Internet feminists really go ""yOu oNlY dOn'T lIkE mAkeUp bEcausE yOu'Re aN eVil gEndEr tRaitOr tRyIng tO cUrRy faVoR fRoM mEn oR sOmeThInG bEcauSe yOu tHinK tHat'Ll wOrK!!!" because apparently women aren't really *just* GNC and their lives apparently revolve around men or something? Or because different is evil in internet feminist herd mentality? Then there's this whole ableism angle, as neurodivergent GNC women/girls are often the ones who get singled out.
They claim GNC women are bullies, while they were actually the ones who bullied GNC girls in school, turned their noses up at them, and excluded them when they were doing their own thing and minding their own business.
The ""nOt lIkE oTheR gIrlS sYndrOmE"" internet feminists shriek about and accuse GNC women of (because apparently you can't just be different, apparently you need to have malicious motive and/or superiority complex in order to not want to conform to gender roles?) doesn't even exist in anybody's minds except male writers' who are unable to write female characters normally - and the minds of non-gnc women who write shitty Mary Sue fanfics.
Unpopular opinion: Rey is an actual example of toxic femininity and that it's not taken seriously, because women can do no wrong.
I don't know if she is an example of toxic feminity but the way she is conceived as a character and as well as Leia certainly screams "woman can do no wrong" kind of an idea KK certainly has around her IP( I would love to know why you think Rey is toxic feminine though, To me she just screams an over entitled brat who think the world owes her someone else's happiness for suffering as a kid) . The whole idea that women do not owe "men" their "emotional labor" when they do bad things has become a huge movement in writing in women oriented fiction. SW sequels is a great example of it going too far and blowing up on our faces in recent years.
They wanted to write a "feminist" character which panders to the crowd which made Hunger Game/s and Twilight and Pirates of the Caribbean such HUGE hits in late 2000s-early 2010s but what they ended up doing is following ideas which are NOT feasable for the kind of character archetype they want to write. If they are going to write quasi-Jesus chosen one heroines they have to follow the template of Arthur/Jesus in its essense and that essential ingredient is self sacrifice and empathy in face of betrayal even.
Where do we get that with Rey or Leia? LOL nowhere.
We instead see the narrative excuse Leia's abuse/neglect , Rey lying and self centered biased empathy for figures who threw her away instead at the cost of a man who loves her. We see narrative justify why these people should wash their hands of the emotional damage they have done to another person because his political alignment is wrong and it washes their hands clean!
Sounds familiar doesn't it? When you are not with me, you are against me and it has NOTHING to do with me kind of philosophy is the cool new In thing in American liberal extreme Left politics. Cutting off people when they refuse to adhere to the mentality clique you form is CLASSIC toxic feminity trait since dawn of time. I am sure some people are familiar being made pariah for doing nothing in school by girls who were richer or prettier or more popular once in a while. If not ( wonder how that happened...) then Mean Girls is a satire which hits home quite a while.
I do think Rey disassembling the truth and lying about what she knows about innocence of Kylo's involving "murder" of his classmates and arson of his Jedi Academy to get in Leia's good graces is also a form of toxic feminine trait( lying behind your targets back to isolate them from their support and peers to gain support) and cement the view Kylo is not worthy definitely falls in that category.
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Kylo Ren. He’s your son . . .”
Ah. Leia nodded and drank from her now cooling cup. Rey squirmed uncomfortably in her seat.
“What happened to him?” she finally asked. “I mean, how did he turn to the dark side? He started in the light, didn’t he? He told me a story about Luke, about his training.” She exhaled. “I guess I just want to understand.”
“I do, too.”
“So you don’t know?”
“I think you would have to ask Ben what happened to him.”
“He wanted me to join him, but I couldn’t. I thought I could help him, but he only wanted me to become like him.”
Rey’s face fell, and Leia could see the pain etched there. The girl cared about Ben, and he had disappointed her. “Ben has made his choices,” Leia said. “No one can save Ben but himself. And I don’t know if that is what he wants.”
Rey nodded, a sharp dip of her chin. “I know that. I mean, rationally I know, but I guess I held out hope.”
Have you ever seen such bunch of bullshit in your life?!? Dear God....Why did DLF think it will look Rey and Leia look good is BEYOND ME. Why do they think a mother refusing to save her son or even know what he wants since she doesn't talk to him makes her look good? Or Rey straight faced refusing to fess up and acting like she knows nothing would make her look nice and NOT A LIAR?!
Honestly Sequel Trilogy is the just desserts some holier than thou feminists in critical and fandom circle deserve for thinking just because their chosen favorite character is female we need to give kid glove treatment in narrative to them for reasons.
12x06 - Mary is Dean - So Jody Mills, You Learn that Boy Some Soft
Sam and Dean stop at Jody’s - Their mom has walked out and maybe they needed some motherly affection from Platonic mom Jody.
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Dean needs to hear that you can both be badass AND have feelings watch chick flicks. Whhhaaaaaahhhhh?!
Toxic Feminity. [“Pick a bloody side!” ‘Or What?’]
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that in this episode we get Max Banes, a cute and openly gay witch who hunts with his sibling.
Below the cut for analysis of 12x06, Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox
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Mary is being portrayed as a stand in for Dean, or at least Performing!Dean. In 12x03 she likes Bacon! She likes loud music! We must be the saaaaammmme peeeerrrrrson. ‘We are so related.’
When we met young Mary in ‘In the Beginning’ she was a stand in for Sam. Mary wanted to get out of that hunter life her father brought her up in, she got dragged in by tragedy but that wasn’t her goal. Like Sam, Mary has come to be drawn to hunter life by 12x06 to hide in it from her pain.
Instead, in season 12, the show has made Mary a stand in for Dean. Mary had herself her very own muscle car as a stand in for performance personality baby, she was ‘saving people. hunting things.’ she inspired another hunter ... but that’s a different essay.
[Common! Bacon and loud music guys! they are like, clearly the same person!]
Mary is scared. She blames herself for everything the Winchesters have endured, not just in the 12 years of the show but over their entire lives. If Mary hadn’t have made the demon deal, she reasoned, none of it would have happened.
[Okay let’s just move on and not note that actually Sam was always going to be Lucifer’s perf vessel and Dean, Michael’s, and let’s FURTHER ignore the fact that John would have been dead and Mary would have been single mom to Dean and Sam wouldn’t have existed. Not mentioning, because it does not matter, nope. nope. nope. ahem. anyway.]
It’s not just bacon - it’s about guilt - it’s about not feeling you are deserving of love - that you deserve to be saved. I have just NO IDEA WHO THAT MIGHT SOUND LIKE. [cue Cas/Misha in my brain].
With this cloud hanging over Dean, the boys go to visit Jody and we learn the truly shocking news. Jody. Watches. Chick Flicks. Mind. Blown.
Yes, Dean, you aren’t the only one. You don’t have to hide your secret shame. We already know that you like chick flicks. You admitted it in the season 11 finale.
Now that we’ve established that, Jody can challenge him on actual feelings once Mary shows up. Awww, surrogate mom meets Mary mom.
“Is that why you spent the entire ride up here telling me in extreme excruciating detail about how you killed Hitler but uh, you neglected to mention that somehow your mom is back from the dead?”
Jody might be teaching Dean that it’s okay to have feelings. But fake Dean Mary has some learnin’ to do too. Billie is talking about Mary the way she will later talk about dean in season 13 . But now Dean can step up and talk about feelings, sort of. Mary’s learning that she didn’t just condemn Asa, she saved him and he saved others.
Mary: “I didn’t ask to come back here”
Billie: “No, you didn’t, and you hate it. You’re all alone.”
Dean: “Well, she’s not alone. ...
Billie says if Mary dies she can give Mary a ‘one way ticket upstairs’
Mary looks at the boys, clearly worried they are about to lose her again, and tells Billie, “Well... Then... Then I guess you’re just going to have to wait.”
Dean watched this - Dean’s learning that model him is choosing to live over going straight to heaven. Both characters develop, continuing to move that needle. There’s a reason this episode title focuses on the life of Asa Fox, not the death.
In a few short episodes Sam and Dean will make a deal with Billie, prepared to trade one of their lives to progress the story. Mary steps in, ready to trade the life she may not even want for their lives.
It’s Cas that will step in, kill Billie, and lose his absolute shit at them again like
DEAN YOU CAN’T KEEP DOING THIS TO ME. STAY ALIVE.
- FUCKING WINCHESTERS! -
[Just love for Cas and what he does to this fam and comment if you think that car scene involved holding hands.]
Dean’s daddy Kripke ending didn’t have him learn, didn’t have him change, didn’t have his character develop from believing that the only way for Dean to find peace was to die, in a blaze of glory. If Mary can learn that there is value in staying alive - trying to return to the Mary that was yearning for family life, then so can Dean.
This continues in the clues as to why the finale was so tragic to fans.
Finale Dean died the way Kripke always envisioned, he got Chuck’s Dean after we spent 15 years watching this performing!boy grow into a [more anyway] emotionally mature man. Dean was on a 15 year arc of overcoming this nonsense, overcoming toxic masculinity, overcoming trauma response, this self hatred.
Finale!Dean doesn’t have to be your headcanon. And that’s okay.
As a big fan of Jill Valentine and Resident Evil, I was excited to see her return in the upcoming remake. Then, I saw this and I have some mixed feelings though lean towards the unhappy scale.
Now, to start off, I myself am a woman, a feminist and I am all against overplaying fanservice, but I have to say this outright: there was nothing wrong with Jill's original outfit. In the setting of Resident Evil 3, she is off duty and got caught in the middle of a zombie outbreak in the city. She just happened to wearing this outfit which might I add was popular during the 90s. I always want to point out that she in no way looks promiscuous. She looks beautiful, but honestly, how is that so different from how the men of Resident Evil look so handsome. I mean, even Albert Wesker could easily appear on GQ. Though seriously, her tube top barely has cleavage, her midriff is covered, her skirt is at a reasonable length and clearly doesn't restrict her movements, and her boots are flat and pretty sensible. Yes I admit that she looks a bit too clean, her hair should be messier and she should look somewhat more battle worn, but other than that, there is nothing wrong with the outfit. I also want to point out that her features are not exaggerated and she is very realistically proportioned.
The new look thanks to new realistic graphic does do things right especially with the details that I mentioned were missing before, but now... I feel looks very generic and almost like a tomboy which Jill is not. Part of what makes Jill Valentine an iconic video game hero is her femininity. She has always been resourceful, independent, strong, serious and was even able to take down the super BOW Nemesis by herself. And she was all that while still being a feminine woman. What they did to her is that they took away that element and feeling of her being randomly thrown into danger when she didn't expect it. Jill now looks like she was on the job and saw it coming which is not as exciting especially with those army boots and all those army accessories. I understand her putting on a few accessories she finds on the way and still being armed at all times just in case, but this too much. And also, I fear the media has gone from one extreme to other. We fear making a female character feminine so much even when the situation calls for it being alright to do, we just won't. In doing so, we're giving girls another bad example and this is that they can never be taken seriously or be perceived as strong as long as they dress femininely or wear feminine clothes.
And if you want to understand my argument better, let me use an example. Suppose you had a setting of a zombie apocalypse that took place in the middle of a grand ball and your main character was a cop who was at this ball as a guest, what would he be wearing? He would be wearing a nice suit with a tie and nice shoes to match though maybe he would still be carrying his badge and gun just in case. And this makes sense because he didn't know there was going to be a zombie outbreak. It just happened right when he was trying to just enjoy a night out and those were his clothes. It also doesn't mean he couldn't get out of this alive and well just because of what he was wearing. Suppose in the same setting, the hero was redesigned to be at the ball in army boots, army accessory belts, and be armed and ready. He would look badass and all, but it would not have the same impact on the player not to mention, his attire wouldn't make sense for the role he is playing or setting he is located in the game. It also gives the same bad message that a male hero appearance only passes the bill if he constantly looks like he's ready for the army.
This is what I am trying to say about Jill's new look. It means well, but it went too far and took away many key elements that in fact highlight how strong a person Jill is in that even if she is taken by surprise, she will still fight with what she has. At the end of the day, Jill is still a seasoned and strong fighter no matter what she is wearing. Overall, I give this look a 4/10. It did do some things right with the realism, but they tried to fix what wasn't broken and in doing so they took away the atmosphere of the setting.
Sam tells Amelia that she should give Don a chance, even though she’d prefer to stay with Sam, because she gave Sam a chance and saved him.
So Amelia needs to rehabilitate Don because she rehabilitated Sam?
This is like the closest thing to a personality female love interest characters get for a period.
It is not women's’ job to rehabilitate their men.
Go to therapy and leave women alone.
Can the writers hear me?
In ‘Frontierland’, Castiel ends up killing his Lt., Rachel, his second in command, for daring the question his methods; because she ‘knew his secret’. It’s played off like she disagrees with his loyalty to the Winchesters but that’s a misdirection based on what’s to come.
This could have been a poignant moment in the narrative, showing the audience how far astray Castiel has gone for his war, foreshadowing what was to come, and a gut wrenching loss of yet another female character.
Instead, I didn’t even remember that this happened because they introduced her one scene earlier and didn’t bother to develop yet another female character.
