#Male Dominate Culture

[trektown]

I was at a Wrath of Khan 40th anniversary screening in cosplay, and an older woman came up to me and said “I love your costume, I used to dress up with my girlfriends to watch Star Trek when I was your age” and holy shit. It hit me. I’m part of the FOURTH generation of female Trek fans. I’m part of their legacy. Anyways I got really emotional

[skyiedior]

it's always the least desirable bunches of women yelling about going half with a man and paying for him too, they always have the loudest mouths. like men that protect their imaginery millions these women are always overworked and bitter about other women's standards that are set for men that wanna penetrate their lives and vaginas. their self-esteem be in the pits of hell and trying to drag other women to burn with them.

they don't think they have what it takes to make a man pop his Benjamins and live easy mode off of his hard work because they're are always trying to prove a nonexistent point. if really these demographic of miserable people were happy they wouldn't feel the need to recruit the women they think they are really better than. that's why men spit them out after being done with them and go find the women that gives them a mental challenge. men hate the road of least resistance, whoever disagrees with this has an agenda.

[dimitriross]

[aggressionbread]

the problem with competitive gaming spaces is i want to be treated like a person, not a woman, and unfortunately there is a distinction that i've been made to feel

[ohwolfling]

analyzing a possible root of the Dudes Against Astarion movement

[maretriarch]

rereading chobits again.......one of the most unfairly hated animes of all time!!!

[gaybaseball-fan]

[xrosevoidx]

thinkin about trent crimm and roy kent parallels.

[aspirationalpeony]

I have some silly nitpicks about the show and its writing, but one of my frustrations is season 2, episode 15, "Fire."

I really love a lot of the episode, but I found it really frustrating the way that Melissa's experience of misogyny was treated as inauthentic or outdated. She grew up in the 60s and 70s when the barriers for women entering male-dominated workforces, like firefighting, were even higher than they are today. And even today, as of 2021, less than 5% of United States firefighters are women.

I thought it was very good that they showed Jacob empathizing to a degree and wanting to do something to help Melissa feel included. But the way that their conversation during the fire safety meeting played out left me with a bad taste in my mouth, especially because this is one instance where their typical roles are reversed: in this conversation, Melissa is treated as the excessive, overly-political one, whereas Jacob is the voice of reason.

By casting Jacob in this role, the show was saying, "Look, even crazy, super-political, hyper-sensitive Jacob thinks Melissa is exaggerating and absurd!" It seems to me that this was done in order to suggest that misogyny is "over" to some extent, and that Melissa is holding an unreasonable grudge, rather than being accurate in her assessment of a 95%-male workforce and culture. Even male firefighters have pointed out the massive problems with misogyny and sexism in fire departments, and the fact that that <5% of women deal with deeply embedded sexual harassment and gender-based discrimination.

I love and value the show very much but this was one situation where it felt very off. In essence, it set Melissa up as a straw feminist, making unreasonable, inappropriate comments, so that she could be batted down and dismissed, and kind of thrown a treat in the end, to make her shut up. It was disappointing. 😔

[gaybaseball-fan]

“If it be your will that I speak no more. From this broken hill all your praises they shall ring”

I’m not shutting up it’s ironic juxtaposition of radical song with a radical feminist reference!!!

[britneyshakespeare]

you know what's stupid. supposed "boy" hobbies are way fucking more expensive to buy old merch from on ebay, no matter how niche the property is that you think no one cares about it anymore. why are people selling the combo man comic for 50 bucks or more. that shit should be 30 cents

[passiveagressiveintrovert]

Bruh I'm doing a womens trade course and the amount of people taking our pictures for their companies divestity advertising is crazy. Like we'll go on a tour on a construction site or we'll have a guest lecturer from the government and we'll just be shadowed by a photographer constantly. Like im all for encouraging more women in trades and shit bit it's really funny that they're all like "WE SUPPORT WOMEN LOOK AT THESE PICTURES OF WOMEN THAT VISITED US THIS ONE TIME" like good on you being excited but like chill bro we just vibin

[a-thread-of-green]

Transfems have a natural advantage in becoming femme fatales. Just consider:

Very intentional appearance, body language, and voice

Dark, ambiguous backstory

Enemy of cops

Nobody trusts her

Queer-coded

Unconventional femininity

Speaks in clever, reference-laden language that is nearly incoherent outside a very specific time/culture

Experience with traditionally male-dominated hobbies and professions, such as murder

I'm not saying all transfems are like this, of course, but there's enough general overlap that the platonic idea of a femme fatale is definitely a tgirl.