#misognoir

[snowowlll]

Hmm,

I wonder what the picture below is referring to

surely not the first black woman in Texas anime, right?

#anti rwde #rwde critical #rw/by #anti rwde action #misognoir

[ccthepandafangirl]

ok, this is getting SO out of hand that Uncle Rick himself had to make a PSA

and I swear of any of you wankers make ONE MORE racist comment about Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth, I will judo flip you into Tartarus.

#i'm not not black but i will defend this girl with my life #STOP HARASSING A LITERAL CHILD #pjo show #pjo #pjo tv #percy jackon and the olympians #annabeth chase #leah jeffries #cc says things #walker scobell #arya nagar #racism #misognoir #leah sava jeffries #annabeth chase is black #deal with it #black annabeth chase #blm #black lives matter #poc #woc

[moonssugar]

thinking about the intersection of ableism against autistic people and infantilization when paired with misogynoir. its not looking great

#its dogshit if ur wondering #the infantilization and misognoir crossover is INTERESTING bc 1. adultification but also no agency? #constantly at war with my cultures perception of what they call ‘grown’. ive always hated it #double whammy combo #you could add transphobia and queerphobia to these too #this is really me trying to decode what it is my family cant stand about me #autism #misogynoir #infantilisation #autizzy

[vagisil]

i can’t name how many times someone has told me “i can’t imagine you doing (insert common thing here)” everything from dancing to having sex like at some point it’s less about my perceived personality and more about yall not viewing me as a person you can envision me doing things people because you don’t think of me as a human being and i only ever see black femmes talking about experiencing this so hmmm 

#it all rooted in misognoir too #i spelled tht wrong but who cares

[notanotherockstar]

“it is so misogynistic when a poor (billionaire) white girl gets blamed for making the choice to date a man who watches porm depicting women being brutalized” ????? is such a gross take and can’t believe so many people have had the gall to say it

it’s giving misognoir at this point from those swifties.

like screw the (whole host of WOC) women who are upset about this! we shouldn’t make the white woman who is okay with being around someone who said this publicly feel bad! she gives so much from her life of privilege and luxury she shouldn’t have to confront the realities of her actions and their consequences while she flies all across the world to her many mansion esque homes in her private jet thats so unfair to burden her with this

like no swifties what is unfair is how women and people of colour are STILL LITERALLY BEGGING for some care about their existences as PEOPLE not token or objects to be abused. begging to the people who have repeatedly said “hey i care about your existence” without any meaningful action behind it. like don’t tell us you care you have to show it! taylor is demonstrating the opposite. POC are the ones with the burden

this! all of this!!

#anti taylor swift

[demani-dusk]

I really loved Babel or the Necessity of Violence a lot and I want to get some more of my own thoughts out.

What I liked: I mostly read/listen to/watch scifi/fantasy stories, and while I love scifi/fantasy for allegory and metaphor that can focus in on and provide sharp commentary on the real or how the hyper real can heighten the emotions of a real thing, it turns out it was very grounding to read a story about empire set in the actual British empire about people who would have been its actual victims. And even then, I really do love the fantastical elements of the setting and the way silverwork and translation convey the ideas and themes so well.

I like the way the premise of the story and the positions of the characters so clearly and directly conveys the exploitation and extraction of imperialism, the way educating and shaping Robin into an Oxford student is so deeply and inherently abusive. I love that actual real world translation work from the time fits so neatly into the story. Commentary on everything being translated into English but rarely would something be translated from one colonized language to another. Commentary on the way imperialists treat texts written by cultures they don't respect. It all works together so satisfyingly well.

Translation as a kind of magic, as a central theme is also just such a great tool for a writer to do fun and good writing stuff with. I love the way etymology and translations give weight and new layers of meaning to the text the way other literary devices might. It's a book where the thinness of any single language is part of the conceit of how the magic works and Kuang is like, supplementing the inherent thinness of language by offering the reader translations as supplement, trying to get *us* closer to the "realm of true meaning" as it were.

I love very much Robin's internal turmoil throughout the first 2/3 or so of the story. His love and hatred of Oxford. His inability to choose between his father and his brother. His fear, his wonder, his resentment. The way he feels extremely at home and never at home at Oxford. It's all done extremely well imo.

Things I'm less sure about:

I really wish Victoire were more fleshed out earlier in the book. I think what we get makes sense with the story being Robin's perspective, because Victoire and Letty are pretty much always together and Letty has a way of sucking all the air out of a room. But I still wish more room had been made for us to learn more about Victoire before the last act.

I would like to see a little more about sexism and Letty's relationship to feminism. We know she is very aware of the sexism she faces at Oxford but what does she think of suffragists? I can imagine white feminist Letty supporting women's suffrage and still not taking racism or imperialism seriously, and I can also imagine ivory tower rich girl Letty being entirely skeptical of addressing any social issue in a way that isn't about personally fighting to improve your own position, including sexism. I also think Victoire's experience of misognoir is relatively underexplored and that's too bad.

There's also this thing in the writing I'm not sure how I feel about. That is, there are a couple of intractable arguments characters have repeatedly on and off the page. I found myself not loving this as a reader, but I'm somewhat convinced that the way I didn't like it was that it effectively conveyed the boredom and discomfort of having the same argument over and over without making progress, and isn't that the book doing its job well? I still sort of feel like it would help to get these arguments in ways that highlight different character's perspectives each time or something. Or like, ifl having the same best reappear in a story you want the circumstances to change such that the thing happening feels importantly recontextualized, and I didn't always feel like this was happenijg. idk I'm not sure my instincts about this are good.

Anyway, it's a good book, I liked it a lot.

#babel or the necessity of violence #babel an arcane history #babel rf kuang #babel

[kingmystrie]

Boggles me that ppl hate patricia taxxon for making the EXTREMELY OBVIOUS connection between racial dicrimination and queerphobia as well as the EXTREMELY OBVIOUS connection between trans misogyny and misognoir and the EXTREMELY OBVIOUS fact that black trans women do in fact, exist! And trans misogynistic comments do in fact effect black trans women.

[festeringfae]

A part of my brain wracked with C-PTSD is yelling at me not to "jynx" it by making this post, but: I've never been completely confident that two women who are explicitly, canonically lesbian and bisexual are going to survive and/or not be completely fucking miserable by the end of the finale of a teen show in my entire fucking life. And for all the misognoir and anti-Native bullshit towards and in the way Toni, and by extension, Choni, is written....I don't think I've ever, and I do mean ever, seen First, Most-Characterized love interest of the same gender get to be the endgame in a teen show.

I think about Willow and Tara, and how the first sex scene between women on broadcast TV was between Willow and...Kennedy. I think of Pretty Little Liars, how nothing I'd ever seen before was as electric as Maya and Emily, how it was so tender and alluring and full of longing even just in the commercials that at 18 I remember being surprised that I liked the show itself, because that wasn't what I was here for, I was here for Maya's doe eyes coaxing me out, gently, the way she did Emily. I think about how I don't even know who killed Maya, or if they ever confirmed it on the show. How they sent her away first, to a camp. How Emily's other two main interests were white, and abused her, and tried to drown her. How I don't remember much of anything about Emily's Black love interest, Samara, but I remember her name and the thrill of learning it in some scene in a coffee shop, or a mall kiosk. I remember she was beautiful and later on they revealed she was deceitful and pining after an abusive white girl. I remember she died both off stage narratively and off a literal stage, no discretion given to the image of her splayed across the floor-- a narrative distraction from the real plot of the episode. No funeral episode for her. I remember how the lesbian of the titular Pretty Little Liars was the only one who did not end up with her first love interest-- even though one of the other first love interest's was a high school sophomore's English teacher.

I think of how these were the two most generous depictions of lesbians available to me, as someone whose teenage years were 2005-2010.

There were others. South of Nowhere, a show that despite the utterly mind-blowing focus on a girl realizing she likes not only A Girl but Girls, was sabotaged out of a final season worth watching, of a final season that wasn't too patronizing for even a 16-year-old lesbian with Literally Nothing Else to keep watching. There was Literally Nothing Else because Paige and Alex had already broken up on Degrassi (again), even though they'd only gotten maybe 6 episodes focused on them across multiple seasons, even though I still know exactly what clip from The Lexicon of Love played in the commercials because my 15-year-old self found herself completely drawn in, focused, compelled, impatient for the new episode to air, every time it played. "Ever feel drunk without drinking?" "Is that when your shoes went AWOL?" [Jay somehow makes his presence known] "Ew! VIP does not stand for vastly icky poser. What are you doing here?" "My boy Mic did security on the movie," point at Mic Mic nods at the camera, some snide comment about the girls [in hindsight, incredibly chaste], snide in a way that asks Alex if Paige is why she dumped him but he doesn't say "Paige," Alex UP IN HIS FUCKING FACE IN A PHYSICAL THREAT you do not call her that. Ever." The close-up of Paige's arched brow, her glittering, pleased eyes. Alex will later hold Paige during a panic attack and she will be a lesbian who tells Paige "the word is bi" when Paige is making identity needlessly complicated and Alex will have a weird plotline about a strip club where everything is status quo by the end of the two parter except, conveniently, their relationship status.

Paige's actress will admit fondly that she forgot Paige and Alex ever dated, and that it meant so much to people. Naya Rivera, God rest her soul, will fight for joke-lesbian Santana to become a real girl, but not before I leave for college. My last year as a true teenager, there was so little of Santana and Brittany that the one-off joke that would inspire Naya Rivera to fight for their humanity made my friends and I cheer like it was an epic high of high school football, a touchdown after staring hungrily, longingly, defiantly at those damned pinkies for months.

I stopped watching Glee the moment they finally let those girls kiss. It was never going to get any better than that, I declared. Actually, what I said was that I can't watch Glee anymore-- because that was as good as it was ever going to get. And better to only have the dollop of affirmation I longed for, and live in purposeful denial, than face what I saw as the inevitability of their being broken. Not just separated--broken. Sabotaged. Punished. Thwarted.

(When I stopped watching Glee, I watched for gifsets of them. Youtubed their songs. Threw quiet tantrums in shitty apartments whenever I saw them with other people. Dropped everything and grabbed the remote when I heard they were getting married in the episode currently playing. Recorded myself watching it, because it felt like history, because I needed to see what it looked like-- finding out that we could make it real. I had to WATCH, because if I didn't I WOULD NOT believe it-- SOMETHING would happen, no matter what the episode previews had said. Something ALWAYS did.

When they made it through the episode unscathed, I cracked the champagne that had been meant for New Years Eve. I cried my eyes out. I still didn't watch any more of the show. They'd still had to share their ceremony with two gay boys jumping on their coat tails last minute (Kevin Keller: thank you for 7 years of atoning for Klaine's sins).

I don't know what the fuck is going to happen in the Riverdale series finale. But I know despite the appalling misogynoir she faced, and having a baby, Vanessa Morgan still decided to come back and not only keep Toni alive but keep her kissing Cheryl in scenes where it wasn't originally written that she would. I know Madeleine Petsch looked at a character I looked at and went "that's a high femme" and fucking agreed, and fought for it. I know we went from "it's okay because it's self-aware" faux-lesbianism and creepy stalker lesbian trope to being soulmates in multiple dimensions without even having to die and if you DO die you're resurrected. And you get to have sex. And you look like me and my high school crush-- something I'd never thought to want to see in high school.

I'm not worried about Toni Topaz or Cheryl Blossom dying or being intentionally tragic in the Riverdale series finale. I just really wanted to let you know that. I want to be brave enough to jynx it. We all deserve the feeling of crying on the couch with a bottle of champagne-- safe, no take-backs.

#riverdale #cheryl blossom #toni topaz #brittana

[blackcat419]

Can the fandom not attack Nettles or her actor?

If the misogyny that Alicent and Olivia Cooke have had to face so far from this fandom are anything to go by, the actor for Nettles is going to need a lot of love and support to deal with the misogyny, racism, and misognoir she could face. I hope the fandom can be mature and not hate on a woman of color for playing a fictional character but I’ve been disappointed when my expectations are on the ground.

If I see any of that shit directed at Nettles or her actor, you will be blocked and reported.

#house of the dragon #hotd #nettles #don’t be sexist #don’t be racist #it’s not that complicated

[diallokenyatta]

The men of my generation are men who would mock & demean each other if you felt Attraction, showed Sympathy, held Solidarity, or gave Resources to a poor Black Woman.♂️ You would be labled a SIMP, a Buster, or Capitan Save-A-Hoe if you demonstrated anything more than contempt for poor Black Women, Single Morthers, or any Black Women who failed to uphold Puritanical standards for womanhood.👸🏿 This was so ingrained in the Black men of my generation that we created an entire genre of music & media to prop up this ideology. We turned men who promoted this ideology in media into Mega-Stars & Millionaires. (E-40, Ice Cube, Sotomayor, Tariq Nasheed, Louis Farrakhan, the list is endless)💲 But what fucks me up about this the most is that the same Muthafuckas that refuse Sympathy, Solidarity, & Resources for poor, unworthy Black Women, many of whom they are related to or procreate with; these same Muthafuckas go all in on showering Rich Black Male Celebrities (that don't GAF about them or our Community) their unearned & unending Support, Solidarity, & billions in Resources!🤦🏿‍♂️ When was the last time Black men of GenX called for boycotts, threatened violence, or just relentlessly advocated for poor Black women to address any of the countless issues that afflict them or our larger community, because I've seen my Brothers do all of that & more on behalf of Chapelle, Kanye, Kyrie, Ice Cube, Cosby, Nick Cannon, etc. Grown azz BM on some super groupie shit.🤩 I've had my Brothas admonish me because I call out & refuse to support these Class/Ideological Enemies, Minstrels, & Quoons.🦝 I see populations of Black men who've come after us try to turn this shit around. They acknowledge & oppose the Sexism, Patriarchy, & Misognoir we brought them up in, & instead of acknowledging our role GenX BM attack these young BM & attempt to impose their pathological attitudes on to another generation.👴🏿 It's sick. It's Mentacide.☠️ (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClCAk-AOtYk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[kingmystrieart]

Racist groomer serial killer straight white woman OC

[Img ID: Arrow pointing to art of my oc morningstar, text under the arrow reads "Probably also a Nazi tbh"]

Her name is Morningstar and im redesigning her when i say nazi her ei mean neo nazi to be extra clear. She's the villain of the series she represents white supremacy and how white women are creepy to me while im working my job for some reason. She's also transphobic, she calls Arnie a man and exudes misognoir.

She uses the fact she's a white woman to get away with murdering kids because nobody thinks she's dangerous because she's a white woman.

Does my explanation of this character explain enough to understand that her stupid design is abt how white people get away with crime and shit by *appearing* harmless? She hides her competent insidious nature behind a veneer of carefree idiocy she pretends to be incompetent, and so nobody bothers to stop her.

#mystrie does art #morningstar #character dissection

[mistavybe]

As a black person from what y’all would refer to as a “Third World Country”, I wholeheartedly endorse this message.

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾���🏾👏🏾

#Photo #Quote #Random Online Ish #Twitter #Black Lives Matter #Racism #Systematic Racism #White Privilege #White Supremacy #White Nationalism #Misogny #Misognoir #Sexism #Homophobia #Transphobia #Zenophobia #Diversity #Inclusion #Representation

[distinguishedhoundflapauthor]

I am praying with all my Might that Mel is gonna be alive and that maybe her back shining was some kind of warning but the way they killed Sky off and left nothing but ashes and how despite Mel’s complex past she was mainly used to prop up and coddle Jayce via allowing him to sneak into his professors office to finish his experiment, and when he had a target on his back from his self righteous campaign of rooting out the councils corruption she gave him warnings and advice and he was rewarded with a kiss and a intimate relationship with her and then when he has guilt when he kicked his mentor off the council she gave him assurance that it was the right thing to do. When the possibility of the crystal being used as a weapon came as a probability Mel is the one who suggested that they make weapons to defend themselves while Jayce and Viktor were against it. While I’ve never played league of Legends before why was the black coded Medarda family introduced as white coded colonizing Noxians when in the lore of the original game they were one of the contributing families who were responsible for building the city’s Sungate’s. The thing that worries me is that I can see some tropes with her character that worry me we a have beautiful dark skin woman that was introduced in a suspicious manner that would make anyone dislike her on spot and when she aids him it is almost as if she is manipulating and seducing him at the same time and she is immediately his romantic partner in a sexual manner … A Jezebel. While we have not seen the Strong Independant Woman we have seen the trope of the black persons being coded the villain of the story and giving Mel and her mother that background while Mel’s mother is the overbuff black woman who killed a “ poor innocent small white coded character”. Both have complicated relationship( the trope of black people cant have healthy normal relationships in either family or romance) Lady Medarda is a conqueror and Mal is a diplomat who wants peace but ignored the Undercity for years. Then we have the Disposable Black Girlfriend trope because the the way she aids Jayce is to boost him up and if she dies or is seriously injured similar to Sky ( Fucking really Viktor you tossed her ashes down a drain toward the Undercity🤬🤬!!!!)all she will do is prop him up further in a campaign against the undercity and her mother will have justification for war on Piltover and then we will have the… Angry Aggressive Black Woman Trope. I want her to be ok but the signs are numerous throughout this show and she isn’t a fighting character like Ekko in the game she was made for the show and Jayce’s Arc. Seeing Jayce and Mel’s relationship and the hate for no reason that Mel gets makes a person wonder why in a decent amount of media are black women paired with white men when we are the black characters particularly the females are almost always attacked for the minuscule things out of their control. The white love interest puts little to no work in the relationship and is seen majority of the time never protecting his black coded love interest because she’s a “strong independent woman.” Black female characters do all the work: we have to teach them right from wrong, we have to reign them in when their about to do something stupid,reckless ,selfish or dangerous, we have to coddle them when they are feeling down or “attacked in way or form”, and we have to encourage them when they are in doubt…Mel did all this for Jayce so I might add the Mammy trope. But when we ask the world to replay us for going above and beyond for such kindness what do we get…Silence and our deaths and suffering ignored or exploited to prop them up.

#anti blackness #arcane #mel medarda #misognoir #jayce talis #arcane racism

[kingthekj]

I fear that most Actors/Models of Color that white people can tolerate or like to add in their fancasts because of inclusion or (they literally don't know any other Actors of Color) will only help the actors but worsen people's concept of Racism by it. Racism isn't always inherently violent. It's a mindset. A thought process. There are microaggressions or just how people think and what they associate people of color with. Black women who are naturally muscular or just want to be muscular are weirdly fetishized with "Step on me." or the "I want her to [insert violent but sexual act]".

Or, and I'm not Asian but I've seen this but if I get something wrong lmk, pale skin Asian people are not treated as the adults they are but instead they are treated like dolls. Asian men especially are infantilized especially in K-pop groups (I'm throwing a stone at a hornet's nest by saying this but fuck it). Same with lighter-skinned Asian women. They only use words like cute or innocent or tiny when these are in fact grown-ass people that were talking about.

These actors have either euro-centric features allowing white people to fine them attractive or they are fetishized or infantilized or sexualized or put on a pedestal. It's the media version of "I'm not racist, I have black/brown friends!"

If you interact with a person of color in any form and all you can do is either sexualize them fetishize them or infantilize them, you have a racial bias. I am not calling you racist I am saying that you need to evaluate why you only see light skin Asian man as precious why you see dark skin women as always independent strong and unbreakable and why you only see black men sexually and only talk about their bodies and not their attributes and personality and accomplishments. It's a shame for people like Anthony Mackie who is incredibly talented at his craft to only be reduced to a sex image and object and to be underrated in his own show where he is one if not the titular and main character.

And it goes without saying but if you are not in this category then this post isn't about you. If it don't apply, let it fly.

Zendaya, MBJ, Dev Patel, Reece King, Booboo Steward, Steven Yeun, Anthony Mackie, etc. And they throw in Lupita Nyong'o or Danai Gurira or Winston Duke for the dash of dark skin are just some people I've seen this happen to.

And this post is slightly skewed towards black people because I am a black person so I cannot and will not speak for the people of color and their experiences. Any other people of color would like to elaborate or bring up other points I didn't talk about then please I encourage you to.

White people don't clown on this fucking post.

#Mcu #antiblackness #racism #misognoir #disc horse #its really not but you get the point #colorism #fandom issues aka racism #marvel #tfatws

[willanswertosteve]

TW: child abuse, child neglect, black pain, troubled teen industry, christian care

If you have a moment, and are in the right headspace, please take a sec to look at what this creator has brought to light.

A black child, Naomi Wood, was murdered by directors Dan and Holly Williams, and the staff at Christian Home for Trouble Girls.

She was ignored and denied medical care for (reportedly) over a month. Even though she reported stomache pains.

The creator states in a follow-up video that she was given the death report by a current employee. And provides a pdf link for those who would like to investigate on their own. (Which I'm linking)

#Naomi Wood #black lives matter #blm #childe abuse #child neglect #black pain #medical neglect #christian care #troubled teen #florida #antiblackness #misognoir

[mirandathemoon]

“Y’all had no issue burning down buildings when it was . . .” YES THE HELL WE DID. You think you know every white person? I am not okay with that, those were atrocities and so is burning down by doling a today? You are literally admitting it was wrong then but you doing it now is okay? You sound like such a hypocrite I can’t believe you dont realize how you sound. It wasn’t okay when they did it but good job assuming I’m okay with that just because I’m white and it’s not okay when BLM does it.

me: black people have been victims of systematic destruction of their property, culture, and bodies up to this day, and suffer long term genetic damage and health effects like cancer due to the system in which theyve been forced to live.  you: omg but not all whites! what about the white people?   youve asked me like three or four questions to the same effect and  at this point youre literally just harassing a black person to cope with your covertly racist tendencies. You’re hyper focusing on me because when white women feel like their sociological control is compromised (a new supreme court justice directly compromising your reproductive rights mayhaps?) they lash out by attempting to seem morally and generally superior. You’re the equivalent to a Karen yelling at a black man for walking his dog and minding his own business. And the only opinion you’ve solidified is that angry white people only exist when they cant get their way.  if youre looking for me to agree with you; it wont ever happen. if you’re looking for me to feel somehow obligated to prove my moral worthiness to you it wont happen. I genuinely hope someone throws a brick through your window.   Your opinions have 0 value to me due to your lack of education on the toll taken on black lives throughout centuries of oppression and your feeling of entitlement to capitalism and complacency as an end all solution.  if you want an apology, you can sit on a dick and spin I don’t owe you shit. 

#blm #walter wallace #george floyd #breonna taylor #black lives matter #misognoir #amy coney barrett #karen #karen complex