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I just saw a woman accuse a man of being a pedophile at a playground only for him to respond with something like "I lost my daughter a few days ago." Reddit what's the most saddest/unkind/ignorant thing you've seen? : AskReddit

I was at a park with a few of my friends when we heard and saw a woman screaming at a man for being a “pedophile.” He got teary eyed and replied with…

I love things like this, when i woke up with no sleep, how can some people be so ignorant and cruel though?

I believe in getting justice though for wrongs done, in other words. Revenge.

Rear Window | Alfred Hitchcock | 1954

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(Reblogged from room42)

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/13/us/worst-charities/index.html?hpt=hp_t5

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/13/us/worst-charities/index.html?hpt=hp_t5

Scumbags.

There are egregious examples in England too, like Bono’s ‘One Foundation’ which raises fourteen million a year in donations and only donates one hundred thousand to charity the rest go on salaries, and ‘raising awareness’ campaigns.

It’s a good scam.

But the best defence is always, critical thinking and constant education.

Liying liars and the lies they tell.

I cannot help but notice, upon visiting my tumblr account that it is fathers day across the west. I have zero relationship with my father, in fact , have not talked to him in close to two years, other than the odd text.

But i was thinking of one of my brothers who has major daddy issues. No matter how many times P manipulates, lies, cheats or belittles this guy, he keeps coming back for more treatment.

My brother  M paid for P’S Tax disc on his car for years, P claimed poverty because the child support agency was docking his wages, due to years and years of never paying anything. P paid ten euros a week for each of us till we were 18. Ten..euros.

Can you survive on ten euros?

We had to, and with an addict mother it was even harder still.

He must be the master of exploiting daddy issues since M, the eldest keeps paying out. He paid for double glazing and central heating in P’s house, because P said if he did he could buy it off him. And predictably, the sale never occurred, he actually said ‘I would sell it, but the house is too nice to sell now because of all the improvements you paid to have done’.

M was in the armed forced at this time and P  never picked him up on his holidays, even though M had paid for his car basically.

Well if your a mug, then stay a mug. M bought a house, the STREET OVER, from P. Better so he could lick his boots i suppose.

Pathetic.

‘You lost that loving feeling’-edit 3.  2013.

Arm grabbing in film and media.

Rough edit.

This is a series of edits i posted to my YT.

I read an article in which a journalist commented on the history and significance of arm grabbing in cinema, however she felt it was a phenomenon of the past. In my, admittedly rough , research i found recent examples that arm grabbing was alive and well in the interactions between men and women.

This will lead to a completed film.

Ebert was a big alcholic for decades.Drunks constantly avoid how their selfishness effects others.

Ebert was a big alcholic for decades.Drunks constantly avoid how their selfishness effects others.

(Source: datbrowncinephile)

(Reblogged from popkoff)

‘All this’.

Definitely i look back, as i get older, on my childhood and i realise how starved of normality it was.

I do remember several moments in which care kids took pity on me, when i was young, primary school at least.

I have more or less cut K and P out my life, it doesn’t really feel like a chore, i never referred to them as my parents. I can’t speak for my siblings, though i know two of them are in denial about K’s addictions. But i do know apart from M, they have cut P out of their lives too. Sick of him i suspect. My sister has children now and despite her best efforts to involve P in their lives , he has shown zero interest. So now she has given up. I mean she is a big success story, she his in a great marriage with a guy who runs his own business, she is an executive, she earns a fortune, nice car, nice house, two great young ones. Life is rich for her, so why pour energy in to a black hole?

They still see K. M lets her baby sit his children , and B visits a lot. But i suspect its a combination of guilt  over her current lifestyle (approaching old age, plus her addiction) and a desire to have some pathetic semblence of normality. I know my sister when she was in University expressed regret that she would never have ‘coffee or cake dates’ with K, like her friends did.

However i think its important to talk about your issues, whatever they may be, discuss them, this allows you to address feelings of powerlessness and move on emotionally. Even if you never get an apology.

Actually since i was the only one, far as i know, to complain, i got  a measly apology from K. Since i questioned her violence when we were younger and her addictions and the poverty we lived in and how it effected me. She apologised for ‘being a shit mum’, but it was when she was going through a depression phase, so it probably was just self loathing rather than any real contrition.

For a few years now i have been planning a series of paintings about my childhood and parents, and i suppose ‘all this’ is the outlines.

Probably only interesting to me since i woke up and could not rest.

I was looking at films to watch and found a Raquel Welch vehicle called Hannie Caulder. The plot revolves around the rape of a woman (disturbingly common in Hollywood in the 60’s-80’s) who unusually trains as a gun fighter with Robert Culps help so she can hunt down and kill her attackers.

(Yeah..Robert Culp slaps a rape survivor …it was the 70’s though)-pic 8

I have yet to watch it (think i saw it years ago on late night t.v - insomnia pays off for my film knowledge at least), so i can’t comment on its script.

But what struck me was the advert on the film site, which shows the main poster used to advertise the film The lead actress is surrounded by the men who raped her, her legs open, her shirt half hanging off. It is a sexy dress, a sexy pose. But those are her rapists.- pic 9

Would such an image be used for modern films?

I checked out some of the publicity shots and posters used in other countries and they all showed Welch in various bikini style outfits.
 

The film was directed in 71’ Roe vs Wade was 73 , so it was still going through the courts, in the headlines.The pill was 1960.And the equal pay act was 73 (not that long ago eh?).

Welch was a pin up actress, and in the 70’s was at the height of her fame. I always think she does not get credit for some of the films she chose. While not the greatest talent in the world she tried to choose films that stretched her ability and roles that addressed issues of gay rights (Myra Breckinbridge), civil rights (100 rifles) and women’s rights( Hannie Caulder).

This definitely merits further investigation if only for my own amusement to explore the cultural background that produced posters like this alongside a film with such a plot. And possibly assess a modern equivalent, see if the posters and publicity shots are different, and it what decade things changed.