#jesus is a feminist

[a-sketchy]

persona misogyny is so fucking wild. ignoring literally everything else about the entire rest of the games, every single s.link with a female character is like “entirely for having been born a woman i have had to work twice as hard for a fraction of the benefit. even now, i am stripped of my agency in a position i never wanted in the first place” and/or “i’m put on a pedestal by the people in my life because of my looks. men see me as an object to be conquered, women hate me for ‘stealing’ ‘their’ men. if i’m withdrawn i’m a bitch, if i’m friendly i’m easy. because of this, i’m alone” and/or “because of my personality or hobby or lack of cooking skills, i feel like i’m failing at femininity. if being a woman is something i can fail at, then where does that leave me? i’m scared at the loss of my identity and place in society”

like very consistently they present female characters with complex thoughts towards their place in society as women, femininity as a whole, and facing issues stemming from misogyny, and then the payoff is always “my problems were entirely my own fault. i wasn’t strong enough, i was a coward. but now, i’m gonna work hard to be exactly what society expects me to be (which is what i want to be)! i’m gonna do better at femininity (which is still something tangible i can fail at)! i’m going to try hard at making friends (which was my fault for not doing)! all my problems are solved through personal responsibility (that im totally culpable for), effort (which i previously was not putting in), or you, a man! i am Happy and Satisfied with this outcome, can i be Your woman?”

and like hello? why are we here. what the fuck are we doing. why do we keep doing this every single time. can we not do the constant lukewarm attempts at criticizing misogyny so you can jerk off to your own thoughtfulness, while ultimately reinforcing patriarchal systems and brushing off any deeper misogyny-bred issues as a lack of deference to one’s rightful place in society? like maybe don’t do that? for fucking once? just an idea

#i’d really need to rewatch slinks to give more indepth thoughts or pull specific examples #but i’m right and i pace about it every day #i’m not really talking about naoto that’s a whole other can of worms a long way down the line #rambles #if persona’s all about wish fulfillment where’s my persona game where i can be a feminist huh #p4g posting #p3p posting #yeah both of those. i’m not far enough in p4 to have seen the payoff but i know that its fucking persona 4 #and jesus christ yukiko!! i only vaguely know of ai. chie in the main story/dialogue options you have #jesus christ the dialogue options. can you ask literally every girl if they have a boyfriend?? and ‘thats very feminine’ DIE #and man p3p. persona main plot misogyny is weird when you’re on the other side of it #it’s a very different experience being the one getting peeped on #and then saori. and mitsuru. and fuuka. kinda rio. idr a single thing about yukari’s slink i’m sorry but probably her too #also my vague recollection of p5 with haru. ann by default though idr her slink #and goddd of course the. everything else. i’m not touching on. main plot misogyny and inherent writing stuff and etc etc etc etc etc etc et #GOD. #persona is hell

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

Jesus enough of this already. it is genuinely so ugly to me the way people who are supposedly victims’ advocates have now wholeheartedly embraced this deeply reductive view on any kind of consequence for men who harm women by arguing that most women don’t actually want any kind of consequence for these men because they just love them so much and don’t want to hurt them ESPECIALLY racialized men who are the only people impacted by police violence. and that last part is so ugly because it plays into the idea that black women should not seek help when being abused out of racial solidarity. it downplays the real reasons why DV victims don’t report and why they may ask to drop charges or recant. it also entirely obscures the way mandatory arrest laws and the cj system often end up targeting and criminalizing DV victims at a higher rate than perpetrators by, again, making men the center of the conversation and even turning them into the victim by reframing from the real harm they’ve committed to hypothetical harm they might experience from police or prisons. women’s organizations are so fucking shameful. they are just addicted to constantly betraying women

#this is not an abolitionist feminist argument. this is male abuser apologia #most DV victims dont report because of love??? FUCK OFF #way to romanticize psychological degradation and intimidation #i mean Jesus Christ

[crazy-ache]

I’m sorry but Katara “go jump in the river” and “I’ll never turn my back on people who need me” the water bender would never cower in fear from even Prince Zuko of the Fire Nation and that’s character assassination if i have ever seen it

#anti natla #natla #natla katara #katara #atla netflix #let us have complex female characters Jesus Christ #let girls be angry #where is my raging feminist activist compassionate hero

[cath-lick]

#ejaculatory prayer #jesus fandom #feminist theology #sex positive christian #gay jesus

[pixieandthejar]

more southern goth 🐊

#femcel #90s #80s #feminist #soft grunge #ethel cain #70s #nicole dollanganger #alternative #southern gothic #jesus #god loves you #but not enough #to save you #2014 aesthetic #Spotify

[mybestcopingmechanism]

there are girls who say they’re “not like other girls”, then there are guys who tell girls they “must think they’re not like other girls”. it’s literally just a way of sweeping away a woman’s personality by telling her she must just be doing it to be different, or worse, for male approval, once again watering her down to a performance or a character for the approval or disapproval of men.

#i love my boyfriend but jesus christ this got me wound up #feminism #feminist #radical feminist safe #radblr #radical feminists do interact #radical feminism #radical feminist community #radical feminists please interact #misandry #proud misandrist #not like other girls #not like other girls is bullshit

[radicalgraff]

"Jesus was Pro-Choice"

Spotted in Shaftsbury, Vermont

#pro choice #pro choice graffiti #jesus #graffiti #graff #feminist graffiti #feminism

[would-probably-be-called-a-tehm]

…do they hear themselves

#you’re just proving us right 💀 #I can’t with this shit #was so close to dming them but they post every DM in their story and I’d like to stay crypto #but Jesus Christ what a dumbass #terfs please touch #terf safe #tehms please interact #tra receipts #radblr #radical feminists do touch

[xx--clutz33-xd--xx]

brianna gheys blood is on the hands of every transphobe and terf. remember that. 16 year old girl with her whole life ahead of her. fuck you all.

#terf #facts not feelings #trans exclusionary radical feminist #terfblr #*jesus fuck i’ll take radfem out of the tags happy? not my fault the tag is flooded with transphobia

[amrv-5]

dashing off blog post on break between readings, not sure if coherent or even making a point so much as expressing a vague but recurrent disappointment as a late night looks like it's going to become an early morning... cw for pejorative mention of food/eating habits in relation to film portrayal, and a discussion of film portrayal of sexual violence post the cut:

Watched Sedmikrásky (Daisies) (1966) for a class today and personally found it funny, really wonderful, playful, confrontational and brilliant... had an incredible time watching it, deeply moved, found a greater appreciation for the experimental techniques it used... we've not had many female directors in this course series, and the few New Wave women we're getting have been such a personal revelation for me as a film watcher. Got excited to talk about the movie post-screening with my (male. all male) program friends (basically no female graduate students in the optional portion of the history series) but of course the first things these guys do immediately post-screening is trash the film, and not on formal grounds... Just complained about how "disgusting" and "offputting" the movie was, how it made one guy "not want to eat for the rest of the day" and "feel nauseated" and "wish he could have slept through more of it."

And what's so disgusting that a group of cis dudes who regularly watch sexploitation films and other grindhouse fare couldn't bear to watch it? Fucking. Movie where 2 conventionally attractive women: eat frequently and with a focus on enjoying food without performing delicateness for men (one woman boldly states 'I love food! I love eating!' and laughs at the disgust of the older man she and her friend are scamming for free dinner), including having a food fight; laugh and lean into physicality / bodily play (moving in funny ways for their own amusement, dancing, overapplying makeup, making unflattering faces, remapping their bodies in an extended joke sequence w/scissors; satirize stereotypes of women and expectations of behavior in patriarchal society. Etc.

Man! Point of all this being how frustrating it is to continually run up against unexamined misogyny again and again even in spaces that are supposed to be self-critical of these things. Literally what was so unbearably disgusting and threatening about watching a pretty lady on the movie screen say "I like eating cake" and then eating cake and having a food fight. How are you as a film academic more disgusted by playful feminist challenges (FROM NINETEEN FUCKING SIXTY SIX) to expectations of women's behavior than watching Bad Girls Go to Hell. Not saying that to be like There Is A Genre Of Film Which Is Morally Bad I've found thinking about some grindhouse stuff interesting/generative/whatever just it feels fucking nuts to me that a person would be comfortable sitting through scenes of explicit portrayed sexual violence against women and then go "ewww icky they had a lot of scenes where they were eating" and not see that you have a fundamental problem with misogyny in your worldview.

WAUGH! But the real problem now being is that these men are my friends, people I spend a lot of time with and thought very well of and do genuinely believe to be really decent, and even these guys who I trust and like had such a fundamentally awful response to the bare minimum of disrupting the idea that Maybe Women Aren't Just For You To Enjoy Looking At...?

I cannot overemphasize how fucking completely tame the "disgusting" parts of this movie are. This is the 'worst' scene in the whole film by these guys' criteria, and it's literally just 2 women eating cake and throwing it at each other and laughing and then doing a dance on a table.

Well anyway. IDK ! Not sure how to or if I even should try to bring it up again. I don't want to be responsible for being the Feminist to grown male colleagues who should know better but at the same time I was so offput by their reactions to the movie I almost feel like I can't let it go without at least gently asking at a later date if the dudes can elaborate on their "disgust" -- they made it explicitly clear it was about the eating, though, already, which seems like a lost cause. It's just women eating. Grow up. You'll live.

#cw ed #sort of? touches those themes in complaint about film reception #more in my feelings about this than i thought lmao whoops sorry for the paragraphs #just. jesus christ #it was a brilliant film and i cannot believe the fucking reception. #guy even tried to claim it “failed at being funny” fuck offfffff #now belatedly wondering if living with a slovakian for 4 years primed me to better appreciate humor in czechoslovakian film (1966 remember) #but mostly i just think these guys had a disgust reaction to a feminist text they completely failed to examine. awesome #well i'll deal just frustrated and tired right now. maybe 2 more hours of work to go though so onwards and back to it? #ugh. #film #silly wizard job #Youtube

[youlooklikeasixtiesqueen]

it boggles my mind that there are people who haven't spend the last six months worried about the fast rising increase in antisemitism

#i literally cannot sleep some nights because of it! #(like right now) #and i know that isn't healthy but i can't stop! #because i don't understand how people can just not care about jews being attacked and murdered! #especially people who call themselves leftists or feminists! #and i'm not even jewish! and germany isn't even the worst rn when it comes to jew hatred! #like i look at america and the uk and go 'jesus fucking christ what is happening'!! #anyway i must try to sleep #and hope to one day wake up in a better world #antisemitism tw

[disney-is-mylife]

There are only two valid reasons to dislike Snow White (the 1937 animated character):

You find her voice annoying/grating. Can't help that.

She's only your least favorite because you personally love or connect with the other Princesses more.

That's it. That's all it takes. No bending over backwards to apply "modern" sensibilities to a film made more than EIGHTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, no nonsensical pseudo "feminism" that more resembles Wannabe Edgy Hollow Takes from 2006 rather than actual critical thinking.

When you actually WATCH Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, regardless of your feelings of the story, animation, romance, etc, it's kinda hard to genuinely DISLIKE Snow White's character when her entire existence is pure sweetness. She is the EPITOME of Pure Cinnamon Roll, a trope that the internet collectively claims to adore, and yet people criticize her because she's a the original Disney Princess and that's an easy target.

I get why she isn't a lot of people's Fave. There are sooooo many other wonderful Princesses to choose from! But do not disrespect the character to gain "woke" points. That shit was Tired in 2012. Let it go.

#Starling ramblings #Disney #Disney movies #Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs #Snow White #Disnerd #Disnerd issues #thank you for coming to my TEDTalk #if y'all think this post is directed at Rachel Zegler and/or Disney the Company you're only partially correct #alas even in the year of 2023 I have indeed met people IRL who regurgitate the same 2006-2012 pseudo-feminist BULLSHIT #and I for one am SICK OF IT #you don't have to particularly LOVE Snow White like I do that's fine; but JESUS she's just a sweet princess character. who hurt you???

[sleepynegress]

Are Yall this Gulliable??? This Leathbriar person... WHO KEEPS making these TROLL-ASS ANTI-BLACK posts about Uhura...

....That seem complimentary, but keep using words like "arrogant" and "annoying", and somehow yall are giving this person all the likes??? This is yet ANOTHER sockpoppet of this weird little troll playing "fan" of Uhura using all the racist fucking tropes. WTF??! Yall?? Just post after post and yall just liking them... without any sense of the tropes that go against black women. This is the same weirdo who called Celia Rose too masculine to play Uhura!!

Trekkies what is wrong with yall??? This is so frustrating as a black fan of Uhura, in all iterations to constantly see this troll using racist tropes and GETTING LIKES!!! by making mutiple "love" posts about Uhura but sneaking in all the racist tropes! Sneaking words like "arrogant" and "annoying" and pushy bs.... YALL NOT SEEING THIS SHIT??? YALL JUST CO-SIGNING??? .....Ninety something likes from yall???

PLEASE.

DO.

BETTER. P.S. STOP ANSWERING anon asks about how "ugly" Celia Rose is. It's the same racist weirdo troll.

#jesus man #wth? #anti-black trolls in the tumblr dungeons #how many socks will this weirdo make to lowkey hate on celia #and how easily will white fans fall for this misogynoir bullshit? #uhura #star trek strange new worlds #celia rose gooding #reporting but damn wtf #can yall pay attention enough to stop letting this person pollute the tag????? #star trek #I also suspect the 2000 plus reblogged post in the tag w/ 1shirt2shirtredshirtdeadshirt is ALSO this same troll #uhura seems shoehorned as does that feminist meta she has #which GREATLY depends on her projection #it reeks of white feminism

[anarcho-smarmyism]

barbie movie good but libs need to quit dickriding Mattel acting like it's a litmus test for intersectional feminism

#its a groundbreaking POP feminist piece of art FOR ITS TIME that doesnt mean there are no critiques or room for imprvement. jesus #barbie

[intersectionalpraxis]

Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo, who was Mexico's first openly non-binary person to become a magistrade for the Aguascalientes state electoral court, was found brutally killed in their home with their partner a few days ago.

Although Mexican officials have denied that they and their partner were targeted specifically and the cause of death is "unknown," many Mexican LGBTQ+ activists have stated that they had received multiple death threats since coming into their position last October, and that despite legislation to protect queer and trans folks, hate crimes still happen.

I recently read an article online (From People), wherein they quoted Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo comments from an interview they did with CNN last year:

“I want to send the message that the LGBTQ population can access these spaces, that there is a possibility that we have people with enough of a profile that with their own merits can access these spaces where decisions are made."

To echo the calls to action and for further investigation into Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo's death, I hope there is justice for them and their partner. This is truly tragic, and I hope they both rest in power.

the photo above is from Jesús Ociel Baena Saucedo's instagram account

#feminist #feminism #social justice #lgbtq community #lgbtq rights #jesus ociel baena #lgbtqia #queer #hate crime cw #queerphobia #mexico