#men vs society

[nashvillethotchicken]

Sometimes I think about how loustat are in a placage marriage and make myself insane.

#placage is a system of concubinage prevalent in pre 1804 Louisiana where wealthy white men would take black partners and oft have kids #who would then become the free black elite in the south especially in NOLA #it stems from french/ catholic “progressive” views on race mixing that made it ok in french/spanish colonies vs english colonies #so when i say louis is lestats concubines in canon do not get mad at me #they cant get married legally but everyone regards them to be in some type of relationship #lestat then leaves louis at home to cavort publically with white society #its so interesting #like this was my major in college i wanna talk about it so bad but you people cant handle someone saying lestat was dead wrong so i caint #like i love loustat #in canon yhe show is pulling from that history of interracial relationships in nola #and some of them genuinely loved each other but that racialized dynamic was always there even though the black person was 'free' #the white partner could always sell them or their kids into slavery so there was always that dynamic over the black partner #and then louis is most likely a descendants of one of these relationships like theres levels to this shit #interview with the vampire #iwtv #amc iwtv #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #iwtv 2022 #ldpdl #loustat

[cocoabubbelle]

#shenanigans #x men evolution #fandom polls #xmen evolution #kurt wagner #nightcrawler #pietro maximoff #quicksilver #tabitha smith #boom boom #aka #fuzzy blue german elf #vs #menace to society: male edition #and #menace to society: female edition #this fandom #why is your collective taste either a furry cinnamon roll or the walking disasters??? #🤣🤣🤣

[nobodysdaydreams]

I normally dislike crossovers between franchises. No hate if that's your thing, it's just not for me. However. The idea of a TMBS x ASOUE crossover intrigues me, not because I'm interested in seeing the orphan genius kids interact (although that would be cool), but because the fact that both Show Curtain/Nathaniel Benedict AND Count Olaf are both canonically insufferable theater kids who keep getting beaten by groups of children has such ridiculously high comedic potential it would be a crime not to consider it.

Not because I think they would team up. Oh no. They both need to be the center of attention at all times. I also feel like Nathaniel was the type of theater kid who bossed the other students around, treated every high school performance like there were talent scouts coming specifically to see him (and insisted that all inferior actors that made him look bad needed to be cut from the cast), and was also on math team/in science club (and bragged about his academic accomplishments constantly), whereas Olaf was the type of theater kid who was late to every rehearsal, didn't even try memorizing his lines until the night before the performance, and was constantly in danger of being expelled and kicked out of the production because he refused to do his school work. They would HATE each other (and frankly, so would everyone else in the drama club because they both throw tantrums whenever they aren't cast as the lead, as they both insist they are the most talented student in the school).

#Nathaniel would think Olaf's musical numbers are dumb but would still insist on doing his silly magic tricks #Olaf can't tell the Benedict twins apart (but insists he can) which leads to a series of comedic mishaps #Jeepers and the grey men vs. Olaf and his theater troupe would be interesting. A true battle of incompetence. #Olaf kidnaps SQ trying to get ransom money and SQ's like “Not to be that guy but do you know who my father is? You're a dead man walking.” #Unrelated but I feel like Violet would have a field day with Garrison's inventions and notebook #asoue #asoue netflix #tmbs #tmbs disney #mbs #mbs disney #a series of unfortunate events #count olaf #nathaniel benedict #ld curtain #dr curtain #the mysterious benedict society #mysterious benedict society

[golohours]

i’m being so serious all this “behind the scenes theyre bad people they talk bad about women” shit or whatever is 100% just how men talk about women. like yeah its a problem but its a problem on a societal level EVERY man has most definitely said stupid misogynistic shit about women with their friends or even to women themselves and probably don’t even think anything of it. like the craziest thing is that every male cc could be “cancelled” for saying something vaguely problematic about a woman in private.

we aren’t going to change that by individually calling out and punishing a select few men though bro thats not how that works

#theres a difference between the men who can recognise this behaviour and actively work on it #vs those happy to go along with the witch hunts who are more than happy to keep being privately misogynistic #and i think we as women/afabs need to understand that no man is going to be 100% free of misogyny at all times #and we cant strive for a better society if we just shun men entirely for it #it ends up going ina. very radfem direction

[prettyboykatsuki]

i have deep desire to write for demon slayer (and by write for it im specifically talking about zenitsu currently.) but the story is so deeply impacted by it's setting that its gonna take at least two weeks of research to do it any justice so the plans r Delayed

#aristotle.txt #writing for my hero = easy because im insane and know every inch of it #writing for anything else = impossible #i figured trying to find fic for it was going to feel like this in the first place #from my limited understanding the story takes place in the events directly after japans first industrial revolution #which means that the advent of technology is not only integral to the story telling but there's also like an unreal #amount of sociopolitical context for most of the major details #writing for my hero is easy because a society post tech is very easy to imagine. we live in it lol #demon slayer in particular takes place during the emergence of industry #what makes zenitsu an interesting character to me is that his narration is influenced directly by his class and proximity to modernity #he has a specific level of cynicism i can only describe as post industrial. whether that be his sense of cowardice over tanjiro/inosuke #or his attitude towards women. the way he behaves and how he critically analyzes certain kinds of behavior #like im currently watching the entertainment district arc and i think inosukes reaction vs zenitsus pretty much exactly covers it #where inosuke is overstimulated and tanjiro is reserved - zenitsu recognizes the district for what it is. that quality makes him stand out #a lot among them at least to me. i love hearing him talk sooo much lmfao. #anyways. all that to say. i want to write zenitsu but i need to do more reading to make it any good so . pray for me i suppose #zenitsu the embodiment of men used to chop trees and go to war fr

[lesbiradshaw]

height differences in ships stop being fun when you have to start rewriting history and doing backflips to force it like omg.

#me personally i enjoy a good height diff ship when it just. occurs naturally #& i think the ones where its like an inch difference vs TWO FUCKING FEET like you see in certain fanart is cuter cuz its barely there which #makes it even more aggravating to be teased about. #also when did we get to a point where shorter automatically = skinner ? like. has fanon never heard of being short & stocky #i think most of my ships that have a height diff the taller one is lankier and little bit more leanly built #while the shorter one is a bit wider/more muscular. and that is so personal to me. #i knew we were doomed as a society when bucky barnes and jake seresin started being portrayed as 5’6 120 pounds…those men are GIGANTIC #they have MEAT on their bones. they eat steak and potatoes every night. they never miss a meal without complaining. #i think its also funny that people will force height differences between characters so hard when there are other ships in the same media #that ACTUALLY could give them what they want height wise 😭😭😭 like if u like tgm & you want a height diff ship payback n fanboy r right there #anyways. #that post ab making your middle aged favs look at popular fanart of themselves to give them body dysmorphia #carolcore

[zesty-alt]

I like to logic this stuff out, to make sure I'm not being weird about trans men but simultaneously not like I'm putting them on some weird pedestal where I'm not supposed to sexualize their bodies etc.

My natural distaste for strict top/bottom dom/sub stuff comes in handy. It's all "oh yeah we're gay we're faggots fuck straight people" until you're like "suck a trans dude's strap" and then everyone's like oh I don't know about that. Choke on that strap boy.

#we are not straight people we do not need to do this #even with like cross-dressing stuff #to ME it's crossdressing is basically the most masculine thing you can do. Because it's crossdressing. Cross. #my love of calling men by feminine terms of endearment in a 'fuck what society says men can't and can't be' way #and even that's like. I'm catching myself. Obviously there are trans people into detrans stuff #vs my absolute hatred of detrans stuff locked in combat #not for me! Probably in part because I'm gay lol #I am not here for telling a dude they're a woman. I'm here to fuck dudes. #but there's also like. Something. I've lost my train of thought I've been drinking too much

[cypr1anlatew00d]

I feel like both gender reveals and sex traffiking paranoia (via truecrime) are things that can be directly mapped to increasing as queer/trans visibility increases as well... when parental authority over children's presentation and roles wanes + cis white femininity loses its crown jewel status of desireability and worthiness of protection, crises need to be created to shore up their self-esteem basically; you ARE correct and normal to announce and enforce your will in increasingly ridiculous ways, you ARE so desirable the world warps around you

#obviously also related to how like any individual rejection of gender role is seen as a threat in itself #even/especially within queer/feminist spaces sometimes... #ie the weird panic-mongering about nlog or masc women being inherently toxic vs soft boys and 'men in dresses' also being a danger #anyways lol truck nutz #not to be this is an AtD blog about it but the white slavery reenactment troupe subplot in AtD is also like. about this. #&&! it's also interesting to see cyprian's whole gender/sexuality ambivalence situated at that point #when male homosexuality was shifting from like a fact of certain areas of society TO a threat to family and gender role conformity

[bylertruther]

me when season five airs and The Big Reveals are mike's sexuality and will's love for mike bc mike has always known he's loved will but he hasn't always been comfortable with his sexuality and will has always known what he is but he didn't always know that what he felt for mike was that kind of love until it was already too late and thus the source of his pain has been jealousy + unrequited love

#mike said 'it's not my fault you don't like girls' and 'did you think /i/ would never get a girlfriend?' and joyce said she was so proud of #will's rainbow rocket ship and jonathan told will he'd always love him no matter what and to please talk to him if he needs to and the #party has always heard what people call will and loved him anyway no matter what and will has generally always had people in his corner #to support him that have literally endangered themselves and almost died for him and some people STILLLLLL think that HIS plot is abt #/focused on coming out n being generally accepted for being gay. like we didn't see that his entire s4 plot was abt his feelings for mike #specifically not his feelings for men in general. #UNLIKE MIKE who was fiercely devoted to will from the get-go but suddenly pushed him away n projected his internalized homophobia #and shame bestowed upon him by society onto will who wasn't even fucking talking about THAT thank u very much and who has been #battling being a freak loser (aka himself) vs conforming to what everyone else wants him to be (wearing mommy's clothes; impressing #other people by getting not just a girlfriend but a SUPERHERO girlfriend) and who in the season where he says he doesn't want to be #popular and where the person he looks up to talks abt nonconformity and mentions sodomy in relation 2 dnd etc etc they make HIS plot #focus on how he CAN'T SAY I LOVE YOU TO HIS GIRLFRIEND IN A ROMANTIC CONTEXT until HIS BEST FRIEND confesses his feelings #and it moves him enough to then make him say it to el when his bestie tells him to. like. literally how much more clear does it need 2 be #MIKE is the one that has BEEENNNNN vying for acceptance and self-worth and battling shame #WILL has been the one that has Known what he is and suffered bc he thought mike was that too n obviously felt hurt by mike replacing him #with el n ignoring him altogether aka 'you're destroying everything and for what? so you can swap spit with some stupid girl?' #like am i the weird one or does mike's 3984093 weird projecting statements after s2 vs will being jealous of el not make this super clear #will HAS ALWAYS HAD ppl to accept him n love him for who he is. the party + his family are right there for him to go home to after being #bullied. it's scary and a part of his story yes undoubtedly but it is not The High Point. and mike has always been crazy for will but #that doesn't mean he's accepted it or thinks others will accept it. #but anyway. im normal i did not write an entire essay in the tags bc i am normal

[idkinsertfanreferencehere]

I am politely asking transmascs (and specifically non-Jewish transmascs) to think for a minute if their favorite Jewish male celebrities actually have “tboy swag” or if they’re just. Jewish men. And why is it that you find Jewish men to be less “threateningly”/traditionally masculine than their nonJewish counterparts.

#This is not about “well Jewish masculinity is intellectual! Because 1. I am not even going to have that convo with you unless you can #Demonstrate that 1. Your community is jewish and sufficiently culturally isolated/self-sustaining for that ideal to even come into play #2. That you can talk about the sabra masculine ideal vs the stereotype of diaspora Jewish men #3. That you can talk about what exactly it means for a society to associate intelligence primarily or exclusively with masculinity #And that just because a culture’s patriarchal power is derived from something other than physical strength doesn’t mean that that power #Isn’t used to uphold patriarchal ideals and systems #Anyway this post is kicking a hornet’s nest of both Jewish and nonJewish transmascs but I’m grumpy about this so #Consider the nest kicked

[theophagie-remade]

I don't have much to say about Magne other than there was an Attempt, but. That time when Twice and Toga got angry with Overhaul for misgendering her was already indicative of what I'm going to get at in a sec, and obviously it was especially relevant because it was a direct show of respect and support from people who very clearly cared about her (and who called her big sis already as it was!!) (×2 imo because Twice was intentionally written to be the readers' insight into the LOV, and the character with whom they were supposed sympathise with the most at/since the beginning, so it's especially important that the first one who spoke up was him), but the story's progression (especially in recent years) is what most assures me that despite a rather poor execution (definitely not the best, but also certainly not the worst) Horikoshi did mean well with her. "People bound together by the chains of society always laugh at those who aren't" :(

#^ when she quotes her friend. like had the manga not gone on like it has that could have very well been a generic #We Live in a Society moment. but it wasn't. and that's what's comforting tbh #in general i think a big issue with magne from what little we know of her is that her reason for joining the lov was fighting back against #a tangibile real world issue (transphobia) vs all the other villains. whose situations Are partially real world issues as well #(eg child abuse) but they also very much present fantasy elements to them (eg toga's treatment due to her quirk) #and i'm not saying this as a justification for killing her off but. when you're writing a superhero comic with a target audience of young #cishet men it is much easier to present them with fantasy solutions to fantasy problems. again not that i think it's right!!! #but i do assume that horikoshi's thought process was more or less this. like. tiger is there alive and well #but he passes and was confirmed to be trans only via word of god so his identity has no bearing on the story itself #while magne's did. which doesn't make tiger's transness any less ''real'' than hers ofc but again i think it was a matter of what horikoshi #could actually deal with (fantasy problems) with the average readers that he has. it sucks all the way around. #which begs the question. ''why create her character in the first place then'' to which i answer: i don't fucking know man #bnha #animanga #mytext #in general. i've seen lots of people do this even with eg toga and her bisexuality (and when it comes to her i completely disagree but w/e) #but. authors who want to depic queer characters in good will but make mistakes or do it awkwardly or anything else #should Not be put on the same level as actively queerphobic authors. at all. do criticise what's worthy of constructive #criticism when you see it but don't even pretend that those two are remotely the same thing #(jic i didn't explain myself well bc i don't think that i did. what i wholly disagree with is that ''toga is a bad bi stereotype''. #i am bi people and i disagree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cuchufletapl]

Not a fully formed thought, just something that's been rattling around in my brain, but — there's something very interesting to me about the general similarities and differences between shonen and shojo isekai trends. If isekai is (nowadays) mostly fantasy-fullfillment, I think the fantasies in question say something of the audiences to which they're targeted.

A random guy who's dropped into his favourite fantasy world and immediately becomes a badass hero who can do anything versus a random girl who gets reincarnated as the antagonist of her favourite story and now has to try to avoid the fate that she knows awaits her. Something something self-insert escapism, but also the betterment of the self portrayed in two different ways — the gaining of power and status (effortlessly, most of the time) in contrast to the improvement of interpersonal relationships. Hm.

#it's a gender role thing #with shonen it's very obvious but shojo is a bit more complicated methinks #wishing to get to and stay on top of the social hierarchy vs wishing to affect and fix the world through emotional connection #I don't think it's a coincidence that those themes align so well with the roles that men and women get assigned (primed to want) in society #and I don't think it's a coincidence either that (previous to getting isekaied) the protagonists are failing at that #most male and female MCs feel pathetic and alone for the short time that we usually get to see their life before #my original post #my commentary - sort of meta? #isekai #shounen #shoujo

[cats-in-the-clouds]

i keep getting stuck being forced to take classes i despise and that have no relevance to me so i’m going to go all malicious compliance on every single assignment and subtly insult the class material and/or professor

#i’ve taken other sociology classes here that didn’t completely suck because they were about economic equality and such #but now i’m stuck in the intro 101 class as an upperclassman who’s taken higher courses and also doesn’t care? #why. #not to sound like a 70 year old far right man but. this is just a forcefeeding of the liberal agenda #if the (male) professor calls us ‘those who might identify as female’ one more time i’m going to bite him #magic how he doesn’t say that about the men… #’how did your culture shape you’ first of all it didn’t actually. not very much. and if it did i don’t care #you wouldn’t believe it but being raised catholic made me hate the faith. my own discovery and actions made me love it #what you see is ‘raised catholic and is currently catholic’. what you don’t see is the anguish in between. that was all me not society #i am quite conscious of the circumstances of my life i don’t need to be enlightened i’ve been reflecting on this myself for 6 years now #’humans are not born with any instincts!’ yes yes the nurture vs nature debate that sounds like your personal opinion of it that’s not fact #i’ve heard all this ten thousand times in every class even non-soc classes #i understand the material. i just don’t agree with it and never will. deal

[mvshortcut]

Ten Man fake ambulance my beloved

#Milligan hijacking a police car vs the Ten Men impersonating an emergency response vehicle: fight #the mysterious benedict society #the ten men #ten men #The Prisoner's Dilemma

[sameteeth]

i finally finished reading treasure island (having not read it before watching black sails) and boy do i have thoughts

#hung out w a friend almost immediately after i finished the book - spent a not insignificant time thinking abt TI during our hangoit #like. idk the walrusmens only remembering their fear of flint and only turning on silver in THE most dire circumstances #silver committing one final betrayal for gold and leaving his three men marooned - bc hes only in it for the gold really jusr as he says so #many times in black sails #TI almost mirrors black sails; BS starts w a selfish silver appearing from nowhere and slowly prioritizing others over himself - TI begins #with silver prioritizing (or appearing to) others over himself and ends in silvers ultimate selfish betrayal disappearing to nowhere #silver has become unacceptable to society as a pirate and an amputee and is discarded as such abd made to be a monster #i think the juxtaposition of silver and jim is also really interesting - silver being a dishonest selfish old pirate who is disabled vs #jim hawkins a young hearty lad who never kills purposefully and remains loyal to the crown #jim who is forgiven for his abandonment of the party and tells the story-silver who lives waiting out his guilt in a story he cannot contro #if i was not laying trapped by a kitty on my chest i would get out my laptop and write a more solid post abt this loo #canis speaks #black sails #black island treasure sails

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

i love how flexible the concept of a roleswap can be. if i swap reigen and serizawa, am i changing which one is psychic? which one is a liar? which one is mob's mentor? which one went viral on twitter? which one used to be a shut-in? a terrorist? a water cooler salesman?

what roles do they occupy that i want to study like a bug under my magnifying glass?

but also: what is "role" and what is "character"? if i swap all of these things, what if anything is left of the original characters that makes the swap interesting? is it just aesthetics left at that point (i.e. only visually distinct) or is there still something different about the story you'd tell with them?

what is it that makes reigen essentially reigen, that you couldn't replace without making him unrecognizable? is it the same type of quality that makes serizawa essentially serizawa?

#i don't have good answers to those char vs role questions which is why i love thinking about them. ship of theseus with character traits. #as to the first qs: the roleswap I'm currently rotating in my head is a poorly-adjusted mentor/well-adjusted ex-terrorist swap #and i gotta say making serizawa More Of A Mess is fun (some men will mentor a child instead of going to therapy) #but not half as fun as reigen bullying serizawa into starting a psychic business in order to get himself hired there #'hey! incredibly powerful psychic i just met! (yw for saving ur life btw.) why tf are u a neet? w ur powers u should be raking in the cash! #oh i see... you don't have a business degree or any management experience... if only you knew a guy with both who just quit his job...' #and then he just 👀 at seri until the poor guy awkwardly provides the prompted 'uh... like you?' response. #'oh hey gr8 idea! so ill have the business incorporation documents ready for you to sign... monday?' 'what' 'AWESOME see u then boss~' '??' #GOD giving reigen the third act bad guy intro -> mob-induced 180 -> Productive Member of Society arc makes him hysterically funny to me #i guess i should tag this if only so i can find it again later #mob psycho 100 #reigen arataka #serizawa katsuya #notfic