#emasculation of men

[theonescreencap]

i'm not embarrassed to admit that like half the reason i got into one piece is because i'm aroace and i'd heard that luffy is (arguably, sort of, word of god) aroace, and i love the hc but i'm also happy that it has so much basis in canon & stuff oda has said. it feels like an intrinsic part of him and it's always depicted as a positive trait! something that makes luffy himself and it's a good thing

like, protagonists never get to be aro or ace unless the story revolves around them discovering their identity. it's really nice to have a character so full of life who knows so clearly who he is, who also knows that dating/romance/etc is not part of it at all. one piece has its misogyny issues but i get to watch it knowing that luffy is never gonna "get the girl" as a prize for anything and that his relationships with like robin and nami especially will stay platonic and important without having to become something "more"

his lack of interest isn't a tragedy because he doesn't give a shit what other people think of him, and even when it is part of a gag (like in amazon lily) the humor isn't coming from making fun of luffy for not experiencing attraction. he's not broken he's immune and i think that's so fucking based and funny. and the whole story is about friendship and found family because that's what's important to him! the aroace hc feels so correct to me and i'm so happy that one of the most popular manga characters ever is such blatant arguable rep

[miominmioo]

am i the only one who finds yao in the new au chapters incredibly trans coded?? i am well aware that "when i grow up i will have everything that i don't have now" is in reference to china's economic growth within the past few decades but...does that also come with estrogen and serving cunt 24/7 or what?? like this is a straight up transition 😭

[anartisticnerd]

Why can't characters love each other platonically. Why must we ship everyone and everything.

[tightjeansjavi]

in this household we make Geta cry when he finds out that his empress has never experienced an orgasm with him! We make him burst into tears bc his entire world has just been shattered! What do you mean she has never experienced pleasure with him?? He’s going through the five stages of grief all at once!

[transhetanybodys]

It's funny how Sweeney Todd almost exclusively kills men and it's *not* a feminist thing, it's literally just that men are the ones who see barbers. Of course you could probably get some deeper analysis out of the fact that he mostly kills men, but it's not a feminist thing even though his wife and daughter were horrifically abused by a man and his friend/lover of convenience Mrs. Lovett's husband clearly wasn't great (at least in the movie? I haven't seen the play in a while.) Once I saw a fundraiser for a version of the story where he and Mrs. Lovett are specifically going after male abusers and that could be cool, I hope that got off the ground.

[unh0lyvenom]

louis de pointe du lac, the depressed icon that you are

bonus sopping wet kitten, also referred to as the vampire lestat

[pangaeaseas]

ohhhh my god the lily was a bad friend to Snape thing pisses me off so fucking much. just willful misreading and frankly sometimes disturbing blaseness towards what the real problem was (not just the slur! JOINING A FUCKING HATE GROUP! and also slurs are bad--we should be able to understand this, right?) I mean one of the problems with it is that it doesn't fully understand the multiple power dynamics at play--blood status, gender, AND social class are all important in the lily/Snape and Lily/Snape/marauders dynamics. And also? I think Lily is meant to be read as not actually of a significantly higher class than Snape--she's working class but her family is slightly more financially stable and determined to hold themselves above him! So the class dynamics aren't 'rich popular girl Lily and poor bullied Snape' it's 'also poor but slightly less poor Lily'!! AND this interaction cannot be read without Snape's blood status privilege. And. Of course. The fact that him calling her a mudblood in public was a sign of him fully embracing Death Eater ideals and he went on to join the Death Eaters--having already been associating with them for a while. The initial slur isn't even forgiveable but it becomes even more heinous when you remember he was joining a group dedicated to exterminating her because of who she was. Why should she give a shit about who bullied him anymore? When we talk about what Lily and Snape are doing post Snape's Worst Memory, I would say that the fact Snape joins the freaking Death Eaters is a far worse betrayal of their friendship than Lily marrying James (which isn't even a betrayal, exactly, as she is, you know, an autonomous person with her own wants needs and opinions).

[shoot-i-messed-up]

…ngl the Ilana & Rick dynamic was more interesting before they fucked

[ardentpoop]

also “emasculation” isn’t real. stop talking as if it is

[thehornylibrarian]

Thrilled to report that we got our first bin of summer materials in the delivery this morning. My work mom (children’s librarian) calls across the workroom “Saaaaaaraaaaah I need your muscles!” and my coworker (a man) just looks at me and goes “man, that’s messed up :(”

[aliusfrater]

the thing about supernatural is that it's patriarchy porn

[novembermorgon]

What if that theoretical twin was a boy? Maelor dont seem even a little bisexual

anon missed my copious amounts of maelor vaegon twitter porn …. 💔

[submbeta]

[bonyassfish]

there's something to be said in how deeply Israel presents the gender dynamics of its soldiers ("look at how strong and masculine our soldiers are, they protect us"/"look at how beautiful and feminine our soldiers are, they would never hurt anybody") and an insecurity about how jews are perceived vis-a-vis gender, esp in the western world/europe. much to ponder...

[honeybadger-hibachi]

Ooh, here's a spicy take:

There's nothing wrong with a woman proposing to her man. It's better if the man does it, sure, but that's just because it's more romantic. If a lady wants to propose, let her

[djungleskogs]

short people will never understand the simultaneous comedy and fear of a man being unnecessarily rude to you for the crime of being taller than him