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it always sucks in romances when characters aren’t active participants in their own relationship or attraction. when it’s always “why do i feel this way” and they can’t name a single reason they like the love interest i’m like idk man i think you should get out of there maybe.
at some point if you’re going too hard on the Genuine Confusion and the character having no clue why they’re doing anything they’re doing or why they even like the other party it’s like. I think you were cursed by a wizard. or an author, which is something similar. it becomes something akin to The Narrative Has Mandated That This is A Love Story and Therefore I Must Be In Love rather than like. a convincing romance between parties who care about each other
my rule of thumb? if i can’t imagine what the fuck they would talk about if they were hanging out alone, it’s probably a badly written romance
we genuinely need to reinvent the concept of being annoyed with someone for nonproblematic normal reasons instead of making up the most unhinged claims possible on the fly to justify wanting to beat them to death with a rock
the thing is that theyâre so fascinated by sex, they love sex, they canât imagine a world without sex - they need sex to sell things, they need sex to be part of their personality, they need sex to prove their power - but they hate sex. they are disgusted by it.
sex is the only thing that holds their attention, and it is also the thing that can never be discussed directly.
you canât tell a child the normal names for parts of their body, thatâs sexual in nature, because the body isnât a body, itâs a vessel of sex. it doesnât matter that itâs been proven in studies (over and over) that kids need to know the names of their genitals; that they internalize sexual shame at a very young age and know itâs âdirtyâ to have a body; that it overwhelmingly protects children for them to have the correct words to communicate with. what matters is that theyâre sexual organs. what matters is that it freaks them out to think about kids having body parts - which only exist in the context of sex.
itâs gross to talk about a period or how to check for cancer in a testicle or breast. that is nasty, illicit. there will be no pain meds for harsh medical procedures, just because they feature a cervix.
but they will put out an ad of you scantily-clad. you will sell their cars for them, because you have abs, a body. you will drip sex. you will ooze it, like a goo. like you were put on this planet to secrete wealth into their open palms.
they will hit you with that same palm. it will be disgusting that you like leather or leashes, but they will put their movie characters in leather and latex. it will be wrong of you to want sexual freedom, but they will mark their success in the number of people they bed.
they will crow that itâs inappropriate for children so there will be no lessons on how to properly apply a condom, even to teens. itâs teaching them the wrong things. no lessons on the diversity of sexual organ growth, none on how to obtain consent properly, none on how to recognize when you feel unsafe in your body. if you are a teenager, you have probably already been sexualized at some point in your life. you will have seen someone also-your-age who is splashed across a tv screen or a magazine or married to someone three times your age. you will watch people pull their hair into pigtails so they look like you. so that they can be sexy because of youth. one of the most common pornography searches involves newly-18 young women. girls. the words âbarely legal,â a hiss of glass sand over your skin.
barely legal. there are bills in place that will not allow people to feel safe in their own bodies. there are people working so hard to punish any person for having sex in a way that isnât god-fearing and submissive. heteronormative. the sex has to be at their feet, on your knees, your eyes wet. when was the first time you saw another person crying in pornography and thought - okay but for real. she looks super unhappy. later, when you are unhappy, you will close your eyes and ignore the feeling and act the role you have been taught to keep playing. they will punish the sex workers, remove the places they can practice their trade safely. they will then make casual jokes about how they sexually harass their nanny.
and they love sex but they hate that youâre having sex. you need to have their ornamental, perfunctory, dispassionate sex. so you canât kiss your girlfriend in the bible belt because it is gross to have sex with someone of the same gender. so you canât get your tubes tied in new england because you might change your mind. so you canât admit you were sexually assaulted because real men donât get hurt, you should be grateful. you cannot handle your own body, you cannot handle the risks involved, let other people decide that for you. you arenât ready yet.
but they need you to have sex because you need to have kids. at 15, you are old enough to parent. you are not old enough to hear the word fuck too many times on television.
they are horrified by sex and they never stop talking about it, thinking about it, making everything unnecessarily preverted. the saying - a thief thinks everyone steals. they stand up at their podiums and they look out at the crowd and they sign a bill into place that makes sexwork even more unsafe and they stand up and smile and sign a bill that makes gender-affirming care illegal and they get up and they shrug their shoulders and write donât say gay and they get up, and they make the world about sex, but this horrible, plastic vision of it that they have. this wretched, emotionless thing that holds so much weight itâs staggering. they put their whole spine behind it and they push and they say itâs normal!
this horrible world they live in. disgusted and also obsessed.
You write all this and donât even say the fucking word woman and then in the tags you say âWe support sex workersâ Youâre just as fucking bad as everyone else.
oh, i see you and a few people like you are struggling with this content. no worries. letâs try to work through this together.
If you put on your good reading eyes and big thinking cap, try to go back over the post and see if i do or do not use the word âwomanâ or âwomen.â (HINT: I might also use man). then use these Key Reading Notes to guide your interpretation:
- do you think it is possible that any person can experience the results of a puritanical culture that degrades and dehumanizes normal human behavior? (THINK: Taylor Lautner was 15 when grown adults begged him to be their husband, their hands shaking, tears in their eyes. Did he have to use the word âwomanâ in his experience?
- how can society trap sex workers in a horrible loop of both scrutinizing their experience while also demanding excellent performance? how is a video of someone in ropes only okay if it is selling perfume or a car? why are artists on this site blocked by the porn ban, but none of the bots are? what conditions are we creating for victims to come forward? how are we preventing abuse in the industry that is obviously making a few specific people a lot of money? (KEY NOTE: is it only women in porn? is there a reason that when you picture pornography, you assume only women must be present? itâs a visible connection to your misogyny: there is often also a man in the scene. that man is also a sex worker. why might it be that you were picturing the woman on her knees?)
- who are you fighting here? (NOTE: with your hands up, flinching, you try to devour the world because the anger in your heart burns louder than the kindness. this will annihilate you. you sit and you scream and it makes no difference. you throw your hands against the wall and it changes nothing. where is the word woman? here, right here, here you go: woman. woman. woman. was it worth it? does it help? does it save any one person? elicit any real response? make that wretched white heart of yours burn a little lower?
- when was the last time you actually reached out and helped a stranger? the last time you actually invested effort in your community? the last time you looked someone in the eyes and said - oh shit. we are both people. and we both deserve our humanity.
I am so tired of bad faith interpretations of disney princess stories in the name of feminism. Haven’t we as a society moved beyond them?
Bad takes of fairytale women drive me up a wall because it’s always the most patriarchal.
“Cinderella just waited around–” she stole fabric and spent weeks making a dress in her nonexistent freetime directly in the face of her violent, cruel relatives so that she could have one evening of fun.
“snow white cleaned up a stranger’s house” she found herself a place to stay after running for her life. She lived in a palace all her life and survived the woods. Also some women are docile and sweet. That’s not a bad thing. All women having to be ~powerful~ in the exact same way is not feminist, it’s misogyny wearing a masculine hat.
We gotta stop trying to play into misogynistic tropes in order totry to be taken seriously. We get nothing from cutting up stories to go along misogynists rational for why it’s bad to be a princess (looking at YOU writers of Moana).
Snow White literally wanted to do a nice thing to repay for the trespassing.
(spoilers for season 3) Season 2 ends with Cass turning against her best friend Rapunzel because Cass has always had to set aside her own needs in order to make Rapunzel happy, and she is angry over this. But itâs framed really weirdly by the writers. Cassâs complaint seems pretty valid, considering that previously in the show there are several times she really did have to give up things she wanted for that reason. But Rapunzel doesnât understand why Cass is unhappy and thinks cass betrayed her for no reason. This would be a great starting place for some character growth, but for some reason the writing frames Rapunzelâs view as correct. The story reinforces that Cass was wrong to want Rapunzel to treat her differently. Cass eventually apologizes to Rapunzel for, like, betraying her (reasonable). Rapunzel never apologizes to Cass. She never even acknowledges that anything in their relationship was unbalanced, despite the obvious power dynamic of Rapunzel being a princess and Cass being her servant. The writers gave Cassandra a valid thing to be angry over, but then never treated her concerns as something that mattered or got solved within the story, and instead just went for âsheâs just evil nowâ for most of season 3.
She became a Villian without any lead up or real foreshadowing. Because she was shown a memory from an unreliable source of her mother (Gothel) abandoning her as a child to kidnap Rapunzel. Because of this, Cassandra turned on Rapunzel, literally her best friend. Ignoring the fact that Cassandra wouldâve known about the abuse Gothel put Rapunzel in because âeveryone chooses Rapunzelâ.
Propaganda:
whew sorry that was a lot, thanks for organizing this.
Cassandra is a tad hot headed but she literally aspires to be the Captain of the Royal Guard and holds loyalty and promises very highly. She wouldnât have turned on her best friend because Gothel chose Rapunzel to âraiseâ. Sheâs even been in the tower! And worse of all, her villain song gets boring like halfway through! It was so sudden and out of character and we were just meant to roll with it!
