Black Cat Cosplay
Zyunka Mukhina Cosplay looks gorgeous cosplaying as Black Cat from Marvel Comics...
October 27 2020Alice in Wonderland Cosplay
Kalinka Fox Cosplay looks stunning cosplaying as Alice in Wonderland in these magical photos shot and edited by
Victoria Milligan... ♥
October 26 2020Fantasy Accents
LOL! Instead of the same old fantasy accent tropes,
djMalenfant has some new ideas...
October 26 2020The Candylorian - Mando Vanellope Cosplay
Malicious Cosplay looks fabulous cosplaying as her Mandalorian version of Vanellope von Schweetz from Wreck-It Ralph, ingeniously dubbed "The Candylorian"...
October 26 2020Disney Princesses After Their Happily Ever After
Disney fan
GoldOxi21 drew this sweet fan art series reimagining Disney princesses and their families after their "Happily Ever After"... ♥
October 26 2020Stockholm Syndrome Is a Misogynistic Lie
Stockholm syndrome is a misogynistic lie that a police psychiatrist told to discredit a woman who was outspoken about her fear and distrust of the police who had repeatedly risked her life.
Nils Bejerot was a police psychiatrist working on a bank robber hostage case. One of the hostages was named Kristin Enmark, a bank employee. Enmark was outspoken about the police botching the case, and specifically named Bejerot in this criticism - he was the hostage negotiator but had refused to speak with her when she requested.
Enmark actively fought for her survival as the police botched the case terribly. Since the negotiator refused to talk with her, she gave a live radio interview from the bank, saying that the police were playing with their lives. When that didn't work she contacted the Prime Minister and asked him to intervene, advocating for the robbers to be allowed to leave with herself and another willing hostage who they would set free once they'd gotten away. She thought this was the safest option available.
The prime minister told her to be content with the idea that she would die at her post. Enmark replied: "I don't want to be a dead hero".
Six days after she had been taken hostage, the police teargassed the vault and got the robbers - parading them up and down the street for the crowd. Enmark was furious, and this time when she interviewed on the radio, she not only criticised the police but specifically named Bejerot.
In response, Bejerot dismissed her comments as the product of a syndrome he invented on the spot: Norrmalmstorg syndrome. (The bank was located in Norrmalmstorg Square in Stockholm, Sweden.)
Bejerot claimed that Enmark's fear of the police was driven by her emotional or sexual attachment to her captors. Bejerot still had not spoken to Enmark, not even once. The media supported this "diagnosis" largely because Enmark didn't fit their misogynistic standards for how women victims should act. She didn't act traumatised enough for their tastes, but was instead "suspiciously" clear and alert and a vocal self-advocate.
Norrmalmstorg syndrome was later renamed to Stockhom syndrome.
In the fifty years since it's invention, most of the diagnoses have been made by the media, and it's been largely used to discredit women victims of violence.
There are only two key behavioral components to this "diagnosis":
*distrust of police or government authorities / failure to cooperate to whatever extent the authorities demand
*a hostage's belief in the humanity of their captor / their perception that their captor is not a threat (or is a lesser threat compared to the police)
That is it.
Enmark accurately assessed the threat to her life as coming from the police and fought back against it, and for that she got labelled crazy.
(the screenshots of book pages below are from "See What You Made Me Do: The Dangers of Domestic Abuse That We Ignore, Explain Away, or Refuse to See" by Jess Hill)
October 25 2020The Mask Cosplay
"SOMEBODY STOP ME!"
Josie Marcellino is doing 31 Halloween costumes this year, one for every day of October! One of our favs is her amazing female version of Stanley from The Mask...
October 25 2020Fashion Styles
GiGi's Lab illustrated a few popular fashion styles in this beautiful series... which one are you?
October 24 2020