Feminism 👑🫡

Used to stand for gender equality until I figured out every positive male role model I’ve ever seen was fictional

[haemosexuality]

Genuine question why do you like deltarune if you’re trans exclusionary…? I mean the main character is trans. Even more so, heavily implied to be amab trans. Isn’t that the kind of person you hate…?

i dont hate trans ppl. also i genuinely just dont care

[haemosexuality]

i dont usually answer asks like this bc its stupid but whenever this specific point pops up its just very funny to me. do you think radfems r biting their nails and pulling out their hair and screaming and crying and shitting bc a fictional character uses theythem. are you aware of how easy it is to just be like "whatever"

[mbti-party]

anne with an e mbti types

according to the personality database

[dzsasztintime]

In the real world most of the population by far are S (observant), but in media N (intuitive) people are overrepresented, since most writers are intuitive themselves. One of the reasons I love the book and this specific adaptation so much is that it portrays a realistic community.

[dzsasztintime]

Drag and Blackface

This post isn't made to offend anyone or cater to any specific person, but to point out the duality of society. Accepting one thing as bad and failing to see the problem with the same thing if it's presented by a different party.

I don't think a male dressing up as a female is inherently misogynistic, and truth be told, a white person dressing up as a black person shouldn't be inherently racist either. There is a lot of nuance to these things that could be interesting to talk about.

Exhibit 1: Señor Chang painting his face black to appear as a dark elf in a fantasy game in an episode of the TV show Community. The episode gets removed, because it might appear to some as blackface, even though that wasn't the intent behind it. I don't think this should be considered to be offensive, and removing the episode is far more racist than the face paint in this case.

Exhibit 2: The movie "White Chicks". It's about black men dressing up as white women, poking fun at whiteness and the female experience. Is it offensive? Sometimes for humor, sure. And I am not a fan of it, but it also reaches a conclusion of the different types of humans understanding each other, and despite all its flaws I'd never say it should be banned.

Exhibit 3: Horváth Jenő as Uncle Remus on Hungarian television. In 1967, a European country adapted a story with an African main character. The character is wise, kind and empathetic. He is played by a white actor in a country where no black people lived at all. Instead of taking away the character's roots, they decided to paint the actor's face to portray the character as intended. His race is not a factor in the stories, he is a hard-working educator who happens to be black. I don't think this should be considered to be offensive at all. Hiring a black actor would make sense today, in 1967 Hungary it simply wasn't an option. And to many people this was the first introduction of seeing a black character on television.

Exhibit 4: Thomas Rice as Jim Crow. With quick dance moves, an exaggerated African American vernacular and buffoonish behavior, in 1830 Rice founded a new genre of racialized song and dance: blackface minstrel shows. This SHOULD be considered very offensive. professor David Leonard of Washington State University says this: “It allows a society to routinely and historically imagine African Americans as not fully human." I don't think it needs further explanation that an act like that results in backwards thinking of this marginalized group. I won't provide links for this, because people don't need to see these kind of things, it doesn't result in anything good.

Exhibit 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zvzxiORr4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7CKzOyl-TA Pregnant drag. Look at that and tell me it's not deeply misogynistic. Let's apply the former quote here with one word changed: “It allows a society to routinely and historically imagine women as not fully human." The reason I provided links for this, because people are prone to say it's way different from blackface, and the term womanface is condoned by many on the basis that it isn't the mainstream narrative. Thinking for yourselves is however much more efficient than just listening to what others say. Exhibit 6: Drag races in general. I've been to one in real life and there was nipple showing, kissing with each other and using their tongue and finger in suggestive ways. Is that not fetishizing a women's body? And you don't even have to go far, I searched up drag on YouTube, and the very first thing, which is a very recent, very popular video was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUmqO9BFcvA For those who don't want to watch it, it features a dragsona fondling her own breasts and another dragsona lifting up her skirt for applause in a dance battle where they lip sync to a woman's singing. This exaggerated caricature is still much more tame than most of the drag races that happen outside of television, but then again, not all minstrel shows were the same amount of racist either. And it's safest to not accept any racism at all. But then it would be safest to not accept any of this misogyny either.

[st-pam]

[dzsasztintime]

Wanting something made me superstitious

[djuvlipen]

♀️t'aves baxtali ando miro blog♀️

💞 I made this blog to highlight the specific struggles Romani women face based on their sex, their race and their class

💞 I'm anti-gender, anti-sex trade, anti-religion, anti-capitalist

💞 I support women's and LGB rights. My feminism is female only!

💞 I'm a half-sinti, half-white working class lesbian living in Western Europe

Posts on the racialized misogyny targeting Romani women

-> general masterpost (x)

-> posts on Romani women being sex trafficked into prostitution in Europe (x) (x)

-> posts on the forced sterilization of Romani women in Europe (x) (x) (x) (x)

-> post on healthcare discrimination (x)

-> discrimination and domestic violence targeting Balkan Romani women (x)

Inspiring Romani women you should know about

-> autobiographies by Romani women (x)

-> Sandra Jayat, French-Romani painter and poet (x)

-> Katarina Taikon, Swedish-Romani writer and antiracist activist (x) (x)

-> Elena Gorolova, Czech-Romani women's rights advocate (x)

-> Jelena Savić, Serbian-Romani feminist, poet and essayist (x)

-> Tela-Tchaï, French-Romani actress (x)

-> Amoun Sleem, Palestinian-Domari antiracist activist and feminist (x)

-> Philomena Franz, German-Romani Holocaust survivor and writer (x)

-> Vera Kurtić, Serbian-Romani lesbian feminist (x)

-> Kiba Lumberg, Finnish-Romani and butch lesbian artist (x)

-> Zilli Schmidt, German-Romani Holocaust survivor (x)

-> "15 Bad ass Romani ladies you should know about" (x)

-> Romani herstory, an "ever-growing digital library that celebrates women of Romani descent from the past and present, unsung heroines & trailblazers who refuse(d) to conform to stereotypes"

Romani feminist writings

-> Intersections of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class: History and Future of the Romani Women’s Movement, by Jelena Jovanović, Angéla Kóczé, and Lídia Balogh (x)

-> Gender, Ethnicity and Class: Romani Women's Political Activism and Social Struggles, Angéla Kóczé (x)

-> Lessons from Roma Feminism in Europe: Digital Storytelling Projects with Roma Women Activists from Romania, Spain and Sweden, Jasmine Ljungberg (x)

-> Romani women’s identities real and imagined: Media discourse analysis of “I’m a European Roma Woman” campaign, Jelena Jovanović (x)

-> Džuvljarke: Roma Lesbian Existence, Vera Kurtić (x)

-> Re-envisioning Social Justice from the Ground Up: Including the Experiences of Romani Women, Alexandra Oprea (x)

-> Angéla Kóczé on the hijacking of the Romani feminist and antiracist movement by neoliberal groups (x) (x)

-> Mihaela Drăgan on the racialization of Romani women (x)

-> quotes from Romani feminist books (x)

Learn about the Romani genocide

-> general post (x)

The Genocide and Persecution of Roma and Sinti. Bibliography and Historiographical Review (x)

Roma Resistance During the Holocaust and in its Aftermath, Angéla Kóczé, Anna Lujza Szász (eds.) (x)

O Porrajmos: the Romani Holocaust, Ian Hancock (x)

Porrajmos: The Romani and the Holocaust, Ian Hancock (x)

Responses to the Porrajmos (the Romani Holocaust), Ian Hancock (x)

Barvalipe Roma Online University (playlist of lectures about many different aspects of Romani history, politics and culture) (x)

[catchymemes]

[blasphemale]

Man is valued for personality and wit, woman is valued for beauty

[dzsasztintime]

I wish there was an inverse in popular culture as well. The notion that a woman HAS to be beautiful to be desired, and all the man has to be is an unlucky quirky everyman that somehow DESERVES to have a beautiful woman fall for him. Every Beauty and the Beast kind of story has the male character being ugly and the female character as the one who recognizes the importance of personality. From the old plays like Cyrano, which is about a man being viewed for personality or looks, the female lead still has to be conventionally attractive. To all modern movies about loser boys falling for and getting to be with the objectified hot girl. I know there are some cases of unpopular and unconventional looking females dating with handsome males, but it's rare and all examples that come to my mind are books. We need more visual representation for that as well.

[radfem-rage]

I always found it so fucked up how women are forced to learn about male historians, geniuses, painters and philosophers and see them as smart and good people when they saw women as literal shit on their shoe, for example Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Norman Mailer, Martin Luther, Paul Gauguin, Thomas Aquinas, Picasso, Napoleon, Confucius, Dalí, etc.

I remember I got in trouble at school for saying male historians and geniuses who saw women as subhuman aren’t great and I refuse to praise them for their achievements. Imagine what this does to girls and their self esteem.

We barely learn about female history and when we do so much shit gets glossed over, and the history we get taught about in full is about misogynistic a$$holes. Then if girls complain they get lied to and told those men were actually great people and to just shut up. 😢

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

Two people are standing in front of you. One is male, and says “I want to share a space with her”. The other is female, and says “I don’t want to share a space with him”.

Think: Which person do you listen to? Which person’s desires do you care more about? Which person’s preferences do you think are more important? Which person’s boundaries do you think are less important? Which person do you think is more important, and which person do you think is less important? Why?

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

The notes on this post are so interesting. They’ve really driven something home for me:

It is a sign of enormous privilege if the only single-sex space you can think of is public toilets.

If you can’t imagine any other single-sex spaces, let alone empathise with people who want to maintain the single-sex status of those spaces, you are deeply privileged.

You’re not thinking about female people in hospitals, in prisons, in homeless shelters, in immigration detention centres, in domestic violence refuges, in sexual or domestic violence support groups… What a privileged life you must lead, that those people’s lives are so outside your own experiences they don’t even occur to you.

[dzsasztintime]

The weird thing is, it never occured me to think about toilets or any public spaces when reading the initial post.

Instead my mind went straight to any time a boy wanted to sit next to his crush or be in a group project with her, despite her not enjoying his presence at all. The teachers, usually female, always sided and sympathised with the boy and focused on making him happy by purposefully pairing him with his crush.

A lot of the time the boy was abusive and noone would care except the girl he hurt. Always listen to the one who wants to be left alone.

[dzsasztintime]

The reason men discriminate and belittle women, trying to break their confidence and get every field of profession to themselves is because being a man has no value by itself. Being a woman does. If a woman realizes her special talents and takes the place of a mediocre man of that field, the woman will have twice the respectability, while the men will have none. Woman are superior, and if they all find out, men are scared that they will be recognized as worthless.

[dzsasztintime]

The Cobra Kai Christmas Special

That should have been,

What I would have really liked is a non-canon christmas musical, like what South Park once did to air between S3 and S4.

Featuring Robby singing a sad song about his missing dad in the Cobra Kai dojo, staring at the snow out the window, then Kreese comes along and they decorate a tree.

The Diaz family invite Johnny over and they share their traditions with him, singing about how christmas is celebrated in Equador, Johnny always a step behind, up until the end of the song, when he gets it right.

Kreese then dresses up like Santa with Robby as an elf/raindeer. They sing about bringing christmas spirit through the Valley. They visit Tory, Kyler, Big Red, Rickenberger in the hospital, and they give gifts to all of them.

When Kreese is distracted, Robby has a moment of empathy, and knocks on the LaRusso door. Anthony opens with some prejudice, but Robby gives him a present, nods and leaves.

Sam and Demetri enjoy a Miyagi-Do/Eagle Fang secret santa party. They all sing about uniting their dojos, Nate gives a present to Bert, Bert gives a present to Mitch, etc... It all culminates in Hawk showing up in the door and giving Sam a present, which is a new glass frame for the Mr. Miyagi picture Tory broke.

Mitch and Chris should also have a fun song about christmas punch with some word-play.

Amanda and Daniel sing a borderline alcoholic marriage themed song about christmas wine.

We then get an early bird cameo of Terrance Silver with his back turned to us, playing traditional christmas songs on the piano, with decorations all around his room.

Robby and Kreese return to Cobra Kai, as they put their socks next to the newly installed fireplace, they hear some knocks. A group of carolers enter, which consists of the remaining Cobra Kai members. They all brought more tree decorations. Robby is happy he's not alone this christmas. All the Cobras sing and the camera slowly zooms out through the window, and it fades.

[dzsasztintime]

Daniel: (nervous) Before you meet them, you should be prepared for my grandparents are nazis. Robin: (smiles) It’s all right. My grandparents are famous nazi hunters.

[dzsasztintime]

Glee next generation

OK it sounds horrible but hear me out

As Daniel Finn Schuester turns 15, he goes to William McKinley, since his dad is the principal, and both think that the school will do him good. Everyone is welcoming to him in the school, but they have high expectations for him. He is kind of awkward and shy, uncomfortable from mess and dirt, but overall organized, and thanks to his parents, the most tolerant kid imaginable. He gets into the New Directions coached by Sam Evans. Despite having a talent for both singing and dancing, Daniel doesn’t really know how to sell a number or perform well, and he feels like he failed Sam’s expectations. Luckily for him, he meets a girl on the Cheerios...  /because while the school is mainly for arts, somehow the cheerios are back in true Glee fashion/ ...so this girl is really confident and competitive. She doesn’t sing, but she can play the synth really well. In some ways she’s similar to Becky Jackson, but also more diligent and individualistic. I’m of course talking about 16 year old Robin Sylvester! Naturally, Robin and Daniel bond, and soon become best friends and even love interests, before they find out their parents’ history. 

IDK I’d love this if this could be made without it relying too much on the original series. 

Sam Evans would return as a main character. He’s in most episodes, teaching music to Daniel, Robin and the other emerging main characters.

Sue Sylvester returns as a main antagonist, she’s a politician and Robin’s overprotective mother.

Will Schuester & Emma Pillsbury-Schuester would be recurring characters, with similar amount of screentime as Figgins used to have, but also more depth, since they are the protagonist’s parents.

Becky Jackson returns in a recurring role as Sue’s bodyguard, her role being similar to her season 6 self.

Mercedes Jones returns in a recurring role as Sam’s girlfriend/wife.

Other past characters may get some references about their happy life (Santana lives with Brittany, Puck with Quinn) but no need to bring anyone else back, maaaaaybe Blaine Anderson for one guest episode as Sam’s best friend, but no one else, no need to force these reunions.

Daniel and Robin would be the new main pairing, but other original New Directions members have to be created. Quite possibly most of them being minorities, this is supposed to be Glee, after all...

Does it still sound horrible? (It might, but I love it)

[dzsasztintime]

Les Miserables Hogwarts AU

Students.

I thought about this a lot, and this is how I think the sorting hat would sort the young generation of the Les Miserables characters.

Slytherin

Enjolras

Grantaire

Montparnasse

Éponine Thenardier

Azelma Thenardier

I wanted to create a toxic atmosphere at Slytherin (not hating, I’m also a Slytherin, but it fits well with what was given in the HP books), and Enjolras being the lost soul there, spending most of his free time alone, thinking about ways he could change the world, while pretty-boy/bad-boy Montparnasse flirts with Éponine, who doesn’t really enjoy it, but had an abusive childhood, so she can’t reject his advances. I like to imagine that the Thénardier family is a long line of pure-blood Slytherins, that’s why Azelma is here. Enjolras, Montparnasse and Éponine are usually depicted as Slytherins by the fandom so I don’t think I have to point out why. Grantaire, on the other hand, from what I’ve seen is frequently put into Ravenclaw by fellow fans, but I feel like he belongs here, as Ravenclaws like learning new things, but R only cares for his own, already stable opinion. Also Ravenclaws are (according to Pottermore) sharp and individual, and R is not that sharp (I mean his rants are a bit out-there), nor is he an individual, as he cares so much for what Enjolras does and he goes along with it beyond reason (at least beyond his own reasoning). Instead he is prideful (takes it very seriously when he’s being overlooked) and determined (”You’ll see!”) as a Slytherin should be. Bonus points for this that he is in the same house as Enjolras and he probably wants to know his plans all the time, and won’t stop bothering him. :)

Ravenclaw

Combeferre

Joly

Feuilly

Musichetta

Louison

Combeferre is the Guide and a bookworm, it’s a given he’s here. A fan of medical studies such as Joly doesn’t really need explaining, Feuilly absolutely loves learning, he self-taught himself how to read! Musichetta, I wanted her to be in the same house as Joly, and also seems like she fits the sharp individual type, even if she’s artistic, a bit like Luna Lovegood. Finally, Louison was like the only woman in the book who listened to politics, she deserves this spot.

Hufflepuff

Courfeyrac

Lesgles

Marius Pontmercy

Chowder

Fricassée

Courfeyrac and Lesgles are the two funnest persons to be around, absolute jokesters, and they are clearly honest, hard-working and accepting, so that fits the Hufflepuff ideal. Marius is one I’ve seen everywhere (except maybe Slytherin) but him in Gryffindor just doesn’t make sense, remember how he didn’t have the guts to talk to Cosette, and he’s not the sharpest tool in the shed either. He’s good qualities include being all about fair-play, being patient and loyal, and that’s what the Hufflepuff spirit is about. Bonus points for him being in the same house as Courfeyrac and Bossuet, his best friend and his first friend in the brick. Chowder seems like being able to take a joke and positively accept her fate, like Bossuet and Courfeyrac, and Fricassée is kind of a shrinking violet who will need her friends’ help to get out of her shell, a lot like Marius.

Gryffindor

Cosette Fauchelevent

Bahorel

Jean Prouvaire

Gavroche Thenardier

Floréal

Irma Boissy

Cosette is like the Harry Potter equivalent, the distaff counterpart of the boy who lived, Floréal is the perfect foil for her, as she is that spoiled alpha b.tch (who deep down actually has a heart of gold) (like Rose from the Cursed Child) to round out Cosette’s innocent personality. All we really learn from the book about Irma is that she’s sassy, but that’s enough for us, since Gryffindor is the house of sass, as evidenced by all characters who were Gryffindors. Gavroche is a bit like Sirius, coming from a family of Slytherins, expecting to be there too, and than everyone is surprised. He doesn’t mind, he’s all for adventures and he kinda likes that his big sisters can’t monitor him all the time. Jehan is kinda the Neville of this story (Yeah, I noticed this section has a lot of HP comparisons, just roll with it), a wimp who seems like he’s a bit timid, but when given the chance, he shows how brave he really is, when opposing great threats. Bahorel low-key has my favorite story of all of them. He’s a heroic popular jock athlete, who thinks everyone at Gryffindor will be just like him, and is very excited to get sorted into the house of his dreams, only to find out that his housemates are either self-centered and self-righteous or weaklings who write poems. Disappointed at first, but then decides that it’s his job to see and bring out the best in everyone, so he keeps on showing off his sportsmanship and team-spirit to influence them, and as they develop, Bahorel couldn’t be happier. Especially about Jehan, whom he successfully gets into the Quidditch team, and a bromance like no other forms between them.

If you think I got any character’s placement either horribly wrong or completely right, please give this post some feedback, because I’d love to discuss this topic.