oh no

[hierophagy]

and my take today is that framing misogynistic writing as an "inability to write female characters" subconsciously takes away most of the blame, implying that women are an alien creature compared to men and that it is no fault of the writer because it's out of their skill set. it's not an inability, not a lack of expertise, it's the simple refusal to consider women as individual people and give them the same depth and grace that comes easily to the writer when they write male characters. it's not that christopher nolan, stephen king, james cameron (and frankly anyone using the argument, both professional and hobbyist; yes, that includes fanfic writers) etc can't write women, it's that they just won't. at that point in time it is a conscious decision driven by the laziness to unpack their misogynistic biases, and should be addressed as such

[tarragonthedragon]

idk i just feel like "it is more acceptable and in fact encouraged to mock anything enjoyed primarily by women" and "being enjoyed primarily by women does not make thing feminist and righteous" are thoughts that can and should coexist

[tarragonthedragon]

oh and also "even if the thing is bad your criticism of it can come from a place of patronising misogyny"

[sunfortune]

really is bizarre the way fandoms largely do not like women at ALL. it’s been happening for ages but when you see people straight up just hating on women characters more often now (+ the general rise in misogyny) and then you come on here and everyone’s just pretending women don’t even EXIST in any media ever. it’s like that’s not much better. fandom isn’t activism but it does reveal people’s internal biases. like women being excluded, sidelined and erased in everythingggg. people will take characteristics that are compelling in a female character and give it to a man in fan content just so they don’t have to engage with a woman ever. fics, fan art, ships, etc. a hollywood produced movie/tv show won’t even sideline a woman as much as the average fandom blogger will

[twinkprison]

there’s just no way he fucks good I’m sorry. that’s the appeal. to me

[ttnn77]

You jerked off to the flickering light of a lamp post…?

...SOMETHING ABOUT IT DYING AND TRYING TO STAY ON WAS ENTICING TO ME... IM NORMAL

[rizadyke]

People loooove complex characters until they’re women

[courtesyname]

[cam1lla]

I think it’s funny that tumblr has a reputation for being the man hating feminist website when tumblr posts about women are like “um PSA to women, REAL FEMINISM is about unlearning your VICTIM COMPLEX and realizing that misogyny isn’t THAT bad so you should just get over it!” and tumblr posts about men are like. Romanticizing noncustodial fathers.

[bleedthebeat]

like if you read and pay attention to any of dragon age’s lore, from the games and books and other supplemental materials, you will notice plot holes, because the series constantly contradicts itself, rewrites its own lore, retcons characters’ stories, redefines terminology, and so forth. there are some cases where it can be explained watsonianly by way of varying in-universe sources, but if these sources are cross-referenced it often still does not make sense. with gaider leaving during veilguard’s development and the rest of the mess around it this is more emphasized in that game but it has been present in every game. because the series is inconsistent and bioware can’t commit to the choices they make. dragon age is literally bad is the thing. like it can be good when it’s good but underneath the good it’s still mostly bad. why is there tuesday in thedas

[redstonedust]

it bothers me when someone brings up misogyny in shounen anime and people shrug it off with "its designed for teenage boys, what can you expect." like well. idk i think its actually pretty important that shows for teenage boys are normal about women. i mean i think all media should be normal about women but teenagers are impressionable i think we could put a little bit of feminism in the teenage boy shows. it might do some good. you never know.

[rebelpeas]

fandom will talk about a man being every flavor of closeted queer before they talk about his canon misogyny

[ot3]

this is my least favorite misogynist talking point in the fandom playbook because essentially everyone who complains about the lack of f/f Is Already writing or drawing it themselves if they are a person who enjoys writing or drawing. and if you're not a person who enjoys writing or drawing i don't think you are obligated to become one in order for your complaints about extremely blatant misogynistic trends in both original media and fan works to not count as "whining"

ohhh you think the women getting upset about misogyny are whiny? wow that's a new one that's revolutionary you're saying something so controversial and brave

[poetryofapollo]

If it's a female character she has too little substance to be considered interesting but if it's a male character he can show up for five minutes in the background doing absolutely nothing and suddenly he's the most interesting compelling character of all time

[call-me-zombie]

Feminism in 2012: men and women have so few differences it's stupid that we even still have gender segregation in sports.

Feminism in 2026: but if we let the big scary trans women play on the girls team how will the girls handle it? She's so scary and we could never compare with our delicate glass bones and paper skin

What the fuck happened? Who are you people and why have we backslid so far you've started believing in your own inferiority impressed on you by the patriarchy?! You can't win all of em but I guarantee having trans women on your teams won't fuckin kill you. She doesn't have a BIOLOGICAL ADVANTAGE! She's just some girl! She'll win and lose just as much as any of you and hiding behind your transphobia to say it's any different is fucked up and wrong.

[cash4bees]

I think the reason I still enjoy tumblr is that even though this all still pisses me off, I know that anything that makes me mad on here is 100% earnest. It's not ragebait or engagement farming, y'all are actually just that stupid sometimes

[sha-brytols]

dai was insane because they wrote all of that banter (like 5 hours worth of it if i remember right?) and put so much character relevance and development and plot importance in it and then it came out and you were lucky if you got 10 conversations in a single 100 hour playthrough. and they just left it like that .

[cumdumpstiel]

so cool how advanced the algorithm has become, it literally only takes like a decade or more of spying on all my internet activity and then it can expertly curate a selection of 15-20 youtube videos that i don't really want to watch, and then keep showing me those videos over and over again for a week so i can scroll past them again. the future is now

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

I think it's a real shame Inquisition doesn't give the advisors approval. Largely because i think an impecably polite Josephine who hates your guts would be phenomenal.