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legitimately i think men underestimate how boring misogyny is in media. like yes it can be gross or uncomfortable or upsetting or whatever else but for the most part it’s just boring. like we know this stuff. it’s not sooo controversial and revolutionary and new to the scene and edgy. it’s violent sex and women not being treated as people. like we know. we’re already living in it babes. the fastest way to make a piece of media boring is to make it misogynistic. and this especially applies to fantasy for me, because you’re over here getting immersed in a different world with different types of people and places and societies and then it’s just oh, the author didn’t actually make anything new. they took what they know about the real world some hundred years ago and added magic powers. or this was all just a really long intro to a dnd themed porno. the male characters sacrifice complexity because their motivations are just.. misogyny. which is at its core very simple and unimaginative. rape or violence or degradation or abuse aren’t really all that shocking or complex to see on screen. they’re in loads of movies with varying levels of quality in handling and i’m not particularly upset by them. they’re in some of my favorite movies. this isn’t an issue of sensibilities or fear. it’s just so boring.
#obviously if you do get upset with the misogyny that’s entirely legitimate#i’m personally kinda over it#i sympathize with the actresses above all#but media wise it’s honestly just such a drag and i’ll lose interest#and alternatively to the blatant misogyny they’ll just try to pretend women don’t exist#because you don’t have to own up to your male centric worldview if the men never encounter a woman!#and it’s like well now it’s kinda boring innit#where are the women
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I’d like to congratulate Ruth Lester and Jane Doe on their transitions because I’m physically incapable of getting investing in a story that doesn’t have women in it
#I’ve actually heard that John’s pretty trans coded so that’s cool#Anyways I’m trying so hard to get into Malevolent#this is partially a joke#but like also#Where are the women#malevolent
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keeping a one sided beef w Malevolent soz I’m still mad about Malam
#happy ur trending tho girlie but#where are the brown ppl#where are the women#will continue to complain xx
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why am i attracting so many cis straight men to my page…
this is a blog for the girls gays & theys like let me be abundantly clear
(unless you’re giving me money theeen wassup?)
#me#mine#thought daughter#where are the women#im literally just a girl#GIRLBLOG#GIRLLLLLBLOGGING#lana#chappell roan#queer community#queer#help me#sapphic
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I talked before about how the story trims the McDonough family line neatly down to the male line (what's even the name of Blaine's mother? What about her parents/his paternal grandparents?) - but also, what about his paternal grandmother? Like...we obviously hear about his grandfather/Angus' father, but never about Angus' mother. Was she already dead by the time her husband was declared mentally unfit? (and if yes, how did she die? Natural death?) Did she divorce him long before? (Blaine certainly never mentions her the way he mentions his grandfather, which means either she was gone or he didn't have any meaningful relationship with her but also not bad enough for him to mention). Did she just...leave the family after her son's coup and is living out her old age somewhere? Seriously, I need the details here.
#Is it in any way relevant to anything? no#but it really is the fridged family storyline par exemplum#WHERE ARE THE WOMEN#WHERE IS THE MATERNAL LINE#izombie#fandom#You can't just tease me with a fucked up family and then not give me details about it
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The annoying guy who said alexia was rude has sent me a friend request 🤨🤨🤨 bro isn’t even a proper account it’s a business account dedicated to selling autographs
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no merrin no trilla only 1 (one) second of cere
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On my knees yet again screaming crying begging Tom hanx to name a WOMAN
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Also banging, just off screen
damn this show is bangin‼️ where are the women.
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Many such cases
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If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)
At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.
Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.
#i think about this story sometimes like yeah I'm proud of them for that too actually. good job baby brothers#they're not babies anymore of course they're turning 20 next year which is crazy#but they're still the type of people who'd do something if they saw something of this sort happen for sure#respectful of women and everyone else too. they're good guys#I'm glad I ended up with them living in my house against my will for like 14 years#anyway i have no idea where i was for all this but my best guess is probably a friends house given the time period#i was always at my besties house lol#i hope she's doing well too actually. haven't spoken in forever...#bestie from greek elementary school... if you're out there... let's get muffins and fanta at the bakery across the street again someday 💜☮️
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I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.
#feminism#media criticism#this doesn't apply to media with large casts of female characters where one or the other is uncommonly outspoken or ahead of her time#and it is dealt with realistically in the setting#im not saying women in the past couldnt be wild and headtsrong and revolutionary#i just think treating it as an essential whenever a female love interest gets added to a historical story about some man is wearing
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I started reading Orconomics, a comedy fantasy book. It is mildly amusing, but not really funny, so far. Also... as of page 19, there has been mention of only two women.
One is a farmer's daughter who "titters" shyly from where she is unseen in a barn, after the farmer implies she slept with the fat (this is the only fat character so far) "hero" who just wrecked his farm. This is her only description, and she has no name. Then she is gone from the book. The other is described in passing as "a rather fetching cleric of Musana". She gets no other description and has no name or lines, even as multiple named men at the meeting she's in speak. I'd say perhaps she might not even be a woman and the POV character in this chapter could be gay, except that seems far too generous of a supposition for this book so far. Skipping ahead a little through page 25, there is a male Naga barkeep, and a joke about how nobody knows how the universally male dwarves make babies, and a dwarf blackmailing another dwarf by holding up a dress and insinuating the target is a crossdresser. I don't think I shall bother to read more, tbh. Anyway. I used to be able to ignore sexism in fantasy books of this kind, but now... Now I can't unsee it. It's a huge, gaping hole in the worldbuilding. Where are all the women?
What happened to them? Did they get eaten by an eldritch horror? Did a wizard accidentally turn them all into men somehow? Did they all run off and start their own separate country, carefully leaving a curse behind that would prevent the men from noticing their absence even as they finally did their own damn housework? Did they go to space? Did they all turn into cats? The questions loom over me, far more interesting than the questions the actual plot wants me to care about, and I know they will never be answered. This type of mysterious absence used to happen a lot in fantasy. It happens less now. So when I do encounter it, it is as jarring as it should have been the whole time.
#Books#Fantasy#Sexism#Reading#Where are the women#Who knows#There are only male goblins and male dwarves and male humans and a dead wyvern. Whatever.#How did someone get all the way through the publishing process and just.. not see this#Or not care#Men not writing women#At all
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Les Femmes Palestiniennes (1974, Jocelyne Saab)
youtube (eng subs). vimeo (spanish subs) / runtime: 10mins
Palestinian women share with men this role in the armed struggle. […] We run our suicidal operations, they attack us from airplanes. It’s easy to fight, using aviation when one is up against simple armed Fedayeen. They attack us with American and French airplanes. It’s not just Israel who’s at war with us, but also the United States and France and all the other countries. We’re not afraid of Israel. We fight at broad daylight, face to face. The coward ones fight with their aviation. The brave ones fight on foot to free their land. […] And if there’s a political (two-state) solution? There won’t be any political solution. The only thing there will be is Palestine. As long as there’s at least one of our children left alive, there won’t be any political solution. There will only be Palestine, in its entirety.
#text under the cut#les femmes palestiniennes#palestinian women 1974#jocelyne saab#i skipped the part where saab inserted her opinion#palestine#short film#screencaps#world cinema#dailyworldcinema#albertserra#post#oldfilmsflicker#women directors
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damn this construction site is bangin ‼️‼️ where are the women.
#that text post is going to become a brain worm I will integrate into every level of my life#WHERE ARE THE WOMEN#bursting out onto the worksite like HELLO BOYS THE DIVERSITY HIRE HAS ARRIVED TO MAKE YOU ALL REMEMBER TO WEAR YOUR FUCKING PPE#I hate being unemployed. I need to get an apprenticeship. bleugh.
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