Also, regardless or what any one person might legitimately think of JK Rowling,, which is not the subject of this post.
The amount of vitriol aimed at her and her work to diminish her accomplishments and devalue her work when compared to what is leveled at any men (take your pick really), is telling.
Nobody is trying to retroactively claim that any movie ever produced by Weinstein was actually a dud, or that The Pianist has no cinematic value despite Polanski being an actual child rapist, or that if you still enjoy Toy Story you're stupid because it was actually "bad all along" despite Lasseter being... well who he is. No.
People are not trying to pretend any piece of media ever produced by "bad men" were actually never any good. Or not to the extend I'm seeing it happen with JKR and Harry Potter in any case...
While I'm on the subject of JK Rowling, I want to add that this pervasive idea floating around that "no one asked her" or "she's just cash grabbing, she needs to stop talking!" each time she adds something to her world or write something new within it, is just as cringy and idiotic as other type of vitriol leveled at her.
First because, again, no one levels that kind of bullshit at other creators. No one is crying foul about Pullman writing within the HDM universe, nor at GRRM for writing side projects within ASOIF before even finishing the main story (granted, he does get criticisms for not writing the end at all, but that's a legitimate thing to say, the vitriol isn't about him writing something else and expending per see which makes a difference here). Others are allowed to expend, to add, even to sell their intellectual property to big studios to plunder without much criticism, but god forbid JKR says Hermione loved math in middle school on Twitter. They act like for her to be legitimate as "HP's owner" she must be perfect and needs to ask "permission" before having fun with it just for the sake of it. I've never seen any other creator treated that way to THAT extent, and if I'm wrong, please show it to me, but I don't think you'll be able to.
Secondly because in what God forsaken universe do you live in where this Fandom DIDN'T ask? We did ask. We did nothing but ask! Are you all zoomers who didn't grow up during the madness or do you have that much of a short term memory?
Back in 2007 after DH was published, people kept asking her over and over again; "Please Jo write Hogwarts: A History", "I hope she does a Marauders prequel!", "Jo, what is Neville's wand core?", "it would be so cool to know what the next Gen is up to" and so on and so forth. This is why Pottermore originally became a thing in the first place, a website which she labeled a gift to the readers at the start and where she released the unpublished material that didn't make it into the novels for FREE.
But now that you don't like everything that she's said and that it doesn't entirely conform to your imagination, ideas and American-centred calvinist politics, you're acting like toddlers throwing temper tantrums for not getting exactly what you want?
A bunch of you are acting so entitled it's not even funny, JK Rowling is one of the huge reason why Fandom culture is allowed to be what it is today, she's was one of the first big name authors to publicly say that people should be allowed to play in her sandbox, with the toys she brought in, even actively encouraged it. But now here you are acting like you own the sandbox and she ought to ask you before participating if she wants to.
Honestly grow up and move on. Your vitriol is exhausting and immature.
I wanted to say this for a long time, but I was just scared to stir a controversy here. While I understand the attraction of "Bajirao Mastani" due to its aesthetics, I personally find the liberal use of artistic freedom to be jarring, to say the least. Atleast to me, the film takes the artistic freedom to such an extent that it effortlessly crosses the line and becomes a mere fanfiction with little to none historic relevance.
The film shows Nana Saheb (Kashibai's eldest son) snatching Shamsher Bahadur from Mastani, torturing and tying her to numerous chains and leaving her to die in a rotten jail.
THAT IS NOT HOW MASTANI DIED. Marathas were not some salty cowards to jail a woman, torture her to death and snatch her child away from her. The sheer disrespect on the morals of Marathas who never raised a weapon on women, children and old people. Sabhasad Bhakar, a rare and old biography or Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj states how the Marathas were ordered to treat the women during a war :)
"There should be no women, female slaves, or dancing girls in the army. He who would keep them should be beheaded. In enemy territories, women and children should not be captured. Males, if found, should be captured. No one should commit adultery."
Source : Sabhasad Bhakar, written in 1697 in the court of Chhatrapati Rajaram, Shivaji's second son.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali shows a scene where the Peshwa family conspires a secret attack during Ganesh Puja to kill Mastani.
No fucking body tried to kill Shamsher Bahadur or Mastani like that scene of the song Gajanana.The fact that a fake assassination scene was forcibly inserted in a song like Gajanana is insane.
Bajirao's brother Chimaji Appa is potrayed as a psychopath who's only job was to hate Mastani and continously conspire against her and Bajirao because he was shown to be more interested in his family drama than his empire that extended up to Delhi.
FAKE. A 100 TIMES FAKE. Chimaji Appa opposed their marriage but didn't try to conspire against his brother or kill Mastani and Shamsher Bahadur by sending assasins on them. He was infact always busy on the war fronts and loyal to the throne. Chimaji Appa was excellent at warfare and he was the father of Sadashivrao — the real hero of Panipat :)
The film shows the Peshwa family making Mastani stay with the prostitutes and court dancers and Radhabai, Bajirao's mother, not missing one chance to put Mastani down.
You guessed it right, fake again! The truth is Mastani lived in the premise of Shanivar Wada, with respect. Thay place is literally known as Mastani Mahal now. Coming to Radhabai, who's shown to illtreat Mastani at every step in the movie, was the one who conducted Mastani's delivery and let Shamsher Bahadur stay in Pune after his mother's death and become a commander in the Maratha Army during Panipat.
The last ultra sad scene where Mastani breathes her last while watching the sunset from an old, creepy jail, with wounds on her body and iron chains in her hands and feet — well, fake.
Mastani was infact put under house arrest. And that was not because she was a Muslim and everyone else was a religious psychopath, but because Bajirao was turning into a person he never was. During his last days, Bajirao started spending a lot of time with Mastani in her Palace and started neglecting not only Kashibai and his family but also his duties as a Peshwa. He started indulging himself in drinking wine and even consuming meat and refusing to go on wars. This caused an uproar in the kingdom because Peshwas are Brahmins. To end this outbreak of people losing their trust in the Peshwas, Nana Saheb put Mastani under house arrest so that Bajirao couldn't meet her anymore and turn his head towards the enemies marching on the empire instead. Even Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj put his step mother, Soyrabai, under house arrest because she was conspiring against him. Its not a method of torture.
It was shown that Bajirao died due to the grief of separation from Mastani.
No he did not. He was not Devdas. After Mastani's housearrest, Radhabai had reminded Bajirao of his duties and asked him to go on a war. After the war, in his camp, he had caught severe fever and succumbed to the disease. Kashibai, Chimaji Appa and Mastani were all present at the time of his death.
Overall a cinematic and aesthetic banger of a movie, with beautiful sets, costumes and commendable acting but that is all. Nothing more.
Pillars and floats like that are pretty stable, compared to regular boats, so there’s even a research vessel, called FLIP, that purposefully capsizes itself to be more steady when conducting research.
Women in France are fighting to wear the hijab while women in Iran are fighting to not wear the hijab
This is not a fight about Islam this is not a fight about religion this is a fight about women not having the right to do whatever they want with their bodies and being killed and persecuted for it
This is a BULLSHIT comparaison. I swear to god, how many more years of this are we going to have to endure until you people finally wake up? Do you even understand what's going on?? Women in Iran are getting emprisonned and now killed for not covering their heads, by the police, the state, because the Dictator running their country is a madman who has decided his dwindling power hinged on this specific policy and he won't fucking let it go.
Meanwhile, women in France who wish to wear the hijab are absolutely free to do so by law, except when they represent the state as the state is meant to be a religiously neutral entity. Two forms of veiling women can't wear in public are the niqab and burqa, both of which cover the whole face, for a matter of public safety. When they're harrassed for wearing the hijab (or, more likely, the tchador, or the djilbab), it's by ordinary racist men, not state agents. If a policeman ever arrested a woman for wearing the hijab in public it would be ILLEGAL and he/she could be fired. As flawed as it is (and i'm the first to criticise it), there is no equivalency between the law in France regarding veiling, and the authoritarian regime of Iran, and to pretend otherwise is INSANELY tone-deaf in the light of what's going on right now. It's disrespectful not just to Iranian women, but French women as well.
Here's a shocker: women in France are ALSO harrassed and even occasionally killed for refusing to wear the hijab. Women are barred from public spaces and threatened if they don't cover themselves. I know it because i've lived it. And who's doing the harrassing, you ask? Not the police. Not even white racists. Nope. Muslim men. Naturally, nobody gives a shit about it. The right doesn't give a rat's ass unless it can serve their racist agenda, and the left is too busy courting the Muslim vote to risk offending it. After all, who really cares about women, especially poor, marginalised women? Or gay people unfortunate enough to have been born in a Muslim family?
Anyway, point: i am so over this naive, "let's everyone just be nice to each other! uwu!" discourse. Especially when it comes from non-Muslim people who have never had to deal with the bad sides of Islam. As for Muslim women in the notes: i don't care if you have personally chosen "of your own free will" to wear the hijab, this isn't about you, this is about women who are denied their freedom, their humanity and even their life by religious men and their female enablers.
I had no problem with transwomen and was supportive of them initially but then I realized they were coming for women’s spaces and rights… that’s when I stopped being an ally. Seems they are more interested in attacking women than they are men who are the ones raping, assaulting, and killing them. I realized most transwomen are just operating on the same old misogyny and male entitlement as the rest of their male ilk.
You are not an awful person if you hate your abuser.
Even if they apologized.
Even if they’re family.
Even if they’re mentally ill
Even if they were abused themselves.
You are allowed to hate them. It does not make you awful.
I know society pushes on us to forgive. To “be the better person.”
I’m here to tell you. They abused you. You’re already the better person regardless of whether you forgive. That’s up to you. It’s not up to anyone else.
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