#the racism n misogyny

[scourgethewhorehog]

(stands on my soap box) some of you seem to not understand that horror involves being Horrified and sometimes as a result horrible things will occur and it doesn't mean the creator of that horror media is like secretly a murderer sex predator who wants to eat babies they are writing fucking horror

#before u assume the worse this isnt like about valid criticisms of the slasher horror genre ppl love to argue abr like #the racism n misogyny #this is about ppl getting upset if you point out silent hill majorly deals in themes involving child abuse #n calling you a creep if you mention it examining it... when... #the entire first game. is about a man looking for his daughter who is a part of a heavily abused little girl #silent hill 3 is girl who is the result of his daughter and that girl merging into one being #n her dealing w cults and coping w the trauma #and so much of the themeing is ABT THAT and the entire reason silent hill is like that is TIED TO THAT.... #just say you only care about silent hill 2 its not that fucking hard #same w ppl just Reading Into fairly innocous shit w some horror media to find a way to say the creator is bad w nothing irl that backs it #let me find catharsis in this mentally ill girl who is tormented by trauma demons in Peace

[odinsblog]

“Jann Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone magazine, has now found himself in hotdog water after an interview with New York Times writer David Marchese, where he revealed that the reason he did not include Black or female artists in his book is because they were not in his ‘zeitgeist,’ and he did not feel that female artists were ‘articulate enough on this intellectual level.’”

Jann Wenner is extremely inarticulate himself, but has been the gatekeeper of such things as who is or is not articulate enough for quoting or admiring for their contributions to Rock & Roll — a genre of music CREATED by Black people. And since he failed to mention any, lest we forget, people can be both Black and women simultaneously. (TERFs dni)

And just for clarity: Wenner exhibited the racism, sexism and tokenism that has probably held back many talented people throughout his very long career of picking winners and losers, and deciding who gets rewarded and who doesn’t in the music industry.

And one last thing: while I give the audio interviewer partial credit — not full credit — for pressing Wenner on his sexism and racism, I am imploring white people to unambiguously name and call things for what they really and truly are, in the moment.

PLEASE STOP CODDLING RACISTS AND MISOGYNISTS.

Coddling white fragility is not helpful, it’s harmful.

Unambiguously calling out racism is helpful, not harmful.

SN: Obviously the same goes for all the other isms too (Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, etc. etc.)

Don’t let members of the oppressor class trick you into thinking that call-out culture (aka, accountability) is a bad thing. It’s not.

Racist gatekeepers need to be embarrassed and called out. On a regular basis. When they’re young, people want to excuse their racism because of their youth. And then when they are old, people excuse their racism because, “Well that’s just the way they grew up,” and before you know it, some racist misogynistic asshole has lived their entire life without anyone ever seriously telling them that they’re racist. AND THEN we wonder why nothing is changing!

Instead of being concerned with hurting the feelings of a racist, maybe try being more concerned with the people who their racism will inevitably harm. Let’s try more of that please.

👉🏿 https://thehub.news/old-white-guy-hates-black-music-that-made-him-rich/

#jann wenner #rolling stone #racism #misogyny #rock and roll #gatekeepers #white fragility #the masters #rolling stone magazine #rock n roll

[thecruellestmonth]

Want to make a post about Batfandom obsessively latching on to depictions of brown and Asian female characters as Wicked Rapists Preying On Pure Innocent White Men.

#Like some people are even like yeah I heard Talia n Cass suddenly turned into heartless bloodthirsty monsters and I learned that's racist #but then they're still like THAT EVIL BROWN CATALINA FLORES AND MIRIAM DELGADO. I HATE THEIR FULL LIPS AND LATINA ACCENTS. #Catalina Flores #Miriam Delgado #Talia al Ghul #Cassandra Cain #Liu (full name apparently irrelevant) #Ra's al Ghul's naked nameless sister who shuddenly showed up to be naked and harvest white boy sperm and nothing else #Dick Grayson #Tim Drake #Bruce Wayne #Jason Todd #Damian Wayne #fandom misogyny #fandom discourse #fandom racism

[punkeropercyjackson]

'Progressive' Harry Potter fans are so hard to take seriously because they'll be talking about 'reclamation' and then their idea of that is.......bashing the characters who're literal traumatized children and ignoring the canon poc and calling rich dudebro bullies punks while claiming they're the ones who're minorities Ackstually

#the way i still remember being an hp autistic and nonstop in the trenches for my faves when my faves were fucking harry and the weasleys😭😭 #and the people fighting me on why they're bad were the fucking 'slytherin pride' mfs.why are you proud of relating to the wizard n*zis #they GENUINELY thought slytherins were 'discriminated against for being ambitious' and STILL DO.please go outside they called people slurs #anti harry potter #anti marauder's era #anti hogwarts legacy #anti fantastic beasts #anti hogwarts mystery #punk #pastel punk tag #ableism #racism cw #antisemitism #androcentrism #transmascphobia #transmisogyny #white favoritism #exorsexism #fatphobia #misogyny cw #trans #trans rights #poc #child abuse #victim blaming #classism #💌 #summerposting

[altschmerzes]

LEARNING THAT THE HOMOPHOBIA ABUSE-FETISHIZATION MISOGYNY TERRIBLE 'SPORTS FICTION' BOOKS ARE STILL BEING WRITTEN/PUT OUT???? PLEASE FREE ME

#I CANT DO THIS GANG I CAN'T DO MORE FROM THIS LADY #I CANT DO MY WHOLE DASH BECOMING OBSESSED W THIS GARBAGE AGAIN #I CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT #gav gab #NOOOOOO #SOMEONE PUT AN E N D TO THIS #i cannot comprehend how anyone can enjoy this shit it's straight up vile lmao #the homophobia is violently disgusting the misogyny is overpowering #the racism is bizarre the abuse and trauma fetishizing is beyond fucking insulting #etc etc #also theyre just. bad. they're just Bad. #this woman can't WRITE come on!!!!!! #in the words of the shrieking shack READ ANOTHER BOOK #the fact that this woman's dogshit series has such a rabid fandom makes me insane #you really can write the most poorly written #bigotry riddled nonsense alive #and as long as it stars Beautiful Broken Emaciated White Boys #Who Brood And Smoke And Have Trauma But Only In A Sexy Mysterious Way #especially if they kiss #tumblr will fall over itself to fawn at your feet #it's insane lmao #i may take this woman's success a little personally #given how often my work has been compared to hers but also it's just #it's disgustingly homophobic and misogynistic and everything else #plus it's just fucking Bad

[lunityviruz]

Me if defending minorities and getting into online arguments was a job:

#rants n rambles #bitch im clocked in OVERTIME #24/7 365 at 110% all day everyday #racism transphobia fatphobia ableism classism anti-Semitism homophobia misogyny aint gonna exist on my watch 🤷🏾‍♂️🙏🏾‼️‼️ #.save post

[magz]

cyber smith appearance discussion really derail from

"people will be extremely attracted to anyone if they white men, regardless how look - even if are extremely racist misogynists n notorious 'human pet guy'"

even with not being type post magz into, the reactions n derailment genuinely unhelpful

#text post #o post #racism mention #misogyny mention #n whatever

[seek--rest]

I am once again giggling forever at @yellowocaballero because SO TRUE BESTIE

#seek speaks #irondad #the way people openly bully me specifically for a fic I’m CO writing #but god forbid a white woman thinks about their racism and internalized misogyny #n e wayz…. #been here since 2019 bitches I ain’t going nowhere

[disneydatass]

Why does anime feel the need to throw in pedo shit like genuinely wtf is the point?!

#I was just trying to watch jjk and that whole what her name w ui ui was so ffucking pointless #it added NOTHING to the storyline #what are we doing #I know anime has a racism/misogyny inc*st n ped* problem but my god #at least w cases like utena you could say it’s plot centric but like Jfc

[llatimeria]

Just finished The Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert (my dad likes to play audiobooks in the car on trips) and I didn't like it much (and there's quite a bit of Yikes in it, because frank herbert and the 1960s in general,) but the aspect I found most interesting was the concept of like. A world's subconscious desire to kill The Other.

In the book an investigator visits a small cultish town in order to investigate it for a market study after a few other researchers mysteriously died. he gets into a frightening number of "accidents" while he's there (like the former investigators) and starts believing that there was a conspiracy among the townsfolk and all of them were intentionally trying to murder him.

tl;dr, it turns out it actually was a subconscious yet intense phobia/hatred they had of The Outside they had as part of their personal traumas, childhood indoctrination into their local cult, and the LSD-like drug they were constantly on. They didn't mean the investigator any harm, if anything they were extremely welcoming, kind, well-meaning people, but this background radiation of fear and rage kept making them accidentally do things to kill him - mixing up insecticide and spices in his food, gas fumes being pumped in his hotel room after a botched maintenance job, a torn carpet tripping him off the railing of the balcony, and Many Other subtle attempts on his life that he just happened to avoid by sheer chance.

But all the townsfolk don't really think anything of it - the town doctor, especially skeptical, "diagnoses" him as "accident-prone" until the investigator begs and pleads with him for days after several brutal accidents in a row, and only then does the doctor start believing him but even then only comes up with the theory that all of this supposed malice towards the investigator is "subconscious" - later shown to likely be correct when the investigator himself, after overdosing on their special drug, "accidentally" shoves his colleague off a roof, killing him, but the investigator physically cannot see it as anything but an accident anymore. it simply doesn't reach his mind that he killed a former friend of his. it was just an accident. he just fell, all on his own.

the idea of A Town That Wants To Kill You, But It's Nothing Personal resonated with me from the perspective of being a disabled person, especially one in a generally welcoming, accepting environment. when you're disabled, not a lot of people will come to you bearing their ableism between their teeth. They'll be nice, insensitive maybe, but nice, and are often outwardly willing to accomodate you. But they also stick out their leg as you're walking along to trip you. They'll apologize, and you'll maybe even believe it, even though to you, from your perspective, it was obviously an attempt to harm you. You excuse it once, maybe twice, but after a point, you realize that this world, this community you have entered, is actively hostile towards you and everyone like you. so you start screaming it to the rooftops. you tell authorities that the world wants to hurt you, but they begin affixing labels to you like "paranoid" or "anxious". they know no one actually has it out for you, personally, after all. that would be ridiculous.

but you still keep getting tripped down the stairs. the rat poison and the sugar at your favorite coffee shop still keep getting mixed up, but only when it's your order. in the hospital, recovering from your previous "accidents", a nurse will still accidentally pump you full of saline instead of medicine.

after a point, doesn't the fact that all of these are "accidents", and that no one WANTS to kill you, just... stop mattering a little bit? Yeah, no one wants to hurt you, but they just keep doing it. They keep making stupid little mistakes. They know everyone like you who has visited their community has died or been seriously injured under suspicious circumstances, but the idea that they, themselves, could be a little bit at fault just doesn't even register to them. they don't even consider that they might have to change their ways in order to protect people like you. After all, you can't prepare for every "freak accident". Even when the solution could be as simple as "stop putting rat poison next to the sugar", every time it happens to you, or a person like you, it's just an "accident", that no one "meant" any harm, and "nothing could be done".

it doesn't cross their mind that a string of unfortunate accidents ceases to be accidents, but serious negligence. it can't cross their mind, because they're not the victims here. they only even begin to acknowledge something might be wrong when the victims are screaming in their face, day after day. even then, they come to the conclusion that even if you're right, and the community does want to kill you because you are Other, they won't immediately see anything wrong with that. To Them, the answer is clear as day: just become one of Them, and you'll be safe. They take care of their own.

#this isn't even really what the santaroga barrier is even about i just found this to be a useful structure for talking about disability #It's not... NOT what it's about?? #it's definitely got themes of Otherness #but it's more about like. #My dad put it as 'how much of your individuality would you give up to live in paradise' #which is also interesting to think about but . imo if i have to give up parts of myself it would no longer be paradise #But also a lot of what the cult-town tries to get you to 'give up' is. like. Believing in capitalism #And to me it definitely feels like Herbert was on the santarogan's side with that part at least but it's still interesting that that's like #it's still interesting that That of all things is what you have to give up in order to Become Santarogan. #Like. Personally i'd have to change very little to become a santarogan. the trade off for me is not that huge #which makes the protagonist actually seem a little unhinged and unnecessarily hostile #Does daesin just want to believe in capitalism That Badly even when he doesn't understand that that's what this is about #Is it like the scene from They Live where the protagonist tries to get his friend to wear the Anticapitalism Sunglasses but the friend #just refuses point blank even though he has no reason to? #idk. it's definitely an interesting premise. but the racisms. and the misogynies. it's really hard to look past that #especially the part where one black character describes himself like #'before [santaroga] i was an ignorant [n slur hard r]. now i am an educated n-gro“ #which was just. holy fucking shit. that is unspeakably awful. shut the fuck up frank #Also a part where a woman disrobes herself to prove herself to be no harm to the investigator [her fiancee] #and he says something like. 'you're so beautiful i just might rape you' and shes just like teehee thats sweet :) #Which. Bad. Very nasty. Don't say that. #And the general concept of potentially using that woman to lure the investigator into the cult. it's unclear how much of that was #on purpose on the part of santarogans but it does have this slimy Women Are Evil Temptresses That Trap Men In Bad Situations miasma to it #anyways. sorry for blabbing on and on about a 50 year old book by the same guy who wrote dune which is clearly an unquestionable masterpiece #/s. #I just had no choice in listening to this story while sitting in the back of a car on Very Empty Montana And Wyoming Highways #so I might as well rotate it just a little I guess. nothing better to do

[odinsblog]

The history of Rolling Stone largely has been one of either exclusion or minimizing the contribution of women and men, of Black men and Black women.

I think you have to look at the history of the magazine. I think from the founding in the 60s, all the way into maybe the 90s, I don't think that they had a Black staff writer. They had very few women writers. So there wasn't a lot of outside voices in those offices.

Moreover, what's really frightening or sort of sad about his comments is that because Rolling Stone was essentially the gatekeeper, the seminal voice of youth culture, at least perceived by the mainstream, they defined what the canon of Rock and Roll was. And they defined the canon of Rock and Roll in very narrow terms that basically celebrated white men with guitars who Jann Wenner liked. So when you have that as your criteria, it kind of limits who you celebrate as greats.

So these comments really showed the way that gatekeeping excluded these other voices.

And the thing about Rolling Stone also to remember is, because it had such an outsized voice, as the voice of sort of Rock music culture, or even youth culture at one point, it affected how TV programmers programmed it, effected radio, and effected newspaper coverage. So who they deemed to be important and it resonated throughout. And who they deemed not to be important, resonated throughout.

So if you were a white rock band named Kansas, or Boston, or Chicago in the 60s or 70s, you got more coverage than Chaka Khan or Parliament, Funkadelic or Earth Wind and Fire.

Well, he called his book The Masters, and that was already the first step. If the book was called, My Favorite Rock Stars, I think we all would have felt, oh, it's a little narrow, but that's who Jann is. But by calling it The Masters, he suggests that these guys are the masters of a genre of music that helped define America in the last half century. And that's going to get backlash, particularly when it doesn't include Marvin Gaye, or Joni Mitchell, or Stevie Wonder, and the list could go on.

—Nelson George, responding to Jann Wenner’s racist sexist comments on Rock & Roll, a music genre created and popularized by Black people

#racism #jann wenner #rolling stone #nelson george #white supremacy #rock n roll #gatekeepers #rolling stone magazine #misogyny #sexism #casual racism #aversive racism

[waywardsalt]

tbh all things considered im at least glad that my discomfort with totk is what really drove me to really discover a lot of the discussion and analysis into the racism and orientalist stuff and... all of that in the zelda series, since i was halfway aware of it in the past but only more recently started to really look into it further and see what others have to say about it

#salty talks #loz #legend of zelda #just been thinkin abt this after seeing a few more posts abt the way the gerudo and ganondorf are typically treated #like... im not exactly new to learning about the nastier parts of something i like and moving to enjoying it while being critical of it #i mean at this point being a warrior cats fan is the same as being a warrior cats hater #but since warrior cats' issues is more about the misogyny and ableism that was has always been a bit easier for me to pick up on n stuff #while the racism and like in loz is a bit harder (as a white fan of the series) so im just. glad? that theres a lot out there about these #aspects and im trying to better understand the issues with all of this and why its all bad and stuff #like esp with movie worries and my own writing of the ganonbeck fic wherein ive tweaked some gerudo stuff #like. idk if it was a good move to tweak it so that gerudo males are just very rare rather than 1 per century #like rn i plan on them running into another male gerudo in chapter 2 among some other gerudo to make good on that #and like idk if thats a good tweak to the lore or anything while sticking to most of the shit canon has to offer #idk im just glad that im now more actively learning about this stuff and all of that even if ive maybe been a bit tactless in some tag rant #idk what the point of this is ig im just having a little reflection moment abt whats changed in my knowledge of the series' meta elements #since totk crash landed in my general vicinity

[donewiththisshitplsstop]

The way you were so outraged when someone called Hannah a snake only to say 'okay but let's not bring Kelly and Max into it' when Nelson called Lewis the 'N' word. I see your selective outrage.

P.s. Susie needed you to have this same outrage when Sergio said women belonged in the kitchen. Your fellow female F1 fans needed this outrage when Christian was saying they only watched F1 for the good looking drivers instead of it all being chalked down to 'peak shithousery'

#f1 #yh be outraged by the fact that hannah got hate for literally doing her job #got called a snake for what? being a strategist yk wht shes employed to do #but also when lewis gets called the n word maybe talk about how harmful it is to the guy who got called a slur #as opposed to the guy who said 'nah i kno nelson he aint racist' AFTER nelson said an offensive slur that most brazilians/black people #agree was said in an offensive way #as opposed to the girl who liked her uncles post that said its okay to say the n word because everyone says it and his grandma did too #like yh misogyny is bad but so is the blatant racism that exists within the f1 community

[constantvariations]

Should I keep a tally of all the messages I delete? Might be fun to watch the baby cry into the void

#rwde #sent another accusation of me being racist lol #trick so nice they tried it twice! #99% sure its canonseeker #homeboy got wayyyy too much free time #and yeah i know this is technically feeding the troll but its also amusing to watch them frantically throw buzzwords as insults #'racism=bad. not liking rwby=bad. therefore not like rwby=racist' #or itll be misogyny/facism/classism/whatever-ism #or a mix n match! #its such a basic formula a monkey could type it at least 900 times in those million years

[timeisacephalopod]

Love atheist communities that hate Christianity but reproduce every single issue Christianity has right down to the racism, wild misogyny, and of all fuckin things evangelizing atheism by sending religious people rude ass 'gotcha' type reactionary content to like idk, recruit people to atheism the way Certian Brands of Christian recruit literally anyone to their religion.

Like yes this atheism is what I see a lot of white men participating in, but like how dense do you have to be to only ditch the GOD part of religion and nothing else while claiming you're intellectually superior to religious folks like a great many incredibly talented and smart people in various sciences weren't religious?

#winters ramblings #its so funny that the so called 'skeptic' communities on youtube and reddit claimed ti be SOOOOO skeptical of things #but never took a fuckin second to check their misogyny or racism and badically applied shite christian values to everything they do #but think they arent doing that because they openly denounce god. like bestie youre doing ALL the same shit i have a problem with #in teligious spaces except you have the balls to claim youre inherently smarter and more intellectual #which is why youre SO SMART you cant figure out how to be a halfway decent human being #like its so funny when i see athiests like this around where it feels like religion is the only thing they felt held them back #and not in the ways PoC queer people and women deal with- THEIR athiesm is usually rooted in #'christians told me i was black because i have the curse of ham and thats fucking racist as shit' or some other discrimination event #plus your average religious truama and in my case just a lack of desire to participate in religion and also no belief in it #but then you have white dudes whove never had a real problem in their life doing all the same shit as them Nasty Christians they rail on #without a H I N T of the irony while also wondering why it is that their spaces seem so... homogeneous lmao #almost like women PoC and queer people know all you did was reject the GOD bit not any of the underlying discrimination tendencies #no need for them to unpack that i guess because theyre Very Smart Skeptics they dont seem to think #that they believe just as much dumb shit as any religious or non religious folks out there except theyre insufferable about it #also the nonsense of science being inherently opposed to religion like tell me you know nothing about the history of science #without saying you have NO IDEA what youre talking about. so much science was trying to understand gods creations #science and god arent diametrically opposed to each other and in fact went hand in hand for a long time #not as much any more but ill bet a huge number of scientists are still religious because being smart #doesnt mean youre an athiest like HELLO youre not smarter than anyone for not believing in god #the same way you arent smarter or better FOR believing in god lmao

[lesser-vissir]

Reverse racism isn't real but its kinda insane how some poc react to being told "taking out your anger about racism on white people you oppress on the basis of sexuality or gender, by being homophobic/transphobic to them is bad"

#i am 100% convinced its because yall find someone you hold societal power over and immediately want to flip the script #especially since every time this topic comes up they immediately try to paint every critic as either white or like #a coconut/oreo/ect #cause the base assumption is always 'racism is so much worse than every other axis of oppression that you cannot oppress white people ever #which stems from the specifics of how racism and misogyny interact such that white women often are able to leverage their whiteness #in such a way that it trumps the male privilege of a black man #but most people take that to mean that men of color cannot be misogynistic to white women #but what they miss is the misogyny that causes that reversal ie. white women are white mens property #but they extrapolate that mistaken conception to make it so that bigotry towards white people doesn't count ever #n e ways