#also. just gonna say it. branding cozy horror as ‘horror made for women’ is insidious as fuck
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the more i read about cozy horror the more i understand why people fucking hate the idea of this being considered a “genre”
#like i’m not opposed to the idea of blending a softer vibes with genuine scares#that juxtaposition is really interesting to me and i’d like to incorporate it into my own writing more#but from what i can tell that’s not what defenders of this genre want#they either A) don’t want horror at all (or clearly prefer horror made for children)#(which is fine but that’s already a genre you don’t need to reclassify that shit thank you)#or B) are completely misunderstanding the actual horror of certain movies in order to retroactively fit them into their idea of this genre#which is how we get these horrid ‘feminist’ takes about midsommer or the vvitch#also. just gonna say it. branding cozy horror as ‘horror made for women’ is insidious as fuck#plenty of women enjoy ‘normal’ or more extreme types of horror#and don’t need a ‘softer’ version of the genre#and insinuating otherwise is just straight up misogyny lmao#anyway yeah the criticism is less about the genre itself and more about how this is a canary in the coal mine for the further sanitation of#media especially horror media which is a genre traditionally built on shock value and making you uncomfortable#and the more i read about it the less i want anything to do with the term thanks#marshy speaks
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