#feminism-washing

[womenstruation]

do you ever think about how crazy it is that we are told to ignore and never engage with feminism for fear that we are "groomed" aka so we remain blind to our oppression.

Before I knew what so called sex work was, i knew SWERFs were evil, before I understand what surrogacy was, I knew those women were just homophobic, conservative bigots and before I even understood why my sex wasn't just my sex, why being female meant i had to fill in this role i hated, i knew TERFs were mean, ugly, jealous fascists.

I was told to never engage with them, "block and report" was the mantra. I was told i had to repent if i ever did for fear i too would become the greatest threat to society: a woman who fights for herself.

#feminism #radfem #radical feminist #radical feminism #radblr #radfems please interact #radical feminist safe #radical feminists do interact #being on tumblr at a young age honestly brain washed me #going through block lists; filtering out tags #and if somehow a feminist post slipped through #an actually feminist one and i found myself agreeing #the guilt i would feel was suffocating

[horizon-verizon]

The show gives Rhaenyra's characteristic nervous habit of playing with her rings to Alicent in having Alicent shows her nerves through picking her fingers' skin, sans rings. But Rhaenyra/Emma D'Arcy, has no obvious outward expression of anxiety, whilst Young Alicent/Emilia Carey does (but not Olivia Cooke? where is the consistency?).

They gave Rhaenyra's canonical black/red dress reveal-and-entry to Alicent in her green-dress moment of episode 5. Rhaenyra's entry in canon is: her declaring political opposition to the already formed green faction; autonomous monarchial claim against Alicent and Otto's attempts to lessen the legitimacy of that; where she draws that claim from (the colors representing her house, her blood connection, and Viserys choosing her); AND her defying Alicent's domestic attempts at ruining her self esteem or disconnect her from her roots. It was her first real moment of triumph. Whereas canonically Alicent is one of Rhaenyra's antagonists; Alicent was the one who independently and intentionally used female chastity (a principle of sexual repression for women) against Rhaenyra to tarnish her reputation and public image in order to raise dissent against her and her prospective reign. And make her son seem even more desirable...which didn't work, as she continues and eventually has to imprison people to make way for herself and Aegon the Elder.

Second, not only does what HotD did steal most of Rhaenyra's agency and boldness to give to their diluted version of Alicent and incorrectly center her as if she were the protagonist of this story, it makes Alicent, of all people, the one who experiences the a central problem of this story: societal misogyny. It removes Alicent's accountability and suggests that Rhaenyra is the problem. That whatever Show!Alicent perceives Rhaenyra to have done (lied to her, didn't stay "chaste" like her by sleeping with a person outside of marriage, didn't recognize her queenly authority how she thinks she should...when all that actually matters is Viserys' word AND it is actually Otto who put her in the position she is in to fear absolutely knowing what that portion entails [as he thinks]), that is the wrong being done here....when it is really Show!Otto's ambition.

Some may say, after watching this show, that Rhaenyra should have observed her friend's anxiety as she was "talking" with Viserys...but Rhaenyra 1) lost her mother just a few months (presumably) earlier 2) is just coming into her heir duties and activities, one of which was her choosing her personal guard in the various candidates Otto tries to present to her, and we see in that particular point that she also had to come up against people doubting her, questioning her...why? because she is both young and female. It does not require much imagination to figure out that Rhaenyra was going through her own stuff that justifiably draws her attention away from Alicent, who could have also told her what was going on but didn't. 3) By principle, Rhaenyra was also developing her own life and growing into her own adulthood -- making a life for herself.

Where would she have the emotional bandwidth to catch everything going on with her friend in the face of all mentioned?! In relationships, we take turns to support the other. Rhaenyra is the one with less room to do something since her fears, duties, grief, loneliness, and prerogative to live all are present and probably emotionally overwhelming, understandably making her less aware of others when the are not either the focus or means to accomplishing those ends of monarchial duties or alleviating misery. Alicent is fully aware of what's happening and knows that it would hurt Rhaenyra' emotional and political position even worse to follow through without resistance...yet chooses not to tell her and maybe thinks of ways to resist, even with Rhaenyra.

And again, even that ambition is being denied to Alicent herself, who canonically drives much of the green cause by attacking Rhaenyra since the latter was 10 before the war begins until her grand moment of calling the green council.

Thirdly, all of these changes...just to ultimately create confusion in narrative direction and switch/reduce the philosophical and political priorities (are we against misogyny or against others having what we want but deny ourselves because we actually like the patriarchy that has actually victimized us?). We have fallen from criticizing how women with internalized misogyny target other women to gain whatever power a patriarchy seems to bestow them to what HotD gives us -- a woman not being rewarded by being "good" and compliant with the patriarchy, as if compliance is the answer to escape the suffering caused by the oppressve forces one is told to comply with and obey! So the message is that we should always follow and conform with unjust social hierarchies?!

The fourth problem with what HotD did is that in the writers' probable justification of not giving Rhaenyra her dress moment because viewers should already know that red and black are her families colors and that they will deduce that the blacks' name come from that, they reduced all of what I point out the moment meant in canon to it being "obvious" why the blacks are called the blacks.

Fifthly, the Hightowers' colors are not even green. If anything it would be silver or grey! And the firelight the Hightower tower basis the usual red, orange, and yellow in real life and in their sigil. So not only did they remove Rhaenyra's agency-practicing moment, they moved away from the fact that Alicent chose green independently as her own faction and cause' color. She was staking a claim herself, for herself! And as @mononijikayu says in the linked reblogs, green-as-the-color-Alicent-chooses thematically works to show how her own envy, greed, ambition, and tyranny subsequently has her lose all of her children and die alone and delirious. Similar to how Jaehaerys I's tyranny and misogyny against his own family causes him to be completely alone the day he died, as Saera was his only living relative aside from Viserys, Daemon, and Aemma Arryn, who all did not seem to care about the man one way or another nor were raised close to him.

This user/anonymous asker told me how some green stans give Daemon's narrative of self sacrifice for family and faction to Aemond.

The show refused to give Mysaria and Daemon his and Mysaria's grief over their baby's loss and a justification of anger against Viserys other than not being made his Hand, but it will very likely give Aemond an arc of passion with Alys Rivers and a pregnancy partially to mimic the "children having children" arc they gave to Alicent and partially to facilitate the idea of him making mistake after mistake from him maybe choosing "fuck duty", or just running from it (Ryan Condal's "theory of reactions and accidents") as this other user contemplates. Meanwhile, Mysaria and Daemon were always in a consensual relationship even if he was definitely exploiting her being in SW....and Alys was Aemond's war prize and sex slave, so there was no consent there--to all the shippers of the latter. (And if she did have visions, and she told Aemond that he should meet Daemon and where to find him....it is also very possible that she saw Aemond die....such a situation leads me to believe that this was not the sunshine and roses relationship many green stans like to think.) [8/30/23] AND the show cheapens Daemon's contention with Viserys after his habitation in Dragonstone to his just fucking around to fuck around, as this Twitter user named Branwyn the Half-witch says:

Mysaria’s pregnancy and subsequent miscarriage (which hardened Daemon’s heart against his brother) to Daemon just messing around for no reason. It removes any sympathetic or human motive Daemon has for his rebelliousness, and ditto for Mysaria.

Yes, Daemon loves his chaos to a degree…but that is to a degree and circumstantial. Viserys definitely committed wrongs against Dameon, which motivates Daemon to "act out" or ignore/defy him. Plus, as hamliet explains, there is a pattern of Mysaria being concerned or affected by the loss of children from her own loss of a child by Viserys forcing Daemon to abandon her. As a sex worker, she's not "allowed" to grow a family or obtain some sort of self-sustenance outside of the exploitative sex industry embedded within this patriarchal system. Thus, it is likely she targeted Nettles, arranged for Blood & Cheese to kill either Aegon or one of his kids, & gave away the information about Maelor to Heleana (triggering Helaena to kill herself) to strike back against any Targ...perhaps. [check out hamliet's breakdown of Mysaria's motivations for doing all she did after being exiled HERE] NUANCE!

The show made it much easier to see Rhaenyra as the aggressor against Criston....meanwhile it's too arguable that even as young as Rhaenyra was at the time (15), she'd ever go for Criston when you read the account (in order: HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE). That it was most likely Criston who wanted Rhaenyra and she rejected him while he tried something. It is especially important to note this part of the text I didn't include that is between the last two quotes I do give:

However it happened, whether the princess scorned the knight or he her, from that day forward the love that Ser Criston Cole had formerly borne for Rhaenyra Targaryen turned to loathing and disdain, and the man who had hitherto been the princess’s constant companion and champion became the most bitter of her foes.

Thus relying more on Mushroom's (the arguably most unreliable narrator and source for the events pre and during and post-Dance -- those who will try to make anything sexual and exaggerate just to self-aggrandize and attention) account of how Rhaenyra and Criston fell out......sure.

It refused to insert or to imagine any of Aegon and Aemond's pre-Dance misogyny towards Rhaenyra (an example) that would have existed following Alicent teaching them all how to view her. Or any of his pre-Dance viciousness: "Two years later, she produced a daughter for the king, Helaena; in 110 AC, she bore him a second son, Aemond, who was said to be half the size of his elder brother, but twice as fierce ("A Question of Succession"). Aemond's probable bullying of the V boys made into Aegon, his own brother, being one of his bullies despite this quote and its emphasis that no matter what Viserys tried, all five boys couldn't get along and that the green boys resented the V boys for taking what they thought was theirs.

But sure, we get Show!Daemon obviously kill his wife with a rock -- not even an assassin -- despite the fact that he was at the Stepstones, still fighting and preoccupied, when Rhea died and it took a few more days after the nine it took for her to die for him to even be notified of her death and travel to the Vale AND what we know about horses (reblogs of @the-king-andthe-lionheart's post....forgot to credit and tag). The same woman who would have, if she had been able to sit up and talk, immediately name foul play with her canon dislike of Daemon.

As I mentioned before above, this show even removes Alicent's biggest and game-changing, plot-driving, self-determined act to convene the green council while purposefully leaving Viserys' body to rot over to the council members acting under Otto and ignoring her until she has to yell at them, and even that is ignored as we see her wrestle against Otto to bring Aegon in. Instead of them working together to do so, illustrating further how a woman can work with patriarchal authorities and use the power the system allows her to block another woman. The most memorable thing adult Show!Alicent did was to gives her feet over to Larys to drool over in a very disturbing voyeuristic scene, just so she gets information...this show is even more misogynist and unrealistic towards Alicent than the book/the maesters could ever be, for the sake of making Alicent a victim instead of a woman who decided to use power for power's sake. Because apparently that's an anomaly or a sexist take...that women could hurt themselves, their children, the children of others, and other women who arguably are in similar sociopolitical positions for power.

And because they aged Alicent down, her kids are all supposed to be aged down, so that in itself can and has drawn more sympathy (whether intentional or not) for the greens for what will happen in the next season to them. And I mean for locals who've never read the book or just its account of the Dance.

While we get no other scenes of how Alicent and Rhaenyra even interacted and how their relationship became nothing (ignore Alicent of episodes 8-9, this is such a terrible switch up because it makes no psychological sense) during the time between the 6th and 7th episode, how Alicent would have a isolated, victimized, antagonized, and pressured Rhaenyra as we saw her do at the 6th episode's council. Because, apparently, these women can still theoretically become friends again even after all of this AND Lucerys' and Visenya's deaths?

But then you can't tell a good or fair story about a feudal family, about "generational conflict"...without showing how two of those generations....fought each other at home AND then at war.

#rhaenyra targaryen #alicent hightower #hotd characterization #aemond targaryen #daemon targaryen #daemon vs aemond #hotd critical #hotd season 1 #hotd male gaze #hotd misogyny #rhaenyra and feminism #rhea royce #team black thoughts #daemon and rhea royce #hotd comment #male gaze #hotd green-washing #hotd rant #asoiaf #hotd

[lesbienyu]

"my dad always cooked growing up!"

yeah cool but are you still doing all the cooking and cleaning in your adult life? did he teach your male siblings and cousins to cook as much as he taught you? is it you or your brother expected to cook, set the table host guests, and whatnot on holidays?

#this is a self drag #radblr #im making my brother wash dishes bc im realizing i got frames #'your dad did the cooking and youre the masculine kid so do it' uhhhh theres a whole ass brother #'prove ur a better cook than ur dad for feminism!' Not How That Works Sry

[noodleincident]

the tide commercial just literally replicated my life to the point that i’m wondering if they have cameras set up at the laundromat down the street

#yes i pay $1.25/lb for wash dry fold once a month when i make $0 a day what about it #it’s ok the person who washes my clothes is a man so it’s feminism #and he’s also vaguely bigoted so he’s lucky i’m not an asshole and i live 2 blocks away #~

[violottie]

ugh i was dreading when this would start...

from Rolla Selbak, 16/Feb/2024:

#palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #zionism #i stand with palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #is there a word for like what pinkwashing is but for feminism? because this is that. feminist washing? idk

[stockingshypnopantyhoseleggings]

Faux leather leggings and high heeled ankle boots

#hypnosis #hypnotized #mind control #hypnok1nk #hypno fantasy #hypno toy #hypnotism #brain washing #feminine sissy #feminization kink #feminization hypnosis

[some-eldritch-bats]

absolutely exhausted by having to explain to a cis feminist that telling trans women that "transmisogyny is a bad name, it should just be called misogyny because you're women" is not actually as inclusive as she seems to believe.

to be totally clear, she explicitly said "I'm not sure why we need to specifically discuss trans women's misogyny because it's all just misogyny so we can discuss it together, that's what being intersectional is about". Like I cannot STRESS how hard this woman not only missed the boat but also somehow missed the river???

for the cissies in the audience: when your average tranny with bags under her eyes tells you "i am experiencing Transmisogyny(tm)", i cannot stress how much the correct answer is NOT to go "lol no you're not, now shut up and listen to my privilege because i'm sure it will rub off on you if i talk at you hard enough"

#transmisogyny #misogyny #feminism #intersectionality #it's all just cis-washing really #like it's such a fundamental failure of comprehension that it really upsets me sometimes #i can deal with this shit normally but i'm so fucking tired of it #and my legs hurt and my bones hurt because i spent 2 hours doing CPR training again #but the dog is cuddling me and that helps a lot tbh

[menomodumps]

I saw this stupid fucking post screenshotted on Pinterest and inspiration struck me so hard that I immediately stopped studying chemistry and pulled an all nighter to make possibly the best piece of art I’ve ever made I’m so proud of myself and so mad at myself at the same time adhd is a wild ride sometimes anyways

Art inspired by stuff I found on Pinterest part 4

TW: rape, blood, violence

#art #illustration #digital art #digital drawing #ibispaintx #feminism #comics #pinterest #art study #i do not control the hyperfixation #definitely going to use this color scheme again I’m fucking obsessed #religious art #feminist art #something about women being relegated to the kitchen #and losing autonomy over their bodies #and Christianity being a patriarchal religion #where women can never be equal #and are shamed for things beyond their control #and the idea of washing away impurity #and the way your body can feel alien and disgusting no matter how hard you scrub

[average-dilf-enjoyer]

The feminism leaving my body when I see Joel Miller

#joel miller #the last of us #tlou #i need him in a way that is concerning to feminism #like yes i will be your little housewife #excuse me while i wash the dishes and do the laundry and take care of the kids and cook us dinner #it’s so bad #like i hate men and i would never be a housewife #ew what is this the 50s #however #mr miller

[forumjutsu]

Tell me it was adaptated by a man without telling me it was adapted by a man

Really? Cleaning in the kitchen?

#women use their hands for washing the dishes #thats why they have them #and to give handjobs #seriously tho #naruto #sasuke retsuden #haruno sakura #sakura haruno #sakura #retsuden #feminism #society evolves but women remain on the kitchen lol

[pitchmoss]

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#i just wanna look at sandor edits but his tag is literally just. #the straightest sandor sansa art. #no offense to ppls hard work but i feel like it's setting feminism back a couple decades. #also ppl recasting them in a way that feels like white washing. how did they white wash white ppl? idk. where's his burn scar. #anyways. i miss him. im reading the books rn and he's gone y.y

[morphinomenaljew]

Because I don’t learn from my mistakes I did go back on TikTok and I did watch a whole speech T*ylor gave about pride and voting and I need every single queer person to recognize what is happening for what it is.

She is using you. She is using all of us as a smoke screen to keep people from talking about the fact that she continues to associate publicly with a known racist, misogynist, and antisemite and she is using queer people as a shield.

“That’s why I always say when polls are open.” No you don’t Taylor. You don’t. You made an entire documentary about being political and Speaking Now and then you did what you always do, you went completely fucking silent until you got yourself in deep fucking hot water and needed the gays to come pull you out of it.

Well not again. You lost us Taylor. You lost all of us and nothing, not partnering with one of the women your boyfriend said vile things about, or a speech where you pat yourself on the back for your own lyrics is going to change the fact that consistently you have been told exactly what needs to happen to make amends and you’ve consistently shown you don’t care.

You’re just a stranger now whose laugh I could recognise anywhere.

Maybe you always were.

Gaylors, as tempting as it is, stand your ground. Don’t crawl back. She has done NOTHING concrete to make amends for her association with Matty Healy or to dissuade people from continuing to connect her romantically to him. She has made her spaces unsafe to Jews, black women, queer and trans and nonbinary people, Muslims, and AAPI and other POC and the people who live at the intersection of these and other marginalised identities. She’s not our friend. She’s plastering the rainbow on her Twitter and the second June is up she will forget about us again.

We deserve better. All of us.

Rant over.

#taylor swift #gaylor swift #Gaylor #m*tty healy #racism tw #the eras tour #white feminism #pink washing

[iloveyouitisruiningmylife]

this is a weird tangent but my have my hair long. I always have, and for more than a year now I've been saying I want to cut it

that's exactly what it is, long hair feels like hiding, and cutting my hair would be this bold change that would be like telling everyone to shove it and unapologetically be myself

(and it seems so daunting which is why i haven't done it yet. And because most times I'm just unhappy with my general being and do not feel that confidence)

lowkey feels nice that I'm not the only one with so many conplicated thoughts regarding hair

"telling everyone to shove it and unapologetically be myself" YES!! YES. yes this exactly you get it this is exactly why i cut it yk they say fake it till you make it? idk i hoped that would work but i feel so sick all of a sudden i AM sorry for being myself actually i wish they were longer much longer so that the stupid boys my age would look at me like me flirt with me rid me of this loneliness (which is so stupid because why would i want to be with someone who likes someone based on her hair length!!! and also bc i instantly develop a crush on a girl who has short hair without knowing a single fact about her) but also having long hair fucking sucks maybe it's the mental illness but it's impossible to take care of them like how tf can i take care of my studies, career, parents, friends, physical health, mental health, overall hygiene like nails and skin and clothes AND still have energy to wash my hair untangle them all the time waste money on expensive conditioners and serums because they are dry and

#im sorry im having too many thoughts i caved in and watched a shitty blurry no subtitle version of barbie today and have been having #conflicting thoughts about feminism #and i just read an article on how often should i wash my hair because now that i go out 6 days a week twice a week isn't working they look #yuck on the third day but then they said if your hair is dry and 'damaged' and i kinda got stuck on the word damaged #like wdym damaged? is my hair damaged am i damaged? and i thought of renegade by taylor swift and this person saying to me that two ruined #people cannot fix anything let alone themselves #so.. #okay im shutting up bohot zyada hi bol diya #psy <33

[crystalmethsissy]

After my spiritual awakening with my encounter with that crossdressing fairy who exposed me to pixie dust. An extremely potent form of fairy dust with 100% trans mutation effective feminization restoration results. After my first inhale..I could feel the Femininity in my lungs changing me. Rewriting my thoughts..introducing homosexual urges into my brain chemistry that I couldn't help but succumb and give into as i exhale the Femininity trans mutated into my pathetic masculinity by the time i exhale..masculinity is all that leaves my body..as the uncontrollable disire to wear pantyhose and eventually cross-dress consumes my every thought. Berthing my uncontrollable fetishism to wear pantyhose and women's clothes and dress like a sex crazed she-male hypno sissy bimbo sex slave...that was waiting to be triggered and repourpoused in a feminine pre opp sissy fuck toy for the highest bidder for the Black Momba Hell fire club who will sponsoring your trip to pleasure Island. Where weak limp beta males sent to be triggererd surrounded by mirrors and shackled to a rotating table as i am.fed a gas mask as I am all dolled up looking as feminine and sluty as possible. Wig. Makeup pink lipstick. Luscious lashes ripe with mascara and eye shadow that sparkles. Luscious locks of gold reach your hips Encased from head to toe in silky sheer nylons with a whole in the crotch for my head to pop out. A lacy satin bra. Sheer skill layered suntan pantyhose. With a vibrating dildo up my ass and magic wand pressed against the tip of my limp tiny penis underneath the layers of shiny silky sheer suntan pantyhose. My whole body void of hair except what's on my head and lathered in baby oil acting a a Nair causing all the hair to fall out as well as soften up my skin and shink my testicles up into tiny punes never to work again secreting only estrogen. A penis shrinking cream is applied to what's left of your pathetic manhood. Shriveling up inside you. Inverting its self into a new-girl sissy fuck hole repourpoused and trans mutated to quiver, moisten up and dilate at the side of a mans errection. On pleasure Island. We doll up subjects and stap them to a rotating table surrounded by mirrors with a hunge monitor directly in front of you. A gas mas is placed on your face over your mouth and nose thats feeds a steady dose of meth ecstasy and poppers every time the hypno commands you to inhale. There is a dildo covererd in meth sprinkles inserted in your ass as the meth sprinkle vanishing cream makes your crotch flat a magic wand is inserted into you inverted pleasure hole

underneath the 4 layred shiny silky sheer suntan nylon pantyhose. The table turns as the monitor is placed right in front of me. Mirrors reflecting new feminine identity all around me. Making my extremely sluty appearance so hot at first it turn me on until pictures of exploding clocks fill the screen as you are instructed to inhale your Femininity as gas fills your lungs. As you exhale your asshole begins to quiver as you begin to fall in love with pictures of the erect exploding Cocks. Your instructed to inhale again..hold 10 second as the table falls back you exhale looking at your silky pantyhose. Both vibrators activate!

#pantyhose #crystal meth sissy #trans agenda #forced feminized #sissy hypno brain wash #sissy bimbo sex slave