#tim misogyny

[maleswillbemale]

These men are women

[wild-wombytch]

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As if changing your papers doesn't change your socialization and violence 🤔

Male violence and feminicides shouldn't be classified as female crimes when they're not. Coddling to males and their need for "validation" somehow outweighs literal sex-based murders in terms of importance. By integrating such male crimes among ours, it will completely change the statistics and erase the patriarchal sex based violences we face. These statistics are made to protect us and can be the foundations on which we make laws! WAKE UP!

[wild-wombytch]

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Everyone should watch this video ☝️!

Also as a bonus, here's the top comment and I think it explains well the issue and how it ends up being about male privileges again :

[spoilerobin]

"tim figured out batmans identity!!" mia did it better!

[researchgate]

He's not even ashamed he's a porn addict. His view on women is clearly as objects, as they're portrayed in porn. I hope he does painfully.

and somehow women are the bad guys if we dare to point out that this just another movement for violent misogynists

[mamawasatesttube]

just saw a post with nearly a hundred notes that said tim has two love interests, kon and bernard. yall apologize to women everywhere right the fuck now,

[aman1taverna]

reddit has a few good qualities but god sometimes ....

LEAVE LESBIANS ALONE!!!

people really act like they don't know what homosexuality is anymore

[shyjusticewarrior]

Some DC Comics Takes

The term "fanon" has just become a way to call people fake fans w/o admitting that's what they're doing

If someone tells me I need to read a comic while criticizing me, I will refuse to read that comic ever

The people that got mad that about Taylor Swift pic being used as a reference for a Dinah panel are misogynistic and pretentious

Tim forgiving Jason and Damian is canon and in character

Jason is actually written very intelligently in his Batman Urban Legends story, people took a single panel and misconstrued it

[wild-wombytch]

This TIM hits a chair because "makeup pretty and I can't do it uwu" meanwhile, I still have psychiatric issues to this day because I've been beat down and bullied when I was 10-11 for being "a dyke" and not putting makeup on or shaving. That's what real female experience is like. No amount of makeup, consumerism and reinforcing gender oppressions can cover it. Pretending that makeup is part of the female identity and makes you part of it as a male is fucked up. What should "trans men" say? That they should rape because it's part of the ✨men experience✨?

That's just an incredibly male moment to go all "me me me [insert some misogyny] me me me"

Can a professional do my makeup please. I want to feel beautiful Just once

[kinxrd]

"If Tommy was a woman their shippers would hate on and drag her too" is not the gotcha moment some people (and you know who you are) think it is.

It sounds like its supposed to read "misogyny in fandom spaces is a big issue and those women did not deserve that treatment" (which is a very good point that yes, should be talked about a lot more).

But they don't mean it like that, what they're really saying is "we need to hate on Tommy more so he gets the same treatment as those past girlfriends." Which I don't need to tell you is a horrible, disgusting hill to die on here.

I dont think I've ever encountered a fandom that insists on hating a love interest so hard that they completely miss real, totally valid conversation points in favour of just shitting on totally innocent characters like this.

You do not care about fandom misogyny, you just want an excuse to piss on someone who hasn't actually done anything wrong.

[worstdykeever]

(tme means trans misogyny exempt, which means anyone who isn't a tim but usually refers to just tifs) i just find it so interesting how men, even ones that identify as women, will go to any length to defend other men no matter what. it doesn't matter if they hate that man or if that man is a literal rapist, they just hate women more. they don't see tifs as their allies and speak to them as if they're just dumb females. trans women hate trans men just as much as they hate every other woman.

[starrycomics]

I’ve also been thinking a lot about the role of Robin lately, and how Batman & Robin work best when Bruce sees and treats his Robin as a partner, and kind of falls apart when he sees and treats them as a son

[gingerswagfreckles]

Hey just FYI if you make fun of the very idea of women bonding with each other or allying with one another politically you are not a Woke Leftist you're just your garden variety misogynist. I don't care if you add that you think women who talk about comradery were "bullies in middle school" you are literally just saying words and being sexist and you sound like Joe Rogan.

[wild-wombytch]

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bUt tHeRe'S LItERaLly nO diFFeReNce bEtWeEn MaLe aNd fEmALe bIoLoGy TeRfS aRe MiSoGinIsTs

And what if TRAs took a reality check and realised that it's quite literally men replacing women in sport to coddle to men's feelings? Who does this advantage if not the patriarchy? Who benefits from integrating trans identified people with the opposite sex in sport, males or females? Look at the reality in terms of sex-based oppressions/material reality and not in terms of validating (men's) feelings. It's just so painfully fucking obvious that this is everything but progressive. These men are cowards who wouldn't have made it to the podium against their peers! If you actually trust males and believe whatever they say and have more himpathy than compassion for women, maybe, just maybe it's a major fucking problem contributing to the patriarchy and not some progressive feminism.

[tomboyfriends]

OP turned off reblogs, but I just had to share my thoughts.

It's so excruciatingly obvious that TIMs see TIFs as fujoshi/women who fetishize gay male relationships, just like everybody else who lives in the real world. If you (OP of post) were actually a man, TIMs would be attempting to proselytize you into being a "transwoman" like them. But you're not male, and thus not a man. Transmisandry/transandrophobia is just misogyny rebranded for women and girls in denial about being female. It's nothing new. Just because you attempted to "opt out" of your femaleness, doesn't mean you've actually escaped it, because female people are female as an immutable biological fact, from conception to death. And everyone who's "transandrophobic" towards female trans people are doing it because transmen/TIFs are female. Otherwise, the call wouldn't be coming from inside the house: in this case, the trans-ID community. TIMs offer TIFs ZERO solidarity, openly mocking them even when they're both trans-identified. Because at the end of the day, men (adult human males) know who the women (adult human females) are, they KNOW who to direct their misogyny towards, even if they try to obfuscate it with trans identity. Calling misogyny "transandrophobia" just obfuscates TIMs misogyny towards TIFs even further. The trans-ID community really is a boys' club, and TIMs want it to stay that way.

[fumifooms]

Ok maybe kinda of a weird question you don't have to answer if you don't want to but I've seen some people saying that Chilchuck is canonically misogynistic so, as the Chilchuck especialist, do you have an opinion about that?

Anon you are brave and I love you. Listen if you, person reading this, get peeved or upset when people say Chilchuck might have had not insignificant flaws as a father and husband then probably stop reading here, we will be looking at Chilchuck like a petri dish and defile his pristine allure. Tldr: yes but actually no but really both at the same time aka people & social dynamics are complex and please let your blorbos be flawed. With that said I will be pretty casual and playful if that wasn’t clear already, sorry.

"Aren’t you happy to be in a harem party" "No it’s soul-crushing save me". Toshiro has been drinking his fear women juice since he was young, surrounded by an assassin nanny and her fellow assassin girlies, meanwhile Chilchuck having flashbacks of getting wrung out by his 4 women household…

Waiting on people is something we see he hates doing a couple times throughout canon and extras, here and how he says "it’s not a date" -bless his summer child heart- he frames being slow to get ready as a gendered trait to have? But I can forgive him for this one because honestly the framing of the whole page leans into that, it’s kinda questionable if we’re being highly critical of anything misogynistic or regressive. But it itself is the classic subversive "Women are desirable wallflowers— Wrong! They are a monstrous ruthless force that wears on the mind, body and soul" trope. I don’t fault Kui though, I got giggles from it, it makes sense for everyone’s characters, and Kui has never shied from gendered dynamics in her worldbuilding & characters so it’s not like she’ll write as if sex changes nothing and no one has opinions about it.

Alright alright let’s step back from analyzing this page specifically and get back to the question, is Chilchuck canonically misogynistic? It’s a complex question not because we don’t have hints but because it’s a very black and white answer to give and because misogynistic can be very wide or pretty narrow depending on how the term is applied.

What I would say? Yes, he is, in a realistic way that doesn’t automatically make him a piece of shit, though that doesn’t mean it isn’t uncomfortable or harmful. On the spectrum of misogyny he classifies to me as "It’s in the normalized lighthearted way of being a horny uncle who’s a little too loose about it around the dinner table", he’s a solid "He wants to treat women as pieces of meat and jokes about it but in actuality he’s a gentleman and a family careerman who has a job so he don’t really care about that rn".

Going back to Toshiro’s party, Chilchuck being weird about it being full of women doesn’t even happen only once but TWICE. I made a compilation of every time he’s crass, happens less than you might expect but the overall picture it gives throughout reading the manga is pretty straightforward. Repeatedly he’s shown to be dirty-minded and shown to objectify & sexualize women both lightheartedly and unprompted. They’re a punchline and they’re eye candy and it’s "of COURSE my succubus would be young women, of COURSE women would desire a muscled statue’s [redacted], of COURSE women are sexual beings and of course I am attracted to them".

Dungeon Meshi doesn’t bring up sexuality much and gendered dynamics tend to be more subtle than you’d expect from media in general, so there’s that, but I honestly struggle to think of any character that acts less normal about women existing than him. Like yeah he’s joking but Hien, Benichidori, Inutade and Maizuru were just breathing and doing their jobs. Who else’s misogynistic uhh, that guy working for the shadow governor that licks Cithis’ ear when she’s bound in ropes? The sheer jump from ‘makes demeaning jokes about women’ to ‘assaulter’ between these two, god.

Honestly it does feel odd to me that he’d be kinda demeaning like that about women even in a workplace setting —Chilchuck the union man out of everyone?— but Kui has spoken man idk, think what you will don’t shoot the messenger. It’s not like he’s weird about Namari? I guess he respects her too much- Wait that sounded wrong. Maybe it’s literally just because she and the other women party members are his direct coworkers, in line with his rule and all? But yeah, even if he canonically had a thing for blondes and pretty young women he has managed to only tease Marcille ceaselessly for fun & entertainment and make her hair extra shiny as his shapeshifter, you get a good behavior star there Chilchuck. He complains on waiting for Marcille to get ready in the barometz chapter and the first anime ED but he also does with Laios when he’s late to meet up the party in extras. He constantly pulls on Marcille to get her to safety as if she can’t protect herself but she’s referred to as clumsy a lot so he has that justified reasoning. He constantly berates everyone so no point to make there. He undermines Marcille’s opinions often but it’s because he dislikes mages and elves and idealism. Clearly Chilchuck knows women can be capable and clearly he can have women coworkers (and friends! Again, Namari) without belittling or sexualizing them, clearly he can be normal about women and knows that some of his attitude can be inappropriate. It’s just harmless fun to him, that he keeps for occasional playful banter and taverns and the ‘right’ moods.

And as I mentioned earlier! Chilchuck is also pretty gentlemanly and protective. As always desires vs wants and instinct vs rationality show up as themes. Yes his succubus aka his ideal, the deepest allure he can imagine, is beautiful naked women, but a chapter just before that was the bicorn, all about how faithful and virtuous he is, how his heart’s in the right place. His brain is virtuous but his heart is monkey. My point is that when it counts, aka 90% of the time and when things are serious, we don’t see signs of sexist bias and he treats women well. Often takes on a protector role or at the least takes them seriously, even Benichidori. He doesn’t want to hurt women or thinks they’re insignificant or anything. He’ll give a handkerchief to a woman in need with a slimy face.

Okay okay this is really entering speculation territory but in my own tally, the way he dismissed his wife’s ‘bad mood’ as some meaningless tantrum that he shouldn’t think any more deeply about, him starting out not reaching out to her as a resentful silent treatment, and her getting dissatisfied in the first place enough to leave makes me think he took her for granted and was kinda dismissive of her in general. Marcille’s theorical scenario is hypothetical and factually untrue at least in parts, but if we do follow it, him forgetting he’s out with his wife for once (in the precious counted time he’s home spending time with her) and not paying attention to her all outing, resulting in her being left out of conversations and just an ornament beside him the way she might have felt for a long time as his housewife waiting home for him to come back………

Editing this paragraph in: Okay I don’t know how I missed mentioning this but, when he’s asked why his wife left him, Chilchuck literally point blank thinks that being thought to have cheated on his wife is LESS SHAMEFUL than not knowing the reason why (due to poor communication skills or whatnot). It’s so ridiculous that it can be hard to see beyond it as a gag or twist, but make of this what you will but this is not a great look for his priorities and his view of women especially in regards to toxic masculinity, good lord. When I talk about him having a sense of being entitled to his wife and dismissive of her emotions that’s sort of what I mean. He thinks it’s better for people to think he mistreated his wife and did something terrible than just failed at keeping her affection for reasons he doesn’t grasp. His pride, both in giving her the silent treatment and doing damage control when talking about it to others like Marcille and coworkers, takes priority over their relationship and love.

Half-foots seem to be patriarchal. The last section of this essay’s chapter (not by me!) + combing through its half-foot chapter should give you insight on that if you want. It’s in their patronymic, it’s in the way marriage seems very important especially for women, and it’s in the implied gender roles, being a housewife whose life revolves around raising her husband’s kids and taling care of the family home waiting for her husband who’s out working to come back. I think Chilchuck is a bit a result of his environment and upbringing in that way, that most of the misogyny is internalized and subconscious and passive, it’s taking his wife for granted because not only does she trust her, his most precious person he’s known since he was a kid, but because she’s his wife, his woman, conceptually something that’s unwaveringly devoted, something that is very valued and enforced in half-foot communities. Here’s a short post on half-foot family bonds culturally + here’s a post on marriage and half-foots for more. The community aspect of half-foots is very strong, which makes sense especially for how empoverished and discriminated against they are, which does come at the expense of not unlike dwarves (dwarves which half-foots idolize) having more pressure to fit in and have a good reputation to not be cast out and have no support lines. By being scared and needing stability people will often be more conservative, etc etc, though the reverse is also often true, like Chilchuck with his union. But yes Chilchuck seems to have many biases he clings onto, harsh on especially Marcille and Laios, Marcille for her idealism, race and magic meanwhile Laios for his lack of social skills and ‘reckless’ behavior.

He also does the classic "Don’t you dare date my daughter!!", though it’s a bit up in the air because he only gets agitated about coworkers being suitors, not nearly as hostile to the idea when it’s some nameless dwarf. But y’know when a guy assumes every men is as horny and sleazy as they are so they’re like "never trust men"… Chilchuck does embody a lot the tropes of just, the everyday flawed middle aged man. The absentee father and careerman husband who does care despite it all. Disillusioned grumpy old man. Old divorced drunkard joe with a thing for cute young blonde women, as a friend put it.

We know Kui subverses tropes a lot, I definitely think Kui leans into these if nothing else for the bit. He’s tropes of the strict family Father, man doing inappropriate jokes around a beer with his drinking buddies, working man exhausted and frustrated by his job, midlife crisis. Also because of how he acts with Marcille, I always say he’s the boy on the playground pulling on the pigtails of his girl friend bc he thinks it’s funny. Because he thinks she’s pretty.

So point blank, Chilchuck respects women as individuals but he can get a little lost in the sauce when thinking about women in general and jumps to sexualizing them in ways that can be objectifying and dismissive. Casual lowkey misogyny for the bit that may or may not slip into non-jokes as well sometimes when it comes to seeing women as something inherently to defend or take for granted, though he’s well-meaning. He engages in gender roles of "men should be strong and burly" and "daughters should listen to their fathers’ opinion before dating a guy". A guy engaging in patriarchy without thinking much of it y’know, more or less passive and unaware. He’s good in economic and human rights issues but would not win the political correctness medal (though he does care about optics and is very conscious of appearing as upstanding and innocent with the elves or Toshiro’s and Kabru’s parties to avoid getting thrown in jail. Overcompensating for half-foot criminal reputations etc etc. Post on that here).

Do I believe Chilchuck would march for women’s rights? Yes. Do I believe he would make ‘ye old ball and chain’ and ‘my wife’ and ‘ah women’ jokes? Yes. Do I believe he would punch anyone making one such jokes about his wife or daughters? Yes.

I was pretty flippant bc honestly Chilchuck the Sleazy Horny Old Man is hilarious to me but yes hopefully the post was decent. "How could I be sexist? I love bitches"