As a mother one thing I do is watch movies (and the music videos from said movies) over and over again. And then a few more times. I could throw down in a lyric contest for both Trolls and Moana in my sleep. I am Moana now. My husband could also throw down in a "You're Welcome" song off, for some reason he really relates to being a demigod who feels he should be adored by all (thank you the Rock). One thing I have done to cope is come up with life lessons to be gleaned from the movies that make up my every waking hour. Moana is a cornucopia of life lessons, many of which are not that hard to glean from this stellar movie but here are a few that particularly resonate with me.
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Monday, September 25, 2017
Slytherins are always cast as villians...because they are
I see a lot of "all slytherins are not all evil people! Stop vilifying the villains!". Maybe the reason people tend to cast them as villains is because they are the villains?
One of the defining traits of a slytherin is cunning and ambition to the point of exploiting people. That is not a positive defining characteristic. Just saying. More than that aligning yourself with slytherin is saying you want to be aligning yourself with prejudice, violence and evil. It isn't that everyone in that house is pure evil (Slughorn and Regulus are literally the only arguments and let's face Regulus wasn't really a good person, he became a good person) but their desire to be grouped with people who are is at the very least a red flag and at most they're Voldemort.
Even if someone valued slytherin qualities to an extent that doesn't require harming others (Slughorn) they would have to at the very least tolerate (but commonly desire) to be associated with mass murders and prejudice. The example of a real slytherin that wasn't placed in slytherin solely because of their adamant refusal to be aligned with hatred is Percy Weasley. He is a slytherin through and through, to the point of stepping on his family in his assent to success but ultimately he was unwilling to come anywhere near the dark arts and the evil people who studied them. It's really too bad more people in our country had the integrity and honesty to remember that support for specific people can not be divided from the racism, sexism and general evilness of certain people.
One of the defining traits of a slytherin is cunning and ambition to the point of exploiting people. That is not a positive defining characteristic. Just saying. More than that aligning yourself with slytherin is saying you want to be aligning yourself with prejudice, violence and evil. It isn't that everyone in that house is pure evil (Slughorn and Regulus are literally the only arguments and let's face Regulus wasn't really a good person, he became a good person) but their desire to be grouped with people who are is at the very least a red flag and at most they're Voldemort.
Even if someone valued slytherin qualities to an extent that doesn't require harming others (Slughorn) they would have to at the very least tolerate (but commonly desire) to be associated with mass murders and prejudice. The example of a real slytherin that wasn't placed in slytherin solely because of their adamant refusal to be aligned with hatred is Percy Weasley. He is a slytherin through and through, to the point of stepping on his family in his assent to success but ultimately he was unwilling to come anywhere near the dark arts and the evil people who studied them. It's really too bad more people in our country had the integrity and honesty to remember that support for specific people can not be divided from the racism, sexism and general evilness of certain people.
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