Good point, but yeah, pretty sure they aged Saw up like hell.
TCW takes place 22-19 BBY, so if Saw was a teenager during TCW he’d have been born something like 40-36 BBY. Rogue One takes place 0 BBY, so yeah, Saw would have been in early middle age at best, while Forrest was 55 at the time RO came out–and like op said, looked even older as Saw. I mean maybe it was to make him a plausible father figure to Jyn, but I didn’t see Mads get aged up so he could be Jyn’s dad.
Here are snippets from the TLJ novelization discussing Rose’s development of the baffler, a device that hides energy signatures to make ships harder to detect, and its role in Holdo’s plan with the transports.
The novelization follows up from Cobalt Squadron by Elizabeth Wein, the book that goes into much more detail about Rose and Paige’s time with the titular bomber squadron and how Rose used the baffler in action. In Rose’s last conversation with Paige, it is revealed that Rose has been tapped to help other mechanics adapt the technology she built so it can be deployed across the Resistance.
This is the reason Rose and Paige were separated and why Rose, who was previously the flight engineer on the bomber Cobalt Hammer, was not on board with Paige when it was destroyed in the dreadnought run. Actually I’m not sure why Rose couldn’t still board Cobalt Hammer. She wasn’t replaced as Hammer’s flight engineer as far as I can tell. Did they not need a flight engineer for the bombing run?
I’m calling bullshit on Rose no longer being needed on the Ninka after the techs learned from her. If Rose was not needed on Hammer anyway, why couldn’t she stay on Ninka to help adapt the technology? In Cobalt Squadron Rose and the entire team of bomber flight engineers were forever sweating to get the baffler, a very new and finicky technology, working right under intensive conditions. The bugs were getting ironed out during Cobalt Squadron, but it doesn’t seem plausible that everything was ready to go within a few hours on adapting this new tech outside its original setting. New and untried tech doesn’t… work like that. There’s always something to trip you up.
So instead of staying on to help the deployment of the technology she built, Rose is transferred back to the Raddus where she is just in time to witness her sister’s death and where she has so little to do that she’s relegated to “doing droidwork.”
What the FUCK in Cobalt Squadron Holdo directly addresses Rose by NAME to personally
request she come on board the Ninka. But a couple days later she forgets
who Rose is? Holdo even tells Rose the Ninka is desperately short on techs, and yet
Rose in TLJ was transferred back to the Raddus where she had nothing better to
do than tase people? What fuckery is this?
Also, Holdo in
Cobalt Squadron is actually a decent leader who inspires people with her
speech in the wake of Hosnia’s destruction, and Rose is impressed by
her. Why would Rose, only a day or two later, decide to go off and do whatever the hell she wants, fuck Holdo? There’s no consistency here.
The only way I can reconcile this in-universe is that familiarity bred some serious contempt and Rose decided in the hours she spent on the Ninka that Holdo is a horrible boss and worse human being. TLJ totally backs her on this, probably unintentionally.
“Teachers are often unaware of the gender distribution of talk in their classrooms. They usually consider that they give equal amounts of attention to girls and boys, and it is only when they make a tape recording that they realize that boys are dominating the interactions.Dale Spender, an Australian feminist who has been a strong advocate of female rights in this area, noted that teachers who tried to restore the balance by deliberately ‘favouring’ the girls were astounded to find that despite their efforts they continued to devote more time to the boys in their classrooms. Another study reported that a male science teacher who managed to create an atmosphere in which girls and boys contributed more equally to discussion felt that he was devoting 90 per cent of his attention to the girls. And so did his male pupils. They complained vociferously that the girls were getting too much talking time.In other public contexts, too, such as seminars and debates, when women and men are deliberately given an equal amount of the highly valued talking time, there is often a perception that they are getting more than their fair share. Dale Spender explains this as follows:The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.In other words, if women talk at all, this may be perceived as ‘too much’ by men who expect them to provide a silent, decorative background in many social contexts. This may sound outrageous, but think about how you react when precocious children dominate the talk at an adult party. As women begin to make inroads into formerly ‘male’ domains such as business and professional contexts, we should not be surprised to find that their contributions are not always perceived positively or even accurately.”
As a teacher, I give girls what I hope is a lot of attention. I don’t know if I give girls their fair share, but I aspire to, especially after noticing that boys are willing to use their greater share of teachers’ attention to get girls who they feel aren’t being quiet and docile enough punished. I have therefore acquired a reputation for “caring more about the girls.” This has had two marked results: Some straight boys have gotten more hostile toward me, and most girls have gotten more confident around me. This makes me think I’m doing something right.
Longer thoughts on how this phenomenon relates to sexual harassment in classrooms, if you’re interested: The girls figured out I won’t report them if they hit boys who are sexually harassing them, I’ll only report the boys. This led to an increase in how often girls got the last word and boys got smacked in my classes, and, also, to a DECREASE IN HOW OFTEN GIRLS GOT SEXUALLY HARASSED. The sexual harassers seem to have been depending on the sort of “equal blame” and “retaliation is never warranted” and “don’t hurt others’ feelings” perspectives so many schools try to instill in kids; the sexual harassers were usually the ones bringing me into the situation by saying, “Miss, she hit me! You should write her up!” Once they figured out I was only ever going to respond, “If you don’t treat girls like that, they won’t hit you,” the girls got more confident and the sexual harassers largely shut the fuck up.
In schools, fighting against sexual harassment is often punished exactly the same as, or more severely than, sexual harassment — a lot of discipline codes make no distinction between violence and violence in self-defence, and violence is ALWAYS the highest level of disciplinary infraction, whereas verbal sexual harassment rarely is. Sexual harassers, at least in the schools I’ve been in, rely heavily on GETTING GIRLS IN TROUBLE WITH HIGHER AUTHORITIES as a strategy of harassment — creating an external punishment that penalises girls for and therefore discourages girls from fighting back. Sexual harassers are willing to use their greater share of floorspace to ask to get girls who won’t date them punished. By and large, teachers do punish those girls when they swear or hit. Schools condition girls to ignore sexual harassment by punishing them when they speak up or fight back instead.
Once the sexual harassers in my classes understood that girls wouldn’t be punished for rejecting them, they backed off around me. And there started to be a flip in what conversations I get called into — girls are telling me when boys are being nasty (too loud and dominant), instead of boys telling me when girls are being uncooperative (louder and more dominant than boys think they should be).
As a girl who would not be shut up and would not tolerate teasing or abuse from boys in my class and was several times sent to such higher authorities for it, reading this is extremely, extremely vindicating. I was lucky, though, because being a particularly bright, advanced student for those grades, they generally took my side and I never got into any severe or lasting trouble. Again ,this was luck, and shouldn’t be the rule.
Scientific fact, actually. Researchers at the University of Toronto Scarbrough found that White people’s neuron system fired less when viewing people of color performing actions, which indicates that they have an emotional disconnect when thinking about people of color; in essence they really don’t connect with us on a basic level of human empathy. (Source) The same people tested scored higher on a subtle racism test, as well.
Jesus
Reason why I don’t trust or fuck with white people proven by science.
There was actually a study done (if better science Tumblr wanna link the source that would be awesome) where they showed a Black person’s hand being tortured and a purple hand being tortured and measured the empathetic response and ppl actually had more empathy and a higher emotional response for a purple ass alien hand being tortured than a Black person’s hand smh
This is literally the basic underlying concept of what we mean when we say Black Lives Matter
I don’t care who you are, if you complain about the amount of attention Black Lives Matter and Black issues get you are antiblack. “But Native Americans!” “But Asians!” Shut up. Tearing down Black people does not help any other community. Yes it can be frustrating when issues you care about don’t get enough focus, but I promise it’s not Black people’s activism that’s getting in your way. Do your own work and don’t act entitled to what gains Black activists have achieved. You’re not as progressive or nice as you think you are if you’re willing to use Black people as a scapegoat.
[its always so sad when nonBlacks get jealous of Black hyper visibility n always remember that so many nonBlack liberation tactics r just watered down Black liberation tactics that they co opted.]
Take a gander at all the Non-Black people in the notes somehow thinking it’s Black People’s fault they don’t have any rights omg
It’s not our job to be Captain Save All POC. We do care but you can’t expect BLM to speak up for all issues that befall other POCs. The reason they have such a visible platform is because of their vigilant activism, media presence, and their celebrity supporters. If you want that for the issues that befall your people then do it. Spread the word. Gather your allies. Get angry. Because Angry Gets Shit Done.
The thing is… speaking from outside the Black community, I see Black people being pushed into the Captain Save All POC (and America and maybe the world) role all the time and it’s fucking insidious. At some point the well-deserved recognition of Black activism and the positive effect it’s had even on other groups spills over into thinking they’re responsible for fixing all the world’s ills and even blamed for not saving others, something that’s rampant up and down the notes. I obviously can’t speak for Black people, but I hear they don’t live to save or serve other people and have their own lives. Don’t do this, nonblack people.
THIS.
This has bothered me for a while and I think part of the problem may be that NBPOC see awareness as the end goal.
So that if people are seeing issues that affect the black community on TV it must mean enough people are horrified by it and are actively working to stop it.
So then NBPOC’s reaction is that “since your issue is solved, help me work on mine”
Now we know that it’s not the case — people don’t give a shit about solving problems affecting black people and sometimes they just plain get off on seeing our pain — and it’s still entitled & rude of NBPOC to demand labor from us (especially considering the anti-Blackness that often runs rampant in their communities), but I think that may be where they’re coming from.
I still don’t understand why more of them don’t go after white people with the same level of anger & bitterness as they do us though. (But wait… I do…)
They are not some anonymous “a tribe in India”, they are the War-Khasi. Speaking as a former anthro student and as a reference librarian, I am beyond sick of posts (and articles, and emails, and museum displays) like this that present the work of a people without actually naming the people. It’s erasure, it’s reducing the great works of a culture to an Ozymandias-esque curiosity for foreigners to consume rather than an accomplishment that should help bring awareness of that culture’s existence.
They are the War-Khasi, a division of the Khasi, a people who call themselves Hynñiew Trep. They live in Meghalaya, and they have been building these bridges in the town of Cherrapunji for longer than anyone knows. They are not anonymous.
I can’t speak for tv shows, but I watch a ton of movies and out of the last 15 films I watched, only one had an interracial couple. You’re still more likely to see what I’ve been calling a “matched pair” where two people of the same race end up together.
There is a type of racism where it’s okay to some people for different races to be together but not white people with a poc character. This still stems from the “white people are a superior race” mindset.
yes, the only difference now is that compared to a few years ago I can actually list some interracial pairings…
And while I think it is very important to have interracial pairings in the media where both are POC I have absolutely noticed that in fandom spaces even obviously racist people had no problem declaring they ship an interracial pairing when both characters are POC but if one character is white the weird excuses suddenly begin as to why this white person has to be with another white character/or noone, and the character of colour with another character of colour/noone. It’s pretty clear POC are seen as more fitting with other POC in racist fandom spaces, while character of colour/white character seems to be a huge step or even unthinkable for many.
Fandom likes to think that white supremacy is all white hoods and tiki torches when it’s actually something very ingrained in Western culture. The idea that approving of POC/POC IR but not white/POC IR is super progressive disregards history’s treatment of the latter.
If you look at anti-miscegenation laws in US history, they were specific to marriages, sex and procreation between a white person and a person of color, and was applied most aggressively to white/Black relationships. Those laws were specifically about not “tainting” the white race (and I’m not being histrionic when I saw that the same laws were upheld in Nazi Germany and Apartheid South Africa, applying specifically to relationships with a white person and a non-white person (including Jewish people)). Americans don’t like to think that our country is that white supremacist, but it, historically, is. And the effects of those laws influence modern American worldviews.
The main targets of these laws were Black men. Although the famous Loving vs Virginia case involved a white husband and Black wife, white men, historically, were less targeted; they were allowed to take whatever they wanted from Black women. There was no protection for Black women. White women, on the other hand, needed protection from Black men, and a Black man with a white woman was the ultimate abomination. Many lynchings of Black men were justified as protecting the sanctity of white women (even if the man had had neither assaulted nor had a consensual relationship with a white woman).
It goes deep. There’s an analogy that people still use today: A drop of sewage (black blood) in a vat of pure water (white blood) contaminates the water, while a drop of water in a vat of sewage is still sewage. (My mom is white – trust me, this analogy is still used).
Most people wouldn’t admit to believing that, but a 2016 study by the University of Washington (https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/a-hidden-bias-toward-interracial-couples/) concluded that, while white students will say they’re all for interracial relationships, many implicitly react with “disgust” when shown photos of white/Black couples.
In one part of the study, participants were asked to categorize Black/white couples, same race couples, and animals:
We predicted that when interracial couples and animals were categorized together, the participants who were primed to feel disgusted would do the task faster. Instead, we found that all participants completed the task faster when interracial couples and animals were categorized using the same button (indicating implicit dehumanization).
tl;dr: Americans are socialized to implicitly find white/Black couples repellent, even after all these years, and that is strongly reflected in fandom patterns..
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