#pseudo feminism

[musclesandhammering]

The #GirlBoss movement in the MCU is extremely pseudo-feminist.

I could be totally off-base with this, but has anybody else noticed that here lately the mcu has had a slight pattern of making a few female characters ridiculously overpowered as well as turbo-hyped by the narrative and marketing…

This specifically includes Wanda, Carol Danvers, and Sylvie.

I’m in particular talking about how all 3 of them had far less time for character exploration and strength build-up than the majority of the other more powerful heroes, had fairly bland and uncreative personalities compared to the other more powerful heroes (Wanda was coddled by the narrative and not allowed to have any ownership in her wrongdoings which would’ve made her more complex, Carol was a victim of the “having the same arrogant attitude as the douchebro male characters is all it takes to make a Strong Female Character(TM)” writers’ mentality, and Sylvie with mary sue-ed to hell), and were generally made more about the cool powers and ‘oooh such a badass’ moments and the aesthetic than the actual depth.

My point is… they’re all so shallow and performative. It’s like the (mostly male) writers looked at the female character and scoffed and said “ok there’s no way this lady’s gonna become a fan fave on her own- we have to help her. We have to give her a boost. I have zero faith in women being able to gain popularity by their own merit (because who’d be interested in a woman, ammiright?), so we can’t just give her a compelling backstory and let that be it. We have to make sure she has the most tragic backstory of anyone on screen at any given time, and we have to make sure the audience knows it! We can’t just give her a specific set of powers and depict them in an interesting and unique way. We have to make her stronger than any other character she’s going to share screen time with and we have to have her flaunt her powers every ten minutes to remind the audience how strong she is! We can’t just make her intelligent in her own way and give her witty banter with the male characters. We have to make sure she makes them look like idiots and condescends them as frequently as possible so the audience knows it! We can’t just flesh out her morals and let her get things wrong sometimes. We have to make it so she’s always in the right and the audience should always be on her side! And even when she does something wrong, we have to make sure the audience knows that it wasn’t really her fault and she still has the moral high ground! That’s the only way we’ll ever get people to like her as much as the main male characters!!”

It’s just…. This is just rank with a lack of confidence in women. They approach the idea of having women front and center with equal parts skepticism and greed. They’re so out of touch with what women want in superhero films and just what women want in general. They fall into the trap of thinking feminists want everyone to know that girls are actually superior to guys, when in reality we just want to be treated with the respect and humanity and agency guys have always been treated with.

And by creating these female characters the way they do (making sure they’re not equal but decidedly better than the male ones, making sure they’re nearly infallible strength-wise, making sure they’re never allowed to be held accountable for mistakes) they literally defeat that whole point. They’re being extremely counterproductive to what feminists are actually trying to do, because they aren’t actually interested giving women genuinely good representation- they’re just interested in pandering to Twitter stans and casual female fans who form their opinions based on a first glance and girls who are so starved for rep that they’ll praise movie-makers for serving up rank crumbs.

They give us female representation but not really, just like they give us queer representation but not really, and like they give us poc representation but oftentimes not really…. Because (surprise surprise) the multi-billion dollar corporation does not actually give a shit about minority issues.

#this should not come as a shock to anyone #but unfortunately #I know a good many people who would be shocked to chagrin #young women and young lgbt folks and young poc stop idolising anything that gives you a crumb challenge #Omg Marvel Gave Us All These Badass Women!!! #babe most of those women are cardboard cutouts #Omg Marvel Gave Us A Confirmed Queer Character!!! #babe that was one vague sentence and then they did their best to retcon it by putting him in a heteronormative relationship with himself #Omg Marvel Gave Us These Cool POC Characters #babe most of them are side characters who get 3 lines tops 2 of which are used to build up the white characters #I’m just…. so tired #people are so shallow #negativity #marvel negativity #fake feminism #pseudo feminism #anti wanda maximoff #anti Captain marvel #anti sylvie #anti marvel #marvel meta #marvel discourse #argue with a wall #might do a longer post on this later idk

[heertohbadisadhai]

It's sad how most men cannot speak up for the sexual assaults, domestic violence and male rape cases done on them because of the toxic masculinity that exists in the society . The win of johnny depp is a giant leap towards a brighter future and promising equality for all the genders . It has paved way for a lot of men to come forward and not think that no one would believe them . Legendary.

#johnny depp #amber heard #johnny depp vs amber heard #domesticviolence #pseudo feminism #blog #blogger #writerblr

[hordebreaker]

Lest we forget

I worked on a story about this in Orange Is the New Black where we had a character who was raped and then we dealt with the feelings of her rapist who, at the time, did not understand he was raping this woman because he thought like, “Oh, she’s my girl, I love her and she’s just not into it.” I think there are many otherwise fairly decent, upstanding men walking around this world who possibly committed some kind of unwanted sexual advance in college and have no idea what kind of effect it had on the person and genuinely think of themselves as a good person. While for the person in the room with them, it was received in a completely different way. Nobody’s ever taught Aegon about consent or what a relationship is supposed to look like and his mother married his father when she was 16. So this is a very long way of saying: It’s more complicated than, “You raped somebody, this is the end of your story.” And, actually, we improvised [the “do you love me?” line] on set. - Sara Hess.

#house of the dragon #hotd #sara hess #pseudo feminism

[devilfruitdyke]

we need to destroy the idea that girls should wear makeup. normalize bare faces on prom queens and flower girls and cheerleaders. no products at all instead of '7 product simple makeup routine.' no more 10 step skincare and regular facials and dermablading and gua sha just to be comfortable with yr natural face. i want to see eye bags on the funny librarian and acne on the swim coach and wrinkles on all our adult role models. i want to see a 16 year old girl that has never tried putting on eyeshadow. i want to see a 7 year old girl who doesn't have to go out and buy powder for her dance recital. i want to see trans women and girls everywhere to never have to wear makeup, regardless of how well they 'pass.' no more 'contouring to look masc' either. a post-beauty industry world is possible

reblogs are on but if you bring up the stage makeup point that i have addressed three times yr blocked on sight ☹️

#this is me warding myself against the b arbie m ovie shitstorm. </3 #too many teenage girls have had 'bimbo feminist' thrust upon them by the attention economy + consumer-feminist culture #its ok to just be fucking lame. like you can still be fem/me and stuff while doing it #there is a world where you can feel comfortable in yrself even if you arent Aesthetic #the makeup industry is trying to hinder this tho #plus i saw that post thats like. 'the reason we see a lot of casual pseudo-gender-essentialist and choice feminism rhetoric... #... is because we have fewer posts now that have basic feminist messages' #that resonated so i am the change i want to see in the world #i wanna try and make a r iot g rrrl masterpost for anyone getting into that side of things later so lmk if you want to see it

[hauxicrook]

One thing I've noticed ladke be faltu mein badnaam hai, most pseudo-feminists are women themselves

"Genuine Belief" Sadly there's no genuine belief ......................

And if U r like no brother U r wrong, let me tell you u have only seen the surface, and u need u dig deeper

#feminism #pseudo feminism #i'm talking #abt India

[anti-media-blog]

Feminism

When we talk about Media there's definitely nothing better to start talking about besides feminism, Feminism is a fake movement by the matrix to kill this society, women joining this movement want equal results not equal opportunities, I Have a good example from middle east, women in middle east and most of the middle east people are Muslims so they follow the Islam rules, in Islam rules the wife has to listen to the husband and obey him and a women wife or not has to wear hijab, women in middle east refuse to wear hijab and all the other things I said, but they want their rights in religion, they don't follow all religion rules, only the ones that they like, that moves with their ideology.

For Europe, I Have the best example: Karens.

Karen is the best example of a feminist; she's arrogant, wants everything for herself without paying consequences, and thinks she's never wrong. She thinks she always deserves more, whatever she has.

You need to give her planet Earth on a golden plate just to complain about you being very gentle and kind. Yes, there are women who complain about men being gentle and kind. As a matter of fact, a girlfriend broke up with her boyfriend because he was too nice and went to make-a-bear and made one for her.

There is no need to talk about women who sell their bodies on OF, but when they get fucked, it becomes sexualization.

You can be her boyfriend, but once you break up, you become a r*pist. She can say you r*ped her, and no one can say she's lying, and you will waste your time in jail.

GET OUT OF THE MATRIX!!!!

#feminism #feminist #the matrix #fake feminism #pseudo feminism

[will-pilled]

If you don't take the impacts of people like Jordan Peterson or Ben Sharpiro seriously and just brush them off as (the) idiots (they are)

Long read about Jordan Peterson and how his meatriders behave.

You should still take them seriously as a threat.

A peer of mine was going on about how women are chosing the wrong path. I asked him what path he thought was the wrong one, knowing it'd be your standard woman hating nonsense. Which it was. He said that women not getting married or having children was "the wrong path."

I told him that generally childless single women are the happier demographic. He laughed and asked for a source. I didn't have an answer because MULTIPLE sources say that. Literally all you have to do is like.. Search it up and most of the sources say this.

I asked him HIS source, to which he said Jordan Peterson.

I told him it was foolish to take the word of just one man. A man who almost had his license revoked nonetheless, but I did not bring up that part.

He said that just because I didn't like him for a reason apparently I didn't understand (???) that doesn't discredit him.

So not only are Peterson fanboys taking everything he says seriously, but they don't even GOOGLE what he says. This guy is literally obsessed with JP and takes him very seriously. He also fits the "troubled young man without a father" mold too.

JP is so fucking evil praying on vulnerable young men like this, and his peers do it too.

#so much shit he says could literally be disproven with a simple search its insane #i have many other critiques of him but thats for another day. #personal #feminist #feminisim #feminists #feminism #intersectional feminism #jordan peterson #jordan peterson is a clown #the daily wire #ben sharpiro #matt walsh #brett cooper #sharpiro #peterson #anti intellectualism #pseudo science #pseudo intellectualism #psychology #psa #leftism #leftist

[a-s-fischer]

Y'all ever read the summary of a book and know you're going to have to give it a try because it's right in your area of research, but it keeps being described as "groundbreaking", and you're pretty sure the only ground being broken is the kind involved in the author ignoring basic facts about the topic to push their uplifting and pseudo-progressive agenda?

#a s fischer original #today its pseudo feminism combined with wisdom of the ancients #and the fact that it's ignoring is that the feminine industry in question #at the time and place listed was mostly done by enslaved women

[hettolandija]

the aftermath of November 5th 2020 was rough, man. blogs that I followed for a decade, and they never mentioned Supernatural, suddenly not only had opinion on it, but also many of them turned out to be wincest shippers.

to this day I feel the betrayal

#blogs who like wincest because they are into fucked-up things but don't post about in anymore can stay #but blogs that ship wincest and continue to hate on destiel in 2023? #(and they turned-out to be a hater in general) #had to unfollow #over the years we enjoyed together many other ships #in several other fandoms #but I can't take that much negativity from one person #idk why I'm even posting this #maybe I have a limit of how much misandry and pseudo-feminism I can see on my dashboard

[tervenbutch]

radical feminism has helped me in recovering from an ed more than any kind of therapy has

#i’m far from fully recovered i still relapse with both binging and restricting often #but the realization that beauty standards for women ultimately stem from pseudo-pedophilic men #makes me want to reject them purely out of spite #yapping #<- personal ramble tag for whenever i’m active on this acc #radfem #radical feminism #radblr

[wewontbesleeping]

plssss I’m so tired of “girl math” and people calling it out as blatantly misogynistic and the responses of “actually girl math is a feminist response to the patriarchy and the way that men have controlled our activities and spending for hundreds of years” like. what fucking happened to the feminist discourse this is fucking exhausting. you fucking suck.

#I just don’t think women have stupid female brains but. #sorry for being a pick me LMAO #read a book for the love of god #‘let people enjoy things!’ no. lol. #feminism is about CHOICES and I CHOOSE to believe women are inherently stupid and frail <3 #fr though this is so absurd and I realize this ‘women are STUPID ON PURPOSE’ as a pseudo feminist idea isn’t super new #but it’s still fucking annoying and I hate tiktok for amplifying it

[ariamariastark1]

Media Liturature

People need to understand that just because a book series is Fantasy, it doesn’t mean that they are meant for escapism. ASOIAF is being treated like a YA Novel and that fuck how people intrepertate the massaging.

#ASoIaF #asoiaf fandom #pseudo-feminism #intellectual dishonesty

[nidochara]

Liberal feminism is little more than the strong arm that holds down women for the stiff cock of the patriarchy.

#radfem #handmaidens #pseudo-feminism

[knightingael]

I hate when guys who fancy themselves progressive get all self-righteous about how Cool and Chill homeless men in public spaces are. Like, that guy on the corner who told you all about his interesting life as an activist in the 60s? He catcalls me on my way to work. The dude you say should just be allowed to sleep in my apartment complex’s lounge because “he’s not hurting anyone” just assaulted the girl down the hall from me. That mentally ill guy you find so entertaining has a restraining order because one of his delusions is that all of the girls on campus want to sleep with him. These are not hypotheticals.

You can’t go, “You’re just projecting right-wing rhetoric onto the homeless!” and ignore the actual violence they’re inflicting on women in public spaces. You feel safe with them, we don’t. Don’t project your experiences onto us.

#it's a nuanced issue and that's how I want it to be treated #radblr #radfem #radical feminism #pseudo progressive #women's safety #the homeless problem

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

if you ever read a really thought provoking article by a scholar or intellectual, absolutely do not find them on twitter

#the way i found CBS’ twitter and was just…severely disappointed #annie teriba olaku’s twitter is actually fire most of the time unless she starts talking about feminism so thats an exception #her rebuttals of race reductionist arguments in online pseudo feminist spaces can be good but that’s largely because she can criticize #feminists and fall back in her brilliant class analysis #but if she is giving her views on feminist theory…thats a big no lol #i dont even have a twitter see how toxic this is #they need to not let you even see the website if you dont have an account so i can be free

[piceuscelus]

A/B/O with cnc, feminization, AND incest kink with Lambert, Eskel, and Geralt, go wild.

to absolutely no one's surprise, this one got long.

even though it took me two motherfucking goddamn years to make it GO, good fucking lord.

so, uh. here it is on ao3 with tags and warnings (read the AN y'all) etc, and snip below :D

cw drugs/intox, a/b/o, CNC

It isn’t unto Lambert’s finished his glass of Gull, and his fingers are suddenly going tingly, that he realizes what’s happened.

Almost at the exact same moment he realizes it, though, as he sucks in a breath to protest, Geralt is at his side, rough fingers at his throat, murmuring, “Shh. Shh, little omega.” Eskel follows near immediately after, large palms landing on Lambert’s chest and nape, and as if they’re speaking as one, he continues, “Shhh, it’s alright.”

He fights the urge to squirm, swallowing back the needy noise that nearly escapes his throat, and firmly fixes his expression into a frown before growling – or at least, trying to growl; the sound he makes is thin and too breathy to really be called that. The tingling is slowly getting worse, as each second ticks by, even with his slow heart rate impeding the drug’s spread; it’s not a paralytic, it’s barely even a sedative, but all the same it’s making it harder to move, less as if he can’t and more like the whole process from thinking to moving is too long, and too much effort to make. He sucks in another breath, and the scent of alpha surrounding him hits like a punch.

“I know,” Eskel murmurs, thumbs rasping over Lambert’s chest and under his ear in a soothing motion. For a split second he forgets himself and leans into it, just a fraction, breathing in deep, and then he remembers the game and goes rigid once more. He thinks he catches Geralt’s huffed breath of a laugh about it. “I know, little one,” Eskel continues, and then his hands are shifting, sliding to Lambert’s waist and gripping to pull him out of his chair. “I know, little omega, you hate that we have to do this.”

Geralt hums an agreement. “But it’s for your own good,” he reminds, voice gentle but undeniably firm, and Lambert’s heart thuds hard, once, and then speeds up, just slightly. It worsens the tingling feeling, moving from his limbs and in to his center.

He whines, struggling weakly against Eskel’s hold, and Geralt’s hands join again, then, curling tight around his elbows to hold him still. Between the two of them, they start walking toward the bedrooms, moving as one with Lambert pinned like a bug between them.

He ignores the way his cock is throbbing, and tries to struggle again, lifting his feet and kicking toward Eskel, then Geralt. Both of them dodge smoothly, tutting in disappointment.

“It’s for your health, little omega,” Geralt murmurs, and Eskel nods with an approving sound, clearly in agreement. They reach one of the bedrooms, and despite his continued kicking, take him through the door as if he’s not struggling at all.

Lambert manages to cover his sharp breath at the casual, easy manhandling with a grunt. “‘S not for my health,” he argues, voice a little shaky, “It’s not necessary, I don’t need – ”

And Eskel shoves a wooden gag between his teeth, cutting off any further protest. Geralt’s hands leave his arms to secure it behind his head, but he doesn’t have any chance to do anything with that freedom before Eskel is moving him around, pulling off his shirt and tossing it away just for Geralt to start on his pants. 

He grunts, already starting to drool past the gag, and presses at Geralt’s shoulders, trying to wriggle away. All he succeeds in doing is helping the alpha get him out of his pants even faster, and Eskel grabs his wrists before he can even twitch toward grabbing his own braies. He whines.

“Hush,” Geralt says, a little harsher than before but still fairly gentle. Lambert swallows, once again trying to ignore how he’s throbbing, and makes a harsh, protesting noise in response, just for Eskel to squeeze his wrists to the point of paint and make him yelp.

“Be good, omega,” Eskel tells him. “We don’t want to make this any harder on you than it already is.”

Which is a cue, Lambert recognizes, though with the drug starting to go to his head it takes a beat for it to process. He’s being given a choice, for all that the idea – the game – is that he’s not. 

He swallows and makes a choice, yanking hard with his arms, trying to twist away from the two of them. He just catches Eskel’s smothered laugh, and the flash of Geralt’s grin in the corner of his eye, before suddenly he’s being wrenched around, his braies somehow getting left on the floor as he goes. He ends up facing Eskel, and one of those large hands moves from his wrist to his jaw, fingers digging into his cheeks in a way that makes his mouth open, wider, just a little, and even more drool spills from behind the gag. 

“Geralt,” Eskel says, and he doesn’t elaborate, but Lambert can hear the other alpha step away and a door creak open before clicking shut again, and then he’s back, presence large at Lambert’s back. The whole time, Eskel doesn’t take his eyes away from Lambert’s, and Lambert trembles but looks back, as defiant as he can manage to be when his belly is full of heat.

He doesn’t miss the flash of a smirk that earns him, but it is just a flash, and Eskel’s expression is a stony sort of pitying, then. 

“If you would just let us, omega,” he says, almost sadly, and Lambert swallows shallowly. “We just want to take care of you.”

#celus writes #dead dove #dead dove: do not eat #celus drugs/intoxication cw #celus a/b/o cw #celus consensual non consent cw #celus feminization cw #celus incest cw #celus pseudo incest cw