#sexy or sexist

[obihoe]

outing myself as a konoham*ru hater now, i think its stupid as hell that he manages to kill one of the pains during the konoha attack. lol. like kakashi couldnt do it and dies in the process. but little konoham*ru can?? please lol. makes no sense

#posts #i hate this whole episode actually idk if its maybe a filler #i dont remember if this also happened in the manga #but like u also see him remember how naruto taught him the rasengan #(which he then uses to kill the pain) #which first of all. huh?? naruto barely understands even half of what he is doing like technique-wise #and youre telling me he taught someone a jutsu of THIS complexity?? #and so fast too? naruto was already insanely fast learning it #but he also has the fox's chakra so #he gets a pass lol #didnt minato take YEARS to learn it? #seems unrealistic that konoham*ru would learn it so quickly #also when naruto tells him in the memory that he is going to teach him smth now. konoham*ru at first thinks its going to be #another sexy jutsu. and he imagines what it might look like and eugh. yucky #HATE this sexy jutsu gag lol it sucks its so sexist #sfsgdgdfs #episodes that i would never ever show anyone that isnt familiar w naruto but knows im a fan. SGRFSFS

[summerendroll]

persona and fire emblem fans like to act as if they think japanese men dont have to know that women or black people exist and its as funny as it pathetic and annoying

#I DO NOOTT MISS BEING A BIG P4 AND FE13 FAN LMAOO #adult men will send 15 yr olds pornographic death threats for Daring to say that yusuke kozaki is sexist #and the guy from fefates is a blatant misogynist and the modern persona artist outright admits to not talking to women #and to finding it sexy when teenage girls r uncomfortable etc etc etc like come onnnnnnn #theyre like ummm the cultures different u cant criticize the writing like ok r u actually familiar w cultural differences or r u #infantalizing japanese ppl to excuse racism and misogyny. come on now. be honest

[skullhaver]

i did not like poor things, but unlike plenty of other movies that i dislike, i am still thinking about this one nearly a month later. it has lit a low-burning fire in me that only a critical youtube video essay of at least 30 minutes can extinguish

#i am not going to write the essay myself because unfortunately that would mean i'd have to watch the movie again at least once #i didn't HATE it and there were a few things i even enjoyed about it #but it just felt really pernicious in a way i did not feel about The Favourite #which was also about women's agency in a sexist world (and to a way lesser extent - women's sexualities) #and tbh just reading that reviewer use 'born sexy yesterday' to describe Poor Things really crystalized it for me #because there are elements of disability and horror at play i wasn't able to see it that clearly at first #but actually it is absolutely a born sexy yesterday story - tragic #and the 'faceless suffering brown people teach a white woman that life is painful' was really horrific tbh

[sunglassesmish]

https://x.com/filmupdates/status/1727061360595570943?s=46&t=C_twoBlJmxDu2Nz9W99Q2A

and it's getting even "better"....

not susan sarandon….

#anon #ask #i’m genuinely so pissed off #but noah schnapp can say zionism is sexy and does whatever the fuck he wants #this industry is sexist and disgusting

[flatstarcarcosa]

hulu has pwedator back up so i turned it on to try to get some comfort in the middle of my horrors and i'm losing it thinking about me exposing abe to this movie/series.

#txt.txt #ship: trouble my heart #abe who knows i hate macho men that make sexist jokes and say faggot and the movie opens w nothing but that like ???? #'you don't watch it because it aged well you watch it because the alien is sexy :)' #'reese i have more questions. and concerns-'

[palms-upturned]

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#meg talks #having weird gender thoughts. #not cis or trans but a secret third thing 🫡 #(the secret third thing is intersex dyke with medical trauma #whose relationship to her body and gender is now so weird that it’s pointless to label it at this point) #like. it’s literally just like. watever #not wrong to call me a woman! but also i feel like womanhood to me is Very Different from most cis ppl #also not wrong to perceive me as Not a woman! except when that’s for sexist/transphobic reasons #and not bc of my sexy dykefag swag #hope this helps 🫡

[pyromancing]

The confusing feminine urge of simultaneously wanting to not be perceived at all during hot girl summer vs. wanting to win the game of being most commodified sex object

#trying to unlearn patriarchal bullshit and just be happy and semi-naked in a bathing suit #why is this so complicated #also being sexy isn’t sexist!! but my god it is really wrapped in so much baggage

[rotzaprachim]

minx is interesting. It’s interesting and it’s interested in things in a way that I find a lot of current media about feminism not to be. There’s an active interest into poking into some of the uncomfortable areas without simple conclusions when it comes to how feminism should relate to sex and the market/capitalism.

also really appreciate the unapologetic 70’s ness and the use of 70’s events, catchwords, buzz etc in a way that doesn’t always feel tee hee

#Like idk if it always comes to the Conclusions but is really interesting to see a show which is ABOUT feminism and what it actually is #With imperfect people #What does it /mean/ to make something feminist and what does it mean when that thing has to be sold #There’s a couple moments so far that are like well this would blow someone’s mind off #It’s interesting to chew on relative to Daisy jones lol #I’m not going to say it’s anti capitalist but it’s also not that type of subliminal capitalist fantasy show #That just ignores the demands of capitalism to write off a world for the people who’ve already won #Very much almost in Convo with something like the bold type or classic sex and the city for that #Like the whole second episode thing with the ads #the ads unapologetically sucking and being soooo sexist #And upper class country club goer white feminist Joyce /also/ being extremely confined mentally to sexist advertising #Like I hate the edible panties. U know what’s great? Shampoo and makeup #And Doug mentioning that if they /don’t/ advertise the cost of the magazine will go above most people’s ability to pay for it #Like. It’s a show Thinking about a lot of this #I think Joyce is so interesting because she’s both so much more radical and so much more flawed than a lot of the /girlboss/ characters out #There. She’s the rare example of an upper class white feminist that I think the narrative is aware of the class part at least #And she’s flawed and kind of mean and totally out of it #And also like. 5000% more radical than a lot of the the equivalents #Like she isn’t trying to publish Feel Empowered with Sexy Lipstick articles #She’s trying to publish articles about birth control marital rape and abortion access #And her issues often come from where the radicality of her vision is being compromised by praxis #Like that’s so interesting

[ahalliance]

i have a love-hate relationship with moffat bc doctor who-wise he’ll write the most incredible stand alone eps and some of the most intricate, compelling plots, but he also thinks that ‘sexy femme fatale that can “dominate” the doctor’ is the height of feminism . average writing for his age bracket i guess

#i think he slowly started moving past that writing quirk when he started writing for 12 which . thank fucking god #s10 is one of my favourite seasons by him bc he’s largely moved past that by then #bill is SO good i love lesbians #but his later seasons are also a slap in the face bc the ep will be so good and you’ll be vibing so hard with it then BOOM . #random bad feminist or sexist joke will hit #the dude also thinks the height of feminism is making ‘men bad women sexy and perfect’ jokes and i just . screams into a pillow #like it cannot be hard to write both men and women normally can it . CAN IT #jay rants

[rizzler-tetanus-ball]

i misread sexiest as sexist and was about to get mad for a second there

{ 🕸️:: i've misspelled sexiest as sexist multiple times so i wouldnt be surprised if it does genuinely say sexist but i promise you the rizzler is pansexual. so if you ever see me misspell it as sexist remember hes not sexist hes like the exact opposite }

#ooc post #ive called myself the sexist on discorrd so many times and i get so upset like FUCK.. #NOW IM NOT SEXY....

[eviltothecore13]

Is it just me or has fandom overall...changed a lot in how it talks about its favourite characters over the past few years?

It used to be people who really liked a character would be like “this character’s the best at everything, they can do no wrong, they’d win every fight, they have a plan for everything, they’re the coolest cleverest most attractive person in the whole story!!!”, and like...that could go too far, it could be annoying or just really really inaccurate compared to canon (I used to know a Jill fan who insisted that Jill could easily beat every single character in the series in a fight--and look, Jill is very cool, but Chris was canonically the best in hand-to-hand combat at STARS and was also training HER in marksmanship, Jill is of course extremely capable but...she really does not have to be the best at everything to prove why she’s your favourite...for that matter, Wesker fans who were like “Wesker in RE5 has to be a clone/a fake/whatever because the REAL Wesker would never LOSE because Wesker can’t make mistakes!”...always made me go *stop, please, it’s embarrassing*), but it did...make sense why someone who really loved a character would say these things about them?

But now it seems like the kind of comments people make about their favourite characters, and the way they portray them in fics, are...pretty much the opposite of that? People will be like “my blorbo is SO STUPID! they’re so useless they can’t do ANYTHING! they’re a pathetic weak little wet paper bag!”

Like, a few years ago if I’d seen a post saying things like that about a character I’d assume it was written by someone who hated them?

And obviously...sometimes a character you love is kind of a dork, or makes some silly mistakes sometimes. Other times a character you love is a terrible evil person. I’m not saying everyone should equate liking a character with thinking they’re perfect. But...most popular characters AREN’T actually completely stupid and incompetent at absolutely everything, and I can never quite get my head around it when people seem to hold this view of a character and it’s clearly not true, like...if you really think they’re pathetic, stupid, and can’t do anything right...do you really like them that much?

I’ve seen fandom call characters stupid/idiots when they are either science geniuses, or they’re brilliant inventors who build sci-fi gadgets, or they’re scheming chessmaster strategist types who manipulate all the other characters for years and come very close to taking over the world, or maybe they just canonically speak several languages and are well-read, or even if canon doesn’t focus much on their intelligence you’ve got characters like Chris who was a USAF fighter pilot--which means he has a degree, judging by the timeline probably an Air Force Academy one, which means he was likely in the top 3% of his high school classes and DEFINITELY didn’t “barely scrape through” as I often see headcanoned (not just by people who want to bash him but people who are like “I love him! He’s such a big dumb himbo! He’s so stupid!!” like. what.)

Similarly I see characters who are canonically very confident and self-assured, never really doubting themselves for a second, and who canonically react to things going wrong by calmly adapting their plans and moving forwards without ever getting discouraged, get tagged on posts about “pathetic wet paper bag men who’ve never had a good day in their life and an insult from a child would make them cry”.

Or characters who are shown in canon as dangerous, powerful and near-fearless fighters get written in fics, by people who say they’re their favourites, as spending all their time crying and flinching and not even trying to defend themself from whoever’s attacking/trying to hurt them (and not because they went through some major trauma previously in the fic that left them in this state, either--often the fic is set during canon and the character is just...like that rather than something having happened to change them from who they were at that point in their life in canon)... personally, while I enjoy whump, whumping a character who’s ALREADY weak and helpless and spends all their time curled up in a corner crying BEFORE whatever you do to them in the fic can easily just feel like kicking them while they’re down and is honestly boring because it doesn’t show anything NEW about the character, so it’s particularly odd to see fics written that way when the character in canon is exactly the confident powerful type that I do think is fun to whump.

(For a specific example, RE canon is that Wesker and Sergei had a rivalry and Wesker seems to view Sergei mostly with disdain and see him as an annoying obstacle. Wesker never gives any sign of being scared of or intimidated by Sergei, and certainly doesn’t seem to start panicking the instant Sergei enters a room. And even before he had his powers, he had extensive combat training by the time he met Sergei, and Sergei being taller and heavier doesn’t inherently mean that Wesker would be defenceless and go down in one punch in a fight, or even that Wesker would LOSE a fight against him. Canon doesn’t depict Wesker as a helpless victim for Sergei to beat up...hurt him by all means but it’s OOC if Wesker doesn’t give as good as he gets.)

Oh, and characters who are canonically master manipulators who are experts at getting people on their side and gaining their trust being portrayed as so socially awkward and clueless that they’re incapable of holding a conversation without coming across offputtingly weird...

Maybe I’m the odd one out here but I can’t really get why you’d want to present your favourite character as LESS capable, LESS intelligent, LESS brave or confident or powerful or whatever other impressive traits they might have in canon? Like I wouldn’t go so far as to say I ADMIRE all my favourite characters, because some of them are murderous evil monsters, but...I generally do see them as either having some kind of admirable personality trait (courage, integrity, confidence, determination... or maybe just a lot of charisma and a good sense of humour, though I feel like charisma tends to overlap with confidence a fair bit...), or at least as being very good at what they do. I can kind of get the appeal of the “sweet and kind and caring but not that bright ‘golden retriever man’ type”, even though they’re not usually MY type, because I know some people primarily like characters who they think it would be good to be friends with (and most of those types of characters aren’t USELESS, at the very least they tend to be good at listening and being supportive), but when someone’s favourite character is a bad person AND they seem to think they’re stupid, useless, incompetent and pathetic on top of being evil it’s like...so what do you even like about them?

#I can even enjoy seeing a character at their lowest saddest point #but there has to be some contrast #otherwise it's just one-note #'sad' on its own is not a trait that will usually make me want to spend time with a character #if a character does nothing but mope about and feel sorry for themself throughout the story and never tries to improve their situation... #that's just a one-note 'damsel in distress' trope but as the protagonist #and it also just gets really monotonous #and I also just don't want a character who is always miserable existing in my head all the time #of course there are great and interesting characters who struggle with clinical depression #but there are ways of writing that #without making your character essentially replaceable with a wet tea towel with a sad face drawn on it #who gets bounced around the plot like a pinball #that's just a Sexy Lamp but replace 'sexy' with 'sad' #and while the Sexy Lamp test is meant to be about whether female characters are written as flat characters out of sexism #a flat useless male character might not be sexist but he certainly is boring #if all I know about them is 'they're sad and weak' that doesn't motivate me to want to spend time with them... #even 'they're an awful person but they're fun' is much more appealing than that

[maracllea]

"You think nude is dirty? You are wrong. If you think like that, you are the pervert one. Everyone will think you are a pervert. Just like unnie said, we were all born nude." - (G)I-DLE, 2022.

Bonus: G-IDLE being very aware of the comments online

#the soyeon slander is happening yet again. #i've had it yet again #lets not forget she and idle are being praised for the concept in korea in terms of 'action' towards the internet searches #she is publicly drawing attention to it - as a woman in an entertainment industry in a very strict misogynistic & sexist country #shuhua is also one of the idols thats speaks up on sexism and women being mistreated - this is right up her alley #if all you see is the marilyn 'blonde' sexy - then you are missing the point of the song entirely im afraid #anyway #idle best girls #jeon soyeon #g-idle #(g) idle #(g)idle #jeon seoyeon #yeh shuhua #minnie nicha yontararak #cho miyeon #song yuqi

[light-koe-pinsky]

Another trans looney tune

#another trans looney tune #I love lola #I love everything she is as like a phenomena #I love that she started as a desperate attempt of marketing to drag more women into looney tunes AS IF looney tunes was ONLY a boyish thing #and instead it drag a WRONG public that they weren't supposedly aware of #and that it got called out as sexist and unecesary #love that for a long time they didnt know where to put her in regards of looney tunes projects #so they just sorta forget about her as if she never happened but kept using her in merchandise and valentine stuff lol #UNTIL the holy unexpected looney tunes show #where writers gave her a complete make over along with personality and everything #and people flip their SHIT over it #arguing that THAT was not HER and that she was very different to space jam lola cuz she wasnt sexy enough lmao #and she was cray..... a crazy looney tune goodness gracious god forbids #love that after the looney tunes show ended aknowledging she was one of the BEST things to happen to the show she got a protgonical movie #(rabbits run) #and in that movie she red one of the most iconic mascot of the last century as if it was nothing #I love that in the space jam movie 2 even tho she wasn't great character wise #she still caused controversy after revealing that she had removed her cartoon honkers #and once again people FLIP their SHITS #love that it seems like writers actually tried to give her her own light even tho is not been much is something #the looney tunes have always been about characters #character driven stories #big personalities #seeing in real time how a company desperately tries to find an identity for a female coded cartoon experimenting with her personality and #image cutting parts of her and adding others seeing what works and what doesn't and changing according to the reaction of the public #feels EXTREMELY personal to me and I don't think there are many things in media that can quite describe how being a girl #in a primarly male dominated space feels like as specific as this #I know is not intentional #god I love looney tunes #can you tell?

[randomidiocyncrazies]

it’s so funny seeing people fall over themselves saying X character isn’t sexist when he phrases his “concern” for the female character by saying she should not fight because of her status as a woman

“but ohhhhhh he’s saying that because he can see she’s burdened by the guilt of taking people’s lives + dangerous mission, and her being a woman in this setting means she doesn’t ‘have to’ do this job in the first place, unlike the male characters who ‘have to’ take up this job” ummmm that doesn’t make it not sexist (and the argument is steeped in gender essentialism)—if a woman chose to take up the job, even though her culture heavily discourages her from doing so (and her skills are belittled by the male character as being “good for a woman”), then... clearly she chose to be in this profession instead of adhering to the ‘intended’ position of women in her culture as wives and mothers. even if the male character is ‘‘‘‘‘concerned for her mental health’‘‘‘‘‘ or whatever, him saying she should give up on her chosen path because she’s a woman (and making that “good for a woman” comment beforehand) doesn’t mean he’s not sexist

#like. i get wanting to defend a show you like but. that's sexism 101??? #a character can genuinely care about a female character AND be sexist #and on top of that i feel like the show doesn't necessarily agree with the male character's comments about the female character #so like. i feel like the show did intend for this guy to be sexist and that we're not supposed to agree with him #wrt the main female character at least. the other female characters shown so far are 1) cute perfect wife who humanizes the main male protag #and 2) sexy seductress in skimpy clothes #oh! the cannibal courtesan is also a sexy seductress so one of the two will probs die soon (bc archetype overlap) #(ik there are more female characters but these are the only ones revealed in the anime so far) #this is why i no longer watch shounen shows btw #the action is really good though #ric reacts

[elliesdeadite]

"I honestly don't believe that if I were a man and had done five installments of a huge blockbuster franchise over 25 years, that the number that I was offered would be the number that would be offered to a man."

"And in my soul, I just couldn't do that, I couldn't walk on set feeling that — feeling undervalued and feeling the unfairness, or lack of fairness, around that."

- Neve Campbell

#neve campbell #QUEEN SHIT #i love her so much #she deserves so much better #imagine being sexist in 2022 #wtf #knowing your worth is sexy ma'am #i support her #i always will

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

No you dont understand i love villains that are evil women but i hate villains that are just Evil Women

#shut up pandora #make her fucked up and evil and mayhaps even sexy #but if you make her the sexist kind of Evil Woman then i will kill you #we support womens rights but more importantly we support womens wrongs