#and the misogyny within

[watermelinoe]

people will try to treat transgender as if it is a material class of people but it functionally is not

[delawaredetroit]

Shoutout to Nejire for being one of the only characters to acknowledge Izuku's feats during the Overhaul Arc.

The manga should have let them be friends. For as nerdy and neurodivergent coded as Izuku is portrayed in BNHA, the story sure goes out of its way to minimize his interaction with any weird girls

[sukibenders]

"I'm team feminist/feminism!" But will quickly drag a female character through the mud without sympathy for their circumstances just because they don't fit your ideals, will get mad when poc criticize a female character's actions that are very thinly coded in racism and say "support her crimes!" while ignoring how that often leads to the harm of poc characters, will shade woc characters or put them on higher pedestals than their yte counterparts while ignoring the harm they face while trying to meet your standards, will victim blame those who suffer (and are still suffering) from abuse when they act out in ways you deem "wrong" because of it, following up with the last point will mock and laugh at said abuse to uplift another female character (pitting women against women, even when the narrative does not ask for that), will dismiss any valuable argument displayed if the said female character is a little mean but then go and say "why can't female characters be mean? 🙄"

I could go on.

[hairtusk]

not sure there has ever been a worse time to be a woman or girl in the uk. random stabbing attacks, crimes on trains increased by 50% in the last few years, 50 women murdered by men since the start of the year ... and absolutely no urgency whatsoever. it's terrifying.

[fellhellion]

genuinely p4 fandom outside of tumblr makes u feel like ur living in an alternate reality. You say hey I think u can easily read trans subtext and text in Naoto’s story because the game quite literally talks about transition surgery, and people act like you’re the insane one.

[immediatebreakfast]

It's proposal day! It's another Lucy day!

One thing that I noticed in between the suitors, and Lucy's non explained accepted proposal is how the tone in the paragraph where she talks about the sexist ideas of women being lesser than men seems to be... dejected, and I dare to say exhausted.

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

The language that Lucy uses, the sudden inclusion of it when she is talking about the proposals, all of it feels like a rehearsed point that has been hammered into Lucy's head many times. It reads as she is is trying to interrupt her sadness over rejecting Quincey and Jack by reminding herself that her feeling don't matter in the situation.

This is not only simple misogynist ideals that Bram Stoker included in a female character, but also there is something deeper there that alludes to Lucy restricting herself because of her education as a lady.

Mr. Seward, and Mr. Morris are the ones suffering after the proposals, not her. She, the 19 years girl who is for the first time steping into the role of victorian woman, is the cause of their suffering, so Lucy as a woman cannot feel bad for herself because her own existance isn't noble nor worthy. Lucy must center her conflicting feelings, and her tears around the two gentleman she had to reject.

This is not an opinion for Lucy, it's a fact that her entire social, and cultural environment has been telling her since she was born. However there is this little detail that makes her comments a little bit worse for her mental space.

why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here was I almost making fun of this great-hearted, true gentleman.

Remember that this is Lucy writing to Mina, and consequently Jonathan because she gave her permission to tell him; two people that she is implied to know since chilhood, and two lovers that definitely do not follow the picture that Lucy paints. In this letter Lucy is almost baring her soul enough to Mina, who despite most likely holding the same ideals doesn't experience the actual whole weight of them as a woman.

Even if it's very clear that she is utterly smittem with Arthur, does Lucy longs for the odd for the times dynamic of Mina and Jonathan? Does she feels that as much as she loves Arthur with all of heart, all of that stuff will still resonate in every step, and action she takes in their marriage?

Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on? I know I would if I were free—only I don't want to be free. ... I am very, very happy, and I don't know what I have done to deserve it.

Lucy is midly aware that her position is a cage, even if she chose the man she will marry she still views her own decision as the entrance of a cage. However, thanks to her upbringing, Lucy doesn't see this as an opportunity to try, and build a relationship with equal footing like Mina, instead Lucy tells herself that she, as a woman, doesn't deserve enough the happiness she feels.

And that is so tragic.

[altocat]

More cringe memes. Lucrecia Edition.

[afrenomes]

If I was better with words I’d write an entire thesis-length essay on not just the deeply-entrenched antisemitism of all this, but also the deeply-DEEPLY-entrenched misogyny of this whole past year

[rookflower]

grit my teeth and hold myself back from fighting someone every time i see the sentiment of "wow can you believe people actually think nightheart is sexist? and that liking nightheart makes you a misogynist? how crazy is that lol" out in the wild. nooooo that's not what the discourse actually was. you have fallen for the dismissive surface level takeaway people had from a genuine discussion about wider trends of misogyny in the writing, that makes said criticisms out as irrational and hysterical as possible. you will now associate any criticisms of misogyny in the series with this hyperbolic strawman

[agnesandhilda]

one of these days I'm gonna completely lose it and write about how blue lock's shounen genre misogyny (which isn't to say that it gets a pass because the shounen genre is known for being misogynistic. blue lock is worse than average in this regard. blue lock's very premise is built on misogyny in a way I don't think has been analyzed enough even by people who are aware of the real-world women's football it totally disregards) and accompanying shounen genre-typical totalizing ideal of masculinity result in giving the different play positions the characters have notable gendered connotations, mostly by accident

[jiangwanyinscatmom]

"And that's what ultimately made him stay and be fond of what used to be Yunmeng Jiang, [...] Jiang Yanli certainly wasn't grand, but kindness is always remembered more personally and why she is so important to Wei Wuxian." finally someone that gets it. I tried to convey that while writing, that he does leave eventually in that universe but that every day he stayed there was because of her and her unwavering kindness.

She wasn't very strong but she was kind in a world that urged her not to be and that's enough strength for me. I believe WWX loved her and that she loved him and that's why she chose to save him in that moment. She was strong then and people keep denying her that.

Hello,anon!

I think there are several factors as to why fandom is very harsh on Jiang Yanli that stem from misogyny. Casual misogyny, internalized misogyny against the gender and the everyday social accepted misogyny that is ingrained in us by what we see from most depictions of women that are counterproductive and outright contradictory in what we should be or tell ourselves we can just be.

Usually kindness and softness are seen as a weakness for women and is mocked as either being too feminine in execution and disdained in nature despite it desperately being something humans really want and crave as natural instinct. Kindness is weak in Jiang Yanli because she does not have the physical clout to uphold the protection wanted doe Wei Wuxian, but Wei Wuxian also never holds that as something she needs to strive for to be a good person. While he values strength he values the kindness in being able to use that talent for other's benefits even more.

He never disparaged the women in the work for their own positions or even judges some of the routes they take for survival because he understands the unfairness in the Jianghu and overarching society they are from that is not kind to idealism, love, kindness, and softness. He thinks it's commendable to live and be able to flourish against that though by trying to stay nurturing and loving.

What draws him inherently is kindness towards the people he befriends and continues to interact with. And also meets that kindness for kindness. MXTX main characters as men wonderfully incorporate what the general confucian gentlemen is expected to be and that does include the idealism of treating women as respectable people which is a usual counterpoint for a traditional practice steeped within misogyny and hypocrisy. There is a very blurred line of praise of men that shows these traits to be masculine while condemned in women from overarching real world politics that are superimposed upon Jiang Yanli.

What is praised in the man, is mocked for the woman. Fascinatingly sad when a simple "why" is asked in terms of what Jiang Yanli did wrong, that is not also mirrored in Lan Wangji her counterpart in caring and loving Wei Wuxian in the same capacity but romantically. Which is the one that usually gets reasonably defended about their actions and said "nothing more could be done by them" and that is usually unanimously agreed upon due to the logic of the world Wei Wuxian was created for?

[demento-mori]

miss ini miney you mean the world to me

[zagz]

I GOT TO THE PART IN DEATH NOTE WHEN LIGHT’S FATHER IS ACTING OUT THE SCENE OF KILLING LIGHT MISA & THEN HIMSELF BECAUSE L TOLD HIM HE HAD TO & I NEARLY FELL OUT OF MY SEAT FLINCHING FROM THE BIBLICAL SYMBOLISM (THE STORY OF ABRAHAM ISAAC & GOD) 63 DEAD 490 INJURED

[himejoshibutch]

calling lesbians/bi women who face misogyny for not being conventionally attractive t*rfs without even thinking for a second like... if this is your idea of being supportive to trans women then im sorry to say but you're not helping at all. like some of you mfs can't even fathom to see trans women without makeup or "not being feminine enough" so i suggest you guys should shut up because your fake ass excuse of activism isn't doing anyone any good. clearly you don't care about transmisogyny or misogyny in general, you guys seem to have a blast calling random people t*rfs while actual t*rfs get away with harassing transfems and you fuckers wont even bat an eye

[taamlok]

being a lesbian is so beautiful actually, i'm so grateful i get to experience life this way

[clowngames]

besides everything else, James Somerton is a great example of using progressive language to espouse misogynistic ideas. No one sentence of his was outright misogynistic, but when you zoom out and view the pattern it becomes a worldview.

It's insidious because it's hard to prove without making a 2 hour deep dive so you can have all of the necessary examples on hand. But personally I think it's worse than outright "ironic" sexist jokes specifically because it's so stealthy. It takes an hbomb video for people to even notice, and in the meantime it's allowed to continue and do more damage to the people who absorb that worldview.