#misogynists are so stupid

[azazelsazaleas]

Ok so I admittedly am not a die-hard Witcher fan - I’ve only read one book, watched the first season of the show, and never finished Witcher 3 - but I genuinely don’t get how anyone who calls themselves a fan of the series can see Ciri being the main playable character in the next game and be pissed off by this? Like, W3 did a lot to set this up (at least from what I’ve played and heard)

[ratbastarddotfuck]

if you're a white person taking pleasure in the idea that Trump voters of colour are experiencing racist violence from white trumpers because "they got what's coming to them" I don't think you're anti-racist at all, I think you were just waiting for an acceptable target, and you're also fucking weird.

Bad Person Deserves Punishment For Their Sins give me a fucking break and get yourself out of the fucking catholic church. you're all prison abolitionists until you see someone you don't like.

[mummer]

rhaenyra outsourcing motherhood to rhaena and assigning her that passive feminine role was REALLY interesting….. rhaenyra as a character is at her most fascinating when she is forced to navigate and ultimately perpetuate the gendered structures she despises and wishes she could transcend— the seeds of her tragedy already sewn here. just great character work

[sylusmc]

The love and deepspace fandom is ridiculous and stupid for every single MC hate it produces. There's nothing wrong with MC at all, I fear a lot of you just have internalised misogyny or are too jealous of a 3D woman for being with "your" man 🤷‍♀️

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

one thing i really love about the DBD fandom and was relieved to see is that people don't villainise Crystal or Niko for being close to Charles and Edwin and claim that they're "in the way" of the Payneland ship

it's an all too common way female characters get treated in fandom, and i'm glad to see that while they both had affectionate relationships with one of the boys (briefly romantic in Crystal's case, platonic in Niko's), people are normal about them

especially Crystal, i really dreaded that some of the fandom would blame her for the piss-poor way Edwin initially treated her out of his jealousy over Charles liking her, but thankfully, i haven't seen that happen myself

[pokemon-radical-red]

I hate it when I headcanon a character who’s canonically a girl as a trans man and make ships of him and a character who’s canonically a guy and I refer to it as a gay/mlm/guyxguy/whatever ship and someone gets mad. Like omg let trans people have FUNNNNN. Why are queer headcanons and genderbends cool until they’re saying that the character is trans???

“OMGGG you’re so misogynistic I can’t believe you would erase FEMALE representation!!!”

and like half of the characters in the franchise are women, and a total of… NONE of the characters are trans men. Also, my headcanon doesn’t change the source material. If my stuff upsets you, you can block me and go engage with the source or maybe every single other fanwork, since mine is the only trans man hc for this character that I’ve ever seen.

or when people are like “WTF??? this is so transphobic!!! how dare you imply that a character who looks like that could be a trans man?!?! do you think that trans men are women or something??? she uses she/her, and you’re misgendering her!”

No, I don’t think that being a trans man makes you a woman or vice versa. That’s why it’s a headcanon, and the headcanon is that this character is actually a trans man and not a woman at all! You’ll never guess what pronouns most trans men had to use at some point in their lives, and you really won’t like it when you find out about pre-(or no-)transition trans men… or trans men who are in the closet… or trans men who don’t know that they’re trans yet.

“But the character is a kid!!! Saying they’re trans is sexualizing them.”

I’ve seen this one from other queer people. Like did you miss when all of the homophobes said this about your identity, or do you think that bigotry is only bad when it’s directed at you?

“Why would you say ‘testosterone could fix her’??? Are you trying to call her a delusional woman?”

Why would your brain even go to that first? This literally has to be a bad faith reading, because there’s no way that someone could see what I said and get this unless they were specifically looking for something to be mad at me for.

(Note for anyone unaware: “Estrogen would’ve fixed him!” was a meme going around at the time I said this. I’m not sure if it’s still super big, but this was a joke to the effect of that.)

“So girls can’t be tomboys anymore? You just wanna trans everyone?”

This is like actual real life transphobic rhetoric. This isn’t even just shitting on my headcanon, but in fact, sending transphobic hate to a trans man. Thanks 👍. Maybe you should go send JK Rowling another message about how much you loved her essay instead of bothering me.

[vellichorom]

i don't go here but if you guys saw that new digital circus episode & thought gangle was the bad guy i hate you

[themostdesperatehoney]

When you see a horny post and it's fine but then misogyny comes out at the end and jumpscares you

[drippydumdum]

They say it's a Man's world.

Wrong. women have forever been erased from history, stolen credits, forced down to do their work under a Man's name. Almost everything we use now, the foundation was women. That's the fun about patriarchy and misogyny. The Men erased what we ever did from history and put themselves at top of it. we women are so pathetic, weak and stupid that the Men so easily stole our glory. cunts, we should rub to the fact that we are so retard and easily abused that Men conquered us like that. Work harder to forget women ever made any contribution to this world ever

[mamawasatesttube]

bruce characterization is so hard because he really has been written all over the place. generally i try to think of him as a man who really does mean well, but whose drive for justice and unprocessed traumas can blind him to his shortcomings and lead to him inadvertently hurting his children. i also think that comics are a medium that doesn't usually lend itself well to character growth, because they to maintain a certain status quo to keep telling stories from, and so the bruce in my mind would honestly develop and learn from his mistakes a lot better than canon bruce actually does, because for someone who espouses the values he does, it makes no sense for him to completely stagnate, right. he's a puzzle you can put together in a lot of different ways and it's fascinating but also can be such a pain because of all the different books writing him in so many different ways, but characterizing him solely as an asshole is just boring and reductive imo...

...but all of that said i still think if martha kent ever found out how he talked to kon in sb94 #85 or in those issues of batgirl '00, she should be allowed to beat his ass with a pitchfork. yknow?

[marybeatriceofmodena]

I can't fucking believe yall were up Rings of Power's ass when HotD decided to have Our Lady of Sorrows of Westeros cause a civil war because she forgot her own trashbag of a son was named after Aegon the Conqueror and she took a dying man's rambling about some pretty fundamental history as him designating him as heir. Like, I'm supposed to think this lady is smart. What even.

And if any Alicent stans want to come for me I want you to seriously sit down. And think about how your fave is written. How she reacts to things. How she processes information. Like, this is someone who's been in court for 20+ years and still doesn't get the basics. I hate Philippa Gregory's books with a passion but Mary Boleyn was a smarter bitch than this. This is a writers' problem.

[beanghostprincess]

i honestly love transfem!sanji with zosan because it would be the same damn violent dynamic except that now zoro has more hair to tug if sanji keeps it long

[ssaalexblake]

I still don't get why people say 13's era is so different to the rest of dw... it's really not?

Because people always frame this as some kind of Obective Writing Fact that has to be agreed upon when a bunch of times, if they go deeper into that statement, it dips into nothing more than the pov of storytelling which is only different because the casting demographic has become more diverse, and therefore their stories can and Would realistically be approached from a different angle.

I mean... While historically men Did actually get tried for witchcraft, it was not nearly on the scale of which women did and nor is it a widely acknowledged thing in history (I only know this because of a history podcast) so when you talk about writing here and 13 being charged for Witchcraft because James historically really did have women issues (waaaay beyond the speculation into his sexuality), where previously the Doctor probably would have been some kind of white knight and that's more befitting the hero of the tale, then i have to say, that is not a writing critique. That is a casting critique dressed up as something else.

I just see So much around that basically says that even the people who've been begging for more diverse casting for decades didn't actually stop to consider what that'd mean. And this isn't even getting into the Disturbingly large subset of the population that has no idea whatsoever that they have little to no empathy with women.

idk. The writing in general, silly stories, universal peril, cautionary tales, very unsubtle plots to teach children things. That was not different in this era. All of the show's like that? But there Were differences realistically stemming from the cast of characters that broke all the way down into the narrative, which is Not an issue and in fact what people have wanted for decades.

idk.

[fromtheseventhhell]

I also find it funny that fandom will only accept Lyanna being her non-conforming, wild self in the context of saying that Arya isn't meant to be pretty; Any other day we get back-to-back posts about how Lyanna is actually super traditionally feminine cause she sniffled at a song once, so she's actually more like Sansa. Instead of constantly speaking on Arya and Lyanna, how about you guys reflect on why your standards of beauty for women are attached to how well they perform feminity within the patriarchy?

[ispyspookymansion]

i do have to say. i think that mouthwashing having any substantial yaoifan presence is gonna give me ulcers and i havent even played the game myself

[atopvisenyashill]

i think the argument that using the orientalism in dany’s chapters as a reason to dislike her character is part of ~stan wars~ or is like, not a valid reason to dislike this arc to be so stupid. i see this about white women saviors allll the time in fandom & i find it really grating esp when it’s coming from white people in fandom. it’s great that You can talk about this in a vacuum but reading a story about a mighty whitey and being told that i’m somehow not serious as an analyst bc often times i cannot stand the racism dany herself feels & is justified in feeling and find myself resenting her for liberating the poor oppressed brown women from the evil raping misogynist men is like, SUCH a privileged ass take i don’t know how otherwise very smart people can’t see they’re making fandom hostile to people of color.