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palominocorn) wrote2020-04-23 01:50 pm
palominocorn) wrote2020-04-23 01:50 pm
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I have thoughts and feels on this
It belatedly hit me, as these things tend to do, but I realized something about that flashback scene at the end of Memento Mori.
Charity (a white woman) doesn't like that Marisol (a Woman of Color) is unbinding her daughters' (also Women of Color, obviously) magic powers. I mean, there's a demon thing going on with one of them, but also, there's an apocalypse coming and these daughters are likely humanity's only hope against evil. (The supernatural parts are not actually too-too relevant to this post.)
When Marisol doesn't listen to Charity's arguments and keeps doing the unbinding spell, Charity forcibly silences her with magic. And then Marisol just puts a hand on her throat and keeps doing it.
Forcibly silencing someone is an extremely violent act. And Charity, who is well-versed in feminism and racial justice, and whose day job is, in her own words, empowering impoverished Women of Color with microloans, knows this perfectly well. But she does it anyway, because she thinks she's right and that takes precedence over empowering Women of Color or respecting people's autonomy or all those other things. And don't even get me started on what she does after that...
Someone on the writing team had very well-deserved beef with white feminists, is what I'm saying.
Charity (a white woman) doesn't like that Marisol (a Woman of Color) is unbinding her daughters' (also Women of Color, obviously) magic powers. I mean, there's a demon thing going on with one of them, but also, there's an apocalypse coming and these daughters are likely humanity's only hope against evil. (The supernatural parts are not actually too-too relevant to this post.)
When Marisol doesn't listen to Charity's arguments and keeps doing the unbinding spell, Charity forcibly silences her with magic. And then Marisol just puts a hand on her throat and keeps doing it.
Forcibly silencing someone is an extremely violent act. And Charity, who is well-versed in feminism and racial justice, and whose day job is, in her own words, empowering impoverished Women of Color with microloans, knows this perfectly well. But she does it anyway, because she thinks she's right and that takes precedence over empowering Women of Color or respecting people's autonomy or all those other things. And don't even get me started on what she does after that...
Someone on the writing team had very well-deserved beef with white feminists, is what I'm saying.