justanisabelakinnie

[justanisabelakinnie]

one booktok issue is wattpad/fanfic style books are so self-indulgent they lose meaning, so you wind up with readers of only these books thinking books like lolita are glorifying abuse because they literally cannot comprehend that someone would write a book about something they do not personally enjoy, and that main characters in a story are not always self inserts

#it's like they're still mentally stuck in a second-grade writing workshop with the rule 'your protagonist should be a hero that the audience #aspires to be like!'

[justanisabelakinnie]

i genuinely think that amongst all fandom discourse the 'you can enjoy a character without endorsing their actions' is the most inane stupid and frankly annoying and i seethe with rage whenever i see or hear it. we are in 2022 for fuck's sake. we have had the written word for 5000 years and oral epics for as long as humanity has existed. we should be above basic text comprehension by now

[justanisabelakinnie]

defending evil and hated female characters online is a full time job and i clock in every single morning.

#i'm always on time #fandom misogyny #misogyny #who ya gonna call?

[justanisabelakinnie]

I feel my abandonment of “fandom” as a concept coming like a bullet train. I actually now do not wish to care about what other people think of certain things anymore, actually. I want to interact with at least one piece of media in happiness and peace and not bond with, relate to, or be in community with anyone over it at all. I don’t care for your shipping, or your discourse, I will actually attempt to vacuum seal my own feelings about very specific media. A very soft “no thanks, I’m having fun playing with my toys by myself” from me.

#me rn

[justanisabelakinnie]

I really am worried that the most glorified m/f relationships (whether canon or not) in popular media these days tends to be one in which a man unequivocally and unapologetically violent against a woman (who is normally significantly younger than him).

#misogyny #violence against women #fandom misogyny #patriarchy

[justanisabelakinnie]

yeah we put your girl in the fandom and they villainized her beyond comprehension. yeah sorry they took out all the nuance and made the argument completely black and white. yeah my bad. we can’t reverse it. sorry.

#the youtube atla community towards katara #misogyny #fandom misogyny

[justanisabelakinnie]

i hate when male directors try to make a statement about the Condition of Woman. 99% of the time it’s “women are abused by male power!” (in varying degrees of smug graphic detail) like that’s a big revelation & not one of the most basic facts of social existence worldwide

#it's rather tempting to tag this as anti-pmmm but that shitty moeblobfest wasn't trying to make a statement about shit #it was the very thing those statements are being made about

[justanisabelakinnie]

ok im gonna be deadass right now i think people need to reflect on how they treat black and brown characters in media especially when they find them attractive. like there’s nothing wrong with finding them attractive, but it’s just the copious amounts of fetishized art and fics that are made of them so frequently that it’s literally just a straight up racism problem

#racism #fandom racism

[justanisabelakinnie]

L + ratio + you only consume media to interact with the fandom + no critical thinking + no understanding of the themes + you force characters into troupes they don't fit into + you only care about shipping

[justanisabelakinnie]

tumblr is always like, we need more morally grey female characters, and im like,,, okay but will you be able to recognize one when you finally get her? or will you hold everything that makes her morally grey against her like its a bug of her writing when its actually a feature???

#fandom misogyny

[justanisabelakinnie]

the way people treat girl characters in fandom joker-ifies me

#'women are always the woman character men are people' hey is your name peyo by any chance? #fandom misogyny #misogyny #like seriously wtf

[justanisabelakinnie]

“this female character was such a bitch” don’t care + didn’t ask + i’m holding her hand right now and you’re not

#misogyny #fandom misogyny

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like its not that serious etc but any time u express frustration or just point out wow people in fandom continuously prioritize men over women Here comes the fucking misogyny hydra

#misogyny #fandom misogyny #sexism #fandom sexism #androcentrism #fandom androcentrism #misogynoir #fandom misogynoir

[justanisabelakinnie]

like its not that serious etc but any time u express frustration or just point out wow people in fandom continuously prioritize men over women Here comes the fucking misogyny hydra

#fandom misogyny

[justanisabelakinnie]

Ngl I think I hate performative girlbossification of female characters more than I hate people not including said female characters in their fan content. Actually I don't care at all if they're indifferent to her. Who gives a fuck. Like I'd respect it more if they're like "ngl I just don't give a shit about her" with their whole chest, rather than being like "OMG I LOVE HER SO MUCH!!!! She's perfect, she's best girl, she kicks ass [never talks about her ever and only includes her as a prop to examine the male characters they DO like]" just because they're scared of getting called misogynistic. Like if you know in your heart that this character means nothing to you and you know you're not gonna do her justice, might as well just leave her out. But attempts to shoehorn her in, using your 2015-feminist style characterization is so weak, man.

#its honestly so annoying #im a HUGE fan of female characters and yall just dont want to interact with them in any way other than surface level #<-prev tags yeah i can totes relate as a dedicated female character enjoyer it's just sad 😭 #men are worshipped in every fandom because the patriarchy thrives and bleeds into there and it's heartbreaking and aggravating to witness #misogyny #fandom misogyny

[justanisabelakinnie]

They hated her cause she was terribly written but because she’s a woman no one sat down and took the workable scraps of her character to make her better

#THEY DO THIS WITH MEN ALL THE FUCKING TIME #THEY TAKE BADLY-WRITTEN MEN OR ONE-DIMENSIONAL MEN AND GIVE THEM TWELVE LAYERS OF COMPLEXITY AND A TRAGIC BACKSTORY #but if you ask them about the women? they either complain endlessly about them or reduce them to girlboss/mom/third wheel #<-prev tags don't forget 'mean lesbian bestie' #fandom misogyny #misogyny

[justanisabelakinnie]

OMG that is so ridiculous. Especially since the reason boys don't have as many clothing varieties as girls do is because MEN are the ones who in modern society(because that definitely wasn't always the case) decided that wearing bright colors or more unique "feminine" clothes is gay or unmanly. I am so tired of gender roles that men created for THEMSELVES and uphold to enforce their superiority being portrayed as something that hurts them and is WOMEN'S problem to somehow fix. I am tired of feminism being expected to do the emotional labor to solve men's problems, instead of men taking the initiative to fix them themselves. It reminds me of "men never get complimented" or "men are lonely" type shit like y'all choose to be lonely fix that shit amongst yourselves instead of convincing women that we are somehow privileged in ways that you are not and expecting US to wipe your tears and mollycoddle you and make you feel better!

i dont think fandom people who only think about male characters and only create content for male characters are like horrible misogynists but i do think they often have some shit they need to unpack. like how can you , for example, play life is strange and the only thing you come away with from that is you want nathan and warren to fuck nasty. how can you watch birds of prey, and the only thing you come away with from that is you want roman and victor to fuck nasty......... like idk! idk! i just find it strange especially when people will engage with media Specifically about women and then put no effort in to empathize or care about them, sometimes even going far enough to say they HATE the female characters and that theyre bitches... IDK!!!!

#misogyny #fandom misogyny #androcentrism #fandom androcentrism #sexism #fandom sexism #feminism #patriarchy