#diatribe feministe

[hadesoftheladies]

let's please also acknowledge that anti-separatists can also be misogynistic and vitriolic toward separatists. like the amount of vitriol women who have expressed doing 6B4T have been met with by both men and women is insane.

[homunculiii]

i know this is going to be badly received here but the way people on here talk about terfs really shows that they’ve just been frothing at the mouth to find a group of women to spew misogynist fantasies about. the sheer graphic violence (and often sexual violence) described in ‘anti-terf’ posts is so far beyond the way people talk about male transphobes or other bigoted groups and its genuinely disturbing

[notsodumbww2captain]

Honestly the whole « your identity is different than mine so I take offense » bullshit hits different when you are a transmasc with a boomer mom. To her, my transition must mean I viscerally hate all women. Otherwise, why wouldn’t I want to be one ? And to carry her point across she disguises herself as a feminist, making herself a defender of the wronged women, but only when talking about trans related issues, outside of that she says shit like :  « with that bikini she shouldn’t be surprised when she’ll get SA’d » or just in general blaming the victim.

Me carrying on with the personal choice of transitioning to be my authentic self is considered an insult to all women but her openly and harmfully insulting other women is actually a personal choice uwu.

Also, it’s not only that she is an hypocrite regarding her own stance, she also excuses my cis brother’s statements when he affirms all women are men’s slaves and should never leave the kitchen : « it’ll pass ! He’s not really thinking it. »

A cis man openly violent diatribe is considered less misogynistic than me wanting T.

[theoppositeofprofound]

Taking a brief digression from my housing catalog to go on a proto-feminist diatribe, thanks, sir.

[cantstayawaycani]

The last thing I would wish is for it to seem as if I fancy Tenoch simply because he's Mexican and is beautiful to look at.

I fancy Tenoch because he's intelligent.

I fancy Tenoch because he has more to say than inconsequential nonsense.

I fancy Tenoch because he has talent.

I fancy Tenoch because he is an activist, in practice, not in name only.

I fancy Tenoch because he is a loudly, visibly, defiantly anti-racist feminist.

I fancy Tenoch because he seems kind, but also bluntly honest.

I fancy Tenoch because he DOES NOT look like Predro Pascal and Oscar Isaac. Because of how hard it must have been and still be for him to even get to the point where opportunities for him will (hopefully) now come as they do for those actors.

I fancy Tenoch because he's my age, and as a woman in her 40s, I can appreciate a man who is just as goofy and serious as I am about certain things at this stage in life.

I don't know that man in real life. So if he isn't truly all of these things, I wouldn't know unless he puts that on display somehow.

His Mexican-ness, his browness, his accented English, these are tropes to some, to others they are simply a part of his being that fold into the wholeness of his person. All that he is and all that he shows us is a great deal more complex and nuanced and admirable than simply: pretty brown man.

But this is one of the few times I will go on a diatribe here, or on any social site. It's not something I care to do often.

I just want to let it be known: my tags say pretty baby and honey skinned man, but please don't get it twisted. He's a human person not just a skin color/ethnicity to me. I don't view him as "exotic". I view him as unique in that he is a man of a certain age who is doing the work of dismantling his own biases and chronicling that journey verbally and demonstrably for us and the public at every turn, so that he may be an example. And THAT is why I fancy Tenoch.

If he seemed like a vapid, clueless FUCKBOY, honey I would not be bothered.

[poppletonink]

TRACK REVIEW: Deceptacon - Le Tigre

★★★★★ - 5 stars

"You got what you've been asking for, you're so policy free, and your fantasy wheels, and everything you think and everything you feel is alright, alright, alright, alright, alright."

Iconic. Catchy. Politically invigorated. The first track, Deceptacon, of Le Tigre's eponymous debut album is a pop punk diatribe discussing issues of apoliticism and feminism.

Deceptacon primarily focuses on censorship of political issues and the lack of fire that people have to fight for their beliefs. Critiquing the reduction in intentional meaning behind lyrics, the song references Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) by Barry Mann with the nonsense line "who took the bomp from bompalompalomp". Additionally, she criticises people who "depoliticize my rhyme" and how people who take an apolitical stance pretend that "everything you think and everything you feel is alright, alright, alright, alright, alright".

Furthermore, the track was a way of feeding feminist politics into the mainstream by discussing the objectification of women. This chiefly focuses on the commonplace nature of sexism within people's sex lives: "You want what you want but you don't want to be on your knees". Le Tigre uses their lyrics in order to highlight how women become, as phrased by Kathleen Hanna herself, "complicit in their own dehumanisation" through sex when their partners do not give them equal treatment.

Through the use of memorable lyrics and split audio (which creates the sense of being in the middle of a necessary conversation) this riot grrrl band created an epochal track that remains popular to this day.

[bitter69uk]

The first time I ever read about seminal New York art-noise band Sonic Youth was in Creem magazine as a teenager in the early 1980s. The accompanying photo depicted the scowling musicians posed menacingly around a car with a smashed windscreen while the article singled out singer-bassist Kim Gordon as “the scariest Youth”, noting her “Germanic voice totally devoid of femininity.” Colour me instantly fascinated! Flash forward to 2024 and – long past the dissolution of both her marriage to Sonic Youth co-founder Thurston Moore and the band itself in 2011 – the now 70-year-old Gordon remains the epitome of unassailable, ineffable deadpan cool. On her challenging and confrontational new solo album entitled The Collective, that bleached, alienated voice cited by Creem four decades ago is gloriously intact. I’m still absorbing the songs (I properly listened to it for the first time at the gym on Friday night), but on “Bye Bye” she hauntingly hisses and whispers what sounds like a “to-do” list (“Buy a suitcase, pants to the cleaner / Cigarettes for Keller / Call the vet, call the groomer, call the dog sitter / Milk thistle, calcium, high-rise, boot cut, Advil, black jeans / Blue jeans, cardigan purse, passport, pajamas, silk …”) over juddering, anxious trap beats. And on “I’m a Man”, Gordon – who’s always loved a feminist diatribe – scrutinizes toxic masculinity (“Pass me a black napkin, please / Dropped out of college, don't have a degree / And I can't get a date / It's not my fault … So what if I like the big truck? Giddy up, giddy up!”). In conclusion: Kim Gordon is absolutely slaying right now and it’s a beautiful thing. Pictured: portrait of Gordon by Danielle Neu.

[gacha-incels]

Do you think that there is a possibility of Hypergryph splitting from Yostar for global publishing of Arknights and moving it to Gryphline instead? The traditional Chinese server got moved from Long Chen to Gryphline recently, and the new ambience synesthesia concert merch is on the Gryphline store rather than yostar’s. It may just be wishful thinking as yostar and hypergryph both own large shares of each other, but if there is a planned split from yostar would it potentially be a reason why Hypergryph hasn’t made a statement condemning Yostar Korea’s actions? Is there any precedent for publisher changes for a sort of legal clause preventing them from hurting each others’ image prior to the split being announced?

Gryphline is situated in Singapore, having what I guess you could call a “proxy” company for global business in Singapore is something a lot of companies in China have done for a while, increasingly within the past couple of years, for a multitude of reasons. Last time I checked Mihoyo had “Cognosphere” in Singapore, and when you buy gachabux in that game on servers outside China I believe your bill is from Cognosphere. The slave labor fast fashion site Shein has been operating under the Singapore-registered “Roadget Business” which some have speculated makes it easier to list in the USA. Yostar has HQ in Hong Kong which used to be the proxy location but according to this FT article-“Traditionally, Hong Kong was the choice for many such companies, said Kia Meng Loh, a senior partner at Dentons Rodyk. But with Beijing “flexing its muscles” in the semi-autonomous rival finance hub, Singapore is the obvious next choice, he said.” Hypergryph has multiple games coming out in the near future, I believe a regular (non-gacha) 3D anime mobile game and a 3D Arknights spinoff that will have a weapon gacha, and I think another game that’s TBD? They could be rearranging their internal structure due to this expansion if they’ve switched around their Chinese server already, but I’m unsure if this means they will completely split with Yostar who I believe publishes the US, Japanese and Korean servers.

Admittedly I can’t say I’m super well versed with this type of business and therefore it’s harder to really predict what they will do in the future, but I’ve been watching the situation since AK KR posted that notice to see what happens. I don’t have anything against the game itself, if it comes out that somehow their hands are completely tied in the situation or something I’ll post about that as well but I’m not holding my breath. In terms of my read on the situation, I think a huge message has ready been sent to the fans as to whom the company deems most profitable to listen to, regardless of any future handwringing over the situation. I would think between a woman posting extremely basic feminist thoughts on her personal twitter (equal pay etc) and enjoying the woman’s day google doodle years ago, and the Arknights KR/Yostar employee liking extremely violent fanart on the official twitter account and hanging out on extremist, misogynistic chat boards, that the employee would be seen as more of a problem and should have been the one disciplined. In reality, not only was the woman punished by having her work deleted but the official KR account posted that diatribe calling basic feminism a “dividing force” or whatever. This action and the following statement are absolutely not neutral, especially during a time a which violent misogyny has been increasingly ripping through South Korea as a whole but also gacha games specifically. In terms of PR I do think this is something Hypergryph could address, if HG doesn’t want to rock the boat with Yostar so to speak because of some upcoming split, it seems Yostar has already rocked the boat quite a bit with this action to begin with…

in terms of a main developer punishing the publisher, one example I can think of is Fate/Grand Order’s DelightWorks (after the sakura wars fuckup FGO is developed by “Lasengle” now, but when this happened it was DW) changing an in-game reward that FGO’s Korean publisher Netmarble gave out. In terms of them splitting as well, I’m still looking into it 👍 If anyone knows anything else feel free to reply or send me stuff and I’ll post it, sometimes I feel if I wait too long to reply to messages it comes across as rude lol so I’m not getting lost in like thesis tier research

[elfdragon12]

I find it really frustrating when people say "this Transformers story explains why there are female robots!"

This phrasing marks women as aberrant, unnatural, not the norm, needing an explanation. This phrasing marks men as the default.

These stories that go into gender explanation are almost always written by Simon Furman. Furman hates female Transformers (arguably women in general, considering how he writes even human women). He tries to dress it up as "gendered robots don't make sense!", however, he never puts as much effort into explaining why Transformers identify as male. He knows that they are, for all intents and purposes, boy robots. He's written them with that in mind. He wrote Sludge developing a strong crush on a human woman. He knows. He just doesn't care because he sees men as the default. Why do Transformers identify as male? "They saw the gender binary on Earth, decided to go with it, and all just collectively decided they felt more like males." Why do Transformers identify as female? "Well, a bunch of harpy feminists got mad, so Optimus decided to build a female Transformer to appease them--then they got mad she looked too feminine" or "one scientist decided to bring back the gender binary and force this previously genderless Transformer to undergo gender transition". The disparity between these explanations would be laughable if it wasn't so insulting.

Fans do not need to play into this.

If Transformers wants to explain why these alien robots identify as whatever gender? That's fine. However, I would rather the question be ignored altogether rather than have to read through another Furman-esque anti-women diatribe about why females existing just doesn't make sense.

[kojoty]

Laughing at the "are women bourgeois" line and then turning around and vilify an off-screen woman character who we know nothing about is just.... The same thing as in 2016, writing fully made up diatribes about the woman the scientist from pacific rim is married to being abusive because she got in the way of shipping him and Charlie day, only to then create the "mako mori" test to still feel justifiably feminist. Like do you not see the hypocrisy there

[hadesoftheladies]

if you aren't feminist, you aren't an ally to women, and you are, essentially, anti-woman

right now, in this world, there is no room for neutrality

pick

[talas-first-lady]

So I saw Samantha Bee last night and she was incredible and she had a few bits in her glorious feminist diatribe about her show being unceremoniously canceled and how men get to make all the calls about what entertainment is “successful enough.”

And today is the 1 year anniversary of the CW canceling Batwoman, Legends, Charmed, Naomi, and other things I don’t personally watch but that didn’t deserve that treatment.

I cannot bring myself to start the last seasons of Mrs. Maisel or Working Moms because then that’s just more things that will be over.

I very badly want to watch Rachel Weisz kiss Rachel Weisz but I just don’t have the energy. I’ve considered starting Yellowjackets a million times but I don’t have the energy for that either.

Nothing is fun anymore. I watched the Owl House finale and since then the only thing I have watched is every single fucking season of Project Runway back to back and now I’m mid-season 2 of All Stars.

And there are so many things that matter more than TV shows that I care desperately about but it’s hard to focus on all of the bad shit going on when there’s no breaks to enjoy something fun. To quote my favorite Legend:

“You know, if you make life bleak enough, people become so focused on survival they forget they can revolt.”

Anyone else sick of the blue mush?

[ear-worthy]

"Conspiracy, She Wrote" Podcast Meets "Indecent With Kiki Anderson" Podcast

What happens when podcast hosts guest on another podcast? The answer is, it depends. If the hosts are vibrant, articulate, and ear worthy, then the podcast episode should hum with content excellence. 

And that's what occurred on the August 16th and August 23rd episodes of Indecent with Kiki Anderson. 

Here is the marketing scoop on the show: "Comedian Kiki Andersen finds the funny in the most uncomfortable corners of our culture. Sex. Politics. Religion. But in the digital age, what can and can’t be talked about at the dinner table has changed dramatically. Indecent is a podcast all about what’s off-limits and who sets the boundaries for today’s taboos."

  The podcast began in May 2023. As a comedian, Andersen elevates over other comedians on podcasts because she doesn't try too hard to be funny. Unlike other podcast comedians whose diatribes sound more like a bad "Best Man Toast" at a wedding, Andersen allows her sharp humor to flow freely from the conversation. She's funny, sharp-witted, caustic at times, perceptive, and observant. Shepard and Rogan could learn quite a bit from Kiki Andersen.

 On the August 16th and August 23rd episodes of her podcast, Anderson welcomed feminist historian Cristen Conger, who is no stranger to podcasting. Cristen Conger is the creator and co-host of the Webby Award-winning podcast Unladylike and cofounder of Unladylike Media. Her accidental podcast life began in 2009 as co-creator and co-host of the podcast Stuff Mom Never Told You, now a part of the iHeartMedia network. She's also the co-author of Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy and Claiming Your Space (Ten Speed Press, 2018). Listen to her new podcast Conspiracy She Wrote out now.

For history buffs, the first episode is essentially a history of conspiracy theories with quick stops at the Illuminati, Freemasons, and the role of key women in baking this new conspiracy quiche. 

For fans of comedy, sardonic humor, and caustic comebacks, Conger discovers dark humor in the history of conspiracy theories. Her brand of humor can elicit smirks, chuckles, and even belly laughs.

So what happened when Anderson interviewed Conger?

In the August 16th episode, Anderson and Conger discussed the new podcast Conspiracy She Wrote.

As Anderson says, "Sometimes you need to touch grass and remember that there are no lizard people secretly ruling our world. August 16 Other times, shadowy government agents really are out to get you. And still other times, you're like, and you start to wonder why women are so often left out of the conspiracy conversation."

In the August 23rd episode, Anderson says, "We learned from talking more with feminist conspiracy theory podcaster Cristen Conger, nothing will ever stop us from fantasizing about a darker, more narratively pleasing truth lurking just below the surface."

 Check out the August 16th and August 23rd episodes of Indecent with Kiki Anderson with Cristen Conger, host of the new podcast, Conspiracy She Wrote. 

Dean Haglund, an actor playing one of The Lone Gunmen on the long-running TV show, The X Files, once said: The beauty of any conspiracy theory is that it can't be proved, which makes it even more real."

[yngsuk]

That Child, immured in an innocence seen as continuously under seige, condenses a fantasy of vulnerability to the queerness of queer sexualities precisely insofar as that Child enshrines, in its form as sublimation, the very value for which queerness regularly finds itself condemned: an insistence on sameness that intends to restore an Imaginary past. The Child, that is, marks the fetishistic fixation of heteronormativity: an erotically charged investment in the rigid sameness of identity that is central to the compulsory narrative of reproductive futurism. And so, as the radical right maintains, the battle against queers is a life-and-death struggle for the future of a Child whose ruin is pursued by feminists, queers, and those who support the legal availability of abortion. Indeed, as the Army of God made clear in the bomb-making guide it produced for the assistance of its militantly “pro-life” members, its purpose was wholly congruent with the logic of reproductive futurism: to “disrupt and ultimately destroy Satan’s power to kill our children, God’s children.” Without ceasing to refute the lies that pervade these familiar right-wing diatribes, do we also have the courage to acknowledge, and even to embrace, their correlative truths? Are we willing to be sufficiently oppositional to the structural logic of opposition—oppositional, that is, to the logic by which politics reproduces our social reality—to accept that the figural burden of queerness, the burden that queerness is phobically produced precisely to represent, is that of the force that shatters the fantasy of Imaginary unity, the force that insists on the void (replete, paradoxically, with jouissance) always already lodged within, though barred from, symbolization: the gap or wound of the Real that inhabits the Symbolic’s very core? Not that we are, or ever could be, outside the Symbolic ourselves; but we can, nonetheless, make the choice to accede to our cultural production as figures—within the dominant logic of narrative, within Symbolic reality—for the dismantling of such a logic and thus for the death drive it harbors within.

Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive

[zendyval]

I don't get all these performative "feminist" diatribes against Dylan Mulvaney's awful pop song. Sure the song itself is awful but all this it doesn't represent womanhood and it's about stereotypes of womanhood and blah blah...tell me, do any of you care or post diatribes when women artists also release songs about stereotypes of being a woman? Or do you sing along to Material Girl and Girls just Want to Have Fun or Katy Perry or any number of other songs when they come on? Is it only a problem when a Transwoman does it?

[weedstoner]

haters of the barbie movie fall into two camps: leftist feminists who think it was a milquetoast liberal feminist diatribe and right wingers who are so stupid and so bad at media literacy that they think the barbie movie is woke and anti man. I think both of these takes are kind of stupid