it really is amazing that people can see how straight people historically classifed being gay as a mental illness and know now that it was Completely Not True and based entirely on oppression and othering the LGBT community, yet still turn around and be like ‘my cis doctor said that being trans is a mental illness so it is! fuck transtrenders!!’ like you’re really gonna just fall for this again. really
A male colleague was making fun of the #metoo movement a few days ago, and many more (I’m one of 5 women in a department of 200 men) joined in. So I raised my voice and said I was glad women were speaking up about sexual harassment and assault and that I hoped that everyone who perpetuated this toxic behavior got taken down.
“Yeah but it’s a trend now, lots of them are just saying it for their 15 minutes of fame.” He then continued to say that he didn’t know anyone who had been harassed or any man who had done it.
I asked him if he had a daughter. He did. I asked him how old she was. She was was 17. I told him I’d bet my rent money that his daughter had experienced sexual harassment.
“That’s impossible.”
“Did you ask her?”
“No.”
“Well then, do it.”
The next day, he came in the office with five bouquets of flowers for all the women in our department, including me. He publicly apologized for making fun of sexual harassment and for making our lives harder by doing so. He said that he simply hadn’t known how widespread it was. Apparently, his daughter deals with it very regularly. She hadn’t told him because of the way he spoke about assault cases that were on the news. She thought he’d think less of her if she’d mention it. It was her idea that he should make a public announcement. He said he felt like a bad father.
I said: “You were. Same goes for everyone who laughed with you. Be better, now you know better. And educate other men that still think the same way you did yesterday. And next time someone tells you about an experience they have, don’t automatically assume that because you haven’t seen it, it’s not true. That kind of willful ignorance is why we still deal with this shit.”
He also offered to pay my rent as that was part of the bet, but I told him I’d rather have him put effort in being a person his daughter and wife could be proud of.
In conversation the other day my mom stopped and asked my dad about what percentage of women he thought had experienced sexual harassment. He said about 20-30% maybe. My mom told him that both of us had been harassed multiple times at work (same goes for both of her sisters) and that she had actually been assaulted by a groper on a public bus. I have never seen anyone’s face go slack so quickly before as he realized that literally every woman in his family had experienced this. And while I’m glad he believed us and has changed his view on that subject I still can’t shake the frustration, the anger, that it required being sat down and spoonfed these incidents that we didn’t particularly wanted to relive. This is something that women have been saying for years, but men just never listen. Not even when they’re forced to sit in mandatory harassment in the workplace training seminars.
It is the third time a parade like this has been held in the city.
The first Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City took place in 2016. It was inspired by the opening sequence of the James Bond film Spectre, which features a similar event in the city.
This year’s event is in memory of Mexican refugees who died as they attempted to travel to the US.
Anyone else noticed that Mayura looks different from the first pic that was revealed of her? You know, back when she was introduced as La Paon?
You can clearly see that the facial features are different here, and the hair is more floofy in Nathalie’s case. The collar is also slightly different.
The sleeves are different as well
And the dress is much shorter
I can see two possibilities.
1. The picture we got wasn’t finalized, which could also be why the name was changed from La Paon to Mayura. Therefore there were some changes before the final design. Maybe the picture we got was even made before they knew who was going to become Mayura.
2. They are two different people. I think this one is less likely, since it doesn’t really make sense to hype up a character by showing another character’s picture, but it might be a bait-and-switch. La Paon and Mayura are two different characters who wielded (or will wield) the Peacock Miraculous at different points in time, and we will at some point see La Paon.
Aside from all of this, what really intrigued me was when Gabriel said the Peacock Miraculous is damaged. It seems pretty likely that this is what caused Emilie’s current condition.
Now, I have been harping on about this, because it’s a detail that I see a lot of people have forgotten, but Nooroo states in the Origins episode that bad things happen when Miraculous are used for evil. I suspect that since kwamis are born from abstract concepts, they can become corrupted or sick if they are used for evil.
So, I believe that a previous holder of the Peacock Miraculous was evil, corrupting Duusu, which then led to Emilie’s illness when she used it.
Emilie may have been the one who did this. I definitely support the theory that Emilie might secretly be a villain, especially after Gabriel implied that she made him promise to use the Miraculouses to bring her back, and might even have been the one who told him about the equal exchange thing, since it has been confirmed that Gabriel knows about that, and neither he nor Nooroo can read the book about the Miraculous.
But it might also have been a previous user, although I don’t know why Emilie would keep using the Miraculous if it was making her sick; we can see from Nathalie that the process isn’t instantenous.
But the Kwami being the one who’s corrupted, not the Miraculous itself, would make sense, since we can see nothing is physically wrong with the Miraculous. Plus we didn’t see Duusu, which may be to purposefully keep us in the dark, since I suspect the corrupted Duusu is going to be pretty evil
IN THIS ESSAY I WILL DISCUSS MY THEORIES FOR THE PEACOCK MIRACULOUS BASED ON THINGS I THOUGHT OF AND THINGS I SAW PEOPLE TALKING
First I want to talk about the miraculous power, assuming Nathalie transformed into Mayura after getting de-akumatized (because there is a chance that akumatized people can get a miraculous):
-Basically you can create beings/monsters using people’s emotions
-Because I recall Mayura saying to Hawkmoth “Let your despair take the form of a protector” and then the giant moth appeared
-And Hawkmoth wasn’t persuaded or transformed into anything else
-So Hawmoth’s and Mayura’s powers are kinda similar, but not at the same time
-Hawkmoth can create champions, granting them powers
-He just uses the negative emotions thing because it is easier to persuade people to do the bad stuff (proving that it is possible to actually “fight” an akuma, as seen, for example, in Zombizou)
-And we know that he can also take the champion’s powers and make them ‘suffer’ in case they do something wrong
-ok back to Mayura
-As I previously said she uses people’s emotions
-But she uses their emotions to create those beings
-Maybe the ‘akumatized’ person controls the being or the being acts for itself
-Or maybe she controls the being?
-Honestly I can’t figure out a lot about the powers
-I think that Mayura thought of a moth as the monster
-Like Hawkmoth himself has to think of powers, names and even clothes for the akumatized people
-Ok I think that’s all
-I can’t think clearly, I’m hungry and doing this in a rush
NOW SOME EMILIE THEORIES:
-She had the peacock miraculous
-She and Gabriel were a duo
-They had some plans and stuff
-I think she’s not that innocent as some people think
-Anyways
-The miraculous was already damaged
-Maybe it was damaged from the thing with Master Fu when he lost the miraculous and the book
-Or maybe Master Fu tried to do something with the ladybug and chat noir’s miraculouses and ended up damaging the peacock one
-Or maybe the peacock miraculous was always “bad”
-Like why would the kwamis never talk about Duusu?
-Or maybe they just have no idea what happened to her and they had no idea what happened to her miraculous until now
-Either way
-Poor Duusu
-BACK TO EMILIE
-She used the miraculous to a certain point until she ended up in a “coma”
-Maybe she was already sick when she was pregnant
-That’s why Adrien is allergic to feathers?
-I have no idea what she or Gabriel did while Adrien was growing up
-I thinks that’s all I can get
-I’m pretty sure other people already pointed out a lot of this stuff before me
-So yeah
-I just couldn’t stay quiet after this episode
-This episode was able to beat Puppeteer and Zombizou as like one of the most NERVE-WRECKING EPISODES LIKE I ALMOST DIED WATCHING IT
-Also Chloe please start treating Sabrina as a proper friend
-And Lila JUST STOP WITH THIS FOR THE SAKE OF GOD
-She’s one of the worst people because she WILLINGLY helps Hawkmoth TWICE
-Like someone else once said: Learn with Elsa
-LET IT GO
-Thank you for reading
-I’ll have lunch, thank you
Nooroo said in the Origins episode that bad things happen when you use Miraculouses for evil. I suspect maybe that bad thing is what happened to Duusu; they got corrupted or damaged from being used for evil purposes by a previous holder.
Maybe it was Emilie, or someone who had the Peacock Miraculous before her.
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