with your face sketched on it twice

twigwise:

asuka-sohryu:

next time you’re feeling like shit

remember the sloths

they don’t do anything ever

and they haven’t gone extinct

you can afford to take a nap

This

Is literally the most uplifting and comforting thing I’ve read all day

(via mythanthropes)

commanderbishoujo:

spicyobsession:

aiffe:

I’ve read a lot of great essays about how fandom is female-majority and creates a female gaze and a safe space for women and etc. But spend five minutes in fandom and you’ll have an unsettling question.

Why does a female-majority, feminist culture hate female characters so much?

It’s not a question of if it happens. You know it does. You can go into any fandom and see it. Some fandoms are worse than others, but it’s always there. Scroll down the Tumblr tag for any show, movie, book, comic, whatever, and you’ll see nothing but love for the men, and a lot of unjustified hate for the women, maybe with a few defenders here and there insisting on their love for the women in the face of all that hate.

To be clear, we’re not talking about female villains. Male villains get just as much hate. It’s fine if you hate Bellatrix Lestrange or Dolores Umbridge, you’re supposed to. (I personally stan for Bella, but I realize that wasn’t the authorial intent.) This is about people hating Hermione, Ginny and Luna, but loving Harry, Ron and Neville. This is about how ambiguous male antiheroes, like Snape, Zuko, or pretty much any male vampire protagonist can get away with walking that fine line between good and evil and not only remain sympathetic, but be even more beloved for how ~tortured~ he is, but when a female character is morally gray that bitch has to die.

So you can’t tell me it’s okay that you hate Sansa because you also hate Joffrey and he’s a dude. They’re not comparable. It isn’t even comparable if you pick a female antihero. Let’s do this apples to apples, here.

We all know that fandom does this. We all know that it’s fucked up and symptomatic of internalized sexism. What’s really fucking weird about it, though, is that the women doing this hating often aren’t ignorant. These are feminists. These are women who can go on meta-analyses of the writing. Some will hide behind pseudo-feminist reasons for their hate—oh, it’s the writing, we just aren’t given strong female characters! (I saw this used for the women of AtLA: Katara, Toph, Azula, et al. This was about when I just backed away slowly because I know a lost cause when I see it.) I’ve seen women who denied being sexist, but couldn’t name a single female character they liked. And it’s always that the female characters aren’t good enough, even when they obviously have a double standard, and they’re measuring women on an impossible scale full of contradictions and no-win binds, while the men are just embraced and loved pretty much for existing.

The reaction nearly every time one of these women is called out is not to say, “Huh, you may have a point, I should examine the way I judge and process women’s actions more closely,” but an insistence of their feminism, followed by a more detailed description of why that particular woman is terrible and she hates her, as if the whole point were not that fandom is already oversaturated with that kind of hate, and as if the person doing the calling out were not already 110% done with that bullshit.

Particularly telling is that male-dominated corners of fandom do not have this problem. They fetishize, they objectify, they ignore. They don’t hate like this.

We know it happens. What I want to know is WHY.

Theories follow below the cut.

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double the hate for WoC characters

triple the hate for black women characters

seriously

as good as this post in places, no examination of female character hate is complete without the intersection of race and how it impacts misogyny

how white privilege plays out vis a vis WOC and the differences in perception this creates in audiences

how in nearly every fandom that has a black female character, that character is almost always the most reviled and hated (see: Jones, Martha)

how white femininity is privileged and femininity is denied to Black WOC

how white feminist narratives about empowerment regarding female characters and what constitutes a Strong Female Character can be oppressive to WOC characters (ie: white feminists bashing WOC for not being “tough” enough or for prioritizing romance in their story arcs)

how WOC characters are held to standards that their white counterparts aren’t  (ie: everything said here about how male characters get a pass for certain actions where women are raked across the coals applies equally to white female characters vs. WOC)

with WOC characters it is not just their femaleness that is the problem and bringing up WOC characters in these kinds of posts without addressing that is not actually helpful

it is all well and good to discuss these things but i don’t have time for these kinds of prescriptivist posts that don’t include race in their analysis and treat “female character hate” as though all female characters are hated equally or even for the same reasons

all female characters are not hated equally, people

and there is a reason for that

and that needs to be part of this conversation or the conversation is bullshit

Yes.

(via raggedyanndy)

iceepr1ncess:

i want to make a tshirt that says “reverse racism and sexism do not exist but the clitoris does and u should focus on that”

(via raggedyanndy)