#on misogyny

[marthammasters]

The horror genre has famously fetishised violence against women. Therefore, it is no surprise that male-directed Martyrs has been criticised for its extreme portrayal of female torture. However, the depiction of violence in the film goes past fetishisation – instead, it is truly grotesque. It can be argued that Martyrs explores how women’s bodies are institutionally abused and needlessly tortured simply for being female. The abuse of women is widespread, lurking underneath (literally) a fancy house inhabited by a happy family. When Lucie enters the house, she threatens to destroy this barrier and bring to light the systematic abuse of women. Laugier suggests that doing so isn’t as straightforward as one might hope.

— Aimee Ferrier, The Best Movies You've Never Seen: The Human Capacity for Violence in 'Martyrs'

#martyrs #martyrs 2008 #horror #words #quotes #on horror #lee postz #horror meta #new french extremity #women in horror #on misogyny #lucie jurin

[elektramouthed]

 Women are represented as the ritual’s chief protagonists and as instrumental to its application to small female children. Of course, women in all countries that have practised, or continue to practise, sado-rituals on their own children do so because they understand only too well that these cruelties were (and are) necessary if female children were (and are) to become acceptable brides. In patriarchal cultures (be they Victorian Britain or nineteenth-century China) where marriage was the only realistic future for women, mothers had little choice but to mutilate their daughters in order that they survive. And, as in foot binding, clitoridectomy and juvenile corseting, men were able to deny any part of the blame or moral responsibility, because ‘women did it to themselves’. This male abnegation is apparent in advertisements involving mother/daughter corsetry. All male responsibility for the act is erased, and mother is scape-goated. It is Mother in these advertisements, rather than a patriarchal society, who transmits the culture of the corset and implements the cruel but supposedly necessary technology of gender upon the child.

Leigh Summers, from Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset

#leigh summers #bound to please: a history of the victorian corset #nonfiction #essays #on corsetry #on gendering #on misogyny #2022 reads

[animentality]

#twitter #south korea #4b movement #feminism #sexism #misogyny

[homoquartz]

this post is not gonna be well put together but i am having feelings

mean girls is trending right now because the musical movie just came out and i feel insane. idk why i do, it was stupid of me to think that most people Got It, no one ever gets it, it was always about the memes and the aesthetic.

the first mean girls movie was based on a nonfiction book called queen bees and wannabes. it interviewed and discussed the social hierarchy system in teen girl friendships. how they hold each other to these insane standards of heternormative femininity out of sheer terror that they won't meet those standards themselves. the way they leverage their relationships for some small degree of power in a world designed to strip them of it, even if it drags other girls down.

the "you can only wear your hair in a ponytail once a week and on wednesdays we wear pink" speech was not an original creation for the script. it's a QUOTE from a real teenage girl. those were REAL RULES.

then the musical came, and it was one step removed from the intended messaging of the film. OG mean girls was not perfect (and was extremely racist), but it said what needed said. the musical leaned on the comedy more, but still left a heartfelt undertone, and still critiqued the systems in place. of course no piece of media is going to be perfect, but it was about the conversation.

then this new movie comes out and it is washed over in the veneer of white hollywood feminism so thick you can't see anymore. the problematic aspects of the original movie are taken out to avoid "offending" when the offense was the point. it becomes toothless, it becomes some other thing entirely. they changed karen's line "i expect to run the world in shoes i cannot walk in" to "watch me as i run the world in shoes i cannot walk in." because choice feminism is in vogue, suddenly this character whose entire point is that she doesn't think deeply about WHY she does anything is suddenly hip to the fact that the world is against her.

i think of sokka losing his misogyny arc in the new atla. i think of the Heathers remake casting the bitchy, identical heathers as queer and hollywood-fat outcasts. as if the story, the meaning, the allegory is hidden in the sets and the jokes and the music. it's a whole new thing now, and it's a thing that means nothing in particular.

the plastics should not wear jeans. they should not have curves. their queerness should be suppressed, painful. their sexuality is not a slay, it's the only thing they think they have of value. the santa dance isn't sexy, it's shocking, it's mortifying - they are children.

they're not mean because "we are all mean." they are mean because they are girls in a world that brutalizes them and crushes them into a standardized shape. they are mean because the world is mean to them. they are mean because it gives them some power back. they are mean because it's the only weapon they have.

the landscape of femininity today has shifted to camera-ready makeup at the age of 10, stringent performative hygiene standards, and avoiding being caught on film while having a genuine emotion. the consumerism, the fatphobia, the racism, the classism, the homophobia remain. We could have had a conversation about that.

#mean girls #huge unhinged rant sorry #misogyny

[tiredyke]

some of you guys view misogyny as simply men being mean to women and not a systemic hierarchical issue that prevents women from gaining liberation, support systems or a socioeconomic foothold and it shows every time you talk about “misandry”

#neon talks #misogyny

[daigah]

We lose everytime a girl in fiction who is on the masc side and happy with it becomes very feminine as a supposed sign of maturity

#Also applys to alt girls #Tropes #to everyone in my notes saying cassie sandsmark this was cassie vagueposting #IM NOT !!! REFERRING TO THOSE INTERNALISED MISOGYNY WHO DRESS MORE MASC CUZ OF THAT AND START TO EMBRACE FEMINITY JUST FINE #IN A POSITIVE WAY #this is more like. girls who were explicitly shown to dress gnc/masc leaning because thats simply their personality and what they like #and are comfortable with but still need to be “corrected” to dress feminine #especially if its for male/social validation

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Keke Palmer's boyfriend and the father of her baby publicly shamed her for her outfit and it's the audacity of someone we only know as "Keke Palmer's boyfriend" to target his hardworking significant other, the mother to his baby like this

The comments on his Instagram are cracking me up

#not a dream #misogyny #keke palmer #darius daulton #whoever he is

[termagax]

yknow what pisses me da fuck off. how gay men get to be like teehee im too gay to care about women but lesbians are still expected to center men to the extent that jokes about Characters Who Are Lesbian Icons are always men. "lesbian and her boy blorbo" are the most popular jokes about lesbians on this website. "x man is a he/him lesbian" headcanons outnumber actual content about lesbian characters 10:1 even in series with well-written female characters. but sure youre Too Gay to think about a Yucky Female for ten seconds and you HAVE to broadcast this fact in the notes of posts abt fandom misogyny

#like if yr gay and u only care abt characters u wanna fuck fine but why r u bragging abt it on posts abt misogyny. mind yr business dude

[strawberryviscera]

society could be built on selecting random women to be put in a blender and pulverized monthly and tiktok would be like “how to SLAY the blender look! if you don’t want to get blended you’re just a pick me. getting blended is an act of rebellion in our society. how to dress more blendercore. trans women will never know what it feels like to be worried about getting selected for the blender every month (even though trans women get blended more often than cis women). trans men are traitors because they don’t get selected for the blender anymore (even though they do). actually women are more biologically suited to be blended because our soft frail bodies are easier on the blades and our brains are full of goopy feminine emotions and fluff so there is nothing of value lost when they’re crushed into a chunky red liquid. it is an act of divine femininity to be blended.”

#feminism #transphobia #transmisogyny #misogyny

[fancyfade]

I bring a real "many female characters also have these traits you love male characters for" and "many of your fave male characters have done the same things you hate female characters for" vibe to the conversation they female character haters don't enjoy

#idk #fandom #fandom misogyny

[elektramouthed]

 It is important, says Bleier, to recognize that a ‘consistent and profound bias shapes scientific theories in general and theories about women in particular’. Bleier claims that when social movements are (or were) perceived to threaten the social order, corresponding scientific theories emerge (or emerged) that defend (or defended) the gendered status quo. Science, at these particular times, says Bleier, argues for presumed biological origins, permeated by an andro-centric bias consisting of ‘premises and interpretations . . . universalistic assumptions, an acceptance of innate natures and a separability of biology from culture’. These biological determinist arguments emerge, says Bleier, as ‘dominant explanations’ during periods of unrest and during struggles for autonomy, particularly when women’s issues are involved.

Leigh Summers, from Bound to Please: A History of the Victorian Corset

#leigh summers #bound to please: a history of the victorian corset #nonfiction #essays #on misogyny #2022 reads

[animentality]

#twitter #misogyny #transphobia

[angrylesbianstereotype]

“But Skyler fucked Ted!” I wish she’d fucked Walter’s mom actually. I wish she’d told Walt to kill himself every day for breakfast lunch and dinner. I wish she had taught Holly to say “dad sucks” as her first words. So no she wasn’t perfect.

#the ungodly amount of restraint she showed in not killing him w hammers #couldn’t be me but you do you queen #skyler white #anti walter white #breaking bad #brba #misogyny

[dhaaruni]

So true

#twitter #misogyny #lol

[anarcho-smarmyism]

the way that "Karen" originally meant primarily white women using ther privilege to abuse people of color and service workers and the internet turned it into a stand-in for "bitch"...... the way that "NLOG" originally meant girls and women who performatively separate themselves from femininity and put down other women out of internalized misogyny but the internet turned it into a stand-in for their lesbophobic or transphobic slur of choice for masculine women.....the way "manic pixie dream girl" was originally a critique of a sexist trope in fiction and the internet turned it into a way to insult real life girls and women for being weird or quirky....never fucking ending

#sexism #misogyny #theres a version of this with white ppl appropriating aave but im not the guy to write that one #feminism #genderfluid

[transfaguette]

god apparently Walgreens has a policy where employees can refuse to complete a transaction if it goes against their moral or religious beliefs…like lets get this straight a pharmacist can refuse to give a customer their prescribed medication because they disagree with it. and technically theyre supposed to hand it off to another employee. but this doesnt always happen. literally leaving people without condoms or contraceptives or HRT or any number of things because the employee simply didn’t want to. Incredibly ghoulish policy that has no right to exist. I’m sorry if you work in a pharmacy and can’t do your literal job because its too “morally challenging” for you, you should not have that job!

#coyote.txt #transphobia #misogyny #walgreens