Author: marcythewerewolf

An appended look at Moon and Toffee’s relationship. 

I stand by what I said earlier, guys, this is not a nice dynamic they have. Moon is terrified of him, and Toffee for his part seems all too ready to kill her. Something bad happened between them, and I don’t think it was one sided. Neither party was totally innocent, and it wasn’t a case of one-sided violence either. 

First I think it’s important to note that Toffee is not typical of monsters. Lord and Lady Avarius seem to be on tolerable terms with Moon, despite the huge power imbalance inherent in Mewnian culture. The monster temple is old, and Star’s storybook has the cadence of a legend rather than history this is a state of affairs that has been going on for some time. It makes sense that both parties would have settled into a sort of mutual “well, maybe the past wasn’t all great, but this is just The Way Things Are, no use fighting it”. Moon is a traditionalist, she could easily hold up a bad social system without holding any real malice for the people affected by it. (Which I think is arguably worse than flat out prejudice, because it’s easy to show people the horrible outcomes of their actions, it’s harder to get them to break habits)

Toffee is “immortal”. He knew about the monster temple, knew about the Whispering Spell. He has power and knowledge and experience most monster don’t, and he has a very personal grudge most monsters don’t at this point in time. He acts like someone who has been manipulating things and people for a long time, he’s very quick to resort to threats of violence with Star. He probably didn’t approach Moon with an innocent plea for help. He’s been around for a long time, and he’s not naive. If he went to Moon (which I think he did) he went with a plan. It probably wasn’t a nice one. 

And Moon, for her part, was clearly a perfect little princess, desperate to do her job as well as possible. Her princess song screams, “love me and validate me and let my reign be peaceful and quiet”. Toffee can manipulate her even now, I have no doubt he could manipulate her when she was young and vulnerable and just trying to be a good future Queen. 

Of course, Moon’s idea of a good Queen was a very traditional one, and definitely didn’t involve major societal shakeups. Toffee, frustrated and angry, probably didn’t see much of a chance of winning her over, or didn’t bother to try, and did something terrible instead, assuming that prim, quiet Moon wouldn’t put up a fight, Instead, in the face of such a betrayal she lashed right back out without even considering his reasons for what he did. One jaded cynic with a manipulation complex, plus one dutiful, very scared, hurt young woman equals a disaster. They were never the right people to fix Mewni;  personality wise they didn’t have a chance. 

The people who do have a chance are the young ones. Star, who wants to change things and be honest and always fights the power. Buff Frog, who doesn’t have Toffee’s ulterior motives and clearly wants the best future for his children and is willing to face Mewman prejudice headon. Dennis, who is kind and honest and approachable. Ruberiot, who always seeks to tell the truth even when it’s a terrible idea. 

Toffee probably doesn’t have the best interest of the monsters at heart, and Moon is too scared of change to do what need to be done. They’re a tragedy, and a fascinating one, but I don’t know if their relationship was ever a good one. 

vaspider:

bussyvibrations:

cecaeliawitch:

krismichelle429:

officialclinicescort:

thelonelyconservativememe:

All of you out there supporting planned parenthood should really remember what the woman who founded them said…. just saying. Do not stand with PP

Oh wow, you guys are still trying desperately trying to paint Sanger as a racist huh? Okay, if you’re gonna flat out lie like this you can at least try not to be lazy about it.

You’ve given no context to this quote and conveniently left of the first half of it. The sentence in it’s entirety is “
“We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.”

I know you manipulated it that way because you wanted to make Sanger seem as evil as possible, and also because literally the only thing pro lifers know how to do is lie, but admittedly the full sentence by itself looks damning enough. I think you know this, which is why you provided no context. If you had, your entire argument would have fallen apart. Here are Sangers words with context;

“It seems to me from my experience where I have been in
North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas, that while the colored
Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to
their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which
means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this
with the white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the Clinic
he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I
believe, will have far-reaching results among the colored people. His
work in my opinion should be entirely with the Negro profession and the
nurses, hospital, social workers, as well as the County’s white doctors.
His success will depend upon his personality and his training by us.

The minister’s work is also important and also he should be trained,
perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to
reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the
Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that
idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

The article I linked goes into better detail about Sanger, the so called “Negro project”, and the lies spread about her by the pro life movement. I encourage you to read it the next time you feel like spreading lazy, manipulative propaganda bullshit like this.

TL;DR: The full quote states that Planned Parenthood wanted to hire Black doctors in order to make their Black patients feel safer and respected. It also states that Planned Parenthood wanted to work with Black ministers, and encourage the ministers to tell others that Planned Parenthood was a safe clinic for Black patients.

In other words, she didn’t want this exact lie to start circulating

Sip sip bitch

This is all true.

What is also true is that Sanger was extremely ableist, and simply because one quote is often taken out of context does not mean that Sanger wasn’t an overt eugenicist who did say things like: 

“the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.”

And “Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.

”

And meant it. Combine that with her alliance with Henry Pratt Fairchild, who wrote The Melting Pot Mistake, in which he just flat out said ‘Jews will never be really American, also, that’s why we should ensure there aren’t interracial children, and America should be for white people only, also only white Christians,’, and Planned Parenthood has an ugly racist, ableist antisemitic history. 

That doesn’t mean that the organization itself hasn’t come a long way and isn’t doing important and vital work. But trying to whitewash and clean up Sanger’s reputation and make it like she wasn’t racist, egregiously ableist, antisemitic, and a lot of other things, doesn’t do us any favors as progressives and defenders of the right to choice and the need for Planned Parenthood, because those things happened, and she said them. Even if this one quote is out of context which places this one quote in a better light, there’s a reality, and that reality is that Sanger held some pretty terrible beliefs. 

The entire context is at the links if you want to read it all. 

Bourgeois Feminism Is A Feminism That Demands Nothing Of Men

thepeacockangel:

thepeacockangel:

Did you know that as more married upper class and upper middle class women became employed during the 70s there was a dramatic uptick in demand for domestic labor?

They do not demand their husbands pick up the slack when they enter the workforce, instead building their “liberation” on the backs of working class women, usually working class WOC.

As well 19th century Bourgeois feminists were only horrified by working class sex workers because sex work was easier and paid better than being a scullery maid, thus making it harder and more expensive to get domestic labor.  They set up caring courses (read: Training and recruitment courses for domestic laborers) and crusaded against sex workers to make sure their supply of domestic labor was unthreatened.  

You’ll note bourgeois feminists never demonize or rail against domestic labor the way they rail against sexual labor.  This is because they have no use for sex workers and all the use in the world for domestic workers.

Here’s a source on the growth of domestic labor demand

Source on sex work in the 19th century

queenof-starwars-and-otherthings:

gyrosneverdie:

type-one-conservative:

jooshbag:

suicidalnautilus:

the-one-true-nugget:

metal-queer-solid:

uss-edsall:

Washington State (not DC) is the only state in the union where you can legally have a fistfight with somebody (with police as referees) to settle your differences

That should be a law all across the country.

Fuck. Yes.

@jooshbag ?

This is tied to an archaic law that isn’t enforced anymore.

So if you beat the shit out of someone they won’t do anything?

Oh no this is still enforced, and in fact we actually Have a few vigilante superheroes 

Like Phoenix Jones who actually patrol the streets and challenge criminals, the police usually get called, and they watch as Phoenix Jones pummels them because Phoenix Jones is actually an MMA fighter. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_Jones

This hero is real, he’s stopped attempted murders and sexual assaults.

irhinoceri:

When people try to discount Padme’s love for Anakin they completely ignore the fact that she says “stop come back I love you” even after she realizes that he’s committed murder and that he has delusions of grandeur where they become co-dictators.

Sure, it’s a desperate, emotional plea and not a promise that everything will return to normal. Not saying that. What I am saying is that she still loved him and believed there was good in him even after he destroyed the very republic that some people want to believe she cherished above and beyond anything else.

I’m set off because I see this idea always on my dash that Padme being distraught over Anakin is ~weak~ but being distraught over a fallen political system is strong. Let her love her problematic husband ffs. It’s not like the republic wasn’t problematic itself so basically you’re pitting a flawed human being against a flawed political system and saying “well I can respect this woman only if she loves the political system more than the person.”

Also, Anakin himself thinks that she’s lying when she insists that she loves him. Do you really want to align yourself with Full On Dark Side Anakin on this matter? Anakin who has lost all touch with reality at this point? Saying Padme didn’t love him is saying all his paranoia was justified. Why is everyone accepting of the fact that Obi Wan loved Anakin despite it all yet I constantly see Padme’s love being put into question. Do I just follow too many Obikin shippers or what? I don’t know.

I’m so annoyed by claims that she loved the republic more and that it was the true reason her heart was broken. Because I feel like it’s the same bad meta that casts Padme as the unemotional level headed politician in an attempt to fit her into the brand of “space feminist” people would prefer her to be. I.E. not the kind of person who would chose to get married in secret to a man she knew had murdered other sentient beings, including children. Not the person who willfully chose to do what her heart was telling her over her head, and got justifiably upset when her heart was broken.

Did their differing political views cause some discord even before Anakin went full on Bad Guy? Yes. Obviously. It’s shown in both episode 2 and 3 and the Clone Wars.

I’m sure part of her heartbreak was realizing that everything she had chosen to overlook or brush off or forgive about Anakin had completely consumed and overridden him. Of course I like meta and headcanons which seek to give Padme complexity or read between the lines of canon. But if you outright just dislike canon Padme and think she should have different motivations than she did… well… smh.

The fact that she can’t follow him down the path of murder, murder, and more murder doesn’t mean she doesn’t love him or that she loved the republic “more.” In fact I’d say that her putting her foot down and refusing to enable him demonstrates her love for him.