#Casual Sexists

[cptrackham]

Had a thought, which I don't think will be confirmed at all, but I'm enjoying as a headcanon all the same.

I've seen others point out that a batch is five clones, and that the Bad Batch has been confirmed as CT-9901-4.

I like to think that Emerie was CT-9905. Because what would make Clone Force 99 a perfectly well-rounded, self-sufficient squad, AND fits in perfectly Emerie's skill set? A medic.

I like to think she was designed to be Clone Force 99's medic, but for whatever reason, Nala Se made the choice to cast her aside. Really hope we learn more about that soon.

#the bad batch #tbb #emerie karr #again this is almost certainly not the case #but makes for a fun story until we find out her actual backstory #also ties in to classic gendered roles and i hate the kaminoans enough to believe theyd be casually sexist

[brasiliangp]

no bc I was so sure the marcus x lissie rumours were just twitter girlies being creepy and making up things but…..they're actually together???

#I mean hopefully he stops casually dropping sexist comments about women who are into motorsport at every episode of screaming meals now #marcus armstrong #lissie mackintosh

[fluorescentbrains]

for some reason it continues to shock me to my core every time I encounter a j*hnny d*pp stan

#another grad student I don’t really talk to at a party casually mentioned something disparaging about amber heard #the conversation moved on so quickly but if it hadn’t I might have taken it outside #the sheer contempt I felt in that moment #he’s made a couple of sexist remarks before which is why I don’t talk to him. god I hate him so. #d #anyway you ever meet a 6 ft musclebound asshole cracking misogynistic jokes and the chimp inside you is like. I think we can take him #antagonize a man twice your body weight do it now

[i-spilled-my-soup]

i miss the olden days when the greeks didn’t have labels for sexuality they just had affairs and orgies

#waxing poetry in their thirst #yeah this is about riordan #personal opinion time #he just. doesn't do casual representation #its gotta be outright #a whole sentence #dedicated to exposition #for the audience #like the labels are needed to justify something #i think thats it #the labels feel less personally empowering and more like... placating? #and i feel like its so personal for a lot of people #personally i would not tell a stranger the labels i use to identify myself #that's so ... intimate... and to throw it around so lightly makes it seem comedic #and how he has his characters criticize other characters for being sexist or stuck in the gender binary #i. i wish that the setting was one where there was no such terms for inequality #that it existed but the characters and thus the audience were convinced that equality was the status quo and the goal #or that riordan went more intricate with it #putting echoes of social issues in moments of indirect characterization #cause it feels like the more those terms are used the less theyre taken seriously #i feel like moments of inequality could have had responses of 'that's a dick move dude. don't do that' and not providing fodder #for inequality by using it for comedic effect #i just. have distaste for that

[hotsugarbyglassanimals]

recently I saw someone try making a claim like “it says a lot that lesbians as a community were using a flag by a bigot in the past :/“ as if it doesnt say anything that we as a community, immediately got together and voted on the next lesbian flag (the emily gwen design). Then after that the only place you’d find the old flag is through etsy shops that didn’t get the memo (and some still havent switched it out!)

#i also see people say the old flag designer was a t-rf which.. no she wasn’t #she was casually transphobic or at the very -least- cissexist #she WAS outwardly sexist and racist and ableist though lol

[guideaus]

the misogyny in jjk is very unique bc its not like naruto where female characters are immediately pegged as annoying or useless and have to PUNCH to apparently level up in relevance. they arent overly sexualized, harassed, or any other shit in common shounen manga, but he somehow really props them up initially, to where people used to call jjk's female characters "feminist", but gege repeatedly, and at this point very assuredly removes their plot relevance somehow. it truly is so unique. whether its nobara getting kidnapped over and over then direly wounded, yuki (who seemed the MOST competent in potentially combating our main antagonist) suddenly getting killed after being hyped up on a power level as #1, tsumiki getting possessed and killed in a completely unrelated issue, mei mei is an incestual freak that fucked right off, shoko and utahime rarely get the spotlight for some reason, we didnt even know what utahima did until recently, mai getting consumed for some twin shenanigans, the list goes on and on. jjk is feminist until its not

#personal #literally the only ok death was riko bc thats a plot thing #miwa and momo werent relevant #gege's kids died easy #the angel girl almost died. she also got some bs backstory idolizing megumi for some reason #angel and the one that possesed tsumiki also got fucked up for fawning over boys #and gege wanted to mention nobara but did so in a way that made yuuji seem sexist (somehow he sees another girl and thinks of nobara) #scorpion girl also latched onto men #so ig theres also that #jjk is soo crazy. u think theyre powerful then gege casually has them suddenly die

[nerdfighterwhatevernumbers]

I never watched the lily orchard vid on steven universe because i had no reason to, but yesterday i watched a response vid where someone used a lot of clips from the video and I'm pretty sure Lily Orchard just hates women?

#like the way she talked about the creator and the characters and the writing it comes off really sexist #the winner for me was when she said people thinking the big bang theory was misogynistic was a casual misreading #but people thinking rebecca sugar- a jew- was a nazi who hates lesbians was understandable

[pulchritudinous-plants]

also i don’t think willa and charlene ever have a conversation that passes the bechdel test throughout the entire series

like near every time they have a conversation it revolves around the boys. either their romantic relationships with them or in a ‘oh the boys don’t respect us’ kinda way

like ngl ridley can not be trusted with female characters and relationships especially ones involving charlene. like he’s always doing charlene and willa or charlene and amanda dirty just based on the fact that they’re girls and apparently have to always be competing with each other in one way or another

#id have to go back and check tbh but i’d be willing to bet money on it #because i’m rereading six and there’s 130 pages left #and legit every conversation between willa and charlene revolves around the boys #like i always know in the back of my head how casually sexist these books are #and how horribly the female characters are handled #(something that’s not fixed in the rewrites btw just hidden away better) #and then i read them again and it’s just so casual in it’s gender roles and misogyny #‘boys are just like this’ ‘girls are just like this’ willa and charlene’s constant fighting over willa thinking charlene is shallow #like hello willa wouldn’t think that past book one book two at the latest!! #or charlene would just accept that she’s a little self involved like it’s not a bad thing #willa angelo #charlene turner #amanda lockhart #ridley pearson #kingdom keepers

[kainissoable]

Side-eyeing that person who seems to think that Vorador's character flaws are him being polyam and a whore, then implicitly accused him of being heterosexual. Sorry you're insecure, boring and straight, I guess 🙄

#ro's bottomless salt mine #hello this is 2024. we've all agreed for years that vorador was banging everyone kain saw in the mansion #vampires. humans. men. women. probably some of the monsters too tbh. #did you skip the meeting where we agreed we were all going to leave the sexist cisheteronormative bs of the 2000's in its grave? #i am not going to allow the lok fandom bigotry to be necromancied. take your anti-poly dumbassery and go #we nuked the other year's transphobes from orbit and we can do the same to you #or just go play with the anti-choicer and ms “lok is a yaoi sex thing”. preferably in traffic. #point is the wider lok community is no longer open to the casual shittiness it was 10+ years ago

[blog-of-reaction]

My Get Smart ships

Max/99 obviously

Max/Hymie (it’s never stated that he loves Max in more than a platonic way, due to the time Get Smart takes place that would probably be a bad idea, jeopardizing if not both of them than Hymie for sure. I am of the firm opinion that Max/Hymie is canon as much as it can be, it’s just that it’s unrequited love on Hymie’s part.)

Max/Siegfried do I even need to explain why? Just look at them.

Starker/Larabee no reason other than I think it’s funny.

#get smart #fun fact Siegfried’s first name is apparently Conrad #which I didn’t know until I double checked the internet to see if I was spelling his name right #conrad #huh #anyways yeah the only thing that stopped them from becoming a thing was that they are technically sworn enemies #also max is fun and all but 99 could do better #kinda casually rewatching the show and I’m not surprised per say but yeah #it’s even more sexist than I remember #just as racist as I remember though #like oh boy there is some stuff that makes me deeply uncomfortable #asides from that it’s a fun show though #I grew up watching it and it is hilarious (the parts that aren’t sexist or racist) #and the stereotyping and stuff tends to be isolated to a few episodes #like it isn’t everywhere but there are som episodes it might be a good idea to skip #anyways yeah #Don Adams had amazing comiedic timing #and the chemistry with most of the cast wa spretty good #….. #yeah that second part probably could’ve been a separate post but whatever #s watches shows

[liselke]

huge fan of the twelfth doctor because hes like if 3 wasnt made in the late 60s and also was canonically nonbinary

#i guess he is now technically. but you know what i mean #hes like if 3 didnt have that weird casually sexist 60s vibe <3 #but! theyre just so similiar in my mind. old. mean. fashion icons. very alien. stuck on earth for a long bit of time. #the master is there regularly and is kinda silly and fun and theyre very. you know. #this one might be a bit controversial but both jo and bill are children of thoschei divorce. #oh and twelve has clara too which is huge because shes clara. and shes insane and nobody does it like her #um. anyways for some reason im really charmed by 3 hes definitely up there in my favourite doctors list #lis talks #doctor who

[starfiretruther]

I think you have nostalgia glasses on cause half of those Roy Kory moments are the dude being a creep. Girl's trying to have a meaningful conversation and even tells him to stop and dude keeps trying to pick her up. This despite her obviously stating she wants to improve her relationship with Dick. The behavior's still misogynistic your just giving it a pass because its sexist in an old timey kind of way.

I am not looking at it with nostalgia lol i am fully aware that the 80s series is full of misogyny and sexist undertones. Roy’s behaviour is creepy for 90% of the time (i think he even forcefully kisses kory which is ew). NTT is very of it’s time i have no misconception of it being some kind of progressive text compared to other contemporary series. But you also need to understand how an audience of that era would read those scenes and they would read it as Roy being very flirty and straightforward to Kory, being a potential option for her. It adds to the whole soap opera vibe of NTT and builds tension for the dk romance. It’s obviously very inappropriate and Kory makes it clear time and time again that she only wants to be with Dick and only him (there was this time dick was sorta gone or presumed dead and roy immediately swings in and says to kory you can date me i’m just like him but better and kory’s like nice try).

It’s very clearly creep behaviour but a young reader of that time would just read it as Roy meddling in their budding relationship and being a potential romantic rival for Dick. This is like, a classic trope in most romance fiction. Throughout NTT you can see dickkory but especially Kory having to prove constantly that they truly love the other. All of Roy’s propositions were rejected by Kory when she’s with Dick. In fact kory pretty much shoots down all advances towards her when she’s dating Dick, she’s also very annoyed by it all. It’s unfortunate but this is a common trope (happens in shounen animanga to this day) where male characters flirt and go after female characters to signal to the audience how attractive she is. It also reflects the writers own behavior towards women imo. That an attractive woman can’t do anything without others in her vicinity objectifying her. The only reason I added those panels was because it’s got an inkling of flirting going on and as time goes by Kory and Roy become very close and understanding friends. So like, a possibility of romance is there. That does not mean i’m ok with Roy completely sidestepping Kory’s concerns in that scene.

If i had my way Roy’s flirting with Kory wouldn’t be so dismissive of her authority. It feels ooc now that Roy would continue to (jokingly or not) pursue her when she’s made it clear she doesn’t want to (she even blasts him with a starbolt i think one time so yeah he deserves to get his ass beat). But i think it’s just a reflection of the writers own unchecked misogyny and unfortunately most readers from that era would not find much issue with it (at most they’d think Roy’s a jerk friend for trying to get with his buddy’s girl).

#again i’m not excusing how horribly roy behaves towards kory. she has every right to beat him up #but if i’m gonna read a comic from the 1980s i’m gonna find a lot of casual misogyny #feminists have been talking abt how sexist comics are for years. sexist tropes are in almost every media #so trust me i am not watching roy’s creepy behaviour and going omg what a stud 😻 i’m just pointing to an example of those two kinda flirtin #ask

[navree]

What do you think of house Lannister?

In general? I think they're fun, they're neat, they're a bunch of overdramatic bitches but because they don't have dragons and instead just have a shitton of money it's not as dangerous as the Targaryens. It's like them Succession kids, but in Westeros. They're very funny, it's just this family of messy bitches with good genes who decide to make their problems everyone's problems even tho they're not even royalty, they're just That Dramatic that it infects everyone else.

As for specific Lannisters in ASOIAF, my feelings go a bit deeper.

I like Cersei fine, she's fun to read about and her head's fun to be in because she thinks she's so much smarter than she is and that cognitive dissonance can be very entertaining, but I don't necessarily have the strongest or deepest feelings about her, she's pretty much just an entertaining character I enjoy.

Jaime is my son. He is my baby boy. I love him so much I just want to cuddle him up in a blanket and yell at every single person he's ever talked to until they apologize for being mean to him. Like, God his flashback chapters where he thinks on shit he had to go through in Aerys's Kingsguard literally hurts. If he gets a rocks fall death in the books like in the stupid show I'm gonna be so pissed, he is my number one boy (I think he might be a very strong contender for second favorite male ASOIAF character) and I will protect him with my life and love him fiercely. And why second favorite? Because...

Tywin is the best character in this series. He may be the best character in the entire ASOIAF/GOT/HOTD franchise. He's never done anything wrong except for all the evil stuff he did wrong but it's fiction and he ain't on trial so he's the best. I literally love everything about Tywin, I love all his scenes and all of his characterization and the hints we get of the kind of person he is since we're never in his head. I love his intelligence and his mind and I like that he does encompass what it means to be ruthless, to see the bright line in getting from point A to point B and following that line with no deviations no matter what it does for or to other people. I love smart characters, and I especially love smart politicians, so Tywin is basically if crack was an ASOIAF character for me. And I adore his interpersonal relationships. People have talked to death about Tywin's relationship with his kids and I wouldn't add anything new, but his relationship with his siblings needs to be discussed more. That tidbit about him being the only one to stand up for Genna when she was betrothed to House Frey and how angry it made him is literally just *chef's kiss*. And I could write a thesis dissertation on Tywin and Kevan and all the intricate displays of their relationship but for now I'll say this: the final published chapter of ASOIAF being Kevan's POV where when he gets shot with a crossbow his first thought is literally "no, no, this is how my brother died" is fucked up. That's a really fucked up thing to do George. And sue me I'm a sucker for the dynamic Tywin had going on with Joanna. That shit hits hard.

So, here's an unpopular opinion: I do not like Tyrion. I don't mean I don't like him as a character, I love him as a character, his story is interesting and the way he's written is good and he's understandable and I sympathize with him and I acknowledge and respect him as a key player in the series and one of the five Peak Core cast. And honestly, I appreciate his story and I do feel emotions for him and the way he's treated as a disabled man in a society like Westerosi society. But on a personal leve, I do not like Tyrion, for one very simple reason: Tyrion is so completely and unbearably misogynistic that is genuinely difficult for me to spend time in his head. Now I know what you might be thinking, "Amélie he's not the only misogynistic character" and no he's not, but out of the main male characters, he is the most overt and the most physical with it, not only just constantly thinking awful shit about women but also doing things like slapping Shae for talking and strangling her for the crime of him thinking she's someone she wasn't and even though I'm aware that it's for a furtherance of his arc, him raping the sex slave literally makes me hurl. And while I'm equally as aware that he's not the only Lannister POV character to have severely misogynistic takes (ohhhh Cersei and your internalized sexism), I'm more willing to give Cersei some grace because she is a woman and is suffering under a misogynistic society that has hurt her. For all else Tyrion is, he is a man, a highborn man to boot, and he has benefitted extremely from Westeros's misogyny as well as being a perpetrator of it that does not afford him the same leniency from me that Cersei gets as a victim.

And honestly, some of the shit he thinks about Cersei is just......ugh. I'm not a Cersei stan by any stretch, but I do have some genuine issues with some of the stuff he thinks and says re: her. Tyrion is more than allowed to hate Cersei for her horrible treatment of him, even allowed to want her dead, but him constantly going on about how he wants to rape and murder her not for anything she'd done in the past but for thinking he'd murdered Joffrey (which he knows she genuinely thinks is true, the issue is that Tywin knew it wasn't but was gonna use it to get rid of him anyway) is exhausting. It is genuinely taxing for me to read about how frequently he wants to be gruesomely sexually violent towards a woman not for any wrong she actually did him, and she's done a lot, but for her own erroneous belief that he knows is genuine on her part. Again, I get where he's coming from, I really do, I understand why it's being written and I understand how someone can get to that point, especially after all Tyrion's been through, and I'm not heartless as I said before and there are feelings I have about him, but idk, maybe it's Being A Woman and that the kind of misogyny Tyrion constantly exhibits is a kind that still very much exists today in the modern world, but it's a hurdle I can't get over when it comes to him.

(and also it's a nitpick cuz i know there's no way he could have known about it but it still rubs me the wrong way when i reread the series and he has his thing about how he liked robert when cersei hated him when i know that the reason cersei hated him was because he raped and abused her, it's just a Thing for me)

So yeah, that's the House Lannister take for the most part from me. As House, they're fun and more lighthearted in terms of shit they get up to and very funny, which Cersei tends to encapsulate for me as a character, and I have a lottttt of feelings, just very different ones, re: Tywin and Jaime, and Tyrion is...Well, it's fiction and it's not my job to like every single character, even popular ones.

#personal #answered #anonymous #yeah the tyrion thing is just......he ain't it for me #there's a scene i thiiiiink in either acok or asos where he just smacks shae out of the blue #and he's like 'you can't talk to me that way' and he gets surprised when she's upset #it's a bit of a strong word but there's a casually sexist brutality in him that is really hard to read #i KNOW he's at the dark part of his arc he's at the bottom right now i understand that #and i see the merit in it from a storytelling perspective #but sometimes there are characters i don't gel with for a variety of reasons #and this is the reason i don't gel with tyrion #i do still read his chapters tho they're some of my faves

[knittinglizards]

should have expected this given that It's 90s Television but the handful of scenes near the end of the first season + their mission together in the homecoming arc convincing me of/endearing me to kiradax and then seeing them have like two short interactions throughout the next TEN episodes is a little bit frustrating

#p #ds9 #fallen for one of the classic blunders (forgot about this era's style of casually sexist writing)

[thaliasthunder]

riordanverse's aphrodite should have been bisexual

#i mean it makes totally sense #hum????? goddess of??????? LOVE??????????? #imagine her casually flirting w women around there???? #it doesnt even have sense she's not bi in the MYTHS #i mean i know myths are a mirror of the society's beliefs that creates them #and ancient greece was hella sexist and it has sense that aphrodite goes around killing women for that misogynist jealousy thing and stuff #BUT STILL??????? GODDESS OF ?????¿¿ LOVE???????¿¿¿¿¿¿ #idc #i will push my bi!aphrodite agenda on all of u #aphrodite #(and imagine piper being teased by her mum about her little crushes huh??) #lovely #greek mythology #rick riordan #riordanverse #pjo #hoo #pjo/hoo #toa

[mountain-in-springtime]

i’m so tired of men

#my sister’s husband is more casually sexist than i realized and i’m not fucking having it #i don’t like him as much as i thought i did #mal thoughts