#and/or putting a superficially progressive gloss on “cottagecore is for girls and dark academia is for boys.” u kno? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

chamerionwrites · 26 days ago

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I wasn’t watching it at the time to see firsthand, but there’s a lot of schadenfreude to be found in imagining the tantrums thrown by dudebros suckered into watching Black Sails unaware that it was The Queer Pirate show. However I confess that I am also deeply amused by the number of people who wrote it off as gritty male gaze sex-and-violence, were dragged kicking and screaming into watching it by some friend or other, and discovered that it was their Show Of All Time

#it’s almost like the superficial aesthetic vibes of a show tell you nothing whatsoever about whether it’s thoughtful or interesting or good!#this is me having an axe to grind about how alienating i find a lot of fiction that is supposedly For The Ladies #especially when it’s v deliberately Marketed that way. sorry but nothing puts my back up like being told (by advertisers or fans!)#“this is Your thing it’s For You you’re definitely going to like it because (literally or figuratively) we made it in pink”#like no shade on pink in itself but (1) you don’t fucking know me and (2) i require more than an aesthetic to be interested #and i resent the utter lack of respect for my individuality and intelligence implied by suggesting otherwise #ANYWAY #what i am saying here is that it’s fine to have personal preferences but a lot of fans could do with thinking twice #about whether their contempt for one style of fiction or other is weirdly gendered and anti intellectual #a lot of people going around confidently claiming there are blue stories (bad) and pink stories (good)#and/or putting a superficially progressive gloss on “cottagecore is for girls and dark academia is for boys.” u kno?#black sails #my posts #gender stuff

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