#weaponised femininity

[atopcat]

Why Are Israeli Defense Forces Soldiers Posting Thirst Traps on TikTok?

IDF soldiers and official accounts push horny TikToks amid Israel-Gaza conflict.

Most important thing to note about Israeli propaganda is that it doesn’t focus on one type of audience, it adapts and changes depending on who the specific content is targeting.

The flooding of thirst traps is to win over brain dead basement dwellers aka the one demographic who is notoriously online 24/7. Convince them that you could be their sexy gf as long as they defend you on social media then it’s an easy win as their weapon of choice is nonstop trolling.

It’s like an IDF OnlyFans, post images of a conventionally attractive woman who although carries a gun just pouts and poses seductively, she exists solely for male pleasure.

The message is loud and clear: don’t hurt me I’m a fuckable white woman who looks like your favourite porn star, wouldn’t you rather those ugly brown women die instead?

It’s a reminder that sexy Israeli women in their skimpy bikinis are more important than burqa clad Palestinian savages.

Israeli women can be your sexy gf, Palestinian women are unibrowed freaks who don’t deserve your sympathy.

[gingerly-writing]

(Might have sent this ask already but can’t remember so just I n case). Can I please have prompts about a heroine and/or villainess with high heels as part of her costume?

“How do you wear those?” The heroine stared at the villain’s high heels in abject horror. “You’re going to trip off a rooftop and break your neck.” “It’s called fashion, darling, something you will never understand.” “Maybe that’s because I understand sensible footwear!”

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“You brought high heels to a knife fight?” The villainess extended a leg, razor-blade heels dripping with the blood of her felled enemies. “Cute, right?”

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The heroine looked between her proposed new outfit and the head of the Heroes’ League with undisguised disbelief. “You want to put me in heels?” “Surveys suggest it would increase your public appeal by 46%-” “Yeah, and increase my likelihood of breaking my ankle by 100%, not to mention absolutely destroying my ability to fight hand-to-hand! Tell you what, you put these on and survive a fight with a supervillain, and then I’ll consider it.”

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thank you for commissioning these! if anyone else would like to commission a prompt set my kofi is here <3

[a-sprinkle-of-moodboardss]

Come on, little lady, give us a smile No, I ain't got nothin' to smile about I got no one to smile for, I waited a while for A moment to say I don't owe you a goddamn thing

Nightmare - Halsey moodboard for anon

[growth-death]

the idea of weaponised femininity annoys me because the idea of a weapon is that you only use it in combat. the problem is that when women don’t weaponise their femininity they are inherently vulnerable and seen as subhuman. It’s not weaponisation, its survival 

[hypnictwitch]

'Empowerment' advertising for heels and make up always reminds me of the ad for Botox with the tagline 'express yourself'

[assassinprocrastinator]

Oh yeah I love the movie where there is one straight male protagonist who has an emotional range of a pineapple, bunch of other dudes who are the support group for him but not as “cool”, and that one female character who is definitely our protagonists love interest while being “badass” but not too much so dudebros won’t be offended.

I didn’t tell which movie? Yeah, cause it’s like hundreds of them.

[automaticmoons]

« Choice feminism » advocates for the idea that feminism is an individual thing to each woman, but we cannot build a political movement based on the idea that it is what it is for every individual person. It renders feminism meaningless. It is not possible to bring down a system of oppression through so called personal empowerment. It is internalized neo-liberalism to let individualism replace what was once a collective struggle. And this is where “choice feminism” really lies, a lack of analysis of structural inequality, of systems of oppression and the division of women as a class. It carries on a liberal idea of freedom, that you could easily twist into thatcherism « There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. »  (Margaret Thatcher). By supporting « choice feminism » we are making it easier for liberals to sell us anything, from make up to pornography, as empowering and thus as feminist. We are making it harder for us to challenge any oppressive industry or practice, since some women choose to take part in these practices or industries. So what do we do with this? We start by acknowledging that there can be misogyny in our choices, even if these choices make us feel better. By choosing to wear make up, I’m supporting a concept of femininity that has been oppressing women for centuries, but I also am creating a demand benefiting an industry making profit from the insecurities of women, and I need to own that.

How patriarchal compliance has been turned into feminist activism

Nice article, though (at the end of the text) I’m not sure “the personal is political” is actually in this context a more useful statement than “the political is personal”, it often ends up glorifying individual choices as well, but the general idea is worth remembering/thinking about.

[rorykurago]

Before all else, I learned that these playthings were not mere idle trifles invented by manufacturers  and dealers for the purpose of gain. They were ... a big world, authoritative and beautiful, many-sided, containing a multiplicity of things, all of which had the one and only aim of serving love, refining the senses, giving life to the dead world around us, endowing it with a magical way with new instruments of love, from powder and scent to the dancing-shoe, from ring to cigarette-case, from waist-buckle to handbag. This bag was no bag, this purse no purse, flowers no flowers, the fan no fan. All were the plastic material of love, of magic and delight. Each was a message, a smuggler, a weapon, a battlecry.

Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf