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hey bro, can you give yourself some grace? cut yourself some slack? maybe treat yourself with the same patience and love you offer to your peers?
(via akindplace)
So I finally finished season 2 and let me say.. POOKIE DID NOTHING WRONG ( he tried to kill people ) BUT IT WASN’T HIS FAULT OKAY
☆ isaac night moodboard !
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random isaac posts under cut !!
no one else believes me, but i SWEAR The Giving Tree is misogynistic propaganda. you’re telling me a female described tree loves a boy so much she gives him everything. and the little boy asks for everything she has, and she gives it all until she has nothing left. and the boy is never grateful until the very end when the tree is just a stump, and even then the boy sees nothing wrong with what he’s done. and this is a message we’re supposed to read to children????? that men can take and take and take from women until we have nothing left and it’s somehow wholesome?
i remember being read The Giving Tree as a little girl. i remember the little boys thinking it was a great story, while me and my friends, all girls, were left shocked. we had expected some message at the end about how taking and taking from someone while giving nothing in return is wrong. it was like pages had been ripped from the book. the little boys saw nothing wrong, but we understood that the book was saying we were supposed to give and give and give until we had nothing left, and it was a happy ending. because the boy got everything he could ever want, and the tree got the boys attention for an hour or two.
The Giving Tree should really have been called The Taking Boy. i still can’t believe we read this to children.
*looks for synopsis*
However, as the boy grows older, he spends less time with the tree and tends to visit her only when he wants material items at various stages of his life, or not coming to the tree alone [such as bringing his girlfriend to the tree and carving “Me +Y.L.” (her initials, often assumed to be an initialism for “young love”) into the tree]. … With every stage of giving, “the Tree was happy”.
- WOW the fucking symbolism of the selfish human being male and the ever-forgiving tree being anthropomorphised as female. There was no need to make the tree a woman and it speaks VOLUMES that that book got written and published and has been assigned in so many schools for so long.
- That’s a fucking terrible message to give at an environmental level too. That book should have ended with the human and his community planting more trees and treating the new ones better or something.
Oh, apparently the author was known for ~dark comedy~. Yada yada male writing shitty things and then going “but it’s dark comedy! You weren’t supposed to take it literally, you simpleton! (It’s fine that your oppressors take it literally, though.)” Blech.