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Network Post; Anakin Solo
They tell you if you stay off of Tumblr you'll be safe, but for all new arrivals, that is a lie. In the meantime, you can be looking through Google News and because lightsabers is in your search history it thinks you want to see stuff like this.
There is a lot that I've more or less gotten used to, like seeing my Dad or Darth Vader everywhere, and that I've seen the faces of family in everything from cereal boxes to beach chairs - Rikki don't open those honey grahams with the Yoda faces cause I want them for this weekend okay? - but I honestly do not get how that slave bikini is one of the most iconic pictures of my mom here.
This is not something she chose to wear for sexy times with my Dad (that would be a different problematic - but mostly my issues). It's something that was put on her by a piece of Hutt slime for his pleasure, because he wanted her to know he owned her. It's not sexy (and I'm not just saying that because it's my mom). It is slavery. This photo plays off the image of an enslaved woman whose body is being sold for the pleasure of men. And I know, she's just a fictional character to them, but this world does have sex trafficking, and that is real, and there are women in this world that are impacted by it and it's not sexy. And this isn't either.
Also, I may have made as many stupid lightsaber jokes as the next hormonal teenage Jedi, but I can't look at that picture without being distracted by the fact that the lightsaber should be burning her head off. So. There's also that.
The moral to this story is... the Internet is dangerous even if you stay off of Tumblr. I haven't even had coffee yet.
[Filter: Jaina]
[OOC: TW: discussions of consent/nonconsent in comments]
There is a lot that I've more or less gotten used to, like seeing my Dad or Darth Vader everywhere, and that I've seen the faces of family in everything from cereal boxes to beach chairs - Rikki don't open those honey grahams with the Yoda faces cause I want them for this weekend okay? - but I honestly do not get how that slave bikini is one of the most iconic pictures of my mom here.
This is not something she chose to wear for sexy times with my Dad (that would be a different problematic - but mostly my issues). It's something that was put on her by a piece of Hutt slime for his pleasure, because he wanted her to know he owned her. It's not sexy (and I'm not just saying that because it's my mom). It is slavery. This photo plays off the image of an enslaved woman whose body is being sold for the pleasure of men. And I know, she's just a fictional character to them, but this world does have sex trafficking, and that is real, and there are women in this world that are impacted by it and it's not sexy. And this isn't either.
Also, I may have made as many stupid lightsaber jokes as the next hormonal teenage Jedi, but I can't look at that picture without being distracted by the fact that the lightsaber should be burning her head off. So. There's also that.
The moral to this story is... the Internet is dangerous even if you stay off of Tumblr. I haven't even had coffee yet.
[Filter: Jaina]
Ugh.
[OOC: TW: discussions of consent/nonconsent in comments]