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aronarchy · 8 months

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I finally watched Barbie yesterday and I feel like the message was kind of? odd? As in, I felt like it was giving off an idea that gender struggle only really involves flip-flopping between patriarchy and matriarchy (well not even that, exactly; there are no depictions of fathers/mothers/parenting/family within Barbieland/the Kendom, so more like just an adult-centering extracted version of male supremacy/female supremacy). Which is already common antifeminist propaganda—the idea that struggle against patriarchy’s power over women equals struggle for women to have power over men, that if patriarchy is overthrown then it will necessarily mean matriarchy, and truly egalitarian relations are impossible. (And, especially, the idea that being oppressed (generally) motivates the oppressed to want to oppress their oppressor in return, rather than just to liberate themselves—see: Ken’s motivation for instituting patriarchy over the Barbies being his neglect by Barbie/the exclusion of Kens, for example.) So like, it was kind of both an apologia for (hypothetical) matriarchy as well as for patriarchy?

But also the matriarchy concept wasn’t very well done IMO; it kind of ignored the context of how matriarchy (as in, women structurally oppressing men on the basis of gender in a way analogous to how men in patriarchy oppress women) has not yet come to existence in any part of human history. That isn’t to say that human matriarchy functionally cannot exist, for some biological or ontological reason—that’s not true, it could (and even possibly after current patriarchy, from the same world, if patriarchy has been completely defeated and a new war has been waged for rulership), but how it might possibly come to exist isn’t portrayed very realistically, so it fell flat to me.

The ending is confusing; while both gesturing that they’re going for compassion/equality now, with Kens no longer excluded like before, they also compare the position of the Kens to girlboss-types of today (under our patriarchy) and imply the Kens don’t even have this much rights yet? (And women still control the presidency, the Supreme Court…—there still is a presidency and Supreme Court. And a Barbie version of Mount Rushmore.) Is it pro or against girlboss “feminism”? It seems to attempt some critiques some of the time, but also upholds it.

Ultimately a key failing point of the narrative is that it attempts to preserve a structure of binary and oppositional gender/the idea of gender roles and gendered division, instead of challenging the idea that there should be any basis for political systems to be set along gendered lines. And until that’s properly tackled, these types of movies will be good—but not particularly radical.

#OP #recently viewed #media review #media critique #Barbie #feminism

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donnerjack · 2 years

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Went in with expectations from trailer alone. Fantastic!

#triangle of sadness #comedy #woody harrelson #recently viewed

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cacaocheri · 7 months

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pumpkin carving :^)

#dude we are SO back #i keep drawing dca content holy shit i missed these guys #also i love drawing sun with his rays spinning #its pretty much the only reaction he has to anything #he's very excitable in his defense #my art #security breach #sun fnaf #fnaf sun #sundrop #sundrop fnaf #charlie daydreamers #sun x y/n #the daycare attendant #dca fandom #also i really like how ive been drawing sun recently #i finally figured out how to draw him from 3/4 view

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anglerflsh · 5 months

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hold. I'm curious about this now

*chosen/proper name, not necessarily a dead/legal name

edit if you have more than one name and aren't attached to any of them pick the fourth option thank you love and light second edit if your view of your name is neutral or you feel like you'd respond to anything. fourth option too

#[.txt]#poll #I'm on an end of the spectrum because idc about the name I'm called except prefering it not to be aligned with my agab #but I have recently been told that to some people it's a really important thing so I'm curious as to how that rates to tumblr dot com #anyway #take in count that I also don't have a solid sense of identity so my view of names and of the self is: skewed 👍

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unproduciblesmackdown · 1 year

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Lackadaisy Enrichment

#in our enclosures!!#video linked as source; which i'm glad to see already has a million views and is trending. That's Right #lackadaisy #WHICH i have been reading since at least '07 when i was thirteen my god b/c this animation is based on the ongoing webcomic #like does its influence show up Directly in some Discrete way i can point to in my art? not very easily probably. And Yet.#the inspiration....i wasn't able to be Regularly Only for at least another year / art done Nonprofessionally Online was novel to me #like wow ppl can make & post fanart of w/e they love huh....didn't know webcomics were a thing & i never really read that many since but.#good god the quality of Lackadaisy at its onset is like this is superb?? this person putting in all their talent and effort???#and Then you get years & years more art and i don't even know what superlatives to throw out abt its quality as it evolves. obsessed w/it..#if i see a new lackadaisy comic page i Will be acting out. obviously this animation is a delight & also stunning. and fascinating to also #juxtapose as a Translation / Interpretation of the comic in a different medium & standalone snippet of Story #and that we're not even quite there in the comic timeline; Taking Notes abt character info we get distilledly here....genuinely love like #take it back to '07 i'm like oh boy can't wait for the dream team to assemble. then a decade later when it did? Oh Boy. that is payoff lol #namely hooray for stitches and mudbug at the field office for every passing gangster. killing one marigold associate but not the other #which seems like a promising start to shootouts w/the other dream team triumvirate. i adore that in canon so far mordecai freckle & rocky #have met but only over a nice brunch. re: all intentions anyways. anyways i'm like Gifs Must Be Made while i'm also so riled afresh abt the #comic that i've been sooo hype for for over fifteen yrs now babeyyy Deservedly. i've done a couple of rereads & ought to do another....#For Interest it'd probably take a few sittings to catch up from the start but there is much to be engaged over....this ongoing story that's #historical fiction prohibition bootlegging cats with plenty of focus on characters & several Mysteries. which i'm better at parsing now lol #like one of the more recent rereads like Oh Of Course x (probably) accidentally killed his y & z took the fall & that's a binding secret...#Not [oh of course] abt the circumstances surrounding a's death & how b & c were involved. nor the ''what's marigold's damage'' mystery #which is great. love to not know things. love that we can readily follow all the emergent drama everyone's wading in nowadays. hell yeah #anyways admire my organized approach to gifs here. four shots each Expressions Atmosphere Action Groupshots #sure might've muddled through gifmaking for this anyways but fr being a huge lackadaisy comic enjoyer for now most of my life helps #and its very Overall Inspiration like. just really getting the [you can really just draw stuff out here] going. fr the art's detail & skill #and that enrichment like i'm gonna have a great time following this. And I Have #you don't expect a crowdfunded indie animation in the mix back then but hell yeah fellas #SIGH ok removing a 4th gif that's broken / not displayed despite reuploading then entirely remaking it. if it's a bug i'll try again later

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secondwheel · 8 months

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Sirf tum (2023)

#sirf tum #anmol baloch #hamza sohail #mohsin abbas haider #recent #psalmstree #sunset #sunrise #tv show #pakistan #sky #views #travel

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tenvishund · 3 months

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F I S S I O N - Why the hell do you hurt yourself for this?

#wake up babe new tenvishund art just dropped #very very rusty but inspired by a recent album and general life experiences/interraction #im coming to the end of my degree and trying to find A Real Proper Grown Up Job #and the industry I am in can be really sneaky - you think you've found something good but if you speak to the right people #then the truth comes out #which is frustrating #but here i am alive and well and probably doing better than i ever have been before #even if sometimes i do want to tear my guts out and die like a dog #such is life i guess all about balance #i also wanted to colour the guts red but i cant work this new fancy gimp system so i gave up #enjoy!! thank you for viewing!

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cupiddstarrie · 1 year

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Malleus wip I’ll probably never finish idk

#I’ve realized recently that I’ve started watermarking my art on here with my Pinterest art acc @ 😭#My art #Malleus #Twisted Wonderland #Twst #Malleus draconia #malleus art #twisted wonderland art #malleus draconia x reader #twisted wonderland x reader #Yeah I tag my art with “x reader” because I know it’ll get more views that way 😢😎

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livelovecaliforniadreams · 24 days

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#eric at it again with the cameos #well found out how i can view his recent ones #if this is even recent #cause the desktop one shows nothing #haha #eric being the positive ray of sunshine as always #the rookie #chenford #tim x lucy #eric winter

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lunarharp · 2 months

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What led to this (orufrey comic, cw an uncomfortable/creepy scene)

#witch hat tag #orufrey #er.... i'm too tired to have anything to say..i worked several days on this.#wait.. didn't i say just recently here that i probably wouldn't ever depict 'what if alaira is qifrey's sort-of ex'. What's going on #i don't even remember deciding to draw this..it's all a blur..i'm not sure why i WOULD decide to draw delicate scenes in my head #that i wouldn't really want to share with anyone/discuss so why did i draw it...#some part of me really really wants to draw things that are more and more true to myself...#maybe because of my alienation with most romance/shipping/dynamics the rest of the world depicts.#orufrey really is perfectly suited to me - what i read in the text and what is in my head. well anyway #i am TIRED of drawing poses and angles and..maybe now i will actually take a break from drawing bc of the tediousness of Angles #btw it really is a 'stretch of time' . . . assuming witches graduate age 18-20 #well orufrey are canonically 30-ish. they've only had agott around for presumably about TWO years (?) bc she took the test age 10 #and it feels like oru moving in/unknown atelier acquisition/building (?) .. i guess that could be a year or so before agott at most #(she was the first disciple) so... ????????? What about the other 7 or so years ?!?!?!!?!?! Unemployed Brimhat Hatred era #that time is very nebulous. after qifrey went to the tower i feel like it's been implied he and oru drifted apart a little.#certainly they didn't live together at first... no way. that doesn't feel like how it is based on things oru has said about becoming Eye #idk. I'm tired now. i don't usually think of alaira as necessarily qifrey's ex and this being how things went in that 'sliver of time'.#i usually prefer the idea that they have their first kiss with each other in their 30s cause That's Just The Orufrey Lifestyle #just felt like making a more relatable alternative view of my own Cai Orufrey Canon one time. btw im a big monoshipper and it hurt a bit #let's leave it there. this is surely the most i've worked on a 'single' art - though now i realise just how much longer the fic took :')

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1024gifs · 2 months

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ATEEZ X ROHTO ☁️☀️ UV POSITIVE REVOLUTION

#my ateez getting all of these brand deals recently makes me so proud 🥺💖#please give the video some views and give it a like!#ateez #ateez gifs #atzsource #seonghwa #hongjoong #jeong yunho #yeosang #choi san #mingi #wooyoung #jongho #atz #ateezedit #kpop #malegroupsedit

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aronarchy · 1 year

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(finished THT S2E9 a few weeks ago but didn’t get to putting this out in text until now)

- throughout the 1st two seasons I was curious how they were going to play Fred—started with surface possibility of him adhering to the “bad but not in an Actually Evil Villain way,” i.e. able to be polite; it was shown to be just a façade later; I think a lot of viewers were also curious about his relationship w/Serena & how far misogyny stretched vs his previous relationship w/her pre-Gilead that seemed pretty good & respectful & fine, and how that played into the shifts that occurred during the coup, and how she maintained a presence behind the scenes in activism and planning and operations despite becoming a Wife, and to what degree Fred disagreed w/her being dismissed by the others. kind of confirmed a thought I’d had(?) to see that he was willing to be “traditionalist” w/her & assault her and not just Handmaids and not just endorsing other husbands’ assaults on their wives. lot of viewers seemed to feel really sorry for her after that, enough to move her from the “villain” category to the “pitiable/sympathetic/to be fought for” category. unsurprised that [iris’s abusive parent] had a similar reaction, and called Serena a good person after that (she always had a problem w/acknowledging Serena as Actually Abusive; cis nuclear family mothers abusing their dependents tend to find solidarity). also saw various articles going w/a similar framing of sympathy.

- but that’s the thing, isn’t it? (white, bourgeois) cis women are abused (by white, bourgeois cis men) and are victims—but they continue to choose their power over the further marginalized, over the forced laborers they own in their households, over their own liberation from their abusive patriarchs. Serena has physically assaulted as well as constantly verbally abused and controlled and psychologically tortured over the first two seasons (and after E8 she resumes). She gets a chance to leave to Hawai’i and she doesn’t—I doubt this was solely influenced by the coercive control/threat Fred exerted over her, much of her motive was that she wished to continue ruling over what she did have. We see that even more in E10 (viewed a few days ago)—she joins up w/Fred to rape June and that’s, symbolically + as the plot goes, how that contradiction that was (finally?) exposed or forced into the light in E8-9 was “resolved,” with the state of her and the house going back to as it was before: she will be close to him, plot with him, conspire together so long as it’s to abuse someone even more powerless. Serena has had much more leeway to run away throughout the entire story, and to succeed and not be caught. June tried running long before Serena started considering it when offered by the American(s).

- also it was just kind of sad to see how much better their lives were in E8 when Fred was out of the picture, and also how much less abusive Serena was to June (relatively speaking). good choice of portrayal. and a good way to understand how material conditions can lead the “good”/normal to commit atrocities, and the atrocious to behave less atrociously.

- I get why they chose for there to be a way out, going for the “inefficiency”/“working against themselves” angle (re the fertility issue, and the solution the American guy offered re their own scientists and researchers)—but it was also kind of disappointing, bc unless they were going to go full-out w/transhumanism I would’ve preferred if they just let it be. What if there wasn’t any way to resolve the small amounts of “available” fertility? What if the human race really was going to die out, and there really was no magical stroke of luck loophole found that could stop it? I would’ve liked to see the showrunners really having to contend with the fundamental value question, getting to the heart of the issue, having the guts to double down on yes we really do mean it there is no possible amount of productivity increase whatsoever that would justify coercion. (But this is a show for libfems, and for people who like happy endings and no hard dilemmas, so they have to keep it positive.)

- show makes many extremely good points and great analyses but it’s still hindered a lot by the areas where it hits a certain ceiling and doesn’t have the ability to break out of the box—mainly its erasure of racism, its erasure of transness/gender variance, and how it tiptoes around the issue of childism/child abuse (and ultimately this all feeds into its lack of endorsements of militancy, and ultimately how it falls back onto the “liberal democracy fundamentally good, just gets bad when disturbed”). obviously it’s very much not in a position to go for a family abolitionist stance, normie directors right now are all cowards, but it’s still galling to see the fundamental assumptions still endorsed, even when one of the bioparents is gay or whatever, or when the other options apart from the bereft mothers are (far worse) abusers. (a common objection would be “but they’re suffering so much from having their kids taken away so why would you hurt them even more by ok’ing kids leaving on purpose” but this is only bc the narrative still centers the adult perspective & adult struggle with patriarchal violence, not the child/youth’s, and youthlib is core and essential, not tangential or disruptive, to the overthrow of patriarchy.) (this is also linked to the show’s refusal to depict queerness more subversive than “goal of two cis adults legally married with happy kids”)

#OP #the handmaid’s tale tv #recently viewed #media review #feminism

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donnerjack · 2 years

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Nothing cleans the horror pallet like a sweet love story about a lone woman and her Djin.

#djin #three thousand years of longing #george miller #recently viewed

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mari-lair · 4 months

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I'm happy Akane's background was not forgotten

this is such a martial arts stance, he had training.

Tsukasa is as op as always, and Teru said the clock keeper has been nerfed, but Akane holds his own, he moves like he has an idea of what to do, he just isn't fast or strong enough to do it.