#aggressively cishet

[the-siren-in-your-fridge]

I’ve seen a few too many people say Robert Jordan can’t write women. On the surface, it would seem like that, what with all of the mentions of their boobs and the constant men vs women nonsense going on. I understand how people would get that impression

But he actually CAN write women, and compared to other classic male fantasy authors, he writes them VERY WELL. The average women in WoT has equal power to the average man: women own businesses, give orders, rule countries, pursue men they like, and some people even think the Aes Sedai secretly puppet the world. That theory isn’t scary because they’re women, it’s scary because they’re magical. The only thing that would prevent a woman from doing certain things are rank and societal roles, which would equally prevent men from doing certain other things. For example, women are not expected to join armies (the Aiel are seen as strange for letting women fight) however all of Andor would riot if it had a king because “we’ve always had a queen! We’re Andor!” While there’s still a gender divide, it’s not inequality, it’s just the world’s societal expectations (which vary depending on where you are). Rand and Tam are never mocked for doing “women’s work” just because Kari is dead, it’s just a part of their life since she’s not around to do the “female housework” and they don’t have an issue changing things to accommodate their situation.

Another thing is that women aren’t shamed for their sexualities in this world unless they’re being socially inappropriate (like feeling someone up in the middle of a market) making someone uncomfortable with it (like not taking “no” for an answer). Otherwise, you get a few comments from the men along the lines of “aren’t I supposed to be chasing you?” but it’s not seen as crazy that a woman would do that or even want to do that; it’s just a little role reversal that takes the men by surprise. In fact, Faile does this often with Perrin once they’re married, she makes comments about how excited she is to fuck him and the only reason she’s stopped from saying that is if they get interrupted or if it’s the wrong time. Otherwise, his response is “good idea, let’s go.”

HOWEVER, all of RJ’s characters (the men too) are steeped in several hundred levels of kindergarten level men vs women gender bullshit to the point where it SOUNDS like traditional misogyny, but in reality it’s not. Everyone is equally annoying about gender stuff. They’re all humans, no one dimensional feminine objects here. They’re just very loud about the world’s gender divide

[itisiives]

NGL, the fact that queer Tumblr's and queer Twitter's hatred of twinks is barely distinguishable from cishet men's hatred of queer femme men is... funny... in a nastily ironic way.

[snowberry-pie]

game time. if your ocs were popular fictional characters how exactly would fandom violently butcher and misinterpret their characters

[t4tails]

ive been so deprived of any kind of queer content or subtext that lore olympus has me thinking "damnn maybe hermes and thanatos should kiss" with panels like these 😩

[sannin-three]

Okay but imagine Orochimaru and Tsunade finally managing to coax Jiraiya into exploring life outside of his bizarre cishet bubble.

Jiraiya: No way am I trying on that girly crap, I'd look awful!

Orochimaru: Is that what's holding you back? The fear that you might not look as pretty as you want to?

Jiraiya: ....oh 😳

[thasminlove]

Having the doctor being allowed to rest, being allowed to heal, being allowed to be part of their best friend’s family, be an aunt/uncle* to Rose, and have joy and peace in their life without being as afraid of losing it, after all they’ve been through, is everything to me. It also allows Ncuti’s Doctor to heal and have more joy and love in their life, whilst still recognising and carrying that loss.

*I can’t remember the gender neutral term atm sorry. Yes I am nonbinary lmao.

[queers4years]

I just keep thinking about august when I had 2 nonbinary kids talking to me about how scared they were. One told me she might have to go back into the closet for safety.

[avenin7]

in your AU Link and Revali would ever adopt a child?

they canonically have a daughter after the main story!! though she is their bio kid and not adopted :)

[ikjun]

we should start oppressing cishets if i have to see one more couple aggressively make out in front of me either on the bus or at work or in line at the grocery store i will pass a kidney stone out of pure disgust

[obscenicon]

i think that generally it is fine and okay to exclude men from lesbian spaces. lesbians is about women. we dont need to coddle dudes who are insecure bcs a lesbian told them to dni and immediately retreat to the comfort of their casab to excuse it

[humanitys-strongest-bamf]

I talk about this all the time but I keep forgetting how much people don’t seem to recognize that a dominant culture infantalizing marginalized cultures isn’t “woke”, it is condescending, rude, and actually harmful to the community because you’re taking away their autonomy and forcing what you think is right upon them and speaking for them without actually knowing the intricacies of their lives

I’ll find a link as to why savior complex is incredibly harmful once I’m back on desktop but my god am I annoyed and slightly pissed

[houseofwolvess]

abortion has officially been banned in my state. i don't know what to do now. this place just gets worse every day and im totally crushed

[dirtmossart]

Experience I just had

[goldiipond]

if there is like an actual twitter implosion this time and we get a bunch of tpntwt users im gonna become one of those paranoid people in like apacolypse stories who answers the door with a loaded gun pointed at the person. are you normal about shipping teenage characters. are you normal about emma’s gender expression. this is the only place where i can regularly find don stuff that doesn’t make me incredibly violent if i see anything weird about him its ON SIGHT i dont believe in blocking i’ll just kill you 

[sugaftrm]

I truly do hate men and yes your boyfriend included

[neverendingford]

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