#or the right kinda feminist

[a-sketchy]

persona misogyny is so fucking wild. ignoring literally everything else about the entire rest of the games, every single s.link with a female character is like “entirely for having been born a woman i have had to work twice as hard for a fraction of the benefit. even now, i am stripped of my agency in a position i never wanted in the first place” and/or “i’m put on a pedestal by the people in my life because of my looks. men see me as an object to be conquered, women hate me for ‘stealing’ ‘their’ men. if i’m withdrawn i’m a bitch, if i’m friendly i’m easy. because of this, i’m alone” and/or “because of my personality or hobby or lack of cooking skills, i feel like i’m failing at femininity. if being a woman is something i can fail at, then where does that leave me? i’m scared at the loss of my identity and place in society”

like very consistently they present female characters with complex thoughts towards their place in society as women, femininity as a whole, and facing issues stemming from misogyny, and then the payoff is always “my problems were entirely my own fault. i wasn’t strong enough, i was a coward. but now, i’m gonna work hard to be exactly what society expects me to be (which is what i want to be)! i’m gonna do better at femininity (which is still something tangible i can fail at)! i’m going to try hard at making friends (which was my fault for not doing)! all my problems are solved through personal responsibility (that im totally culpable for), effort (which i previously was not putting in), or you, a man! i am Happy and Satisfied with this outcome, can i be Your woman?”

and like hello? why are we here. what the fuck are we doing. why do we keep doing this every single time. can we not do the constant lukewarm attempts at criticizing misogyny so you can jerk off to your own thoughtfulness, while ultimately reinforcing patriarchal systems and brushing off any deeper misogyny-bred issues as a lack of deference to one’s rightful place in society? like maybe don’t do that? for fucking once? just an idea

#i’d really need to rewatch slinks to give more indepth thoughts or pull specific examples #but i’m right and i pace about it every day #i’m not really talking about naoto that’s a whole other can of worms a long way down the line #rambles #if persona’s all about wish fulfillment where’s my persona game where i can be a feminist huh #p4g posting #p3p posting #yeah both of those. i’m not far enough in p4 to have seen the payoff but i know that its fucking persona 4 #and jesus christ yukiko!! i only vaguely know of ai. chie in the main story/dialogue options you have #jesus christ the dialogue options. can you ask literally every girl if they have a boyfriend?? and ‘thats very feminine’ DIE #and man p3p. persona main plot misogyny is weird when you’re on the other side of it #it’s a very different experience being the one getting peeped on #and then saori. and mitsuru. and fuuka. kinda rio. idr a single thing about yukari’s slink i’m sorry but probably her too #also my vague recollection of p5 with haru. ann by default though idr her slink #and goddd of course the. everything else. i’m not touching on. main plot misogyny and inherent writing stuff and etc etc etc etc etc etc et #GOD. #persona is hell

[thoughtofadumbteenprotagonist]

Some Thoughts™️

I keep seeing stuff about Greta Gerwig making a remake of the Narnia franchise; my opinions on the need for the remake aside, I keep seeing people in the comments complaining that she better not be casting black or trans people and that she better not make it a feminist story because it will “detract from the true meaning” (Christianity) and some explicitly saying it will “ruin a good Christian story” and I can’t help but think,,,,,,,,,,, if the inclusion of POC, of queer people, of strong female characters “ruins” your Good Christian Story About Good Christian People,,,,, then I think you Christianity fucking sucks

#can’t wait to release this one into the world #ex christian #critacism #religious trauma #religious criticism #ignoring the irony of complaining about *feminist* elements being *forced* into the narrative #when Lucy and Susan are Right Fucking There #Christianity is about love #love thy neighbor #and all that shit #so this overt hatred is kinda pathetic at this point #so when you say the inclusion of minorities is ruining your Good Christian Story #know what you’re actually saying #is that the inclusion of minorities is ruining your narrow perception of your small life driven by white supremacy #and a hatred of anyone Other #thank you for coming to my ted talk #wright writes #narnia #narnia reboot #greta gerwig

[natura-est-sacellum]

Actually, getting tired of seeing religious debates on my dash

#I know I'm probably in the minority there #But I'm getting sick of Protestants calling Catholics pagans #And Catholics calling Protestants not real Christians #And both accusing the other of not understanding the Bible or Jesus Christ or God #Getting tired of feminists calling Christianity a patriarchal religion... #And some types of Christians taking the bait and kinda sorta affirming aspects of its patriarchalness #Nobody agrees on anything anymore and trying to convince other people you're right isn't Godly #Sorry not sorry #Especially when you drag name-calling and accusative behavior into your ''arguments'' #Honestly kind of getting me jaded with organized religion as a whole

[radfemie]

#kinda curious tbh #lesbian #radfem #radfems please touch #radfem safe #radfems please interact #radical feminism #radical feminst #feminsim #terfs welcome #feminist #radfems do interact #radfem thoughts #i have polls now #polls #swerf #swerf safe #women's rights

[townofcrosshollow]

I've been looking through the Library of Congress website for my historical assignment at school and I found this gem of a sexist comic

[Image ID: A satirical drawing from 1913. A woman in a blue dress and police helmet looks back over her shoulder at a department store where many shoppers are entering. A sign in the store window reads 'sacrifice sale of millinery.' The caption reads 'The lady cop. She will never be a success on some "fixed posts."' End ID.]

#historical costume #her outfit looks a little early to me #idk i'm not super used to the 1910s this might be normal womens wear #but i just love the idea that the lady cop would be wearing kinda futzy old clothes and not. y'know. pants #like women had been wearing under certain curcumstances for like 50 years at this point right? when was the fucking bloomers craze... #60 years since feminists had started wearing pants lmao

[starfiretruther]

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

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

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

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

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

[snekdood]

Yknow what makes me reaentful? How ive been sexually abused so much growing up, no one did shit besides shove me off to a therapist, ive been promised by feminist spaces that ill have a place to heal within them, and as soon as my abusive ex tries to smear me and project their behavior on to me by accusing me of doing that shit too, all the sudden everyone acts suspicious, and i still dont get any of that promised healing. Its hard not to feel like my ex did this intentionally to prevent me from having a space to heal. And its my issue with the "believe victims" narrative because it seems to me like people dont actually want to believe victims but to believe the victims they *like* and *agree more with politically*. If people can just say whatever about someone and you feel obligated to believe them because "believe victims", its very clearly going to be exploited by abusive people, and while i dont think we should stop per se, we need to have some sort of actual system to vet who is and isnt telling the truth, like a pseudo-courtroom. At the very least let everyone and their side of the story actually be heard. Bc idk how you guys plan to believe two victims at once who are accusing eachother other than throwing your hands up and picking one or deciding that we're both bad, which doesnt seem very fair to me since people seem to looove demonizing me for no discernable reason.

#anyways ive lost faith in feminist spaces in actually being a place to heal #it kinda just feels like cliques to me dawg. #maybe it used to be sorta healing but i never actually got to find a support system or anything anywhere. #like idk man. maybe the reason ppl go to the right is bc yall are cutthroat and do everything based on vibes. #if i cant even get help and healing from yall like you promise whats the feminism label even for besides for spreading awareness? #because i feel like ill always be excluded because i dont fit the recquired aesthetic. #there needs to be a space for dudes to go to heal too. and id ideally not have to go to one of the mra type spaces. #idk but im just disenchanted with this whole movement. so many unfulfilled promises. #too many terfs infiltrating it also. #im left out in the cold and no one cares and everyone pretends to care about victims but cant even bring themselves to image that i #was the one who was victimized. why should i rely on these spaces at all. its clear yall favor the more fem person in any situation #like this. #also unrelated but related this website is trash and most people on here suck so fucking much. #the mostly cliquey cutthroat spaces for being so 'caring' like you like to think yourselves as. #'oh well we have to be careful so just in case we're gonna kick you out!!' oh really #is that the feminism you were talking about? #youll leave me out on the streets based on a rumor? and if you find out theyre lying then what will you do? are you gonna come over to me #weeping about how you shouldnt have believed them and how sorry you are? bc chances are ill already be dead from starving #but yknow. believe whatever anyone says about someone else. sorry i meant victims* #itd be so so funny to me if someone came up to me with that justification for why they ostracized me and then be like 'how can you be mad! #i didnt know better!! you cant be mad at people for not knowing better >:(' the hell i fucking cant lmao! #yall perpetuated a narrative about me to actively grind my name in the dirt. and im not allowed to be mad? #yall ostracized and excluded me from spaces i need to rely on for community and healing. #yall did nothing for me and threw me in the fucking trash. yeah. i think im allowed to be upset with you and want you to go fuck yourself. #if you believed them and found out theyre a liar. cool. leave me the fuck alone though. go make a post about it and try to rectify the #situation you contributed to you pos. #yknow. maybe itd be one thing if you believed them and i didnt do anything and you apologized. #its a WHOLE OTHER FUCKING THING. WHEN YOU BELIEVE THEM. IM INNOCENT. AND *IM*THE ONE WHO WAS #SEXUALLY ABUSED AND EMOTIONALLY ABUSED TO THE FUCKING MOON AND BACK. and then think an apology is enough. #like go fuck yourself. ive been alone with this trauma this whole time you pieces of shits.

[waterinathermostat]

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#not to vent real quick but I gotta #one of my managers is very ‘girlbosss feminist’ in an ‘I hate men’ kinda way and it makes me so mad #cuz we argue about how like. yeah words like ‘pussy’ are used derogatorily but ultimately don’t have a huge impact on like #overall systematic oppression of women/patriarchy in ways that like. pink taxes do right?? #but she’s so hastag girlboss to a point that it’s almost condescending? #cuz she explains shit to me like I don’t get it because I present so masculine so obviously I can’t understand it #but at the same time she’s always feminizing me when she talks to/about me? #she calls me girl/girlie all the time and a woman and shit and I hate it so much #thank god I only have one more shift with her #rants n rambles #vent

[milowing]

"in the original myth medusa was a rape victim!" i'm literally banging my head against the wall

#you know there are ACTUAL rape victims in greek mythology you could be focusing on rn right??? #but hey these people think persephone and hades are a romance so i dont think they actually care #“feminist” greek mythology retellings that are actually more misogynistic than the original myths i hate you sm #incase ur wondering i saw a stupid tiktok and all the comments were like “i feel so bad for her she's a such a victim” and just... ugh #tbh i feel like it's pretty weird that u aren't chill with medusa just being a monster but whateverrrr #if u want a sympathetic monster the minotaur is right there #also like... it just doesn't make any sense... if medusa used to be human explain her sisters #if athena was trying to protect her why did she help perseus kill her #this also kinda goes into the whole phenomenon of thinking “men” in historical contexts means men and not humans #like artemis isn't textually a lesbian #(altho i dont actually care if u hc artemis as a lesbian i just think we need to keep historical context in mind when interpreting myth) #greek mythology #medusa #milowing

[maganne-bonete]

Every generation of shows and media will always have their own version of superwholock. And as much as how the internet cringes at superwholock it's always gonna be an expected phenomenon because people will always find different media that they enjoy and they will always want to see them together. And there's nothing really that bad about it because it's made with pure fun.

So yeah, enjoy your superwholocks. Enjoy your Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragon. And enjoy your pinescones and morditwi. What matters is that your having fun with what you're doing. And if people are bothered by it then that's their problem.

#fandom stuff #posting this because I started looking into ben 10 crossovers again #gonna be honest it really does feel like its own genre #like the whole teenage chosen one needing to juggle highschool and saving the world thing #idk much thoughts about them and how the trauma and expectations placed on them is such a specific experience that #people from their world may not be able to understand hence why it's a fun idea to have ben 10 interact with people like jake long #also I grew up watching them and the idea of your favs interacting would have any 8 yr old foaming in the mouth #and I guess reading excerpts of greek heroes in legends along with common themes and archetypes in different stories and epics #makes me think about these tropes and archetypes and how these myths affect people #or is affecting me right now #but yeah the superwholock thing #I kinda remember how in the post-homerica and in retellings of jason and the argonauts they sometimes put in their have heroe in there #like oh yeah herakles was in the argo along with that one guy he supposedly killed in one of his myths #along with you oyher fave greek heroes #yeah they were all in the argo with Iason #and you know in the trojan war? actually the amazonian queen hyppolita was there and inspired a short lived feminist revolution in Troy #while killing so many of the greek armies #although I haven't checked my sources in a long time #but yeah humanity has always been putting their favorite heroes together for as long as we could remember #so the superwholock phenomena is pretty normal in literature and mythology #idk idk where I'm going with this now and I'm just rambling at this point and there's so much for me to think about #so yeah #marge's stuff #superwholock #rise of the brave tangled dragons #honestly idk how else to tag this #cringe culture is dead #have fun #disclaimer I am not in the superwholock fanbase nor the other one #the most I got into were gravity falls crossovers that happen here and there

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads / storygraph

The Sentient

fast-paced scifi set 200 years in the future

follows a neuroscientist who gets assigned to a controversial cloning project, tasked with stopping the latest subject from dying before she gives birth, by reading her memories

she and the subjects are both from religious compounds that they’d thought they’d escaped - but they’re involved in the anti-cloning movement, and there are conspiracies under the surface that she finds herself involved in

#the sentient #nadia afifi #aroaessidhe 2023 reads #palestinian fiction #(the author is though the book isn't directly) #this is interesting! #there is a lot packed into it - it starts of kinda normal paced then it very quickly goes into a whole lot of directions #a little too fast for me maybe. it felt like set-up/context for what the Real focus of the story is gonna be in the next books. #def more mind stuff than clone stuff which tbh is like. the normal kind we can practically already do with animals right #I couldn't tell what was trying to be feminist and what was like. the character says this is feminist but it's clearly not because you're #using teenage girls you 'rescued' from a religious cult as babymakers

[sugarcult]

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#every time I see somebody call someone else an alt-right whatever or a nazi or something like that in the notes on a post or whatever #I am like hm. I wonder if this person is Actually That or just a conservative. because some people kinda throw those terms around now #and I go click on the blog and I’m like hm okay this definitely an alt-right/nazi/terf/whatever #OR I’m like huh. it seems like this person is just a Christian/conservative #and then I’ll see a post that has some kinda weird vibes so I’ll be like huh okay. and keep scrolling #and EVERY FUCKING TIME after like 5 minutes I happen upon - actual example from today! - something like: #’some people may think this is odd but so what if someone actually is a Nazi as long as they’re not actively hurting anyone’ #and I’m like oh okay. okay got it. WHAT THE FUCK and block them #like only twice ever have I seen someone accuse someone of being a terf/fascist/Nazi sympathizer/alt-right person and they were wrong #it’s ALWAYS true if you go back far enough. and I don’t mean like 2 years ago I mean like last week #it is so exhausting. like I don’t have a problem with people who are Christians or super hella feminists or and are Normal About People #so I don’t want to label someone as something they aren’t in my head and block them for being different than me (Christian) or blogging- #-about feminism without openly stating they’re pro-trans (like some feminists) #like I block pretty liberally to prevent unhealthy interactions with people I’ll want to fight with. but I don’t mind seeing posts from- #-people who have a different background than me or just don’t blog about ALL their opinions or whatever #but it’s really fucking annoying to spend my time reading someone’s blog like ‘idk it seems like this person is just a Christian or wtv #and then have to be like oh wait! you ARE a fucking fascist. excellent! great work everyone! #this place is fucking wild #like omg

[needle-noggins]

(CW for SA, suicidal ideation) Here we go. My favorite and simultaneously least favorite panel of Vash and Knives.

I've seen a few interpretations of this scene and before we dive into the one that really struck me, let's start with the more... chill one. We're finally introduced to the third gun of Trigun, Vash's angel arm. And the way we're introduced to it involves Knives forcing him to pull the trigger. Of course, since no one knows anything about Knives, the people of Noman's Land blame Vash for Fifth Moon, and Vash likewise blames himself (this is kinda a spoiler but if you've been paying attention, it's just par for the course). However, he's not the one who pulled the trigger, Knives is. It brings up an interesting moral question of blame - do we blame the gun (and Vash, who is being used/objectified as a weapon here), or the person who wanted it to happen? Guns don't kill people, genocidal twins do!

Now for the awful interpretation, the one that makes me cry and wish Vash was real so I could hug him and pay for his therapy. And really highlights how awful Knives is and how far he'd go for his brother in his own, fucked-up way. I touched on this in a previous post about Legato and the Murder Cafe, and the whole time I was thinking about Fifth Moon but didn't want to say anything for the sake of spoilers.

So. Pay attention to the way Vash and Knives are standing. Knives, when he first grabbed Vash's head, was standing in front of him. He moves behind him to better control him and yeah, he's still controlling him via hand on head, and now he's got his other hand gripping Vash's chest, where feathers/wings are manifesting. Knives is assaulting him. If you wanna get crazy with it and say that the angel arm is kinda phallic, you could say... yeah. This is rape. I heard that specific interpretation once and while I accepted it I also don't know if that would be generally accepted or if I'd be called out for it, so I'm trying to tread lightly here.

It also doesn't escape me that of course the angel arm has feminine features like the plants - the plants that, again, humans are exploiting for their ability to create. There's a lot of feminist commentary to be made here but many people have said it better than me. Specifically I'm thinking of this one post I saw about gender fuckery and Tristamp Vash. Anyway.

Also, the atomic bomb/black hole/sun/whatever that is in the middle... It's just so powerful. It's terrifying. The eldritch body horror here is a punch to the gut. What the fuck, Trigun? I thought this was a funky space western!!!

Oh, and here's more commentary on the following few panels:

Vashussy shot, Knives is still right behind him. Yeah, I wasn't kidding about how bad this pose is for them. Knives, you sick fuck.

Vash shoots himself in the leg (a key difference from '98 trigun, lol), because of course he does, but it doesn't free him from the arm.

The arm's getting darker/the light inside is getting lighter! Stampede did an awesome job with their interpretation of the angel arm and I don't think I would have understood it without that. Also, on my first read I didn't notice that Vash is literally levitating, which is cool, but also terrifying because ?? he's not in control of that either??

Finally. A super painful, minimalist, double-page spread. Nightow loves 'em. Vash thinks he's dying (maybe?) and he wishes he had never existed. It's not suicidal ideation per se, but he wishes he didn't exist at all because he's already caused enough suffering. This is a low for him, because he believes so strongly in the concept of the Blank Ticket. (Come on, soupy brain bitch boy, get it together!) He's a monster, it's just how he was born, and he's not in control. Very specifically too, he says "we", and then changes it to "I"... he doesn't blame Knives at all, and that's very him. I want to shake him! Stop playing the martyr, Vash!

#trimax #trigunbookclub #cw assault #cw sa #ive never tagged content warnings before please help if i didnt do it well enough #cw sui ideation #vash the stampede #millions knives #also if you say ONE WORD about plancest i will kill you with my mind because you have sorely misunderstood the point here #posting this makes me so nervous ngl #dont hate me

[cats-in-the-clouds]

yeah ‘women’s and gender history’ class is already going about as well as you’d expect lol

#i could drop it but the odds of me finding something else of value to fill its place are kinda low #i need those credit hours this semester #and i need these course material requirements anyway #i sure didn’t wanna pick the courses i did but i also know i strategically went through them all #well maybe i could look again #i already got all these textbooks thoooooooooough hhhhhghbbghhh i don’t wanna do this #idk feminist theory is like. i’m cool until we reach ‘women should get to be priests’ bc you do not understand the religion at all #it always comes from the least devoutly religious people so i’m like. why do you even WANT to be a priest i suspect you don’t get it #i can tolerate ‘women should have a legal right to a divorce’ and ‘women should get to work’ #but once it hits ‘i bet these historical figures would have identified as transgender!’ i’m like yeah you’re dead to me

[snekdood]

idk why but somethin about these wildfires is telling me that republicans should give more of a fuck about climate change, lest they wanna keep finding out

#babe i promise. #its not your god cursing ppl #it might be a god. but hes sure as fuck not coming for the Liberals or Socialists or Feminists or The Queer Agenda or whatever tf #kinda think he might burn down the world with you on it if you dont idk. give a fuck about something some day eventually. #yknow. something outside of yourself. #some republican coping with the fact that its not his god and this god hates him: m-must be the illuminati secretly putting poison smoke #in the air actually!!! haha!!! ha... hah..... right?? #*fire slowly creeps closer to his home* #yeah sure bud. whatever you need to tell yourself

[i-must-feel]

‼️‼️SPOILERS FOR LISA FRANKENSTEIN AND POOR THINGS‼️‼️

It is so hilarious that Lisa Frankenstein and poor things came out at the same time bc on one hand we have

- movie thats really focused on advertising itself as feminist

- uses the moms body as basically an incubator and completely robs her of her singular act of agency right after roe v wade got overturned

- proceeds to sexualize said mothers body while also sexualizing her child’s immaturity plus gratuitous sex scenes showing how she’s “exploited”

- absolutely refuses to show the “female version of Frankenstein” with any scars or body hair she would absolutely be imperfect and wounded like it’s giving let me go shave my hairless legs

- written and directed by a man

- kinda weird and neurodivergent/mentally ill coded and is mean to the characters about it

And that’s the one winnning all the laurels while the movie with

- a female writer and director

- 1 sex scene which is very consensual and shows literally nothing

- multiple female characters all of which display agency and have wildly different personalities

- the characters are allowed to have trauma and be fucked up but also the first person killed is a lady calling the main character insane (bad) and threatening to lock her up because she doesn’t like her

- accurately shows SA without being gratuitous

- male lead doesn’t have any lines except reading poetry to the girl at the end, other than that there’s like three guys who talk

- real pretty visuals

- hilarious

- the male lead lacks a voice and very specific anatomy but it’s still emphasized how he’s still very much a man

- kills the guys who commits SA

- her sister stealing her crush doesn’t ruin their relationship, she’s still emphatic to her

- SO MUCH set design detail and it looks SO PRETTY

-camp

And THATS the one flying under the radar?!? My guy Lisa Frankenstein is what poor things wishes it was

#lisa frankenstein #poor things #frakenstein #monster #movies #femminism