Normalize bare faces in ALL settings. Makeup should not be a requirement for beauty, professionalism or hygiene. Normalize the idea that if applying makeup isn’t enjoyable there’s no reason to be wearing it. Then destroy the elitism within makeup culture and destroy the idea that makeup as a hobby requires spending a lot of money.
I’m becoming bored with the anti-feminization of fantasy novels. I’m all for heroines who take up a sword, or who chafe against the expectations of their society. But can’t we have more heroines who like dresses and housework and embroidery and family life? We don’t just need heroines who do stereotypically masculine things. Because that perpetuates the sexism–women are only welcome if they’re just like the boys.
We also need to show that stereotypically feminine tasks and roles can be heroic.
To that end, here are some suggestions:
The princess who arranges her own marriage, because someone’s got to make the alliance to save this kingdom and it may as well be her. (Extra points: her parents want her to be a knight, but she runs away from home because she would rather get married).
A heroine who really, really loves babies and want to get married and start a family.
Women who love doing embroidery,and comparing patterns and making up new designs. And maybe they embroider a map or two for the adventure, because paper can tear and get wet, and that’s not a problem for fabric.
A woman who has to wear trousers for a portion of the adventure–and hates them. They might be slightly more convenient for running, but they’re uncomfortable, and her legs are too warm, and can’t she please get into skirts again?
Mothers as fantasy protagonists. Caring for their children while also dealing with the demands of the fantasy plot. Queens who negotiate treaties and care for the demands of the castle and then go back to spend time with their children.
Women who don’t get married and aren’t pressured to get married, but have a happy, successful single life–working as a spinster or running a farm or having any other sort of successful business.
Fantasy societies that are built around the fact that women get pregnant and have children. Bringing your children to the meeting of the fellowship is totally okay! You can run the castle while your children play at your feet! Women aren’t trapped in the house caring for the babies because babies are welcome!
There are loads of interesting things that can happen if stories go beyond the tropes and include the reality of female life. (And if anyone knows of fantasy novels that include some of these things, please point me toward them).
military worship in this country is out of fucking control
excuse me?
military worship in this country is out of fucking control
Yea you’re right, we shouldn’t honor the people willing to risk their life to save ours and defend our country … oh
Military worship in this country is out of fucking control
I’m in the military and yes it’s out of fucking control. Most of the people I know in the military feel the same way. You civilians need to calm the fuck down. Most of us joined in our teens or early twenties. For a lot of us it was because we needed a job, and we didn’t see any other options, and this job has good benefits, especially for an uneducated young person in America. We get healthcare and education!! That’s some tempting fucking fruit. But this is a JOB. Some people in the military become heroes, that’s true. Jumping on grenades, defusing bombs, dragging a wounded person from the middle of a firefight. They usually end up dead in the process. Those people deserve respect, in my opinion. They give their lives for their friends, no matter whether or not you agree with the policies that put them there in the first place. But a lot of people in America reflexively claim that everyone in the military is a hero, full stop. This isn’t true and it lets people look the other way when something is actually wrong in the military, because it’s the military, they’re heroes, they can do no wrong.
We’re doing a job, and a lot of us are never really put in harm’s way. I work in a climate controlled lab for 8 hours a day, for instance. Really grueling. Such a hero. This fawning lip service of an infallible military doesn’t do us any good. I know people who have bought into it, who have heard so many people tell them that they’re heroes that they actually believe it, and they are the stupid and dangerous ones. Joining the military does not make you a hero, and calling us heroes might make you feel all warm and fluffy and red white and blue but it doesn’t do anything for the people that end up on the streets with PTSD or come home with life-changing injuries or in a box. We’re human beings, not some concept that you can just mindlessly adulate and then feel better about yourself.
every time I see someone call tony a war profiteer I have to wonder..,.,…did u watch iron man 1 or civil war?? like that was kind of a big thing. he literally remade stark industries into the world’s leading tech company and stopped producing weapons. and “when I realized what my weapons were capable of in the wrong hands, I shut it down, stopped manufacturing”. like who are y’all go and sit down
Shoutout to the sweet fans who are polite even if they’re nervous and respectful even if they’re talking to an actor that isn’t their favorite. Thanks for being decent human beings.
When do we talk about the moment in Deadpool 2 when Deadpool shoots the orderly after realizing what they were doing to Russell?
Because as Colossus is strangling him, asking why he killed someone, Wade’s immediate answer is, “They were abusing him. You can tell; you can always tell.”
But the thing is, no one else noticed. And it’s not like Russell’s scars were hidden before that moment. They’re very prominent from the moment he’s onscreen. When I saw the movie a second time I looked to make sure and yes, you can see them the entire time.
Deadpool could tell pretty quickly though. And the question becomes “How often has Wade seen it to be able to immediately pick up on it?”
Followed up by “Why has Wade seen it this often?”
It’s such a brief moment but it stuck with me the rest of the movie and well after it. It’s so informative of Deadpool’s character that I’m surprised I haven’t seen discussion about it anywhere.
Ugh, I’m whining about Steve Rogers again because I miss cap 1. Like, he was naive and immature in cap 1 but he felt like cap. Like a baby cap who hasn’t grown into his character yet but that’s the purpose of origin stories isn’t it? But I HATE what they’ve done to his character. Since avengers 1 it’s just been a slow decline into this cynical, dark, bitter shadow of who cap is. His trilogy is over. Theres no going back his legacy is going to be this way in the MCU. Everyone is thirsting after him and saying “see! Character development” as if there’s no difference between good and bad character development and as if there’s any universe where captain America being this angry and violent is at all in character GOD I miss cap so much!!! I miss him!!!! Ugh
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