IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN ONE POWERFUL, SLEEVELESS, RED-HEAD!
People always bring up she’s Matt’s girlfriend wife. Like why does it matter if they’re together? Are you jealous she’s with Matt? Do you wish you were with Matt and you’re just angry because you’ll never be with him…
Like? Why do men hate other men’s SOs so much?
Are they trying to brush her off as the ‘love interest’ as defined by popular media and therefore incidental and unimportant?
[I don’t understand why some people act so scandalized by Dukat/Kira. How is it any worse than popular ships like Spuffy or Reylo? Shipping the hero with the villain is nothing new.]
If someone is against Kira/Dukat, odds are they’re also against Spuffy and Reylo. Because those relationship dynamics are horrifically toxic and abusive and the majority of the people who are shipping them are doing so non-critically, with no acknowledgement of the fact that they are abusive and toxic, and also against the characters actual characterization – generally, the male characters are written as conflicted and pained and hurt, in need of love and forgiveness to achieve their redemption, and the female characters are reduced to a prop to advance his arc, giving her none of the characterization that she has in canon.
Kira/Dukat is among the worst of the worst, because of that horrible dynamic – at any given point in the show’s run, within the previous decade, Kira lived at a time where if Dukat demanded it, he could fuck her and she could only say no if she was willing to be executed. Kira lived through a time where literally, she had no option of consent had any Cardassian approached her and demanded that she sleep with them.
Dukat wanting to fuck Kira is, to a Bajoran, equivalent to Hitler, somehow surviving WWII, telling a survivor of Auschwitz that he would fuck her. And I’m not citing Godwin’s Law here, Dukat was literally compared to Hitler by the show’s producers. To the Bajoran people, Gul Dukat is their answer Hitler. The fact that people look at the dynamic between them and say ‘yeah, they totally should be together’ is horrifying, because those people are literally saying that an abuse victim and her abuser should be paired up, generally on the idea that “she’ll make him a better man.”
It is not the victim’s duty to ever be personally responsible for their abuser’s redemption. Ever. And I say this not just to the Kira/Dukat shippers, but the shippers of the above mentioned ships and the ones like it throughout media. These are toxic and abusive relationships when they are about the actual characters in canon. And if you’re making up characterizations wholesale to justify your ship, maybe you shouldn’t even be shipping this one, because it means you don’t actually want these particular characters together, just characters who look like them, but are not based on the actual canon characters.
and the majority of the people who are shipping them are doing so non-critically, with no acknowledgement of the fact that they are abusive and toxic
Guys don’t you just love it when internet randos claim they can read your minds?
Douchebro hasn’t figured out how shipping works and should shut his whole stupid face
I really want to NaNo, the plan was third year in a row, bring the cumulative word count up to 150k+ and the Redemption Road first draft would essentially be complete.
But this med life, I am practically back to the old shit-and-shower cycle of final year/internship (so-called because when you get home that’s all you have time to do). I could push it on the weekends but past experience says that’s not enough for me to hit that 50k.
I’ll do my NaNo prep document anyway and tally up the scenes still to be done.
The Friday plan was to head home, put up my feet and do some NaNo prep, or maybe pick at the next chapter of The Mission, but there’s some kind of sporting event along my commute today, so more likely it’s going to be an evening in the car with Mr. Pepys on a flashdrive, stuffing my gob at home and falling asleep on the couch, and that’s not an altogether bad Friday either.
To be totally fair to Willy Wonka, at least a couple of those candy factory casualties involved kids deliberately circumventing reasonable safeguards, sometimes aided and abetted by the parents who were supposed to be supervising them. What happened is at most 60% his fault.
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