how differently do you think the Marauders would have treated Snape is he was female? Would they have been less vicious or would their bullying just take on a different form (like say touching her inappropriately or flipping her skirt just like removing Snape's pants)
And would Remus stand up for Snape more if he was female because would he think "no she can't handle that, they're going too far, she's a girl" etc etc
I think it depends on many things â what would the professors do if the Maraudersâ relentless and extreme bullying began? What would Remus say? How would the other students react to the Maraudersâ bullying when itâs done in public? And most importantly, would the Marauders stop after they face consequences?
I think:
Remus would definitely force himself to speak up because the âgentleman in him doesnât want a woman to go through that.â Iâm sure his justification of the incident was âboys will be boys.â If Snape was a girl instead, Iâm sure he, along with many more students and professors, would be enraged.
I think the Professors definitely wouldâve done something about it. The most we hear in canon is James and Sirius getting detentions, but Iâm sure they wouldâve gotten way more warnings from the professors if they continued with their behaviour. And Iâm sure a lot more students would report the Maraudersâ behaviour (both their behaviour towards Snape and their behaviour towards other students), and the teachers would be forced to do something about it.
Another thing we have to remember is that the Marauders era took place in the 70s and women werenât exactly.. treated the best during that time. So you could argue that a lot of fem!Snapeâs experiences with them was dismissed, not only because she was a Slytherin, but because she was a woman too (and she wasnât a conventionally pretty one). Additionally, we should also remember that James and Sirius are both privileged white guys who come from well-known pureblood families, so I doubt they wouldâve faced really serious consequences, unless they took more precautions to hide their bullying of fem!Snape.
But I still think that, while fem!Snape mustâve experienced a lot of misogyny during her Hogwarts years, the professors (especially the women) would be more sympathetic to her than if she were a man (because âhe should just man upâ or âPotter and Black are just being boys, itâs not a big dealâ).
Conclusion: I think that fem!Snapeâs struggles would be taken more seriously and sometimes a few students (either guys or girls) would stand up for her when sheâs bullied in public, so as a response to that, the Marauders made sure to target and attack her in more private areas in order to avoid any disruptions. And I think she would also still experience other people dismissing what she went through, but for slightly different reasons than male!Snape, perhaps some people might tell her âboys do that because they like youâ or âitâs okay theyâre just being silly boysâ or âbe more mature, youâre a girl.â And I think James, Sirius, and Peter might possibly target her without Remus because he wouldâve spoken up about it more than once and they decided âheâs no fun, letâs just ditch him.â And I think SWM definitely would not have happened in public, because if it did, I think that would definitely be the last straw for the professors and the Marauders would get either suspended or even expelled.
End of rant. Thank you for this interesting question Nonnie.
Ugh⊠okay, its here. The big one. Let me preface this by saying I wont be doing a count by count story of what happened, itâs too many hour and headaches that I donât need to be fair. But I said Iâd get to it⊠and boy howdy has it been swirling in my head since.
 So small backstory for those who havenât boarded this crazy train of bullshit and migraines, this story is about a fairly large commentary youtuber by the name of Slazo (Or Micheal) who was caught in a controversy when his âEx-Girlfriendâ exposed him in a Twitlonger for being a manipulative, sexual harasser. DMâs and screenshots of chat logs were shown and it made Slazo look pretty scummy. A few days later Slazo releases his defence video outlining the parts that were true and a lot of points that were fabricated to make him look evil in the eyes of the internet, with added proof and conveniently missing parts of his exes proof that would have exonerated him on the spot in the eyes of the internet courtroom. For opinions sake, yes I do think Slazo is innocent of the more damning accusations that were put against him, no I do not think he was 100% innocent. Of what he was guilty of? maybe being a pretty shitty boyfriendâŠ. though at the age of 15-16⊠its slap on the back of the head material⊠not cancellation worthy.
Slazo was pretty much cleared of it all and everybody went on with their day⊠heck it shouldnât even be called the Slazo situation, because while his name was brought up a lot, he wasnât really all that key to what happened nextâŠÂ
Commentary youtubers from all corners of the internet had an opinion on what Slazo had done and how guilty he was (again, I will not be doing a play by play of every accusation) which boiled down to two camps
1. âSlazo is guilty and here is why⊠Oh and have a bunch of off-cuff situations I witnessed where Slazo was really creepy that I only just now remember and want to bring up.â
2. âLotta commentary youtubers being liars, snakes or hypocrites up in here.â
Which in turn brought two youtubers under the microscope themselves, ImAlexx and Hyojin.
Alex first as itâs easier and is the least weird of the two. Alex jumped on the Slazo hate bandwagon pretty quickly and started accusing Slazo of a bunch of things that couldnât easily be proven, while also completely backing up the story that Chey (the ex) has given in her Twitlonger, despite the fact it had been blown open with so many holes that not even a brain dead goldfish could find logic in it. Alex would later admit he had a part in writing the Twitlonger, as did many other prominent commentary youtubers and friends,outing the Twitlonger as more of a team effort rather than just Chey writing it herself.
After this Alex was accused of a bunch of stuff himself including being a social climber to get more popular since he was a pretty good friend to Slazo before all of this happened, as well as a snake since he supported Chey and the Twitlonger until it was criticised as untrueâŠ. and Alex said the same to cover for himself.
To this day there hasnât been a clear end point to this, Alex has tried to brush away from it all and has taken the bumps of being called controversial, hoping for it to all die down eventually. (While writing this Alex appeared on the Happy Hour Podcast to give a rundown of the situation to the hosts who admitted they knew nothing of the situation. Whatâs worse Alex seems to have glazed over many of his own wrongdoings that only escalated the drama further.) Opinion? To be honest, I donât know⊠Alex obviously tried to ride the controversy to boost himself, that much is sure, yet when it came back to bite him he tried to hide and wait for it to blow over. Itâs sad, It IS snakeworthy and since a proper apology hasnât been issued⊠itâs not a good look for him at all.
Hyojin to me was the worst of the two to me. While she didnât say as much publicly, it was was was happening behind the scenes that just frustrated me.
(Be aware, if you like Hyojin and think she can do no wrong, DO NOT READ PAST THIS POINT. A lot of hot-takes will be thrown out there and a lot of criticism will be put out there too. I WILL be talking about the aftermath at length which is where the support poured in for Hyojin. I will being ripping that apart just as much, if not more for the bullshit that it was.)
Hyojin sucks, and I mean she really sucks. A lot of what was thrown out about Slazo in the Twitlonger allegedly was orchestrated and was the idea of Hyojin herself, taking what Chey was saying and embellishing it with the rest of their friend group. Itâs alleged however and wonât be part of the criticism thrown at her.
While the incident was being investigated, Hyojin was too, including her colourful hot takes on Slazo and how creepy he was. Hyojin would never publicly call out Slazo since at the time, anybody who did was getting rinsed by the internet very quickly. So instead she hid on her discord and talked in DMâs about destroying Slazoâs career so he would never recover and deleting messages that challenged how Chey publicly omitted any evidence that made Slazo look like less of a monster. Shady.
During the internet investigations, it was discovered that Hyojin had an old art Twitter where her fictional character was drawn fucking her friends in several positions. The problem was, several of these friends were underage and despite her defence that none of these friends mindedâŠ. it was still there for public viewing as was still wrong. One instance even had another youtuber by the name of Kavos in one of these pictures even though he was never asked, nor gave his permission. The irony of all this being that much of what Hyojin criticised Slazo for, she was guilty of herself. Creepy.
Hereâs where it gets controversial⊠probably more for me. Dog dropping rumours aside. (trust me, it was stupid)
Hyojin was getting major flak for everything that was found out about her and it seemed to get too much for her, which is understandable. Her response to all of this was a tweet telling everyone she was going to kill herself. The public response actually became something that confused me, because in the blink of an eye everyone retracted their criticisms and gave out well wishes instead. To make the trend even more sympathetic the youtubers involved in writing the Twitlonger started urging people to give her space and lay off on the nasty comments.
I for one, did not care. Heartless of me? Maybe. But it was all backed up by reasoning. Here was a girl ready to throw the life of a person under the bus for being a slightly shitty boyfriend and lying to make it sound worse. Helping to write up a statement that grossly exaggerated things to such a degree that Slazo was the most hated person on the internet and was blasted by everyone left, right and centre. After he proved to everyone he wasnât like that, the attention turned on Chey and the friends that helped her and when their dirty laundry was put out there and they were being criticisedâŠ. now it was unacceptable? Now it was too much?
YOU TRIED TO OUT A GUY FOR BEING A SEX PEST! Shit that will follow him for life. But people calling out racist remarks you made? the underage porn you had drawn? The toxic behaviour you exhibited to anyone who questioned you?
âŠ.yeah that was too much and the line had to be drawn right?
But hey, itâs okay, you can just back to twitter the second the drama blows over and everything is all good now right?
Now this is where I direct it to the people who think that Hyojin is infallible, that she can do no wrong. She messed up bad, real bad. If anything sheâs the true villain behind all of this and itâs shocking the lengths people were going to just to defend her. If every racist, abuser or sex pest threatened their life to be let off, this world would be screwed, but the second a darling Tumblr artist with links to popular youtubers does it, itâs a crime to list the irony that she attempted to cancel a guy with far worse repercussions that would lead to life long damage.
The worst part of all of this was that an apology would have cleared all of this. They knew they were wrong but an apology was impossible for them, so instead itâs made bigger, uglier and dirty laundry is shown. If anything, Iâm happy it got to where it did since it showed the ugly side of Hyojin for everyone to see. So my opinion of Hyojin?
i think the reason i like the alex rider series, despite generally not being a fan of spy novels, is that alex is constantly and explicitly exploited by the government in order to do their dirty work, and he gets no sympathy from blunt or MI6 at all. alex misses huge chunks of his education and has very few friends because of his spy work. his life is in danger even when he's not on a mission because of the sheer amount of people who want him dead. even in the first few chapters of the first book he nearly dies twice, loses his uncle, and is drugged, blackmailed, and is bullied. most of all, alex hates spying and just wants to live an ordinary life with the freedoms and security of an ordinary teenager. it's much more compelling than if horowitz had written alex as a teenage james bond.
in terms of the spider-men/women/pigs, i donât really have a favourite. however, i do have a LEAST favourite, and that is the MCU Peter Parker portrayed by Tom Holland.
The integrity of Spider-Man comes from that fact that he is a working-class hero, fights for the little guy, and his origin story.
and all that was destroyed once the MCU got involved.
why did they not use his origin story? does oscorp exist? harry osborn?? what?? who tf is ned? why does he have powers? why does this movie suck so much? Why are there zero stakes?
-on the âwho tf is nedâ point, to clarify, i know who he is. ned leeds, the abusive husband of betty brant. then they make this OOC Ned date this OOC Betty. Huh?
where did ben go? why is stark here? why does he like stark? why didnât he make his own suit?Â
why is he everything spider-man is not?
the writers obviously noticed the problem, because in nwh, they rapidly back-pedaled to him being poor, making his own suits, and not having a billionaire on speed-dial to bail him out of his problems despite the billionaire still being a manipulative jackass and treating him like shit, while representing everything he stands against.
also, i did NOT like the idea of âmjâ being a collective spider-man gf term and just changing up the name. zendaya couldâve been mary-jane watson. michelle jones just...
i donât even care about the fact sheâs not a comic character - itâs just the fact they made her mj instead? when mary-jane is mj? idk i just didnât like that. there are SO many comic characters he couldâve fallen in love with. it didnât need to be this oc mj. i know people hate sam raimi mj, but she was still cool with sexist writing. comic mary-jane is such a badass. why did they not replicate that? why not ask zendaya to play original mary-jane? âcus sheâs not white? that shit ainât a âhomageâ to the og mj, itâs just awful.
irondad as a concept needs to die already. please. im so done. peter is manipulated and ignored - CONSTANTLY - by Tony. thatâs not acting like a father, itâs acting like a jackass. and he HASÂ parental figure - aunt May. and he had a father figure - uncle Ben. irondad is creepy and reeks of grooming.
plus, they stole a bunch of concepts (for nwh too, but im not specifically talking about that) from miles morales and itsv. they copied the spider-men meeting each other, and copied milesâ personality for mcu peter. and somehow, miles is STILL more likeable. i miss the days when you could scroll through the peter parker tag without seeing tom holland and r*bert d*wney jr.
but also, literally every other spider-man wouldâve been team cap. plus, andrew also said so. theyâre working-class heroes. to argue against that is to be wrong. i donât blame tom!peter for being manipulated and blackmailed. i blame the writers for being assholes, and most importantly, robert downey jr for his 15 million dollar profit off of 8 minutes of mediocre (at best) acting. -(also, saying - heâs such a good actor, heâs tony in real life! - literally makes him a bad actor with no range. someone reviewed dolittle, saying that it was so bad that it seemed like rdj was trying to sabotage his own movie. and i agree.) peter was manipulated and misinformed into being team tony. there is no variation of spider-man that would EVER be team iron-man. unless theyâre fckign crazy.
also, tom holland said that if peter parker could bring anyone back from the dead, it would be tony st*rk. no btich.
also howard stark was really hot i just feel like saying that
tobeyâs and andrewâs are actually ACCURATE spider-men, and the mcu needs to take notes.
this quickly turned into a tony hate post, but he is the root of mcu peterâs main issues, so.
anyways, stan miles morales
a true icon.
Me when I defend Snape so much and remember that Snaters brush me off as just âsome Snape apologistâ even though I actually have so many criticisms of his awful actions, love his deep-rooted flaws and complexities, love to analyse how much his horrible childhood shaped him out to be for the rest of his life and how it turned him into what he hated most (a bully), and usually the only times I defend him are when his haters misconstrue what he did and make up fanon claims about him, not because I canât handle when they say anything bad about a character I love, but because I simply canât handle when people misunderstand his character (for better or for worse):
I just got reminded of the line (referring to Gwen) âshe was my MJâ from No Way Home. as if MJ is a role to fill and not, yâknow, a whole ass person
Marvel âtreat women as more than replaceable love interestsâ challenge: failed
Iâll keep saying this till Iâm here
Had Lily been man- a MALE friend Snape loved and respected so much that his grief over his death has never faded after many years as he made a promise to protect his son, everyone would be âOH that is so amazing, so honorableâ
But because Lily is a woman itâs immediately incel behavior. Itâs immediately thought as vile and disgusting. Because according to these people, who are def not incels themselves, still grieving over your female friend or doing anything for a woman would always be more unreasonable and creepy unless itâs a man
Or let me put it in another perspective, just because your friend immediately means nothing to you after you break it off or after she dies then that doesnât mean itâs the same for Snape. Especially as Lily was the only positive figure he could look up to and identify with in his life.
But according to snaters, Lily is just a pretty housewife that he was pining over and not an extremely intelligent and talented girl who inspired him and who he understood on a deeper level
that "jack manifold is the best ally because he's not afraid of gay people" post hits different after ranboo got cancelled because he mentioned the joke that Fans made about him dressing like a lesbian, and tommy getting cancelled because he said he understands lesbians (because he also likes women you see), and finding out that the "was hitler a lesbian?" joke technoblade has been cancelled for a solid 4 months in a row for was in response to a skull thought to be hitler's turning out to be a woman's, and tubbo getting cancelled for accidentally writing "happy ptide," and techno getting cancelled Again for helping to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the trevor project without apologizing to twitter first and-
maybe cc's would be less afraid of talking about gay people if people didn't act like That
best gennnn
hate him all u want cus heâs cringe, but if u call him a pedo ur just wrong atp đđđ»
yâall what do we think