#because they actually do want to look like 'good feminists' who are wholly unaffected by living in a patriarcal society

[zevranunderstander]

idk how to phrase this but like. people retroactively calling Fleabag a privileged, dissociative portrayal of feminism which is Bad, Actually, are lowkey deranged to me because, yeah, Fleabag IS about the expierience of womanhood. but like. through the lens of ONE woman? like, nowhere in the show is it ever implied that fleabag's expieriences are supposed to be universal, relateable core pillars to womanhood?

its almost like half of the population of the world is female and I think it's kind of weird that all stories about women always have to be feminist and activist, and can not just be an exploration of an imperfect woman, they have to be correct about *all* of womanhood?

i also think that the people saying this don't really understand the character of fleabag and i do think that the show is feminist in many ways, but even when no person working on this show would have had any intention of making this a "feminist story", i think that would have been their right to do that?

breaking bad, fight club, american psycho, lolita, etc. all tell the stories of white men who are objectively horrible people. and these stories still treat these characters with a level of empathy and understanding of how they got there and why they are like that. the stories don't excuse their behavior because of that, they are simply a fictional analysis of a person who is not virtuous or good in a lot of ways.

but women, people of color, disabled people, and other minorities are never given the same right to just tell a story about a character, the character has to be virtuous, a good role model, a representation of their whole group, likeable, flawed only in an "unproblematic" way, never make a bad decision, and its insanely limiting in what stories can be told by writers, when they want the approval of the general audience

and i so genuinely want more fleabag women, who may interact with feminism, but who are actual human beings in a real world, who have real flaws and who can be selfish and cruel, but who are still treated with empathy by the story

#myposts #anyways fleabag my beloved #like this 'fleabag is a bad feminist' yeah so? she says that as one of the first lines in the show #like does that make the show bad or what lmao #and like i LOVE the 'we're bad feminists' scene bc #like this woman asks who in the audience would give up time of their lifespan to have an ideal body #and only fleabag and claire raise their hands but genuinely you cannot tell me that no one else in the entire rest of the audience #would want that. like the woman in the front asks for a reason and that reason is that a lot of women would want tha #because they are socialized to be concious about being attractive and desirable and fleabag and claire are being honest #im not saying ALL other women in the audience lied but some probably did. right? #because they actually do want to look like 'good feminists' who are wholly unaffected by living in a patriarcal society #do i make sense? idk