#it’s the misogyny

[tariah23]

Literally. The only male rappers who deserve to be here are Kendrick (it’s Kendrick. Whenever he drops or appears on anything, it’s gonna be huge regardless) and Tyler but I don’t even remember the others putting out anything memorable this what. I didn’t even know most of them dropped… while Megan, Glorilla, and Doechii especially have been everywhere.

[longing-for-rain]

Weird how when people want to “explore taboo topics through fiction” it almost always involves gratuitous sexual violence against women, children, and occasionally gay men but never things like…idk, diarrhea, terminal illness, gynecological conditions, hate crimes, abortion, etc. (or how about periods!)

I wonder why that possibly could be 🤔

[dappersappho]

“I think the takeaway from this is that Democrats ran a bad campaign.”

Wasn’t Biden’s whole thing the fact that “at least I’m not Trump”? And he still got like 80 million people to come out for him?

[radicalkhaleesi]

If you like Eminem I don’t trust or like you

[lostryu]

anon really decided the "men are better than the shitty man-hating dykes and the patriarchy is good" take was the hill to die on????

let’s be real though, most of tumblr hasn’t even graduated past basic feminism 101, this line of thought is so common

[visenyaism]

“girl dinner” “girl math” “i’m just a girl” okay but I am an adult I am six feet tall I am loud as fuck I take up space I am smart and capable. So are you. Why would we want to laugh at jokes where the punchline is that women aren’t? Why would we want to make jokes about being small and childish and incapable? Who do you think laughs at those jokes the loudest?

[animentality]

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[tendersugars]

[charlesoberonn]

"Lawrence it's the fucking Taliban" gives similar vibes to "Harold they're lesbians"

[tariah23]

[longing-for-rain]

-i most definitely participate in real-life climate activism (do you?)

-i actually don’t give a fuck enough to shit on taylor swift constantly. it just needed to be said—all of her fans are deranged freaks who assume the worst about everyone online just because they don’t think of taylor swift as a deity. you included. you’re annoying and need to get offline because no one in the real world cares as much about this as you.

hope you enjoyed the rage bait! here’s some more !:)

Thanks for being so insecure you felt the need to send me an ask on my personal blog justifying your unhinged behavior to me because I said it’s inappropriate to single out female celebrities for alleged crimes that males commit on much greater scales, and use this as justification to hurl sexualized and violent threats at them :)

[trash-and-trash-accessories]

I do want to note that the whole "women are allowed to dress masculine and wear trousers" thing needs to be viewed in its historical context:

People fought for generations to be allowed to dress that way. They fought hard to be allowed to wear pants. Blue jeans were a symbol of feminist revolution. Women were barred from workplaces and schools for wearing them.

This is not some a natural fact that women dressing masculine is less shocking and humiliating. That normalization was fought for and hard-won.

And yet so many people erase the struggles of those people who fought to make that happen and pretend that it's just normal and natural that people don't see women "dressed like men" as ridiculous.

The Marriage of Figaro has what's called a "breeches role" which is a woman wearing men's clothes playing am ale role. This was done partly due to the vocal range requirements, but in many cases it was done comedically. It was risque and sexualized or comic relief that a woman was dressed as a man.

Anti-suffragette posters mock women wearing pants - well they were bloomers and split skirts back then - and mocking more masculine cut styles of clothes. This was meant to portray this as ridiculous.

They mocked the "new woman" in Weimar Germany, lamenting that they were too masculine.

This is a political cartoon from the 1920s depicting a woman in masculine dress deciding which bathroom to use:

Sorry but you're erasing these struggles and flattening history when you say this shit.

Women were killed and institutionalized in the struggle to make this happen. It really fucking bothers me the way it's framed as "people just don't find it as weird when women dress masculine."

Yes they fucking did. Until women and transmasculine people fought for their right to wear what they want. It's normalized because people struggled to normalize it.

And it's not normal everywhere. There are many countries where it's still illegal for women to wear pants. Afghanistan, for example.

Even in the US, it's forbidden and considered ridiculous in groups like the FLDS, the Amish, and the Hutterites.

We are flattening and erasing the struggles of women when we say these things. I know we're trying to build theory here but you can't build solid theory on a foundation of lies.

[victusinveritas]

My mom decided to weigh in on this, on the side of the Italian boxer, thinking I'd allow her to repeat bullshit talking points for some reason (never have allowed that shit, especially not from someone who raised me not to tolerate racism or anything that ends with someone being put down)...I made her stay on the line until she admitted she was wrong.

[zzxid]

I genuinely think Mouthwashing fandom is a good example on how real life misogyny is very wired on people brains and influenced how they engage with fictional misogyny.

You have a story about a woman being assaulted and telling a man she trusted but being dismissed because he is friends with the attacker, and people fixate on shipping her with either of those men.

You have a story about how men that downplay their male friends violence, assume neutrality is the safer option, unintentionally help create an environment that's unsafe to vulnerable people, at a risk becoming a victim themselves. And people make it about toxic yaoi.

You have a character kill herself because she didn't want birth the child of her abuser. And people make AUs where she happily keep the baby.

Misogyny isn't just "I hate women", it's also downplaying their trauma, defending those who caused it, and reducing them to mothers or wives against their wishes under this idea of what womanhood is about.

I don't think we can separate fandom misogyny from it's real world influence, not yet.

[gay-otlc]

Idk I feel like "Men are responsible for their own actions, women aren't to blame for men being misogynistic" and "You do not have to tolerate bigotry from others, call them out on that shit" and "People may be less likely to become radicalized if they receive kindness and compassion" don't have to contradict each other