#you buy into the misogynistic idea of women as faultless nurturing caregivers and therefore sensationalise any woman who is
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the way people talk about grimes is so virulently misogynistic I could vomit just hearing it
#she has said and done many deplorable things but that does not rescind victimhood. you get nowhere by denying that or acting as#though she were at fault for everything he believes and has done (including to her!) openly lending credence to incel ideology and for what#you buy into the misogynistic idea of women as faultless nurturing caregivers and therefore sensationalise any woman who is#morally repulsive. or that they are beholden to their male partners and are the primary supporter / root source / puppet master of all his#evil; capable only of shadow influence. subconsciously presuming women to be some perennial madonna/whore figure which is just as#weaponised by the far-right only glorified; idealised. for you it's a specifically gendered failure. she failed in a sacred feminine duty#and should have “known better”. like everything that he has done to her is her fault because she chose to be with him#here you are theorising that someone else made her music dismissing the very foundation of her art insisting everything she's said is a lie#calling her spoiled and rich and therefore incapable of being manipulated by someone far richer. do you hear who you sound like#she asked some account on twitter to please stop posting pictures of her children and everyone slammed her for not asking musk#to stop using their son as a social shield and my fucking god do you seriously think if she is here begging strangers not to do something#because it is the last avenue of power left to her that she does not have a problem with that too. that she hasn't asked him in private#and he just did not respect it because when has he ever respected the boundaries of the women he (and you!) treats as concubines#you seriously think she is a mindless bimbo who clung to his arm and is incapable of producing which is the one thing she's#been respected for all her career. I don't know what else to say other than at a point you cross from valid hate into sexism and it's#blindingly infuriating and unjustly derisive and for the love of god there is so much to criticise her for there are mountains of it#everywhere but no bring up her eating disorder one more time call her dumb as bricks say she asked for it and is a lousy mother#it is less about who you are criticising and more the nature of those criticisms; the suggestions and assumptions they belie#delete later
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