#she is a LESBIAN and she is a MISANDRIST and she’s AMAZING

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LADY BULLSEYE by CLAY MANN

[alpaca-clouds]

Alex! I have returned to send you more character asks! I will do a couple more, in pairs of two for organizational purposes ^_^

For Castlevania, tell me more about Hector and Carmilla!

Oh boy. Of course those two together at that (are you and @0nelittlebirdtoldme secretly the same person?). But alright, let's do this.

Sexuality Headcanon

Hector I headcanon as pansexual and demiromantic. He basically has to really connect with a person to fall in love with them.

Meanwhile I headcanon Carmilla as a lesbian. I don't care that canon says she is bisexual. To me she is a lesbian. (And, let's face it: Castlevania is a canon that basically says "everyone is bisexual until proofen otherwise.")

OTP

My OTP for Hector is Hector/Isaac. I really do love those two together. Though I ship him with several other characters as well, because he is my little bicycle! One of my ships for him is, of course, Hector/Lenore, but I really, really do like him with Sypha as well. :D

I don't have a real good OTP for Carmilla, though I have an OC I ship her with: Laura.

BroTP

Really, my BroTP for Hector (that does not involve any animal friends of his, that is) is Hector and Abel. I do still want to write something that goes more into their friendship :D

For Carmilla it is her and Morana. While I have Striga often struggling to connect with Carmilla, Carmilla really gets along well with Morana.

NOTP

... Hmm... I mean, I would probably not ship Hector with Striga or Morana. But outside of that? All bets are off, my little bicycle 🚲

For Carmilla it is definitely Carmilla/Dracula. That one... Just no.

First headcanon that pops into my head

Hector is autistic. You cannot convince me otherwise.

For Carmilla. First thing that pops into my mind is my entire headcanon with Laura and how it relates to Lenore. See, in my Headcanon Laura (who was Carmilla's partner) has been the one to turn Lenore, but has died soon afterwards, because she was not careful enough and got killed by an English soldier. While Lenore made it to the safety of Styria afterwards, Carmilla always saw her as the one to take Laura from her. Even though it was not Lenore's fault.

Favorite line from this character

To me the best Hector lines all have to do with him understanding the world. So I will go with him nerding out over vampire books. lol "I admit there is more to vampire culture, than I thought. There are ideas in here about physical presence in the world, the importance of soil and landscape and being. Actual philosophy. Amazing."

With Carmilla it is just her anger that I love so much. "That's what I do. I take things away from evil old men, because they don't deserve to have it." Queen!

One way in which I relate to this character

Look. I am all about projecting on Hector, alright? Autistic guy who got abused by his parents and has problems finding a good relationship, leading to further abuse? Yep. That's me. lol

For Carmilla? Well, look. I get her anger at cis guys, alright? I get it.

Thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character

Oh Hector. My poor, sweet Hector. What doesn't give me second hand embarrassment about this man? He gets betrayed and manipulated not once, not twice, but a total of three times. My sweet, sweet Hector. He is so dense.

Carmilla is a badass bitch. But man was she stupid treating Hector the way she did. Didn't she know that the creatures would listen to him and him alone? Because man... the entire thing was so dumb.

Cinnamon Roll or Problematic Fave?

Hector is mostly a cinnamon roll, even though he also did partake in genocide. But still... Just look at the man! :(

Carmilla is a problematic fave, though. I mean, she is just misandrist af

[ultramaga]

"the personal is political" Not just a misandrist, but a totalitarian.

And a lazy whiner who perpetually threatens to leave and form their own State - with blackjack and hookers - but who never does anything about it. I mean, this person is just the worst. But wait - there's more!

Yes, they would actually side with female Nazis because vagina. Amazing. I can't begin to understand how anything can be that bigoted, stupid and lazy, all at the same time. In fact, I have to wonder if all the radfem accounts are controlled by one dude with a fetish. I mean, have you met a radfem in the flesh in the last decade? Two decades? Maybe they are all long dead, and there's just one skeezy geezer with a farm of phones ...

Desperately wanking to images of Nazi concentration guards. "Oppress me, mommy!!"

One of the worst experiences in the world is watching the male classmates I’ve known since kindergarten when they were sweet and adorable become misogynistic dickheads. Seeing male socialization in real time as a spectator makes me feel so helpless. I could never raise a son. If he ended up in the same way it would tear me to pieces.

[mithliya]

terminally online people : lesbians are amazing!! lesbians are the best!! I love lesbians!! lol I am a lesbian protector!! :) uwu ^_^

also those same people when a lesbian says she doesn't do dick : you sick dirty dyke bitch. I hope you kill yourself. dont you know that transwomen are women and they can be lesbians!!!!11111 not all lesbians hate dick. shut the fuck up you transphobic misandrist. kys

people really act like they love lesbians when they dont

it’s the performative support for me 🤢

[zutaralesbian]

black sails and btvs for the ask meme!

Black Sails:

OTPs: Max/Anne, Max/Eleanor, Flint/Thomas

lowkey otps: Max/Idelle, Eleanor/Mrs Hudson, Silver/Muldoon

ships you wish more people shipped: I think almost everyone in the fandom ships Max/Anne but they don't get a ton of attention compared to the m/m ships. Same with Max/Eleanor, though I do actually wish more people shipped them.

ships you think are cute: Idelle/Featherstone

ships you see the appeal of but don’t ship: Silver/Madi. They have amazing chemistry and started off really cute. But the more I think about it, the more I don't think it would be in character for her to forgive him for what he did in the finale :( I also understand why people like Silver/Flint but it just isn't my cup of tea. Despite their lack of screentime Flint's arc was just so heavily tied to Thomas that I couldn't really imagine shipping him with someone else. Especially since I went in knowing Thomas was alive when I started watching.

ships that are usually brotp but can be otp: Max/Idelle

ships you don’t care about: Silver/Flint also falls into this category

ships you dislike:

ships you hate: Eleanor/Woodes and Eleanor/Vane. Trash.

crack ships: Eleanor/Miranda

ot3s: Anne/Max/Eleanor would have been my dream romantic endgame. I'll forever mourn the fact that we didn't get more Eleanor/Anne scenes. Also when it comes to trios I love both Max/Anne/Jack and Flint/Thomas/Miranda.

BTVS:

OTPs: Faith/Buffy. Could have been my dream enemies-to-friends-to-lovers f/f OTP :( And they would have fucked at least once if Faith was a man lbr

lowkey otps: Buffy/Tara, Buffy/Cordelia, Buffy/Anya, Buffy/Kendra. Buffy was a character that was just made for f/f ships. It's such a shame she never had a canon f/f romance on the show. Spike/Angel. Willow/Tara...is complicated for me. They gave me feels once in a while but I absolutely hated the way Willow treated Tara towards the end. Tara Maclay deserved so much better in general.

ships you wish more people shipped: I think Buffy/Faith has a decent following but not nearly as big as Sp*ffy or B*ngel. Also just femslash in general.

ships you think are cute: Willow/Tara had their cute moments before it started getting bad.

ships you see the appeal of but don’t ship:

ships that are usually brotp but can be otp: I think Willow and Xander both tended to be bad friends to Buffy a lot of the time. But once in a while I'll see a cute Buffy/Willow scene and get shippy feels.

ships you don’t care about: Buffy/Angel. They had their moments but I overall didn't find them very compelling. I think when I one day watch ATS I'll prefer Angel/Cordelia. Based on what I've seen of them they look more fun.

ships you dislike: Xander/Anya. They really expected me to believe that misandrist icon Anya Jenkins would fall in love with Nice Guy Xander?

ships you hate: Spike/Buffy. I almost put them in the 'ships I see the appeal of but don't ship' category but nah. They gross me out too much for that. He tried to rape her. Idc if he was having a humanity crisis that alone is a dead stop deal breaker for me. And their relationship was just really toxic in general. Also Willow/Oz. Willow is a lesbian.

crack ships:

ot3s: Buffy/Faith/Kendra

Thanks! :)

[werewolfbarbie]

So after all the love that was spread through out the GtLive community and the Grumps as well it would be strange of me to post the video and fuel the fire. But I will say this now and not any more cuz my birthday is on Saturday. and I wanna be in a good mood and have a great time which means this needs to come out now and im done speaking about it.

To the anons who have been trying to send me hate about my friend @marril96, one of you already knows this but I can track you. And I'm telling you what I told them. First off, continue sending lies and harassment to friends of Mariana and I will expose you. Second, don't come into my ask box acting like you know what really happened. You can call me all the names you want. Nothing to say to me will ever compare to the things I say to my own mirror. So your highschool insults are useless. Bring it. But call my friends that? You will regret it.

I don't care if some of you think I'm a coward as Gretchen is calling me for not wanting to speak to her, nor do I even know if she really did say that, as I've seen some of her messeges through screenshots and she has never said my name. But I'm just gonna put this out: I am NEVER talking to Gretchen ever again. I have blocked her on tumblr and twitter and I am not going to unlock her and listen to her side of the story. I know her side because Mariana wanted to reconcile and asked for advice on the friendship so she sent me screencaps. What I saw what not an argument between friends. It was abuse. Gretchen was insulting Mariana and twisting her words. She tried to make her feel guilty when Mariana found her post about lesbians being smarter than anyone cuz they know men suck to be misandrist. Gretchen called her lesaphobic. You dont ever EVER call a friend lesaphobic. You don't ever call a friend phobic of any kind. That was a line crossed so instead of advising her on reconciliation I told Mariana to cut her loose. And I encouraged her to block her. Mariana was already standing up for herself and doing well with that decision on her own, but you numnuts keep insisting that it was "so cruel" of Mariana to block her friend. Well newsflash. They weren't friends. Gretchen was never a friend. She convinced all of us that she was a kind, caring person and we truly believed that. But if you call someone lesaphobic you are not their friend.

Now about the art theft accusation cuz oh boy do I have quiet a bit to say. Mariana was accused of stealing art by an artist who was spewing complete and total lies. I did research and could easily tell you that this person has done this before with other people. Its become a tactic some artists have done for attention. Being a "victim" of art theft is the perfect way to gain a platform. By the way Mariana HERESELF has has her artwork stolen and she handled it humbly. And during this fiasco with the accusation Gretchen defended Mariana reassuring her that she knew she wouldnt do such a thing and we talked about in private chat how she and I could ecourage Mariana. So when the fallout happened and she wrote a post responding to a bully of an anon, who ive tracked, that she had "warned" Mariana of stealing art, that was a total lie. Gretchen never said anything about believing Mariana to be an art thief until AFTER she was angry at her. This anon then went into the ask of all of Marianas friends and said the same accusations. Most of them defended her because wouldnt you know it, we actually KNOW as true friends that Mariana would never do that.

And once we believed this all settled down, Gretchen extended an 'olive branch' to Mariana and in the kindness of Marianas heart she responded only to have Gretchen once again harass her in private and post more on her blog about the situation when Mariana stood up to the abuse. Everything was getting better and she must've wanted attention I don't know. But it lead to more people blocking Mariana which really is just stupid.

And now to the anons and the people who might be following me as well as Gretchen and Mariana, that is my answer. If any of you believe Gretchen and have blocked Mariana or choose to avoid her, you dont know the real Mariana and you were never her friend either. Ive been in a situation where I lost dozens of 'friends' who believed a lie about it and while it hurt that they would all abandon me and believe something awful about me, now I'm numb to it. I could care less if people unfollow me or block me. I have dealt with loss this year and hopelessness you wouldnt believe. You wanna cut me I'll be over it in 5 seconds. But Mariana does not deserve this.

She is not a lesophobic, homophobic, phobic of any kind. She is not an art thief. She is not a bully.

However she IS passionate, compassionate, an amazing friend, and loyal sister and someone worth tracking anons, researching background designs and blocking hateful fake friends for.

That's it I'm done. I'm not talking about it any more. Anons come into my ask box about it and I will continue to track you only to post your real blog. You got your answer and that is my piece. I turn 29 on Saturday and I intend to spend the rest of 2019 focusing on the ones I love and things I enjoy.

Have a goodnight.

[elegant-etienne]

have you met any friends in RL from rp? How did that go?

Munday Story Time!

I’ve met so many it would be hard to name them all! When I try to do a loose tally, it’s probably around 30-40 RPers I’ve met IRL from the various RP communities I’ve been a part of in my 20+ years of online RP. I’ve met about seven FFXIV RPers, not counting people I met IRL at other nerdy events that wound up being Balmung RPers! So, it’s not easy to say what it’s been like in summary, aside from the fact that a majority - a large majority - of people are just wonderful and lovely when you meet them face to face. Sometimes even people who wind up behaving abominably online. One thing I can say with relative certainty is I don’t think I’ve really met a person involved with any of these communities who is ‘strictly’ neurotypical, which is something I carry with me in every interaction with new people online and off. The community is more diverse than you might believe at first blush, and a lot of marginalized folk gather here, not just those who navigate the world from different mental settings than is considered the default. Considering the core aspects of the hobby, I don’t find it surprising. 

I’ve met more nice people than creeps, but I have met a few creeps. Honestly, it’s hard to gauge when it’s appropriate to offer to give a hug, because like - a lot of the time these are people we’ve known for years online! And now we even voice-chat. I’ve met so, so many people who immediately felt like old friends after meeting them. After I’d traveled across the country to meet someone who promptly dumped me, I took a train on my own to visit some friends in our community. They looked at me and said, “You need a drink.” We had an amazing time, with both of them showing me great local spots and letting me just cry and sleep on their couch and be a mess and vent about the whole thing. To this day I have an open invitation to visit their city, even though we haven’t RPed with each other in probably six or seven years. We keep in touch a little, and I sincerely hope I get to see them again.

But I’ll never forget a particular guy (not in this community) who insisted on a hug after we happened to meet/chat at the bus stop. There was nothing particularly physically imposing to me, in fact I’m pretty sure if I’d thought about it I could’ve tackled him down like a linebacker, but I had a total-deer-in-the-headlights reaction.

Here’s more dirt behind the cut, and also toward the very, very end of the story, some discussion of some very disturbing abusive behavior. I will note it before it begins, in case you don’t want to read that part.

This guy was a textbook narcissist manipulator: nerd edition. He’d act like he was your best friend and always doing you a favor but it was clearly just a way to control others around him. He wasn’t exactly doing the ‘nice guy’ thing so much as trying to look good to everyone regardless of their gender and create a bubble of love around him, making a big show of how nice he was doing things that didn’t actually require much effort (like saying nice things or giving people gifts or doing them favors they did not ask for). But, lacking any magnetism or charisma, he instead used that ‘niceness’, and then when that didn’t work, feigned helplessness and the pity of others to get what he wanted. For me, he also tried to lean hard on a shared aspect of our identities is the LBQTIA community - ironically in the way a lot of people try to when they’re outside the community and don’t understand it. Like, bringing it up just to make positive and admiring remarks about it apropos of nothing! Thanks for outing me on the bus, asshole. Don’t bring up my name on social media in hopes that I’ll make you look more legit, I’m not here to fight people’s battles, and I don’t always agree. This was over a decade ago, I think these days we’d call him ‘fake woke.’

So yeah, to be around this person was just constant discomfort. And I don’t think he knew. I think he thought we were best friends, and I legit feared him having a huge, self-destructive public meltdown on social media (or just… in actual public) if I told him off, so, I just cringed and suffered through.

He and his gf absolutely abused all the goodwill of some mutual friends with whom they stayed during a local con they traveled to. They apparently bought the badges and the tickets to fly out (he’d left living local to me to live with the gf) and had no money whatsoever for food. When someone is visiting a city and intending to be out at an event for most of the time, one would expect they’d have a budget for food. Instead, they loudly martyred themselves over not having anything in hopes everyone else would pay their way. Naturally, the mutual friends bought them some groceries, but it wasn’t up to their standards. I’m not talking about “they accidentally bought things they were allergic to” but they were picky about brands and so on. AND, they still expected the friends they met at the con to treat them.

This cumulated in an event I sadly didn’t witness, which was him throwing a fit over wanting to eat somewhere aside from where everyone else wanted to, even though he was being treated. Later that night, he called asking if they could stay in my hotel room - probably because they could resent how close our friends were to telling them off - and I said a resounding no.

I wound up being the only person who could tolerate he and his gf’s presence the last day of the con. I think I took them to a cheap lunch. They both made a huge fuss about how they loved me so much on the bus. And I was like, can I get a helicopter to take me to safety. Fortunately I did not see him face-to-face after that.

Here’s where things get disturbing.

He wrote this post throwing a pity-party for himself, feeling like he was a bad person, for assaulting one of his cousins when they were both children (he was older), and people not understanding how sometimes things involving that subject matter triggered him. Nothing about anything he went through, only this thing he did. WHAT. Naturally the community lost their shit over it and he wound up getting blacklisted all over the place. In the end, I told him off too, that he had no right to keep begging people to be sympathetic to him, and that it was in fact abusive for him to go to victims of similar abuse (myself included) and ask this be overlooked and forgiven about him. If he cared about victims he would have tried to make his amends to his cousin and not gotten any strangers on the internet involved, it was HER story, not his to get attention from. He had no right to ask for ANYTHING from ANY victim.

Ironically he blocked me a week later (I have to admit I kept him followed just to see what depths he’d sink to, which wasn’t healthy), because I sarcastically told him he didn’t deserve special treatment and to be allowed to have his phone on him in a no-screens classroom because he felt anxious after having a dream that something bad to happen. So uh. Yeah. That’s the one I think about and do a full-body shudder. That and the guy who acted very nice to me and all of my friend’s faces and then cheated on my best friend by sexting with a woman from the RP community who had the internet persona of a misandrist lesbian. Ew to him too, but I don’t think he ever demanded a hug from me.

FTR many of us were worried about his gf, and over the years tried to contact her and see if she needed help. I want to say I messaged her but it was so long ago I don’t want to take credit for having done something like that if I only thought about it and didn’t. If I did message her, I don’t think she replied. I think eventually she got away from him, but I’ve been out of touch with that community for awhile.

[pinkcloudsnightlightbell-remade]

[This post really doesn��t make sense but you should deffo have some experience with the game Resident Evil 2 : Biohazard (2019) -- here’s a short livestream of the 30-minute demo by some cool video journalists and a H U G E L Y Y influential horror gamer’s video of the demo, as well. (And here’s a favourite artist who is probably the very one you can blame for me wasting your time/gushing sm lol...) ]

Input/commentary is sincerely, absolutely, and aggressively, encouraged! ! 

Leon Scott Kennedy is nooooooooooot supposed to be any heterosexual woman`s fantasy because he is bisexual let me get into it

👉 First like the whole thing with Ada manipulating him? 

GOLD

but it’s unfair to Leon who’s actually incredibly...human?

And the other thing is that (and I probably have made it really clear) Resident Evil and the fandom are so ... weird and racist but I like seeing all the changes from the remake as well as (to a lesser degree) backtracking through the games where Leon’s appeared

I love seeing him in 2019 being completely off-the-bat friendly towards Claire and then flirting -- and it being okay with me???? I went ahead and looked up tags on here and @/mikaeled had a drawing of the RE 2 protagonists 

The first protagonist, Claire, is drawn with the bi flag colours

The second protagonist, Leon, got the ace flag

THAT made me want to tap into fandom a little bit more and I went on Twitter and Pixiv and got to see some weird fantasies of being a really controlling Leon but on the other hand saw amazing depictions of Claire being in a loving relationship with a Leon whose kindness lined up with my first exposure of him. (The other day I had a similar experience looking up lesbian/bi claire redfield on this hellsite and someone wrote that Claire is a lesbian -- big big yes -- but added in the tags that “Leon is a trans bi guy!”)

So.

Why not get into it a bit while I’m overcaffeinated?

👉 Leon and Ada is ... weird and people can read weird, bad things into it especialllllllllly if you consider “yellow fever” but it can also be smth super cute where a bi guy and a really cool girl he meets allows him to survive the events of RE 2 (1998) because she is literally mourning the death of her boyfriend in Umbrella. I think that Capcom unbeknownst to their demonic loudmouth staff have created some really thoughtful chances for representation and that helped them get so big--so Ada and Leon are good

But like...

Claire is right there! Leon and Claire become friends like that and tbh they make my bisexual heart melt as individuals. As a couple I feel hope imagining the ways they’d buck the trend of alienation and the threat of abuse...I feel like I care nothing for the fandoms, the creators, and even a majority of the games’ plot points, but here Leon and Claire are, making me feel so much pride because they show that there’s a way for men and women to be ... healthy while in love. They’re the couple that’d be great peer parents (Shirley is a big part of their game they’re protagonists of, and I love how she is written both in 1998 and 2019 which parallels how Moira Burton is written--and completely diverges from the tragedy of the pigeonholey writing of Ashley Graham) and then while they’re wonderful supports to Shirley and are intimately “””together””” in many aspects of life I believe that they’re the type to not even date because the intimate devotion and protection or sticktoitiveness of a friendship ends up building first, because it matters more. Which is not to say that when they do get into a relationship it’s anything but one that is rare.

It’d be r.a.r.e.!!

look at this ... fucked me up 

👉 In regards to this rare kind of love, the key isn’t sympathy or understanding and cooperation even through struggles ranging from PTSD to personality clashes through the years, nor is it chemistry and attractiveness (yeah I will go on record that they’re for better or worse based off of Caucasian models who are paid to be taken pictures of in real life and it fucking shows like I’d be a dishonest bisexual if not just a bad bisexual if I said I didn’t wanna ram both of them into a mattress shut up).To me it’s how Claire is as much of a hero as a typical Die Hard movie hero and YET no more of a hero compared to Leon who is, very clearly, atypical. That’s the biggest part. I love the atypicality. Leon’s seen as hot but approachable and even “a little baby who’s an incompetent rookie cop” but he isn’t... the usual cop, a.k.a. a batt*rer and a **pist and a vio*ent threat and a pig... He’s known to be a soft kind person in the remake.... so to me... 

I love him for Claire but I love the possibility that Leon Scott Kennedy’s bi and gender-nonconforming, and asexual (being demisexual) and not-cisgender and completely proud. I love that he could be this and he IS as good as this ...and he supports lesbians and bi women and alll trans and gnc and nb people unequivocally, maybe,,? Yes? Sbshshdjdjd 

Granted this is all a LOT. Let me defend myself and say that perhaps this is a hyperfixation for me but I’m the type that likes to mix into some of the emotions a tiny nugget of logic so let me make the disclaimer that, ya boi isn't an easy 'n convenient character that's hot into which I as a reader can insert myself... For me I’ve pieced something together that brings comfort and makes some sense. I like to think that he is a survivor of gay-bashing, ostracization, financial abuse, emotional abuse, ****, humiliation, public threats, familial bullshit such as custody battles and gaslighting and is transgender but he’s proud... he’s proudly trans and perhaps he is touchaverse and in terms of sexuality is bi/pansexual while in terms of who he has dated before it’s very messy as he is very aggressively misandrist and hates men and perhaps he’s very stone when he is in a mewd -- and perhaps transphobia makes him go into a rage and he has actually gotten in lots of trouble before as a kid which came back to bite him and he’s lost family and found family and best friends and the loss really hurt and made his choice to go to police academy ring hollow by the end of his training and made him a big believe in social justice and in defending people who society left behind and in therapy and self-change and in accountability (he ISN’T a selfinsert prOMISE!!) but he’s been through a lot aaaaaaaa lotttttt like idk hes just a dude sure

he’s just a dude.b,ut theres a reason zombies don;t faze him!

LOVE THAT. That part.

👉 to sum up: i support the remake fans not being uncritical and loving on the cast of characters and leon specifically! there’s a reason he recently bucked the trend of masculinity and (21 years of fandom and 21 years of problematic annoying fans, perhaps also writers, aside) has always been objectifiable, that is, seen as hot/a sidepiece/specifically desirable for women--but just /: not /: women /: as in /: Women slash str8s /: . . . .RETCH lmao he’s a gun toting hero that is very atypical but not in a disempowering manner -- rather, in an empathetic and emotional one and I want to see the RE2 protagonists heal through a life changing care and tender friendship rather than bonding through liferuining catastrophes 💓💓💓but what I am trying to say in the end is that they are so inspiring both together and as individual protegonists due to their abiliy to weather thru struggles that I as a qtwoc immigrant in America can identify with🤧 

[📍]  tl;dr   -- - 💓cute pan pew pew man is loving and cute ! :> also claire is 💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓 so cute...........................pls support/refute my theory

[eternlmisery]

So... Charmed is getting a reboot (by the CW)

For those of you who don’t know what “Charmed” is, it is a fantasy/supernatural tv series that run on WB from 1998 to 2006. It focused on three sisters who after the death of their grandmother find out that they are witches. Throughout the show we see them get their powers, learn to use them, fight demons, warlocks, face real-life problems, grow, fall in love, get married, experience loss. And all of that as they struggle with their magic and protect humanity on a daily basis. I think that the core of the show is the sisters, Piper, Phoebe, Prue and Paige and their love for each other and the innocent people that they protect. 

“Charmed”, along with “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” were two of the first female-lead tv series back in the day and everyone loved them so much. I know that people in my country loved watching "Charmed” and still do. It has so much magic and at the same time it is so refreshing and realistic because we have these characters that could be anyone and at the same time are so unique because of their magical abilities.

And now, 12 years after the last episode they decided to take that iconic series and reboot it. 

-FROM NOW ON IS MY OPINION AND LARGE ANALYSIS-

First of all, *sigh* there won’t be a reboot with the real cast. So there goes my heart. Second of all, it’s on the CW from what i have headrd... And if you don’t know why this is a problem... just search “anti-CW” on tumblr and you’ll see. (In an article i saw paramount pictures so idk what is up there).Third, the description. THE DESCRIPTION. 

"This fierce, funny, feminist reboot of the original series centers on three sisters in a college town who discover they are witches. Between vanquishing supernatural demons, tearing down the patriarchy, and maintaining familial bonds, a witch's work is never done."

First off, "feminist” and “tearing down the patriarchy”. What is this supposed to mean? I’m not saying it in the way that feminism or tearing down the patriarchy doesn’t matter or i don’t understand it but... is there a point of these being in the description of the show? Why is everyone trying to re-make incredible old tv series or movies into 2018 GARBAGE. And it’s pretty much 100% certain that they will fuck up in portraying feminism and tearing down the patriarchy in 2018 , as well as the original “Charmed” did in 1998. The thing is that I am scared that the whole plot will be centered around that. “Oh men are trash, women are here to save the day, fuck patriarchy and fuck guys we are the best”. That will not be feminism, but misandry. Aka hating men. Cause y’all know they are going to put men as scumbags and as the villains just to highlight how much better the women are. Because of course there are a LOT of scumbags but not all of them and the show has the responsibility to show the reality of a situation.

Enough with my overthinking and panicking.

Let’s take an example of a shitty 2018 reboot with Heathers. There is representation (plus size students, Asian students, gender fluid students, Jewish students, black students) but... it’s not the right kind. They play the bad guys and they are super cliche in the wrong and most twisted way from what i have seen. And it’s... so bad. The villains are a plus size girl, a black lesbian and a gender fluid guy and the good guys are a white blonde girl..? What is this supposed to pass onto the audiences? Where is the good and healthy representation?

Also the Ghostbusters reboot portrayed Chris Hemsworth’s character as a man who was dumber than a pile of bricks, another way to put the spotlight on the women. 

“Charmed” never needed to do that. It didn’t need to force anything on the viewers and it didn’t need to make the male characters assholes just to show how amazing the sisters were. Piper had Leo who was super supportive and an amazing character and helped them through all the seasons. Prue had Andy, Phoebe had Cole... well... he was half good? And Paige had Henry who despite being a mortal was always there for her and accepted her just the way she is. Of course there were shitty guys just as there were shitty women in the show. 

But the point is that “Charmed” was a show that: 

1. was feminist without being misandristic 

(Also Penny Halliwell, Grams, believed they didn’t need men but sees how her granddaughters have surrounded themselves with good ones so don’t take this quote the wrong day)

2. Gave the sisters love interests which almost all the time accepted them and didn’t hold them back from being independent and themselves. That also goes for the men in their life in general (Victor, Darryl)

The biggest example of this is actually Leo, who was the sisters’ whitelighter who fell in love with Piper. Throughout the show he is there not only for his wife but for the sisters too and he helps them every way that he can, as they are now his own family. He has faith in them and their abilities and he believes in them more than themselves sometimes. Also of course he is sometimes the one that is saved by the sisters just as he saves them.

Also Victor, who seemed like the absent asshole dad in season 1, came back and redeemed himself, explaining the situation and building a relationship with his daughters as much as he could. 

Case point #3: Darryl Morris. The Police officer who risked everything for the sisters and despite being super suspicious of Andy, he himself protected the sisters and helped them any way he could so they could save innocent people. Of course he was a human and he had weaknesses and he pointed out a lot of times how wrong it was for him to go against the law practically, but he knew what the sisters were doing was more important.

3. showed the struggles of magic vs family, friends, career, relationships

We see Prue struggling with her job before realizing what her passion truly was and she realized that her true calling was photography after she got her powersand Phoebe finding a purpose with her column and Paige quitting her job to be a full-time witch and Piper and P3 and later her restaurant (in the comics).

Piper trying to get pregnant and finding out that she actually couldn’t get pregnant easily because of all the fighting they do, Phoebe searching for true love, Prue losing Andy. We see Piper’s journey from her first meeting with Leo, to finding out that he is a whitelighter to getting together to the elders forbidding them from being together to their marriage and... just their whole life story until they are gray and old.

Phoebe has her love story with Cole who is a whole different thing, but it came to show how Phoebe grew from the experience and felt independent and free and just ready to focus on herself. 

Paige didn’t have that many serious boyfriends and the addition of Henry was very sweet even though he is very underrated by many!

4. showed people who experienced so much loss, but who kept going forward, thus giving out a positive message

Like after Patty’s death and Penny’s death, Andy’s death and Prue’s death and Leo leaving and vanquishing Cole and Kyle’s death and etc. They were beaten down so many times but they were strong enough to keep going, giving the viewers a positive outlook of even the worse situations and that with the magic that is inside of them they can heal their broken hearts. They show that even magical people have hearts and they die and they cry and they lose and sometimes not even magic can fix everything. They can’t cheat death when it is time for it and not even magic can help them.

5. had BAD-ASS and ASS-KICKING ladies that were also soft whenever they felt like it but it didn’t made them any less bad-ass and amazing 

Because we all love both bad-ass and soft leads who are ready to defend innocent people and vanquish demons and kill warlocks but also squeal and be funny and make jokes

6. was all about FAMILY!

From the logo to the storylines and down to the last detail “Charmed” was about family. First it was the love the girls had for grams, then sisterhood and from then on the sisterhood remained as they fell in love and created their own families and began to bring more people in their family until it became complete (well almost complete with Prue not being there). The thing is that from beginning to end this show was about love. And mainly the power of three. The power of three is the power the Charmed ones have all together; aka the three Halliwell sisters. The Triquetra also is three points. 

And the Charmed ones’ powers are immediately tied to the emotions. Which brings me back to my initial thought, the love between the three of them is the main thing, both for the magic and for their lives.

There is also Grams & Patty, Grams & the girls, Patty & the girls:

Leo & Wyatt & Chris:

THIS SCENE:

Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Paige:

Mom Piper & Dad Leo:

Prue & Phoebe & Piper & Paige:

I feel like the 2018 show won’t focus on that. It won’t focus on all of the points that I listed, which in my opinion are the most important qualities of “Charmed” and are the reason that it truly remains a timeless show even 12 years later. Sure it was not perfect but I feel like a show that will focus on all the wrong things will be MUCH MUCH worse. Personally, I am very satisfied with the ending of “Charmed” and i feel like it was a great epilogue to 8 great seasons. Let’s not forget that the story of the sisters lives on with the comics/graphic novels! So in my opinion the only “Charmed” reboot that would be worth it, would be one with the original cast and producers/writers! 

[coyotalia]

finding myself contemplating something I never thought I would

do I really identify as a feminist?

when I entered college, I thought feminists were man-hating lesbians or some shit. 

but I soon learned that although there are definitely misandrists in the movement, that’s not to say that all feminism is like that.

over the span of a couple years, I realized I identified a lot especially with intersectional feminism. 

so anything remotely feminist that popped up on my dash, I’d reblog and signal boost the shit out of. I was proud to be called a feminist, and tried to educate my peers on what feminism was supposed to be about.

but make no mistake, I also cared about men in all this.

in fact, my favorite course I ever took was a course about masculinity and health. it was led by a professor who heads the only masculinity studies department in the country. I loved every paper I had to write for this class, looked forward every week for the class (which was once a week for four hours), put all my heart into discussions in class and into projects, cried when I hugged the professor at the end of the course.  I loved this course so much, I considered transferring to umass to major in masculinity studies. but I loved my own school too much to do that. so I ended up doing my capstone paper in senior year on toxic masculinity affecting boys in school instead. 

when I told people of this class, they sounded interested/curious, but also hesitant. especially women. especially women from other women’s colleges or from my own. I knew so many amazing women who were gender studies majors who were so passionate about their studies, but the moment I brought up masculinity, most of them seemed awkward or had nothing to say. 

but I didn’t think too much about it. not until recently. not until my partner started talking about “the red pill” and the MRA movement. 

what I knew about this was that MRAs were these women-hating misogynists that perpetuated rape culture and wanted to keep women “in their place”. I had been taught by fellow feminists and peers that MRAs were terrifying; that they were this dark shadow that we needed to fight against. it made sense to me. it seemed obvious, right? here come these disenfranchised men who don’t want to hear women making life all about them—so suddenly they want to take over the conversation, like they always do. it made sense.

but now it doesn’t. not really. I watched “the red pill” documentary. just like the videographer who made the documentary, the interviews challenged my own views and feelings. what does feminism really mean? what do MRAs really want? do we want the same thing? why are we enemies instead of allies? or…why don’t we just have one movement?

what I see so far is that both men and women suffer from inequalities and have less privilege than the other—in different situations. but every time one tries to speak about their problems, the other side speaks louder about their own problems. we’re not listening to each other. and the loudest ones that are speaking tend to be the extremists.

the feminists who do hate men or at the very least don’t care about their issues. the MRAs who do see women as subordinate and think feminists are these demonic “nazis”.

but they aren’t the only people in these groups. there are so many kinds of feminists, and men’s rights advocates/activists. there are men who call themselves feminists and women who call themselves men’s rights advocates. but those men are seen as trying to get into women’s pants; and those women are considered brainwashed.

why aren’t we listening to each other? even I used to get so angry when men would try to talk to me about the MRA. how dare they act like we’re the oppressors. I made it personal. but it’s personal to them too. they want to see their children. they want to be taken seriously when they are domestically abused or sexually harassed. they want to be heard. just like us. we want to feel safe walking alone at night in our own neighborhood. we want to have the right to choose our own future.

what is stopping all of us? gender roles? toxic masculinity? the patriarchy? society? I don’t know. I used to be so sure…

am I still a feminist? I used to stand by that term, despite how it was seen by so many because I knew what it meant to me and I was proud to be that. but I’m not sure what it means anymore. I used to think that it was important to call it “feminism” because it’s the “feminine” in society that is demonized, in both men and women. but is that still true? are women truly still lower than men—especially in the US? legally, socially, overall? I don’t know. there are so many facts and statistics that prove both: that men are higher, and that they are lower. so what is the truth?

when I heard that laci green “took the red pill”, I heard it from third parties. they signal boosted on tumblr and facebook that laci green switched sides and was part of the MRA movement now. they showed their proof and evidence in a paragraph and I…I believed them. I didn’t question them. I didn’t go to laci green and listen to her side of the story. I just unsubscribed to this feminist idol I’d once felt so thankful for—a woman who taught me more sex ed than I’d ever learned in school. I heard from some people I never knew that she was suddenly evil and didn’t question them. I just took it as truth. but my partner told me otherwise. he explained it reasonably, like he always does. so I looked it up: her defense. and it was reasonable. it made sense. I felt bad for going against her so easily. it didn’t take much. I moved like a zombie. how can I call myself a feminist when I turn against a woman who decided to do something brave and important, knowing how it could make her look? she lost so many subscribers, supporters, and friends…why? because she dared to listen to men? she dared to let MRAs tell them their side? how is that wrong?

we say we want equality, but is that really true? shouldn’t we listen? shouldn’t we let other people speak? why is it that every MRA rally or talk has been crashed or shut down by protesting feminists? what are we fighting for if we’re just shutting down free speech? and these rallies, these talks, they’re not aggressive, they’re not violent. the only violent ones are the screaming women yelling at the men calling them ‘scum’. why did we become like this? when did this become okay? how can I call myself a feminist when I don’t identify at all with these people?

did I take the red pill? am I still a feminist? am I a men’s right advocate? can I be both? do I want to be either? am I something else? I don’t know. I haven’t been this confused for a very long time. it takes a lot to change my viewpoints. but here I am questioning my very basis again. I’m not sure what I am at this point, but I think it’s important to mark the start of this journey on finding out.

[insearchofgatherings-blog]

Full Brightness

One

I always took the train to London.

I made up excuses to my many friends with an affinity for swiftness by air. The train took you to the centre, not to Gatwick. Once you factor in the airport bus, it’s probably faster than flying. I like having a table, not a flimsy piece of plastic. Babies don’t scream from decompression. And even the most absurdly hypocritical (for myself), but would always strike a nerve with my environmentally obsessed peers – “the train is electric; flying is one of the biggest consumers of fossil fuels”. I was never one to truly put the environment above my convenience, but I loved how that one shut them up.

But the real reason was one of my few irrationalities – I just have a romantic connection to rail. I love the sound, the views, the ability to wander around, the automated machine coffee that they serve to you in a little paper bag as if it compensates for the taste. Flying is clinical and cold. Airports are places of fear and anxiety; train stations are places of long farewells and slow departures.

They say that for important people, time is everything, and commuting must be as quick as possible. It can’t cut into their important meeting time or their important coffee time or their important phone call time. But glancing around Coach F I can see more men in suits and women with short hair on phone calls than any 50 quid Manchester to London RyanAir flight.

I liked to imagine that they were CEOs and COOs and Chairmen and Chairwomen and that my irrationalities of train travel were also found in highly successful people. I bet Vice would write an article about that. These 10 Weird Habits of CEOs Will Amaze You. Probably more Buzzfeed than Vice. I don’t really read any of that, but the headlines pop up in my feeds against my will on an almost daily basis. A morbid curiosity into which of my friends like them has kept me from blocking the sites completely. But in reality, Phil sitting next to me is just an underling, a scrapper.

He’s set up in the most bizarre way, with one of those tablet-come-laptops propped on the table, wired into the solitary mains plug between our seats. It has a small fold-out keyboard, one that looks like a fake child’s play-toy, without even tangible buttons to press, just marked out character zones to tap on. But despite taking a six or seven-minute interval to retrieve all of this, he’s responding to his emails by phone, the tablet-laptop left unattended as he single-fingers his way through family summons and requests for documents.

A few years back I had made wearing sunglasses at all times part of my core existence. I think it originally started as a joke, but they quickly became something I was uncomfortable without, to the point where I collected three or four pairs of £2 Primark trash lenses just in case I couldn’t locate them when leaving the house. It had nothing to do with the sun, or even general aesthetics. And to this day, I’m not convinced that anyone else has those reasons either. Sunglasses hide your soul, and they allow you to look into the souls of others. It almost feels like a superpower - the ability to look at people, to see every nuance of their movement, expression and emotion, whilst never intruding them with the uncomfortable insecurity of knowing you are watched.

I had been reading Phil’s emails and texts for nearly an hour now, and he was none the wiser. What first caught my eye was the rather absurd signature on his phone emails – “Sent from My Phil’s iPhone X”. I liked to imagine it was a power move. A subtle humblebrag about how busy he is, and that yes, he did have time to respond to your enquiry, but only on his phone and with minimal effort given to email formalities.

I had the window seat. Forward-facing, with a table. The trifecta, as I called it. Trains aren’t like airlines, who charge you out the nose for any sort of upgrade in comfort. If you book it far enough in advance, all you have to do is check the boxes and more often than not you’ll get it. Occasionally, if it was one of the trains that came through from Inverness or Aberdeen beforehand, there would be someone in my window. I took no pride in booting them out, but it was a necessary evil to be able to endure the tough stretch between Peterborough and London when the carriage that began at 20% capacity now stretches to over 100.

I found that as long as you tuck a bag of necessities underneath the seat and go to the toilet beforehand, the four and a half hours is more than tolerable without being able to move. And spreading out while there are no coinhabitants in your compartment detracts fellow spreaders from joining you, only those with few possessions dare sit next to me when I’m at full spread. Still, I do look forward to the return journey, when the carriage capacity inverts, and the final stretch north of Newcastle is completed in a near-empty space with ample room to fire books across the full four-seater and go for exploratory wanders to the closing café car.

I had my laptop out, full brightness. I liked to believe that other people were as nosy as I was, and were constantly looking at what I was working on. I worked best in these environments – cafes, trains, even libraries. My personal penchant for procrastination seemed to disappear as soon as someone else could see what I was working on. It was a touch pathetic, no doubt, but I reasoned that as long as it worked for helping productivity, I was fine with the superficial reasoning.

I always wanted to seem more important and more busy and more creative than I actually was. No scrolling through social media, no films or TV, no reading the news. Just work, or perhaps something that looks mysteriously creative. I wanted the person next to me to think I was a genius or a savant or something above my natural ability. I had dozens of excel spreadsheets that looked like chaotic labyrinths of formulae, and despite their true use being quite simple, the look is all that mattered.

I had opened one that I wasn’t even going to work on today. It had several columns involving a calculation of individual standard deviations, which always requires several formula-heavy helper columns, packing it right out with numbers and increasing its aura of complexity. In reality, it was a spreadsheet that compared cafés across towns in England. Manchester was still winning.

It had been open for about 20 minutes, and I hadn’t touched it, nor even come up with a plan of what I was attempting to do. It was there as a placeholder for other, less sophisticated forms of computer-based procrastination.

I liked to remind myself occasionally that it was okay to shelve productivity and just look out the window for a while because otherwise, my obsession with the forward-facing window was almost pointless. The passing of a train through countryside is oddly captivating, and you can find yourself getting lost in the never-ending flow of towns and farms and animals and power plants and small stations that pass too quickly for your eyes to register the name on the sign. The East Coast Main Line was my regular, but occasionally if I could justify the extra hour, or if the advance ticket turned out cheaper, I’d take a West Coast train just for a change of scenery.

Sophie wasn’t happy that I was taking the train, but I refused to budge. Arriving in at Heathrow at 0500 this morning, a first-thing flight meant I could meet her there, at the airport, at around 7 or 8. A train meant I’d be in at midday at the earliest, and at King’s Cross, not Heathrow. I’m only there for two days, she insisted. Come on, gotta make the most of it. I told her I had already booked. A lie.

I hadn’t seen Sophie in nearly two years, since she vanished to Australia in search of some lost youth. There’s a special visa that they give for ‘young people’ to ‘experience the world’ that lasts for two years. I seem to recall that her haste to leave was brought about by the realisation that, at 29, she was about to miss the cut-off for eligibility.

Her long-awaited return to the UK being only two days told us more than enough about her trip away. She didn’t want it to end or couldn’t go back to England or some endless combination of clichés that seems to possess those who go outside their comfort zone ten years too late. Summoning the girls for a girls’ weekend epitomized this neo, post-crisis Sophie perfectly, because a quick glance at the group of six invited (and three further declined) showed a list of people that had probably never all been in the same room at the same time. I knew all of them to varying degrees, but none as closely as Sophie, and I’d wager the majority of the party felt similar.

It all made sense when Emma mentioned that there was a man now. My mind went off at this news. If I wasn’t already interested in this ‘girls weekend’ for general anthropological reasons, the news that the biggest misandrist and most publicly gay member of the group of queers that ‘the girls’ seemed to be loosely constructed from had now straightened up and got a man was so tantalizing I could taste it.

It also, less importantly, explained the brevity of the weekend. All the couldn’t stand going homes and man, fuck Englands and other clichés are normally abandoned when people return home and realise they don’t have much choice, but the talk on the channels is that this man is Portuguese, and that is where they’re leaving Australia for, London just being a stopover.

Everything about this seemed so hilariously, laughably, unbearably straight. I had always known that Sophie’s publicly overt lesbianism was a cover for something more complex and further along the spectrum, but she would never be seen dead admitting to sleeping with men in her university years, let alone running off to some country she’d never been to with one. Even the notion that this group ever was the girls and ever did things like girls' nights is nonsense. It reeked of something she’d spun her new man, trying to pass as a regular old straight who didn’t attend protests fortnightly just for the thrill of breaking the law.

I hadn’t even given a single thought about what Sophie might have planned for us. Emma, who no doubt had individually messaged everyone else in the entire group with the man gossip, spun off a list that I promptly ignored. I didn’t like going into events like this with expectations. I wanted the drama to slap me in the face, to take it head-on. And boy I needed some of that drama.

[barrydeutsch]

Cartoon: 36 Annoying Anti-Feminists

ETA: At least on my computer, the image on Tumblr is hard to read. There’s a larger, clearer image here.

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You may remember an earlier version of this cartoon, which had only 32 anti-feminists.

When this cartoon was first published, I got a lot of criticism. Some of it was the expected mindless anger (I hope you die, you’re just trying to get laid, etc etc) from the less intelligent anti-feminists. Some comments from the smarter anti-feminists were helpful (for instance, if a lot of people misread the same panel in the same way, that’s a panel I can clarify).

But the comments that really made me want to revise the cartoon came from feminists who reminded me of some anti-feminists I missed. (Indeed, on reading this, one of my housemate’s first comment was “where’s the bitter divorced guy?”) I had a little free time during my New York City trip, so I decided to add in four of the anti-feminists I missed last time. And while I was doing that, I thought I’d revise some of the old panels.  For instance, in the first version of Mr. Buzzword, I somehow forgot to include the word “snowflake,” an omission that has bothered me ever since. :-)

(In one case – “the comparison shopper” – I completely redrew the art. The original drawing for that showed an angry character. Anger seemed like the wrong emotion entirely, so I drew a different character who was more snotty than angry. The original, angry character drawing got moved to the “kicker” panel below the bottom of the strip.)

If you want to just skip to the new ones, they are panels 31-35 – that is, the fifth-to-last to the second-to-last panels.

Transcript of cartoon is below the cut.

Transcript of cartoon: Title At Top of Cartoon: 36 Annoying Anti-Feminists you will meet on the internet

Panel 1 (A wide-eyed man wearing a plaid shirt waves his hands above his head to make it clear he’s talking about a BIG deal.) Panel Title: The Molehill Grower Man: A feminist on twitter got her punctuation wrong… Clearly the whole movement has no legitimacy!

Panel 2 (A scholarly looking man with reading glasses, a sweater vest and a pleasant demeanor raises one hand in a “just explaining things” manner.) Panel Title: The Economist Man: Sexism can’t exist, because the free market is perfect! So if employers pay women less, women must be worth less!

Panel 3 (A quivering man with huge eyes and a very intense expression holds up a diagram showing a midsection; three arrows on the diagram point to a tiny dot within the midsection.) Panel Title: The Fetusphile Man: This is a zygote! It matters infinitely more than its oven does!

Panel 4 (A scruffy-looking man with a grumpy expression stands in a spotlight, speaking into a handheld microphone.) Panel Title: The Comedian Man: Feminists only criticize my “edgy” rape jokes because they have no sense of humor!

Panel 5 (A suit-wearing man with carefully styled hair and a devout expression holds a bible to his heart. In he backgrund, a woman clutches her hands together in an “oh please” expression.) Panel Title: God Told Him So Man: Feminism tells women to leave their husbands, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians! Woman: Where do I sign?

Panel 6 (A man with glasses and a sad expression, cartoon sweat droplet flying from his face, is looking at book with the title “Yearbook” and yelling with an anguished expression.) Panel Title: Not Yet Over High School Man: Why wouldn’t the hot girls date me? WHHYYY?

Panel 7 (A young, fit-looking guy wearing a sweatshirt shrugs with bewilderment.) Panel Title:  The Douchebro Man: Find out if she wants sex before I f**k her? How would that even work?

Panel 8 (A man with a long white beard, sunglasses, and a short buzzcut, stand with his arms crossed.) Panel Title: The Scholar Man: After extensive pursual of Wikipedia, I fail to see any difference between feminists and Nazis!

Panel 9 (A slightly smug-looking young woman in a striped shirt stands smiling, holding up a sign that says “I’m not a feminist because I don’t hate men!”) Panel Title: The Good Girl

Panel 10 (A young man with long hair in a ponytail and a short chin-only beard addresses the viewer cheerfully while holding a pen and notepad.) Panel Title: The Rationalist Man: My objective logic proves white men objectively deserve everything we have because we’re so super objective!

Panel 11 (A young woman stands, holding a beer and looking a bit annoyed, as a young man holds up a finger to indicate “wait” while reading a book with the title “How To Pick Up Girls.”) Panel Title: The Pick-Up Artist Man: It says to “neg” you now.

Panel 12 (A man sits at a computer, waving his fists, cartoon sweat droplets flying, apparently overcome with fury.) Panel Title: The Gamergater Man: How dare feminists say some gamers are sexist? @#%*ing whores!

Panel 13 (A 30ish man with a small beard and his nose stuck high in the air is speaking, arms folded.) Panel Title: The Comparison Shopper Man: U.S. Women should be embarassed to whine about “sexism” when Saudi Arabia is so much worse! Arrow-shaped caption pointing to man: Deeply distressed by anti-male bias in “Harry Potter.”

Panel 14 (A middle-aged man wearing a bathrobe and sunglasses grins while holding a glass of wine.) Panel Title: Creepy Man: When you think about it, it’s natural that teen girls are attracted to middle-aged men. Wanna see my hot tub?

Panel 15 (A young man spreads his hands wide, in an “oh come on!” sort of gesture.) Panel Title: Won’t Get Fooled Again Man: If females aren’t liars, then why do they wear makeup? Huh? Why? Explain!

Panel 16 (A man with stubble and spikey hair, and weird wide eyes, a huge scowling mouth, and fist held balled up at shoulder height, is yelling. He trembles with rage.) Panel Title: Mr Buzzword Man: PC militant misandrist cultural Marxist gynocentric authoritarian cuck snowflack SJW gender troglodytes!

Panel 17 (A 30ish man with short black hair speaks angrily towards the viewer. In the background, a cheerful young woman stands, arms akimbo.) Panel Title: Going His Own Way Man: This 20 year old doesn’t want to sleep with me so I’m giving up women forever! Woman: Promises, promises…

Panel 18 (A young man stands with his back mostly to the viewer, trembling with suppressed emotion. We can see a bit of his face; he has a distressed expression, and is trembling.) Panel Title: The Open Wound Man: Hearing people defend feminism is so painful it might kill me! …I demand that you defend feminism!

Panel 19 (A young man, wearing a tank top with a “male symbol” circle and arrow on it, points straight at the viewer and has an accusing expression.) Panel Title: He’s Rubber, You’re Glue Man: Feminazis are the real misogynists!

Panel 20 (A nicely-dressed woman with cats eye glasses and a fashionable haircut holds up a finger to make a point.) Panel Title: The That’s Not Real Rape Lady Woman: But if she didn’t say “no” a fifth time, then…

Panel 21 (A man with messy hair yells hugely into the air.) Panel Title: Back Away Slowly Man: Females have conspired to lower men’s sperm counts!

Panel 22 (A man with a very intense expression and a t-shirt that says “Red Pill” speaks to the viewer.) Panel Title: Back Away Quickly Man: Women control the sexual market so I am forced to “go alpha” and “take control” in a way that just barely falls short of rape!

Panel 23 (A smiling man with a dark suit and slicked-back hair speaks, looking relaxed and confident.) Panel Title: The SpokesMAN Man: As a man, I know all real men hate feminism! Because that’s how manly men roll!

Panel 24 (We see a door with wooden planks nailed across it to lock it closed. Next to the door a sign has been taped to the wall, which says “keep OUT!” There is a slot in the door; a voice comes out from the slot.) Panel Title: Wee Bit Paranoid Voice: THEY’RE COMING FOR OUR PORN!

Panel 25 (A cheerful young man with curly hair sits in front of a laptop computer.) Panel Title: The Amazing Twitterman! Man: I will prove this feminist wrong by tweeting an anonymous rape threat!

Panel 26 (A balding man, looking honestly bewildered, holds out a hand in explanation.) Panel Title: It’s Science! Man: How can feminists deny that women evolved to love dusting? Clearly they’re anti-science!

Panel 27 (A man, very close up, screams in the viewers face, wide mouth and sweat droplets flying.) Panel Title: The Swiss Army Knife Of Hate Man: Feminazis! And race pimps! And moose limbs! And Jews! And…

Panel 28 (A woman, smiling, stands in an enormous pile of money. From off-panel, a hand shoots out, holding  papers out to her.) Panel Title: The Anti-Feminist Feminist Woman: Speaking as a feminist, feminism is evil! Oh, look, another book contract.

Panel 29 (A young man is talking at a woman in the foreground, waving his hands around his head.) Panel Title: The Subject Changer Man: And speaking of whatever it is you’re talking about, male circumcision is worse than Hitler!

Panel 30 (An older, professorial man, holding a pipe, looks down his nose at the viewer.) Panel Title: The Traditionalist Man: Women hold jobs now? I despair for the ruin of our once-great society…

Panel 31 (A muscular man speaks, smiling and relaxed and perhaps a bit smug.) Panel Title: The Anti-Male Anti-Feminist Man: Men can’t be expected to refrain when women wear short skirts… because all men are beasts!

Panel 32 (A sock puppet of a young woman with a striped hoodie is being held up, the arm of the person holding it coming up from below the bottom of the panel.) Panel Title: The Sock Puppet Puppet: Brad is right! Feminazis do hate men! So says I, a total stranger who just happened to come across this discussion.

Panel 33 (A well-dressed man with glasses speaks, eyebrows knitted with anger.) Panel Title: The “Divorce Opened My Eyes” Guy Man: The government forces me to pay child support. Now I see that men are slaves.

Panel 34 A somewhat hippie-looking guy – long hair in a ponytail, plaid shirt – is speaking, a smile on his face, but with condescending body language. Panel Title: The Marxist Man: I strongly support feminism! (Until it distracts from actually important  issues like class.)

Panel 35 (A person with ambiguous gender speaks very intensely, one finger pointing into the air to make a point.) Panel Title: The Free Speech Purist Person: Accusing others of sexism is trying to shut them up which is censorship! Which is why you should shut up.

Panel 36 (An intense man, reading off an incredibly long list he holds up in one hand, glares at another man in the foreground.) Panel Title: The Cartoon Critic INTENSE MAN: It’s a list of 406 ways your vomit-worthy travesty of a “cartoon” is dishonest, deceitful and full of lies!

Kicker panel below bottom of strip. (And older, very angry man in a striped shirt shakes his fist in the air as he speaks.) Man: He only made this cartoon because he’s hoping it’ll get him laid! Pathetic cuck loser!

[mithliya]

"Grrrrr I'm gonna take my anger out on women who didn nothing to me and then cry victim when they don't put up with it" lmao at the self proclaimed misandrists acting just like men 😂😂😂

it’s amazing the extent of me not putting up with it is basically saying “didnt u say u were busy why r u here”. meanwhile she was like u lesbians u ssa radfems ur worse than men ur just like men ur abusers how dare u based on sth no one even said

[iusfelis-blog]

Cleo married Supergirl? is she a lesbian?

Later, yeah. My personal ‘End-Game’ canon is that She and Lara get married and then become crime fighters across the cosmos. Like- Kinda like America Chavez’ parents, they’re just a super couple, madly in love, doing cosmic sapphic shit and also punching crime in the face, because why the fuck not?

CLEO KYLE is… I wanna say she’s Bisexual cause there are some men who get her all good and going and all that, but at the same time women are amazing. Have you ever seen some of the women she hangs out with dude? Like WOAH. Also, she was raised in a sort of… Misandrist home / school / assassin cult and so Men automatically make her roll her eyes so… She’s not OPPOSED to being with a man, but it’ll take one hell of a man, get me?