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Oh shit, this story is FR hitting right where I live.
Wonder Woman: Batman, we could make good use of Nightwing with this. Would you call him?
Dick, who's filling in for Bruce as Batman: I'll call him
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Hal: you've gained some muscles
Jason, dressed as Nightwing: I started working out
Hal: Damn. What's the routine cause I just saw you last week and you look completely different.
Jason: steroids
Dick, as batman: *chokes on coffee*
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Superman: We might need someone who's good with guns, hm... Hey Nightwing you're in contact with redhood, right? Could you have him come?
Jason, as Nightwing: ... I don't see why not
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Wonder woman: this security is an issue we need someone who can hack this system long enough for us to get pass
Superman: hey hood, any chance you can give red robin a call?
Tim, with 5 inches of padding, as redhood: on it
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Hal: isn't robin usually with you all?
Flash: yeah we could use him with this one
Superman: Red Robin, would you call in Robin for us?
Damian, in red robin costume: he's dead
Nah, call in Steph, she would love pretending to be Damian.
Gajeel: You cry a lot.
Lucy: I was an emotionally abused, and neglected shut in, Gajeel, I will cry if I damn well please.
Gajeel: Understood, damn.
this is by far the most fucked up thing that has happened so far oh my days
if wendy doesn't crash out I WILL
Sometimes, one needs to remember that Wendy and to an extent Carla are very much the last adopted remains of an entire culture that died horribly, screaming as their good intentions dragged them to hell almost litterally.
Fairy Tail doesn't really touch on it as much as they should, being the last of something.
so far i have been observing the average age of the fairy tail guild and i can firmly say mostly everybody except a few outliers are under 25 which is INSANE
but it's good to know atleast one of our main protags (arguable the MAIN protag) is over 25
thanks natsu this really clears things up
Early in (first 25 chapters which is before this.) They show info pages as chapter covers.
Lucy and Levy are 17.
Gray and Cana are 18, as is Elfman and presumably the age they have for Natsu (can't remember if he has one.)
Erza and Mirajane are 19.
Laxus is 23.
And Happy is 6, a babi.
Also, Makarov is 88.
Something I wish was more apparent in Fairy tail was the difference between Lucy and the guild, not just in combat comfortablility but childhood things that transferred to adulthood that makes them clash.
She grew up with a cushy life and she isn’t an accustomed to combat as everyone else even Wendy who transferred from Cait shelter to Fairytail both guilds that take jobs.
Like I know Lucy adapted fast and that’s great but the discrepancy between living in a guild and at home are really different from what we’re lead to believe and it really doesn’t show
Of course I know about the gag jokes where she’s confused,scared and appalled at their lack of boundaries, frequent fights, whining about having to travel a lot/not wearing the correct clothing for said climate but give me more!
Examples being:
Her telling a childhood story about how her mom taught her to swim by holding her hand and gently dunking her in the water, expecting similar stories only to be met with blank stares.
As it turns out her teammates didn’t have people to teach them to swim. Erza had to learn how to swim on her own while she was young, debating whether or not to try and rescue her friends from his madness before ultimately deciding that she wouldn’t but wanted to know how just in case.
Igneel taught Natsu to hunt fish which included swimming but it wasn’t like an actual lesson, it was more of a “Natsu hold your breath and put your head under the water so you can see the fish. Keep very still so you don’t startle them.”
Ur “taught” Gray how to swim by throwing him and Lyon into the water until they stopped flailing and learned to hold their breaths. She never taught them proper forms or held their hands while they learned to kick their feet but she taught them something.
And Wendy had no need to learn how to swim, she spent her life in a secluded village in the middle of a forest. When was Wendy ever going to see a body of water deep enough to get past her waist, also I sincerely doubt any Cait Shelter member would encourage her to do that because there was no guarantee they could save her if she was drowning.
Or maybe Lucy talks about her years getting tutored and how much she used to dread the thought of going to a scholarly institution after her tutoring years were behind her
And then Erza starts boasting about how she taught Natsu to read while Gray taught her how to write and Lucy has to cope with the fact that all they had was each other. Her father used to make her tour institutions just to see where her interested lies so he could invest in it (eventually making all the money back when she would graduate) and here these little orphans were: one who could barely write or read teaching another who couldn’t do either at all while the other one who had a grasp on both struggled to help the other two.
Idk what it is but I kinda want Lucy’s privilege to be a point of contention between her and the rest of the guild, obviously they love each other and this isn’t me saying that one of their traumas is bigger than the other but also Lucy grew up vastly differently to her friends and I want that to leak into their relationships!
(I fear I will be making a dedicated post about the things that separate her from the rest of fairy young)
It's weird, her mother died when she was young, and we don't actually see much of her childhood outside her father being an absolute peace of shit who screamed at her about how worthless she was... on her birthday.
Her only friend was a doll.
She only ever seems happy with Aquarius, by all accounts Natsu was the first human who she ever had a good relationship with, and he's not even human.
She litterally ran away from home and lived on the streets for a full year, when her father figured out where she was he hired a guild to HUNT HER DOWN ILLEGALLY and which point they crucified her friends.
They had different things, the guild kids had a family, Lucy had a cold place where she got yelled at for trying to exist hear her father on her birthday. Having money wasn't really a consolation I think.
Every moment of the guild kids childhood post reaching Fairy Tail we see is happy, every time we saw Lucy's childhood it was sad in some way.
The clothing bit doesn't really fit, because Lucy is more ridiculous about clothing than any of them, because she refuses to wear anything she doesn't like because of how her Father exerted his will over her by making her dress however he wanted.
Her mom couldn't have taught her to swin because she was dead.
Lucy only got educated on things she didn't want to learn, things her dad wanted for her, and considering he wanted to use her for his own plots, I doubt it was anything useful.
If it feels like she doesn't show the difference much, it might be down to having spent a full year living on the streets, going from town to town.
There are definitely privileged characters in Fairy Tail, but Lucy really isn't one of them.
Took a second to track this down, but Jude not only pulls this shit like... right after her mom dies, but she's 100% sure that he would have her friends crucified and start an illegal guild war to hurt her and get her back under his thumb.
Phantom repeatedly tried to murder people, including civilians, crucified people, kidnapped her and tried to torture her, and a lot of other crazy shit, and Lucy is sure that her father would order all of that.
Jude before he got his shit togeather was a legit monster.
Okay so I do agree with you! Jude was a gigantic piece of shit but that’s not really what I meant by childhood differences. I’m not really sure what you meant by the clothing bit but what I meant was that Lucy wears whatever she wants all the time even if it’s not helpful for where she is going next. Ex: her wearing a mini shirt in forest terrain or heels in a desert.
Lucy is privileged in that she never had to wonder where her next meal was coming from or whether or not she was going to have somewhere to sleep tomorrow.
The fairy Tail kids are privileged in the fact that they found friends and camaraderie in each other when they were younger.
Of course one isn’t better than the other:
What Lucy had on lifestyle comfort (a cook, new clothes all the time: even if she didn’t choose them to wear, a large property) she lacked in parental love and companionship. There was only so much her spirits could do. Also the doll not quite the companion you would need to keep your spirits up after your mother has died and your father has gone insane.
What the Fairy Tail kids had in companion ship (and some parental guidance) they lacked in stability. Cana started drinking when she was younger after, Gray became a smoker before he turned 20. Natsu had to build his own house. They had the fairy dorms and I’m quite sure they were allowed to make late payments but they still had to go on jobs.
Actually now that I’m thinking about this does show up, Lucy is so worried about money because she’s used to having a lot of it but when she’s low on it things go to shit, however when the rest of team Natsu is low on money it’s not a big deal because they always have been. There was no time in their lives where they had an excess of wealth so the lack of it doesn’t matter to them.
Oh! And the street rat thing is an excellent point, I actually forgot about that. I do think that this is a reason she assimilates so easily to Fairy Tail life because Lucy Heartfilia the heiress and Lucy the runaway are two different people obviously . I’m also sure she used skills she knew before her street rat life to help herself, like merchants haggling and offering to be someone scribe (I’m not really sure what the education level is in Fiore).
I think generally her being a street did teach her some things (seduction, discounting, taking food where you can get it) but she was still alone for most of that time. And this is where I think the differences come in.
In my original posts i didn’t mean “oh poor little orphan fairy tail kids, Lucy had it so good in life idk why she ran away” I meant it more as in Lucy had stability in her housing and needs (I know Jude was a pos but I’m quite she he got her whatever she needed, the best money could buy so he could sell her off for a profit later) which I’m realizing now it didn’t come off that way.
Generally I do still think Lucy’s lonely lifestyle will come at odds with her guildmates, such as her saying something like she used to play hide and seek with her doll and just hide for hours because her father wouldn’t let her play with anyone else. Hence the childhood stories telling bit, it might not affect her as much now but they definitely have different childhoods. (I also such this influences Lucy’s need for space sometimes whereas the rest of team Natsu are practically on top of each other all the time)
(Also I would like to die on this hill because I think Lucy deserves more good memories with her mom. Lucy was about ten when Layla died so it stands to reason that Layla could have taught her to swim. I’m quite sure her parents put her in swimming lessons early but also Layla having Aquarius would have made this ends our more worthwhile. Not that I think Jude would continue these lessons if Layla had died before Lucy learned to swim)
For the clothing thing she has a bit where she talks about hating the high society clothing Jude forced her to wear, you mentioned her reaction to other people dressing badly for the location, but Lucy is the queen of that. I think she would explode if she had to wear full pants.
For wondering about the next meal, she kinda did? Like, she spent a year on the toad from what we know of her before she met Natsu. She seemed to have some saved money, but it can't have been much towards the end considering how immediately her money issues start and how roughly she haggled. It's possible Natsu ate the last of her money when they met, or that she had been taking jobs as she moved across the country.
I did mostly mean the companionship thing, Aquarius was basically the closest thing she had to a parent, and Aquarius was in her greaving arc at the time too.
Money is weird, because Fairy Hills was to expensive for Lucy iirc, so she's def poor compared to others in the guild, but at the same time we see Wendy being fine, but she would have all the Nirvit's money from selling clothes and whatever she had saved from jobs.
Fiore def has a good education level, we never see a character born in modern Fiore with illiteracy outside of maybe little Erza who was a homeless child and then a slave. They also seem to have public schools.
Layla also only got Aquarius back right before she died.
All things aside, there are differences, but not as many as one might think. But the things focused on would probobly be things like not knowing children's games or how to cook well (girl def has cooking trauma, fight me), she canonically has no idea how relationships work and sucks at it, and tends to let her friends just walk all over her at times when they would push back at each other.
ah yes, the humble edible flesh tower, everyone knows about that yeah
Canonically?
Yep.
Post the Sentient war starting, the empire needed to revamp all their tech to be either dumb or bio based so it couldn't be hacked.
Which is they all their tech has those fleshy white roots.
It's also why the Tenno use kinetic weapons when shit like Ballas' staff and the Gremory exist. The highest tech weapons they can use shoot plasma and lightning, but all the specifically Tenno gear is pretty 'dumb'.
Tdlr, yeah it's all meat, only shit from before Tau isn't, like that Zarmen.
Something I wish was more apparent in Fairy tail was the difference between Lucy and the guild, not just in combat comfortablility but childhood things that transferred to adulthood that makes them clash.
She grew up with a cushy life and she isn’t an accustomed to combat as everyone else even Wendy who transferred from Cait shelter to Fairytail both guilds that take jobs.
Like I know Lucy adapted fast and that’s great but the discrepancy between living in a guild and at home are really different from what we’re lead to believe and it really doesn’t show
Of course I know about the gag jokes where she’s confused,scared and appalled at their lack of boundaries, frequent fights, whining about having to travel a lot/not wearing the correct clothing for said climate but give me more!
Examples being:
Her telling a childhood story about how her mom taught her to swim by holding her hand and gently dunking her in the water, expecting similar stories only to be met with blank stares.
As it turns out her teammates didn’t have people to teach them to swim. Erza had to learn how to swim on her own while she was young, debating whether or not to try and rescue her friends from his madness before ultimately deciding that she wouldn’t but wanted to know how just in case.
Igneel taught Natsu to hunt fish which included swimming but it wasn’t like an actual lesson, it was more of a “Natsu hold your breath and put your head under the water so you can see the fish. Keep very still so you don’t startle them.”
Ur “taught” Gray how to swim by throwing him and Lyon into the water until they stopped flailing and learned to hold their breaths. She never taught them proper forms or held their hands while they learned to kick their feet but she taught them something.
And Wendy had no need to learn how to swim, she spent her life in a secluded village in the middle of a forest. When was Wendy ever going to see a body of water deep enough to get past her waist, also I sincerely doubt any Cait Shelter member would encourage her to do that because there was no guarantee they could save her if she was drowning.
Or maybe Lucy talks about her years getting tutored and how much she used to dread the thought of going to a scholarly institution after her tutoring years were behind her
And then Erza starts boasting about how she taught Natsu to read while Gray taught her how to write and Lucy has to cope with the fact that all they had was each other. Her father used to make her tour institutions just to see where her interested lies so he could invest in it (eventually making all the money back when she would graduate) and here these little orphans were: one who could barely write or read teaching another who couldn’t do either at all while the other one who had a grasp on both struggled to help the other two.
Idk what it is but I kinda want Lucy’s privilege to be a point of contention between her and the rest of the guild, obviously they love each other and this isn’t me saying that one of their traumas is bigger than the other but also Lucy grew up vastly differently to her friends and I want that to leak into their relationships!
(I fear I will be making a dedicated post about the things that separate her from the rest of fairy young)
It's weird, her mother died when she was young, and we don't actually see much of her childhood outside her father being an absolute peace of shit who screamed at her about how worthless she was... on her birthday.
Her only friend was a doll.
She only ever seems happy with Aquarius, by all accounts Natsu was the first human who she ever had a good relationship with, and he's not even human.
She litterally ran away from home and lived on the streets for a full year, when her father figured out where she was he hired a guild to HUNT HER DOWN ILLEGALLY and which point they crucified her friends.
They had different things, the guild kids had a family, Lucy had a cold place where she got yelled at for trying to exist hear her father on her birthday. Having money wasn't really a consolation I think.
Every moment of the guild kids childhood post reaching Fairy Tail we see is happy, every time we saw Lucy's childhood it was sad in some way.
The clothing bit doesn't really fit, because Lucy is more ridiculous about clothing than any of them, because she refuses to wear anything she doesn't like because of how her Father exerted his will over her by making her dress however he wanted.
Her mom couldn't have taught her to swin because she was dead.
Lucy only got educated on things she didn't want to learn, things her dad wanted for her, and considering he wanted to use her for his own plots, I doubt it was anything useful.
If it feels like she doesn't show the difference much, it might be down to having spent a full year living on the streets, going from town to town.
There are definitely privileged characters in Fairy Tail, but Lucy really isn't one of them.
Took a second to track this down, but Jude not only pulls this shit like... right after her mom dies, but she's 100% sure that he would have her friends crucified and start an illegal guild war to hurt her and get her back under his thumb.
Phantom repeatedly tried to murder people, including civilians, crucified people, kidnapped her and tried to torture her, and a lot of other crazy shit, and Lucy is sure that her father would order all of that.
Jude before he got his shit togeather was a legit monster.
Something I wish was more apparent in Fairy tail was the difference between Lucy and the guild, not just in combat comfortablility but childhood things that transferred to adulthood that makes them clash.
She grew up with a cushy life and she isn’t an accustomed to combat as everyone else even Wendy who transferred from Cait shelter to Fairytail both guilds that take jobs.
Like I know Lucy adapted fast and that’s great but the discrepancy between living in a guild and at home are really different from what we’re lead to believe and it really doesn’t show
Of course I know about the gag jokes where she’s confused,scared and appalled at their lack of boundaries, frequent fights, whining about having to travel a lot/not wearing the correct clothing for said climate but give me more!
Examples being:
Her telling a childhood story about how her mom taught her to swim by holding her hand and gently dunking her in the water, expecting similar stories only to be met with blank stares.
As it turns out her teammates didn’t have people to teach them to swim. Erza had to learn how to swim on her own while she was young, debating whether or not to try and rescue her friends from his madness before ultimately deciding that she wouldn’t but wanted to know how just in case.
Igneel taught Natsu to hunt fish which included swimming but it wasn’t like an actual lesson, it was more of a “Natsu hold your breath and put your head under the water so you can see the fish. Keep very still so you don’t startle them.”
Ur “taught” Gray how to swim by throwing him and Lyon into the water until they stopped flailing and learned to hold their breaths. She never taught them proper forms or held their hands while they learned to kick their feet but she taught them something.
And Wendy had no need to learn how to swim, she spent her life in a secluded village in the middle of a forest. When was Wendy ever going to see a body of water deep enough to get past her waist, also I sincerely doubt any Cait Shelter member would encourage her to do that because there was no guarantee they could save her if she was drowning.
Or maybe Lucy talks about her years getting tutored and how much she used to dread the thought of going to a scholarly institution after her tutoring years were behind her
And then Erza starts boasting about how she taught Natsu to read while Gray taught her how to write and Lucy has to cope with the fact that all they had was each other. Her father used to make her tour institutions just to see where her interested lies so he could invest in it (eventually making all the money back when she would graduate) and here these little orphans were: one who could barely write or read teaching another who couldn’t do either at all while the other one who had a grasp on both struggled to help the other two.
Idk what it is but I kinda want Lucy’s privilege to be a point of contention between her and the rest of the guild, obviously they love each other and this isn’t me saying that one of their traumas is bigger than the other but also Lucy grew up vastly differently to her friends and I want that to leak into their relationships!
(I fear I will be making a dedicated post about the things that separate her from the rest of fairy young)
It's weird, her mother died when she was young, and we don't actually see much of her childhood outside her father being an absolute peace of shit who screamed at her about how worthless she was... on her birthday.
Her only friend was a doll.
She only ever seems happy with Aquarius, by all accounts Natsu was the first human who she ever had a good relationship with, and he's not even human.
She litterally ran away from home and lived on the streets for a full year, when her father figured out where she was he hired a guild to HUNT HER DOWN ILLEGALLY and which point they crucified her friends.
They had different things, the guild kids had a family, Lucy had a cold place where she got yelled at for trying to exist hear her father on her birthday. Having money wasn't really a consolation I think.
Every moment of the guild kids childhood post reaching Fairy Tail we see is happy, every time we saw Lucy's childhood it was sad in some way.
The clothing bit doesn't really fit, because Lucy is more ridiculous about clothing than any of them, because she refuses to wear anything she doesn't like because of how her Father exerted his will over her by making her dress however he wanted.
Her mom couldn't have taught her to swin because she was dead.
Lucy only got educated on things she didn't want to learn, things her dad wanted for her, and considering he wanted to use her for his own plots, I doubt it was anything useful.
If it feels like she doesn't show the difference much, it might be down to having spent a full year living on the streets, going from town to town.
There are definitely privileged characters in Fairy Tail, but Lucy really isn't one of them.
Further more the USPS USED to be profitable, but a bunch of laws that were lobbied by UPS, FedEx, Amazon, Etc, GUTTED the USPS. It's death has been planned by capitalism for a long time.
Yeah, look of the rules it has to follow about pensions and other stuff, they're all crazy shit that would turn any existing company into a smoldering ruin, and the USPS has managed to keep going in spite of that.
there basically isn't a single established action archetype that you can't improve tenfold by making it a girl
the old master. the sneering rival. the implacable pursuer. the pragmatic mercenary. the combat hedonist. the sleeper operative. the guy who's just really big. the list goes on
There is one thats made better for being a guy tho.
The Chick.
hiro mashima when i get my hands on you idk how he does it he managed to straight bait me for YEARS. YEARS. IT'S NOT EVEN GAY HOW DID YOU EVEN MANAGE THIS WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME. HIRO MASSHIMA WHEN I GET MY FUCKING HANDS ON YOUUUUUUUUUUU
If it makes you feel better, Gajeel and Levy are smart enough to have a relationship.
I am a firm believer that Fairy young needed hygiene lessons. Well maybe some of them.
Deodorant. Natsu and Erza have no idea what deodorant is, of course they bathe regularly but deodorant is a foreign concept and therefore during hot summers things get a little rank
Menstrual cycles. I highly doubt the church taught Cana, Mira, or Lisanna about their periods, maybe that is was a blossoming from girl to women, but maybe not about how to ease the pain or clean a bleed through, or about tampons/pads. Also Levy not Erza had parental presences in their lives to teach them before Fairy Tail.
Washing their hands. Just washing their hands. Kids are nasty and they touch all over each other, I just know they had the “Did you wash your hands?” Question posted on both bathroom doors, and were made to hold their hands out when they left the restroom.
Brushing teeth.I know Erza, Natsu, and Lisanna breaths stank. I’m sure Mira tried her hardest to get her little sister to brush her teeth but the Natsu influence was too strong. Also I’m not sure Erza was ever introduced to the concept of brushing her teeth considering her circumstances.
I feel like Natsu doesn't have many smell issues because of all the fire, it would kill most things, and he honestly probs doesn't sweat.
Gray on the other hand is constantly overheating, so he's probably leaving sweaty ass clothing all over the place.
Upside is we know fairytail had adult woman around to teach the younger generation what they needed to know, at the very least we know that Macao's exwife seems to have been around when they were kids along with Portlyusica, on the other hand Lucy probably had to learn from Aquarius who wouldn't know shit about human bio.
Erza definitely needed to learn what a bath was tho, she was a street kid that was then a slave, so she had no idea what soap was until she got to Fairytail, logically the old woman who ran Fairy Hills probably taught her. Same with toothbrushes.
She also most likely needed to be taught that food can become inedible with how she canoncially hoards it. Girl probs had a bunch of rotting food in her room when she was little.
I like to think Happy is very clean because Mira took one look at Natsu and taught him instead.
okay apparently i got a lot of people to play warframe so i have to stress for yall (because this was stressed for me)
do NOT play the duviri paradox when it normally unlocks
The placement of Duviri is fuckin wild to me, the idea that it was supposed to be a new jumping on point makes negative sense and feels like a rare misstep by Warframe as a whole.
No matter how many years pass or how many adventures we go on, home is wherever we’re together. 🫶🏻
This image always makes me sad because Levy isn't there from what I can see, which means she might still be alive in that timeline, all alone...
Every time I see bullshit about women never EVER being able to beat men in any sport, I think about how in martial arts classes I, a cis woman, 5' 8" and 145 pounds, regularly beat the tar out of 6' 2" 230 pound cis dude weightlifters. One guy ragequit class. He came in cocky as hell and talking the standard bs line about how a woman simply never could beat a man in a fight because they're physically weaker and our instructor was like. Okay. Put the pads on you're sparring her. Yes, her, the one 4" shorter and 100 pounds lighter than you.
It wasn't close I beat the pants off that man, and others like him. I did it more than once. Some guys got humble and stayed. One guy got angry and stormed out.
And I think about that every fuck damn time I hear that bullshit, which seems to be all the fuck over the place these days. Oh, women are just fragile little soft delicate flower creatures who can't do ANYTHING and could NEVER compete with big strong manly muscular strong MEN.
I think about driving that dude into the mats and seeing the brutal reality of this big dude's misogany meet the realization that a woman was beating his ass literally that second, that none of his strength could stop the fact that I'd just hip thrown him facefirst into the mats and that had I actually connected with the axe kick to his neck I would have crushed a bunch of important shit and he could not stop me, and his whole psyche collapsing like a dying star in that moment.
Anyway, don't ever fall for it, ladies, and there's absolutely no goddamn reason to get your knickers in a twist about trans people in sports.
Um. Right. Good for you. Genuinely. I'd just like to keep being the soft fragile female that I happen to be... If that's still allowed, I mean...
And no, it's not because I want to be a damsel in distress to the men around me so they can feel more masculine. It's simply because I have never been predisposed to excel in sports at all, and anything strength or speed-related is a genuine torture to me and I loathe it from the bottom of my heart. And if that means I need to ask my SO, my dad or my neighbour to help me lift something heavy, then that's what it is.
Please don't tell me to just "start training", "push through until it gets better" or some other "helpful" bullshit. I'm fit enough to handle my everyday life. I don't need to prove to any men around me I'm better than them. I write better than my SO. I excel academically over my dad. I don't need to outdo them physically. I'm not competing against any men in my life, and I'm generally a stay-at-home recluse, so I don't feel the need to venture into places where I might get attacked.
Ok cool.
I don't give a shit if people don't want to be athletic and just ask for help with stuff when they need it, so long as people realize it's not a gendered thing. ANYONE can be weaker and not like athletic stuff, and ANYONE can be physically strong and like athletic stuff.
The whole point of this was that it's bullshit that people gender physical ability at all, and a lot of women internalize the idea that they CAN'T be physically strong or capable.
That is possibly the most "you hate pancakes" response I have ever seen here on Tumblr, the land of barely-connected bad-faith replies.
It almost deserves an award.
Okay, but genuinely, what happened to "girls can do anything boys can do" Feminism? Did that disappear in the early 2000s for some reason?
Yeah the transphobes pulled back hard because it made it too hard to oppress trans women
A fair bit of radfem rhetoric and a fair bit of transphobe rhetoric (and therefore the delightful overlap between the two, TERFs) is based heavily in oppositional sexism, the idea that men and women are fundamentally, innately different. The ways in which they are different depend on whatever agenda or biases the sexist is trying to enforce. "Women are weak and easily fooled and must be protected from their own choices, and also from men who are strong and innately predatory" is a popular framework across the board because it can be twisted to oppress, control or justify bad behaviour from a wide variety of groups.
In this case, women have to be poor weak darlings who can't compete with men so that trans people can be excluded from competitions (trans men can't compete in any bracket because testosterone is cheating, trans women can't compete because they're so clearly biologically superior to all those poor helpless cis women in every possible type of competition).
It also helps people be racist because of how white-skewed the standards of femininity and masculinity are in these groups. (Notice how many of the women who are "so clearly men" tend to just... be run-of-the-mill cis women with features less common in white people? How when someone calls for genetically testing a female athlete, it's pretty much always a woman of colour who dared to be better at sports than a white competitor?)
It probably doesn't help that spending years being told that you can't do something and having people actively have you work less at getting stronger. I'm trans so I haven't experienced that, but I have friends who have.
From my understanding it's much more about not just effort but the kind of talent thats less based in gender and more in genetics and random chance in general, some people are just built to put on muscle or do specific sports regardless of gender and those genetics aren't connected to gender for the most part outside of testosterone generation, which to be fair does help muscle growth... but woman also have testosterone.
Really, physical ability is very much a pile of factors in which gender isn't really relevant outside or hormonal production, and the fact that people try their best to make sure woman aren't empowered to try at being good at a sport or push their limits.