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thepanicmoon: zsazsanotgabor: sophienorthcott: high-functionin...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:50:38 -0400

zsazsanotgabor:

sophienorthcott:

high-functioningginger:

There is a trend in media for strong women who are outwardly so. They are witty, snarky, toned, and know how to hold a gun. The role model being pushed is that of the ultimate woman. It’s progress – I wouldn’t trade River Song for a hundred people from Hollywood’s past – but there’s a silent repercussion, a fortification of the idea that women have to be twice as accomplished to be considered half as good, to deserve this screen time at all. They are always extraordinary, always the one in a million. Importantly, there’s no variety – only one mould to fit ourselves into. A great mould, yes, but not if you don’t fit into it.

Molly Hooper is different. Molly Hooper is kind, thoughtful, always smiling, and intelligent in a way that you don’t really notice until you remember she’s a pathologist. She asks after people and cares about the answers, remembers little details because everything someone says is important. She probably still remembers how Sherlock likes his coffee. Her blog is pink, covered in kittens, and uses Comic Sans. She blunders her way through speaking, has serious foot-in-mouth syndrome, and can’t put on a pair of plastic gloves without making faces. She is one of the strongest women I have ever seen.

She puts up with what can only be described as “total bullshit.” You might say that makes her a bit of a doormat, but for people like Molly (like me), who like kindness and hate conflict, it takes serious guts to call someone on their behaviour and say you’re hurting me. It takes guts to carry that kind of unrequited love and still first and foremost be a friend, to ask what do you need? Molly Hooper makes Sherlock Holmes, a man who can barely articulate anything beyond the scientific, try to be kinder. In the end, Molly isn’t the woman who counts [like Irene Adler], but the friend.

The Real Woman: Why Molly Hooper Is The One Who Counts

^THIS YES THIS 1000 TIMES OVER

how people can still think that Moffat is sexist is merely beyond me

HERE’S HOW I THINK HE’S SEXIST: THERE ARE FOUR RIVER SONGS IN HIS WORK AND ONLY ONE MOLLY HOOPER, AND MOLLY DOESN’T GET NICE THINGS. EVER.

ZSAZ, YOU ALWAYS FIND ME THE MOFFAT-LOVERS TO SHATTER. ~okay, let’s get down to business~

There’s this issue you’re not allowed to discuss: that women are needy. Men can go for longer, more happily, without women. That’s the truth. We don’t, as little boys, play at being married - we try to avoid it for as long as possible. Meanwhile women are out there hunting for husbands. - Steven Moffat on Female Characters.

“Well, the world is vastly counted in favour of men at every level - except if you live in a civilised country and you’re sort of educated and middle-class, because then you’re almost certainly junior in your relationship and in a state of permanent, crippled apology. Your preferences are routinely mocked. There’s a huge, unfortunate lack of respect for anything male.” -more assholery from Steven Moffat

How about I list all the characters he’s written/created that either go through with, or intend, to have the doctor meet her as a young child, then go back and be sexually involved/attracted to her as an adult.

Rose- Turns out, the original plan (Devised by Paul Abbott) was to have the Doctor influence Rose’s life from the start; this was changed later on, either because it was turned into a love story and thus changed to make it less creepy, or two, because it always was a love story and someone pointed out how creepy it was. The only writer who didn’t erase references to the meta? Moffat. (“Red bicycle when you were 12”.)

Sally Sparrow: In the original Ninth Doctor short story “What I Did On My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow”, which Moffat wrote for the 2006 Annual and that he then re-worked into the episode “Blink”, she was a 12-year-old girl. In the end, it turns out that the Doctor only got into contact with her because he met her older self first - a spy on mission in ‘exotic’ Istanbul, whom the Doctor calls “beautiful” and an “amazing woman” in front of the girl.

Amy, River, and Clara are all obvious examples that I don’t need to go into detail for. Shorthand: CREEPY AS FUCK, sexualizes young girls to an extent, CREEPY AS FUCK. (This particular information/certain sections of summary comes from here)

“I remember when I was reading that story as a kid, Sherlock goes on and on about The Woman, the only one who ever beat him, and you’re thinking, he’s had better villains than this. And then you click: he fancies her, doesn’t he? That’s what it’s about.” -Moffat, talking about Irene Adler and why she’s a romantic interest in his version.

“And I thought, ‘well she’s really good. It’s just a shame she’s so wee and dumpy…When she was about to come through to the auditions I nipped out for a minute and I saw Karen walking on the corridor towards me and I realised she was 5’11, slim and gorgeous and I thought ‘Oh, oh that’ll probably work’.” -moffat, talking about hiring Karen to play Amelia in the Doctor Who confidential ‘All about the Girl’

“Your wife turns into a boat, and shortly after that, you never sleep again and you clean shit off someone. It doesn’t seem like a very appealing prospect. Obviously, the moment I saw my child, that was different, but up until that point, I was thinking, ‘how long before she gets back to normal size? Will this damage anything?’” -Moffat, talking about his wife being pregnant.

To finish off, here’s a lovely essay on why Moffat sucks, covering his sexism, and his shoddy writing as a whole

STFU-Moffat is a great resource for examples of why he shouldn’t be given large amounts of creative control.

femfreq: Damsel in Distress: Part 1 - Tropes vs Women in Video...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 02:41:55 -0500

femfreq:

Damsel in Distress: Part 1 - Tropes vs Women in Video Games

This video explores how the Damsel in Distress became one of the most widely used gendered clichés in the history of gaming and why the trope has been core to the popularization and development of the medium itself. As a trope the Damsel in Distress is a plot device in which a female character is placed in a perilous situation from which she cannot escape on her own and must then be rescued by a male character, usually providing a core incentive or motivation for the protagonist’s quest.

ABOUT THE VIDEO SERIES
The Tropes vs Women in Video Games project aims to examine the plot devices and patterns most often associated with female characters in gaming from a systemic, big picture perspective. This series will include critical analysis of many beloved games and characters, but remember that it is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of it’s more problematic or pernicious aspects.

For more examples of the Damsel in Distress see our Tumblr for this series: http://tropesversuswomen.tumblr.com

Visit http://www.feministfrequency.com for more information, videos and a full transcript.

Found some enraging Facebook.

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:23:13 -0500

Found some enraging Facebook.

weeaboobies: No, this isn’t an anime post, and I hope our...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:59:25 -0500

weeaboobies:

No, this isn’t an anime post, and I hope our followers, and the other runners of this blog, will forgive me for posting “politics” here.

This is too serious though, and with 3400 followers, you are my best audience.

i *am* sorry if people are sick of hearing about politics. but politics or not, this is fucking scary: fema detainment camps are going live. FEMA DETENTION/DETAINMENT CAMPS. IN AMERICA. ALL FIFTY STATES. this is following the bill passed by the senate in a 93 to 7 vote that the government can, at it’s discretion, arrest any american citizen at any time without trial or reason, and hold them indefinitely.
sure, obama says he’ll veto, but with a 2/3+ approval in senate, the veto will be over-ridden. so, they’ve passed the bill to detain us indefinitely, and now they’re activating the detention camps, all shortly after occupy wallstreet starts.
google fema detainment camps, google the NDAA bill. google what occupy wallstreet stands for. please please please, research for yourself online what is going on in america right now. this is very very serious, and very very scary. don’t think about this as politics, don’t use that as an excuse to ignore this kind of thing. i’m not asking anyone to agree with me, or declare themselves as a 99%, i’m just asking everyone that reads this status to EDUCATE THEMSELVES on the shit that’s happening right now. read up on what’s going on and draw your own conclusions, but for pete’s sake, EDUCATE YOURSELF.

info on the NDAA bill

occupy wallstreet’s message & goals

pretty graphics to help perspective a bit

breaking news (12/06/2011) on FEMA camps going live

also, this alex jones video talking about the fema camps

a message from anonymous about the global situation right now

this is no longer about politics - this is literally about our freedoms & liberties.

AS AN EXAMPLE: say you have a pen pal in iraq, that can be labeled as “suspected terrorism” - off to fema camps you go, indefinitely, no lawyer, no family visits, no guarantee of leaving.

say you put up a tweet: “i don’t like the president” — bam, suspected terrorism - off to fema camps you go.

say you…. oh, have more than 6 days worth of food in your house - SUSPECTED TERRORISM, OFF TO FEMA WITH YOU. (yes, the last one is true, along with “missing fingers” or looking muslim, etc, check it here)

IF YOU CAN REBLOG A CAT LICKING IT’S LIPS, PLEASE REBLOG SOMETHING LIKE THIS. Seriously. This is your life & your freedom. Spread the word, educate yourself, friends & family.

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Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:31:43 -0500

"When a woman enjoys her sexuality without hurting anyone else, but someone finds out about it, the..."

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:31:57 -0400

“When a woman enjoys her sexuality without hurting anyone else, but someone finds out about it, the response is to insult her, shame her, bring her down and make sure she never does it again. But the response to rape, and “jokes” about rape, which trivialize and normalize violent, traumatic and sometimes life-threatening acts against women is—somehow—to laugh?”

- “Kat,” Slut-Shaming vs. Rape Jokes (via inherhipstheresrevolutions)

jessfink: I gave my 2 cents for this AMAZING Comics Alliance...

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 05:15:25 -0400

jessfink:

I gave my 2 cents for this AMAZING Comics Alliance article by Laura Hudson on how to write better female characters in super hero comics:

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/10/13/female-characters-superhero-comics/

Jess Fink: (Chester 5000) When people talk about this issue they use the word “comics” to refer only to super-hero comics and it kind of gets under my skin. There are so many amazing indie comics out there that treat female characters the way they should be treated. People keep asking how they can make female characters in super-hero comics better and it’s just so frustrating because it’s right under their noses, indie comics already do it. I could name so many.

A perfect example for me is Nausicaa. If Nausicaa was a main stream US super-hero comic her t*ts would be the size of her head and she’d be dressed as skimpy as possible. She’d probably look like something out of Heavy Metal magazine. It makes me feel like some comics publishers don’t think readers can take a woman seriously unless she looks like a hot piece of ass.

A lot of writers don’t seem to be able to write female characters unless there is a need for them to be female. What I mean is that women are treated like cake icing, something to make the story sweeter, sexier, to give the reader something nice to look at amid all the violence. It feels like if you asked one of them to write a female character who wasn’t overtly sexual, like they do with males all the time, they’d look at you like you had two heads and say, “Well then, what’s the point of the character being female?” The simple solution is to stop treating women like icing,a pair of boobs, a pretty face, just treat them like people.

Obviously I don’t have a problem with sex; I draw porn comics most of the time. But even in my comics when the characters aren’t getting it on or about to get it on I am considering their personalities and their situation and I dress them accordingly. Just because Priscilla highly enjoys sex with a robot doesn’t mean she’s going to walk down the street in Victorian society with nothing but her knickers on. So why then do so many women in super hero comics do JUST THAT? They fight crime in things that look like they should be hanging in the window of Fredericks of Hollywood. You can’t wear a thong on a Victorian street but super-hero ladies wear floppy corsets, skin-tight tube tops, thigh high, g-strings and high heels to fight crime and they AREN’T EVEN IN A PORN COMIC.

gendermagick: 24 Citibank customers get locked in a bank and...

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 02:38:23 -0400

gendermagick:

24 Citibank customers get locked in a bank and arrested for trying to close their accounts. This video is fucking chilling… especially at the end when a woman outside in a business suit, clearly a customer who just exited the bank, gets hauled BACK INSIDE THE BANK by police, so she can be detained.

You guys… PLEASE REBLOG THIS. This is not. Okay. The fear shows from the side of the bank and its interests — and it means something very, very sinister.

albinwonderland: callmekitto: regular-lord-joesus: justsomecra...

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:35:10 -0400

albinwonderland:

callmekitto:

regular-lord-joesus:

justsomecrazydreamer:

popculturetart:

gigaku:

wakingthegoldenwood:

metaphysicist:

Can I marry this girl’s brain? I love her for debunking such a propagandic video.

Oh my God marry me

I just love everything about this.

PERFECT HUMAN AWARD.

I, um…can gay marriage become legal everywhere so we can…we can get married, because yeah.

I think I’m in love.

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Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:28:32 -0400

feministblackboard: I think that woman’s shirt says it all, but...

Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:16:39 -0400

feministblackboard:

I think that woman’s shirt says it all, but just in case…
Phyllis Schafly endorses Michele Bachman. Schafly is best known for her opposition to feminist ideas. She asserts ideas such as a woman not being able to be raped by her husband, for example. Have fun reading about her here.

A very telling excerpt from the above linked wiki page:

Schlafly told Time magazine in 1978, “I have cancelled speeches whenever my husband thought that I had been away from home too much.”^[29]

In March 2007, Schlafly said in a speech at Bates College, “By getting married, the woman has consented to sex, and I don’t think you can call it rape.”^[30]

On March 30, 2006, Schlafly provided an interview for The New York Times in which she attributed improvement in women’s lives during the last decades of the 20th century to labor-saving devices such as the indoor clothes dryer and paper diapers.^[31]

She has called Roe vs Wade “the worst decision in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court” and said that it “is responsible for the killing of millions of unborn babies”.^[32]

According to an article in the March 28, 2007 edition of the Washington Post, “New Drive Afoot to Pass Equal Rights Amendment,” Schlafly was then working towards the defeat of a new version of the Equal Rights Amendment: “Today, she warns lawmakers that its passage would compel courts to approve same-sex marriages and deny Social Security benefits for housewives and widows.”^[23]

Shekina Walters, a 21 year old woman visiting from Jamaica, went...

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:31:53 -0400

Shekina Walters, a 21 year old woman visiting from Jamaica, went shopping in Barbados only to get followed, teased & taunted at by the locals because of her size. She cried and hid away into a clothing store for an hour to avoid the crowds. LINK

Basically, she was minding her own business, shopping whilst being hypervisible, and people didn’t like it.

reallyfoxnews: Fox News Headline v. Real Headline of the...

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:48:43 -0400

reallyfoxnews:

Fox News Headline v. Real Headline of the Day

Fair and balanced journalistic integrity.

Giant Radioactive Rubber Pants: Dear Feminists

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:29:14 -0400

Giant Radioactive Rubber Pants: Dear Feminists:

wingsunfolding:

You do not, whether you like it or not, represent the modern legacy of the suffragists/early women’s rights movement.

If you cared to focus on history rather than whatever Marxist-hued tripe they feed you in Women’s Studies, you’d realise that women like Emily Pankhurst and Susan B. Anthony would find very little common ground with you. These were women who fought for the right to vote, the right to own property, the right to a higher education and the right to individual self-determination. They were not revolting against every facet of their culture. What they fought for was sociopolitical representation, fairness and nothing more.

feministslut: ROFL. You cannot be serious… They were fighting against every facet of their culture. Their culture told them women could not be educated, women could not handle the vote, women needed to be mothers, women could not own property because it went to their husbands, their wages went to their husbands or father if they made any, women were not fit to practice law or medicine, and the list goes on. They fought against the whole damn culture that told them they were nothing unless they were mothers, which ironically Susan never was. Also, women fighting for the right to use birth control/spread information on contraception/abortion/etc. started in the late 19th century, with the “original feminist.” While they spent most of their time focusing on social politics, to assume they did not focus on culture politics shows your lack of knowledge of these women. Susan and Emmeline would be proud of feminist today.

p.s. My research focuses on women’s suffrage, so I ironically do know what I’m talking about. I didn’t just pick it up in my ~Marxist-hued tripe women studies classes.~

thefremen: I always love your posts on this kind of thing because you know more about it than I know about Dune.

kaylacheri: I love when people who don’t know anything about a subject try to school those that know quite a bit about it.

It always has such a happy ending.

ℒℴѵℯ in fancy letters.: Topman in hot water over sexist T-shirts

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:43:21 -0400

ℒℴѵℯ in fancy letters.: Topman in hot water over sexist T-shirts:

We almost overlooked this top on the fashion desk because it’s a slogan T-shirt - when was the last time you saw one worth reading? But since Sian Blake (@funktious) tweeted about it last night, Topman have come under pressure to explain just…

swoz: theta-doctor: kittwonkiesnicket: stressandbeauty: andro...

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:39:09 -0400

swoz:

theta-doctor:

kittwonkiesnicket:

stressandbeauty:

andromedasreach:

Facial hair, clearly, is the source of all evil.

Some would argue that Bill Gates acts/acted ethically, but I agree with the overall assertion of this graphic.

perfection.

Take from the image what you will, I agree with the over all message.

An Atheist judging a Christian is just as bad as a Christian judging an Atheist. Just because you do or don’t follow a religion doesn’t make you a better person or a worse person.

It’s the type of person you, yourself are. It’s the type of person your asshole neighbor is, not that they happen to go to a church on Sunday.

Sorry for this tangent but religion or anti religion bashing is stupid no matter who you happen to be targeting. What makes you better than the Christian, Muslim or Atheist (or whoever) that you’re sitting there judging? Oh that’s right, nothing. I really don’t find it funny or clever that you think you’re better than people who believe or think differently than yourself.

There are very few things in this universe that are set in stone. Just because someone believes in a God or Gods or doesn’t believe in something doesn’t mean they’re beneath you in anyway.

At the end of the day, we’re all human. Get over yourself.

Discrimination and Bigotry are often two sides of the same problem. They come from everywhere, and even the victimized are guilty of it. I won’t say more, because Tokeeeeee basically sums this up nicely. B)

These are not only rather offensive, but they are sort of...

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:37:00 -0400

These are not only rather offensive, but they are sort of limiting to what men can do with their own bodies and still be considered men.

Yeah, it’s a joke. One that I smiled at in amusement. But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth criticism. As much as women are limited by society’s expectations, just as much can be said for men. Boys don’t cry, be a man, etcetc. There’s a lot that men are pressured to do or be, or else they are thought lesser of, demeaned. This may just be a joke, but i think it touches at some things that are really true about our cultures limitations on men.

womenfighters: I don’t have any exact criteria of what...

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:32:32 -0400

womenfighters:

I don’t have any exact criteria of what “reasonable armor” is. That’s on purpose. There’s obviously a lot of silly and eye-rolly stuff out there but it’s important to question your dealbreakers; because we’re talking about imagination, we’re looking at things that are meant to be fun, and cathartic, fantastical and engaging. These things should be on a spectrum of appreciation.

What am I saying here? I dunno, something like, “don’t be cynical, try to like things, then when you’re discerning it’s so much richer.” Does that make sense?

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Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:58:15 -0400

Feminist Disney: The Lion King: Was it JUST good, or feminist good?

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:21:21 -0400

Feminist Disney: The Lion King: Was it JUST good, or *feminist* good?:

feministdisney:

Feminist Review of The Lion King
Since someone asked me to ;) I’m going to try out doing a rating system and see how it goes.

Overall FeministDisney Rating: **, 2/4 stars (see bottom for specific categories that feed into this)

So the Lion King is an interesting movie to pick apart. I…