Frollo and Mother Gothel convince Quasimodo and Rapunzel that their lives are dependent on them. The two villains claim the outside world is a terrible place even though they know this is not true. They also constantly emotionally abuse their victims by implying their worthlessness and destroying their self-esteems. Quasimodo and Rapunzel sympathize with their captors and even believe their captors are protecting them and treating them with kindness. However, both captors are merely using and manipulating their victims for their own selfish purposes.
Belle does not sympathize with the Beast when she is treated poorly. She becomes angry and leaves the castle, only returning by her own wish so that the Beast (who saves her) does not freeze to death. She does not respond nicely towards the Beast until he treats her with respect. In this situation, Belle has control and is not manipulated into feeling for the Beast, nor does the Beast treat her disrespectfully after the first night. While the Beast does have an underlying motive as to keeping Belle in his castle, he abandons this idea and sets her free to make her happy. If anything, this story is a case of Lima Syndrome where the captor starts to sympathize with the victim.
Check out this post which refocuses the purpose of Beauty and the Beast from merely (and wrongly) being about Stockholm Syndrome to it’s original purpose.
FUCKING FINALLY
I don’t usually reblog stuff like this, but Beauty and the Beast is my favorite movie and I’d like to have this on my page!
this is actually a very good analysis. I take back all the times I’ve called Beauty and the Beast a ‘stockholm syndrome’ romance.
Tumblr is a horrible platform for artists/creators of any kind. It’s been like that for as long as I was on here, and long before that from what I’ve heard. But it’s gotten so much worse recently.
At first it was mostly unfair to new people who aren’t known yet, as the tag searches favour popularity over “freshness” of posts, and ‘newest’ area has always been neglected quite a bit. But that was something you learn to deal with relatively quickly. It’s a basic part of the struggle to climb through and get noticed by any community you decide to join. It’s rather fair compared to what is happening now.
Now, you can’treach people anymore, no matter how many followers you have. If you have a decent number, that makes things a bit more bearable because you already have an established audience. But if you’re new, or relatively unknown, you have only people who accidentally find you to rely on. The tags – main means to reach the audience – don’t work well. Dashboard – the only way to be seen – has a very bad algorithm, and no matter how much people tweak their settings, somehow still works against artists/creators. We are unseen. Suddenly you get maybe a third of notes you used to get. New people get none whatsoever.
And you might say ‘you shouldn’t be posting to get notes’ but who re you kidding, we create to share our interests and show people what we made and are proud of! The notes tell us we indeed did good, and we maybe made someone’s day a little better with our work, and we get a positive response in return, making us happy. Everybody wins! But without being seen? Well, be it new, or just seeing a drop in notes, we feel discouraged.
“Have I gotten worse?” “Am I really a bad artist/creator?” “Should I even bother?” All of these doubts start arising, and we stop wanting to create. But here’s the thing.
It’s not that we’re bad, nor do people ignore us.
It’s the shitty algorithm that hides us from everyone. And I doubt they’ll care to fix this.
So, share each other’s work. Reblog your favourite creators. Reblog NEW creators. Check their blogs for new content every now and then. Leave a positive message in each other’s ask boxes every once in a while.
You’ll make their day. You’ll give them a reason to keep creating.
Because if tumblr won’t help, we only have each other to look out for.
If you honestly think Harley xher bastard abuser is a better pairing than Harley xher loving plant wife Ivy, then guess what you’re homophobic and you now owe me and every gay you know $20 thanks
Okay, seeing that there are no sources given here, I will add some. I am not an expert on ghandi, but here are some articels and books to give you an opinion about him:
Books: Sex and Power by Rita Banerji, On Pacifism by Derrick Jensen, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
People, if we discuss historical figures, let’s not throw our arguments unsourced around.
Ghandi had a magnificent impact on India and was undoubtedly important for the country. Without him, India might have not been freed of british rule and that colonialism is not good I don’t think I have to explain.
So, yes, Ghandi did great things and was/is important, but we should at the same time keep in mind that he was a deeply flawed person, not a Saint.
And to those who say, that we can’t judge a historical Person by modern Standards: even by the Standards of Ghandi’s time some of his actions went way too far and shocked his supporters, for example when he slept besides naked young women. That was not normal then and it is not normal now, so, yeah, we have a point by saying that Ghandi was flawed.
Also the thing is he’s not even special in terms of not having possessions? He has twice as many worldly possessions as every Digambara Jain monk? Digambara monks don’t even wear clothes?
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