Book of D: Hassan's Father the Bully

Amir spoke about the "flaws of pride and arrogance" as he told of a story about a magistrate and a villager named Bahlul. The magistrate is bullying the villagers so they will pay their taxes. Amir told how Bahlul tricked the magistrate by using the magistrate's arrogance against him. Little did Amir realize that in telling this story, he mimicked the magistrate's arrogance because of how he has been bullying his middle son, Hassan, into getting married. Hassan is 24 years old and enrolled at the University of Shahrekord to become a teacher. Hassan does not want to get married before obtaining his college degree. Moreover, Hassan prefers a marriage to someone he knows really well rather than an arranged marriage. Especially because in the nomadic culture, consanguineous marriage is still the preferred more. If Amir keeps harping on his son Hassan to hurry up and marry a girl, Amir will become the fool in his own life story. Amir will be the fool that other fathers will tell their children about. The story will still be about "flaws of pride and arrogance," but this time, Amir will be the magistrate who tries to bully his villagers, and Hassan will be Bahlul, only this time, Bahlul won't go home and go to sleep, leaving the magistrate high and dry. Hassan, as Bahlul, will leave the village - never to return. 

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Book of D: The unReality of Lesbian Movies

As I watch Take Me for a Ride (2016, Ecuador), I am sadly reminded why I hated watching lesbian movies as a young adult. My distaste for them was mostly because they always ended badly.

I guess that societal norms and mores stemming from the bullshit zeitgeist was always going to govern how same-sex movies would end. After all, allowing a happy ending for behavior that has pretty much always been deemed taboo and forbidden might be too much for the uptight, perhaps misanthropic, naysayers and dream killers of this world. 

So, maybe not all real-life homosexual relationships survive for lengthy periods of time. Conversely, not all heterosexual relationships last long either. 

My take on the lesbian movies is simple: Let them end with a positive tone. If you're going to make a movie of this nature, let the 'happy ending' be. 

Stop depicting lesbian love as some kind of deathbound relation. A lot of the lesbian relationships that am closely familiar with are lengthy, happy ones.

Don't just write the happy relationship endings for 'straight' people; that's just a damn Hollywood ploy to sell romcoms to the highest, gullible bidder. Don't be that buyer. 

Dear Hollywood - or whatever movie-making entity that might be reading this, please - let my lesbian community be portrayed in a better light in movies. 

Stop portraying us as awkward, skiddish women who are too scared to fight for same-sex love. 

In my real lesbian world, true love is fucking worth fighting for. Movie makers of the world, start showing the world that kind of wonderful, glorious, victorious lesbian love. I'll be waiting!

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