love when men cry about body hair bc "it's hygiene" and yet 15% of cis men leave the bathroom without washing their hands at all and an additional 35% only just wet their hands without using soap. that is nearly half of all men. that means statistically you have probably shaken hands with or been in direct contact with one of these people.

love when men say that women "only want money" when it turns out that even in equal-earning homes, women are actually adding caregiver burdens and housework from previous years, whereas men have been expanding leisure time and hobbies. in equal-earning households, men spend an average of 3.5 hours extra in leisure time per week, which is 182 hours per year - a little over a week of paid vacation time that the other partner does not receive. kinda sounds like he wants her money.

love that men have decided women are frail and weak and annoying when we scream in surprise but it turns out it's actually women who are more reliable in an emergency because men need to be convinced to actually take action and respond to the threat. like, actually, for-real: men experience such a strong sense of pride about their pre-supposed abilities that it gets them and their families killed. they are so used to dismissing women that it literally kills them.

love it. told my father this and he said there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. a year ago i tried to get him to evacuate the house during a flash flood. he ignored me and got injured. he has told me, laughing, that he never washes his hands. he has said in the last week that women are just happier when we're cooking or cleaning.

maybe i'm overly nostalgic. but it didn't used to feel so fucking bleak. it used to feel like at least a little shameful to consider women to be sheep. it just feels like the earth is round and we are still having conversations about it being flat - except these conversations are about the most obvious forms of patriarchy. like, we know about this stuff. we've known since well before the 50's.

recently andrew tate tried to justify cheating on his partner as being the "male prerogative." i don't know what the prerogative for the rest of us would be. just sitting at home, watching the slow erosion of our humanity.

Tbh I think the Barbie movie handled its theme of existentialism better than the feminism.

Your post about South Park really does hit the nail right on the head for why the hell this show has a fandom that I've never seen anyone acknowledge, at least not on this fucking webbed site. Instead mosts stance is along the lines of "why are you shipping the racist children" which ignores. That they have INCREDIBLY strong characterization, to the point that even side characters personalities are able to be pinpointed with a lot of accuracy, enough for there to be subsets of fans for those guys even. The show is primarily about putting those fucking circle guys in situations and people who like to see them in situations are like. Man. I could totally come up with some situation for these guys to be in. And they don't even have to be weird and centrist about it like the creators. (Not to say plenty of fans don't still land there. If Cartman is included you really have to decide whether you declaw him and either answer gets dicey unless you get him. And some people really don't and it gets. Bad.) It feels a lot more generous seeing someone actually clock the appeal of the show for what it is rather than stopping at Matt and Treys wild ride of very very mixed messages and leaving it at that so thanks

no like literally i only started watching the show as a background noise type of deal after i finished family guy (in my "watching every adult cartoon" type of beat) and then just got. enthralled.

like i genuinely would not recommend the show to anyone who doesn't have the stomach for gross out humor, frustrating political takes, and even satire that often actually is progressive and even straight up anti-discrimination at times but can be packaged distastefully -- especially since i feel like the show can only be truly enjoyed if you watch the entire 26+ seasons and movies and play the games.

but like matt and trey are unfortunately VERY good writers so i totally understand why the show has a legit, functioning fandom with popular headcanons (shoutout to marjorine) and AUs. like oftentimes the fans are also just Putting The Circle Children Into Situations. or they're playing around with the Situations the Circle Children were already put into in the show, like expanding on tweek and craig's canonical relationship via fanart or exploring kenny's canonical trauma of being repeatedly killed and reincarnated as himself.

but yeah happy to provide my input on this when asked! glad you liked my take

i love you azura books i love you luz's nerdiness given prominence throughout the show i love you "luzura" i love you amity and luz bonding over a "cringe" book series i love you lumity azura/hecate cosplay i love you young queer couple cosplaying as a queer couple that really inspired them as kids and helped bring them together i love you beautiful tribute to the power of representation in media as shown via a latina girl adoring and being heavily influenced by a book series starring a latina witch who she can see herself in i love you varied and beautiful discussions of representation in a show with heaps and heaps of just that :')

in the same vein, i love you cosmic frontier i love you chief engineer o'bailey-hunter parallels i love you gus captain avery cosplay i love you gus helping hunter confront his identity as a grimwalker by introducing him to a series with a character he can see himself in i love you star trek deep space nine reference i love you black boy cosplaying as a black space captain i love you camila connecting with luz using her own nerdy childhood obsession i love you power of stories and, again, representation in media i love you the owl house's constant message that representation matters i love you i love you💙💙💙💙

not one of my classmates reposting that tiktok that’s like “why was palestine not talked abt at tne golden globes? because zionists control the entertainment industry and if you’re not a zionist you can’t get ahead” (like not dog whistling it actually literally said that) 💀💀 are we gonna pretend like that’s not insanely antisemitic and also the most common trope of all time (jews control the world and keep everyone else down!!!1!1!1!!”) orrrr 🤡

i've been wanting to make a post for some time contemplating misogyny and sexism in doctor who fandom and how i genuinely think it's worth considering how it can range from aggressive to unconscious, influence readings of the show as well as perceptions of fans in fan spaces, and how the hostile and defensive atmosphere which has seemingly soaked into all of the internet now (and also real life at conventions too honestly) can both raise these issues and dismiss them, decry them and encourage them, but honestly... it all makes me really tired so this'll have to do for now

since today seems to be the day for tswift hot takes MY taylor swift hot take is that i really don’t think celebrities/pop stars need to be politically active or outspoken beyond using their platforms responsibly. it’s great if they choose to, but it is by no means a profession i would expect to have any authority on political issues and the growing demand for this change in the last decade is to me a bit silly because why are we going to actors from CW shows for updates on geopolitics?

that said! when taylor swift decided to release an entire documentary about her decision to use her voice for political change and titled it MISS AMERICANA of all things, she set a different standard for herself that she clearly wasn’t ready to meet. it’s very fair to expect taylor to make posts on issues like black lives matter and the like (i mention blm specifically bc her silence during the 2020 protests was particularly noticeable), when she frames herself as a committed agent of change.

now, i don’t think she’s a malicious person, but she seems to lack a certain self awareness, particularly when it comes to political issues. because i think her decision to tell people to vote blue was — to her — a monumental one. i am sure it felt huge. but when it’s less than what most celebrities do at a bare minimum, to portray that decision as her entry into activism only to remain largely as apolitical as she has been before opened her up to a lot of well-deserved criticism.

and that brings me to my final point in that i think taylor swift, as someone who is politically unsavvy, has trouble understanding issues in ways that don’t affect her directly. in her song about gay rights, you need to calm down, she spends the first half of the song talking about haters coming at her on the internet, and then later compares that to rampant homophobia. tswift is someone who has very clearly faced a lot of misogynistic narratives throughout her career, but even the misogyny tswift experiences is very different than the misogyny ur average white woman in america experiences, and you can tell when she talks about it. her critiques of sexism almost entirely have to do with reputation, media commentary, and slut-shaming. non-famous women experience that, of course, but things like workplace discrimination, sexual harassment culture, the wage gap, etc. are not things she talks about. she notices how she herself is treated, but struggles pivoting that perspective to the average woman.

tldr: i think a lack of self awareness truly makes tswift oblivious to where this criticism about her apolitical behavior is coming from, and that’s why her documentary was, in many ways, a tone deaf, foolish move.

Hey bestie, no need to answer this, but I saw u reblogged something from roach - works, and I just wanna let u know that she's a major terf

oh!!! thank you for this fr. i'm answering this bc i just wanna say that i don't have shinigami eyes and i'm on mobile most of the time, so these pointers are much appreciated <33

More and more i feel like taking a hardline stance that unless there is reasonable evidence a user is a danger to others i will simply block/unfollow/avoid and generally deal with things privately wherever possible is best for everyones safety my own included

That post that's like 'you will see someone with the stupidest take around and then see that they're like 19 and just go 'Oh OKAY' and move on your life' is so TRUE, but I'd like to add an addendum where it also applies to like...people in their early twenties once you hit your thirties

twitter is just a constant slew of horrid shit and then i come on here and everyones chill as hell Whats the deal with t hat

@crimsonxe   They don't ignore it, they just realize the entire thing is difficult thing. Speaking as someone growing up surround by people with let's go with ignorant views due to being a progressive in a red southern state, thus having been put in those types of situations. In Weiss's case it isn't even per se about race, it's about the deaths and harm the WF specifically caused vs. faunus in general. An idea that is furthered by Ice Queendom. Should Weiss have apologized? 

Sure, does it break the story or message that she doesn't? No. Weiss isn't framed as being in the right by any means, which is why not only does 90% of the audience see Weiss in the wrong but also at panels crew have joked about her "I'm a victim" view. 

As for "consequences", people are way too damn easy to jump to those for anything. No, there shouldn't be "consequences" towards her for speaking out w/ ignorant and wrong views. Now if she were out there going after faunus w/ violence being used = for sure. But you don't fix ignorance/bigotry via coming down on someone that's reachable; you do so by giving them a guide out of it. 

Hell v7 circles back around to it to make a note of Weiss's regret over her past views showing it's in her mind. 

The only frame of Blake being wrong is in her running away from the group. It has nothing to do with nor comes across as having to do with being a faunus. I don't think anyone is going to call it the best handling of all time, but the details of why matter.

Realizing it’s a difficult topic and choosing not to speak on it is ignoring it. I fully understand why someone wouldn’t want to speak up, and I’m not saying someone needs to start an argument with their racist Uncle Joe every time he starts running off at the mouth. But when someone is making racist comments to or near people of that race-- well, you know what they say: silence is complicity. And whatever an individual’s reasoning is, that aspect needs to be acknowledged.

Ruby and Yang not speaking up seems to me more like a place of poor writing, than a decided character flaw. If Ruby and Yang’s silence is supposed to be from the discomfort of not knowing how to tackle a complex issue like racism, I think it needs to be acknowledged in some way in the story. I was under the impression that Vale (or Patch, since that’s where Ruby and Yang grew up) was a comparatively more progressive area, so I don’t think they’d have quite as much of an issue speaking up. But I can’t remember where I got that idea from, so maybe it is for them. Which is why the story needs to acknowledge it in some instance, because I’m otherwise left to make assumptions.

And while most of Weiss’ ire is directed at the White Fang, it is 100% about race as well. Someone who’s anger is not racially motivated would not bring up race as much as she does. And her comments are not directed at just the White Fang, the main ones I’m talking about when I call her a racist is her calling Sun a “filthy faunus” (which is just complete racism, there’s no justification for that kind of comment) and saying that he’d eventually join the White Fang. Yeah, she’s saying it because he broke the law, but it’s also a racially motivated and targeted statement. Blake even says as much to her and Weiss ignores that. And then she flat out says she doesn’t particularly trust the Faunus. Not the White Fang, the Faunus.

And that makes sense! She grew up and was indoctrinated in a system that held, benefitted from, and sanctioned these kinds of feelings towards the Faunus-- and that’s not even getting into her own experiences with the Faunus-- and she has had no real reason or opportunity to challenge those feelings. The issue I have is that the conflict that arises from her views also does not challenge them-- at least not in a satisfying way.

When I say that Weiss needs to face consequences for her actions, I mean purely from a standard storytelling perspective, in order to craft a satisfying narrative. Usually a character that is meant to develop has a flaw that directly causes / allows / continues a conflict. The character struggles from that direct conflict, and learns from it because of the struggle they had to endure. I’m not saying someone had to knock Weiss’ teeth out, but at most she is just inconvenienced by a day of searching for her friend. She doesn’t seem to struggle from the conflict at all (at least not in any way that we’re shown), and her development therefore does not feel earned. 

The consequences don’t need to be anything big, either. It could be something as simple as Yang and/or Ruby refusing to speak to Weiss until she apologizes. That’s a momentary consequence directly caused by her own actions that forces her to reflect and then change. Instead she spends some time looking for Blake while commenting the whole time about how wrong Blake is in the situation. What part of that forces Weiss to reflect on her own actions?

Comparatively, Blake’s flaw during this arc is defending the White Fang and running away from her team without discussing the issue with them. Her consequence is that she is proven wrong about the White Fang and gets into a fight with them, without the aid of her team. That’s why she’s able to come to Weiss with a changed perspective, because her old one was directly challenged.

When I say that the narrative frames Weiss positively and Blake negatively, it’s mostly at the conclusion of the conflict. It’s feels like both parties need to learn a lesson and grow as characters from this event, but that’s not how it ends when Weiss doesn’t even acknowledge her own contribution to the conflict (her casual racism) and admonishes Blake for her’s. Blake was in the wrong, but so was Weiss, at least in some way. She may have learned to drop her bigotry later, but it is because the plot demanded it, not because the writing justified it. And most people recognizing that Weiss is in the wrong is in spite of the writing, not because of it.

TLDR; The message with this conflict is too muddled. You’re right, the focus was mainly on the White Fang, but it shouldn’t have been. Weiss’ comments and feelings were racially motivated-- at least partially-- and that’s what sets Blake off in the first place. But that aspect is ignored completely once Blake reveals she was a member of the White Fang. The writers may not have intended for Weiss to be framed, narratively, as the “correct” one in the conflict, but that’s certainly how it felt as a viewer. 

They threw Abe under that bus so hard that he just exploded the second he hit the asphalt.

100% on everything you said.

it’s just like. as a woc and a wlw, i can see how i’m treated differently based on both.

for many queer or gnc people, they can hide their identity to protect themselves. in the workplace this is called “covering” and can happen to a lot of different groups.

but i can’t hide my race/ethnicity. it’s visible from the moment someone looks at me, reads my name, sees my Very Ethnic features, etc.

racism shares certain aspects in common with queerphobia/transphobia (of course). but fundamentally these types of discrimination end up being two different things and trying to speak over one group because you’re part of the other doesn’t make sense.

white queer people trying to speak over poc in the fandom and excusing racism isn’t good and i’ve seen it happen in the rwby fandom WAY too much.

anyways mood below

Well said.

me for the past 2months