#it looks especially bad on women

[moonvixenart]

So, Havoc Squad. Best of the best.

[blueskittlesart]

deeply refreshing to see someone critical of Swift who also like, genuinely likes her. Like i'm neutral to positive on her, but the online discourse has been absolutely rancid. flipping between "Taylor Swift has never done anything wrong ever and she's a fucking genius" and "Taylor Swift is the worst lyricist of all time and also a bad person" is exhausting, so thank you for like. nuance or something lmao

not to make it serious for a sec but i genuinely think that being able to like things that are bad is really important. like I think that it's an important skill to be able to look at something and see what you personally enjoy about it and then take a step back and acknowledge that objectively it's flawed. and to also be able to acknowledge that liking something isn't necessarily an identity or a moral stance. and i think that fandom space in general could really benefit from more people taking the time to learn how to do that. it's okay to like things that are bad

[daisy-mooon]

"I want Annabeth to be blonde :(" then pick up a PJO book and read it you dumb fuck

[bonefall]

longtime dc fan and i think a lot of people are angry because alex is obviously one of the most culturally relevant instances of misogyny in media. that being said being more culturally relevant doesn’t mean it’s the worst instance of misogyny and i think bumble definitely experiences more profound misogyny in the way the actual content is presented, if that makes sense

I get you, and that's a charitable way of looking at it.

I think what's rustling my jimmies is that like, there was a couple of WC fans being mildly dismissive of Alex in that note minefield, after dozens of comments of "fuck you how could you let the fridge woman lose" and "Bumble didn't deserve to win ANY rounds" and "how could A CAT experience misogyny." But then WE get blamed for the toxicity because THEY were butthurt that the Funny Cat People have the 'audacity' to win something they feel entitled to.

Like, we've gotta be endlessly charitable as we get openly insulted because they're upset about Alex losing, a very well-known and culturally relevant character with a legacy so massive we have a whole term named after her. But condemnations of "She's just a cat, letting WC into this poll was a mistake, Bumble can't even be a victim of misogyny" only started coming around once I started talking about it.

as if it's OUR fault people got passive-aggressive or even OPENLY aggressive towards us, and that we're "just as bad" for retaliating

But like you said, it's not a "Most Culturally Relevant Misogyny" tournament, it's a "Canon Misogyny Victims" tournament. And you're not even supposed to give a shit that Bumble died. The fat, woman abuse victim is beaten to death by a dictator, and your takeaway is meant to be, "It's so sad that Clear Sky is being blamed for murdering her, now they're all preparing for self-defense against a homicidal maniac, oh nooo :("

And I think that DOES make her deserve the win here! Alex is a MARTYR. Everyone with a brain agrees what happens to her is bad. It happened in her canon because it was bad. We talk about her and keep her memory alive. Bumble gets dismissed entirely out of hand because she's "just a cat in a kid's book" as if that doesn't make it worse, and as if the kid's book didn't treat a domestic abuse survivor like a moron for even asking for help.

Anyway, just to reiterate, I love DC fans. It's not all of you guys. Alex was done dirty and deserves justice-- and it's even kind of a shame that all she became is "The Fridge Woman." I haven't even heard people talk about how she was a wary, responsible person who was still ready to rock with Kyle's new weird glowstick powers, or that she was a journalist, or that she just got brought back in another edition as a Green Lantern only to be revealed as an illusion and re-absorbed back into Kyle's mind. Nope. Even her fans just remember her as The Fridge Woman.

[silusvesuius]

i legit love when a character's gender is so integral to their personality (and perception obviously.) like so concrete that if genderbent their whole shtick would just be absolute dookie. anyways i'm just writing this text so i can talk in the tags (My beautiful safe haven)

this 14 minute song is soooooooooooo FYRE

[demonic-ninja-cat]

call me crazy or a bigot, but I think that the phrases/ideas "islamophobia is bad, and it's wrong and fucked-up for people to attack muslims, and pull off their headscarves, and other forms of bigotry against them, and plenty of muslims are perfectly nice normal people who aren't bigots" AND "islam can be toxic for some people, it can and has been used to hurt some people, it can have the same sorts of toxic bigotry found in christianity, and ex-muslims are valid to leave the religion and critique it" can and should co-exist!

[kaidanalenkosprmanager]

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[captainuranium543]

I hate it when I accidentally start beef with an erza fan like DUDE WERE ON THE SAME SIDE.

[sonknuxadow]

you. archie sonic artist. can you draw girl sonic characters normally

[stag-bi]

ive been playing witcher 3 for the last couple of weeks and like. is Lambert flirting w Geralt hardcore in the kaer morhen scenes or is it just my delusional fujoshi nature

[honeydots]

every year laslow & soleil don't get a feh summer alt is a year i can go on pretending they'd get a cute lifeguard duo together 🤿

[rowanthestrange]

The thing is, you could’ve made Rogue entering to “I’m The Bad Guy, Duh.” easily make sense if you’d wanted to. You’d have just written that he thinks he’s a bad guy all cool and nefarious - Rogue neither refers to himself negatively, and the Doctor says he’s cool not him (admittedly you’d still have to explain him pre-approaching the string quartet to play it, or it be magic but whatever).

You have Rogue think he’s A Bad Boy, but the Doctor be all ‘no you’re not there’s a heart of gold there’. He wouldn’t have freed himself with an I Am A Time Lord speech giving himself authority over Rogue, it would be appealing to Rogue’s good side that he doesn’t actually want to incinerate him etc. Rogue would choose to do the ‘good guy’ decisions himself, not have them imposed. He’d convince Rogue killing the birds is wrong, not just take his stuff and modify it - he’d get Rogue to reveal his better nature. The Doctor would convince him to leave his gun on the ship.

This is what would bite them later, where they’d both know, maybe with just a look, that if Rogue could have just shot the birds stuck to the glue trap, they wouldn’t have been in this mess. With Rogue then acting correctly ‘sometimes you need someone to be the bad guy’ by taking the controller when the Doctor was busy snogging him and dispatching Ruby himself.

Leading into a finale where Ruby is in a different dimension and relying on her battle-earpiece skills to fend off 5 murderous birds as long as possible, giving us an opportunity to engage with whatever her reality warping powers are but it ‘could’ just be dimensional weirdness, and if the TARDIS was still the one who programmed the teleport she knows where Ruby is, and luckily for her if unluckily for the universe, the dimensions are now all bleeding at the edges and seeping out and Doctor Who is a TV show, yada yada yada.

[iceyrukia]

i really don't understand why the women's version of any clothing ALWAYS has to show more skin and be as form fitting as possible. Like even with more "modest" (for lack of better word) clothing that aren't too over-sexualized, you could still see a difference in men's and women's uniforms that are completely unnecessary. And the thing is that perhaps people have gotten so desensitized to the most ridiculous objectifying clothing that women are subjected to that anything less than pornified is praised as a "Win" or nothing to complain about. An example of this is how women's shorts for any type of occasion/use whether is for sports, sleepwear, or casual wear are always super short by default and it's frustrating.

Like as a women who dislikes wearing very restrictive clothing for various reasons it's annoying how there's this general consensus that women don't mind wearing clothing that's primary function (in comparisons to men's clothing) seems to prioritize showing of my "feminine figure" or how ~nice my legs look~ rather then comfort. And i know many women would defend this but I can't think of a reason why women's and men's clothing have to be (for the most part) different in functionality other than the normalization the mentality that women = body that needs to be shown off.

[femmesandhoney]

I don’t understand why not believing in gender is a crime?

What they don’t seem to understand is that just because I don’t believe in it, that doesn’t mean I automatically hate them.

I don’t believe in religion either, and I think the ideology is often dangerous. That doesn’t mean I think religious people aren’t people. It doesn’t mean I hate them and think they deserve horrid things.

However I feel like the TQ don’t feel the same., given that they’re so quick to block others or send rape of death threats to people who slightly disagree with them.

Religion and gender are not inherently bad, it’s what people do with it that matters. And as a gender critical feminist, my dislike of men is based on their actions. Actions the majority have made regardless of their beliefs. Regardless of where they are in the world. The only link between them being their sex. But that doesn’t mean I think all of them should drop dead!

Just in general, why is it so hard for people to treat fellow humans with empathy, kindness and dignity even if you disagree with them? (Except rapists, pedos, nazis etc of course)

God I’m sorry if this don’t make sense or is a bit venty or blocks up your inbox but something came up on my dash and I just had to vent to someone.

When people make things extremely political and also identify strongly with something, its very easy for people to get upset and not listen to any geninuely logical criticism you may bring up bc they feel you're essentially attacking their entire worldview and person all in one. They legitimately need outside validation for something like gender identity and when they don't receive it, worse yet when someone tells them otherwise, they view it as you denying their entire existence and their validity as a person. Its an extension of identity politics and how intensely nowaday people cannot handle disagreement about most politicized things. Off topic but for example, our gardener has told my mom that he thinks i hate him because he is a republican. Mind you, my mother leans central and I often disagree w her about stuff all the time. But he like legitimately thinks I do not like him despite barely knowing him, and the conversations i've had w him have only been pleasant neighborly chit chat. Its kinda insane how quickly someone will assume something about how you view them based around political, spiritual, or other disagreements. People leap to hate so fast.

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

how do terfs grapple with the fact that they're white supremacist losers who think that women are weak essentially like adult babies but that they also bear the apparent brunt of all human pain... liiike ok which narrative are we going with

[llilychen]

it’s really sad that i always looked forward to rhaenyra and/or alicent scenes last season but i now feel the urge to fast forward every time one of them comes on screen

- every alicent scene is her looking sad or crying or her with cole but nothing she does adds anything of value to the plot

- we get the same black council scene in which the men are undermining rhaenyra twice per episode and still nothing is done (i do believe she will make some progress in the next episodes but it’s just so boring to watch her have the same scene over and over again)

cersei and dany i miss you both so much