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^>^
^. ^
( o ) . ( o )
i know my worth
and who
i am
9 . 9 6. 6
mister if you're
hard up
i can spare a few
grand
6.6 / 9.9
hell freeze over and
i'll be
damned
( 69 )
fore i take orders
from any ol'
man
( ) . . . ( )
do i look like
(((
*& *& *& *&
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%* %* %* %*
))))
i'm a whole l o t t a
show-stopper
mississippi new (p)ork city
ya better
treat me proper
to all my headstrong
(((
Gnortsdaeh ym lla ot
to all my headstrong
Gnortsdaeh ym lla ot
to all my headstrong
w o m e n
single mamas with the children
three jobs and somethin
like a flag on the fourth of july
make em salute ya
like a flag
On The Fourth of July!
to all my headstrong
Gnortsdaeh ym lla ot
to all my headstrong
Gnortsdaeh ym lla ot
to all my headstrong
w o m e n
single mamas with the children
three jobs and somethin ~
don't let them put you in a corner
Renroc a ni uoy
tup meht let t'nod.
cause it's a new world order
Renroc a ni
you're a star
you're under strife
(((
Yluj fo htruof
eht no galf
a ekil ay etulas
me ekam
like a flag
on the fourth of july
make em salute ya
like a flag
On the Fourth of July!
i'm a whole l o t t a
show stopper
mississippi new (p)ork city
ya better treat me
proper
i'm a whole l o t t a
you'd better
recognize a real ass woman
if ya can't
don't bother
i'm a whole l o t t a
show-stopper
Mississippi New York City
ya gonna treat me proper
i'm a whole l o t t a
you gotta
recognize
a real-ass
woman
if ya can't
don't bother
i'm a whole lotta grown ass
american woman.
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every international women’s day edit i see include one women of color while including 5+ white women and a monologue from the barbie movie. the world continue to acknowledge whiteness as the forefront of feminism. cause frankly if i’m going to be honest with you guys, the only women that deserve to be apart of these lil tik tok edits and cutesty instagram posts are the women that are facing the cruelty in gaza, congo, sudan, haiti, hawaii, and the list goes
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black women have been grappling for decades with the fact that they organize with + live alongside + love men who are both given only conditional access to male privilege AND wield violent, structural power over them. they have generated libraries worth of compassionate theory which engages with the destructive impact of misogyny on men, the way in which being seen as a Real Man is conditional for marginalized ppl, the dangers of separatism + the importance of leaving nobody behind. these are not new ideas + they are absolutely necessary ideas for moving towards total liberation.
however, most foundational black feminist/intersectional feminist (in the tradition of angela davis) theorists have discussed these concepts without: minimizing or erasing the concept of misogyny, falling back on lesbophobic stereotypes (ugly man hating dykes!), repeating antifeminist propaganda (not all men!), abandoning a focus on structural power + material impact, engaging in bad faith identity politics which silo identities (tokenizing some while ignoring others, constructing weird hierarchies of which oppressions 'cancel each other out'), or individualizing oppression/identity/power (things which happen TO us + AROUND us, not within us).
respectfully, these theories of feminism which include + acknowledge men's pain are already happening- there's a reason those aren't the theories/practices you're exposed to. these theories often do lack trans voices, but you aren't adding our voices to these stories. you are creating a new theory of oppression built on a foundation + critique of white neoliberal feminism + based largely on anecdotal experiences in predominately white communities. you are replicating all of the flaws of white feminism.
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Prolly gonna be my one and only rwde post (cus the fanbase is rancid and I'm not rlly a rwby fan, just a person who watches the show): some of you rwby fans are too comfortable using your queerness as a shield to silence BIPOC voices about the racist writing and your 'precious' bigoted CRWBY. You guys unironically act/think that just because you have to deal with queerphobia; you are IMMUNE to being bigoted yourself and you are INCAPABLE of parroting bigoted beliefs.
Cus I know there will be a dumbass ant1-rwde posters who will try to drown out this post by saying its 'lies from the EVIL RWDE!!!': You would rather weaponize your queerness to bash on BIPOC voices, while claiming to care about our voices. You would rather be complicit with the racist writers and their racist writing, just because your racist writers gave you a queer ship. There is no shame nor issue in projecting the abused you suffered onto the characters, however you refuse to see through the characters and their writing through a BIPOC lens.
You do not get the right to impose your perspective of the characters at the expense of BIPOC voices, you do not get to twist our voices to be alt-right bigots because we called out RWBY's rampant racism. You do not get the right to say you give a shit about BIPOC and have #BLM in your bio when you fervently defend your bigoted company. You do not get to pretend to care about racism when you buy merch off of your bigoted company.
My fellow BIPOC (especially the queer BIPOC): why are you guys so comfortable dismissing your fellow poc about their discomfort with RWBY's racist writing? BIPOC are not a monolith with the same opinions about racism in media; but some of you guys are weirdly comfortable with turning a blind eye to your fellow BIPOC getting dogpiled by the white fandom.
We can and will disagree, you not agreeing as a BIPOC about RWBY's racist writing is not what I take issue with. The issue lies within you upholding the racial colourblindness in the fandom; like how the fandom was ok with throwing the racism under the bus in favour of queerness, you are ok with throwing your BIPOC peers under the bus for white queerness.
Sincerely, a POC who has been watching the fandoms rampant racism problem ever since 2019.
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Four glasses with stems! Charles, I promised Mrs. Green, the president of our club, that you'd talk to the ladies, and she wants to know what you're going to talk about?
Well, what am I going to talk about? Lecturers usually give them, uh... travel or current events, don't they?
Oh, Charles! Not current events! We get current events!
What sort of an audience'd it be?
Oh, women like myself. Busy with our homes, most of us.
Women keep busy in towns like this? In cities, it's different.
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Cities are full of women -- middle aged, widows, husband dead. Husbands who spent their lives making fortunes, working and working, and then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives... and what do their wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day, by the thousands.
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Drinking their money. Eating their money. Losing their money at bridge, playing all day and all night. Smelling of money. Proud of their jewelry, but of nothing else. Horrible. Faded, fat, greedy women.
They're alive, they're human beings!
Are they? Are they, Charlie? Are they human, or are they fat, wheezing animals? hmmm? What happens to animals when they get too fat and too old? Well, I seem to be making my speech right here! :D
Well, for heaven's sake! Don't talk about women like that in front of my club!
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just finished the rwrb movie and although i really enjoyed it (and was kicking my feet giggling the whole time) i do have a couple of major criticisms, some of which i think aren’t really the movie’s fault because they had to fit a whole book into 2 hours, but some of which left me kind of disappointed:
-i feel slightly icky that bea and nora got their screentime SIGNIFICANTLY reduced even after june got cut entirely (which i was upset about, but did understand). i loved zahra and adored her on screen but i do think it’s very odd that she is pretty much the only major female character in this movie since bea was nonexistent and nora got permanently spirited away to pez’s bed or something sometime during the second act
-it felt like a lot of the internal conflict in alex and henry’s relationship was very unbalanced and henry heavy - alex’s neurodivergence was erased, his bi epiphany was barely even an epiphany, and him not being explicitly kicked off the campaign after ellen finds out about him and henry essentially killed his whole subplot about realising he doesn’t need to have everything achieved at thirty and deciding he wants to apply to law school instead. which wouldn’t have been terrible but on the flipside it felt weird that we didn’t see very much of henry’s family considering how much they affect and shape his fear of being outed and his feeling of being in a glass cage - e.g bea’s treatment by the media during her active addiction (which was entirely erased), the extent of the tension between him and philip. felt like henry’s pov scenes were a super wasted opportunity for that and we were mostly just being Told about all of these things
-i am not actually that mad about oscar and ellen still being together lol but i felt like in the scene with oscar smoking the cigar on the balcony they were kinda building up to there being significant strain in his and ellen’s relationship that just wasn’t explored. especially since it’s clear oscar would never be able to be president because he’s not a natural born citizen + the sacrifice of his career for ellen’s is so much bigger now that he’s first gentleman in this version
-pacing in general was a bit off but the worst offender was the fact that there was a complete time skip between the alex henry confrontation/reconciliation and the outing. so much of the tension and desperation from that outing scene comes from the fact that the risk of it happening was slowly increasing throughout the book and it felt almost inevitable (the elevator cctv being leaked, henry having to fake date june) and honestly making it so abrupt weirdly reduced a lot of its impact for me
-similarly i actually completely understand why the richards plot / rafael luna plot was cut (i suspect republican election interference hits a bit too close to home after 2020) but my god was miguel a lame fucking villain and him being queer and hispanic erased a lot of the original commentary about racism and homophobia that the richards plot lent itself to. like in general this movie was a lot lighter than the book which is fine! but for a movie where the main subplot is a presidential election So Much of the political themes were heavily neutered or cut to the point that it seemed like the pressure on henry and alex’s relationship was disproportionately coming from henry’s side when in the book it was more balanced
again on the whole i really really loved this movie and i knew going in that certain changed were going to be made. and i hope more movies get made like it! these r just my Thots and i may change my mind when i rewatch it with my friend tomorrow
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