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1999 | Call me Ken | AO3 | I follow from my main @littleshitsofthefourthdimension and also make books @whatapictureisworth-press | I got Pitt-pilled, sorry. | Not always SFW so 🔞 MINORS BEGONE

[whatapictureisworth]

[constance-mcentee-deactivated20]

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"I can note your interest in that feature for future development."

[whereisyourthesis]

do you remember anything about the whitaker/santos scene that was apparently cut from the finale?

Yes actually, I just didn't transcribe it! Apologies for the paraphrasing but:

Whitaker and Santos are charting / Garcia comes up to them dressed in nice/normal clothes and says that she's having dinner with her dad and his latest girlfriend (the plans that she told Santos she already had). She leaves and then Whitaker asks Santos is she has a scalpel in her pocket and Santos acts like she doesn't know what he means (and also makes a joke about "Or are you just happy to see me"). He says something along the lines of "you pick up things about people when you live together" then he makes a joke about a bathmat incident (?) which was embarrassing for him or something. Then he tells her that he can stay with her tonight if she needs him to. She basically brushes him off again in her usual way and he leaves it at that (from what I remember).

[clfixationstation]

what people miss about these yaoi/yuri/het debates is that it isn't about dictating what people must ship to be considered progressive; it's about analyzing how wide societal trends and bigotries show up even in fandom spaces. YOU get to decide what to do with that information.

By pointing this stuff out, people hope to inspire self-reflection about how you engage with different dynamics. Asking things like, "Why can't you see the guy with a black woman?" or, "Why can't you connect with f/f ships?" or, "Why do you consider masc x fem f/f or m/m heteronormative?" It's a prompt, not an attack on your ships or character.

Imo, asking "is het, yaoi or yuri the most progressive?" is a silly endeavor. Misogyny and racism show up in all three dynamics. How many times have we seen 'big masculine barbaric darker character x pale waifish feminine classy character' in m/f, m/m and f/f ships? How common are het ships where the man doesn't even seem to like the woman? Or where the female love interest is treated like a reward for the man? How frequently do stories push aside female characters to highlight male ones, whether the main pairing is m/f, m/m or f/f?

As for the shippers, I've seen a lot of misogyny from m/f shippers AND m/m shippers over the years. Not as much from the f/f side, but it crops up there too. I've seen quite a bit of homophobia from m/f shippers (less from f/f and m/m)*. With racism in particular, I've observed it from ALL parties; whether towards the poc love interest 'in the way' of an m/m (or even m/f or f/f!) ship, or towards the poc within any pairing.

*I think there needs to be distinction between queer people +allies who like m/f vs the overwhelmingly straight audience who hold varying degrees of homophobia

It's highly situational and these racist and/or misogynistic and/or homophobic portrayals and behaviors deserve to be discussed openly without people immediately getting defensive or trying to "out-progressive" each other.

...and it's not lost on me that this current batch of discourse started regarding misogynoir of m/m shippers towards a black female love interest.

[visualeffex]

vi’s back on my mind 😪

[basingstokemercury]

"character deserved better" (but they were never going to get it that's the stuff great tragedies are made of) vs "character deserved better" (but the writers really blew it)

[clementine-kesh]

hate the weird self-infantalizing “but i’m just playing with my dolls” shit people will pull in response to any critique of overall fandom trends, especially wrt racism, misogyny, transphobia, etc. very embarrassing to be a grown ass adult yet still so myopic and devoid of self-reflection

[clementine-kesh]

like in a way i do sympathize because being told that your thoughts and beliefs are more often a product of your context and not individual impulse is uncomfortable but at that point you have either the choice to put your head in the sand or take a minute to consider these things more deeply and it seems pretty clear to me which option is the more mature one

[subjectverb]

youve heard of he would not fucking say that now get ready for she would not be a fucking wingman to those two guys

[whitmanic]

Harrowing: someone in your Fandom just made an innocuous and harmless post that nonetheless betrays a deep misunderstanding of the character and the character's narrative purpose and you just have to sit there and let them be wrong lest you be an asshole

[seek--rest]

[alhashimis]

Irene Choi as Joy Kwon THE PITT (S02E02)

[eternalgirlscout]

rewatching s2 of the pitt and thinking again about how trinity santos is a csa survivor who has spent this whole season keeping a huge Our Little Secret for a man in a position of authority over her. two men if you count robby. she could have burned that hospital down and i still would have been like can you blame her

[ot3]

basically what it comes down to is that you need to actually care about female characters or die. and if that's really really too hard for you the absolute least of what you can do is just shut your mouth and move on secure in the knowledge that you will never actually have to think about or reconsider your own misogyny in any real way. what you don't get to do is basically say that those of us who do care about female characters need to produce artworks at a quantity to match thomas kinkade and writing at a quantity to match james patterson if we want to earn the right to notice and comment on misogyny.

[failbettergames]

The mortifying ordeal of putting your face on tumblr

[nabakovian]

i know people more eloquent than i am have said this but i can't ever get over what a revolutionary character trinity santos is. hyper-ambitious abrasive traumatized lesbian. adult who still self-harms. vaguely suicidal but chose to live anyway but doesn't know how to be alive. grieving. sexually abused as a child. in a toxic situationship with an equally abrasive sexy older surgeon. relentless advocate for her patients, especially the children. besties with her older traumatized suicidal boss and her formerly homeless coworker she took in off the street and her former child prodigy coworker who's just as abrasive as she is but just in a different way. secretly the kindest person on the planet. i could cry i love you so much trinity santos!!

[solarprominence]

I maintain that the best summation of my feminist beliefs are that men and women are not fundamentally different. There are a few quantifiable differences if you average out every woman and every man, but they are not qualitative. And most of them are socially constructed, and would be fixed if we started treating men and women the same. Neither is inherently smarter, neither is inherently kinder, neither is inherently more stoic or stronger or angrier or softer. Everyone is obsessed with the differences between women and men, with finding them and creating them and distancing themselves from the "other half". It's fucked up

[storyweavingspider]

This was the mainstream feminist belief like. A decade ago. Thats how hard we’ve regressed within mainstream feminism and it’s mainly because of right wingers/radfems/TERFs deciding trans women need to die.

[zabouncer]

And this is also why many feminist women are genuinely angry with Men.

Once you fully internalise that there is nothing inherent to men that makes them consistently and repeatedly put down, legislate against and/or abuse women on both a personal and structural level, then seeing men repeatedly do it anyway makes you angry at them in a whole new way.

No longer can they 'not help it' or that it's because 'it's just the way men are', it's men repeatedly valuing their comfort and power over the humanity of half the population for hundreds if not thousands of years across the world.

[vi-archive]

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[perfectimprecision]

yes.