I Hope We Will Be Dragons

Lesbian - 30s - female centered feminism

[dragyndyke]

Yonic moments from my travels this year

[atmyhighestpeak]

If I was JK Rowling and I wrote a plotline in my book series about a race of enslaved people whose horrible mistreatment at the hands of the bad guys is part of what establishes them as bad guys, and there were multiple crucial plot points that involve someone either being punished for dehumanizing them and/or rewarded for freeing them, and the only main character who is okay with their enslavement could not get his happy ending until he realized that he was wrong and aligned himself with freeing them, and the whole thing was a pretty explicit metaphor for the patriarchy and how some ‘tradwife’ women are complacent in their oppression but that DOESN’T make it ok for men to treat them like commodities… and then countless people online criticized me for ‘writing a plotline that excuses slavery’ ???? I would have the biggest crashout of my life. A lot of you like to say ‘Harry Potter was poorly written’ but what you actually mean is ‘I don’t have enough media literacy to understand a series written for children’

[leftistextradorinaire]

well house elves are an allegory for slavery not tradwives. So like, maybe get some reading comprehension?

[dumblefudge]

That is a common misconception that people (usually Americans due to their cultural history) love to insist is true but actually have no evidence for.

House elves are nothing to do with chattel slavery. They are a reference to small, golbin-like creatures from Scottish folklore called brownies who used to come out at night and do housework while humans were asleep. Legends varied, but some of the ways in which they could be driven away was by giving them names or clothing. Sound familiar?

And as for SPEW - Considering what we know about Rowling and her long-term feminist views, isn't is far more likely that her SPEW was inspired by the actual real-life SPEW - a 19th century organisation called The Society for Promoting Employment of Women, which aimed to get women the right/ability to become financially independent from men.

And this right here is the crux of the issue. There are some very clear logical explanations behind many aspects of the Harry Potter books that get criticised these days, but they get ignored and drowned out bad-faith interpretations from people who are determined to hate the author and prefer to just make stuff up to prove she's bad.

[euphorictruths]

Midnight Falls- Steven Flynn

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[expressions-of-nature]

by Vladimir Ryabkov

[ladyalatariel]

ANGELINA JOLIE as Evelyn Salt in Salt (2010) | dir. Phillip Noyce

[femsolid]

The John Wick vs Ballerina shitshow is such a perfect case study of how men make movies depending on the sex of the main protagonist. The two movies are set in the same universe with many crossovers and yet...

John Wick is male. Therefore, he gets to be an assassin in his 50s, well known by everybody, respected and considered the best of the best.

Eve is female, (yeah that's her name lol). Therefore, she's barely 18. What's her last name? Doesn't matter. She's a nobody, a literal noob who needs to learn everything.

The actress was clearly chosen for her looks and not her acting; her face barely moves.

The reason for this is that the actress is 37. It's obvious throughout the movie that our "18 years old" has done cosmetic surgery and most of her face can't move. You'd be lucky to get even a frown. Her eyebrows are stuck. The lip fillers are also distracting. It's hard to believe in a character that looks so out of place.

John Wick spends most of the movies injured in some ways and with lots of scratches on his face. He's always in pain. That's almost the point of the movies. Grunting, grimacing, bleeding, sweating, but still fighting.

Meanwhile, Eve looks like an instagram model with the stereotypical neoteny (baby face) and with filters on. She has no credibility.

She's always wearing lots of mascara and lip gloss and her face looks "perfect" (uncanny) no matter how many people she fights! Not a scratch until the very end of the movie! Lip gloss still on! Hair perfect! Magic! Again, no credibility.

For her first fight, she's wearing a sexy dress and heels. We even see her underwear. Imagine John Wick fighting dressed like that. Suddenly it'd be comedic. She wears heels for the entire movie.

The main character is not named Ballerina as we've seen, that's just the name of the movie because it's girly tee-hee.

John Wick and the actor portraying him are considered impactful enough to carry the movie, and therefore, the movie posters only show John Wick/Keanu Reeves. Even the names of the movies are simply "John Wick."

For Ballerina the movie poster is pink (girl girl girl get it? tee-hee) and she's either wearing the sexy dress or figures in the middle of a multitude of characters with the word "John Wick" because the directors didn't feel like her character could carry the movie. Indeed it can't. Because they can't make a female character.

Misogyny really impairs men's creativity. What's a female character, if not a "barely legal" doll?

[where-is-the-angst]

and you get a little heart <3 and you get a little heart <3 and you get a little heart <3

[a-mysterious-ghost]

Reblog to give your mutuals a little heart <3

[strelka]

[dragyndyke]

I want a good cry tomorrow, send me your best movies to cry to please

[iamheavymeta-lll]

Women from the Chipko movement hugging trees to prevent them from being cut down — Garhwal India ‘1970

[criminalmindsverse]

CRIMINAL MINDS 2.21 — "Open Season"

[knitmeapony]

Yes yes yes this scene thank you for the tag, heehehehe

[kalindashepard]

It’s funny because this scene must be based on the memoir Special Agent by Candis DeLong. In it she describes being out looking at clothes at a department store on lunch break with another female agent and overhearing a conversation between a man and a woman in which he says he’s an FBI agent. They peer around some clothes racks thinking that they’re going to see one of their fellow agents trying to get a date, and when they don’t recognize the guy they go over and pretend to be interested in the big strong FBI agent themselves and ask to see his badge. The guy actually pulled out a fake badge, whereupon they said “Huh, that doesn’t look anything like ours…”, produced their own badges and arrested him for impersonating an FBI agent. (I remember this bit from a 25 year old book because I actually stole it myself for a fic)

[knitmeapony]

Exquisite. Glorious. 10/10 thank you for sharing.

[ursiday]

Earth

[kiefbowl]

every time they try to cook up controversy on some big-name woman, some percentage of you fall for it. get good and say "I don't care" more. for feminism.

[tvarchive]

Anna Lambe as Siaja North of North | 1x08

[crimson-femme]

Out in America: A Portrait of Gay and Lesbian Life (1994) by Michael Goff & the staff of Out Magazine

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