A Human Character

Lennie ~ she/her ~ queer — 🇦🇺— currently obsessed with succession. Also Dracula Daily

[rollercoasterwords]

i’m not kidding we need to stop conceding the point that it’s weird in the first place for women to be into gay romance/porn/etc. it’s driving me up the wall that every attempt i see at thoughtful/nuanced Social Commentary on the matter begins with “lots of people don’t understand why women would be into this, BUT here’s a list of Special Reasons that this appeals to the Feminine Gaze” as if this is not just reinforcing the premise that there is some fundamental & universal split between how men & women experience desire. imagine how much more productive our conversations could be if we instead started with “lots of people don’t understand why women would be into this. why? what assumptions are those people making to begin with about women?”

[spacewhiskey]

its good actually if you as a man are made to feel culpable and aware of your role in patriarchy at all times. this way you can notice things like "sexism" and even how to Do Something About It

[youareinlove]

i saw the casting announcement for wuthering heights (2026) before reading the book, and assumed that heathcliff's miscasting was because the character was subtly not white, or it was mentioned here and there without much relevance to the plot beyond subtext, etc. (which still wouldn't have made it ok btw). but now i'm reading it and every single scene with him in it reads like:

'then appeared heathcliff, who was not white. he not-white-ly entered the room, where everyone else was white, unlike him. "aah! a not white!" they all shouted. he cried. "i wish i were white," he said. "don't worry, maybe your non-white parents were rich in non-white countries," said nelly. he was then called ten slurs, because he was not white, and left.'

like emily bronte literally beats us over the head with it every five seconds. what do you MEAN they cast jacob fucking elordi

[aminta]

[bitch-potatoes]

Remus, who is a Welsh speaker, implies several things about him which I love to unpick

First option is that he is North Walian with a much stronger accent, likely living somewhere more rural which would be good for his lycanthropy but goes against canon which is his mother being from Cardiff (south Wales)

Option two, he is south Walian and speaks South Welsh (completely different dialect//language) though south Walian is much less spoken implying he lived somewhere rural in south Wales (good for lycanthropy) and perhaps his mother left Cardiff to move further out?

Option three is he lived in Cardiff which speaks significantly less Welsh and was either forced to learn it (parents or Welsh speaking school) or possibly from the lack of access to primary education (due to lycanthropy) learnt it on his own accord out of boredom

But anyway, Welsh Remus

[byjove]

The thing about growing up with undiagnosed autism is that you’re a bad kid. And you don’t know how to stop being a bad kid. But you’re pedantic, you hate hugs, you’d rather be alone than attend a family gathering, you play by yourself instead of with friends or family, you make mealtime impossible, you can’t even look your parents in the face, you lie to get out of going to school and when you’re there you complete your assignments correctly but in a way that is somehow inherently wrong. You’re wrong. There is something wrong with you and you can’t identify it or fix it. You can’t begin to explain it. You pull for justifications and apologies. You were a bad kid and there was nothing you could do to be better.

[byjove]

Not really. Getting a diagnosis at age 14 and getting a 504 plan was revolutionary for me. I know everyone’s experience of growing up with autism is different but getting a diagnosis, getting accommodations and gaining a greater understanding of myself and why I thought, behaved and felt like I did actually helped a lot.

[itoldyouthings]

sabrina: hey doesn’t it suck how men are supposed to love us and treat us well but they’re all kind of stupid and treat us like shit and drag us around even though they’d be nothing without us? let me demonstrate this with an arousing thought provoking visual representation of such crossroads we’re stuck at!

the internet: ooga booga man hold woman by hair while woman on hand and knee like dog? woman set other women back 600 years!

[xclowniex]

The Sabrina Carpenter discourse is so fucking stupid and puritan.

Like there is a very clear difference between being objectified and being a willing and active participant in your own sexuality.

Someone snapping a picture of you performing and going "I would like her to do these sex acts to me" is vastly different from willingly posing for a suggestive album cover.

"But she's setting feminism back!!!1!!"

No she isn't. Celebrities do have a level of power and influence, I'm not going to deny that, but Sabrina does not have the level of power and influence to set back an entire movement. Also, being an active participant in your sexuality isn't incompatible with feminism, in fact it's the opposite, it's very compatible to feminism.

One of the main points is that women shouldn't be viewed as inherently sexual and have a choice on when and if they are sexual. Wanting women to not be sexual at all because men will be disrespectful is literally Christian Puritan sex views repackaged under the thin veil of "feminism." This is how far right movements like trad wives get people.

I can also smell the "women who have a kink for being submissive are bad" wafting off of the people upset at the album cover.

God forbid a women likes to be dominated and isn't quiet about it.

And the album cover also doesn't have to be this big commentary on sex or how men view women, to be acceptable. It doesn't even have to be about her being an active and willing participant in her sexuality either.

It could very well just be "this photo looks good", and that's an acceptable enough reason too

[naivety]

tumblrinas will read the filthiest unsafe and insane bdsm pwp on ao3 but the second a woman makes a mildly kinky album cover they're clutching their pearls. your politics are incomprehensible 👍

[pokeybananas]

Everyone say it with me, "just because a woman is expressing her sexuality does not mean she's setting back women's rights. It does not mean she's playing into the patriarchy. It means that she's expressing her sexuality"

[jakeperalta]

having a great time continuing to love sabrina and enjoy her music despite people deciding she's reached her limit as Successful Woman Who Is Everywhere and it's now time for the obligatory This Woman Sucks Actually And We Don't Want To See Her Anymore follow up stage

[theastrodiva]

getting sooooo frustrated at the people saying sabrina carpenter’s album cover is “setting back feminism” like YOU are the conservative backlash you’re scared of! censoring a woman’s ART because it’s “male-centered” (there’s no man in the photo)!

personally my feminism includes people who enjoy kink and bdsm, my feminism includes sex workers. excluding the faction of people that includes dominatrix certainly doesn’t feel like a smart move!

but above all, this shit DOESNT MATTER! it’s album art! women are losing ACTUAL RIGHTS! sabrina carpenter is NOT your enemy! patriarchy/men are your enemy!!!

[magnetostits-deactivated2026031]

the criticism of sabrina carpenter is really just slut shaming repackaged to sound like feminism. purity culture has y’all in a chokehold

[jewelsigaveu]

not to be like both sides are wrong, and only i’m right, but i have been thinking about sabrina’s album cover controversy. to me, it’s pretty evident that she is going to be exploring her own compliance in getting into relationships where she gets treated badly or well like a dog. while manchild is a tongue-in-cheek mocking song that is all about how she just keeps stumbling into bed with these loser men, woe is me, there is an obvious irony to lines like “won’t you let an innocent woman be?” “i swear they choose me, i’m not choosing them.” sabrina is hardly an innocent doe-eyed girl. she is very sharp and experienced in relationships, and no one is forcing her to date these men. the music video further emphasizes this point by showcasing her hitchhiking into increasingly more ridiculous automobiles with increasingly more ridiculous men who all let her down in various absurd and/or violent ways. and yet the closing shot of the video is her getting out of one car and immediately running over and jumping into the next, continuing the cycle. so while the song on the surface externalizes the blame for her mistreatment to basically everyone but her, the subtext is all about how sabrina is the one doing this to herself. when i see the album cover of her smiling at the camera on her knees while a man holds her hair like a leash, i see a deep and very uncomfortable self-awareness and acknowledgement happening here. it’s obviously going to be dressed up in the shiny pop music veneer and sabrina’s signature brand of dry humor, but this is a very sensitive topic that most upcoming pop girls wouldn’t touch with a ten feet pole because it is humiliating to admit that you’re complicit in your own mistreatment and degradation. that you aren’t just posing as a dog, but you actually let men treat you like one. manchild isn’t just the first single from the album but also the opening track, setting the stage for what the album will be exploring. and again while on the surface it looks like your usual my ex is a loser classic fare, in actuality it is all about how sabrina is deluding herself about her choice of partners. “manchild, why you always come running to me?” she asks, and i’m willing to bet that she is going to be answering that question in the album, eventually coming to the conclusion that these things aren’t as one-sided as she initially presented them to be. from what i’ve seen, sabrina is very smart and very deliberate when it comes to her branding. i highly doubt she chose such a sensational image just to “appeal to the male gaze.” yes the picture is meant to play into that trope, but hardly in a glorifying way.

[wizardshark]

Meeting genuine adults that think legal = good, illegal = bad is so bizarre, like bro not even the law itself agrees that that is a good ethical framework

[sandersstudies]

When you read a book regarding historical figures or events and suddenly you have massive beef with some guy who passed away like three hundred years ago

[sandersstudies]

Quick tell me which random dead person you have beef with

[larkstonguesinaspicpart1]

I hate this website because im pretty sure tumblr is the origin of people thinking “gregorian” is a type of monk. That’s not a type of monk. Its a chant they do.