“That is not a one-man monitoring station,” Cassian says, unnecessarily.
“Perhaps they meant one man in a more universal sense,” K-2 says. “We are all one under the glorious Empire and, joined together in our fundamental unity, we will create a very large rocket launcher.”
“I was thinking it looks more like some sort of laser,” Cassian says.
“Having records of over 250 varieties of laser and energy-based weapons systems recorded, I can assure you that you are spectacularly incorrect and now I’m a little concerned about your understanding of basic weaponry and engineering.”
Cassian frowns over at him, then down at his comparatively tiny blaster and frankly embarrassing knives. From their position on the cliff top the stormtroopers below look like toys, but he knows from bloody and painful experience that he and K-2 cannot take on an entire battalion on their own.
“Well,” says K-2. “I’ve taken as many scans and images as I can. Are we going back to the ship or do you have a moderately suicidal spontaneous plan that I’ll need to talk you out of first?”
Cassian studies the layout of the compound, marking possible points of entry on his mental map. “Give me a minute.”
“No,” says K-2. “Absolutely not.”
“We’re already here,” Cassian argues. “We can’t come back empty-handed.”
“We absolutely can, actually.”
Cassian huffs out a breath. “I remember a time when I was in charge of this team. Where my decisions were final.”
“Human memory is a strange thing,” K-2 says cheerfully. “Creating false memories for comfort isn’t that uncommon.” And then, “Can you really call it being in charge of a team if there’s only two of us?”
“Ok,” says Cassian, ignoring the jibe like the mature adult he is. “I’ll compromise with you.”
“Oh no,” K-2 says, and actually takes a step back.
Cassian grins sharply, and kicks gently at the loose shale at the edge of the cliff. “How much explosive did you bring?”
“More than you,” K-2 says.
“Great,” says Cassian. “How do we feel about landslides?”
His whole weird theory about penis envy and children being sexually attracted to their parents and secret desires and all that shit actually came straight out of an attempt to ally himself with wealthy and influential rapists and was a direct form of victim blaming.
He had started the research looking into “hysteria” which at the time was really usually referring to women’s symptoms of PTSD. It turned out that the reason so many woman had these symptoms is because so many of them had experienced sexual violence– especially CSA and incest at the hands of their fathers.
At first he was making real progress, and it was through working with these women that he discovered that talk therapy could be used to treat trauma. The symptoms of PTSD were lessened when women were able to safely speak about their experiences out loud and be believed.
But it wasn’t the women who paid for the therapy. It was their fathers, husbands, the same men who were perpetuating the violence in the first place. And Freud didn’t want to validate his patients (the women) if it meant making his clients (the men) unhappy.
So he came up with a new idea. These symptoms weren’t from trauma. The memories weren’t real. These women were just sexual beings as children and had penis envy and it made them lust for their fathers and fantasize about the rape that they had reported to him. That’s where the shittiest parts of Freud’s theories emerged.
Another part of it besides just the monetary aspect, though, was that there was a feminist movement on the fringes starting up at the time and by publishing work about women’s CSA he would be aligning himself with it and therefore losing support, respect, funding, prestige from his male peers and from the psychological community at large. He literally made that gross victim blaming shit up to keep his own reputation with these fucks and to make sure he still got publication and fame.
By coming up with fake theory about little girls fantasizing about incest he not only fucked over generations of women, the feminist movement that was arising, and the entire psychology field for years to come, but he also completely swept away any progress made in understanding trauma and so we didn’t have any clue why men coming back from war had “hysteria” like women during WWI.
And our research on PTSD and trauma is still lacking to this day, especially because of the stigma that maybe traumatized people deserved it or wanted it or imagined it. People don’t want to believe it’s real. Perpetrators of traumatic violence want everyone to forget about it, not acknowledge it, or trivialize it.
And they have Freud’s cultural legacy to help them.
Can you provide academic citations for this? This is really neat.
If you want some more, just google, “Sigmund Freud Seduction Theory Problematic.” There’s lots of academic and non-academic discussion on the topic, but TLDR Sigmund Freud is basically disregarded in almost all aspects of psychology by anyone who actually cares about their patients, so fuck that guy for holding psychology back.
Words cannot express how much I hate Freud. His theories have been entirely disproven by current psychological research, but using him to interpret literary texts is still a widely accepted technique in the field of literary study today.
English departments across the country will not bat an eye at tenured professors bringing Freud into lectures and citing him in scholarly articles and books. Doing a “Freudian reading” of a literary character or theme is regarded as a valid means of understanding and drawing meaning from works by authors as diverse as William Shakespeare, James Joyce, and C.S. Lewis. And it is based entirely on this guy’s unbelievably sexist, flat-out fraudulent, and thoroughly disproven research. It’s insane.
I need people to listen to this, because although his methods might be of use, his entire theoretical work is just fucking lies and bullshit misogyny.
as someone with a bachelor’s degree in english, i am inexpressibly tired of people telling me to get highly specific jobs that often require highly specific degrees. “just go write for a magazine!” you need a journalism degree for that. “just teach!” you need a teaching certificate, and also fuck you. “just go work at a tutoring place!” tutoring children with learning disabilities, which make up the majority of the clientele at those places, requires not only a teaching certificate but a specialized master’s degree. “just go work at a library!” you need a master’s degree in library science to be a librarian. it is actually a highly skilled and extremely competitive field. you don’t just “go work at a library,” you train for years in the vain hope that you will get one of handful of available jobs. “just go work at a library.” the nerve. the unmitigated gall. “just go work at a library.” ugh.
THE PART ABOUT LIBRARIES IS ESPECIALLY TRUE AND YOU SHOULD SAY IT THANK YOU OP.
I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off.
Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?
When men decided they liked them.
this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces – early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions – but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek
Okay… so there are two things going on in here, and they’re both awful, but they deserve to be considered separately.
The
first: “they should be deported.” As an early sponsor to the Birther
movement and wholehearted embracer of the revival of white nationalism,
Trump shares a deep and unexamined conviction that nonwhite people
cannot *really* be *real* Americans. Any mechanism (like being born
here) that allows them to claim that status is outrageous trickery, any
documentation that claims otherwise must be lies or forgery.
The
second: Immortan Trump spend his entire adulthood in an environment
where if anyone earned his displeasure for any reason, he could make
them effectively disappear from his field of view, instantly and
forever, by firing them. He retains the conviction that if people do
things he doesn’t like, he can just get rid of them, even as he took
over this office. That is why his administration has had such ridiculous
churn. That is why he doesn’t seem to understand why the former cronies
he burned have gone to Mueller and made plea bargains. Why are they
still walking around talking? He fired them! Don’t they understand
they’re supposed to cease to exist?
I suppose we should be
grateful of the smallness of imagination that has not, at this point,
escalated from termination of employment to termination of actual
existence. But there it is: Immortan Trump seems to genuinely believe
that as the CEO of America he can fire american citizens from being citizens if they displease him. He seems to think that citizenship, like employment, is something he can give or withhold at will.
The
fact that this is not in truth a function of the American presidency
has proven a bit of a hurdle for he and his team to overcome, but boy oh
boy, they’re already trying. That’s what’s behind the committees to
revoke green card and immigration status decisions made years, DECADES
ago. This is the intersection of the belief that nonwhite people cannot
really be citizens and also that citizenship is subject to his
displeasure. This is Immortan Trump’s genuine belief that he can just
make them go away by firing them from America.
So I have to lay
this out as an entirely serious, serious question: if the Trump
administration continues without checks on its power, if he continues
past the 2018 midterms and possibly even the 2020 general, what exactly would stop them from continuing to work on a loophole to allow him to strip citizenship at will?
Chirrut is the shit who, when caught by the authorities, will pull the whole “who me? i’m blind and helpless, what harm can i possibly do” thing
and Baze basically acts like he can only speak market Jedhan and not Basic and is the Big Dumb Guy until the authorities let down their guard and that’s when he kicks their asses
magical modern austen au: sixth sense and sensibility
elinor dashwood (kelly marie tran) is a smart, sensible woman with a good head on her shoulders. she has the ability to see into the future- everyone’s but her own, that is. her younger sister, marianne dashwood (lana condor) is a bright, dreamy empath that feels everything but maybe misreads other people’s intentions. // 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12
writing tip: don’t tell us your character’s backstory. don’t tell us what your character is thinking. don’t tell us what your character is doing. don’t tell us anything. the reader should simply look at a blank page and be suddenly overcome with emotion.
Good tip. I know a lot of writers who cry uncontrollably when they see a blank page, so I’m sure that feeling will translate directly to the reader.
Rebellions are built on hope 