#*white cis straight woman

[jakeperalta]

the taylor swift ai porn issue is such a bleak reminder of how inescapable the horrors of misogyny are. like obviously there's the talk of sort of "celebrity problems" like treatment by the tabloids etc, but beyond that there's just the constant heinous shit that women seemingly cannot escape no matter what. it doesn't matter that she (as well as other female celebrities) is extremely rich and famous and successful and has basically as much privilege and power as it is possible for any person to have, ultimately that's still not enough to escape the revenge porn and sexual assault and stalking and harassment. like there is literally no level of power a woman can have that puts her out of reach of all the men who hate women and want to control and humiliate and subjugate us in any way they can.

[obi-wann-cannoli]

One thing I haven’t seen much discussion about in Kevin Can F**k Himself is the moment in season 2, episode 7 where the sitcom framing stays after Kevin leaves the room. When it’s just Allison and the affidavit that can ruin Tammy’s life.

The moment when Allison realizes just how easy it is to become a Kevin. To dismiss the consequences of your actions, to put your own needs and opinions above everybody else’s even to the point of destroying somebody’s career.

Because the thing is, Kevin’s not some mastermind trying to get any sort of powerful career or run a crime network. He’s just a regular man. A man who wants to feel above others, believes himself not beholden to anybody’s feelings but his own. Anybody can be a Kevin.

We know the rest of the cast has their flaws. Have their moments of selfishness. But the difference for the majority of them is that they consider the impact they have on others and make efforts to fix their mistakes or alleviate the consequences for others. Kevin never does.

So back to s2 ep7 - it’s Allison being confronted with that same choice that Kevin has. Kevin actively chooses not to care about anybody’s feelings. Allison wavers - it’s tempting to put her needs first, to benefit from Kevin’s behavior that has so long hurt her - and you don’t know if she’ll choose to stay in the sitcom. I think there’s a version of the story where she does choose to stay, and that moment is just long enough for both the character and the audience to consider what that would mean.

[monsterfuckermilligan]

i am not anti sam but i sometimes find myself hating sam because some samgirls are super into bio/gender essentialism whether or not they realize it. sam is a woman and dean is a man and sam is the victim and dean is his abuser like what show are you watching?

[musical-chick-13]

Regarding the whole "Fandom Is An Escape, so why should I have to care this much about misogyny/racism/ableism/transphobia/etc." thing. Idk about the rest of you, but it gets kind of hard for me to "escape" when I keep seeing people say the same vile things about characters who share aspects of my identity that I hear all the time in real life.

[satyrradio]

people who NEED to be seen as the most disadvantaged person in the room at all times & people who NEED to be seen as enlightened oppressors for acknowledging privilege are two sides of the same annoying coin imo

[maybeicanbesaved]

got into yet another fight with my mom, again about voting/the election, she said that she’s only voted once in her life and never cares to again because she ‘doesn’t care about politics’, saying that shit almost proudly?? and it set me off for obvious reasons, then she got mad at me for saying it’s because she’s privileged and ‘most’ shit doesn’t affect her directly so she can afford ‘not to care’

[lesbiansanemi]

Sorry. Saw a gay trans man accuse a lesbian of being transphobic one too many times because they said they "hate men." Grow up. Grow the fuck up. I'm so tired

[justaboot]

Guys I took the trophy I spoke to family on the phone and it took me less than 30 min to get into a fight I actually think it’s a new record.

[steviescrystals]

also a girl i went to high school with posted something yesterday saying “dear brainwashed american women, stop saying your rights are being taken away when they are not. it is distasteful and disgraceful to the talibianian women that have none. you all are ignorant.”

girl the taliban is not a country and talibianian is not even close to a word like holy shit imagine saying something so idiotic and then calling other people brainwashed and ignorant THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE

[kyuala]

SOOOOOO hard to go through everyday life trying to ignore the never-ending feeling that im just irreparably fucked up and therefore should just give up on everything

[lyctorism]

wish i could mass block every swiftie on the internet

[beskad]

him surviving was the worst possible outcome. his followers and fanatics were already batshit and feral and bloodthirsty. did you see that fist in the air??? if he wasn't already their god-king, he is now

[chronicowboy]

the marker of my final piece this year has so spectacularly missed the point of my story that i want to fucking scream

[oliviridian]

you know the "he would not fucking say that" fandom sentiment? I have this about "they would not be a fucking trans woman"

[spiritunwilling]

huh ive never seen someone have a firefox hater banner on their tumblr before

[thegetdownrebooter]

Tbh I think maybe the infantilizing of Roman is part of why I'm having trouble with the trans girl HC even though I support it conceptually, because it does feel like kind of a weird uncomfortable caricature just in the way I see some people writing about it. Idk if it's just me being a hypocrite or having shitty bias, but I think I just always find grown women acting like babies off-putting even if it does make sense for the character.

nah... i kinda get what you mean like, if tgirl roro wasn't too sexually repressed then she probably would be into ddlg or baby talk, and if she was as sexually repressed as she is in canon then she would still be very immature and probably model herself after a marilyn monroe character.

Roman does get infantilized by the fandom, but it's also something he does himself which is why his form of arrested development is so disturbing to me, like he does not act like shiv's older brother at all, which is why the fandom pretends that he is either younger than her or the same age as her, which is lame and also an easy way to admit that you're fave's canonical behavior towards his little sister weirds you out too much lol.

The only time roman actually acts like a normal big brother towards shiv during the entire series is, when he protects her from ken in the finale and that is more about ken losing his mind and physically charging at his pregnant sister in the first place.

Honestly, roman very much wants to be the baby of the family and is mentally stuck at 15, so tgirl roman would be similar and forever be a 15 year old girl.

I do get where you're coming from and no you're not biased for being uncomfortable with grown women acting like little girls because it makes me sick too.