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joan-of-feminism · 2 months

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So today, my mom, brother and I went to Home Depot and every single male worker we came into contact with only addressed or acknowledged my brother (save for one). They were also acting very familiar with him and calling each other bro and dude. On our way out. I made a joke saying “oh, that good old Male Solidarity” and it became a thirty minute lecture about how I’m actually the sexiest one and I “fear monger” about men. Like, I said the most lukewarm thing about how I experience daily sexism and my mom and brother are now refusing to talk to me. Imagine if I said what I truly felt lmao.

#personal rant #men being men #daily sexism #daily misogyny #radblr

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dathen · 8 months

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Okay now that we’ve beaten the point of “the text doesn’t portray Lucy as deserving her death or a whore/madonna dichotomy with Mina” to death, now we can actually address what IS in the text: the vampire as the corrupted woman, a whore/madonna dichotomy contrasting with Lucy when she was alive.

Jack’s narration today is a bit “saying the quiet part out loud” in this regard. We drag him for how many times he says ‘voluptuous,’ but almost as many times he mentions purity in contrast: the blood staining the ‘pure white lawn’ of her burial grown as a vivid example. Over and over her corruption is described as a horrifying sexuality, fascinating and attracting and repulsing the suitors much like Jonathan was fascinated and attracted and repulsed by Dracula or the vampire women.

In the rush to victim-blame Lucy for her own death, critics miss the crux of the symbolism, and leave the xenophobia largely unaddressed. It’s especially clear when looking at Lucy’s plot as a whole: threatened by the dark, exotic and dangerous East, which is temporarily held at bay by Strong Western Blood which is praised for its quality of breeding (😬), and how she is unrecognizably evil and twisted once the corruption takes root.

#dracula daily #re: dracula #lucy westenra #xenophobia cw #misogyny cw

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yallemagne · 1 year

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Mina every time she experiences a negative emotion: “I almost cried, which is quite unnatural for me. I’ve never cried a day in my life. Not even as a baby. That’s how “not like hysterical women” I am.”

Jonathan every time he experiences an emotion: “Woke up today, realized I was still living, and found no reaction more reasonable and appealing than sinking to the floor in loud agony and staying there until someone came to drag me from my wallowing. After that, I went to the post office.”

#so the detail that mina is not a crier? okay #and then she does cry several times #and repeats every time *I swear I'm not hysterical*#bram can you stop overcorrecting your misogyny?#let the woman CRY without SHAME #dracula #dracula daily #mina harker #mina murray #jonathan harker #incorrect dracula quotes #shitpost

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prettyboysdontlookatexplosions · 8 months

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this is so funny…. mina fucking with van helsing (a total stranger) for no reason. just to flex. a merry prankster just like [checks notes] the biblical eve. she just loves surprises! what a little weirdo. i love her.

#i don’t really mind mina’s internalized misogyny bc honestly none of it strikes me as being like #beyond the bounds of what a woman of the time may have written for a female character #not all women. but like…#sometimes the way people discuss stoker as a guy writing female characters #i do get the sense that they… maybe have not encountered a ton of nineteenth century writing before #mina has a lot in common with like. meg march. remember there’s three whole other little women who are not jo.#dracula daily

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lorereadsclassics7 · 2 years

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Van Helsing: Are you sure you'll be able to recall what happened? Women aren't really know for that.

Mina Harker, a queen: Oh yes, I have written it all down. And typed it out as well in case you can't read basic shorthand. Also here's the account and the transcription of Jonathan's experience in Castle Dracula. That I typed overnight. Oh, and all the train schedules you need. Just in case you can't figure it out.

#dracula daily #dracula #mina harker #abraham van helsing #queen shit #I am so glad to see his misogyny be addressed in such a way #yes yes I know that's not the purpose of this part but it's there #and it's lovely

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immediatebreakfast · 8 months

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I'm still thinking about the practical, and total exclusion of Mina from the Dracula Hunting Squad when her and Jonathan practically scrambled, and arranged all of the documents that they are using right now.

The Suitor Squad and Van Helsing were lost, LOST in the matters of how to proceed after Lucy's death. They only had the Bloofer Lady as a clue, but now that Lucy is finally resting they had nothing.

How many hours Mina spent transcribing Jonathan's journals, then making several copies, then sending Jonathan to search for more paper trail, then teaching Seward himself how to operate and compile the information on his phonograph, the search herself for any weird activity on newspapers, THEN putting all of that information together in a clear, and understandable format for all of them to read?

Literally Mina and Jonathan were a team of two managing all of this information by themselves. In the most literary meta possible, it's because of Mina we are reading the novel Dracula right now.

and what happens after Mina said out loud that all of them should never have secrets regarding this situation? Van Helsing, and the Suitor Squad decided, as very Upper Class Victorian Men would, that Mina the Woman comes first and foremost, Mina the Archivist has already completed her job, and she isn't needed anymore. She is now a Woman that all of them admire! She needs to be protected! Her poor maiden heart wouldn't taket his horror! Don't you think so Jonathan? As her Husband you would want to protect her right? So she needs to remain in ignorance!

I know as a modern reader I can't exactly impose my modern lenses on the text, but since many of these sexist attitudes survived up to the 21th century, then I might as well say today that if something hits the fan in the following chapters for this decision, I'm going to clown on VH and Co. because of it.

#Mina was really out there developing carpal tunnel and Van Helsing went ''Thanks for the documents! Bye <3''#She compiled everything! Wrote everything! And after a single speech they just leave her out!#Sexism misogyny and their horrible consequences on society #It's like Van Helsing reitared Mina's safety again and again to convince Jonathan specifically #dracula daily #dracula #mina harker #mina murray

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odinsblog · 2 months

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FYI, there are no good guys here. Ben Shapiro is an Islamophobic, misogynistic, anti-Black racist. And Candace Owens is an antisemitic, Islamophobic, misogynistic, anti-Black racist. They both suck.

#politics #republicans #candace owens #ben shapiro #daily wire #libertarians #islamophobia #antisemitism #racism #misogyny

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phoenixyfriend · 8 months

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Mina: Aw, these poor guys have no idea how much I know. They're so used to keeping secrets and people keeping secrets and don't want to tell me anything. Mina: Anyway, that's stupid and I'm going to tell them everything because that's how we solve this entire mess. [shortly after] The guys: You are so delicate and we are going to keep secrets from you.

#phoenix talks #dracula daily #dracula #re: dracula #plenty of posts on this already but still #also jfc Mina's internalized misogyny is uh. A Lot Right Now #there is so much going on and she is uhhhhhh Victorian-norm Biological Gender Essentialist and it's a little insane given her personality

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adoredmarigold · 2 months

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sigh really starting to get sick of how cruel this fandom can be to addicts

#twdg #like look I get if you dont like/care ab Bonnie or Lingard but calling them shit like j*nkies or waste of space really makes my skin crawl #idk it's just so unnecessary and cruel I hate seeing the lack of sympathy for addicts on a daily basis #not to mention this paired with the misogyny for Bonnie #like I get it if you dont like Bonnie she frustrates me to #but jesus the cruel misogyny and making fun of her for being an addict just makes my stomach churn

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kenshiv · 26 days

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gregory house + the madonna/whore complex

#this has been in my drafts for a month. i just need it gone becaue i think about it daily enough #anyway. can anyone fucking hear me #house md #gregory house #misogyny

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august-undergrounds · 3 months

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boys r so stupid and ugly … not even targeted at anyone i just don’t understand them

#evening out my daily dose of misogyny with misandry #equality or something

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sleepii-moth · 2 months

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really funny how people treat pain like:

"my head hurts" we have headache medicine for that!

"my throat hurts" we have cough drops and cough medicine for that!

"my ear hurts" we have ear drops for that!

"my period is so painful to the point where it's debilitating and i cannot preform simple tasks because the pain is just so bad" erm. its supposed to hurt?? suck it up! go eat chocolate and stop being hormonal lol

#guy about to ape shit: i love the misogyny in the medical industry its very great and does not impact my daily life constantly :)!

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dathen · 1 year

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I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.

Last year I was so distracted by the internalized misogyny that it didn’t strike me now fucking wild it is to say this to MINA. (and I suppose I just didn’t know her yet) The idea of Mina marrying in hopes of a man “saving her from her fears,” and her interest in shy quiet nerdboy Jonathan being just that??

I am picturing Mina just pausing in reading the letter to stare into the camera for a long minute before resuming.

#dracula daily #mina murray #mina has her own internalized misogyny but it’s a different brand

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guzhufuren · 8 days

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i haven't had a girl group's kpop song that i would love in so long 😔 i miss Blackpink so bad it hurts. LISA UNDER THE NEW MANAGEMENT BELOVED WHERE ARE YOU AT COME BACK TO ME

#and it's not about the misogyny #it's about the music that is being written really really not being my thing #im not big on cute songs or painfully electronic pop songs #i need to shake ass to my beloved tracks and blackpink did that sooooo well #or i need the kind of tracks that make you want to have a beach summer party near an ocean yk?#i haven't added anything aang by girls to my asian pop bangers playlist since ITZY released Untouchable #sang by*#and my youtube algorithm works pretty well i check out at least 3 new korean/thai/chinese pop songs daily #mine

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spider-xan · 2 years

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So I know we all love Jonathan, and he obviously loves and respects Mina as an equal, and he's generally a good person, especially given the times, but we should also remember that he's a Victorian man of a certain social standing in a novel contemporary to the times, and adjust our expectations accordingly instead of elevating him onto a pedestal as an idealized exception.

I'm not saying you can't feel frustration or disappointment, and of course we're going to interpret things through our own modern eyes, and no one should like the paternalism, but I think some parts of the fandom took the wife guy thing past memes and ended up projecting an overly idealized image of a progressive modern man with feminist values onto him and the text - and I understand why, but considering he is a Victorian man written by a Victorian man during Victorian times within a Victorian social milieu, it's not surprising, and honestly, it would be far more surprising if he did behave like he was written by a progressive feminist writer today.

Also, this is not a defence of his attitude and behaviour, but putting things into social and textual context, his paternalistic protectiveness towards Mina would, at the time, be considered a genuine kindness and respect towards women from men, so if Jonathan is supposed to be a good man who loves her, it makes sense he was written this way in a contemporary novel. I've also written at length about how paternalistic misogyny is very much tied to race and class, which I won't get into here again, but suffice to say, amidst the misogyny, a white Christian middle-class woman is at least seen as worthy of protection, a consideration not afforded to women with even less privilege.

Likewise, from a character perspective, given his own experiences with Dracula, it's consistent with his character and trauma that while he respects her intelligence, bravery, and skills, he doesn't want her to be directly involved with the danger of confronting Dracula directly, though we see how that ironically works out for both him and Mina, unfortunately.

Finally, while Stoker is obviously a bigot in every way, and it shows throughout the text, it's also important to remember that surprisingly, he and the text do not always agree with the characters' thoughts and actions, and all of these characters - including Jonathan - are meant to be complex and flawed. That's not saying you can't be upset about it, but not every terrible moment by the heroes in the book is meant to be read as a good thing where Stoker is just out of step with his modern audience.

#dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #mina harker #mina murray #this is why people have to be careful about projecting memes onto the text #and projecting modern expectations of modern values onto contemporary characters #especially contemporary characters coming from a privileged background #you should be frustrated but also not surprised #also as a woman of colour #i'm really raising an eyebrow at how his misogyny is really upsetting everyone #but his racism is treated as haha jokes so silly lol #it really raises questions about how this fandom #seems to view racism and anti-semitism #as less serious than discrimination that affects white gentiles #but that is a controversial essay for another day

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immediatebreakfast · 9 months

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One thing that it is noteworthy regarding Mina's words about the New Woman vs her own internalized misogyny is how it was framed between being a "haha aren't all of these ideas silly?" And a "how come this silly ideas can possibly affect my future" moment.

"she will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it, too! There's some consolation in that."

I know that I may be grasping too tight at meanings that do not bear a lot on the context of the narrative. But why does Mina writes with such resentment at the idea of women proposing to men? Why it would be consolation that at least the New Woman would be able to propose to her beloved?

Maybe Mina feels resentment over the boiling point of women's rights, which are something that she doesn't fully understand, so in her mind they don't make sense? We are in the 21st century, and there are still women who see feminism as this weird thing™ which is not that important, but it also has the potential to turn society upside down, while also being there.

Maybe it could be that Mina rejects the ideas of the New Woman because she sees these ideas meddling with her future marriage with Jonathan (if he still is alive) since a core part of this movement was the demonstration of how women could be independent.

But, here is the thing, Mina sees herself as an equal to Jonathan in their marriage. She wishes to rescue him herself, and never implies that this wish could emasculate him. Then why is she poking fun at this possibility?

So, it could be why this rant does not feel like the same dissonant tone of last year despite being the same. Mina is a New Woman archetype, there is no deny in that, but her internalized misogyny doesn't let her realize the puzzle between her actions, and her thoughts.

I think this flaw of Mina really benefits for not having a strong watsonian vs doylist explanation element. Mina means every single word she wrote down in her personal diary, and Bram Stoker wrote her thoughts that fit the type of characterization she has.

And it's a really good flaw too. We may see how this conflict between Mina's innate "do it yourself" personality, and her deep internalized misogyny may clash at some point of the novel.

#More of Mina self inflicted misogyny at 11 folks #On to other topics I can imagine both Mina and Lucy getting to that weird point between awake and asleep that leaves you #With a headache if you aren't going ''zzzzzz'' in a second #dracula daily #dracula #mina murray

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