RedQueen

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comradegendry
psychotic-gerard

it bears repeating in a more gentle manner but in the nicest way possible, there is a really issue with discrepancy when you talk about issues happening in different countries. when it’s anti-trans/gay laws in north america and western europe, it becomes “genocide”. when other countries, like mine, have jail and death penalties for being gay explicitly, it becomes a matter of “oh it’s illegal there” and sometimes, insidiously, “that’s just how they are, they’re less progressive.” and i need you all to know this is white supremacy talking and i, a gay person living in a country under the threat of death penalty, am as much of a victim as you are.

fangirlshrewt97
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This is an illegitimate and deeply corrupt Supreme Court

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Today is a sad day in American constitutional law and in the lives of LGBT people. The Supreme Court of the United States declares that a particular kind of business, though open to the public, has a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class. The Court does so for the first time in its history. By issuing this new license to discriminate in a case brought by a company that seeks to deny same-sex couples the full and equal enjoyment of its services, the immediate, symbolic effect of the decision is to mark gays and lesbians for second-class status. In this way, the decision itself inflicts a kind of stigmatic harm, on top of any harm caused by denials of service. The opinion of the Court is, quite literally, a notice that reads: "Some services may be denied to same-sex couples."

Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class. Specifically, the Court holds that the First Amendment exempts a website-design company from a state law that prohibits the company from denying wedding websites to same-sex couples if the company chooses to sell those websites to the public.

The Court also holds that the company has a right to post a notice that says, "No [wedding websites] will be sold if they will be used for gay marriages."

Our Constitution contains no right to refuse service to a disfavored group.

—Justice Sonia Sotomayor; excerpts from the dissenting opinion

therealvinelle

Anonymous asked:

Different anon but also with no shame. Do you think the other Cullen's have to wait until there's a storm to have sex and they're all very upset at Edward and Bella because of their lack of self-control? Like "Some of us try to be discrete, and pass as humans and meanwhile you're recreating a stone mill". Poor Jasper, he feels and hears them.

therealvinelle answered:

Hm.

I’ll put it this way.

You have people with strength that lets them pick up trucks and rip out trees from the ground without effort, and skin that is at least as hard as diamond. Their destructive potential is through the roof.

Their senses are heightened, sex is more intense for them than it is for humans.

And, as you say, vampires colliding is noisy. Jasper and Carlisle crashing into each other in Twilight makes a sound like “the crash of two massive falling boulders”. Vampire sex should create an ungodly racket.

Quite infamously, Emmett and Rosalie, who lead an active sex life, have destroyed quite a few houses. They’re titans trying to have sex in what might as well be a house of paper, and the destruction to show for it.

Edward and Bella are newlyweds, one of whom is a newborn a few hours old who has isn’t at all used to her supernatural strength.

In spite of this, not only is their cabin still standing after months of them having sex, but their room is never damaged either. Their bed never breaks. Their daughter, who has superhearing, sleeps soundly a few walls away.

All evidence suggests their sex life is tepid.

There’s no stone mill.

therealvinelle

Anonymous asked:

How do you redeem a man who's killed his own sister? Or do you not try at all?

therealvinelle answered:

(I believe anon is referring to Aro and the time he killed his sister Didyme.)

I think it depends entirely on what redemption even is. Aro can’t atone to Didyme, she’s dead, just as she’s not alive to forgive him. Redemption implies he is delivered from the wrong he did (literally, the dictionary definition of redemption is “delivered from sin; atonement for guilt; rescue”), but that can’t come from Didyme just as he can’t undo what he did.

Redemption, then, has to come from the world of living: he has to find a means to atone to his own soul, and to be forgiven when the person whose forgiveness he’d want isn’t around anymore.

(Not that Aro’s redemption should hinge on Didyme’s willingness to forgive: say that he wronged Didyme in a way that did not involve her death, would he be unable to redeem himself if Didyme refused to forgive? I am, perhaps controversially, opposed to the idea that you must be forgiven by the party you wronged in order to move on. To forgive is a choice freely made and should only be done for the forgiver’s benefit. It is unfair to place the burden of the wrongdoer’s deliverance on the person you already caused a great wrong.)

In other words, with no one and nothing to atone to, I think with a crime like that the only real way for Aro to move on is to forgive himself and make peace with what happened.