I am now regretting the years when I stood with my hand over my heart like an idiot for the national anthem every morning with the rest of the class in grade school. Oh that’s right…teachers threatened us with lunch detention if we didn’t comply to this needlessly overzealous patriotism. As a matter of fact, I actually DID get a lunch detention for not standing up for the national anthem that one time…
What I want people to understand about Disobedience is that “happy ending” is an extremely loaded concept.
What many of you mean when you say you want it to have a happy ending is that you want the religious girl to leave her community and her faith and be “liberated” by the secular world. That’s not a happy ending, anymore than you could call it happy for her to remain in her community and heterosexual marriage and not be with the person she loves.
I want you to stop using this phrase. It is deeply offensive and hurtful to religious Jews and ESPECIALLY to religious LGBT Jews who made the choice to remain that way, because it minimizes the harshness of the choice and also imposes your value system onto theirs by saying that their choice was the bad one, and that they’re to be pitied for making it.
A true “happy ending,” I suppose, would be where everyone get everything they wanted and no one HAD to make these hard choices. But that’s simply not anywhere close to reality for people whose lives this represents, and frankly, to portray this as a fluffy uwu situation would also be pretty awful.
I understand that LGBT people want to see stories where they get to live happily ever after. Those stories are few and far between, and LGBT audiences deserve to have fluffy Hallmark stories like everyone else, but this is not the one. Please respect that this is not a lesbian story, it’s a lesbian /Orthodox Jewish/ story. There are too many non-Jews and secular/liberal Jews who are saying things like this and I need you to understand that it is not up to you to make the determination of what “happy ending” means, and that the message you are sending when you demand one (according to your tastes) is only further alienating an already doubly-marginalized group of people.
The film is literally called disobedience. That is towards a community,a mentality, absolution and demands of the society.
Although I don’t yet know the ending of the story, I seriously find your concern about people’s opinions alarming. Oppressing one’s love and true self is never a good choice, in whatever’s name it may be.
So your solution to a situation like this is to not say she is liberated because the jews get offended? What do you think would happen if we let ideologies rule what we can or cannot say? Do you think a devout Muslim would even let a film like this exist? I can guarantee you if I went down a few streets from where I live and asked a certain (immigrant) community their opinions on such a film, they’d even offer to kill the actors. Because they took offense to it.
Your definition of happy ending is completely and utterly flawed. There is no happy ending to make everybody happy. Even in the simplest children stories there’s an evil character that is left upset at best. That doesn’t stop such endings from being happy, does it?
Moreover, I’m the last person to care about offense or take offense. I don’t care for gay rights, I am a conservative. Let people have their opinions and let breaking free be a positive thing. Nothing is absolute for the sake of an ideology or belief. Certain communities (not only Jewish) have made gay people live almost the life of prisoners. Offense is welcome in such cases.
Rosa Parks proved that sitting down can be a stand-up statement. While history may depict her famous refusal to get up from her bus seat as a spontaneous protest, this incredible woman had activist credentials that stretched well beyond. But, it was her famous 1955 act of civil disobedience that became a watershed event in civil rights activism and forever changed America for the better. It is for this uncompromising spirit in the face of repression that Rosa Parks takes her rightful seat in the Push Girl Hall of Fame.
Tell your friend she’s got a little Rosa Parks in her. Reblog now to give her a little push.
ALERT THIS IS NOT A DRILL IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN WATCHING DISOBEDIENCE ITS NOW ON NETFLIX IN THE US GO GO GOOOO!!!!! :D
Disobedience is a film about Jewish lesbians and its amazing and beautiful and cultural and important!!! The actress playing the main character (Rachel Weisz) is also Jewish herself and the story it’s based off was written by a woman.
Young lady , i trusted you , but it been proven you seem to not keep your hands off other men. So this position maybe you remember next time your hands get itchy, oh the scissors in my hand, I am going to remove all of your clothes and yes cut the material is an example of how you cut my heart. Oh yes my dear then you will feel the session of paddle cane and strapping, you know the drill, only this time it wil be more intense, for I have to show you how you hurt me.
I stayed up late reading on Wednesday. Then, last night, I read while sitting on the couch instead of doing it while exercising, like I should have. When I talked to Reaction Junkie last night, I admitted that I was on the couch instead of the elliptical, and told him about staying up until 1 the previous night. He was displeased. In fact, he was kind of angry.
He told me that as a punishment, I wasn’t allowed to read anymore until he got home, because I was misusing it to stay up late, saying that I was supposed to read for twenty minutes at most. I protested and said in a bratty tone, “I was listening to a podcast while sitting on the couch, too.” Reaction Junkie responded that I wouldn’t be allowed to listen to podcasts either.
I got annoyed and said that the reading was supposed to be to get me to read at least twenty minutes, not to limit me to only twenty minutes. Reaction Junkie started to reply, but I kept interrupting, trying to explain myself and convince him to at least let me listen to podcasts while driving and working. He said no, I had to be in silence and think about what I’d done.
I continued interrupting until he got angry with me. He told me that I’d had my chance to talk, and it was now time for me to listen. He said that I’d wanted him to be more strict, and this was him giving me what I wanted. I started to protest again, saying that I didn’t like it, and trying to explain what I thought was a misunderstanding he’d had about something I said. He replied that I said I didn’t like it, but I kind of did. In the moment, I disagreed. We kept talking for a little while and he said I could listen to podcasts while actively working. Not long after that, the call dropped.
That was an awful showing on my part. I should know better. I shouldn’t have stayed up late. I shouldn’t have sat on the couch to lounge when I should have been exercising. And I especially shouldn’t have talked back or interrupted him. Because of course he was right. Once I had a few minutes to cool down, I saw that he hadn’t really misunderstood me, and that the punishments were fitting. If I’d accepted what he was saying right off, I know that I could have made a request to be allowed to listen to podcasts while driving and at work, and he likely would have been agreeable.
I’ve submitted to Reaction Junkie and I’ve asked him to be more strict with me. If I’m going to ask that of him, which requires more work and effort for him, I need to live up to my side of the bargain. I need to do as I’m told. And if I don’t manage to do that, I need to graciously accept whatever kind of discipline he thinks is warranted. Reaction Junkie owns me, he has power over me, he knows what’s best. And I need to respect that.
I haven’t been feeling very owned lately, so I’ve been disobeying Reaction Junkie more frequently, often forgetting my role and refusing to do what he tells me to, resisting his commands, and complaining about his orders. We’ve both been super busy and stressed preparing for our move this coming Saturday, so hasn’t had any extra time or energy to invest in our d/s dynamic to make me feel owned, and I haven’t had the resources to put in the extra time and energy I’d need to keep myself in line better and remind myself that he owns me. He told me that after we move, he’ll be able to work on the d/s with me more, and I know I’ll be better able to remind myself of my place, especially if he sets up some reoccurring tasks, assignments, and rules.
In the meantime, he did add a couple of things. In addition to having to get on my knees and help him take his shoes off when we get in the door, now every morning I have to crawl and bring him his shoes to put on. Also, on Saturday, while we were packing, he told me that for the rest of the day, I couldn’t just call to him from another room, asking for permission to pee. Instead, I had to come over to him each time so he could test how badly I had to go by pressing on my bladder. I’m going to keep doing that, both at home and while we’re out, even though he said it was for just that day.
Finally, I now have to post at least one picture a day on tumblr. It can’t be the same thing everyday. Some days a body shot, some days a tit pic, some days a cunt picture, some days a close up of a bruise, etc. And underneath the picture, I need to write something that will help me remember that he owns me, that I owe him my obedience, that I’m his to use as he will, that he has control over me, that I should happily do what he tells me, and so on. I think the daily picture will be especially helpful to remind me that I am an owned little feminist bitch.
Anonymous asked: My little girl has the habit of not doing as I say. Any opinions on what I can do to make her obey her daddy?
Have you made it clear that her disobedience displeases you? If so, understand why she’s disobeying you. Some girls are brats, and if you fail to act on their disobedience, will consider it as a sign that they can keep getting away with being brats. Some girls are just lazy. And if you don’t motivate their butt they’ll keep letting it get fatter and fatter.
Some girls don’t find much pleasure in obeying. While still submissive, some girls don’t find freedom in orders.
Find out why she doesn’t obey you, and if the reasons don’t work for you, if this disobedience doesn’t work for you (it never would for me), make it known. Being a brat can be ignored to cure it, being lazy can be punished to cure it, but if she doesn’t want to obey you for that last reason, you have a problem.
