#women with lenses

[unholy-cvlt]

ALWAYS WAITING FOR THE DEATH

"After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting."

-Chuck Palahniuk.

[patscorner]

THROUGH THE LENSE

Paige's Point of View

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{a collab with @bueckerslover , based on Hit Me Hard And Soft}

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[bywandandsword]

It's interesting how Jonathan keeps equating himself with women, first with the gothic heroines of books, now "sitting at a little oak table where in old times possibly some fair lady sat to pen, with much thought and many blushes, her ill-spelt love-letter" and feeling the first bit of comfort in a while in what he identifies as a woman's room. I know tumblr keeps identifying Jonathan as the book's Damsel in Distress, but it's interesting that Jonathan is consciously identifying himself that way, rather than identifying with any number of the action heroes in books of the time.

I wonder what men in 1897 thought about it, and I wonder if it was a conscious decision on Bram Stoker's part

[ot3]

Its just fucking exhausting that the second the you try to point out the fact that misogyny is still a huge cultural force and you can't understand significant amount of the world's suffering without using feminism as a lens people are gonna call you a terf regardless of what your actual stance on trans women is.

[canichangemyblogname]

I think a lot of you on here wildly misunderstand intersectionality. Because it accounts for the fact that men are not oppressed for being men *and* the fact that man-ness is and has been inaccessible to black, brown, indigenous, disabled, and queer men. Man-ness is narrowly defined to exclude the most, but that does not negate that men are not oppressed for being men. One may, however, be oppressed for not fitting into that narrow definition of manhood.

Intersectionality accounts for the fact that white women are oft second best in a racialized sex-caste system. It accounts for the fact that they, too, oversaw the plantation and garnered wealth on the backs of enslaved men and women. It accounts for the fact that white women were the homemakers of the land they or their people helped steal and the mothers of children meant to supplant the indigenous population of the area. And it accounts for the fact that denying black men and gay men and disabled men access to manhood was a way to also strip them of personhood. Because humans have a gender; animals only have a sex.

It accounts for the fact that M > F is not the sole or predominant dynamic in the world, but is only one dynamic. It accounts for the fact that a woman (often white) can hold all the cards and the sociopolitical power in a relationship (dynamic) when the other half of that dynamic experiences specific marginalizations. It accounts for the fact that blackness and transness affect a man’s relationship with manhood and the sex caste system.

And it accounts for the fact that while men may be oppressed, they are not oppressed *for* being men.

[ruthlesslistener]

Wait, there was a time when the HK fandom thought the Pale King hated his wife? But the game is littered with evidences that they loved each other: one just has to listen to the White Lady talk about him to realize that. Yes, it could be argued that the relationship was strained by the end, but everything was falling apart around that time. It doesn't mean there was never any affection.

Oh it wasn't like, outright thinking that PK hated his wife (apart from one chucklefuck who thought that WL was an abuse victim and was innocent and that Radi was also the victim bc PK was an evil white colonizer man) as much as it was the boomer version of 'I hate my wife lol'. People used to make lots of memes about him cheating on her for Herrah and divorce jokes and overall painting them as the sterotypical white straight couple(tm) with all the associated flaws and such. WL was also typically painted as the motherly sort who was deeply agonized by what PK did to her children and wanted nothing more than to be a mother while PK was tossing babies through the Path of Pain and punting the losers into the Abyss

Which, needless to say, is very much not at all how canon actually is, where WL outright says that she was totally fine with PK's dalliance and its end result, and is also the person who is like 'oh, a vessel? Go replace the other, its flawed' because while she IS actively practicing self-punishment to absolve her guilt over what she did, she was just as compliant as the Pale King in killing her children (who, by the way, literally put himself into a hell of his own making via the White Palace, which is all a dream realm thing that didn't exist til the final fall and not a means to 'test' vessels for purity). WL is colder and more detatched than he was. There's also no mention of a divorce or any idea of when she sequestered herself away in canon, so it's just as likely that she left after PK dragged the White Palace into the Dream Realm as before. She certainly seems to still love him, in the same very distant, detatched way she treats everyone else.

Tdlr: the main brunt of the jokes was mostly fandom woobifying her to be a 'correct' female character rather than the complex, nuanced person she is in canon and then having PK treat her like a modern white man in a sitcom would treat his wife. Which is to say, horribly. Luckily I don't see it as much anymore but it grated on me SO BADLY when I first joined the fandom bc if you popped into the game and talked to WL for more than 2 seconds you'd have realized real quick that canon was the exact opposite of fanon

[keepmovinjunior]

reason number 101 of why i will go feral about meg and hercules being an awesome canon disney ship: the man looks at the woman in this dynamic, for once, and goes 'i can fix her' the MAN ignores the WOMANS red flags this time

[tomboyyyaoi]

o i wanted to make a post that im honestly not smart enough to actually sit down and think out but i like the way meryls trauma doesnt completely woobify her character but does still affect her, it just feels nice to see a female charcater not be completely reduced to a wet soggy mess bc of trauma but also not to (very unrealistically) just Get Over It i think trigun has a nice balance and its refreshing

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Alexandra Daddario

[godlikecunning]

ever seen a take on ancient texts so rancid it makes you want to gouge out your eyes

[likeadevils]

people are mad at taylor for her own actions. she is choosing to hang out with a man who assaulted a women and a women who defended it. both terrible people. taylor swift fans are mad that taylor is doing this. no one is at all blaming her for their actions, just voicing distaste for her own. brittany herself told the people to shut up. she dismissed the assault as him 'trying to find his way'. taylor herself made so many s.a victims feel safe to then turn around and high five the man and celebrate with him. fans have every right to be disappointment in taylor and who she is choosing to surround herself with. taylor is not a victim in this situation and swifties need to learn shes a grown adult responsible for her own actions. what you said about 'making a mans s.a. about 2 women' (no ones doing that btw? its blatantly obvious that its two separate thoughts) and 'holding women accountable for the crimes of men' (again... no ones doing that) is incredibly ignorant, dismissive and simplistic way to view a very serious situation and i hope you realize that eventually.

i’m not trying to dismiss what brittany said— it was disgusting. i’m also not trying to paint taylor as a victim, she’s a grown woman who can make her own choices. what i am saying is the vast majority of the ire i’ve seen is about taylor and britney, which is part of a wider societal trend of raking women over the coals while ignoring men who have done far more harm. brittnay’s words (again, reprehensible) pale in comparison to jackson’s actions, and yet the majority of criticism i’ve seen is directed at her. i don’t want to minimize the harm brittany has done with her words, but i am trying to add an additional layer of nuance and perspective, and that’s how women often take the brunt of societal ire, when the men in their lives are the ones doing the most violence

[blazeball]

at the beginning of that video he's like "alright guys, david lynch has said before that people aren't taking his story at face value. we just need to pay attention to the Actual things the story gives us ok?" and then an hour later he's like "when they said that bob is 'the violence that men do' they meant 'the violence that is on television' obviously and therefore bob isn't a metaphor for sexual violence but actually just mindless television violence. 😊". going to crazy murder this guy

[unwounding]

I told Kai how crazy-making it was to see how often my light-skinned, green-eyed biracial friend was approached and he told me I was being a femcel, and while it is the Obvious Answer it's not the Correct One. You know what the crazy-making part is? The racismmmm.

[theendwhereibegin]

I thought I would share with you another side of myself

I am usually an e-commerce manager and social media specialist, but at my very core, I will always be just an overall creative person.

Besides trying to write I am also a professional photographer, or at least I used to be until Covid made everything stop.

I would love to know what you guys think about some photos I have taken this year so here you go:

As you can see, I am at this point in my black and white photography era.

Hope you enjoy!

[maxellminidisc]

I genuinely think white women in particular are so hung up on "ugliness" being revolutionary instead of realizing ugliness is a construct because despite how some of them do have features that society will attack them as ugly for, they don't want to give thought to how the construct of ugliness effects people outside of them, particularly woc. It's like a lesser example of how they get hung up about misogyny ONLY without putting thought into how misogyny intersects with other forms of opression like racism (which gives us shit like misogynoir), transphobia (which gives us transmisogyn), etc and how they benefit from whiteness.

The goal shouldn't be to "embrace" ugliness, it should be to eradicate the idea that anything and anyone under the yoke of eurocentric beauty standards (these standards being: hairless/little body hair, thinnes, whiteness, etc) were NEVER ugly to begin with. But like its unsurprising to me as a woc that this flies over your heads. And it's such a shame because, given that by eradicating the made up bullshit that is ugliness, even you will benefit from its eradication.

[fayevalcntine]

Tbh so much of that "Louis has white femininity in him" discourse is further compounded by the fact that the entirety of white women y'all pick for him to be compared to are either underdeveloped/defined by one-to-two main traits or you purposefully simplify their behavior in order to fit this particular narrative, then you turn around and complain as to why more people aren't agreeing with you. Also, there's a lot of female characters of color whom he could just as easily be compared to that can also reflect upon the complexity of his character that goes beyond the "beaten down housewife that still sooner chooses her husband than anyone else"