#misogynistic talking points
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Ngl something about people stanning Rhaenyra & wholeheartedly supporting her as a BAMF anti-patriarchy protagonist but calling Alicent a myriad of names, belittling & disregarding her traumas etc. Grosses me out fr.
It doesn't surprise me because it happens quite a bit on social media but some of the shit I've seen people write without an ounce of self-awareness just baffles me. The lack of sympathy boggles my mind, seriously 😐
#hypocrite#love women#she wanted it#alicent wanted to fuck viserys#house of the dragon#hotd#rhaenyra targaryen#alicent hightower#especially when alicent is a but nyra stans are supposedly the ones who and want to emancipate women etc.#even worse is when alicent gets victim-shamed & belittled & accused of putting HERSELF in horrific situations aka#where is sympathy? where is self-awareness?#skskks i just hate it when ppl act like they care about women and then spit vile stuff at other women#obvs can work vice versa but i tend to see more hate towards alicent than nyra (but it isn't okay in either direction!!)#some of the worst takes are like and shit like that#idk if you're supporting team black for a woman to be on the throne & you're anti-patriarchy etc. but saying the vilest shit...#towards alicent then i don't think you can call Alicent a hypocrite#I'm always tentative about labelling things as like misogynistic and whatnot but some of the things I've read are like borderline...#misogynistic talking points#i can understand maybe not liking alicent#but being unable to have even a shred of sympathy or empathy for her not so much esp when you're all yeehaw for feminism & Rhaenyra etc#this is worded awfully but you get the picture lol
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i see a lot of people* who advocate for trans unity are just using a different term to hide their transmisogyny.
it’s not ‘trans unity’ if you can’t acknowledge that trans men aren’t the center of the universe and that trans women and their issues matter just as much.
it’s not ‘trans unity’ if you believe that trans women should kiss the feet of trans men and beg for their forgiveness for their alleged ‘misandry’ while completely ignoring the very real and very dangerous transmisogyny present in the trans and outer lgb community.
it’s not ‘trans unity’ if your idea for fixing the rift in the trans community is for trans women to shut the fuck up and do all the work.
it’s not ‘trans unity’ if you can’t even allow trans women to talk about the harm terfs do to them specifically without barging in and silencing them because “terfs are mean to us too so-!”. that’s not the point. trans women talking about their oppression isn’t hurting you, and it’s definitely not an invitation to fight them about it because you want to turn it into an argument about who has it worse.
it’s not ‘trans unity’ if your idea of trans unity is to have a community where trans women are just submissive and obedient, silent about the mistreatment they face either because they were silenced or because they never had a voice in the first place. you are already a part of that community. you already surround yourself with likeminded people who believe the same transmisogynistic things that you do. you don’t need to push a false idea of unity among trans people, it’s very clear what you believe in already, and we don’t need the entire trans community behaving like this.
#the people in question were of course already transmisogynists#i don’t know why they’re pretending they care about trans women#when they can’t even give the neutral nothing statement of ‘both sides need to change and do better’#no. they can’t say a single nice thing about trans women#it’s very clear what their purpose is by the language they use and the way they phrase their talking points#it’s never about equality or unity#it’s the same misogynistic attitude of your average incel with a ‘woke’ coat of paint#transmisogyny /
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I hate men because today after years of my brother mocking me whenever I talk about something I’m well informed on by saying I did no research I finally told him how much it upsets me. So straight after he brought up my male assault statistics and called them fake before leaving.
#like wdym you think 80% of violent crimes being committed by men is a ‘fake statistic’ how would that be fake it’s based on the imprisonment#ratios!!! Males will always feign ignorance to defend their kind no matter how ‘kind’ and ‘good’ they are#justice to my youngest bro tho (I’m raising him w feminist beliefs as best I can so he can be as close to a real good man as possible) who#chased after him and started asking him if he heard they were fake on Reddit (moid bros fave place to say I get my facts from)#my youngest bro is still a moid and he has his misogynistic moments (mostly interrupting me/he’ll swim underwater when I talk as a norm)#but he’s NOWHERE near as bad as my other bro in how often and rudely he does this (my other bro also does other worse things whereas this is#all the lil guy does [I like to believe I can teach him to be a proper good guy even tho I probs cant])#but yeah fuck all men they’re all misogynists#some are better than others and maybe we can ‘fix’ them (but we shouldn’t have to- I only do this w my lil bro cuz I’m stuck with him NEVER#try this with a friend or bf who you can end the relationship with at any point)#but they’re all misogynistic in some way or another#sunni posts#radblr#radical feminism#radical feminist safe#radical feminists do interact#radical feminists please touch#radical feminists do touch#radical feminists please interact#radical feminist community#trans exclusionary radical feminism
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#honestly#like imo the most egregious sample is how atla fandom has become overun by cishet 'bootok girl' zutaras#atla getting put on netflix in 2021 at the height of lockdown was like the perfect storm#if its not the zutaras its the misogynistic dude bro avatar fans obsessed with powerscaling that hate korra's guts#i like she said theyre rehashing discourse talking points that have been settled in like 2018/19#it's a whole mess#tiktok
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You guys are always yapping about how Criston Cole is Rhaenyra’s victim. Even though the show contradicts you on this point many times. Even though the producers contradict you on this point repeatedly.
However, no one wants to reckon with the fact that those men took a tale about a misogynistic paedophile and the child he groomed and isolated and then turned his child victim into the initiator/aggressor.
It’s par for the course with the adaptors. We watched it happen with Dany and Jorah, Doreah and Xaro Xhoan Daxos, Loras Tyrell and the homophobic way they adapted his story. The racist, heavily sexualised way they adapted the sand snakes and Ellaria Sand. I had hoped the fandom would know better by now but alas!
#before someone inevitably comes here to “but daemon” me#I will say that#daemon targaryen#did not get an adaptation that effectively whitewashed his character to the point that even book-only discussions of his character#are derailed by his antis.#if anything daemon was made extra evil#criston cole was whitewashed#to the point that people who have allegedly read the books are arguing that he was always#rhaenyra's victim.#it's absolutely maddening.#people justifying the homophobic rant he gives after viserys dies#people saying his usurpation of rhaenyra is justified#also being “but daemon-ed” is so fucking annoying#I don't even like that nigga but the way your lot talk about him has me wondering if any of you cracked open fire and blood#or rise of the dragon#or even the world of ice and fire#like damn#you niggas don't even slander Tywin this much and he's also a child murdering#woman murdering#war mongering#cruel#misogynist#like what gives?#house of the dragon#fire and blood#hotd#criston cole
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Another round of asoiaf "prettycourse", another round of people ignoring Arya's self-esteem issues and how it relates to her arc because their enjoyment of the series hinges on an 11-year-old being considered ugly.
#arya stark#asoiaf#fandom nonsense#/looks don't matter/ but they're the ones firing up this discourse every few weeks cause they can't handle what's written in the books#grown ass people logging on every day to talk about how Arya HAS to be ugly or her story is ruined/makes her less interesting#at what point do you get tired of being so invested in how a character (one you obviously don't like at that) is perceived?#we aren't the ones shipping her with every grown man in the series and using a predator's words to fawn over her beauty#never any discourse around a 13 year old being the most shipped character in the series nope! the real issue is that we don't#consider Arya's bullies to be the ultimate authority on her looks!#where are the essays on how Arya shouldn't have been made to feel lesser based on her looks? how she should be able to have worth outside#of her misogynistic society's standards? why is it literally ALWAYS just /Arya is ugly...that's enough analysis for today/????#if her looks don't matter then you can simply stop creating discourse around the subject and let people have whatever opinions they want
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sorry but the minute you go after my moots, i’m grabbing my canon cannon and blowing you out the water
#a tiktok has been requested and shall be made when i get home#👹👹👹#acotar#anti rhysand#pro tamlin#like seriously do y’all not tire of this talking point#and that’s even half of the things he’s done to her#you were called a misogynist for a reason [redacted]#anti feysand#feyre archeron deserves better#tw sa mention#tw: sa mention
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#@ comment directed to me in a tag. i have not talked abt them anywhere publicly but if u were deep enough in the paint in 2020ish theyre#like not super surprising. i think i wanna get back around to the trolls in my reread (so itll b a while) before i say anthing solid#just so i can go in w intent to pay closer attention again but like#overall have a low opinion on most the troll boys insofar as i see that the narrative seems to also not care for them. they seem to exist#to serve narrative purposes & end up discarded when no longer relevant. ie they dont end up very interesting and thus i view#many fans with suspicion when they have 'boys disease' ie having an outsized focus on the boys of the story despite hs being by the end#an extremely female dominated text with a lot to say about masculinity as an opressive force#tavros and gamzee are the biggest bugbears here (only really beaten out in eyebrow raising by cronus and the male dancestors)#on account of fans of them often downplaying gamzee's misogyny that is core to his role as a charismatic cult leader (or worse#sending trans women death threats when they made the factual assesment that gamzee was written to be a weird misogynist calling it#character assassination etc. man 2020 was wild.) tavros mostly just ends up being an accessory to this crime tbh. though his genuinely#complicated relationship w vriska oft being flattened to villify vriska + an inability to actually read what tavros Says...#like. if you get rid of tavros' quirk. stammering and all. and read his lines. he's kind of fucking rude? and yeah its alternia they all ar#but i have my hesitancies wrt how people seem to infantilise him (a disabled character) to the point of ignoring his dialogue and flaws#when one of tavros' core conceits (u can argue if this is . like. something hussie should have stayed out of. like its not their lane) is#that shitty ppl online will be assholes but will be allowed to get away with it due to unrelated disability. which like. it was 2010 ig#but this is hit upon again with mituna being distinctly a 4 channer with real brain damage and speech issues & all his friends letting him#get away with shit he still clearly has the cognitive capacity to know is wrong. its very messily handled but. i dont rlly like tavros ig.#will b amazed if tumblr doesnt eat these tags i went on wayy too long. but im not putting this in plaintext for obvi reasons#lucabytereads
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Listening to James Somerton’s videos is bizarre because now that I’m aware of the plagiarism it really is glaring that he’s just reading other people’s words based on the syntax alone like. He just doesn’t have a personal writing style, there’s no grammatical quirks or phrasings he uses, because it’s all coming straight from the work of different people. If you read enough of one person’s work you pick up on their style and habits - words they like, how they structure and organize their sentences when making a point, that sort of thing. Jimmy boy has no style at all because he’s a mess of stolen words glossed up in fancy expensive editing transitions.
#ra speaks#personal#james somerton#hbomberguy#finally got to the meat of hbs video. jfc man.#I think I saw his video essay on queer horror a while ago and it’s like. damn. gonna go triple check the other horror video essays I like.#smh buddy you’re putting us gays with style to shame. coulda at least had some pizzazz if you’re gonna be a piece of shit about it.#‘that’s not fair his style is misogyny’ even then he’s being derivative and parroting popular misogynistic talking points.#man’s can’t even be original when he’s being a bitter bully
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just typed out a war and peace style post about wanting there to be an equivalent of body neutrality in feminist spaces re: periods/childbirth/etc and though there are so many caveats to what I have to say, I think that there can and should be a middle ground between "your divine feminine body was built for these processes and you will embrace the pain with grace/this is easy for everybody" and borderline misogynistic fearmongering surrounding standard bodily phenomena
#disclaimer: the 'fearmongering' is not referencing phobias/dysphoria/medical conditions#the body may change after pregnancy and I understand why some people would fear this#but also instead of putting the blame on the function of pregnancy itself can we criticize a misogynistic society that deems a body#used/broken/less attractive after having given birth?#point is I feel like a lot of the scaremongering is pointed at the bodily functions and the people (largely women) who experience#or will experience them#and not society's reaction to these functions and how poorly some are treated when doing something 50% of the population has#since the dawn of humanity#to add I do feel like being realistic about risks/bodily effects is not the problem#I think making informed decisions is good#I *do* think that talking about these risks as though they're universally body horror is#and again acting as though someone will be broken/worse after having experienced this#though given the political climate I am not entirely unsympathetic as to why this crops up
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Watching HBomberguy’s Plagiarism video
#the fact that i have personally held a grudge against James Somerton for a long time makes this very cathartic#he’s started pointing out that ‘hey a lot of the original stuff he has to add is just misogynistic’ is like ‘oh thank god’#I thought I was fucking crazy because everyone fucking loves this guy and he always has to take a pause to talk about women being stupid#or something equivalent and like fetishizing something and not being able to realize that they’re so stupid and fetishistic#but then everyone loved his content and I thought like ‘am I just seeing something that’s not there??? what the fuck how is he so popular?’#but here it is laid out and analyzed by someone with the information and education and experience#vindication ahahahahaha
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Sometimes I get irked when stans are on about Elain being sooo different because she's not a warrior or whatever and making weird, extremely unfounded digs at others like "some people can only recognize character development when the girl picks up a sword" when... a lot of Nesta stans did not want her to have a warrior arc going into ACOSF. Some people are still very dissatisfied with that decision. Myself, I've made my peace with it, but I still would've preferred something else for her. Not wanting a warrior arc was never something that was exclusive to Elain. And also? Anyone who's read other SJM books can tell you she's plenty capable of writing female characters that aren't warriors.
Idk, I don't think there's a whole lot of mental gymnastics needed to see why some people call Elain boring. It's not because she wears dresses and bakes and gardens or whatever y'all seem to think it is—it's because she's not nearly as active in the story so far as other side characters. Looking at Lucien and Eris, or even Nesta before ACOSF and there's a massive difference in portrayal. All characters that were given ample development without having a POV compared to Elain. Solid personalities and everything. Be as excited as you want about her story, theorize to your heart's content, but you don't need to imply that real people aren't smart enough to understand her potential or call people misogynistic in order to hype her up.
#i'm nervous to post this because y'all scare me a little tbh#but it pisses me off when people say it's misogynistic to call her boring#call me when her character tag isn't 99% ship war content and i'll start taking you seriously#there isn't a single part of this fandom that doesn't need a lecture on how to respect other people's perspectives#pleaseee don't come at me saying her killing the king makes her interesting or whatever y'alls usual talking points are i don't care#if that makes her interesting to you... that's great. FOR YOU.#this post isn't about whether or not she's interesting it's about not being weird to other people#acotar
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Yeah man at this point I don't care if you're one of my very few cherished Jewish mutuals. If you are posting about how the right wing shift among men of every race, class, and education level is actually the fault of women and feminism for not being nicer about violent sexism, I am blocking you immediately.
#gingerswagfreckles#It sucks to lose those people because the Jewish community is VERY small but women are oppressed by men not the other way around#And if you are still blaming women for our own oppression at this point you are just straight up a misogynist with no if ands or buts at al#Men in every walk of life saw a violent rapist on TV talking about how he would help them regain control of women#(As if they ever lost it)#And they all threw their own rights away to vote for him#And the most popular post on this website about the phenomenon is some man whining about how right wing woman hating fascists#Called him brother 🥺❤️ while the evil feminazis on the left called him a meanie 😡😡 and so ofc he couldn't help but adore Andrew Tate#And consume horrific rape fantasy bioessentialist content created by literal sex traffickers#And it has 26 thousand notes and everyone is going woooow you're so brave this is sooo true it's really women's fault for calling this poor#Man a meanie 🥺😭🙏#Ok#Unironically a lot of you hate women and are not even embarrassed about it and that includes a lot of women
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vriska being tma is 90% fandom caused bc homestuck is fandom driven and i think that should also be applied to interpretations like this . i dont feel like writing up a whole post abt it but she is the target of fandom misogyny in such an extreme and specific way that its hard to pretend that it doesnt resemble transmisogyny to a concerning degree
#i dont really want 2 talk about it too extensively . i am tme and do not want to feel like i am watering it down to talk abt a fictional#character . i am just making the point that a lot of people that are nasty about vriska seem to hold nasty views about irl transfems in a#way that most fandom misogynists are when it comes to women in general
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It always annoys me when people are like “saying men suck is bad bcs it alienates men, you have to be nicer” bcs one time at work, me and my coworkers who were all women were privately talking about that football player who said women shouldn’t go to college and should just become housewives, and were saying that the problem is less men and more gender roles and societal views on what men and women should do, and somehow that still pissed off a guy who overheard us talking about it so much that he called us all bitches and demanded to speak to our boss
#my posts#like yeah i don’t think all men suck#but even saying it in a way that puts no individual at fault leads to men taking that personally and getting misogynistic#and you can never really know what men may react that way#or if they’ll take you pointing out misogyny serious in all situations#both my boss and manager#who are generally good to me and supportive about me getting mistreated#only like. 50% of the time take things seriously when i point out being mistreated#and the rest of the time they try to justify it#‘he just doesn’t know how to talk to younger women’#‘he’s autistic he doesn’t mean badly’#and yet they treat me badly anyway#bcs they know i’m a woman and that means i’m an object to them
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"Theatre critic circles are in desperate need of diverse voices, and these old white men cannot be the only arbiters of good and bad in the industry," and "it's not the feminist take you think it is to dismiss a show's negative reviews just because it's men who are raising the valid critiques you yourself see but can and will overlook because you're attached to a show you say is 'written for the girls, gays, etc." are two viewpoints that can coexist.
It might be easy to dismiss a male critic's pan of a show because it's meant for women. That's not feminism. That's gender essentialism. The show may be written for a queer female audience, but should queer women not also demand quality and cohesion in a show's book and score, or must we always be satisfied by the crumbs we are given? We should not be arguing that just because a show is geared towards a female audience, it must be above critique, or that the real and present flaws in the book and score are only important to men, and all women will like it anyway.
As a queer woman of color, had I been a critic, my review would have been mixed to negative just like all those men you dismissed because the problems do not change from a gendered perspective. The book is weak. The score disjointed. The protagonist watered-down. It's like the writers set out to say "it's a queer love story," but didn't do the work to delve any deeper, and hoped to carry the show on that alone. Queer stories deserve to be held to the same high standard as any other show, and boiling it down to "it's queer so you have to like it and critics are homophobic" is a ridiculous, immature, reductive statement.
#lempicka#broadway#this is about lempicka but also my main point stands with many recent pieces of media geared towards women#like the whole “can't criticize barbie” because it's for women and you're sexist if you hate it#or anyone who hates that blonde pop singer is misogynistic#no i just have fucking taste and want something better#and not to dismiss the single positive review (by a female critic) but like...look at the outlet#nytheatreguide isn't exactly where i'd go for quality reviews: it's more of a marketing site/press release than a news outlet#can't talk about this on the discord because it's like lecturing lemmings
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