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Exclusive: Peter Pomerantsev on trying to comprehend Russian war crimes – interview

Why the Russians, according to UK publicist and propaganda researcher Peter Pomerantsev, could not imagine themselves without Putin, but qui

I just wrote a column the other day that destruction and self-destruction are part of Russian culture. A bunch of columns were immediately written arguing against me: they say, you can’t cast aspersions on all of Russian culture. Moreover, some very anti-Putin Australian and UK academics wrote these things. Once again, Solzhenitsyn and Dostoevsky were brought up.

The West now simply does not understand that Solzhenitsyn was an imperialist authoritarian with fascist inclinations, which were definitely not healthy. He often proclaimed authoritarian things. Even those Russian writers who were for human rights often ignored the human rights of other peoples. [...]

So Russian culture needs to reclaim the context in which it is meant to be read, to really, comprehensively read Russian writers. They are read with such flair, with such mysticism, with such romanticization of suffering. You just need to coldly, soberly analyze them, and see that even those of them who were often against Russian authoritarianism were terrible imperialists, and lived in complete harmony with the subjugation of other nations.

The problem with Russian culture is that it obscures or romanticizes Russian violence as part of its literary product.

indeed😭😭

this has been said before but ohhh my god. oh my goodness. making that one specific person laugh, like REALLY throw their head back and laugh, is quite possibly the best feeling in the ENTIRE universe

it feels so insane that a lot of people in soviet union had parallel russian names they used instead of their own non-slavic names. we were just living like that

henceforth мати ці арти в форматі марок є моєю мрією як mental філателістки [in a time to come я зважусі ступити на шлях їх колекціонування]

“Random Ukrainian railway station” - Pixel art by Dmitry Dudko

i love it when you start doing little things different & notice how much you’ve grown as a person just by that. like you from a year ago would not have handled that situation the way you are now. you’ve changed for the better. & that is so satisfying

Imho the idea of ‘cruelty free’ products or food shouldn’t mean that nothing died to create it, but rather that anything and anyone involved in the creation process hasn’t been exploited or harmed.

Leather is good actually. Veganism isn’t the end all be all to morality and consumption. The issue isn’t that a chicken died for those nuggets, but that while the chicken was alive, it’s life fucking sucked. Vegan chocolate means little if the cocoa that made it was gathered by child slave labor.

Factory farms, abuses of the people who pick the fruit and vegetables we eat, the focus profit and productivity over all else - that’s the fucking issue here. It’s capitalism folks.

YES YES YES AND MILLION MORE YESES

your character’s the damsel in distress. how’s that workin’ out?

this trope depicts women as helpless, let’s be real here.

thread by @fictionalturtlenecks <3

— all I see of this trope are women who are desperate for their prince charming/knight in shining armour to come & save them from certain doom when they could easily save themselves… we’re not helpless, y’know.

if you’re making ONLY girls the victims in your story, I think there’s a problem (typecasting/sexism)

has misogynistic origins. & it’s rare to see it as something progressive

teaches girls that they need a man to save them when they’re in trouble

I just want to see the girl NOT being the one who has to be saved. it seems like a stereotypical gender role

it can be written well! especially if the girl is also saving others & is in a situation where it makes sense for her to be the one saved

please no “she needs saving! even though she can do it herself! we need the love interest to help when they don’t need to!”

it should show more women that can fight & be independent. they don’t have to rely on some guy to save them in every single situation

I seriously cannot express how much I hate this trope; it’s usually sexist, it just is

it always has to be a female character. give me men that need help too!

it’s not the worst thing. there could be worse tropes.

it gives young girls the idea that they’re helpless, that they need to wait for their prince charming.

it makes younger boys think that they need a submissive woman, not capable of doing anything herself.

HOW LONG DOES SHE HAVE TO WAIT TO BE SAVED?

what would be cool is if the roles were reversed. if it wasn’t a guy & a girl. the possibilities are endless.

why does the girl never do anything to save herself? why does the girl have no basic intelligence? if we’re going to be writing that, can we factor that in?

unless you give it a twist like they did in shrek because that was perfect

make it male version & a little less “in distress” or less “helpless” (it would be an interesting idea)

while it’s a controversial trope, if written in a way where it’s not too helpless it would be a good trope.

at least give her a good reason why she can’t save herself

it makes the character seem like they’re not independent

women are girlbosses & we don’t need men. this trope can d!e. might reconsider if it’s wlw

this trope was ages—& I mean AGES—ago. these days, it’s offensive & misogynistic

suggests that women are helpless & require (usually) a man to save them

I hate when a female fighter is turned into a damsel for no good reason

more male characters being in distress that doesn’t make them “less manly” or whatever

as long as the girl isn’t a complete shell of a human being

it can be a lot of fun if we see the “damsel” trying to figure out how to escape. if they just sit there passively & wait to be rescued, it’s very dull.

there was too much of this before the 2000s, but now w/ so many “girlboss” protagonists, it feels like it’s become cool to refuse help

everyone, regardless of gender, should be feeling safe & comfy w/ receiving help

sometimes problems in life are easier to solve w/ more people

STOP associating the damsel in distress trope w/ romance

it doesn’t always have to be a guy who is giving the help. it can be a girl or themself!!

as long as the damsel isn’t the only female & there are competent women too

negative version of the maiden archetype. to become a hero, she must learn to save herself

male characters as the “damsel”? yes please

the takes on this trope where the cliché is twisted in some way >

more linked to classics & disney, definitely not necessary anymore. fairly outdated

it would be funny to put a man as the damsel in distress for once

it’s highly outdated & promotes both male saviourism & the idea that all women are helpless

“I’m a damsel. I’m in distress. I can handle this. have a nice day.”

"I don't care about Ukraine and Russia equally" blog:

"they're cancelling Tchaikovsky!"

reblogs of Ukrainian art/vintage photos of Ukraine/a photo from Chornobyl because of Aesthetic/that one potato storage building from Ukraine

that one post about sanctions and bans against Russia hurting Ukrainians, actually

"cheering for the Ukrainian army makes you a heartless fascist"

"lmao people get so upset when I say I'm anti-Ukraine I'll say it a few more times"

"they're all white Europeans, what about the global south" *ignores the way Russia's current actions in Ukraine are harming the global south*

"shame that the animals just happen to be dying though"

"everyone is on Ukraine's side anyway, someone should be brave and speak the truth"

"if you had read at least one book you'd know [insane fake history]"

"all Western media is biased, read RT"

complete silence about Russian war crimes, unless it's possible to spin them as fakes

🇬🇪 Georgia (Sakartvelo) protesting against foreign agents bill.