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#female villain supremacy
punkeropercyjackson · 1 month
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Children's media can absolutely and does radicalize kids when written correctly,it's just that shitty bigoted adults in fandoms deliberately misenterpret their messages and trick them into believing they're canon and that's how we got here.Bleach had Ichigo be a goth punk dude who's a fantastic older brother and choose his female love interest because she's his best friend and he finds her weirdgirlness to be enchanting which is good rep for us because being punk is about nonconformity and so is the fact that he never joined the military system his species was largely a part of because he didn't give two shits about them but over half the fandom is convinced the mangaka is a 'sellout' and 'pandering' for not making him essentially a paranormal cop for the sake of pairing him up with the fem mc that he has a familial and queerplatonic relathionship with as confirmed by the aformentioned mangaka
Pjo had Percy hate the gods as much as Luke does and act on it too but directly TO them instead of grooming younger halfbloods to work for him as soldiers and in fact he basically adopted every one of them he came across as his siblings and pseudo-kids and this is explicitly framed as why he's a hero and Luke's evil but you see nonstop erasure of his anti-corruption and anti-authority mentality and direct action despite being his core character traits to make him more palpable as an 'average fantasy protagonist' when the point of him is that he's not normal in any way
The Owl House had 3/5 of it's mcs be poc with the two white ones being an autistic and ocd lesbian and the other a disabled boy with zero conventionally physical traits that're never made out to be ugly and the protag is an inmigrant afrolatina girl while the big villain is a puritan colonizer and every single ship on the show is queer including the m/f one and the token white boy has almost all the important characters to his arc being black and the only one who isn't is a fat asian girl who's also disabled but the HUGE amount of positive rep in the show is deliberately taken out of context for bad faith critisism by a bunch of 20/30/even 40 year olds who've never written actual good stories themselves and this includes them adoring and gushing over the colonizer guy while dismissing the poc and women in the cast as irrelevant
Across the Spiderverse had an EXTREMELY black in every way character literally named SpiderPUNK who makes his beliefs clear in every single one of his lines and isn't all talk for a single second but he's reduced down to 'annoying edgy older brother figure' and made to listen to Taylor Swift and go to Hot Topic and called 'obviously a skater boy' and every other poser punk trope in the books
Atla had Aang and Katara be a gnc boy of a lesser known type of asian race and Katara a brownskin native girl that reclaims femininity for herself with their character drives being to save the world with Zuko's arc hammering it in again and again that while he always had good in him,he WAS evil,he DOES have a lot of bad traits and that made him do a lot of bad things and THAT'S why he needed a redemption arc to be a hero but Aang gets called racist for following the buddhist belief that in-universe he was sole remaining follower of that killing humans is bad,Katara gets adultified and stripped of her actual personality to make her just 'hashtag relatable teen gurl' and Zuko gets infantalized and upholded as the least problematic character in the whole show
And my last and not quite like the rest example is Harry Potter,including the spinoffs and fanon.Everything in it is neoliberal bs and the fandom just made it worse-Oh,the house that's a metaphor for fascism and white supremacy legacies?They're just misunderstood little babies and every minority-coded🥺The lower class family who canonically were Jkr's best attempt at good people that still flopped?Awful homophobic bastards😡All the female characters?Perfect slay 'You can't sit with us' girlboss,precious little baby angel who can't tie her shoes without her reverse harem's help or manipulative self-obsessed hyperfemme pick me,those are the only three categories they can ever fall in.Marauder's Era not only existing but being very,VERY popular is nothing but whiteness-What is there for you to be attached to there exactly?With the canon cast i can least see why you'd have nostalgia but M Era is literally nothing.You just CHOOSE to pick a franchise that's violently bigoted towards basically everyone and who's creator actively influences and helps caused that hurt irl oppressed groups instead of making ocs since you're already building them from scratch anyway
It's not the fault of actual good creators and especially not kids in fandom that grown ass bootlickers couldn't accept that their precious 'escapist comfort media' isn't apolitical at all instead of absorving it's messages like they should have since they have no care for other people despite insisting how kind and unproblematic they are
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aurorawest · 7 months
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers - 3.75/5 stars
I hate myself a little bit for using this word to describe this book, but it's a meditation on modern (western) culture, the drumbeat of living a purposeful life, and, imo, the millennial condition.
It also, separately from that, made me think of the song 'New Constellations' by Ryn Weaver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13EX7qGdUGI
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen by KJ Charles - 5/5 stars
This book features Gareth Inglis, a member of the gentry whose father shipped him off to his uncle when his mother died. Gareth never saw or heard from his father (who remarried and had another child) again, and no one knew he existed because his father was a piece of human garbage. Which meant I couldn't stop thinking about my former father-in-law, who had two sons from his first marriage whom he, as far as I could tell, never had any contact with after remarrying and having another child. Life imitates art?
Anyway, it's KJ Charles, so you pretty much can't go wrong. I saw someone refer to this as enemies-to-lovers and realized my toxic trait is railing against people who want to apply enemies-to-lovers to everything. Spoiler alert, this is not enemies-to-lovers. But it is lovely, and includes Gareth and Joss Doomsday (a smuggler) bonding over beetles.
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi by SA Chakraborty - 4.5/5 stars
It was no Daevabad Trilogy, but then again, I remember finishing City of Brass and being like, yeah, it was fine, I'll probably pick up the sequel at some point. It wasn't until Kingdom of Copper that I grew to really love the series, so I'm hoping the same happens with this. This book was a lot of fun, and the fact that all the characters were middle-aged was pretty delightful. I'm definitely excited to see where this series goes.
The Long Run by James Acker - 5/5 stars
Excellent YA book about two lonely jocks in New Jersey.
Feel the Fire by Annabeth Albert - 3.75/5 stars
His Accidental Cowboy by AM Arthur - 4/5 stars
Brida by Paul Coelho - 1/5 stars
One of the reviews for this book on Storygraph says it 'aged like milk' and I can't put it better than that. This is a soul mate AU where souls undergo cell division, essentially, and your soul mate is from your same base soul from before the soul split in half. Okay, great. Oh but wait, the soul always divides into male and female. And your soul mate is always someone of the opposite sex, even though that doesn't make sense because as souls divide again and again, that means there are a lot of people out there who came from the same original soul as you. Also, witchcraft? Also also, even though the book is called Brida and is ostensibly about the title character, her whole journey was really just to serve the unnamed male character, the Magus. This isn't implicit either, it's completely explicit. At the end it's like, 'sometimes young women come along to show men the way' (I'm paraphrasing but...not much).
This went straight to my give away pile, and I hated it so much that the rest of my Coelho books joined it (except The Alchemist).
Enlightened by Joanna Chambers - 5/5 stars
Or, For The Love Of God Please Give David Lauriston And Murdo Balfour A Break, And Preferably A Happy Ending.
They got one, btw.
Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amélie Wen Zhao - DNF
Honestly, the Mad Libs YA title should have warned me off of this one, but I always give my Illumicrate books a try. Cartoonish villains and protagonists I find myself liking less the more we get to know them. The prose is quite good but not enough to make up for the character deficiencies.
Solomon's Crown by Natasha Siegel - 5/5 stars
Blurbed by no less than Tamora Pierce (Song of the Lioness supremacy!), Rainbow Rowell, Freya Marske, and CS Pacat. Did I go into this book with insanely high expectations? Yes. Did it mostly meet them? Yes! If you're a Captive Prince fan, this one's for you.
Siegel tells us up front, before the book even starts, that it's a romance and not historically accurate. So don't go into this expecting a historically accurate love story between King Richard of England and King Philip of France. It is, however, a gorgeous romance. The world-building is top notch. Even if it's not totally accurate to the High Middle Ages, it feels accurate, if that makes sense? Siegel really captures the feeling of being in a different world. Lush writing, amazing sexual/romantic tension, lovely sad boys. Highly, highly recommend.
Daniel Cabot Puts Down Roots by Cat Sebastian - 4.75/5 stars
I docked .25 stars because it bugged me that they didn't move in together at the end. Idk, just felt too 'look, I'm subverting romance conventions!' Still good, obviously.
Like Real People Do by EL Massey - 4/5 stars
A very wholesome and low stakes hockey romance. I found myself often thinking that the interactions of the men on the hockey teams seemed unrealistic, but it was charming and sweet enough that I didn't care.
The book reads like fanfiction, which is because it was fanfiction—but it's in a mostly good way, not a bad way (*cough* All The Way Happy *cough*). Apparently the original version was Check, Please! fanfiction, which I am vaguely familiar with as a thing that exists. Apparently it's a web comic? Anyway, I enjoyed the book enough to pick up the sequel.
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street-corn · 2 months
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January 29th, 2024 marks the 28th anniversary of the Star Trek Voyager episode "Threshold." This episode is often heralded as one of the worst episodes of Star Trek ever made and I've previously made the observation that everyone seems to dislike the episode for entirely novel reasons. While it's easy to predict that someone will dislike the episode, I find that the exact reason why can only be found by asking. Is it how it ruins established cannon? Is it the bad scientific understanding of how evolution works? Is it plot related as the crew avoids using an easy way home? Is it the poor parenting? Is it dialog and writing? Is it the lizard sex? There's usually a mix of reasons that I suspect one could use as the basis of Some Kind Of MBTI quiz.
However, rather than reveling in the episode itself, I want to address a bigger issue of how Star Trek fandom approaches its "worst ever episodes" lists that are a mere Bing search away. Too often I see episodes like Move Along Home (aka Allamaraine!) and Threshold at the top of "worst ever episodes" lists and I think its lazy or disingenuous to let these episodes dominate the conversation. Sure, the episodes are cheesy or campy, but they distract from the genuinely terrible episodes. The episodes that celebrate human rights violations, the episodes that propagate white supremacy, the episodes that teach the audience the wrong lesson, or the episodes that can cause physical discomfort to the audience. I would like to shine a light on a few of these episodes so we can properly discuss what it means to be a bad episode of Star Trek.
Tattoo Tattoo is an absolutely rotten episode. It's drizzled with misinformation and misconceptions about indigenous Americans. It states that indigenous people didn't have language, fire, and barely had any stone tool use (and implies they were too stupid to not migrate away from the cold.) So aliens, depicted as tall and strong, with blonde hair and blue eyes, taught them the basics of human civilization because there was no way this particular group of humans could figure it out on their own.
The Fight This episode is painful to watch. It's all of the worst parts about the Prophets of DS9 but without any allegory. It ruins cannon by making Boothby the Most Important Human To Ever Live. The episode, while late into the production of Voyager, continues the vision quest aspect of Chakotay, which ties it back to Tattoo. While not as offensive as other entries, it is worth putting on a list of actual bad episodes.
Cogenitor The NX-1 Enterprise meets some aliens with three genders. 98% of them are male and female but they also require a third gender to procreate, called the cogenitor. The cogenitors are kept as second class citizens. Their lives are owned by the state and their bodies are traded around to married couples that want to have children. They cannot own property, cannot vote, cannot socialize, are forbidden to become educated or literate, and are forced to wear gray drab clothing. Trip Tucker sees this and thinks its wrong. He teaches a cogenitor how to read. Unfortunately, the cogenitor uses this new skill to learn how oppressed their life is and how they are trapped in a system that cannot change, so they end their own life. Trip Tucker is treated as the villain of this episode. Gross.
Skin of Evil and Tears of the Prophets I'm bundling these episodes together because of their poor treatment of women and actresses behind the scenes. From a plot and writing perspective they do not treat their characters well. They can be summed up as "WTF moments." Behind the scenes it's extra terrible. From writing this I found out something fun and new…
Retrospect This is the episode where Tom Paris is convicted of murder and has to relive the memories of the murder over and over again. Behind the scenes, a certain producer was trying to spin that "women lie and never believe them about sexual assault allegations" while contract negotiations with Terry Farrel were going on. The plot is interesting, but the lessons the episode is trying to teach are wrong.
There are many other well known episodes that involve obvious racism and mistreatment of women, and I think they should make up the entirety of Star Trek's worst episode lists. But bundling campy and cheesy episodes like "Let He Who Is Without Sin…", "Sub Rosa", "The Way To Eden", and "Threshold" with the likes of "Code Of Honor" and "Turnabout Intruder" really confuses what it means to be a truly, awful, no good episode of television.
Anyways, let's watch some salamanders eat pepperoni pizza.
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aka-lambda · 8 months
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I have this first design of one of the antagonists of my jjk oc lore.
This design is the first of four designs. This one represents her in the flashback arc about Toji's past.
MENTION OF SOME DARK THEMES: please consider that this OC is a villain and the creator doesen't necessarily agree with her actions.
Biographical informations
Name: Junko Zen'in
From Japanese 順 (jun) meaning "obedience" or 純 (jun) meaning "pure" combined with 子 (ko) meaning "child". Other combinations of kanji characters are also possible.
Personal description
Species: Human
Birthday: 21 March
Age: 67(2018)
Gender: Female
Height: 168 cm
Weight:???
Hair color: black
Eye color: hazel
Professional status
Status: deceased
Relatives: unknown mother
                  Unknown father
                  Naobito Zen'in (husband)
                  Unnamed sons
                   Naoki Zen'in (son)
                   Naoya Zen'in (youngest son)
Occupation: wife of the head of Zen'in clan
 
Affiliations: Zen'in clan
Cursed technique: drain
Hobby: smoking the kiseru
Favorite food: shio Ramen (it is the oldest variation of Ramen with a lot of salt  with chicken, vegetables,  fish or marine seaweed)
Least favorite food: none
Stress source: Toji Fushiguro
Life is a gift for us but the worst of the condemn for others, too bad you were just unlucky,  but you must admit that you have lost .
-Junko to Ogi Zen'in
Personality:
Junko appears incredibly calm and composed in her manners, she barely does hand gestures while speaking often maintaining a soft smile and a soft voice.
Even if someone could have the impression of her flirting with them Junko can stay distant and strict even with her soft facial expressions and relaxing tone of voice.
Especially when she was younger she knew to be a beautiful woman and wanted to express it always caring about her physical appearance given also from the fact that she was raised in a noble family.
She is so good at looking self confident, Junko looks incredibly secure of her ideas and thoughts considering also  her social status and the fact that she was the wife of the head of the clan. She seems to be caring but actually she shows no empathy for the other clan members, especially Ogi Zen'in and Toji Fushiguro while she acted as an highly manipulative woman towards Jin'ichi Zen'in and her own sons not seeing them actually as humans but only caring about their own strength, techniques and purposes.
Naoya was her favorite among her sons and she made him to believe that he could do everything he wanted in his life, even justifying his orribile behaviors, she wanted him to become the head of the clan and felt betrayed when Naobito gave to Megumi the title. But despite her condescending manners towards Naoya and the other sons she barely showed genuine affection to them having to raise them all almost the same time.
Junko has strong and controversial ideas thinking about the supremacy of cursed techniques and the desire to arrive to stronger techniques. That's why she brutally gaslight Ogi and his wife for having daughters "not strong enough". She is completely obsessed by strength given by the cursed energy and she is scared by everything that goes in a different way like the people affected by the heavenly restriction: she is horrified by Toji because, for her, he is the "black sheep" and the "different one" and even if she looks so self confident she is highly insecure and scared from what she doesen't know and tries to find a scapegoat like Toji or Maki.
Being a  woman doesen't mean not being misogynistic: Junko shows a lot of interiorized misogyny especially towards Hanako,  she always tells her to shut up in presence of the other family members especially if men and to have a better language in front of them, trying to teach her how a woman should  behave. She has similar behavior to Mariko and Mai.
Rarely Junko has a physically violent side that tries to hide but it was showed with the death of Naoya: Junko brutally kicked the corpse of Maki's mother after discovering that she killed her son, revealing her unhinged disorder hidden too much.
Role in the story
Probably born in a side family or a distant relative of the Zen'in family (they can pratice inbreeding sadly) Junko knew from the start that she would have been the wife of an important member of the Zen'in clan. Even  with her destiny already decided by others she managed to find the advantages of marrying Naobito: he would guarantee a life in luxury and she didn't mind giving him some sons and daughters.
After not much time from the marriage Junko had the first sons, Yutaka was the can leader and she was scared that he could pass the title to Ogi and not her husband.
Fortunately for her the first son and daughter of Ogi born dead while the sons of Junko had a good health even if for now none of them inherited the projection sorcery.
Junko considered poisoning Ogi as an option but he was weaker than Naobito that maybe would have become the head of the clan, instead of that she started to poison Yutaka slowly killing him that was obliged early to give to Naobito the title since his sons Toji and Jin'ichi weren't enough to become leaders. Junko discovered that also Ogi poisoned Yutaka at the same time contributing to kill him and trying to do the same with Naobito but being discovered by her.
The final victory was hers and when Maki and Mai were born she found another reason to bother Ogi and his wife.
Before that when she was pregnant of her latest sons she got close to Jin'ichi taking advantage to the absence of Yutaka as a father, making him to see her as a mother and slowly manipulating him with the purpose of putting him against Toji, she was horrified by Toji and wanted to throw him out of the family. Jin'ichi became incredibly envious of his younger brother even despising him for not having a technique.
That time young Jin'ichi had a future wife: Mariko, Junko convinced him that she was cheating on him with a member of the clan Kamo and pushed him to kill Mariko and to give all the fault to Toji, she also managed to provide to false proofs for it.
In 2007-08 Junko was one of the first Zen'in clan members that wanted Hanako to marry her last son Naoya. Even with this she was cruel with her also imposing her "feminine" clothes and manners. She was killed by Hanako's fans  ten years later after trying to escape with Naoki and brutally kicking the corpse of Maki's mother after she discovered that she killed her favorite son(she came to visit the rest of clan discovering that they were all killed). She didn't oppose any resistance to Hanako.
Cursed technique
Drain: Junko's cursed technique allows her to suck up the cursed energy and vital strength from the opponent but only if they are wounded. After that she is obliged to pass the cursed energy and vital strength stolen to another person touching them. If she doesen't pass the cursed energy to others there will be bad consequences for her body. She can suck up the vital strength even from injured animals and the cursed energy from injured curses, she can also take the cursed energy present in an area.
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gummy-sharks666 · 2 months
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Uh I like Bakugan Hcs!
How about Spectra, Mira, Alice and Hydron?
So I did actually answer for Mira awhile back in this post:
But now for the other 3….
Spectra:
Gender: flamboyant man for sure 💅💅💅
Sexuality: oh he gay. Gay as hell
A ship I have: this is SO basic but I LOVE GUS/SPECTRA 🫣🫣🫣 they’re like Steven/Wallace from Pokémon to me. Thank you spinmaster for feeding the gays one time. Glad they made it out of S2 alive and together. Good for them.
BROTP: honestly,, either Gus or Dan. Dan especially after Spectra comes around to his side
NOTP: uhhh idk… I feel like him with Hydron or Lync would just be like oil and water. Their cattiness would not let them mix well. The girls are fightingggg
Random hc: Transmasc spectra supremacy
General opinion: him being so obnoxiously dramatic and fruity and him trying to be brooding but just turning out to be pathetic are all what makes me like him as a character tbh. A lot of ppl hate him bc of it but I just love it lmfao
Alice:
Gender: (Chucky voice) GENDAFLOOID
Sexuality: tbh I’m kind of a lesbian Alice truther although I do like the spectralice ship a lot 🫣 either lesbian or pan
A ship I have: Runo/Alice is top tier. Once again I’m also a fan of SpectrAlice
BROTP: Lync, Julie and Runo
NOTP: Lync lmfao I’m sorry,,, they would be friends tho
Random hc: she, Runo and Julie all keep up with each other in a group chat or discord or something and they def have regular reunions ;-;
General opinion: I LOVE ALICE SO MUCH SHE DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER 😭😭
Hydron:
Gender: I am a transmasc femboy hydron truther
Sexuality: GAY obvs
A ship I have: not rlly a ship but I KNOW he be crushing on Volt I just know it!!
BROTP: I can’t see him having many friends, which is actually a good thing for his character I feel. He’s a self absorbed monarch with deep rooted daddy issues so ofc he’s probably not going to have many close friends. I like that ab him. Makes him a good villain and later morally gray character
NOTP: p much any female character ??? And lync. Once again, Lync and Hydron would be SO petty to each other omfg …
Random hc: he scams men online. Get that bag bby (trust me, all twinks with daddy issues been there)
General opinion: kind of already stated this but I think he makes for a good villain/evil monarch character. He’s a prissy little shit w daddy issues (/pos) and it makes for a very interesting character.
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uzumaki-rebellion · 1 year
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Now that I’ve seen the move...
I’m reading so many hot takes on Twitter regarding Talokan fighting with Wakanda. The worst are people saying Shuri isn’t good enough to be BP because she doesn’t have the skills... completely forgetting she made all the suits/tech, fought alongside the soldiers and her brother, and guided a shitty CIA op to help them in the middle of fighting during the last move. Fuck outta here. Shuri held her own. That mantle belonged to her.
Spoilers ahead...
The other take I found funny (and ignorant to the reality of the WF worldbuilding) was folks mad that Wakandans were getting their ass beat by Namor’s people. #1 Namor told them people he had more Talokanil than Wakanda had blades of grass, and #2, imagine an entire nation filled with the properties of the heart-shaped herb in their DNA. Every Talokanil has the strength and healing powers of the BP, and only the BP is blessed with that compared to regular Wakandans. So unless Shuri is going to mass produce 3D printed herb for everyone in her nation, the Wakandans were going to get washed fighting Namor and ‘nem.
For my own two cents, I ain’t mad at Namor for doing what he said he was going to do to protect his people. This man saw first hand how colonizers act. Witnessed the brutal changes in real time for 500 years. He is not going to fuck around with Wakandans who have lived secure in a bubble all their lives. The climate, oceans, and marine life are already suffering due to colonizers neglectful/selfish behavior, so of course he’s going to come hard to keep his people hidden and keep white folks from getting his vibranium deposit. He held out an olive branch with centuries of experience backing him as a ruler of his people. Ramonda messed up by not heeding his warning. She of all people already knew how these white folks were acting with her (that whole UN scene showed the treachery of the French and their American ally--The CIA). For her to not recognize a powerful ally to keep her own people safe too was a political and tactical error on her part. You got through a technologically advanced nation’s security system? Bay-bee, we about to sit down and talk in a diplomatic way first.
Namor had every right to clap back even if that meant taking out Wakanda first, (Ramonda included). Sucks for Wakanda and Shuri, but again, this is a man who has lived through the worst of white nonsense (unlike Wakanda whose only bad thing ever experienced was T’Chaka being killed). He knows where it will lead if they are discovered again because history backs him up. An old head is not about to have a repeat of these bitches coming for their people and resources once more. Shuri recognized that when she asked to go to Talokan (she wasn’t kidnapped, RiRi was.) Namor heard her talking to her mother before, that’s why he was willing to allow her into Talokan... the only surface dweller to ever go there.  
Now I’m not a fan of fridging characters to motivate other characters to act on something or grow their arc (especially if the character is male and the fridged is female--an old tired trope), but I decided to let Ryan Coogler tell the story he wanted to tell because of all the stuff he went through with the cast to get this film made. I hope people don’t lose track that White supremacy/White Imperialism/Capitalist bullshit is the root cause of everything in that movie. Ross and his people being the main villains. (Ross will stay on the hook because he knows what the CIA is all about and he perpetuates their violence with a milqtueoast appearance making people think he is a cute/nice ally. He isn’t. He represents the White Supremacist machine fully. Any dude once married to Val is just like her. Some of the most racist people (co-workers) I have ever met were nice, helpful, and pleasant-looking, but did horrendous non-violent things to perpetuate white supremacy when no one was looking.
People can go back and forth all they want about whether Ramonda sacrificed herself, or Namor killed her. I mean, both things can be true. He caused the water sinkhole she jumped into to save RiRi where she drowned. We can also argue that Nakia didn’t have to kill those two women in Talokan even though she was there to save two other women, but she did what she needed to do in that moment to protect a loved one. Again, white supremacy and the white military industrial complex started all this shit. They used a Black girl genius’s invention in the hopes of extracting a resource they would use to exploit Black and Brown folks globally. Namor came back to tap that ass. I can’t be mad at him too much. War sucks for everyone. He said what he said. Ramonda dismissed it.
Of course, my thoughts are based on a one time viewing of the film. I saw the first one 7 times (might’ve been 8, lol!), so I may have to do more viewings later as things I missed the first time will come to my attention. Heck, I may change my mind on some things later. For now, whew...the takes are all over the place regarding Shuri.
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harleiquina · 9 months
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All TV series I've ever seen.
@thefirsthogokage 's search for new show to binge inspired me to list all TV shows I've seen so far. Of course I might add some along the way because I won't remember everything in one sitting.
Considering that it's going to be a lot... I might as well divide them in
1940 -1970 (this post)
1980 - 2000
2010 - Now.
Let us begin.
1944 - The Black Whip (serial)
For youngsters, a serial was like a TV show that our grandparents (maybe even great-grandparents) watched on the cinema. Sometimes all episodes (around 15 min each) would be edited together and played as a movie.
It was an experimental take of the character known as Zorro (born in pulp fiction) transported to USA's Wild West where two siblings have a newspaper but the brother is also "The Black Whip" a vigilante that keeps the peace in their town... until he's killed so his sister takes over his mantle (without anyone noticing). Fun fact: George J. Lewis later played Guy Williams's Zorro's father: Don Alejandro de la Vega.
Overall entertaining. The cliffhangers are kind of over done (keep in mind maybe back then they had to wait 1 week or more to see the next episode) and the escapes are sometimes kinda ridiculous but well... it's fun anyway. I saw it on Youtube.
1957 - Zorro (Disney)
You are not argentinean if you didn't grow up watching Zorro at noon while having lunch (or run from school to catch it before it ended). It is still being broadcasted today (in 2023) believe it or not!
Follow the adventures of Diego de la Vega, a señorito (very delicated gentleman) that during the nights turns into El Zorro, a vigilante that rights injustices and saves the people of Los Angeles.
LOVE IT. Guy Williams is Zorro, no-one will ever be better than him. It's fun for the whole family (and do not be fooled by the time it was made, the female characters are well written and very progressive for the time being). Saw it on TV over and over and over again and never got tired of it.
1959 - The Three Stooges (year they began to be televised)
How could I forget about my childhood heroes?
My first contact with slapstick comedy and absurdities galore.
In this house we believe in Moe, Larry, Curly & Shemp supremacy!!
1961 - Mr. Ed.
Ever wondered how it would be to live with a talking horse? Well, now you'll know.
Fun for all family, catchy title song... you can see it probably in lots of places because it's a classic (but for me it was on a bootleg DVD pack)
1964 - The Addams Family
We all know and grew up with The Addams Family movies in the 90's but this is the original live-action (with Gorey's insight). The family canon is different: Mom is Gomez's mother, Fester is Morticia's uncle and my favourite (yet always forgotten in the new media) is Ophelia, Morticia's twin sister -who was supposed to marry Gomez in first place-.
To be fair I saw it a couple of years ago so I don't remember too much, but its all-family-fun and if you are a spooky-inclined person (such as me) you'll end up wanting to own a house like theirs (and maybe some of their creatures as well). I saw it on bootleg DVDs, shhh... don't tell anyone.
1965 - Get Smart
Another argentinean staple (not as strong as Zorro, though) was this spy-comedy born out of mocking James Bond with gadgets and all. "Smart, Maxwell Smart. Agent 86" carved himself a space in our hearts with Agent 99, the Chief, agent K-9, Jaime and the equitative incompetent villain Siegfried.
Super fun with all the weird and borderline ridiculous inventions and plots. It sort of loses its momentum in the final seasons (when Max and the 99 get married and have twins) but there are still moments of greatness. I have all the DVDs, original ones this time.
1967 - Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
In Argentina we use the expression "wooden actor/actress" a lot... but in this case it's probably right because they are all puppets (unless they do a close up of their hands, then they are human 😱).
Follow this colour-coded crew of space travellers and their adventures. I don't fully remember if it was a concept or if it actually happens in the show but maybe Captain Scarlet doesn't make it to the end of the day. Very early Aeon Flux from his part. Be like me buying a bootleg DVD collection or you can probably find it on Youtube.
1971 - The Persuaders!
Who on this Earth hates either Roger Moore or Tony Curtis? I'm ready to throw hands!
Two millonaires (with lots of monetary issues aparently) have to work together for a Judge solving different crimes (identity theft, kidnappings, robberies, etc). It is never quite explained why both of them are the right ones to do the job but no-one cares because you'll end up loving Lord Brett Sinclair (Moore) and his love-hate relationship with Danny Wilde (Curtis) plagued with sarcasm but, eventually, true friendship.
I'm a Danny Wilde kinda girl (and I would like to have like half of his jackets, they are awesome) but Moore is also lovable. Yes, most of the cases have a beautiful girl that ends up with any of them... yes, some things are a little too convenient... but it is a show to have a good time. Don't think too hard about it. I've watched it on bootleg DVD but it is also on Youtube.
1973 - El Chavo del 8 & El Chapulín Colorado (The Kid from the 8th and The Red Cricket)
Both shows were aired pretty much at the same time and starred by the same cast the first one tells the story of a orphan kid that lives in a vicinity with very colourful characters.
The second one is the Mexican Superhero by excellence.
Chespirito (a wordplay for the Spanish "Little Shakespeare" -Shakespeare chiquito-) AKA Roberto Gomez Bolaños -author and lead in both shows- even said that his superheroe was better than the ones from Marvel or DC because he didn't needed muscles... he just wanted to do good and had big heart.
1976 - Charlie's Angels
I really don't understand why is it so hard for the movies to get it right. They were private investigators, not super-spies!!
3 girls became cops but were destined to "girl jobs" like secretary, school crossing and making parking tickets... but were recruited by the misterious Charlie that knows that they are capable of more so now they work solving cases where the police can't or won't be called.
We only own the first season on bootleg DVD (my mom's and aunt's favourite with the three original angels). It's fun and it's for everybody.
1976 - The Bionic Woman
Jamie Sommers (professional tennis player and Steve Austin's finceé) has a skydiving accident resulting in her getting bionic replacements of her legs, arm and ear. Since the equipment was very expensive (not like Steve's six million dollars bionic parts) she agrees to use it to help the goverment in dangerous missions. In the meantime she'll keep on working as a teacher.
Adventures of all kinds and the most memorable ones are with the fembots (altough many people like the Sasquatch episode, who knows why 🤷🏻‍♀️). Saw it on bootleg DVD.
1976 - Wonder Woman
Really? Wonder Woman? Lynda Carter? Do I need to explain anything? Just go watch it. (I saw in on bootleg DVD, shhh! Mrs. Carter is nearby, I don't want her to get upset).
1976 - The Muppets
Do they need introduction? Guest stars in every episode, humor, music and Ms. Piggy. You just can't hate Jim Hensons' creatures.
I have the first season on bootleg DVD but saw quite a few scenes on Youtube and social media as well.
1977 - The Incredible Hulk.
Bill Bixby + Lou Ferrigno + weekly adventures + that bloody journalist that follows them everywhere (and you will recognize as the bartender in Back to the Future III) to try and caught them red handed + the saddest end to every episode seeing poor Bruce Banner with his backpack walking to another town because he can never stay on the same place for too long = this early Marvel property that gave us a sneek peek into the complicated life of a superhero.
It's good, a problem-of-the-week show, but then again... poor Bruce Banner always alone, I want to cry 😭 Saw it on TV, I don't think that all episodes were aired back then nor when my mom and aunts were little.
1978 - Mork & Mindy
An alien that looks and acts like Robin Williams ends up living with the human Mindy to learn more about us. By the end of every episode Mork gives his report about what he learned about Humanity and it's usually very uplifting.
I've watched a few episodes on TV (this was Argentina in the '90s, you were lucky if any TV channel bought 2 seasons of any show to repeat ad eternum).
Nanu nanu!!
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Shango's Thoughts:
Blue Beetle Movie Review 🔷️🪲
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As an avid fan of all things DC, I could not wait to see Blue Beetle, & it did NOT disappoint.
I've been a DC fan practically all my life, & having grown up with these characters practically all my life, it's always wonderful seeing them make it to the big screen.
Much to my chagrin, I know that the public zeitgeist leans heavily towards Marvel. Marvel is seen as cool & trendy, whereas DC is seen as old fashioned & outdated. One of the reasons I've always gravitated to DC over Marvel, is because DC maintains its traditional themes & values, whereas Marvel (especially these days) patactically has none.
Themes such as love, family, justice, legacy, history, & morality are front & center of every DC project, whether it's a movie, TV show, cartoon, & even video game.
These themes are at the very heart of DC's characters, & what makes them true heroes. Meanwhile, the lack (or very little) of the above is what makes Marvel characters basically hollow super powered operatives, rather than heroes in the traditional sense.
This has been the case for both these respective franchises since their inception. Marvel's characters are those in which the audience are supposed to relate to, whilst DC's are those which are meant to aspire to. This has always been their core, fundamental difference.
And this was no different for Blue Beetle. Even tho I'm not Latino, seeing a superhero who didn't just happen to he Latino, but was a hero who embraced his Latino heritage fully, & used the cultural values therein to fuel his heroism was extremely refreshing.
And DC did not shy away from demonstrating the plight Latinos experience as a community, which was extremely refreshing. This is something they do in all their projects; address real world problems thru their stories.
DC has always been the innovator in comics history. Not only did DC create the world's first superhero in general, they had the first female, Latino, LGBT, Asian, & Black heroes not only in all of history, but also the first to make it to the Big Screen (technically Marvel's Black Panther made it to film first, but DC's Black Lightning made it to TV before Black Panther made it to film).
And in typical fashion, DC brings a Latino hero (not their first Latino hero mind you; that distinction goes to DC's Fleche Verde in 1958) to the big screen in a solo for the first time.
The action was off the charts, in typical DC fashion. The director stayed true to BB's fighting style; kinda wild & crazy, but extremely effective.
The villain(s) in the film represented all the things that impact the Latino community; racism, gentrification, economic stiflement, being used as under appreciated labor, & white supremacy as a while. Waxh of these themes were handled with grace, & never once felt preachy.
All the main characters got their chance to shine, but the break out star of this film was definitely George Lopez. He was funny as usual ("Help me like it" 🤣) but he was as useful in the story as he was funny, playing the role of Alfred to Beetle's Batman.
I'm definitely gonna go see this film again this week. I try to support DC projects as much as I can.
This film deserves an 8.5 out of 10. 👍🏿
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zoetiger-1106 · 1 year
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!!this content is supposed to be for comedic effect not to start a discussion!!
[as per usual i expect the video/audio to be out of sync you know the drill]
female villain supremacy 🫡
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Barbie Movie thoughts
Saw The Barbie Movie tonight, and I liked it. I thought it had interesting and subtle things to say, and I want to put some of these thoughts out there, but not spoil anyone, so I'm giving plenty of warning, putting it behind a cut, and tagging.
This is your first warning.
This is your second warning. I'm about to get into spoilers. If you're on mobile and seeing this, this is your warning to scroll past.
The movie seemed to me to have very interesting things to say on Barbie and feminism and capitalism.
It also did some very interesting things with narrative structure.
This is your final warning before I start actively getting into spoilers.
I don't think the movie really had a villain or an antagonist. The closest thing it had was the Matttel executive board led by Will Ferrel, but they were only mild antagonists. What the movie had was Problems that needed addressing. And those problems were (as I saw them) the Patriarchy, and to a lesser but still very real extent, capitalism.
It grappled with the complicated relationship Barbie has always had with feminism, and the Patriarchy, and its successes and failures. I think I would have been much less satisfied if the movie had come down solidly on one side or another. Instead it acknowledged that it has been empowering in being an alternative to baby dolls that focuses on a woman herself and the roles she can fill in the world, while at the same time hurting women with unrealistic beauty standards.
I very much appreciated how in the Real World the Patriarchy was highlighted as still being extremely oppressive, but knowing how to paper itself over as more progressive. See the businessman Ken spoke to when trying to get a corporate position, and see also the all-male board of Mattel sitting in a pink boardroom at a heart-shaped table, and highlighting the one female CEO of Mattel (maybe two, but highlighted even more by the fact that Ferrel's CEO couldn't remember when she was there or give any names at all). And not to put too fine a point on it, but they literally wanted to put Barbie in a box instead of allowing her to wander around the world having agency of her own.
I also appreciated how enticing the Patriarchy was shown to be to those who only see the potential benefits to themselves and are either unwilling or incapable of understanding how it harms literally everyone. It was very meaningful to me that when Ken brought the Patriarchy back to Barbieland, even the Kens weren't getting what they wanted, or at least seemed to have wanted at the beginning of the movie. They were clearly unhappy with the way things worked in Barbieland, but they weren't resentful towards Barbie until they were told they deserved to be on top. I think this showed really nicely the idea that one kind of supremacy or another isn't the desired goal, the desired goal is equality.
The Capitalism aspect seemed to be a bit more limited, and was more confined to the executive board and Mattel. They were at no point really concerned with the message they were sending as much as the bottom line. They had no qualms about churning out Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa Houses because they were making bank. The CEO thought Gloria's idea was terrible until someone ran the numbers and showed him it would make them a ton of money. The message on Capitalism was more brief, but no less apt. Capitalism is nobody's ally but its own, and will champion any cause it can ride to higher profits.
In the end, neither of the two problems are solved, nor is Barbie's relationship with feminism in the Real World, or even Barbie's story, all of which I find more satisfying than the alternative. If The Patriarchy or Capitalism had been Defeated, I would have found it just as unsatisfying as a sitcom's All Problems Are Solved In Slightly Less Than Half An Hour phenomenon. I think it would have felt too self-satisfied. I liked the ending a lot, grounding Stereotypical Barbie in the real world, having to grapple with a Real Life situation that would be completely alien to anyone in Barbieland.
I also found Ken's "ending" to be poignant as he grapples with defining himself not in terms of Barbie and his relationship to her, but in self-actualization. And it seemed to me that Barbie, in helping him towards this new definition, helped herself towards a more self-focused-actualization than she had been privy to before.
Is Barbie a feminist movie? I don't know, and I'm not sure I'm one who should be making that call. I do know that I like a lot of the messages I took away from it, including that all of the problems faced are complicated and difficult. But what I can say for sure is this is hands down my favorite Michael Cera role. I have never enjoyed him more in a movie. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling also knocked it out of the park.
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A Dance of Light and Dark
This was not supposed to happen. 
She adjusted her white gloves, tugging at the embroidery as she stood in the line that creeped forward slowly like a meandering river. A line of guests to a party in a mansion of gold. The line of ruffles and fancy skirts and hats ahead of her was rather like a circus performance, but she didn’t let the excess and wealth fool her; these people were the most notorious criminals in the realm. The cool night air fell over the crowd of ladies tittering behind feathered fans and lords checking their pocket watches importantly as though they were the kings of the damned kingdom. She didn’t belong, but she never did, so it didn’t matter. She was here for one purpose and one purpose only. 
The hero’s gloved hands flitted to her hat briefly to adjust it, her nerves building. She could feel sweat on her back and heat at the back of her neck. 
This was not supposed to happen. 
She was no prophet, but of this she was fairly certain. None of this was supposed to happen. There shouldn’t be so many guards at the gate, there shouldn’t be only one entrance to the hall, the line shouldn’t be so long, and, most importantly, there wasn’t supposed to be an unhealthily attractive villain out in the garden, his stance that of an otherworldly king; predatory and possessive, knowing that he was the most powerful man in the room. He had the gaze of someone who could end your life in mere moments — and enjoy it. 
A gaze that soon fell on her. 
She swallowed, trying to appear not to startled, only slightly sheepish at having been caught. His answering grin was slow, wicked. Triumphant. Not a look of recognition, but rather that look of pure male supremacy at having a female’s attention. It was disgusting. 
Coming to this party was something she couldn’t say no to; an opportunity to spy on some of the most notorious crime lords. But, as usual, her mentor, ever the cryptic dolt, failed to mention which crime lords. Failed to mention that one of them was her longtime nemesis. Because, of course, that detail shouldn’t matter. At least not to her.
But for some reason it did. 
She swallowed, steadying herself. This changed nothing. She was on the guest list under a fake name. The guards wouldn’t question her. And if they did…well…that’s what the hidden sword was for. And if he recognized her…
That’s what the hidden sword is for too.
She squeezed her hands into fists. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter.
She let out a shudder. This was not supposed to happen.
As the minutes passed, she found herself at the front of the line. Gathering herself, she flicked out her white fan and began fanning herself as she walked right up to the guards. “Lady Abigail.” She said flippantly and she shoved the forged invitation at the guard, who examined it for a beat too long. “Is there a problem?” She asked dryly, snapping her fan closed to level a glare at the guards.
“Lady Abigail…didn’t you call in sick?” A guard leaned over to squint at her face.
Well, I certainly didn’t but I definitely know who did. 
The hero’s brain began racing for a solution but before she could open her mouth, she felt a presence at her back. 
“The Lady is clearly well, you buffoon.” 
His voice, low and full, made her freeze. Made shivers run up her spine, like a tickle of flames.
For no reason the hero could ever figure out for all her years of training, her enemy offered her his arm and grinned slyly. “Shall we, my darling?”
She stood there for a moment, dumbfounded. “Of course.” She said smoothly, forcing a smile as she entwined her arm with his and he led her inside. She snapped her fan open once more to conceal her face. But it was pointless; he had already recognized her.
As soon as they were within the golden walls, she hissed in between her teeth from behind the fan, “What are you doing?”
“What am I doing?” He asked with another of his trademark wicked grins. He gave acknowledging nods to some of his criminal associates as they walked past them in the hall. 
“That? Back there?” The hero ground out.
“If you’re trying to say thank you, then you’re welcome.” He replied smoothly. 
“Why did you call in saying I’m sick?” She demanded in a low whisper.
“Why do you assume it’s me?” He asked, looking at her with feigned innocence. 
She raised an eyebrow at him.
He let out a dark laugh, facing forward once more. “I needed to make sure ‘Lady Abigail’ was you.”
“No you didn’t.” She snarled.
“No I didn’t.” He agreed with a chuckle.  
“Then why? For your own amusement?”
He shrugged. “It was certainly amusing.”
“You’re a piece of shit.”
“It’s one of my defining qualities.”
“And what’s with this?” She said, nodding towards their entwined arms. 
He regarded their entwined arms for a long moment and then met her gaze. “Oh you mean this?” He leaned his head closer to her. “You’re not enjoying it, my darling?” He said, lowering his voice and whispering breathily into her ear. His mouth was so close she could feel his lips moving on the edge of her ear.
“Stop calling me that.” She growled, snapping her fan out again to hide the blush on her cheeks. These interactions they had whenever they met didn’t change the fact that their acquaintanceship would only end with one of them killing the other, as per the standard ‘hero and villain’ dynamic. 
“I’m bothering you.” He said triumphantly in a sing song voice.
“You are a bother.”
“I thought I was a piece of shit?”
“You’re both, moron.”
“Now I’m a moron? By god, you’re giving me an identity crisis.”
“Didn’t your fifty fake IDs already get you there?”
“Oh, so you counted them?”
“Wouldn’t you like to know.”
They fell silent for a moment as they entered the main hall, the sounds of dancing and music and the smells of the food assailing them. 
“I actually would like to know.” The villain said finally. “There are many things I would like to know.” He mused, smiling slowly, contemplatively. For the first time, the hero saw an almost genuine look on the villain’s face. “I’d like to know what your favorite color is, who your friends are, what you do when you’re not ruining my business — ”
“You mean doing my job —”
“I’d like to know whether you take your coffee with milk or with sugar. If you prefer chocolate to vanilla…” He went on, looking slightly troubled and charming at the same time. The hero couldn’t help the smile that found its way onto her face. “…all questions I don’t know the answer to since our line of work doesn’t quite permit for that sort of conversation.”
“I see. Anything else you would like to know, your Grand Villain-ness?”
“Well…” He cocked his head in contemplation. “I would also like to know if you would agree to dance with me if I asked.”
She swallowed, her mouth going dry. But she managed to say in a low husky voice, “The question is, would you ask?”
“If I did, would you accept?”
“It depends on whether you would ask. There is no answer without a question.”
“Clever. Let’s see. Will you, my beautiful nemesis, give me this dance? Just one. And then we can part ways as terrible enemies and you can kick my ass till the end of the time.”
This wasn’t supposed to happen.
“Yes.”
His answering grin was triumphant and wolfish. “Then let’s dance, my darling.”
“I never said you could call me that.” She grumbled.
His only response was pulling her gently by the hand onto the dance floor. He brought her closer to him, making her breath catch as he lay a hand on her waist and took her gloved hand in his. Carefully, she placed her free hand on his shoulder. He smiled, genuinely this time, and so they danced. 
They moved as one; light and dark, sun and moon in one dance of music and light and thunder. The two most powerful people in the room; forces of nature in their own right. They hated and loved and fought and danced. Happy, if only for a moment. It didn’t matter that she would have to kill him later tonight. It didn’t matter that he would let her do it, if only to spare her pain.
For a moment, none of it mattered. It didn’t matter that she was a hero and he was a villain. For a moment, they weren’t a hero and a villain. They were just a boy and a girl who danced as one. Just a few whispers and touches and warm gentle caresses. Just a boy who wanted to set fire to the world and the girl he wouldn’t let the flames touch. Just a boy and a girl who were in love. 
Yes. Though they would deny it till the day they killed each other, they were in love. 
A tragedy. But isn’t everything?
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bitchesgetriches · 2 years
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Resist white fragility
It sucks that we’re stuck grappling with this nonsense. It’s not our fault, any of us. We’re all victims of a system that values male lives over female, white lives over brown, and rich lives over poor. It isn’t fair that we have to clean up the mess made by a thousand generations before us. But it still has to be done.
Not thinking about this stuff, or caring about this stuff, is a wonderful privilege. You can deploy it strategically as part of your own self-care. But living in a permanent state of not-caring makes you willfully complacent to patriarchal white supremacy. Especially within the personal finance community.
It hurts me deeply that people who look like me are so often history’s villains. That hurt is real. But it is so proportionally meaningless compared to those who have actually been oppressed that it’s rude to even bring it up. It’s like complaining about a paper cut to a recent amputee. It derails the more important conversation, and makes everything about you.
My dumb-ass dog loves to lick his wounds. It doesn’t heal them (probably because he also loves to lick chicken poop), but makes them all inflamed and scabby. Think about this metaphor: licking wounds doesn’t make things better. If you feel bad, don’t get defensive. Take action.
- Something Is Wrong in Personal Finance. Here’s How To Make It More Inclusive.
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Book 33, 2023
Everyone loves "The Yellow Wallpaper", the semi-autobiographical gothic horror story about postpartum mental health issues and the treatment of women's illness in the late 19th and early 20th century.
We regret to inform you that the author of "The Yellow Wallpaper", a white feminist born in 1860, has horrible politics. Who could have foreseen this?
The answer is: anyone if we studied literature in the context of an author's wider body of work, instead of cherry picking and whittling down an author profile for specific relevance to that chosen work. I studied "The Yellow Wallpaper" in multiple university classes, because it is an excellent little story, heavy with symbolism and material to interpret, while also having a very clear message. It's unsettling, raw, claustrophobic, bumping against issues that we're still grappling with over a hundred years later. There's a reason Charlotte Perkins Gilman is primarily remembered for this story, which doesn't reveal any of her more questionable opinions. So periodically people on social media get to discover things like how she was an eugenicist.
I wrote a number of papers on depictions of single-sex societies in fiction while at school, which means I also read Gilman's novella, "Herland", which gives room for her wider politics to breathe, but I was still surprised by what I found in her fiction reading "Herland and Selected Stories".
For starters: a lot of them are fairly unimpressive and mundane and I wasn't reading a collection of all of Gilman's fiction. These were curated by an editor. I admit to not having read Barbara H. Solomon's introduction; I skimmed it and didn't see any references to Gilman's opinions that are less palpable to modern readers. Perhaps there she explains her logic for the stories she selected.
Some of the stories concern utopia-adjacent feminist ideals relevant to Gilman's time. Older women finding themselves invigorated by late-in-life discovery of things that fulfill them outside the confines of the wife-and-mother role. Young women guided to more fulfilling lives independent of men they don't really want by older mentors. Women finding common ground in being hurt by the same man and uniting with each other, instead of embracing a villain in the Other Woman. Women finding love but with men who respect them and don't ask them to change themselves. Which is all fine and can be recognized as progressive and counter to the culture of the time.
They're not very interesting, though, Gilman's polemic against the patriarchy more significant than any interesting plot or character sketch or artistically pleasing turns of phrase.
The selected stories don't particularly advertise Gilman's racial stances. Gilman was a great-niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe and, while she acknowledged the ill that had been done to Black Americans, similarly fails to understand the wider systemic problems of post-slavery America and her own contributions in perpetuating a culture of white supremacy. There are a few references to "coloured" maids, most egregious in "Her Housekeeper", where a Black maid is present and named and the reader is informed she sleeps on the couch, but doesn't care where she sleeps, if she even needs to sleep. Unsurprisingly, what's most conspicuous is the otherwise complete absence of Black people from any of the selected stories.
The matter of eugenics is more clearly on display, thought, particularly in "Herland", where good women and citizens who are "inferior" recognize themselves as such and choose to forego motherhood (the female ideal in their society and for the women in many of the selected short stories, despite Gilman's beliefs being counter to strict gender roles), preventing the spread of those "inferior" qualities (physical and mental disabilities and asocial tendencies that could lead to crime). The women are all fit and diversely Aryan (blonde, brunette, redheaded, pale, tan). Other stories remind us that fat women are repulsive to witness in society.
The story that really captured my attention was "When I Was A Witch", in which a woman acquires ambiguous magical abilities that she uses to angrily right societal wrongs, only to lose them when she tries to impose something positive and pure in the form of making all women realize all the good power and potential available to them as women, drawing a line between women as they exist and "real" women, who have embraced "... their real power, their real dignity, their real responsibility in the world ...", who don't behave in a way the narrator finds embarrassing. This is labeled white magic versus her previous black magics that come from rage. But it's undeniable that those black magic wishes represent real beliefs of Gilman's, many of them coming from a place of good intentions. Carriage drivers are made to feel the physical suffering their horses endure, reducing their cruelty to the animals. Shareholders of major companies are made to feel the suffering the people at the bottom of the chain of power, pushing them to change their priorities from profits to people. Domestic animals in the city lead lives either stifled or full of suffering, so they all suddenly die. Parrots are given the ability to speak their 'opinions' of their owners and they all hate them.
Also, they think their predominantly female owners are ugly.
Gilman would love PETA.
There's a condescending feminist version of noblesse oblige in how Gilman and her protagonists talk about other women who have not found or chosen the path of what Gilman sees as empowered, fully realized femaleness that leaves a bad taste in my mind. Women need to work together to uplift each other and rely on each other in their stories, but they need to recognize that some women are going to try and keep them from fulfilling themselves because they don't Understand and have become disconnected from True Femaleness in a very second-wave eco-feminist nature mother way.
"The Yellow Wallpaper" is clearly Gilman's most enduring work of fiction because, in addition to being an easy work to teach, it's genuinely good and coming from a real, personal place. It doesn't propose a solution to the protagonist's distress, it has an ending that breaks her instead of giving her a neatly gift-wrapped solution because there isn't an easy solution for post-partum depression. When she moves away from that personal experience in her fiction, the reader also moves away from connecting with it. The politics, both good and bad, don't intersect meaningfully with the personal, and a number of them simply aren't good.
Sometimes it's easy to forget an author might only have one good one in them.
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Some interesting extracts from Iman's interview about her comic...
She discusses people judging before actually reading the comics but that she's happy people care that much. Which is true. She actually isn't a big x-men fan! I'll take that as meaning inhuman supremacy.
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I was actually a little unhappy with Kamala's behavior after the resurrection so I'm really happy that these issues will explore the effects of what happened to her. Iman confirms that a lot of what happens will take place in Kamala's dreams and that she's been having reoccurring nightmares.
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Sabir also created a new character for the series. Nitika? A desi girl finally? 👀Excited to see if she's an older villain or a high schooler/ college aged girlie. Kamala needs female villains. This could potentially be one of the coolest parts.
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Well Iman confirms that Bruno will play a huge role in the comic. Which is really sad because if anyone was going to give the best friend role for this arc to Nakia FOR ONCE, it would probably be Iman since I mean.... yeah. But she also discusses that Bruno is a representation of her own support system in these issues. No mention of romance so that's good too. But also that a lot of moments are an adaptation of extracts from her journal.
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I was really, really, really wanted an innocent fun story. But I don't support misandry any more than I don't support misogyny. I know Barbie is considered a female toy and a lot of girls played with Barbie growing up. I know I did. Barbie IS A DOLL and she is meant to be a good role model and or positive toy. Possibly because children play with dolls. Mainly little girls. I would NEVER considered Barbie to not love her significant other. I would never expected them to turn her SIGNIFICANT OTHER into a villain. I don't think this film is pushing positivity by pushing supremacy of one sex over another. NO SEX WANTS TO BE AN ACCESSORY. However, these are dolls...
Want positive Barbie? Want Ken to be treated with respect and for her to CARE about him? Perhaps watch Barbie in the Dreamhouse series. Ken is not supposed to be a villain. He is a positive love interest to the main toy Barbie. Showing positive relationships is important. Particularly to kids. Leave politics out...
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sogekingtruther · 2 years
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And I believe in One Piece female movie villain supremacy☝️
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