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airyairyquitecontrary: “ carriefiser: “The clown thing is strange, I found this documentary. It stressed that up until the novel of ‘It’ there wasn’t a collective fear of clowns. Then this book was released and it really changed how everybody viewed...
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The clown thing is strange, I found this documentary. It stressed that up until the novel of ‘It’ there wasn’t a collective fear of clowns. Then this book was released and it really changed how everybody viewed clowns. It’s amazing. It’s a testament to Stephen King. If you look at the depiction of scary clowns in films, you don’t really see any prior to ‘It’. Then in the late ’90s they started popping up all over the place. I really do think Stephen King was the first one to create the idea of clowns as scary and he changed things forever. Certainly this movie’s not going to help these poor professional clowns who are just trying to entertain kids.

airyairyquitecontrary

#reblogging for the clown fear thing#it’s just crazy how pop culture can influence the hive mind of people so much#and it bothers me how especially easy it is to instill fear of things into people than anything else

good point Greeny, see also the endangerment of sharks because of Jaws and the influence on the Satanic Panic of Rosemary’s Baby.

(ETA FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE INTERNET: PLEASE NOTE I AM NOT ANTI THESE MOVIES.  Jaws is one of my favourites.  It’s just one more example of how important critical thinking and self-awareness are to prevent us carrying over prejudices based on scary movies into real life.)

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Pennywise is actually genderfluid

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If you read the book, Stephen King specifically says that IT (the shape-shifting monster also known as Pennywise) is female and pregnant. This is why the Losers’ Club has to come back and finish what they started when they were kids. 

However, IT chooses primarily male forms or genderless forms to kill and terrorize the children with. 

So, IT specifically chooses to fluctuate between female, male, and genderless presentations, making IT genderfluid.

Pennywise for genderfluid Icon!

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Pennywise:

  • Is an ancient, eldritch being from another dimension with a form that humans cannot even begin to comprehend and is, thus, unlikely to give a fuck about gender
  • Can shapeshift into people’s worst fears and does so frequently to terrorize its victims
  • Feeds off of fear
  • Literally tears children apart and eats them
  • Keeps an entire town under a spell in which no adults can truly recognize the suffering of children, even when they’re being assaulted, sexually abused, abducted, and murdered
  • Delights in the violent, homophobic assault of a gay man before taking the man from his attackers and ripping him apart while his lover watches
  • Delights in racist violence and was fueled by the KKK’s presence in Derry, as well as a white supremacists’ torching of a black nightclub

the “Babadook is a gay icon” thing was a joke born from a technical error on Netflix. let’s… not associate evil, child eating monsters with LGBT+ people maybe

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Thank God iwilleatyourenglish is tackling this because I was getting to my last fucking nerve.

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