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Posts tagged Feminism
So there’s something I’ve wanted to address re: common criticism of Elementary for a while-
-but I never really got around to it. And I feel like I’m sure someone must have tackled this much more effectively than I have already, but fuck going through those goddamn tags! And I mean, this isn’t going to show up under said tags due to my Tumblr being a dick and not functioning, so goodness knows this is only for me to be irritated about on my own, but there you go.
(Seriously, I just wrote this to articulate to myself why this bothered me and then thought hey, may as well post it. Don’t expect anything interesting here. Doop de doo.)
To be more specific, it’s about the argument that Holmesian canon is specifically about male-male friendship (or queer subtext, for that matter) and that altering this defeats the point of the entire concept.
An ignorant writer is a poor liar, and a poor liar makes for a bad crafter of fiction.”
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Dad: Why do you think they do that?
Girl: Because the companies who make these try to trick the girls into buying the pink stuff instead of stuff boys want to buy. [x]
omg so presh
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Protip: horizontal oppression existing does not mean what you think it means
Women oppressing other women =/= women being ‘sexist’ to men.
Black people being racist towards Asan people, and other equivalent things wrt racism =/= ‘you can be racist to white people!’
Heterophobia: STILL NOT… A THING.
Nor do the above (or similar equivalents) undermine the concept that racism/sexism/heterosexism/etc etc. have to be institutional/come from a position of power.
A woman may not be a part of the institution that oppresses women, but she can STILL PROP IT UP. Okay? If a woman is misogynistic, that doesn’t ‘prove’ something doesn’t have to be institutionalised to constitute sexism, it proves that:
- The aforementioned institution caused women to internalize the misogyny
- You don’t need to be a part of something to support it
Okay? Seriously? Can we stop this now? You have not ‘caught anyone out’ with this argument. If a woman is oppressing other women, she was taught to do so by a society where institutionalised sexism exists. IT IS A MANIFESTATION OF INSTITUTIONALISED SEXISM REGARDLESS OF WHETHER SHE IS PERMITTED ACCESS TO SAID INSTITUTION.
By contrast, any prejudice towards men a woman might hold does NOT prop up any pre-existing institution with power inhabited by, well, anyone, nor is it something she was taught by a pre-existing institution with power.
OKAY? OKAY. YOU CANNOT BE SEXIST TOWARDS MEN, RACIST TOWARDS WHITE PEOPLE IN WHITE-DOMINATED SOCIETIES, ETC ETC, BECAUSE RACISM/SEXISM/ETC IS PREJUDICE PLUS POWER. ALL CAPS NECESSARY. This is true EVEN IF the people perpetuating some racism, sexism etc. are themselves disenfranchised because the racism, sexism etc. they are perpetuating did not spring up outta thin air.
so can we just
not
Laci Green in “Men & Femininity.” (x) [TW: slurs]
I will never forget the day that I realized that for some strange, odd reason men have completely… different… hair dye… called something else.
Like.
What… the fuck………..
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I don’t understand the desire to saddle every female character with children regardless of whether they want them as some lazy stand-in for a happy ending, particularly in sci-fi and fantasies. If you’ve earned that with sufficient backstory and evidence, like, FINE. Olivia Dunham and Donna Noble and Scully and Ripley canonically want to have children. Amy Pond, Hermione Granger, Kara Thrace, Katniss Everdeen - these women are all ambiguous about or uninterested in being mothers. So it’s problematic when a head writer or a fan art illustrator or a writer of fanfiction just sticks these women with children as though motherhood is always the inevitable and right and desirable end, even when their characterization directly contradicts that.
Even River Song falls victim to this trope because that is the image Moffat chooses to close on in the Library episodes. River, a woman who has never expressed any desire to raise children or be a mother, someone who (if her arc had allowed for any emotional consequence whatsoever) would likely have had some deep-seated issues with nurturing and parentage and abandonment - is “saved” in a purgatory/afterlife where she is forever caring for these ersatz, computer-generated children. Because children are shorthand for happiness in women’s narratives.
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A Muslim schoolgirl from St. Maaz high school practises Vietnam Vovinam martial arts inside the school compound on International Women’s Day in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad March 8, 2011. Girls from ages 10 to 16 participate in weekly sessions of self-defence during school term. International Women’s Day (IWD) was honoured the first time in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland on March 19, 1911. More than one million women and men attended IWD rallies campaigning for women’s rights to work, vote, be trained, to hold public office and end discrimination. International Women’s Day is observed every year across the globe to mark the efforts by women in various fields. REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder (x)
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[TW: abuse] I know I’ve told this story before, but my abusive ex refused to let me take birth control. I was on the pill until he found them in my purse.
I went to the Student Health Center—they were completely unhelpful, choosing to lecture me about the importance of safe sex (recommending condoms) instead of actually listening to my problem.
Then I went to Planned Parenthood. The Nurse Practitioner took one look at my fading bruises and stopped the exam. She called in the doctor. The doctor came in and simply asked me: “Are you ready to leave him?” When I denied that I was being abused, she didn’t argue with me. She just asked me what I needed. I said I need a birth control method that my boyfriend couldn’t detect. She recommended a few options and we decided on Depo.
When I told her that my boyfriend read my emails and listened to my phone messages and was known to follow me, she suggested to do the Depo injections at off hours when the clinic was normally closed. She made a note in my chart and instructed the front desk never to leave messages for me—instead, she programmed her personal cell phone number into my phone under the name “Nora”. She told me she would call me to schedule my appointments; she wouldn’t leave a message, but I should call her back when I was able to.
And that was it. No judgment. No lecture. She walked me to the door and told me to call her day or night if I needed anything. That she lived 5 blocks from campus and would come get me. That I wasn’t alone. That she just wanted me to be safe.
I never called her to come to my rescue. But I have no doubt that she would have come if I had called. She kept me on Depo for a year, giving me those monthly injections in secret, helping me prevent a desperately unwanted pregnancy.
I cannot thank Planned Parenthood enough for the work they do.
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“Slut” is just the weirdest insult ever.
How does it even work?
“You do the thing that is responsible for not only both of our lives but collectively our entire species and many of the species of life I can think of right now. Not only that, but you do this act often. And you like it.”
Did you…..did you win?
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