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Siany/New Zealand

[only-lana-del-rey]

Head shots of Lana Del Rey at the pre Grammy gala

[drst]

Why is the “historical realism” thing always rape?

A couple weeks ago The Mary Sue announced they weren’t going to cover “Game of Thrones” any more after yet another female character being brutally raped. The thread is still being invaded by trolls periodically, and there are more than 12,000 comments on the article, which is a site record and probably an internet record. (12K comments because a single website said “We’re not going to recap or promote this show any more.” Baffling.)

Tons of trolls have thrown out the “but THINGS WERE JUST LIKE THAT BACK THEN!” argument ad nauseum. Which is total bullshit, of course. Now with the season finale of “Outlander” (which, spoiler, also included rape) the trolls are coming back.

I just want to ask, why is it whenever producers/directors/writers want to demonstrate “gritty historic realism” it’s ALWAYS RAPE? It’s always sexual violence toward women/girls.

You know what would be gritty historic realism? Dysentery. GoT has battles and armies marching all over the place. You want to show “what things were like back then”? Why aren’t we seeing 500 guys by the side of a road puking and shitting their guts out from drinking contaminated water while the rest of the army straggles along trying to keep going? Or a village getting wiped out by cholera? Or typhus, polio or plague epidemics? 

You want to show what it was like back then for women? Show a woman dying of sepsis from an infection she caught while giving birth. Show a woman coping with ruptured ovarian cysts with nobody know what it is. Breast cancer that the audience will recognize immediately but the characters think is some mark of the devil or some shit.

But no, it’s always rape. And we all know why that is. Because these douchecanoes that do this, though they’ll deny it, think rape is sexy. Because they can’t make a modern set story where women get raped in every god damned episode without being called monsters. So they use “but but historical realism!” to cover their sexism (see “Mad Men”) and misogyny. Then they tell us “That’s just how it was back then!” with the clear implication “Shut the fuck up bitch, because that could be you  and you should be thanking me that it’s not.”

[notcisjustwoman]

Understand that this is the level of entitlement men feel to rape, both literal and conceptual.

They feel entitled to rape women. They feel entitled to see graphic depictions of rape in the media. They feel entitled to force women to watch those depictions. They feel entitled to have women enjoy those depictions. They feel entitled to have women review and editorialize those depictions of rape.

Literally all it takes is a woman saying “I personally choose not to watch depictions of rape and write blog posts about said depictions” to send them into screeching temper tantrums over it.

Let that sink in.

[beep3]

[andreii-tarkovsky]

straight dudes love to add the word ‘man’ to everything they suddenly want to have like man bags or man buns, i hope one day they start having some man ners as well. 

[isohels]

Why is body hair only unhygienic when its on a woman’s body?

[brokenfl0wers]

[andrewbelami]

[lesbodian]

*a video of a literal toddler sexualizing herself and contouring her face, applying false eyelashes and heavy mascara, eyeliner and lipstick completely morphing it to look like an adult women*

libfems: why is everyone getting upset about this? :( she’s just testing out her likes and dislikes. let her empower herself with makeup! makeup is empowering! sexualizing yourself, even if you’re four years old, is empowering!

[sunp3ach]

[psychojello]

I miss the 2000s because there were so many fashion trends and moments when it was encouraged to look like a hot-ass mess. The Instagram age is this weird era of control and perfection and “eyebrows on fleek” blah blah like I miss when everyone walked around with last night’s eyeliner still on while wearing 25 stupid accessories at once dressed like you slept in trash or whatever.

[pleoros]

[heisenbergchronicles]

BCS 2x01 / BrBa 4x10: The top-down shot of Jimmy in the pool reminded me of this epic shot from “Salud.”

[magick-and-crack]

[barkbro-blog]

[dredreidel]

Just some wonderful gals being life-saving pals :D

[darthgalpal-old-deactivated2018]

they’re literally kissing in the pic i’m

[rarebritney]

im watching a girl on the bus put on lip balm. her hair is rained on and pulled into a tiny loop on the back of her head. i feel connected to her because we are both wet and wearing lipstick and heavy shoes she is pulling sunglasses out of her backpack and pulling a piece of hair off her face. she is sliding a pin against her head. she moves her hands like someone is watching. I think we all do this. I wonder if girls are poetic because we simply are or because someone is always watching us. being a voyeur makes me feel less innocent.

but still I wonder what she is reading. i wonder if the lipstick she’s wearing is her favorite or if it’s just the one she had in her pocket today. i wonder who she is going to meet tonight.

When she’s getting off the bus she smiles at me and i feel at ease. i want to tell her she is beautiful but I remember that every time a stranger told me I was beautiful it has made me feel uneasy. so I watch her go and I am grateful

[annoyingfeministbitch]

spot the difference

[sexycraisinthanos]

they didn’t even censor her nipples