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Sharp Objects (2018) dir. Jean-Marc Vallée

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I'm out of words and patience to explain once again that 'empowering' does not mean 'makes me feel confident/good/strong/powerful'. for something to be empowering it actually has to be enfranchising, it has to give you power not just the feeling of power. male approval is not empowering no matter how much it makes you feel like you have power over men by being sexy to them. this fantasy of leading lustful idiotic men around by the dick serves only men.

mellified-moth

This whole idea of women having succubus-like power to manipulate men with our beauty and sexuality is really a product of male fantasy that's been polished up and sold back to women as though it originated in female fantasy, and as though we could actually make it a reality, but we can't. Men aren't helplessly enslaved to their dicks, as much as they want to pretend they are, and the power you get from appealing to them is only as much as they're willing to grant you, which isn't much. No woman is actually so beautiful that she isn't disposable, and men are more likely to resent and hate you for this power they project onto you than they are to fall over themselves to please you.

antiporn-activist

You are both brilliant

purple-purple-pink-purple

The power women have in the sexual sphere has always been being selective. The ultimate expression of this is complete celibacy, with the runner-up being marriage and monogamy. The only way you'll allow a man to sleep with you is if he devotes his entire life to you. If he's not willing to do that, then he doesn't value you. Don't let him sleep with you. If no man passes muster, you don't allow anyone to have sex with you. (Choosing not to have sex for reasons other than the suitability of partners is also really powerful and valid.)

Women suffer under promiscuity. Take your power back

disgruntled-foreign-patriarch

very well said. Promiscuity ruins everything and everyone it touches

the-silver-stone

congratulations to all of you for being the most based people on tumblr and i mean this unironically

tlaquetzqui

This is why slut shaming is normally done by other women, by the way: sluts are basically scabs, crossing picket lines. The more sexually available any woman is, the less power over male behavior, through controlling access to sex, all women have.