimming with potential. That we were just as capable as the boys. That we were our brothers’ equals. But we were also told to wash dishes and fold laundry and tidy around the house while our brothers played outside. We were ignored when our male classmates picked teams for kickball and told to go play with the girls on the swings—the same girls we were taught to deride if we wanted to be taken seriously. We were lectured for the same immaturity that was expected of boys our age and older, and we were told to do better while also being told, “Boys will be boys.” Despite all the platitudes about equality and power, we saw our mothers straining under the weight of carrying both full-time careers and unequally divided family responsibilities. We sensed that we were being groomed for the same future. 

And we saw ourselves in Katara. 

Katara begins as a parentified teenaged girl: forced to take on responsibility for the daily care of people around her—including male figures who are capable of looking after themselves but are allowed to be immature enough to foist such labor onto her. She does thankless work for people who take her contributions for granted. She’s belittled by people who love her, but don’t understand her. She’s isolated from the world and denied opportunities to improve her talents. She's told what emotions she's allowed to feel and when to feel them. In essence, she was living our real-world fear: being trapped in someone else’s narrow, stultifying definition of femininity and motherhood. 

Then we watched Katara go through an incredible journey of self-determination and empowerment. Katara goes from being a powerless, fearful victim to being a protector, healer, advocate, and liberator to others who can’t do those things for themselves (a much truer and more fulfilling definition of nurturing and motherhood). It’s necessary in Katara’s growth cycle that she does this for others first because that is the realm she knows. She is given increasingly significant opportunities to speak up and fight on behalf of others, and that allows her to build those advocacy muscles gradually. But she still holds back her own emotional pain because everyone that she attempts to express such things to proves they either don't want to deal with it or they only want to manipulate her feelings for their own purposes. 

Katara continues to do much of the work we think of as traditionally maternal on behalf of her friends and family over the course of the story, but we do see that scale gradually shift. Sokka takes on more responsibility for managing the group’s supplies, and everyone helps around camp, but Katara continues to be the manager of everyone else’s emotions while simultaneously punching down her own. The scales finally seem to tip when Zuko joins the group. With Zuko, we see someone working alongside Katara doing the same tasks she is doing around camp for the first time. Zuko is also the only person who never expects anything of her and whose emotions she never has to manage because he’s actually more emotionally stable and mature than she is by that point. And then, Katara’s arc culminates in her finally getting the chance to fully seize her power, rewrite the story of the traumatic event that cast her into the role of parentified child, be her own protector, and freely express everything she’s kept locked away for the sake of letting everyone else feel comfortable around her. Then she fights alongside an equal partner she knows she can trust and depend on through the story's climax. And for the first time since her mother’s death, the girl who gives and gives and gives while getting nothing back watches someone sacrifice everything for her. But this time, she’s able to change the ending because her power is fully realized. The cycle was officially broken.

Katara’s character arc was catharsis at every step. If Katara could break the mold and recreate the ideas of womanhood and motherhood in her own image, so could we. We could be powerful. We could care for ourselves AND others when they need us—instead of caring for everyone all the time at our own expense. We could have balanced partnerships with give and take going both ways (“Tui and La, push and pull”), rather than the, “I give, they take,” model we were conditioned to expect. We could fight for and determine our own destiny—after all, wasn’t destiny a core theme of the story?

Yes. Destiny was the theme. But the lesson was that Katara didn’t get to determine hers. 

After Katara achieves her victory and completes her arc, the narrative steps in and smacks her back down to where she started. For reasons that are never explained or justified, Katara rewards the hero by giving into his romantic advances even though he has invalidated her emotions, violated her boundaries, lashed out at her for slights against him she never committed, idealized a false idol of her then browbeat her when she deviated from his narrative, and forced her to carry his emotions and put herself in danger when he willingly fails to control himself—even though he never apologizes, never learns his lesson, and never shows any inclination to do better. 

And do better he does not.

The more we dared to voice our own opinions on a character that was clearly meant to represent us, the more Mike and Bryan punished Katara for it.

Throughout the comics, Katara makes herself smaller and smaller and forfeits all rights to personal actualization and satisfaction in her relationship. She punches her feelings down when her partner neglects her and cries alone as he shows more affection and concern for literally every other girl’s feelings than hers. She becomes cowed by his outbursts and threats of violence. Instead of rising with the moon or resting in the warmth of the sun, she learns to stay in his shadow. She gives up her silly childish dreams of rebuilding her own dying culture’s traditions and advocating for other oppressed groups so that she can fulfill his wishes to rebuild his culture instead—by being his babymaker. Katara gave up everything she cared about and everything she fought to become for the whims of a man-child who never saw her as a person, only a possession.

Then, in her old age, we get to watch the fallout of his neglect—both toward her and her children who did not meet his expectations. By that point, the girl who would never turn her back on anyone who needed her was too far gone to even advocate for her own children in her own home. And even after he’s gone, Katara never dares to define herself again. She remains, for the next twenty-plus years of her life, nothing more than her husband's grieving widow. She was never recognized for her accomplishments, the battles she won, or the people she liberated. Even her own children and grandchildren have all but forgotten her. She ends her story exactly where it began: trapped in someone else’s narrow, stultifying definition of femininity and motherhood.

The story’s theme was destiny, remember? But this story’s target audience was little boys. Zuko gets to determine his own destiny as long as he works hard and earns it. Aang gets his destiny no matter what he does or doesn’t do to earn it. And Katara cannot change the destiny she was assigned by gender at birth, no matter how hard she fights for it or how many times over she earns it. 

Katara is Winston Smith, and the year is 1984. It doesn’t matter how hard you fight or what you accomplish, little girl. Big Brother is too big, too strong, and too powerful. You will never escape. You will never be free. Your victories are meaningless. So stay in your place, do what you’re told, and cry quietly so your tears don’t bother people who matter.

I will never get over it. Because I am Katara. And so are my friends, sisters, daughters, and nieces. But I am not content to live in Bryke's world.

I will never turn my back on people who need me. Including me.

#ATLA #Avatar the Last Airbender #Katara #Anti Bryke #Zutara #but not really #just pro-Katara #Anti Kataang

[peantis]

“All celebrities are satanists and sold their souls to the devi- *gunshot*”

#literally kys #you’re actually insane #and taking away from real victims of real tragedies #by saying it must be a sacrifice to satan??? #seek help #let’s not even get into how anti semetic it is

[metanarrates]

ugh anthy is so good. nearly every single other story I've seen about a Mysterious and Tragic teenage girl has failed in some way either because the writer forgot to give the character complexity and an internal life, or because the tragic things in her life were far too aestheticized to have real teeth. anthy succeeds as a character largely because the whole story is dedicated to deconstructing an aestheticized view of her & her suffering, and also showing how that aestheticized view dehumanizes her and denies her agency. she is not a harmless victim or a beautifully agonized one - she is a teenage girl who is reacting in realistic, complex ways to a lifetime of crushing systemic abuses. and similarly, every teenage girl around her is also reacting in complex ways to their own suffering under patriarchy.

depiction of sad teenage girls often posit their pain as a natural phenomenon, something that is just intrinsic to girlhood. adding a layer of mystique onto them just further serves to obfuscate the sources of teen girl suffering. instead, teenage girl pain becomes palatable. consumable, even. #aesthetic. these depictions are unthreatening because, by their nature, they cannot depict societal issues in a way that would demand a restructuring of society. we can posit a familial tragedy but not a tragedy of the family structure. we can lament a beautifully mentally ill sufferer but not the systems of wellness and community that failed her. et cetera. nothing can ever hold up an uncomfortable mirror, only a flattering one.

revolutionary girl utena directly says that that idea is bullshit and that its teenage girls are suffering as a direct result of entrenched systematic oppression. and in that uncomfortable honesty, it's able to be WAY more authentically hopeful with its sad teenage girls. anthy is able to finally walk out of the society that trapped her and live freely of the image that was constructed around her! she can be a flawed human girl who is still going to be happy with her girlfriend! her victimhood is not eternal and does not mean she can never find happiness! A TEEN GIRL DOES NOT HAVE TO STAY IN A COFFIN IN ORDER TO DESERVE COMPASSION!!!!

#narrates #rgu #my chat and i have been discussing the virgin suicides (ive never seen the movie but apparently its quite influential in some spheres) #and it just makes me think about how much i loathe most depictions of Suffering Girlhood TM #shut up about girlhood shut up about girlhood!!!!!!! watch rgu. suffering is not just a Girlhood Condition.

[artcalledtattoo]

FUCK TRUMP & NRA Those likes loves this stuff Gun sales will go up They kept enforcement To encroach for the innocents To be killed Brought to ya by Trumpism hatism Putinism Devastation Atrocities In the Atro American City Been there Been to the Gun shows Ghost gun enablers All for sales Who what makes the moneys Who sold the ammo You helped the slaying along Don’t nay, say that, it’s not what I intended I was just looking for retirement future Mega bucks in military hardware I will work for unvested stocks I’m a killer In all this too I’ve taken from the backs I’ve taking away thee hours I’ve given no rewards I look out for my bonus I just work here also Don’t look towards me for help My purpose is to see you here or not here And I get paid I’m a leader gaining in all the ways Phat in bank, living big time, like the Prunts at the tops, leave me alone, I need tassels riding motor sickles, or truck and car you purchase it for me, peasant peon dot a name of clocked in, let begin smiling giving you pennies while I banking dollars same bull shit different even while standing heads in you aisle showing of our 3 of 18 legs of power in un-camered 37 We even made you side step to different aisle for you to accomplish your mission And my bitch! Did say the leader He walked in adjacent aisles rather than direct placement of products but later would figure out he was just moving a couple of boxes at a time in front of us and continued to do the same, the fucker figured us 3 and was just using abusing wasting time while walking around us leaders...fucker always is Doing better a job then we could or ever did and the guck still knocked out his over weighted department I feel like a total! What’s his word ? ~PRUNT~ MY TURN d u m b s h I t • Plumb devil, snake pit, strive #2 Ohh yea just like that You witnessed, I told my manager Why 37? when products belong on 30!!! He said nothing to you all three Right standing so funny As I walked on through Til’ I didn’t want too!!!!!!!!! I’m hearing Billy Squire Everybody wants too Anyways chumps Psych Prunts I worked with no help through my end Oops I’m not a schoolyard student Just gaining education but we never talk about killer affiliations to political parties even going back to Lennon Of clock out times Had a help of 5-6 boxes Prunt my .|. to that working man Your use was worthless You left before me But like a Republican you can say You did something Like if I make myself A Democrat always correcting and picking up after likes of you big cardboard man But a special in team 1, just a garden hider from a den or pit, please reply correct me, I saw several hiding throughout the garden Fine, it’s not expected ever 3.5 years of bullshit weekends Vehicle wasn’t dead Knocked out my consumerism Anyways Whatever, Jesus said at his time? “LOVE THE SWORD” a now a gun Prunts and you tried to smell me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love Another most famous but perhaps I missed thy love a spear quote

#wordsbymm #words #writing #nra #Trump #trumpism #bonus #affiliations #sleep well with this #american same #atrocity #last #when was that #no real control #vote your way #who makes money #every tragedy #moneymaking #moneymakers #ignore victim of bullying #a start #serve #lead #educated tested #same old shit #leaders never tested #4 education #but same things happening #require political testing be4 serving #educational proof before political serving

[somethingaboutmint]

My biggest plothole hangup with fallout 4 is kellog and how shitty he was done so the theory i propose: they should have just made kellog a synth lol? Like think about it:

1.) Eliminates the factor of "how the fuck did kellog live so long and not age?". Ingame shaun basically goes "institute technology we retired cuz (bullshit reason)" which is so dumb cuz its technology THAT STOPS YOU FROM AGING. But if it wasnt a real kellog but a synth recreation it would be like a cool "ooooh shit" twist moment as soon as you pick up the synth piece. Like thats not the real kellog they just made him again. Cloned him if you will.

2.) Good way to introduce the synths into the story. Theres so many places you'll see them beforehand but having kellog be the big "oh shit" moment for those who just speed through the plot would have rocked.

3.) The inherent tragedy of it. Idk i cant relate to kellog ingame cuz the memories quest utterly fails for me. Oh wow he lost his wife and child hes just like me fr- like fuck OFFFFF that happened to me too and i didnt go around killing innocent people. BOZO. But if he was a synth its a realization of like. This guy didnt do that. This is someone who fully believed he did and shared those memories but its like he didnt do it. Hes a victim of the institute just as much as you are. He legit doesnt know better. The implication of "if he found out he was a synth of a person long dead and his memories weren't real could he have gotten better" will always hang over your head.

4.) Paints institute in a more evil fucked up light . Asking shaun "what do you MEAN you recreated the guy that kidnapped you and brutally killed your other parent." And shaun just goes "well he was a good agent idk i admire the usefulness." Its like that collateral damage line but goes hard. Even better if he truly doesnt get why you're mad about it and at some point you see kellog again im the institute and are like WTF and shauns like oh we just made him again. If it makes you feel better you could kill him again too. We can make as many as you want. Like would that not be metal but also kinda horrifying

#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 kellog #like its such a simple story fix imo but it works so good. am i just insane or do we fuck with this

[15-lizards]

Do you guys think that as time passes Robb’s story gets turned into a folk tale…a cautionary story for children…a story rooted in truth but the real details are lost. A boy king marches south looking for justice for his good father but gets betrayed by the people he trusted too much…he gets turned into a beast, half boy and half wolf, forgetting who he is and living among the forest. The riverlanders say that you can hear the wolf king howl when you’ve been lied to, and that he scavenges the woods, pouncing on liars and betrayers. And his mother, so mad with grief, stalks riverbanks at nights, her face torn to bloody ribbons, attacking similar victims, but preferring the ones with blonde hair. Little children hear scary tales of Lady Stoneheart and the Wolf King and are too frightened to ever tell a lie. Men sit in taverns, singing sad drinking songs about a mother and child draped in tragedy. Girls sit about with their needlework, sighing at the true love the Wolf King died for, his fair queen who he put above all others, even himself. Robb Stark is betrayed, and this is true. But time twists the truth. Truth fades into story fades into legend. And he is forgotten, nothing more than a symbol in an old tale.

#asoiaf #oh wow #made myself sad #like imagine a few hundered years have passed and there’s this legend of the wolf king along with the river kings that once walked the land #Robb was real and brave and true but that’s all they remember about him :( #they don’t remember why he marched or why he was betrayed #time warps him into a character instead of a person

[hello-nichya-here]

Did Sia insult topic of autism somehow?

Oh honey, it's sooooooooo much worse than that.

Sia wanted to make a movie about an autistic girl that manages to connect to people/feel safe and confident through music. So far, nothing outrageous, just a simple concept that would obviously put Sia's music front and center while doing something nice and educating people on autism.

There was controversy about her not casting an autistic actress as it would have been nice representation, but she could have totally gotten away with that since, come on, hollywood hasn't even figured out Rain Man isn't exactly true to life, they're not ready to have an autistic person playing an autistic character. Baby steps.

The real problem started when Sia started promoting the "charity/support group" that was helping "educate" her on the topic to make the movie. The "charity" in question was Autism Speaks - which is absolutely HATED by the autistic community for things like:

1 - Spreading the myth that autism is a mental illness that one can develop/catch like the freaking flue and potentially be cured of, instead of a neurotype, aka something starts in the woomb and cannot be "cured" because to do that you'd need to replace someone's entire nervous system, which is impossible.

2 - Using that myth to get outrageous amounts of money from people so they "search for a cure" - that doesn't exist and will never exist because curing autism is biologically impossible, AND despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of autistic people don't even want to be "cured" (plus, since said "cure" would essentially mean giving the person a new brain, it leads to the question of "Would I even be the same person, or would that just kill and replace me?")

3 - Using the myth of "We don't know what causes autism" (we do, it's genetic) to, of course, get MORE money from people so they can "do research to find the missing puzzle piece" (if you ever see autistic people complaining about a puzzle piece being used to represent the condition, that's why, it was started by Autism Speak's massive disinformation campains).

4 - Falsely "confirming" things like soy milk cause autism with one of the world's most ridiculous "research", losing only to "vaccines totally make kids autistic, buy MY vaccine instead, guys, I am totally not an unbelievably biased person, it's ALL the other doctors/scientists lying to you. GIVE ME MONEY!"

5 - Pushing the narrative of "autism is inherently a tragedy" to distract from the fact that all the money they waste on stupid shit could be used to help autistic people and their families. Instead, they focus on creating more and more panic, making parents in particular despair even more - to the point that one of their "awareness videos" includes a mother talking about how she wants to murder her autistic daughter and then kill herself... while sitting right next to said daughter.

6 - Promoting ABA "therapy" - which was created by the same guy responsible for the attrocity that is gay conversion "therapy." Both have led to unbelievably high rates of confirmed PTSD and suicidal ideation in patients (victims), and ABA in particular has been compared to literal dog training. Very fitting since it was created by a guy who famously did not believe autistic people truly counted as thinking, feeling human beings, and said as much several times. Despite that, it is still praised by some utter bastards because "it makes the patients act less autistic when they're not crying in the corner or trying to jump out a window"

So yeah, working with these guys is a genuinely horrible thing to do since they're basically a scam/hate group pretending to be a charity - and people were STILL willing to give Sia the benefit of the doubt, since Autism Speak uses all their resources to make sure they're the first thing people see when looking up how to help autistic people.

Lots of Sia's fans, both autistic and allistic, warned her repeatedly, politely, that she needed to supporting them IMMEDIATELY as their goal was the exact opposite of the one she claimed to have - aka raise awareness through an accurate portrail of autism. People were even kind enough to name organizations like ASAN as replacements to help her fix any damage done to the project.

And instead of being a decent human being, Sia decided to cry on twitter about how the mean retar-I mean, autistics were bullying her even when she was so kindly using them for her vanity project.

Because yes, that's how the movie turned out. An unwatcheable piece of garbage, with the autistic "character" being so fucking bad even the people who actively use "autistic" as insulted being offended on our behalf - and of course, she was used just a prop to show how awesome Sia's character was.

Seriously, it was so bad the actress playing the autistic girl was sobbing in between scenes because she knew how it was horrible and she didn't want to insult anyone, but Sia is literally her godmother and helped her career by putting her in nearly all her music videos so she felt obligated to go along with it.

So yeah, fuck Sia and fuck Autism Speaks.

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