When I talk about something bad I've experienced, Baked In to my experience as A Woman, I am not "making my little cousins feel like shit for being women", because I am talking in a space with, allegedly, adults. I am not bringing my problems to children in the first place.
That said, I don't HAVE to make my baby cousin feel bad, because she's already experienced sexual harassment in her life, and she's only 8, and doesn't even understand what any of it means yet.
And everyone in her family can try to instill confidence in her, and never talk about our bodies in a negative way. But she can still feel like she's too chubby, because she still goes to school, and talks to other kids and their parents, and still sees ads, and still watches tv. We can be positive, but we can't fix the root of the problem.
And I don't HAVE to tell trans women that "pain is a rite of passage", because that's not a Rule being enforced (by me), because I've already sat and listened to my friend complain about constantly shaving as a Baseline necessity and how it hurts her skin and she has to put makeup onto fresh cuts on her face because going out without a full face of properly feminine makeup would make her life worse, and being anything less than thin and lithe makes her "less feminine", and ALL the things that can make her "more feminine" are behind a paywall. And I can try to make her feel better, and I can hear her experiencing the tenfold version of problems I relate to, but I can't fix the root cause of her problems by just telling her not to complain.
Forcing happiness as a core personality trait for women is not the Girlboss Feminist move that you think it is, and no amount of gender euphoria in the world will make you immune to systemic oppression.
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Bianca: Shit, I lost Wednesday. Enid's gonna kill me.
Yoko: I have an idea.
Yoko, shouting: OMG is that... Esther Sinclair.
Wednesday, appearing with a silver knife in her hand: Where?
Yoko: Found her.
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hey btw it takes a lot of patience and care and time and dedication to teach someone how to read and write so please dont forget that muu, canonically, is teaching haruka how to read and write
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Kate is a grown-ass woman towards a literal child because she is a crazy predator (and I’m tired of people not acknowledging it and Derek’s trauma from it):
Stiles defending Derek cause that’s his mans and Kate just so in the wrong:
Just a reminder: Kate Argent is a predatory bitch😐
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Nicasia swallowing her pride and begging Jude for Cardan's life on her knees u will always be famous. Jude letting herself cry over Cardan in front of no one but Nicasia u will always be famous.
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ah, you see. we're not mad that she's toxic. we're mad that she does the exact same shit as shadow weaver and horde prime, and gets away with it.
it's completely okay to portray toxic characters in media. what's not okay is romanticizing the toxicity and acting like it's totally okay to abuse your partner as long as you're hot.
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see my brain just doesn’t register the idea of anyone having a ‘one true love’ which is why the common fandom tropes of making canonical love interests terrible in order to justify why your ship is better always bugs the shit out of me. it feels like the only reason you would do that is if the idea of the characters in your ship having any other sort of romantic relationship that was important to them, even in the past, is a threat to their current one, therefore all their past relationships need to be demonized in order to make them ‘not real love’ so that they remain pure and chaste and ready for the True Love of the endgame ship.
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i was tagged by @dekarios @katsigian @devilbrakers @risingsh0t and @katewalker to use this cute picrew with some of my ocs. thank you so much guys ily <33
violante/ruven (bg3) | akira/hanako (cp77)
fenix/vesper (cp77) | hiraeth/serana (skyrim)
tagging: @hibernationsuit @quickhacked @reaperkiller @pawnguild @arisatominakos
@faarkas @ncytiri @gothimp @nokstella @baelavelaryon
@florbelles @aezyrraeshh @xolaanii @thedeadthree and anyone else that wants to join!!
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no you dont understand how much i love ivy embra, okay OKAY
I showed my friend what her accent sounds like and he fell in love immediately btw
Shes the it girl sorry you guys dont like girls who are mean
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like i see people say stuff like “rei is a deconstruction of the idea of like the perfect girl in a male gaze-y way” and and i'm ready to agree until they go “it’s because she’s creepy and weird and bad!” like no. rei's a deconstruction of misogynistic ideas of womanhood because they’re ideals forced upon her that damage her, not because she’s in any way “creepy”. like, the fact she’s a fourteen year old girl who was basically used as a substitute wife by her father bc she looked like his own dead wife is not something that is meant to make rei look bad like holy shit.
like both rei and asuka are very obviously like. showing fantasised and misogynistic ideas of an idealised woman don’t work irl yeah. shinji's misogynistic view of them is wrong. but that’s not because rei and asuka are bad people it’s because like. “fourteen year old who's flirty and seductive” and “fourteen year old who's a quiet obedient object” are major signs of abuse and trauma and anyone actually acting in those ways at that age clearly isn’t normal. asuka is desperate for attention in any way she can get it, even unhealthy and dangerous ways. rei is at the very least I has a weird pseudo-incestous enmeshment filled abusive relationship with her father, even if she's not actively being sexually abused. asuka is seeking support, rei is a grooming victim. these are not things that are flaws in their character the entire point of subverting the expectations is to show how those expectations are unhealthy to rei and asuka like. god.
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