see, in spanish the word for “genre” and the word for “gender” is the same: “género”. if you live in mexico and someone asks you what gender you are, you can be whatever i’m comfortable with. i’m a boy, or a girl. i’m a crime noir with a bit of spicy romance. i’m post-punk electronic music. i have trascended human perceptions of gender and am now a being of pure art
♔ Ancient and Forever ♔: girlwithoutanadjective: Dear Moffat,Women do not exist solely for…
Dear Moffat,
Women do not exist solely for men. Please stop defining your female characters exclusively in relation to your…
nevertheless, Moffat has a real problem with writing women. Even from Blink and Girl in the Fireplace I could tell he just wasn’t good at writing women properly, as human beings and people with agency of their own. I critiqued him back then and basically got attacked by people who even then were beginning to think Moffat was god because they were so tired of RTD and the things he pulled. As for the problems with Moff’s treatment of women, I think it’s done from a place of ignorance, rather than malice. He relies way too much on the Manic-Pixie-Dreamgirl archetype and that’s really problematic, but I honestly just think it’s because he doesn’t know any better. Not to mention, despite Jenna Coleman’s fantastic acting chops, I still feel as though Clara has no personality. This is an issue with the writing. There still can be problematic issues in a show that also has good, progressive themes as well. One doesn’t cancel out the other, nor do I think it makes Moffat a bad person.
Dear Moffat,
Women do not exist solely for men. Please stop defining your female characters exclusively in relation to your man-child protagonists.
I’m talking about you, Clara “I was born to save the Doctor” Oswald.
You’re missing the whole point because it’s not about a woman saving a man, it’s about a human being saving the Doctor, being his guardian angel, and being a woman it’s a plus because I think the idea is that she is courageous enough to put her life in the line to save someone she loves, whether it’s a man or not!
This is not being a feminist. This is just hating a man because he’s a man! So keep your judgemental bullshit to a minimum and stop trying to corrupt this amazing show!
You’re talking to the man who wrote in an inter-species lesbian couple into half the episodes in this series. Come on.
OP is also talking to the man who keeps writing plotlines that involve little girls growing up and falling in love with the doctor in the span of about an episode each, and this doesn’t seem to alarm anyone.
# I stopped watching Doctor Who ages ago but everytime I try to go back this shit pops up Amy’s entire story is how much she loves the Doctor and then how much she loves Rory and also how great she looks in a skirt I love Amy but she was handled completely wrong River is trained to kill the Doctor and.. fell in love with him almost immediately? I like the lesbian couple but I did find it odd that in Sherlock he had another lesbian who fell in love with a man and that’s bisexualit… I don’t know guys OP has a point and it isn’t just on one person okay so stop trying to defend problematic shit by discrediting other people
before ya’ll go talking about “misandry,” lemme explain you a thing
Also, for further information, Manboobz is an excellent resource. Go there. It’s awesome.
You are my hero right now!
And Man Boobz is great. Everyone that can’t believe MRAs are that bad needs to pay it a fucking visit because they are:
e) All of the above
Feminism is too important to only be discussed by academics.
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| — | How To Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran. (via melissa-ooo) |
Yes, we live in a sexist culture, in which women have no good choices when it comes to our bodies. We live in a sexist culture in which women are valued primarily as sexual objects, and at the same time are shamed for our sexuality. It seems to me that we have two choices as to how to respond to this. We can try to navigate the narrow, essentially impossible shoals of these contradictory expectations, and try to find that perfect, socially acceptable line between slut and prude.
Or we can say, “Fuck it. There is no way I can win — so I’m going to do whatever the fuck I want. I’m going to wear overalls, or I’m going to wear high heels. I’m going to have sex with twenty strangers in a night, or I’m not going to have sex with anyone. I’m going to dress conservatively and professionally in public at all times, or I’m going to sell naked pictures of myself on the Internet if I bloody well feel like it.”
And in saying, “I can’t win, so I’m going to do whatever the fuck I want to do,” we can create the beginnings of a victory. We can create the beginnings of a world where we really can win. We can create the beginnings of a world where we’re a little more free than the women who came before us… and where the women who come after us are a little more free than we are. We probably can’t create a perfect world, where women’s bodies aren’t commodified in the slightest (not in this generation, anyway). But we can create a better world: a world where women’s bodies and minds belong less to the patriarchy, and more to ourselves.
Or we can say, “Fuck it. There is no way I can win — so I’m going to do whatever the fuck I want. I’m going to wear overalls, or I’m going to wear high heels. I’m going to have sex with twenty strangers in a night, or I’m not going to have sex with anyone. I’m going to dress conservatively and professionally in public at all times, or I’m going to sell naked pictures of myself on the Internet if I bloody well feel like it.”
And in saying, “I can’t win, so I’m going to do whatever the fuck I want to do,” we can create the beginnings of a victory. We can create the beginnings of a world where we really can win. We can create the beginnings of a world where we’re a little more free than the women who came before us… and where the women who come after us are a little more free than we are. We probably can’t create a perfect world, where women’s bodies aren’t commodified in the slightest (not in this generation, anyway). But we can create a better world: a world where women’s bodies and minds belong less to the patriarchy, and more to ourselves.
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| — | Greta Christina (What I May Do With My Naked Body: A Reply to Azar Majedi About the #NudePhotoRevolutionaries Calendar) |
men at large feel like they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman with a 90% chance of developing breast cancer gets a double mastectomy
what better illustration of the male sense of sexual entitlement do you need
What students need isn’t a lecture on abstinence. They need a community that sees sex as about mutual pleasure and intimacy, not point scoring or getting something, and that doesn’t shame or problematize female sexuality. Heterosexual women need male partners who are respectful, generous in bed and emotionally competent, and who treat women like people regardless of whether those women are girlfriends, one-night stands or friends with benefits. Sex, be it in a committed relationship or a more casual arrangement, doesn’t have to be the fraught power play or unpleasant interaction merely tolerated by young women. Sex is sex. Human beings throughout all of history have enjoyed it for very good reason. Consensual, mutually pleasurable sex is, for many people, at the top of their “favorite things” list.
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| — | In defence of hooking up – in university and beyond | Jill Filipovic | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk (via sexisnottheenemy) |
Orientalism is in this sense but an alibi for the lack of interest in comprehending the non-Western Other in its own terms, reducing the Other to the site of difference to explain away the need to attend to its opacity and complexity; modernist ideology, which sees history in linear terms as moving from the primitive to the developed, confers similarity on the Other as the past of the self.
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| — | Shu-mei Shih bringing the realness into my life in her article on the Ethics of Transnational Encounters (via catladysoul) |
It’s a uniquely American prudishness. You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they’ll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.
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| — | George R.R. Martin, Rolling Stone Magazine, May 2012 (via cumberbitchsandwich) |
