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[renegadeblue18]

da wizerd

[self-loving-vampire]

Hearing that twitter right-wing dudes are learning that women are not universally or even primarily attracted to stoic, roided up, and hyperviolent old men. They're reacting with pure denial and cope.

[self-loving-vampire]

They've built this model where women are exclusively and instinctively attracted to "alpha males" who are basically rabid human gorillas and everyone else is an irrelevant and unappealing beta cuck. They're completely fixated on this. Obsessed, even.

[self-loving-vampire]

Maybe some subcategories of women are into that (no group is a monolith after all) but the posters universalizing that are making such an overly confident generalization.

Kratos was designed to look powerful and threatening, not to look pretty. Those are very different things.

Even the "shadow daddies" in misogynistic romantasy books are not nearly this beefy (or bald) and have more normal-looking proportions/musculature.

[renegadeblue18]

I actually do want to comment smth substantial to this and it’s that I DID see some women (but tbh mostly gay dudes) saying that they were attracted to Kratos. Heavy asterisk though, it was primarily for the reboot version of Kratos, i.e the version of the character that’s allowed more introspection and humanity/empathy in his characterization as opposed to the original god-killer power fantasy protagonist Kratos.

Women are absolutely attracted to hairy, buff, bald dudes, it’s just moreso older women. The key difference here I think is that women aren’t nearly attracted to hypermasculine power fantasies as often as men idolize them. Hence why dudebros fawn over how awesome original God of War Kratos is and why they initially complained about the reboot “softening” him up, meanwhile the character rework on the whole was received so much better critically to reviewers and the general audience (which was more evenly comprised of women)

Also I cannot stress this enough, talk to women in the 30’s and above bracket, they do in fact thirst for bigass hairy ass men. See: Blackwall from Dragon Age Inquisition having a dedicated fanbase for him and his romance route

[storm-of-feathers]

yeah yeah rainbow capitalism is bad and whatever but like. when I was a child, being pro gay was not the popular or lucrative choice. I'm happy that times have changed.

[storm-of-feathers]

I miss rainbow capitalism. I do. I miss when it felt like public opinion was still pro gay. I understand it was always an empty gesture, but it mattered in a sense of knowing how socially acceptable being queer is. If that makes sense.

[vaspider]

It very much does make sense.

[thewingedwolf]

do you think the catholic church effectively utilized wokeness by funneling money into the colonization and rape of the americas after issuing the doctrine of discovery which effectively legalized the subjugation of indigenous peoples?

[autismking]

IF GOD HATES TRANNIES WHY DO WE KEEP WINNINGGGGGG

[paradoxspaceheater]

the thing about misogyny is that femininity is both devalued AND forced on women (and those misgendered as women). if you fail to meet the arbitrary standard of Womanly Charm you're ugly and unwanted and hate yourself and if you succeed you're shallow and brainless and weak. if you don't try to conform you're lazy and if you do you're vain. it is not possible to beat this system. feminism needs both "feminine doesn't mean weak or less-than" AND "women don't have to be feminine to have value", and if you are fighting for one of these the people fighting for the other are not your enemies, nor are they privileged over you.

this post is inclusive of trans people, including but not limited to trans women and transfeminine people. exclusionary sentiment is not welcome.

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

can we bring back the term "fair-weather friend" bc I feel like if fair-weather friends got called that more this whole argument about whether or not you should be there for your friends when it's inconvenient/at what point of personal inconvenience it's ok to bail on your friends would kinda fall apart bc like. we literally have a word for "friend who's only there when you don't need something from them" because the baseline expectation is that a friend should be there even when it sucks. like we used to make fun of people for bailing on their friends.

[edenemy-art]

yeah this is a good game

[longsightmyth]

I bring a real 'actually people who are pregnant do deserve some special consideration because they are effectively at least temporarily disabled if not permanently after some complications' vibe to the party that a lot of people don't seem to like

[maykitz]

northernlion was reading out a sweet note his daughter wrote him in kindergarten that said "i know my dad loves me because he's my favorite person and i'm his favorite person" and someone commented "circular reasoning"

[catboyaoi]

i love my disabled friends dearly more than anything so i say this with love - meal planning for a group of ppl all with different dietary needs is like playing The Logical Journey of the Zoombinis

[catboyaoi]

Me and my friends when we eat

[renegadeblue18]

THE OP OF THAT POST BEING THE TRANSMASC RIZA GUY WHAT OH FUCK

[courtmartialme]

i know everyone is tired of hearing it from me but i'll never be free from how people think you can only ship a het ship WOKELY if the man is a pathetic useless idiot and the girl babysits and pegs him and has the personality of a door. i promise you won't get your woke card revoked if you spend five minutes of your time to consider the girl has a personality and the guy might be a competent person. and maybe she likes getting dicked down and is a little pathetic too. have you considered also liking the girl and maybe wanting her to be a spoiled baby too? also I'll Kill You

[renegadeblue18]

okay but have we considered that we can also WANT more het ships to have confident and bossy women? I can not like the heteronormative dynamic of “petite naive girl with her strong and dependable man,” AND also dislike the “she’s the intelligent one that babysits him” dynamic because those are both misogynistic stereotypes (submissive woman VS women are emotionally intelligent and reign in their more wild husbands).

I REALLY do not like this reactionary culture shift away from “Girl power!” “Girls can do anything boys can!” into shit like “omg she’s just a girl teehee” “pathetic girlfailure wants her daddy heehee” it feels like such an intentional regression back into “women need to be put in their place”. I’ll take a million stale girlboss/pathetic man ships ANY DAY over going back to “divine femininity that must be pampered and spoiled and NEVER in charge 🥰💖”

blegh

[mysweetoddbird]

sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.

[rabinovitch]

happy werewolf transgenderism wednesday

[gothic-chicanery]

happy werewolf transgenderism wednesday

[crayola-samgirl]

[prunsel]

if you've ever pet more than a few dogs you'd Know what dog residue is

[computationalcalculator]

[bebsi-cola]

actually pigs shouldn't be at pride even outside of uniform. fuck those guys

[bebsi-cola]

if you decide to become a police officer then that outweighs any other marginalised identity you can rustle up like. not sorry, who asked you to willingly become a pig

[pekkhum]

I have heard of black people warning their kids that the race of a police officer is cop and you should not expect solidarity from them. The same applies to other types of minorities.

The sexuality of a police officer is cop.

The gender of a police officer is cop.

When you become the enforcer and protector of capital, you are making the deal to be slightly favored by the system over others like you, in exchange for being its servant. Your solidarity is with the system that you serve, even if it hates you.

If you want solidarity with those the system hates, you cannot be the system's servant and defender.