#women are not allowed in the club

[jrueships]

men can and will talk abt wnba players' looks first and make it sound like they're models and not athletes, but immediately scrutinize and deride women for being fans of men's sports bcs they think they're only in it for the handsome looks and don't value a person's skill outside that, and that's a valid reason for alienating and rejecting their opinion because that's a bad thing to do objectively

[rubiatinctorum]

I get where people are coming from when they say Diaspro in Winx lost the plot for the sake of being turned into a minor villain and that's all once Valtor enabled her to do what she did in S3, but I feel like that was a reasonable narrative choice. It's only a love potion at that point (while I could go on all day about the ethics of love potions, of course, a later season has her straight up trying to do direct murder). She's a noble, guards will do her dirty work, and I understand that she would feel like getting revenge on Bloom while getting back together with Sky. She was promised a position — romantic AND political — she nearly had and then it was taken from under her by a random fairy who wasn't even "supposed" to be in the running. I don't think what she did was nice, but it makes sense for the story and for her character for her to want to reclaim her position in the way she did. Sky's love was an accessory, in part, to her political ascension, and thus he is again rendered accessory and accomplice by the love spell. And, sending guards after threats seems to be the thing to do in the magical universe if you're a disgruntled noble, so it's probably not unfamiliar for Diaspro to have seen occur before or want to do. It's not a uniquely rotten response any more than Radius' behaviour towards the monster (who, he didn't know it, was Stella). If we fault her for this action rather than only the intention behind it, we need to examine how the worlds in Winx Club deal with threats to their monarchs in general, which sounds interesting but I frankly don't have time for tonight. Diaspro did wrong, but she didn't do uniquely wrong there, and Eraklyon has the punitive security structures in place to have enabled that.

Diaspro's later appearances seem to flatten her motives and the symbolism behind why her relationship with Sky was important and what she does about it (who cares what Diaspro's political aims are and how her status might reflect how she deals with problems, the audience needs to see Bloom thrown into fire I guess), but I feel like seasons 4-8 weren't really that good anyway, so I can't even claim this as a fault of the writers doing Diaspro specifically wrong instead of them just doing the whole show wrong at that point. It might be related, and it might be a coincidence, but a lot of the writing choices seemed to become more flat to me right around when the art shifted to that lifeless godawful Flash simulacrum of S1-3's art.

Also like... idk but if some long-haired hottie wizard in a sick coat and contemplative eyeshadow told me he could help me get my promised chance at both romantic and political success back, I'd at least hear him out, yknow, see what he had to say (<- don't trust me I simp for Valtor)

[kazz-brekker]

other people watching the bikeriders: ooh men on motorcycles with leather jackets very cool

me watching the bikeriders: but what job does jodie comer's character has that allows her to have a house and support herself while her husband drives around on a motorcyle all day???

[greyeyedmonster-18]

(my favorite thing is when the sports players dont do what theyre supposed to and the camera pans to the coach and they all look like disappointed dads)

[hedghost]

find it so so funny that everyone seems to want united to win this weekend because they don’t want chelsea to win any trophies… except for united fans… because we don’t want skinner to win anything

[fappellmoan]

arguing with pointless online discourse is the mind killer but if any of u also see a post abt the awesome things chappell does and then how she has "vaguely radfemmy" fans going Why would a man be there. it's like. i think you people need to learn how to take a joke

[blirpus]

there are few things i find as disgusting as the sound of laughter coming from a group of businessmen

[starlit-mansion]

it's kind of wild that jessie gender used the word transandrophobia in a youtube video. i've never seen that happen before. people gotchaing you know who for blatantly misgendering rebecca sugar and nate stevenson was the most callout of actual transmasc or afab transneutral erasure i've seen from the video essay space in memory, and even that was mostly just to pad out the callout post

[vanilla-voyeur]

White feminism exists to retool progressive language in service of white supremacy

[mellomadness]

sometimes I wonder if I should take a gender studies class just so I can bitch every day about how an imaginary boyfriend is often seen as a requirement for a woman to feel safe enough to have fun at a club, or the idea that an imaginary person with a fake “claim” over me has more influence over predatory men than my own voice saying “No, I’m not interested, get lost”

[twoheadedlesbian]

I think it’s fascinating how discussions on “antimasculism” are almost entirely reliant on denying the existence of conservative men (or even just deeply misogynistic men) and the role they play in perpetuating patriarchy—because the goal is not to uncover the roots of these issues (that would mean holding men responsible for their actions) the goal is to redirect axis of oppression.

Like was Donald Trump “antimasculine” when he said women shouldn’t be in the military because their male counterparts raping them would be “inevitable” ? Does he think femininity is superior, genuinely?

So much of rape culture specifically is men arguing that they are “naturally” predatory in order to justify their violence towards women—which isn’t true. But it’s the argument they’ve been trying to make for literally centuries because they benefit from it, not because society holds women and femininity in higher regard. Do the men who perpetuate this rhetoric hate men and masculinity? No.

This argument is particularly insane because (ignoring the fact that black and brown men face unprovoked violence on the basis of their race, not their masculinity) who is inacting violence against them? Like are the police who kill black men feminine? Are the white supremacists?

The fascist who target black and brown men with violence are the same ones who who label men as “naturally predatory”, all while lament the idea that leftists are “attacking”, masculinity or “feminizing” men. These are masculine men perpetuating this, but “antimasculism” or any other form of MRA rhetoric relies on the idea that men are hapless victims of Society™️ so they generally refuse to a knowledge when men themselves perpetuate this rhetoric.

They look at racism and misogyny and transphobia and homophobia and think “this is feminists fault!” like it’s literally insane. Women are (and should be) held responsible for the ways in which they enforce misogyny & patriarchal standards on other women, but the common denominator (besides antifeminism + misogyny) between all breeds of MRA rhetoric is the idea that men can’t/shouldn’t be held responsible for the roles they play in enforcing patriarchy because “it’s not their fault, it’s Society™️”, and in turn they have to almost completely ignore the men who loudly and proudly embrace the misogynistic, patriarchal rhetoric MRAs are trying to rebrand as “antimasculism”, because acknowledging these men shatters their entire argument.

[anotherpapercut]

Missouri Republicans are trying to classify any place that hosts drag performances as sexually oriented businesses. why

[delusionalinsecurewreckpiningphd]

I studied politics for 6 years so that I can answer my brother question about why Oppenheimer needed that security clearance hashtag ididsomethingwithmydegree

[t-lostinworlds]

ppl in america really be suing for the pettiest/shittiest reasons ever lmao

[rozegolden]

Ngl. I actually do not find it appropriate to bring a child to a drag show. The videos I’ve seen were just bizarre. Children in literal nightclubs. One drag queen did a strip tease and a woman had her kid put money on him. One had a child dressed up like a grown woman dancing in the club for adults. It was just unacceptable. I don’t understand why these white women are suddenly invested in bringing their kids to events like this in droves (they were not doing that before the hype) so I find it disingenuous to act like this isn’t strange behavior for the adults involved. The Republican party is just the wrong messenger. They do not give a damn about children collectively clearly. They’re just furthering a one sided culture war. But even with that said, it’s giving “a broken clock is right at least twice a day” vibe. Two things can be right. Now I do not know what the laws entail, the only thing I agree with is them calling this out as inappropriate environments for little kids to be allowed into due to the hyper sexual environment. Kids do not need to be included in adult entertainment.

Republicans are garbage.

[itsnotacarepackage]

The primary reason why Masons admitted women into the Craft was to head off the accusation that men-only Lodges were homosexual debauches. The accusation was particularly insistent in France, where it was widely believed that homosexuality was the Craft's notorious secret, and that the rituals were a naked initiation into sodomy. The fact that, in Paris, members of the gay subculture used secret hand gestures and code-words to meet one another in safety from the authorities only increased the suspicion. Homosexuals even started adopting Craft terminology among themselves, calling one another 'Brother', for example.

- "The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World", by John Dickie, page 102