Something that always has bothered me in fanfics (or just any work of fiction period) is when the female main character is so insistent on trying to be anti-feminine. And I’m not saying if you’re a masculine woman or a gender non-conforming woman you should feel ashamed about not expressing femininity, you do what makes you feel comfortable and happy, but what I am saying is it always fucks with me how alienated it is in media.
comments like “(x) tried to get me to wear a dress, like that would ever happen” or “I don’t understand how they (another woman) can wear so much makeup” and other comments similar have never sat right with me because of the implications they have. The implication being because they (the character) doesn’t participate in feminine things such as wearing makeup or dresses is in some way better or more desirable than the women who do. But at the same time this also alienates women who participate in masculinity.
Typically these characters are just feminine enough to remind the audience they’re women and make them desirable, but just masculine enough to be different and worthy of being idolized. Because masculine women don’t retain the femininity these women in media display (not saying they can’t be feminine just saying their femininity isn’t represented in the media we consume) we often make fun of them for being hyper masculine.
But this also affects gender non conforming women, as they have been so romanticized and idealized when they aren’t able to meet the expectations our media has set up for them they’re scrutinized and attacked. Creating an endless cycle nobody can truly win.
TLDR; media romanticizes and depicts the wrong parts of women the wrong way and screw everyone over and it’s very disappointing.
totally blown away to have found out this iconic scary picture is actually just of an animatronic halloween decoration. That picture and the Russian Sleep Experiment story had me in an absolute chokehold when i was a little kid, and even when i got older and accepted that it was fake, I still could never exactly account for what it was in that picture. Assumed it was some really good prosthetics, made for a macabre art piece or, I hoped, for some really obscure horror movie that I might be able to find someday. Nope! his name is Spazm and he’s from Spirit Halloween
Moon dressed like Saturn ll Francisco Sojuel l Guatemala
NOT TRISHA PAYTAS GOING INTO LABOUR AS THE QUEEN DIES
Yeah my mom taught me to be polite, but y’know what else she taught me? How to throw an axe so that it always lands in the target, the target being bigots and terfs who didn’t have mothers like mine to teach them how fucked they are in the head.
Women under 5″5/are 5″5 I love you guys too, you deserve just as much love <3
Shoutout to all the ladies above 5″5, y’all are so pretty and I love you so much and I’m so glad I can be tall like you. Embrace your height and embrace your body, your deserve all the self-love and external-love you receive. I love you all have a great day <3
This disability pride month, let’s talk more about the fact that even invisibly disabled people cannot work full time jobs. Let’s talk about how job hunting is a fucking nightmare, how people expect us to be able to work if we’re able to stand at all, how we’re told we’re not qualified for jobs that would be lighter on us physically but the part-time retail position down the road would “love” to have you until you have that job and you’re calling out more than once a month. Let’s talk about how remote work isn’t always an option, how difficult it even is to find remote work, how classist remote work tends to be. When I say “give disabled people enough money to live, zero required qualifiers, zero questions asked,” I mean it. Yes, even they can “technically” work. Capitalism has poisoned society into treating its members like cogs in a machine, and if one isn’t spinning, the immediate reaction is to throw it out.
penguins vs giant petrel
unfriendly reminder that lusting over fictional murderers is one thing — but lusting over real life murderers is abhorrent and shameful and simply wrong.
they have real victims. they inflicted real pain. there is nothing, absolutely nothing, romantic or sexy or alluring or quirky about them, no matter what netflix or any other production company puts out.
it’s one thing to joke around and say you love characters like the corinthian, or hannibal lecter, etc — they’re not real, and we know that.
but the second you bring in someone like jeffrey dahmer or ted bundy or some other real-life killer, i lose all respect for you.
there’s a line between fiction and reality. sometimes it blurs, but sometimes, you really need to make sure it does not.
Hello! I'm Ace | she/they | 19 | I enjoy Minecraft, Art, Animal Crossing, Writing, and I adore Y2K fashoin | June Gemini | "it's always the b//tches with strict parents that are the horniest" - my best friend
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