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Hi I'm peoplewatcher! I've been on tumblr on and off for years. I'm not super active but I'm here.. this is my main blog

I just post random thoughts I have most of the time.. some of them are about nothing, others are about media I like..

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bauliya

so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.

darkshrimpemotions

This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

And they flinch every time.

tzikeh

Here have a newspaper comic from 1993

regal-bones

SWORDTEMBER DAY 10 : HEALER

Ambrosia, of cold metal and warm nectar 🍯🦋 “The healer returned with a large, spherical jar. Inside was a thick, yellow liquid. It sloshed and bubbled, a gentle buzz filling the air and a faint amber glow filling the tent, casting a golden shine on the various tapestries, herbs, and other trinkets hanging from the fabric walls. ‘Here.’ She scooped a handful of the liquid out with her fingers, and spread it generously across your leg. You winced at first, a sharp pain shooting up your side, then eased as you felt it. Warm, gooey, a faint numbing buzz. You felt your skin stitch itself up, your broken bone shift - not uncomfortably so - back into place. Your marrow knitting closed, muscle threading firm and strong. It was so warm, and smelled so sweet. You smiled, and felt sleep fall over you like a heavy blanket. Familiar, and safe”

Love animating some goo :} the only downside is now I really wanna eat this stuff…

Yesterday’s sword!

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Blaming the heat in Central Valley on the ai generated byler fics

persistentpeony

Оммаж на Лейендекера

persistentpeony

please where is the video where the warrior cats officla art turns into the stupid plushes i need to find it im desperate

dilfsisko

Racism against Indians is actually a little insane when you consider how widespread it is even among liberals and leftists . Even people who consider themselves to be progressive will laugh at call center or tech support jokes. All scammers are inherently indian. It’s okay to laugh at jokes making fun of Indians for their feelings towards animals or how they drive. India is inherently backwards and dirty so it’s okay to make jokes about getting food poisoning from even looking at indian food

writing merlin and arthur's meeting in my fic and liek how... do i write this.... why ddid you say that about walking on your knees. that would so ruin the whole scene if i included that in my brief plagarism of your actual meeting in the show

#they are teenage boys in the year 2012 #also im not sure what he meant by this originally #i know its like a submission thing because hes of lower status #but is he like suggesting that merlin genuflect #arthur why did you say that #ppeople rant

there are very few things i wouldn't do to get rid of my ocd

#ocd #vent

i want to be cis so bad any way is fine please just make me cis and be sure of it