You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
This is why I mostly follow art blogs with a handful of tolerable people with broader purviews: To avoid the youthful stupidity of people who want to stand for something but haven't worked out how to do that properly.
But let's face it: Better SJWs than reactionaries, bigots, pretentious right-libs and whiny fujoshi.
Yeah. A fundoshi is a robe, but a fujoshi... it literally means "rotten girl," like salaude in French, and it refers to hardcore female yaoi fans, who are generally (but not always) kind of gross in the same way that moe fanboys are generally (but not always) kind of gross. The latter are creepier on the whole, but there is still an analogy to be drawn with the fetishistic element...
There's a lot more of me skimming the posts I see in tumblr and I cut back on a few people that I follow.
I mean... there's certainly a number of Tumblrites who have sort of become a a parody of what they're trying to represent and doing a great job of helping the site maintain it's SJW bonkers reputation.
but JLaw falling doesn’t strike me as ‘quirky’ or ‘adorable’ at all
it strikes me as careless and insolent and here’s why
performing femininity is sooooo imperative for WOC in order to garner respect and even sometimes your very life
i got the Talk from my mum about how to walk like a lady since i was 6
she herself performed femininity rigorously
because it’s one of the few ways Black and Brown women can grasp a smidgen, a tiny flicker, of (if not respect) at least tolerance
y’all think Lupita can afford to not care about how she comports herself? u think she can afford to make immature jokes about food and carry herself like a bull in a china shop? y’all think Gina Torres, Gabourey Sidibe, Salma Hayek, Lucy Liu could get away with that shit?
jlaw knows plenty well how to carry herself with etiquette and grace she just doesn’t care
'quirkiness' is all fun and games when you have the privilege to trip all over yourself and still be considered a desirable, accomplished woman.
meanwhile ima stay unimpressed until the day my Brown and Black girls can afford the same careless freedom that jlaw and her stans take for granted
Compellingly stated, makes a few good points, and ultimately hollow reactionary unnecessarily negative call-out-culture crap.
i don't know who Jlaw is, but it doesn't seem right to me to judge a woman for not being feminine on the basis that she has the privilege to act that way.
JLaw is Jennifer Lawrence, the lead actor from The Hunger Games and some other stuff. Admired a bit too much for being "quirky" in my opinion but that doesn't make her a bad person.
but JLaw falling doesn’t strike me as ‘quirky’ or ‘adorable’ at all
it strikes me as careless and insolent and here’s why
performing femininity is sooooo imperative for WOC in order to garner respect and even sometimes your very life
i got the Talk from my mum about how to walk like a lady since i was 6
she herself performed femininity rigorously
because it’s one of the few ways Black and Brown women can grasp a smidgen, a tiny flicker, of (if not respect) at least tolerance
y’all think Lupita can afford to not care about how she comports herself? u think she can afford to make immature jokes about food and carry herself like a bull in a china shop? y’all think Gina Torres, Gabourey Sidibe, Salma Hayek, Lucy Liu could get away with that shit?
jlaw knows plenty well how to carry herself with etiquette and grace she just doesn’t care
'quirkiness' is all fun and games when you have the privilege to trip all over yourself and still be considered a desirable, accomplished woman.
meanwhile ima stay unimpressed until the day my Brown and Black girls can afford the same careless freedom that jlaw and her stans take for granted
Compellingly stated, makes a few good points, and ultimately hollow reactionary unnecessarily negative call-out-culture crap.
Oh, this is just really annoying to me. Yes, women of colour should be allowed to just be who they want and be appreciated for that, but criticising white women for breaking those gender norms...? I just don't...
Why not say, "All women should be free to be as close to or far from this conception of performed femininity as personally suits them," instead of what is essentially, "This girl doesn't matter because she is not a minority"? Why don't people show some damn bravery instead of bitching about other people?
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
See, maybe I'm misinterpreting things, but a lot of times it seems like Tumblr views the concept of privilege backwards
Like, they're all "it sucks that [dominant group] can do [thing marginalized group can't]!" when they should be thinking of it as "it sucks that [marginalized group] can't do [thing dominant group can]!"
And frankly, I think that there are a number of actresses of the non-white persuasion who could get away with looking careless and goofy. There is a racist culture that says that women of colour must be exceptional among the exceptional even to get noticed, but who says that someone who's already there allowing themselves to look silly now and then wouldn't be a huge step in the right direction? If anything, a hyper-competent, intelligent, poised woman from a racial minority showing that she is, in fact, a human being would be a huge boost of confidence for I don't know how many girls.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Also, I'm not sure how to feel about the whole "March Eridan is transphobic" thing that comes up every year about this time
I mean, if the joke was "lol Eridan's a trans woman", I could see that as transphobic
But it's not; the joke is that he's a man in women's clothing
Which I guess still has some unfortunate implications, but...I dunno, part of me just wants to be contrary because it grates on me as a trans woman when cis people reblog posts telling me what I should find transphobic
Considering that there are plenty of participants in the drag scene who are genderqueer or trans* in addition to gay men who simply enjoy dressing up that way, it would kind of be missing the point. The "tranny" thing is a little more complicated, but given that part of the offence comes (I think; please correct me if I'm wrong, trans-peeps!) from the fact that the expression was originally used as an abbreviation of "transvestite," the context of the word in drag culture is just a tiny bit different, even if it is still offensive...
I don't think that most angry Tumblrite teenagers are really informed enough or possess enough street cred to know the first thing about drag culture or trans* culture pre-'90s or even pre-2000, to be quite honest.
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it's Ben being a butt
Whatever, time to visit other websites for a while.
I am likely thinking of something else.
A fujoshi is a yaoi fangirl.
Posting neat pictures and art from tumblr.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
it strikes me as extremely antifeminist, in fact
she's kind of funny i guess? Imgur had a massive crush on her a few months back, but they seem to be mostly over her now
i was like, man, i have done nothing with my life, and she's famous
Oh, this is just really annoying to me. Yes, women of colour should be allowed to just be who they want and be appreciated for that, but criticising white women for breaking those gender norms...? I just don't...
it's funny because it's out of character in a way that's comical
people are far too casual about dropping that slur like it's no big deal, even within queer culture
maybe especially within it