#feminist killjoy

[queerchestercity]

Living a Feminist Life - Sara Ahmed (2017)

[dinosaur-ears]

There is so much conversation about complaints and accusations "ruining" mens careers. This conversation completely ignores who often victims are warned explicitly that to complain will ruin their careers.

Nobody seems to say to abusers, "you need to stop or you're going to ruin your career".

[lacymoonchild]

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[bubbsnugg]

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[televisionforwhales]

An absolute dear of an #ally excitedly told me about the ""Femmes & Thems"" event she helped organize and I, the patient trans the workplace trans who will hold hands to guide them through it, said: "I do not like that." and turned away, pencilling her in for a long-time chat

[wewontbesleeping]

i really just hate people saying "there's no way we could have known!" about everything that has happened with blake lively because it's just so self centered. you care more about alleviating your guilt about gleefully taking part in a misogynistic takedown campaign than anything else. instead of thinking "wow, i need to learn more about how to recognize this stuff so i don't fall for it again!" you dig your heels in. you refuse to examine your own misogyny because you can just pass it off on someone else. it's someone else's fault. you had no choice! but you did! you had a choice! and you're going to have another choice! and another one! and another one! and ultimately you are responsible for your own choices! how many times do you think you can play the "it's not my fault" card?

[quillkiller]

Being the only correct feminist in this fandom

(what’s my trademark™️???)

AHDFJFKSK might add this to my pinned post. lets hold hands…..

[amandamadeathing]

This, contrasted with my previous posts about Cody-Wan, and the differences between Reddit and Tumblr.

I was Googling for The Clone Wars quote in this Reddit thread (I have a silly idea). The topic veered into female Clones, in a way that has aged like fine bananas. OK, the thread is four years old. And we still don't know why the Kaminoans made Omega or Emerie. One assumes it was not to be sex drones for the men. 🤮

On a personal note, I'm very content that I found this corner of the Star Wars fandom here on Tumblr.

[shibsartdump]

PERSONA REDESIGN, DON'T LIKE, DON'T INTERACT.

Me being a feminist killjoy obviously hates how Ann is portrayed when she could've been an awesome message to fem fans of persona.

So a while ago, I tried my hand at redesigning her into a character that looked like an actual woman rather than a sex symbol (was seriously stupid to make the victim of harassment into the dumb porn bait, which mind you, I don't mind, but seriously? She was victim, that's just tone deaf)

(Commissions are open, check the pinned post on my blog!)

Like, I don't claim it to be perfect, maybe will go in and dull the pinks, add more gadgets or whatever.

I just think that if they wanted to make a character like her, they should've avoided the male gaze.

[lacymoonchild]

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[metamatar]

i remember at the outbreak of the russia ukraine war while european media went full well these are white christians ofc we'll take them in its not the uncivilized middle easterners, while african and even indian students couldn't cross the border into poland their was this absolutely bizzare left liberal position of deeming it gauche to talk about racism at all. yeah it is racism sure but have you considered it necessary to cede your energy to the cause de jour, and problematising is bad form and impolite?

[thebookishwallflower]

“With war on our tounges and death in our eyes, we ride for the forest.” - The Sapling Cage, Margret Killjoy

[yourworldiseternallycomplete]

I Was a Teenage Social Justice Warrior

[dustypups]

posting this on my personal sideblog because i don't want to get reamed but i........did not really enjoy the barbie movie as much as most people i know lol! i actually found myself disagreeing with a lot of its gender politics & message and the longer i unpack it the more annoyed i am. which by itself would be whatever, it's a barbie movie, but the fact that i've seen it lauded so much as So Progressive in the media is both depressing and concerning

[skylarkblue]

i wish there was a way to block specific ads on youtube because the tinder matchmaker ad actually makes me. borderline homicidal.

[adirectorprepares]

okay here is my review of the barbie movie: (alison bechdel’s mother voice) it does not cohere. i’m kind of offended that i feel the need to expend more thought and energy on understanding it than that, but here we are.

i think the most prominent idea that stands out to me is the interaction between sentiment and doll play (ie an affect studies reading). because there are some facets that play together in interesting ways:

— the centring of emotion as part of a political project (see the lawyer at the beginning saying that she doesn’t feel the need to separate her emotion from her reason and that this makes her more powerful - emotional gestures affording material power). cf the role of emotion in theories of dolls and children’s culture: the idea of dolls training girls in emotional gestures, something that historically both confines white women to a subordinated position in a domestic sphere *and* gives them a position of racialised power (robin bernstein talks about how historically american dolls positioned young white girls not as a mother, but as a *mistress*).

— the idea of emotion as a virus that can contaminate a body and/or a body politic. gloria’s emotions seeping into barbie and rendering her “defective”, physically and internally. patriarchal gestures as a literal virus against which barbies and kens in their fantasy land have no resistance (signalled via the infamous Indigenous peoples and smallpox line).

— critical responses to the movie being dominated by emotion and a sense of belonging / representation politics. “i felt seen by a movie for the first time”; “men wouldn’t get it because it’s not for them, it understands *me*, and critics who don’t feel an emotional sense of belonging and connection to it don’t have an epistemological right to comment on it”

then we have the discursive appeals to reality and authenticity. the central meaning most people in the (very bleak) tag seem to take from the movie is that gender roles are performative (which plays with the movie interpreting ‘types’ of barbies as a kind of aesthetic gestus, a gestus of being rather than of doing) - and that the *solution* to the problem of performative gender roles is to be your authentic self - which crucially involves letting yourself ‘feel’ your emotions, rather than trying to mediate them. ken’s arc is based on him ‘acting out’ because he can’t properly process his emotions about barbie not liking him; his solution at the end is to properly and openly process these emotions, to acknowledge them as real rather than trying to hide or sublimate them. (the ken war is silly and doesn’t solve anything; barbie and ken’s ending conversation is real and does solve things.) see also the fact that feeling ‘real’, complex emotions as part of barbie’s journey to becoming human, the maker rather than the made thing - kind of aligning with elaine scarry in the idea that humans make things to deal with and ameliorate scary or complicated emotions, crucially substituting emotional pain for scarry’s physical pain. (but becoming a real human woman at the end is also physical and embodied - see the other infamous line about the gynaecologist.)

i don’t….really know where i’m going with any of this, and like i said i don’t feel it would be a particularly productive use of my time to try and assemble a proper reading. but…..something something american tradition of sentimentalism and emotional cohesion vs troubled or unsettled or uncaring emotional responses. (something something i am still, somehow, expected to *care* about ken. something something i somehow still feel like i’m being trained in emotional gestures of womanhood.) something something unfortunately for greta gerwig i believe the only way to meaningfully comment on barbie is a two-hour lesbian sex scene between gloria and barbie heavy on the power play. idk.