if you as a normal tumblr user go around flagging posts for mature labels you are A Fucking Cop
“but what if i hate women so much i need to mark their existence as mature” if you’re this bothered by the sight of real life women you 1.) need to grow tf up and 2.) should just unfollow people instead of having a childish temper tantrum and flagging people’s blogs
it’s not en vogue to hate women, even jokingly, anymore, but it’s not like men have stopped hating women. they’ve gotten quieter about it in some places. speaking as an anime fan, a sentiment i’ve picked up on is “we left to keep our opinions to ourselves while watching vtubers and playing gacha games, so if you get into those things and get upset when the subculture is misogynist, that’s your own fault - this is our only refuge.” in a way i can sort of appreciate that effort of self containment, even if it’s horrifying.
to that end, if a vtuber/company or gacha game does something “feminist,” the hatred is swift and vitriolic. there’s an impulse to extinguish it to the roots before it can “poison their sanctuary.” i’ve seen guys spewing the same sentiment YOU thought was over - women belong in the kitchen, they have no minds of their own, and if they start acting like they can think we need to punish them severely before they hurt others or themselves. it becoming the norm for japanese companies and artists to treat women as people is literally nightmarish to them (in part due to racist wishes projected onto japan obviously), and they will become physically violent in an effort to terrify people back into their place. it hasn’t stopped.
what a shame that antifeminism is so prevalent that companies in other countries have to worry about violent threats and escalation if they work with a feminist artist. what a shame that nobody that’s not an anime fan is talking about this, because the entire subculture has been mostly written off as unsalvageable anyway. what a shame that feminism has become a shambling corpse of reactionary ideology paraded about by corporations for a quick buck, while abject hatred continues to fester in plain sight. what a shame that it’s not just an american issue, and the situation sparking this post (artist being fired for being pro-choice since the company that hired them is getting violent threats) is happening due to men’s hatred of feminism in south korea.
and the saddest part of it is i see how much energy and unity these men display in eradicating feminist thought in their subcultures - the organization and commitment is impressive. i see that, and i have to reckon with the fact that i will never see that level of devotion from the rest of us in stomping out misogyny. i think about how republicans are better at organizing than democrats, i think about how feminism as a movement is more or less “over and solved” in most people’s minds, and i find myself asking why are we so fucking lazy.
The situation has gotten so bad that Namuwiki, a purportedly center-right-editorial community-run online encyclopedia,** is more popular than wikipedia, a purportedly editorially neutral online encyclopedia. This is what we mean by the axiom, “Online is Real.” The online radicalization pipeline has rotted the brains of an entire generation of young men in Republic of Korea, and this is a big reason for why these tendencies need to be challenged and nipped in the bud in microcommunities.
Ilbe (Daily Best) and DCInside are cautionary tales that many do not take seriously, but with 20s - 30s young men hearing the siren call of Owning the Feminists voting for a president that then is trying to subject the people to a 80.5-hour work week, we see that this is and was never about material condition, but rather about lashing out at people they were told to hate for over a decade now. The situation is dire over there, but it doesn’t have to be elsewhere. Take the South Korean situation as a warning and resoundingly push out reactionaries and make sure that they know they are not welcome in polite society.
*LMB went to get convicted for naked and open corruption that was largely responsible for this economic downturn, only for the successor right-wing administration to pardon him.
**Namuwiki has, in fact, a far-right editorial stance, especially when it comes to women, racial minority and LGBT+ rights
Alternative readings are good, I say, while grinding my teeth because I don’t like this particular one
It makes for a healthy fandom ecosystem to have a variety of takes, I say, while halfway to seethingly daydreaming how I would carpet bomb this take out of existence if I could.
I think that if any of will grahams students hit on him he would be offended that they thought he’d be okay with that and then lecture them about power imbalances and then three hours later he would have sex with his therapist
imagine your professor gets mad at you because that’s unethical and against his morals, and then a few years later you’re like “okay yeah he was right that would be fucked up” but then you see on the news that he was fucking his therapist, who is a serial killer, and also he murdered someone
the Forsaken would’ve won the final battle in book 2 if they weren’t such looney tunes ass unserious people. how did they blow a 1500-0 lead. they’re powerful channelers who had centuries to hone their skills and have ancient knowledge that the untrained other side does not know and their number one enemy is a sheepherder who spends a significant part of the narrative talking about how he doesn’t know how to talk to girls as well as his good pals, mat and perrin. instead of dunking on the light by liberally using balefire the Forsaken were participating in horseplay and getting tricked by babies
POV you’re the king and i just made an inappropriate joke about your virility in front of the whole royal court and you want to punish me but you can’t react in anger lest the court think my joke is true
those first couple weeks after escaping a time loop have gotta be disorienting as all fuck. all those little cues that used to tell you what’s about to happen are now triggers that cause you to brace for something that isn’t coming. you have to relearn the permanence of death – hell, you have reacquaint yourself with the entire concept of finality altogether. everything keeps changing but it never changes back and you keep having to remind yourself that this is normal. “it won’t reset anymore,” you echo to yourself, over and over and over, like a broken record, like you’re still trapped in a loop, like someone who escaped the time loop but was doomed to bring it into the future with them
cat laziness is so contagious. you’ll see your cat flopped on its back in your bed a completely comfy cozy baby and you’ll be like. you’re right. you make a compelling argument.
I love mad scientists because instead of going to therapy they choose to do unimaginable horrors with alchemy which makes their problems ten times worse
