#feminism is not just “you go girl!”

[remusawoooo]

fictional women who do not smile and nod at everything!!! I will always love you!

fictional women who send losers into fits of rage by not conforming, I will always love you!!

I'm going to be sick to my stomach 😭😭😭😭

[miasmultifandomdump]

It annoys me how so much of modern discourse around female characters is, to be frank, misogyny repackaged as being progressive.

If a woman's strengths and interests are associated with being feminine, such as cooking or enjoying nice clothes or being kind and compassionate, the entire fandom jumps on her as stereotypical or weak. It's seen as cool to bash on "women's work", never mind that your average misogynist has been doing it for decades, hell, centuries, and the jobs that are mocked as women's work are actually pretty essential to humans surviving and thriving.

And then, of course, if a woman shows the slightest hint of nonconformity, the entire fandom jumps on her because "oh!! she's trying to be not like other girls!! she wants male attention so bad!!" It doesn't matter how she is to the other girls in her life, if she wears combat boots and listens to punk instead of Taylor Swift, she clearly hates every other woman ever according to certain parts of fandom. It couldn't be that she's neurodivergent or LGBT or hell, even just a tomboy, she has to hate every other girl on the planet. /sarcasm

AND JUST TO CLARIFY. These tropes can genuinely be negatively done. The traditionally feminine girl can be a weak character and the tomboy girl can be an ass. But when you're calling a girl a "pick me" just because she doesn't live up to your idea of what a woman should look like or what you think feminism is... congratulations. You've simply repackaged sexism and called it woke. And lots of girls who see this crap online are going to suffer for it but hey, it was never actually about them, so who cares, right? /sarcasm

Anyway, to all the girls reading this post, you go ahead and be who you want. Be a princess or a president or a pop singer or a punk rocker or hell, all of the above. You're not a "pick me" you're not a "handmaiden" you're not trying too hard to be "not like other girls". You are fine. Don't let pseudo-woke nonsense get to you. It's just white noise.

[welcometogrouchland]

I love Steph's origin as told in the Secret Origins 80 page giant- I just overall think it strengthens her character by giving her a lot of pathos and adding to her heroism (which isn't something writers were focused on in her actual intro in detective comics #647 since she was just meant to act as a plot device back then) BUT there is one tiny detail in it i will begrudge, and that is the portrayal of her having a minor love at first sight moment for tim

Secret origins 80 page giant, ID in alt

(or well, technically this was their second meeting in that story (the brick was the first) so...love at second sight?)

Mostly because Stephanie showed no interest in her introduction and only showed romantic feelings towards Tim AFTER this moment here:

Robin (1993) #4, ID in alt

Straight up the progression here goes:

The adventure in 'tec where they first meet -> Tim investigating the same crime scene as Steph -> she beats him up not knowing it's him at first, apologizes but says he shouldn't have scared her -> he remembers her/the moniker she goes by -> they talk about plot for a few pages -> Stephanie starts flirting

Robin (1993) #4, ID in alt

Which...is so fascinating to me and says so much about Stephanie. She highlights the fact that Tim "remembered" her. Like. Steph. Girl. This is our bar? It's sweet but kind of speaks to how much Stephanie is ignored at home/how little and sporadically she's shown interacting with her peers (and rarely ever the same kids twice). Her idea of peak romance is just...being on someone's mind even when you're not there.

Kind of also adds layers to Steph's proclivity towards jealousy later on, a manifestation of her insecurity and loneliness (though don't get it twisted, she's not written this way bc Dixon and co think it's an interesting character flaw, they wrote it bc they think it's an inherent character flaw of (particularly young) women/girls, which is very apparent in how he approaches Ariana's character as well from what I've read)

Also the fact that Steph becomes so smitten for Tim almost immediately after this is (a few issues later she aggressively flirts with him during AN ACTIVE HOSTAGE SITUATION. WHERE SHE'S THE HOSTAGE) again is kind of a mixture of kind of funny and sad. One boy is nice to her once and she's fully ready to wife him. Girl you are deranged (affectionate) (concerned)

[iluvyou777]

Why are people so mean?

[cl0wnapologist]

oh her new song is so sinister

[intoxicatinginsanity]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but men really need to stop using women as a stand in for their moms. Heal your goddamn mother wounds, assign that responsibility to yourself and not to your crushes, girlfriends, and wives. Fucking go to therapy, thanks!

[swirlingyouintomypoems]

the day the coquette aesthetic and everything it represents dies is the day I'll be extremely happy

[notreallysureyett]

I think the reason why abortion absolutism is becoming more popular (apart from the commonality of abortion diluting people's innate negative reaction towards it and recent legislative attempts to restrict it) is that more and more people realize that the libertarian framework of "this is a moral negative but it should be legal" falls flat when it comes to a life or death position such as abortion, so rather than realize abortion is an uncompromising evil they just decided to reframe abortion as a moral positive.

[iluvyou777]

[yanderespamton78]

when a regretevator headcanon pisses you off so much that you become a feminist

[sieglinde-freud]

WHERE WERE THE AWAKENING SECOND GEN ON JULY 21ST 2023

[glitchfang]

this is just petty but i think one of the most ironic things about the “madoka is misogynistic shit you shouldnt support because of an interview i misinterpreted” post is that op was an attack on titan fan well after that author was exposed over here for his right wing views. like. cmon, at least be consistent

[swirlingyouintomypoems]

Confession: seeing female fans of things that are typically viewed as masculine interests (especially sports) being referred to as “fan girls” triggers some deep rooted internalized misogyny that makes me want to scream NO I SWEAR I’M NOT LIKE THE OTHER GIRLS I ACTUALLY LIKE IT I’M ONE OF THE GOOD ONES and I can’t figure out if that’s a valid knee jerk reaction since fan girls are typically viewed in a negative light since the men in these spaces deem them unworthy of being a fan since they believe they are only interested in something for superficial reasons or if I need to get the fuck over myself

[npdkondraki]

havent watched enough gwitch (YET) to determine if guel is transfem but i can smell it on them like a fucking bloodhound . on god i WILL find SOMETHING to point to with her

[rellbot]

i will now complain about something weird in the tags bc idk where else to put it