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selkie-on-land · 2 days

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In season 1 of Justice League, there is an episode called "Fury". This could have been a great episode, if the subject matter wasn't just so misogynistic.

In this episode, Aresia, an Amazon, creates a virus that only affects men. In doing so, it highlights all the incredible women who does the same job and better as them but who are invisible because they are women.

Obviously they make Aresia, crazy, hysterical, the super villain of the episode to be destroyed at all costs.

''mope, mope, a woman is a misandrist so she will destroy the entire humanity'' when in all the galaxies (on absolutely all the planets in all the episodes) the problem is indeed the behavior of men and males and that the only societies that function are those of women exclusively. It was cool to have Amazons, until I realized that they only serve to demonize and dehumanize women who obviously have the nerve to recognize the patriarchy. And it wasn't even the entire humanity, just men.

Usually, we have Wonder Woman (Diana) who warns women against men, protects them when they engage in sexual harassment, street harassment, coercion, manipulation, etc. She's also a critical of make up, marital life, marriage, having relationships with men etc. An icon. And there, the whole moral of the story of the episode is to say ''not all men''.

This is really the moral of the story, because the plot's end of the episode is the Queen of the Amazons (Hyppolyta) who tells Aresia that ONE day in ALL the history of humanity, ONE man saved her. He saved her from violent men, who transformed women into sex slaves, before that, she was already a survivor of the war of men who had genocided her villages, some rapes against women too, etc. JUST MEN KILLING AND MASS RAPING.

But since ONLY ONE, ONE DAY, apparently did just ONE good deed, which let's face it, is NORMAL behavior!!!

Not good, not bad, NORMAL. The bare minimum.

This makes him the hero and her the villain.

The Amazons live among women, no man is allowed to set foot on the land of Themyscira, by law. They have observed men from afar, sometimes forced up close, they are feminist and realistic when it comes to the situation of the evolution of our planet and the place of men and patriarchy in the responsibility for these developments.

Knowing this, and worse, saying it openly to other women, protecting them from men, makes them BAD. But not in the sense of not nice but inhumane, horrible and VILE.

This is one of the rare episodes we get to see other Amazons who are BADASS WARRIORS GODDESSES but it turned them into sick unrealistic villains.

When they are the most realistic on the entire show. They are marking FACTS.

I am so proud of them but I HATE with all my heart how they did them dirty for daring to say the truth about men.

AND Aresia is fully clothed, not hanging around, saving the world from men in a underwear but clothed, less sexualised then Diana.

Aresia can wear flat shoes, a full clothes costume but she's the villain.

While Diana is in underwear and heels.

I also noticed that she has 2 allied, one with a full practical clothes, and another one in underwear too. One with short hair and the other with long hair.

Guess who betrayed her for men and her not all men speech? And who stayed with her?

I don't remember if the betrayal of Star Sapphire (in the middle) was part of Aresia's plans tho but that's not my point.

Anyway HAIL ARESIA 👑 !! 🛐

Long live Aresia in our hearts!

May her wisdom guides us in this man's world!

She showed us the ways. 🛐

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taylors-fourth-cat-meow · 1 year

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OKAY IMAGINE THIS PLOT FOR A BOOK

There are two sisters. The younger sister whose sweet, kind, lovely, well mannered and beloved. Everyone wants her. Everyone wants to spend time with her. Then there's the older sister who isn't afraid to speak her thoughts and isn't "traditionally" well mannered like the good sister

So the bad older sister who was going to end up alone is shacked to this man by her family who pulls crazy tricks in order to "tame her" i.e. rob her of her true nature and destroy everything that makes her who she is. One second he is her prince charming the next he says hurtful words to mess with her mind.

Use of mental manipulation, isolation, and physical punishment is used to tame this shrew so that she becomes obedient.

The story ends with the shrew turning into a socially acceptable young lady by changing everything about herself and resembling someone else entirely. The family loves her now that she is "tamed" and basically is ready to start a family of her own with her loving husband who she considers superior to herself like a good woman shud.

Now I basically described Taming Of The Shrew. By William Shakespeare. But it's also literally. A Court of Silver Flames by Sjm. 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Acosf is basically a rip-off of Taming of the Shrew with bad smut and falsely marketed healing journey.

#healing #and the fact that this is a feminist story #of #lmaoooo #pro nesta #nesta acheron #nesta acotar #anti acosf #anti sjm #anti acotar #anti cassian #nesta deserves better

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fromtheseventhhell · 6 months

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Imagine being 9 years old and asking your dad about the things you're interested in doing when you grow up and he's like "No ❤️! But you can get married, have babies, and then maybe your sons can do those things ☺️🫶 "

#arya stark #one of those /wtf Ned/ moments #then people act like she invented misogyny cause she was like /uuuhhhhh no thanks that's not me/#/Arya is masculine/ and she's literally just a child who has interests outside of her patriarchy-assigned role #the way people read this and then demonize Arya for not silently conforming like people expect her to...#that's the ingrained misogyny from being socialized in a patriarchal society speaking babes 😭#cannot stress enough how Arya is just an average little girl and what makes her behavior stand out is their society's strict gender norms #her life + learning almost entirely revolves around the fact that she is being raised to be a wife and people resent her for wanting more :#she is NINE in AGoT and her parents are discussing her refinement because /In a few years she will be of an age to marry/#the way misogyny is explored in Arya's story is actually so brilliant and well-written (+ underappreciated) though #we feel the full weight of how restrictive their society is through her POV and get the experiences of lower-class women too #which is why it's so significant that George wrote her based on feminists who realized they wanted more than becoming wives/housewives #she's one of his key characters who will /change the world/ but people think he's sticking her on a boat bc she isn't feminine enough 😭#thank god he's writing the books and not any of these reductive hacks who thinks misogyny is subversive 🙏🏾#sidenote: would've loved to see this from her POV to get her feelings when he said this cause I'm sure it doesn't match Ned's perception #considering he views her main issues as being stubborn/difficult while we know about the self-esteem issues she has

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lagosbratzdoll · 2 months

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This is a very very unfinished thought but I've been thinking a lot as I reread the books about how the women of House of the Dragon don't really get catharsis and how that'll likely be worse in S2. Say what you want about asoiaf but a number of named women there experience catharsis.

They kill their abusers (Lysa, Cersei, Dany). They regain some agency after a violation (Lysa, Cersei, Lady Stoneheart, Dany), and they refuse to forgive the people complicit in their subjugation (Lysa, Cersei, Dany, Lady Stoneheart, Jeyne Westerling).

Obviously, three or four isn't enough in such an expansive cast of characters but the point remains that they claw back their autonomy however they have to. They're allowed to be angry, bitter, unforgiving and cruel to their abusers in a way women in House of the Dragon just aren't allowed. They're allowed grief, grief that is violent and destructive.

The women of House of the Dragon don't get angry. They stand around and stare plaintively at the camera, they cry prettily, and they plead for peace and non-violence. They suffer and suffer and suffer and there's no relief.

#although dany doesn't really set out to kill her abuser #in fact she doesn't really think of him as her abuser #but the fact remains that her story begins with his death #she gains her dragons and agency through his death #lysa murdering jon arryn #lysa not going to riverrun when hoster is on his deathbed despite cat's letters #she denies him relief for his crimes against her and it's one of my favourite moments in asoiaf #cersei killing robert #cersei eating robert's children taking back reproductive autonomy from the man that hurt her #lady stoneheart turning her grief and pain onto the riverlands #she hangs freys boltons and lannisters uncaringly #it's a failing of the storytelling because this is supposed to be the feminist retelling of the dance #but instead the misogyny that leads up to the dance has been defanged.#the point of the show has been obscured behind endless arguments of the supposed illegitimacy of rhaenyra's first three children #the women fighting for power have been replaced by evil men perched on their shoulders telling them to do bad things #they're helpless victims carried along by the stream of inevitability #or something idk #also i am not including alicent trying to take luke's eye and injuring rhaenyra as cathartic because they are not the cause of her sufferin #house of the dragon #not asoiaf thoughts #daenerys targaryen #lysa arryn #cersei lannister #lady stoneheart #alicent hightower #rhaenyra targaryen #helaena targaryen #rhaenys targaryen

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fitzrove · 1 month

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Started watching a "problem with greek myth retellings" video and it began with a blurb montage like "Condemned by the misogynist guys of history, this is the true girlboss feminist story of [A WOMAN]" and like. brb writing one of those about crown prince rudolf. It's ok he's like a misunderstood girlboss to me<3

#NASJASKSDFKDSLFDGJDFJ #joking. since those retellings seem to be often bad #fun fact i do have ideas for like a black teen comedy series with mary as the protagonist where the ending is like a harrowing twist #like you think it won't go that far but it does and the point is that she had historical agency and her own problems and personal journey #but in the end it spiralled catastrophically due to both crown prince rudolf related events and others #unfortunately writing one would draw the ire of both misogynist rudolf conspiracy theorists (how dare you suggest women have agency) AND a #certain type of feminist media critiquer person: (1) how dare you cover a topic like that flippantly 2) how dare you make rudolf anything #but an inhuman monster of a r*pist murderer gr**mer or whatever in the story #like idk man.. other male characters portrayed as romantic interests in mainstream media are toxic r*pists all the time. like omg i hate ho #'the great' handles p*ter and catherine because i was rooting for them to remain toxic and for catherine to kill him or whatever but then #she starts falling in love with him in s2 and everyone in tumblr is like omg hot sexy toxic romance. like cant we have ONE series where #straight romance doesnt inevitably become the overbearing focus?? i had wlw ships for that show.. they never pulled through...#anyway um yeah. the way i would portray rudolf in that is that mary sees him as this romantic hero which is emphasised in the way its shot #but he's constantly acting in kinda offputting and strange ways and is occasionally pretty pathetic and weird ASHDJFJF #^^ that's never been a deterrent to anyone ever. most rudolf biographers want to [redacted] him this has been proven by the way they write.#the only ones that dont are me (well not a real biographer but a rudolf enjoyer nonetheless) and brigitte hamann /hj #(she actually doesnt salivate over his appearance like frederick morton does xD only quotes 2 contemporary women commenting on it)

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aroacehanzawa · 1 year

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WHAT R UR THOUGHTS ON BUDDY DADDIES EPISODE 8 🙏

I THINK IT WAS OUTSTANDING

First off, from the very first scene with Miri asking Rei where he's going and then saying but his home is here, and he says "THAT'S TRUE". AS TRUE AS HOW MUCH I CRIED UPON HEARING THAT

I think this episode was a great continuation from last episode's Kazuki-focused perspective, where Kazuki accepted to move on and essentially to live in the present from now on, the present that includes Miri and Rei. And now we got to follow Rei trying to find his place and accepting that his heart belongs with the little Kazuki & Miri family that he has little by little become more a part of than he realises.

I think the episode did a great job portraying how conflicted Rei is as he stands in-between having to continue his family business and having found a new home, which he might not necessarily feel like he belongs to (yet), but which he wants to belong to. And it's the way he did not outright say this, but what he does say is that there is something he also wants to protect, in direct parallel to his former mentor who was fighting to protect his significant other!!!

I also love how Rei's journey in this episode didn't end on some super optimistic final note (which last episode kind of did with Kazuki, the sun breaking out when he comes to his realisation and the colourful flowers and everything) but rather showing how Rei has simply taken the first small steps towards the future he wants, and sometimes that's enough.

Like, he's brooding and contemplating his identity and place in the world when Kazuki calls and he just lets it ring, but he picks it up in the end. Kazuki comes and he doesn't want to get in the car, but he does. We get to see their first meetings and how Kazuki took care of him, and even back then it was just a small step Rei took - he let Kazuki help. Rei asks if they can really change, and Kazuki doesn't know - but he took the step to ask, and Kazuki answered honestly. And that's already a change, this decision of theirs to step by step try to do the right thing so that they can live their lives the way they want, together with Miri. And in this episode it culminated in Rei smiling at sleepy Miri and the birthday table prepared by Kazuki, and that's enough for now.

Idk idk just think this series does such a wonderful job in showing the character's personal journeys and the difficulties of not just their jobs and lifestyles but also, very obviously, of two men raising a child together, and it does this in such a magnificent way with the perfect balance between optimistic and realistic. This episode was just another part of the wonderful whole, and it stands out so well on its own while still being such an important turning point in our main characters' story as a whole!

Also that ending scene?????? i won't survive the angst of the next episodes

#SORRY I STARTED RAMBLING there's not a single coherent sentence in there i'm afraid #you asked for my thoughts so those are my pure unfiltered thoughts #ANYWAY IF YOU AREN'T WATCHING BUDDY DADDIES. IT IS NOT TOO LATE #another thing - the photo of kazuki and miri in the supermarket was such a straight forward parallel to the photo of rei's former mentor #and his fiancee? wife? i forget #i've seen some criticism about how the show has very clearly put kazuki in the 'mother/housewife' role but #here i have to echo what some others had said - that there is still nothing heteronormative about the story of two single men raising a #child together. like you can say all you want about how kazuki does the cooking and the cleaning #but the very fact that they are NOT actually a man and woman living together already separates them from the context of a power imbalance #that would exist between a similar but heterosexual relation specifically because of patriarchy #like the unfair division of labour between husband and wife is one that is specifically rooted in sexism throughout history #whereas in this case it merely PARALLELS the typical parental roles without actually having this inherent power imbalance #i'm not well read enough on feminist theory to say anything more on the subject but you get what i mean?#and i think last episode already did a great job showing that kazuki DOES find it unfair that rei doesn't contribute enough at home #i think that was good commentary that applies to any household and family in general and not just the heterosexual nuclear family #i just don't think it's right to say that this series is being heteronormative #that's all folks #buddy daddies

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falled-over · 24 days

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devastating: the feminist essay didnt actually watch the movie

#read 2 essays abt paris texas because i was trying to understand the argument against it #post answers any questions u may have abt the essays #its not a feminist film no but it is in fact far from misogynistic. huzzah #the main problem is people watch it and go 'what the fuck this man is so shitty why are we supposed to agree with him' when the movie tells #you many times that you are not supposed to agree with him #also both of them said we are 'manipulated into empathising with him' which is how all stories work #you are told how to feel about a character through contexts theyre shown in. this is how you tell a story #and if its a good story they dont point at it and say 'this one was bad' they let you decipher that for urself #spoilers (u should watch it its a Great movie) but ur not supposed to think hunter going back to mum is good. they tell you this twice #explicitly through the women of the film. (the french lady so afraid of losing him and loves him so much. and the og mum finally able to #move on from the horrific life experiences she had from aged 17-18 told through her monologue. like come on. watch the movie)

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farosdaughter · 3 months

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Giving Pygmalion a romantic ending was one of the bravest things Leslie Howard ever did

#i will in fact die on this hill #pygmalion #thank you for your service leslie!!!#he really said these two idiots are IN LOVE and i’m going to fix shaw’s pseudo feminist ~ending #loewe and lerner would never have come with anything even remotely as powerful #(they lowkey made it sound boring but that’s another story)#it’s not overtly sentimental. doesn’t require either of them to make big gestures. leaves you wishing the movie was 5 hours long???#literal 👩‍🍳 💋#henry x eliza

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yellowocaballero · 2 years

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i saw disney brand she hulk shampoo at walwart last week and my first thought after ugh capitalism was haha nice mens rea reference

I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT

I had completely forgotten that the She-Hulk show was coming out at all, mostly in self-defense, and when the trailer came out just as I was starting to post the story I was big :O. This does somewhat ruin the joke of having an obscure character like She-Hulk partnering up with the obscure character Moon Knight, since with Disney+ shows they are very much no longer obscure, but maybe it still works because it looks bad. And it's double hilarious that my jokes about She-Hulk's beauty line leaked into irl lmfao.

Although I do have to say - although it is TREMENDOUSLY WEAK and VERY COWARDLY and OBJECTIVELY DUMB how skinny they made her look, I disagree with people saying that she should just look like the Hulk with a ponytail. That's really not the point of She-Hulk. It's important that She-Hulk is very, very conventionally attractive. That she is tall and buff, yeah, but wears all the slinkiest dresses and the highest heels and is constantly having casual sex and sips martinis with the girls. I talked about this in the fic, but if the Hulk is all about Bruce's hidden undesirable authentic self, then She-Hulk is all about Jen's publicly desirable inauthentic self. The Hulk is who Bruce really is - angry and childish - while She-Hulk is who Jen wishes she could be. She's wish fulfillment for Jen, which means that she is hot and confident and a sex goddess and everything. Up for debate about how interesting this is, but it's very much the character.

I feel like Disney+ is gonna give some kind of "be yourself!" moral to this story, but the She-Hulk story deeply does not lend itself to a "be yourself!" moral. That is never the point and that's never the stage she reaches. It's more like she's always running from something, and she keeps on filling up that emptiness with superheroism and Law and Order and Avengerness. In the comics she did eventually learn that although She-Hulk does have a lot of really amazing value to her, Jen Walters can have value too. It's not that She-Hulk is bad, it's just that she's not all there is to Jen. Fun!! Cool Mens Rea reference!!

#my writing #sorry I only bring this up because the entire tumblr tag was like this and i agreed but also i didn't #YES the fact that the guy hulk is monstrous while the girl hulk is sexy is dumb #and it was probably constructed in a dumb and uninteresting way #but byrne and slott and others made something super interesting out of it #and struggling with those self-image and self-esteem issues that a lot of women face #i think is more feminist and interesting then saying that a woman's story should be identical to a man's

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womenstruation · 8 months

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There are many occasions I can remember in my early childhood of not wanting to be Black.

I was four or five, in nursery school. We were being taught to describe ourselves, “you should say whether you’re fair or dark in complexion” the teacher would say. I recognised those words from my story books. Fair was what princess were, dark was what the witches were. I was fair.

My teacher and I would argue over it. She would insist I put down dark, I wouldn’t. I knew I was meant to be fair.

On another occasion, a friend of my mums got a new camera from America. Us children excitedly went to his house to see it. It was silver and sleek and had something I’d never seen before- filters.

You could be purple or black and white or have glasses or hats you weren’t really wearing. You could also be white.

When I saw my pale face in the small screen. I smiled. I was elated. I spoke in the voice I’d heard from Disney and stared for hours at my proper self. I cried when we had to go home that day.

On another occasion, my parents were debating moving to Europe. I must have been around 5 or 6. I begged to go. Going to Europe also meant getting braids. I wanted those tiny ones that you never plaited all the way. In Blonde. Long and straight. In Europe, without the horrid sun, I was sure I would turn white. We didn’t go. I stayed Black.

At ten, for my big double digits, I could finally get a sew in. The hair was straight and long, down to my belly button. When I went to school the next day, everyone said I looked like an American. I cried when I had to take it out.

Eventually I grew older. I knew I was stuck in this Black body. But I could change it. We were ten in secondary school and I made a friend. She told me about this soap and cream. She used to be like me she said but now she was white. I knew I couldn’t ask my parents for this soap so she agreed to sneak me some. Ultimately, I was too scared and so I said no.

When I was eleven, I got my first phone. I delved into the world of social media instantly and learnt of a world outside my own. Even with everything I could try, I couldn’t be white I’d tell myself but maybe I could get close enough. I would scroll through instagram and YouTube and pick women and try my best to act like them, if I couldn’t look like them. I used to go on wikihow and learn how to do their accents.

At thirteen, I discovered social justice. I was thrust into a world of anti racism, of feminism, of gay rights, of trans rights activism. I heard stories of little boys who always wanted to be fairies and little girls who hated having long hair. It felt familiar. I read and read and watched and watched and stopped. I wasn’t happy but I could be.

At fourteen, I stopped relaxing my hair. At fifteen, I joined the Afro-Caribbean society. At sixteen, I called myself pro-Black. At eighteen, I stopped going by my western name. At nineteen, I remembered the five year old me. I read stories and listened to TikToks and scrolled through Twitter and kept seeing her. I wondered how her life would have turned out if she had been allowed to keep being unwell. I cried.

At twenty one, I am proud to be a Black woman.

#radical feminist #feminism #racism #why is transracialism so different #if racial dsyphoria was a thing I know I would have been diagnosed with it #when I was a teenager I read so many memoirs of trans women #I felt scared that I would grow up to be transphobic as that was the worst sin according to the internet people o spoke too #everytime I would relate their stories to how I had been when I was younger #I thought several times about buying bleaching creams and soaps #I relaxed my hair every two weeks without fail and I would beg my mum to straighten it on every important picture #sometimes I cry over the fact that there is no picture of younger me with my natural hair #and yet anytime I try to mention how similar transgenderism is to this people revolt

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box-dwelling · 8 months

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So the YA dystopia I started writing at 13 has a lot of problems that need rewrites if I ever choose to do anything with it but the literal dumbest one is that I had this uniquely British lib brain rot at the time that guns are bad and should never be used. Weapons were fine but these bitches were fighting for their lives and were using swords despite having just as easy access to modern artillery. It wasn't an issue with violence or taking lives it was just guns because "Americans use guns and mass shootings happen" as though that is in any way applicable to the scenario it was discussing. Yes common sense gun reform is an important legislative issue in the states but bestie facing off against genocidal super soilders is not the time to die on that hill. There was absolutely no issue discussed with the ethics of stabbing and neck snapping hordes of faceless villains just as long as they weren't shot by a pistol.

#there are genuinely ideas i still find interesting in that story but god it needs so much work to not be the most cringe BuzzFeed feminist #thing ive ever seen. i literally came up with an idea for an anarchist commune from first principles but then made the main character a cop #and had her make her right hand man be a tory dickweed to reach across the aisle #which was especially stupid given the fact that the whole thing was that these were kids being sent to die so maybe the rich pretty boy #would not have been included in that #i was so fucking cocky about how i had all that figured out but jesus christ its needs an adult eye and some systemic critque #ya idiot read the first 2 chapers of 1984 understood none of it and was like. yes. i understand fascism now #so cringe

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fromtheseventhhell · 1 year

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Daenerys and Arya knowing they're the main ASOIAF girlies that have everyone from dudebros to (fake) feminists feeling threatened because of their importance

#daenerys targaryen #arya stark #pro daenerys targaryen #pro arya stark #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #are you really a main bitch if you don't have everyone in fandom mad? including so-called feminists who support female characters?#and furiously rewriting the story to erase your importance because you're a threat to peoples favorite characters?#the fact that this has just been sitting in my drafts lol

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fromtheboundlesssea · 2 years

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From what I’m hearing about this week’s episode, I’m starting to wish that this show was called Becoming Mary so that at least we didn’t have to see or hear about anything Thomas was doing and it could be more ambiguous.

#yes #I know that this doesn’t make Elizabeth #any less of a victim #but the fact that they are doing this #when there’s so much evidence of it not happening #but also evidence of how uncomfortable she was with him #makes me very annoyed #this doesn’t feel like they are trying to tell a new story #but rehash old things that detractors said about Elizabeth #making this things true isn’t taking rumors and turning them feminist #it just makes her detractors right #I know this is a fictional portrayal #but making an abuse victim’s time with their abuser sexy is not a good look #becoming elizabeth

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bitchthefuck1 · 2 years

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yikes... you worshiping male characters regardless of what they do while criticizing jen walters for the few bad aspects of her show that can be attributed to the writers and not her... your blog says everything about why you make it a point to hate watch she-hulk every week and it's incredibly disappointing. i'm not some mcu fan who loves everything they put out, but man, it's tiring seeing people criticize media like she-hulk in bad faith waaaay more than mediocre white male media. oh well :/

This is... actually really funny because you don't always get anon hate that tells on itself so much.

I've been very clear and consistent about specifying that I don't dislike Jen Walters and in fact really like how she's portrayed by Tatiana Maslany. Her performance is the only really worthwhile thing the show has to offer, and it's why I find it so frustrating that they don't really do anything interesting with her. Every post I've made has been about the writing or specific narrative choices or the CGI or something to that effect.

As for me "worshipping male characters", whomst??? I'm not even really sure who this is about, as there's not a single male character I've posted about uncritically on here. Best guess is that this is about Matt Murdock, which like... I drag him constantly for being a shitty person and a crappy friend. I think his narrative arc is incredibly compelling and the Netflix series was really good, but I hope I don't need to explain to you that there's a difference between finding a character's narrative compelling and liking them as a person/co-signing their behavior, especially when you also criticize that behavior.

I think a lot of the criticism for she hulk has been bad faith dude bros whining because a woman was in a marvel thing, and that's dumb bullshit, but you can't lump all criticism in the same boat. My problem with she hulk, which is my problem with a lot of marvel's stories centered around women, is that they market them as though they're some groundbreaking feminist storytelling and then do very little to actually develop the story or characters well and coast on mediocrity that's only made passable by the talented women they cast. It's a huge disservice to the characters and to anyone who actually gives a shit about them. I'm not going to applaud them for crumbs, and if you're going to sell your work on it's "feminist storytelling" then you sure as shit better deliver more than a shallow girl power narrative. It's 2022.

#bestie idk whose blog youve been on but it sure as shit isnt mine #oh well :/#genuinely dont know who the white men ive been worshipping are every possibility gets funnier than the last #if its one of the house of the dragon dudes that would be so funny I'm literally only here for R and A's interpersonal drama #like i do think there's a lot to be said about how media made by and aimed at women/poc/lgbtq folks/etc is often given much more scrutiny #to 'do it right' and you should be allowed to tell a story like that and be mediocre without people acting like you're 'failing the #movement' or whatever but if you're going to use the fact that this story is feminist as a selling point you cant then turn around and get #mad when people judge it through that lens. its comes off as a little disingenuous for a giant media corporation with a shitty track record #for female representation to be like 'this is groundbreaking' and then make their big green monster a barbie.#disney doesn't actually care about women babe. they just want more consumers to buy their shit and if that means putting out a low effort #'superheroes: for her' show they'll do it and collect the check #if im being charitable id say this is a misunderstanding based on the fact that she hulk is both her name and the shows name so like. its #possible that this person misread a post about the show as being about jen which like. i feel like ita pretty obvious from context that #thats not what im saying

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holishkes · 1 year

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I am, once again, losing my entire mind over the simple fact of Our Man Bashir's existence

#our man bashir #here's a long story for the tags #i learned a lot about myself in one tiny interaction with a colleague years ago #we were talking about feminism and she was like oh i'm such a feminist when i went on my first date with my husband he told me #he liked james bond and i gave him an earful about how misogynistic it is and how much i hate those movies #and i was like oh #huh #that's certainly a take #and then I realised that is in fact a very common take and i was just bumbling through life believing everyone else thought they were #exceptionally gay movies #that make a mockery of normative/restrictive ideas of masculinity and heterosexuality #aaaanyway #our man bashir is the bond movie that all bond movie are in my head #is my point #i know i'm not the only person who thinks this about bond i just didn't realise people were ever taking the heterosexuality of it seriously

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emoyuuta · 2 years

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"feminist retelling of a myth/historical figure" i am gonna hit you on the head with a hammer

#a good feminist retelling of a know story happens once in a million. you are definitely not that case #and you probably don't know anything about feminism mythology analyses or historical facts

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