#your misogyny is showing

[raisedbythetv89]

joss - vampires should be UGLY and evil - whedon everybody!!

(I didn’t include david partly because he’s average to me but mostly because he wasn’t cast as a vampire originally and jw was forced to make him one where as making harmony one was his choice)

But isn’t it interesting (it’s not it’s misogyny) that Joss would only throw tantrums about women finding Spike attractive and loving him but we never heard a PEEP about anyone who found Darla, Drusilla, or Harmony attractive…… HOW BIZARRE

Truly had NO ONE to blame but himself for these casting choices??? Darla was literally the FIRST VAMPIRE we see and Julie is one of the most stunning creatures on the planet??? DONT BLAME US FOR LOVING THEM JOSS BLAME YOURSELF

#btvs #spike btvs #drusilla btvs #darla btvs #james marsters #juliet landau #julie benz #mercedes mcnab #fuck joss whedon #your misogyny is showing

[tiredyke]

so so so tired of queer men acting like lesbians have any sort of innate privilege over them

#your misogyny is showing

[heronpoxed]

No thoughts, only season 5 Tara on my mind! Her best era!

#the best era for her hair too she rlly served with those curls and that color #until she chopped it off and it all went to shit rip #not people having the nerve and the audacity to call her ugly #your misogyny is showing #soa #sons of anarchy #tara knowles #jax teller #jax x tara #maggie siff #charlie hunnam #tara knowles teller #tara x jax #jara #jax and tara #tara and jax #samcro #gemma teller morrow #gemma teller #katey sagal #opie winston

[28whitepeonies]

Last night I was on the hunt for a post and stumbled across an ask about how tanned and beautiful Louis and Harry look, and the blog that responded said that ‘Olivia and Eleanor looking as pasty white as usual. So sad.’

And I used to follow that blog who have 1000% previously commented on/reblogged posts about Eleanor’s level of tan as being inappropriate (as well as Louis’ sisters) and it’s been stewing in my mind all morning.

I think it’s s great/awful example of how women around 1D are never ever going to meet the unrealistic expectations of fans - they’re consistently held to a higher standard than Harry and Louis themselves.

There’s also a whole heap of stuff in there about beauty standards and how you’re going to refer to Harry as being ‘porcelain’ when he’s not tan but Olivia and Eleanor as being ‘pasty white … So sad’.

Eleanor is pretty tan just now, by anyones standards so are you just attempting to comment negatively on her appearance? But praise Harry and Louis? Do you want her to be more tanned so you can circle back round and say she’s ‘overtanning’?

You calling out women for being too tanned and then later suggesting that that same woman being too white is less attractive is literally the reason people tan in the first place - you’re feeding this ridiculous beauty standard and tearing women down for it at the same time.

#fandom hypocrisy #your misogyny is showing #I truly don’t care about their tanning levels #but I am as always #annoyed #by double standards

[daemon-404]

dear people who want to draw botw zelda. please stop reskinning your waifus to have her hair and clothes and thats it. the amount of gross (both senses of the word) mischaracterization going on here is crazy

#/lh #ok but seriously there's so much of it i want actual zelda content not fucking 'uwu link!? O//O *blushes boobily* #she is a strong and (moderately) confident woman 💪💪💪 she does not shut up and look around blushing while hiding behind link #for fucks sake. ok im gonna stop now before i actually get myself riled up once again this is /lh #but like seriously please #your misogyny is showing #botw #zelda

[teawithvanya]

Not trans people telling on themselves yet again😭 And when women & SSA people call them out on it, we're the ones labeled violent bigots

#receipts #your misogyny is showing

[chiusadentrose]

si lamenta dei miei shorts da casa “troppo corti” ma se mio fratello gira in mutande zero problemi 👌🏼

#your misogyny is showing

[strrwbrrryjam]

its funny that i write a post about respecting the female characters of rdr2 then i get recommended a post talking about getting a 'bad feeling' about mary taking advantage of arthur, the exact thing i was talking about

dude she asks you because it's a VIDEOGAME and you're the PROTAGONIST and she's an important character of the PROTAGONISTS PAST that gives him DEPTH - who else is she going to ask, uncle? she's a part of ARTHURS past

and then you're talking about her having some moral high ground when she does? i love arthur so much, but even i can't deny that between the two of them he has no moral high ground, he's an outlaw, a murderer who regularly steals from and beats and kills innocent people, while mary is a society woman

she isn't taking advantage of arthur at all, she comes to arthur for a variety of reasons, one of them being she's a widowed woman with a gambling drunk of a father, a dead mother, a dead husband and her younger brother leaving to join a cult, living in 1899 where women had limited rights and opportunities, especially in matters of finance and property ownership, her options for independence and support were severely contained and another because arthur is actually capable enough to save her brother from a dangerous cult that is planning to kill themselves, to wrangle up her drunk and likely abusive father, to rescue her mothers broach from a moving carriage.

and again, it bears repeating, that this is a videogame and her missions are OPTIONAL

of course, she's going to get mad when you tell her no because you are not only letting her dead mother's broach be sold but also signing her brother's DEATH WARRANT

she is incredibly grateful each time, thanking him profusely for saving her younger brother, she clearly still misses him, still loves him and still very much longs for a relationship with him despite their troubled past and arthur's outlaw status. her saying arthur will never change is more of a way to remind herself that their relationship would not work out, because arthur is still incredibly loyal to the gang that he prioritised over her during their relationship. even when mary asks, no, practically begs for arthur to run away with her from the law, from the gang, from everything, and arthur so clearly wants to, he still prioritised money and the gang over her, when mary doesn't need money, all she wants is arthur.

in the second mission, mary says "if i was fair to you, and a good person, i would have sold you out a long time ago," this is not only acknowledging her own flaws in this relationship, that she hasn't always treated arthur fairly, she's still incredibly loyal to him, as arthur is a wanted man, with a large bounty on his head, she could have him hanged if she truly was unfair to him, but she doesn't. the love she still has for him is still so strong. and arthur even admits to her being right about this.

despite the fact that mary still loves arthur and that the connection they share is still so strong, mary decides to choose herself and gives arthur the engagement ring she had kept in good condition for so long. she's constantly faced with the reality that arthur will never choose her over a life where death is around every corner. she learns that waiting for arthur is futile and damaging to her emotional health, so in the end, she chooses herself. she chooses to stop waiting and sends back the engagement ring (that she's kept for years, in good condition, that she could have sold because it's clear her family is struggling) and sends it back to arthur, a symbol of a relationship that will never find fulfilment. she prioritizes herself, even though it means letting go of the man she loves so dearly.

even though it's incredibly heartbreaking to her, given that she mentions when she's with arthur, the world feels right, she chooses self-respect and empowerment instead. despite the love she still holds for arthur, she decides to value herself and makes a choice that honours her own well-being. highlighting the strength and resilience she has gained throughout the story.

mary is an important character that adds to the depth and richness of the story and to arthur's character. her complexity mirrors arthurs, where she grapples with her own struggles and desires. she is not as one-dimensional as you portray her. dismissing her and portraying her in such a negative light does nothing but show how misogynistic you truly are.

also, the members of the gang don't like her for a variety of reasons, susan suffers from a bad case of internalised misogyny and believes that mary has ideas above her station, dutch sees mary as a threat to arthurs loyalty, only wanting arthur to be loyal to him, john, marybeths and tilly's perception of mary is heavily influenced by the emotional turmoil arthur suffers after interacting with her, because he still deeply loves her and yet the two of them cannot be together due to his loyalty to the gang. it's important to remember that out of all the gang members, abigail thinks fondly of her.

#its frustrating how people will give characters like micah the benefit of the doubt while he is obviously taking advantage of the gang #and sells them out to the law while mary has every reason to sell them out but doesn't because unlike micah #she's loyal and cares so deeply for arthur that she keeps him safe despite her better judgement #yet mary's the bitch #like honey your misogyny is showing and its making you look stupid and ugly #this started off as a response to someones shittake then it ended up into being a full analysis #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #rdr2 mary gillis #mary gillis #rdr2 arthur morgan #arthur morgan #rdr2 van der linde gang #van der linde gang #strawberry speaks

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Kristen Riedel very much did not want to go there. Every interview she gave was her shutting down queer Buck/Eddie and Buddie. She was the one who kept insisting the change of will was obviously platonic because the origin was platonic. I doubt she was the one to shut down Bi Buck but she was not in any way the one pushing for it.

Nonnie Nonnie Nonnie.

I don’t know how many times I have to say it, but one should always take any interview given by a show runner with a massive grain of salt - subterfuge is the name of the game because they aren’t going to give away their storylines for the season and tell people what’s coming. Nor are they going to say something that is in direct opposition to the powers that pay their salaries.

KR shutting down buddie stuff in interviews (which I disagree she did btw - skirted round it yet but never shut it down outright as you seem to be saying) and saying things like the will was platonic etc all reads like it’s coming from above her - that she was saying it because she had been instructed to rather than because it’s what she felt on the subject. It also reads as someone who is not confident in being interviewed - who is nervous about saying the wrong thing (because if you read her interviews fully - including ones that don’t ask about buddie in any way - it’s pretty obvious she lacks confidence in that setting.

As for her not pushing for buddie or bi buck. You do realise that if she genuinely was anti buddie and bi buck then during her tenure as show runner she could have completely shut down anything buddie related - she had creative control over the show - and she used that time to put as much buddie content into things as she could through whatever avenues were available to her - set, props, costumes, metaphors within the script etc. If she wasn’t on board with buddie then none of those things would have made it to our screens

She’s far from perfect - I have plenty of issues with her pacing of episodes, arcs and storylines, but trying to say she’s anti buddie and was happily towing the fox party line is just delusional and down right misogynistic.

She was put into an impossible situation and did what she could with it.

#kym answers things #Nonnie asks #I’m not answering any other asks about KR - you can choose to believe what you want to believe but if you want to keep claiming she’s anti #Buddie I suggest you unfollow me! #your misogyny is showing!! #Tim is more culpable than KR - he literally had a strip and went to work on a different show to try and escape the suffocating of creativity #fox were imposing on 911 of #911 abc #buddie

[daenerysies]

Mini rant because boy oh boy am I tired of seeing this justification for why Rhaenyra was usurped.

“I lean more towards Team Green because Rhaenyra did nothing to solidify her claim to the throne.”

I’m going to mention some points from one of my previous posts so be warned. The Seven Kingdoms are ruled through a monarchy, where the crown goes to the named heir (who is typically the firstborn son, though this is not the case for this situation, and there are no laws that state a firstborn son has to inherit) upon their death, and so forth. Rhaenyra did not need to prove anything to anyone about whether she was fit to rule and regardless, this claim is just blatantly dishonest considering she’d been ruling Dragonstone since she was 16. What exactly did Aegon do that makes him so much better suited for the throne than her? Nothing, besides having a cock. He instead chose to spend his time leading up to the war by whoring and drinking. Alicent and Otto also do not factor into this, because they are not potential claimants to the throne. This is an Aegon vs Rhaenyra conversation.

As much as I dislike Viserys, he was well within his rights to name Rhaenyra as his heir, regardless if he had sons. Many heirs and rulers came before Rhaenyra who proved that they were not suited to rule, Aenys and her father Viserys come to mind. Maegor saved the Targaryen dynasty, but he still wasn’t a good ruler. Most of Aegon I rule was done by Rhaenys and Visenya; with Jaehaerys being the only good ruler of this bunch, and still; most of the laws he put into place could be credited to Septon Barth and Alysanne. This is only a list of rulers that came before Rhaenyra/Aegon, with many, many more disappointing ones coming after them (Aegon IV and Aerys II I’m looking at you). I’m of the firm belief that this is just another excuse for someone to be misogynistic without being super obvious about it. Hold the male characters to the same standards that you hold the female characters. We live in the 21st century, not Westeros.

#a song of ice and fire #fire and blood #house of the dragon #hotd #rhaenyra targaryen #aegon ii targaryen #alicent hightower #otto hightower #jaehaerys targaryen #septon barth #alysanne targaryen #aegon i targaryen #rhaenys the conqueror #visenya the conqueror #team black #team green #team women #oops your misogyny is showing #anti team green #anti aegon ii targaryen

[ladyluscinia]

Also, vaguely tangential to yesterday's post... Part of the reason I think pushing back on the whole "Edward literally has no friends" is worthwhile is tied up in the themes / messages from the show.

If we take Edward literally (and accept a few very common assumptions from the same general school of meta), then the OFMD writers are telling a classic and rightly criticized story where happiness is tied to the love of your life sweeping you away from everything you've known. Edward had no meaningful bonds in his life before Stede, no one who he could be even somewhat himself with in a way that mattered to him. Just a sea of distant subordinates and endless expectation of violence. His only escape was meeting his soulmate, at which point he can just cut loose his entire existence prior to that moment because it doesn't mean anything. He's got a true love now, and his love's new lifestyle and hobbies with his love's new friends, while everything we see from before - his life as Blackbeard, piracy, captaincy, Izzy Hands - is actively making him miserable and contains nothing worth salvaging.

And that's a terrible message?

Like, if this story is deliberating hitting a lot of relatable struggles - mental health, discrimination, loneliness (especially in middle age) - what is it offering for anyone who doesn't meet their stars-aligning, fireworks-exploding soulmate? Edward has probably lived through over half his life already, and the verdict is "Well, there was no Stede yet so it was just a chasm of loneliness he tried to ignore from childhood to about 45 😘"? That's so bleak. Just because you reskin the princess locked in a tower to be a gay poc pirate doesn't mean I stop noticing the prince charming storyline - or the appalling lack of agency and independent life that the princess has. The savior prince is uncritically the only thing that matters in her his existence, and it's gross.

Stede, at least, gets to make the decision to start improving his life on his own, and they directly address both how he fucked up leaving in the middle of the night and how he actively contributed to his own social isolation due to his issues. Stede could have made efforts to improve his life years before, without running away to sea. It's still tragic and inspirational and sympathetic for him to be doing this now, but it's not the hopeless message that he was just doomed to suffering until outside forces intervened.

I want Edward to have genuine friendships (even if they're a bit battered) and genuine meaning (even if it's lost a bit of shine recently) in his life before Stede, because the alternative is another story about how only true love matters and if you are unhappy still waiting for it - get fucked, I guess?

#our flag means death #like congrats on the 'groundbreaking rep' of applying traditionally soaked in misogyny stories to a man i guess? #but the central massive red flag criticism of romanticizing your romantic partner's entire life subsuming yours still applies #i'm still confident that my read of the show is more accurate than opposing ones (no new data to contradict 🤷‍♀️) #but i'm also serious that if half these things that people put forth as meta are supported in season 2 then i'm not interested #i don't even like romcoms much but i think this one is doing something interesting enough to hold my attention #ofmd meta #blackbeard ofmd #stede bonnet ofmd #ladyluscinia

[kthulhu42]

If all men are trash then what does that make your son?

A boy, so far. Possible future trash if I don't continue to monitor his ideals and work my ass off and teach him to think critically about the social conditioning he and his classmates recieve from society and media.

That was the entire point of my post, which you appear to be too brain-dead to read through. Women have to work to make sure men don't end up as trash. We shouldn't have to. A lot of males ignore the women in their lives and become incel trash despite their mothers trying to teach them empathy and humanity. And then the incel trash spread their ideology like a virus, making our lives even harder.

My son is 9. So far he has committed no rape, no domestic violence, no sexual harassment, and doesn't get off to the abuse of women and girls. He treats girls as equals, is inclusive, and is generous and kind. He has excellent empathy, and is one of the few kids in his school who was specifically mentioned as going out of their way to include kids who don't speak English, or kids with disabilities in their playtime games.

TL:DR you thought this was a gotcha but my son is genuinely a better man than you and he's half your size

#radblr #radical feminism #feminism #sexism #Actually a lot of little boys are great because their biggest influence is their mom #It's when they start using the internet and socialising with peers around 11 that the misogyny starts showing up #Also idk why someone hears “men are trash” and thinks “oh so you hate children” uh do men=children in your mind? #Like manchild is a thing sure #But they're past saving and kids aren't #All this assumes that the mother has no internalised misogyny and the dad isn't a sexist dickweed though