It was good for the culture of excitement and toxic masculinity to work on the portrayal of ken.

This is exactly how they attract the attention they actually want to avoid.

It's just real men just punching without sense or understanding.

As soon as there's a ken doll of Ryan Gosling, I'll buy it!

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Real men are feminists

You don't have to protect your daughters, you have to teach your sons to respect women

Still seeing feminists in 2023 claiming that ‘emasculation isn’t real’ and it’s still baffling me.

How can you look at the lived realities of Asian and Jewish men and think “yeah these men totally aren’t emasculated and viewed as lesser males or less masculine than white men and it’s totally not dehumanising or racist or anything 😌” like. Racism against MOC doesn’t always look like portraying them as aggressive or dangerous, it can also look like viewing certain types of minority men as ‘failed’ men and ‘lacking real manhood’ as a dehumanising tactic. Myths about Jewish men previously portrayed them as having periods and being ‘basically women’. Asian men are fetishised and stripped of their manhood frequently by K-pop stans and people online who don’t realise that masculinity and gender roles look slightly different in non-western cultures.

Also… trans men. Who are FORCEFULLY emasculated and feminised against their will, by genocidal bigoted conservatives, and sometimes even somewhat by other queer people telling them to ‘tone down’ their non-toxic masculinity to avoid making others uncomfortable, making themselves dysphoric and detached from their gender identities to remain palatable.

What about disabled men? Are they not also viewed as failing to achieve proper manhood? Are they not also emasculated and viewed as ‘un-male’ or ‘less male’?

Minority men absolutely can and do experience emasculation. And it’s not ‘toxic’ or misogynistic to bring it up. Feminists who care about POC in particular should not be pretending otherwise.

The worst part about the "mansplainer Gale truthers" is that it comes with a fundamental misunderstanding of what mansplaining is. To mansplain is to have a subconscious bias against women or queer people that makes a (cishet, white) man assume he knows better than someone else without evidence (or despite evidence to the contrary), and as such condescendingly over-explain common or industry-standard information to them. One of the formative essays on the topic, published in 'Men Explain Things To Me' by Rebecca Solnit, is about an anecdote wherein the author introduced herself as a writer to a man who then explained her own essay to her, while bulldozing any attempt by her and a female friend to reveal that she'd in fact written the book that he was pretending to be an expert on. The man listened to her introduce herself as a writer on a particular topic, and had so little respect for her intelligence that he thought he would explain the subject to someone that had just told him she was an expert, while he himself admitted to only ever reading the blurb of her book.

While Gale being condescending is to some degree a matter of interpretation, it is objectively true that he knows more than the player, regardless of class choice. He was an archmage and Mystra's chosen, if the player was anywhere near his level of expertise he would've known about them already, especially if they're a wizard (which is the only magic class that goes through formal educational institutions and could be expected to know the things he lore-dumps about). Beyond that, in most of his lore-dump scenes he is addressing the entire party, the only magic user of which (Shadowheart) is also an amnesiac. It's safe to say his assumption that he knows more about magic/magic history than the rest of you is both valid and accurate.

It isn't mainsplaining when literally one of the top 10 experts in a given field explains something to you, and misusing the term just invalidates people who actually experience and try to call out mansplaining. Mansplaining originated in an uneducated guy believing he had the right to explain a subject to a woman he knew to be an expert. Literally all Gale's done his entire life is study magic, let the man infodump.

I love myself, just because I am me , special person ❤️❤️

more “gay” pages posting complete homophobic garbage claiming bisexual women are lesbians

It always pisses me off when gendies use bisexual supremacy as a way to say that everyone feels attracted to both sexes and that what actual same-sex attraction is just "gender" based attraction.

Like genital preference? Literally only bisexuals have that. Homosexuals have a requirement, not a preference. Lesbians can not like penis. A lesbian is a same sex attracted female. Gay men can not "prefer" vulva because then they are not gay!

"Gender" based attraction? Literally only bisexuals can like feminine women and feminine men only based on their femininity. The only "gender" lesbians can like are the ones who are female, masculine or feminine or androgynous. Does not matter, she just has to be female. There is no "gender based attraction" for homosexuals.

"Vagina fetishest" Literally bashing lesbians for being lesbians. A sexual body part can not be a fetish. A fetish is literally attraction to a nonsexual object or thing. Like a foot fetish, a foot is a nonsexual body part. And they never do this to bisexuals. They never call them genital fetishists.

It does not matter when, or how, or why. If you are not bisexual in some way, you are a bigot.

I just hope they leave us tf alone.

the sequence where cillian murphy gouges out that guy's eyes in 28 days later is one of the hottest things ever put to film and i'm not sorry for saying it

i hope all the terfs looking at my blog rn are able to grab me a beer and maybe make me a sandwich perhaps while they’re at it

characters with their mothers last name is so chefs kiss. whether there was no father in the picture, no legal binding that made his last name theirs, or straight up refusal. special thanks to Elric brothers

The comparison of “feminist” and “good girl” turns me on a lot because if we’re comparing them, most times we are saying “good girl” is much more fun than being a “feminist.”

Feminist sounds like an undesirable thing to be when compared to being a good girl. I get to serve and be useful with my pussy, and that brings me such a sense of pride. That’s why I think giving into being a good girl sets a lot of us free. We don’t wanna admit that we want to be used. But when we finally taste it, we would pick being a good girl over being a feminist everyday.

whenever high profile men are accused of domestic violence nowadays it’s just a nonstop disinformation blitz on social media and gossip blogs and tabloids from his team like literally a nonstop stream of conflicting claims or irrelevant “evidence” that does not meaningfully prove his claims or disprove hers but provides rage bait for men who hate women and their apologists and then also nonstop positive PR for the man no matter how ridiculous it is. look at this video she’s not injured! *security footage from several feet away* *dishonest claims about her injuries that usually involve claiming a higher severity than she or initial police reports ever did* *close up photos of some cat scratch she gave him* *outlandish and irrelevant claim about her so-called bad behavior* *character assassination* *race card if necessary* *irrelevant security footage* *more irrelevant material* *outright lies about the legal process or pending legal action*

and then on the other side it’s literally basically radio silence from the woman and her legal team besides a brief fact check on something procedural from her lawyer.

quite literally the johnny depp playbook but also borrowing a lot from how OJ’s team moved

I did not get my curves a trans lol , I worked hard to get it ❤️🌚

what i think is the reason I'm Just Ken is a good/as popular as it is is because the way it somehow explores both what its like to be a woman and man just through ken.

like the line "I'm just Ken. Anywhere else I'd be a ten." just feels very hitting as a woman in a social media world, especially if you've seen the truerateme subreddits and the ways they judge women.

and of course the fragility and inability to find meaning/self worth outside of a romantic relationship due to the strict boxes placed on men and male relationships (and even friendships between men and women).

theres more and i know im getting annoying with the barbie posts but i did really like the movie, regardless of how "bland" its feminism is. also just all the chronically online feminists complaining about how basic it is, like oh should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party? should we invite andrea dworkin.

like is it perfect? no. does it lack in intersectionality and have poc characters act as the support to white characters? yes. should ken probably of apologized? yeah. but many things can be true about one movie.

Dᴇʙʙɪᴇ Hᴀʀʀʏ (Bʟᴏɴᴅɪᴇ) — Oɴ ᴀ ᴛʀᴀɪɴ (ʟᴀᴛᴇ 1970s)

Oᴜʀ ᴡʜᴏʟᴇ sʏsᴛᴇᴍ ɪs ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴠᴇʀʏ ᴡʀᴏɴɢ 😑

Rᴇᴀʟ ᴍᴇɴ ᴀʀᴇ ғᴇᴍɪɴɪsᴛs, ᴘʜᴜᴄᴋʜᴇᴀᴅᴢ

Rᴇᴀᴅɪɴɢ ɪs sᴇxʏ

Dᴀᴍɴ Gᴇɴᴅᴇʀ Wᴀʀ 👉🏾🫵🏾🖕🏾👈🏽

“Hᴇ ᴄᴀʟʟᴇᴅ ᴍᴇ ᴀ ᴅʏᴋᴇ: I ᴄᴀʟʟᴇᴅ ʜɪᴍ ᴀɴ ᴀᴍʙᴜʟᴀɴᴄᴇ“

Eǫᴜᴀʟ Rɪɢʜᴛs, Eǫᴜᴀʟ Lᴇғᴛs ʙʏ Oᴛᴇᴘ 🎧

We don’t motorboat men enough I think

(one of) the most frustrating parts about the portrayal of drow society is that it wants to create Reverse Sexism without uncoupling itself from some. pretty foundational patriarchal ideas. it ascribes to the (tired, essentialist) notion that men are inherently good at certain things, and women are inherently suited for different things

but rather than the basic subversion of “women are warriors and men are the homemakers” or even early feminist thought experiments like “traditionally ‘women’s priorities’ are given importance over ‘men’s’ (ie things are governed by council, importance is placed on childrearing, etc)”, menzoberranzan is “this society still holds to patriarchal values and women are not as good at these things which is why it’s demonstrably worse”.

the biggest tell is that they have to control the male population to maintain female dominance, the implication being that in a fair fight, men would easily overpower them. it assumes the misogynist ideas as fact that “women are inherently weaker” and also “women are duplicitous” so the drow fighting style is based on stealth and sabotage rather than “”honorable”” face- to-face combat (letting lie also the assumption that the only avenue for ambition is through military violence, and therefore still making it so that they are reliant on men, even as disposable shock troops, for their success).

the only things that keep women in charge are by stacking the numbers on a systematic level, and through sexual domination on the individual level (because clearly the only real power a woman can have over men is her sexuality).

it is a society where “men act like men” but women don’t act like women; it is evil because an act of god created an aberration against the “natural order” of things, and there is no one to tend the hearth (because if the women won’t do it, no one will)