I write and review stories. Former English Language Arts teacher, present day professional writer and analyst. I read a lot of fantasy. I also read a lot of literature and general fiction.
I am so empowered by your testimony!!!!!!! Holy moly It was SUCH a mindmess, every time I told my truth I was punished, every time I showed a bit of my inner light it was a thunderbolt thrown at me! Awwwwwww you put in words things that I couldn’t!!!! YOUR FEELINGS MATTER SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!! MAY YOU FIND SOMEONE RECEPTIVE TO ALL OF THEM AND FINELY ATTUNED TO YOUR NEEDS! ❤❤❤
I am autistic and was also emotionally neglected. My father "didn’t do emotions *menacing stare*” I did research! Maybe you’d like my playlists? I am very interested in seeing your progress!!!!! Keep it up!!! I loved the book The Way of Integrity, it was a pretty intense book! Author was in Mormon therapy so also a difficult environment/family system to be different in!!! Good luck!!!
I haven't even seen season 2 but the more of the reviews that I see, the more I just get real MAD at how many unnecessary and unwarranted changes they've made to this entire show. Sure, a 14 book series needs some changes for a tv adaptation, but this is beyond unforgivable.
I just want this to end so we can get a new attempt. And I would go with a animated show. Put the books in a visual medium but with lower costs, also the one power will be a lot easier to represent in animated than in live action.
43:15 Aristotle's problem is that he was always trying to preserve Endoxa, autoritative opinions and since the world is perfect the existing opinions on women must also be perfect. Aristotle isn't actually the root cause. He just takes the predjudices of his society and systematizes it. He did the same with slavery.
40:30 I prefer just to say that this isn't feminism, it's capitalism. Removing everyhting potentially offensive from all media is not a progressive standoint. It's a capitalist one.
27:00 And even in the series the Red despite being the biggest single Ajah have only had a handful of Amyrlins, and every Amyrlin who has been legally depsosed was a red and replaced by a blue.
14:30 I also don't think Jordan would have a problem with non binary people, there may be non binary people bound to the wheel, beign rebeorn forever as non binary. As long as those people do not channel it's not really an issue.
This show is a travesty that should not only be cancelled but condemned, it's writers sued for copyright infringement since it's so far from the books that it can only be described as literary appropriation.
41:42 Alternate B: If the show has diverse characters and progressive themes, as with WOT, it increasingly accompanies and signals a willful lack of care for the lore, obnoxious and preachy rationales for what are (via internal policies and showrunner messaging) well-documented quota-chasing and culture war objectives of a modern writer whose politics don't permit the original canon. It's like there's a new Hayes Code. The original barred depictions of white slavery. The new one bars depictions of "all-white" races regardless of genre, or whether it makes any geographic contexual sense (Rings of Power), unless of course it's a *negative* depiction of such a people, then it's allowed. I don't think it's raycist for whites and others to notice these trends in media. There're plenty of shows with an abundance of women or non-white characters that aren't considered w0ke. Most raycist Americans haven't even heard of this series, and certainly aren't spending their time sending unsubstantiated deth threats to yet another narcissistic showrunner who actively makes their show hostile to demographics they personally dislike, at the expense of the project's quality. The collateral damage is that eventually, a non-negotiable presentation of "diversity and inclusion" *does* become a shorthand for projects that will make changes similar to WOT, where lore is "problematic" and must be updated by the all-wise progressive. Lots of people are getting tired of that and are holding it against the labels these people use to describe what they do.
I saw "no gender equality", angrily clicked the video, and was about to leave a filthy essay on how the male characters were absolutely disgraced (I'll never forgive them for what they did to Mat's dad, Abel, turning him into a drunken lowlife) buuuut that was your point hahaha well played!
@@amys0482 surely you can less n th frequency ? I’m more likely to let them play if they don’t happen less than ten min apart otherwise it starts to grate
@@thegribblereport8383 I don't know if I can. It's on/off and a bit of control over beginning or middle, ifnI remember, but not length or frequency. I can look at it.
As someone without a proper 'diagnosis' I've always failed to see the benefit of pursuing one. A line of text from a doctor can't possibly be meaningful can it? I'm functional enough to get through life without claiming disability. I'm not looking for validation, I'm just wondering if I'm missing a perspective, which is a personal trend 😂
@@Captaintrippz I needed a diagnosis for workplace accommodations. The diagnosis was like 8 hours and the write up is many pages, which honestly felt horrible because the medical model frames everything as a deficit rather than a difference. Whether you "need" this is situational. Some people don't need it and that's fine.
Your effusive (and, as usual, riveting) review had kept me far from WICKED LITTLE LETTERS until tonight, when I nerved myself to watch it - it didn't disappoint. Superficially, it's quite a good movie. The direction is taut and knowing, the acting is first-rate - I particularly liked the tomboyish Rose - and the score, by Isobel Waller-Bridge, of whom I hadn't been aware until now, was surprisingly melodic and engaging. (Isobel is the sister of Phoebe, another ardent feminist whose most recent performance was the neutering of Indiana Jones - in fact, many of the principal crew are women.) But the woke spoiled it for me. Not being familiar with the true story, I couldn't help wondering how much the facts, as well as the immutable characteristics, had been jiggled for the sake of agenda, and that suspicion led me to resent the lighthearted tone and giddy glee taken in bashing Christianity, a favorite sport of the left. I also couldn't help wondering how things would've been presented had Edith been, say, a Muslim. Perhaps you'll recompense my suffering by watching, here on RU-vid, the Despot of Antrim's hilarious reduction of WOMEN TALKING (2022) ("When a Bad Movie Gets 220 Awards Nominations: Women Talking"), which reduction I'm sure you'll find as painful as I did WICKED LITTLE LETTERS. But you'll be rewarded, at least, with an astonishingly accurate mimicry of David Attenborough. 🦍🙂
The actual true story of the Littlehampton Letters is a real life cracking story, and would of made a great movie, but the film makers decided to make it racially diverse and they decided to make Rose an unmarried mother, who lied about having a husband die in the war. In real life Rose was married to a white English man, (black live in lover in the film) and the child she looked after was her sisters. PC Gladys Moss was also white and English, but they made her Indian, the judge was black and so was the postmistress, its highly unlikely this would of been the case in real life. They decided to make the Irish Rose common and vulgar, in one scene she pulled up her dress and exposed her ass to the police, in 1920's England, this on its own would of carried a prison term! The whole debacle on it own would of made a great film, I dont know why they decided to veer so far off what actually happened! Had this been set in 2024, England is indeed very racially diverse, but it was the 1920's, when England would of been over 99% white.
@@truthseeker444 I think there's a misunderstanding of why casting in film (like theater) ignores race. In this case, the story being told doesn't hinge on racial differences so it's just not a considersation. Sexism is part of the plot. Racial diversity is irrelevant. The story they are telling is also not intended to be an accurate depiction of historical events, just "based" on a true story. This is creative license.
@@amys0482 The story being told is set in 1920's England, and to make it even slightly credible they should have used people of the correct race, when I say correct, I mean the actual race of the people involved. Had the original story of been all black people, or Indian, and they decided to replace them with white Anglo Saxons, it would of been racism, what they have done is racist, but white folk are not allowed to cry racism. I love watching historical plays/films, because I love seeing a glimpse of how my ancestors lived, when they veer this far off reality they lose most of their target audience. A good director could of made a fantastic film based on the actual event, without it being sexed up!
@@truthseeker444 This is not a historical film though. The point of this production is not to instruct you accurately on life in 1920s England or even to accurately tell this specific story from a historical accuracy lens. Most stories with a "historical" inspiration are not attempting to do that. This movie succeeds on what it is trying to do. Judging it as poor for the race of the casting choices is an odd standard for media of this type imho. It would be like going to a play and complaining that the guy playing Richard III isn't English.
@@amys0482 It is set in 1920, so how is it not historical? They made no effort whatsoever for it to reflect life in the era it is set, and they made no effort for it to even reflect the actual story behind it, if you are happy enough with hotch-potch film making, then I'm sure you will find plenty on Netflix to keep yourself entertained, it just irritated me, Real people, with real relatives who are still alive, were involved with the actual story, and it is offensive to them, especially making Rose so cheap and vulgar.
@@truthseeker444 The Titanic isn't accurate either. There are very few movies "based on a true story" that are actually true. Storytelling is not real history and never has been. If you want history, read a history book. I don't know how to explain it better. It's not claiming to be nonfiction.
I decided to watch Wicked Little Letters following your recommendation so imagine my surprise that not only did it take place in my home town of Littlehampton but also in Western Road where I lived for fve years 🙂
@@amys0482 I did. Great character actors but learning about the history of my home town and recognising places added more than I usually get from a film
Wokeness or progressivism generalizes about people, especially critical theory. Critical theory says: If a group is overrepresented, the system is privileging this group. But leftist usually dont belive in it if the own group is overrepresented. You cannot see based on these factors if there is discrimination. Critical theory was always used against successful groups like Jews. The racists of the past thought Jews are evil, because Jews are so successful and overrepresented and they believed there must be a system and there must be intitutions that benefits them. Therefore they used words like Jewish Science, Jewish media etc. You always have different success of different groups, that has nothing to do with discrimination or you cannot see if there is discrimination based on these data sets. I would rather guess the discrimination was the other way around that the system discriminated Jews.
@@AdamWeisshaupt Are you talking about critical race theory? This is wildly off topic but it definitely doesn't do that. Have you actually taken a course?
@@amys0482 Yes its off topic. I answered before I finished the video. I thought that is about wokeness again and how it is the superior ideology and nothing is bad about it although it is a negative ideology that created separation since centuries. Sorry for the offtopic. I did not take a course. Such courses do not exist in my country, I dont llive in the USA. But of course wokeness and especially critical theory definitely does exactly that. It creates hate and is based on generalization. That is why Americans are never woke on a country basis. That would mean they are the most discriminating people worldwide and nobody woke want to be an oppressor or discriminating bigot. But that is what they are according to this ideology. You are systemically discriminating the rest of the world, That is also why nobody takes these people seriously because they are not honest people.
@@AdamWeisshaupt I do not think that is true. This perspective sounds like the propaganda I hear decrying critical race theory. It does not sound educated on the actual course syllabus of these classes, which is to teach about the history of racism through a critical lens. You could apply the same rubric to gender studies with the same pearl clutching, but it's just education on history with critical analysis. The division comes from oppositional groups who oppose educating voters on these topics.
@@amys0482 Critical theory was formulated in Germany to find a comprmise between capitalism and Communism (that is written in wikipedia). In the times of the black death, crical theory (at that time it did not have a name) they used it against the Jews. Afterward the same theory was also used (I think by the Guardian) to explain systemic racism against black people. I use the example to show the flaws of the theory. One group, the black people, died more and one group, the Jewish people, died less. So the Guardian said it was systemic racism that more black people died but that also means it was systemic racism that less Jews died. And this kind of thinking was responsible that people thought Jews control the world. You cannot see the discrimination based on representation. The cause of death does not say anything on this regard. And this flaw is the basis for the hate of woke people. They use theories that say nothing about discrimination but just assume discrimiantion. We had a lot of people that voted Merkel because she is a women. That is definitely sexism. But these woke people claim you cannot be sexist as a women or are only outraged on one side and that is what these theories are supporting.
@@AdamWeisshaupt If anyone, including the left, wants to talk about modern race and gender issues factually and dispassionately, that's fine. But what Amy and her comrades are doing was called, a century ago, "waving the bloody flag," and it led to nothing good. "Let the dead punish the dead." (H.G. Wells, a leftist himself)
I have just watched 4 videos about Kamala Harris made by conservative people. Their bias is very evident ofc but in calling Kamala Harris a DEI pick there is no bias, they just show democrats listing the things that make Kamala a good choice. Female and PoC. This was a nice channel until the political BS.
@@mihaiserafim Everybody has biases. Calling anyone "a DEI" shows a profoundly ignornant bias that in the person making that critique and nothing whatsoever about the qualifications of the candidate in question.
@@amys0482it was literally Joe Biden who called her a DEI hire during a speech. He touted the strengths Of DEI and said it starts at the top, with his vice president. But I don't buy it. Listen to her talking about "the passage of time" and "being unburdened" and you'll see how smart she really is......
One suggestion, if you have mental health issues, do not follow politics. Everyone lies, even sources you should be able to trust, especially when Trump is involved. From outside in, you have terrible choices in the US. Not going to comment further on US politics as they are way too divisive. People are people and I trust that the US will get through the next 4 years regardless who the president is.
@@Andre-xl2oe Autism is a disability, not a mental health issue. Childhood emotional neglect is childhood trauma which explains some things, but I have been treated for it. I wouldn't say I have ongoing mental health challeges that would preclude me from following politics. I am quite encouraged by Kamala Harris. She has had an amazing first week and is even in the polls with room to climb.
Come on Amy. One thing I didn’t agree with your opinion is Joe Biden was kind. His domestic policies are good but his foreign policy is disastrous. His entire administration are liars and enablers. But , Kamala is the only sane choice compared to Trump.
@@SmiloRen I don't think watching something to review it is the same as click hunting. I like Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy, but not the hobbit movies. The books have some things the movies don't and visa versa. I like some of the changes made but not all of them.
I agree with your opinions and concerns in this video 100%. For the record I’m a formally mostly Republican leaning Independent who voted for Trump in 2016 and then course corrected by voting Biden/Harris in 2020. I have never been overly enthusiastic for Harris though and pretty much planned on voting for Biden or whoever was the Democratic candidate (even if they were the President’s mailman, mechanic or favorite pet….looking at you, Commander…😉). Over the last few days however……..Vice President Harris has really stepped up and impressed me and inspired me. I can see that she won’t just be a better choice than Trumpie could ever hope to be……. She will be an incredible President of the United States in her own right. 🇺🇸👍🏻😉
Your stream of consciousness is like an article you’re writing in real time. You are so poignant with your thoughts. I couldn’t agree more with everything you said.
@@Rezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz I sometimes wish people could see the compositions inside my head. Billions of words in fully formed sentences. I didn't know this was unusual.
I appreciate hearing your voice and opinion and I agree with basically all of it, though I hadn't been a fan of Kamala Harris before. I had read something negative about her time as attorney in California that had bad impact on single moms, something to do with schools and how they require kids to be there, and that Harris's response to criticism on this was very dismissive and her office tried to deny it for a long time before finally admitting and trying to repair it and doing the apology tour. At least that was my understanding, maybe I didn't get that right, but at the time, I think it was when Biden got the nomination originally, and there's issues on his track record too, but ultimately I was like.. yknow, of course they are a bazillion times better than the republicans.. they are still institutionalists, capitalist people who believe in hierarchy instead of who's really best for the job.. I think thats a mistake. She may be pretty good but the fact she got VP doesn't equate automatically to she's got what it takes to be president. Also, its not just about if she's a good president in general, which sure she might be, but in these specific times, is she the right person to fight the extreme right? I'm not sure... but, I also haven't been up to date on a lot of things the past year- I had to take a complete step back from it all cuz my anxiety was making me unable to take care of daily life, and my two littles. so.. I want to believe in Kamala, I think I was being too harsh on her and that overall she is a great candidate. I just wish we had someone less corporate and that our politics overall were being handed down more to gen X and older millennials.
@@grump9001 Taking a step back to touch grass and be around loved ones is fair and fine. Take a look at that Badreads article if you don't mind forking over your email address (you can always unsubscribe) as you might find it relatable. The single moms thing you are referring to is the program Kamala launched early in her career that penalized parents when students were truant too much. The intent of the program is to keep kids in school and not allow parents to abuse their children by using them as surrogate babysitters or denying them education for other reasons. Studies show that kids who stay in school do better. The criticism came from people who argued it unfairly burdened poor families and single mothers and that using the justic system to solve community issues is an overreach. I actually like Kamala Harris more from this experience, not because it was a perfect program but because it was educational in how seemingly simple systemizations to improve things can have pitfalls. I personally think this explains why Harris is hard to pin down for her stance on things. She doesn't quip simple platitudes to complex problems. She is measured and contemplative. Also, the fact that she is on record for apologizing means she is not a narcissist. Narcs are pathologically incapable of admitting error, even over stupid things. Kamala is emotionally intelligent as well as educated and experienced. As for the extreme right, she is a prosecuting attorney going up against a convicted felon.
@@amys0482 all true for sure, I see your points and already knew them but yknow it helps to lay it out, good to know kamala's reaction wasn't that bad as claimed, I agree with that policy in general- I'm married to a teacher. Also i have a severe narc mom I'm learning to grow away from. So yeah totally see it, and whatever flaws she has are nothing compared to trump, i mean there IS no comparison. But that doesn't mean its not possible to criticise her or find flaw or want to support someone else. I know YOU weren't trying to say that, im just saying for in general. Like, she's an attorney, that doesn't mean she's automatically a good one. You might argue there's no way she'd get to the top of the profession without being good, and she's absolutely proficient, but there's lots of corruption in democrat party and like I said, that heirarchy thing and capitalism run rampant.. the class issue you bring up. You say things a lot better than I can lol. I feel the same wavelength as you. I hope we can get through this terrible time and come out with improvements.
Although I am no fan of Trump, I can respect your well thought-out opinions even if my own diverge from yours. During Trump's first term he at least had some sane actors around him acting as a check on his behavior (yes there were back actors too). This time around I don't know how many people will be willing to play that role, or if Trump will listen to them.
@@zamdrist I don't think listening is in his card deck, at least not to people who don't flatter and cajole first. Things were chaotic when he won last time. He didn't have a transitition plan in place. This time, others are taking care of that for him. In addition to advisors, Project 2025 includes a plan to terminate anyone in a government position that is not loyal to Trump and replace them with conservative loyalists regardless of education or experience.
Change from your usual videos but why not comment on the wider world if it feels personal to you! As a European economic leftie I often find the political discussions in the US to be theatre with both sides avoiding policy (we are almost as bad). I would point out that Woke and Diversity are not left-wing positions, not unless you believe that the most capitalist companies in the world like Black Rock, Goldman Sachs, Raytheon etc are all on the "left". All of the big corporates have adopted these policies with departments and board members dedicated to them. They do not lobby against them like they do tax and regulation policy. Where I would agree is that there is a class war happening, being carried out by the professional class (including the likes of Biden and Harris) on behalf of the donor class. The Trump vote includes the F U vote from parts of the working class who know nothing about Trump's policies (he doesn't really have any of his own) but know that it upsets the media / journalist class who talk down to them every day. There is a lot of research out there that shows that politicians do not care about the issues of the voters, they enact the policies of the donors. I am sorry to say that Kamala is as bad as any when it comes to lobby (bribe) money. Threat to democracy you say, you don't live in one! I do find it amusing that Trump who was a 40 year Democrat, a friend to the Clintons, encouraged to run by Hillary suddenly became the personification of all evil by the media. I agree with your take on his personality but have to wonder if the media had just let him have his McDonalds, patted him on the head and said everyone loves you and sent him out to play golf we could have avoided so much of this...
Have you ever endured a "diversity training" struggle session? It's blackmail worth many billions of dollars annually and has made plenty of con artists rich, but fortunately the madness seems to be ending, at least in companies not owned by left-wing billionaires. (Such creatures exist, you know.) People are sick of being told what they should feel guilty about, and why they should kowtow to others no better than themselves. ("Let the dead punish the dead." - H.G. Wells) I give you Rachel Maddow, otherwise known as "Racial" Maddow, who rants about America's "systemic racism" from her estate in a Massachusetts township which is 97% white and 2% Asian. 😂
People on the left keep confusing diversity with woke. Diversity is fine because it's organic - I give you shows like OZARK and HALSTON and THE DIPLOMAT. There are plenty of diverse characters in them, but those characters are never handled with kid gloves - those characters are never given a pass, and never clumsily and predictably elevated over heterosexual white men, simply by virtue of certain immutable features. This is called art. Whereas woke, which commits all of the above-mentioned crimes and more, isn't art. It's propaganda, and propaganda is the death of art.
@@waltergold3457 Diversity is fine but woke commits the above "crimes" and more? I work in the DEI space. I think you misunderstand it. DEI is not a zero sum game where unqualified people with immutable features are elevated above hetero white men. It is about shifting systems of prejudice that formally ONLY gave opportunity to hetero white men to allow equal access to marginalized groups.
@@amys0482 Crimes against art, yes - and as a worker in the DEI space, which I think largely a racket, you devise the divisive and counterproductive "struggle sessions" to which I referred in another comment? 🙂 I hardly need remark that when - like Amazon, creator of THE RINGS OF POWER - you create formal policy and checklists which demand the hiring and promotion of certain groups over other ones, based solely on things like race and sex, you've already built your house on sand, and are merely practicing racism and sexism in their modern manifestations.
