One of my least favourite dialogue tropes is when a man tells a woman, “You can’t do that” or “I wouldn’t do that if I were you” and she says, “Why? Because I’m a woman and therefore too weak to handle this/can’t take care of myself?” or something to that effect and the guy replies with, “No, because everyone who tried that ended up with a bullet in their brain” or something equally reasonable and not gender-specific that paints him as the rational not sexist guy and the woman as an irrational paranoid feminist who searches for sexism in everything. This whole scenario is built on the idea that sexism is over and women’s fears and suspicions don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s also self-congratulatory pseudofeminism bc it’s supposed to make the viewer/reader/listener feel that in this specific work of fiction women are treated respectfully and as equal with men.
huh.. never thought of it like that
But, what if the male character isn’t sexist? I meam…their fictional sure but…I’m not sure how to phrase this
Its not a question of the character themselves- its how the writers are portraying them. The way this trope plays out, the whole moment revolves around the woman looking foolish for assuming that there is sexism happening. She is characterized as being irrational, jumping to conclusions, even insecure. While the dude is characterized as the calm, rational one.
It is a trope that specifically works by taking a woman standing up to sexism and saying “haha it wasnt actually sexist at all! Isnt calling out sexism foolish and silly. Thats what you get for assuming that men are sexist!”
I have the same reaction with homophobic jokes set up like this. Like the whole “you can’t marry a woman”, “why bc you think its wrong” “no we haven’t found you the right dress yet silly!” Or stuff along those lines.
It feels like someone setting up to punch you and then you duck and the person goes “haha, i wasn’t gonna punch you at all, why would you duck? You shouldnt just assume someone’s gonna deck you because they have their fists up.”
saw someone once describe those kinds of “jokes” as winding up they’re going to punch you and then laughing when you flinch.
The problem with American politics is that the left supports Argentinian political parties? apparently?
Obsessed with the taurus symbol in her foot. Why yes, reading your horoscope and passively wondering if it’ll come true is just as bad as *checks notes* literal naziism.
Low key tho this sums up the problem with american politics but not in the way that the op of the tweet thinks it does. It sums up the problem with american politics in that there’s all these god damn centrists running around that think that Planned Parenthood and the Klan are both equally extreme.
my dentist thinks my chronic dry mouth might be due to sleeping w my mouth open and recommended an anti-snoring device and im like ok im game to try that but i do need to tell you that i already wear dry-eye goggles at night. this has no bearing on whether or not i can also use the anti-snoring device i just need you to know how ridiculous im gonna look
gonna style these 2 together and report back ig
Your dentist is trying to give you keymaster vibes
Endgame is you end up sleeping in one of those Dune suits so you don’t wither into a prune whilst unconscious
Look, we joke a lot, but really, “you were born evil, wretched, worse than the scum of the earth, and it took killing a god to make you salvageable, so now you’d better be grateful to that god and thank him 10,000 times a day for it and fill your thoughts with him 24/7 and abide by the letter of his every word, lest you suffer unimaginable torture for all of eternity” is a truly horrendous thing to believe about yourself and other people
The bombing hasn’t been scaled back at all. For example, a few days ago, Israel bombed Rafah for 7 hours. They’re also still destroying houses and displacing thousands every day. The Al Shifa Hospital massacre wasn’t that long ago either
I recently learnt that the 39 things not permitted on Shabbat are exactly the tasks the Israelites performed as they were building the tabernacle at the base of Mount Sinai. Which, to me? Hilarious.
I’m getting the visual of the Israelites being really hype enthusiastic overachievers who are chewing on the time accurate equivalent of coffee beans to get their project in. They’re getting the curtains ready, their gold, their dolphin skins (or ancient middle eastern marine mammal equivalent of )- they’re going haywire with the preparations-
and G-D putting his hands up.
“Timeout! Timeout!”
everyone freezes-
“Hey- I really appreciate it. I do. Super grateful for the hard work. But I think I’m going to mandate a rest day for you from all this stuff. You know how you haven’t been eating or sleeping? Okay here’s 25 hours where that’s all you can do. Don’t even think about picking up that hammer, Mendel!”
One brave Israelite raises his hand from the crowd. “Can we still.. argue?”
• There will be a hearing on Wednesday (17th April) where KOSA, along with some other bad internet bills, like the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act could be pushed.
While the bill needs to be aproved by both the house and senate WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER LEAVES CONGRESS.
SPREAD THE WORD !!
This isn’t my usual content (which I promise we will return to soon), but KOSA will prevent me from using recourses that I desperately need and will prevent others from using recourses that have honestly saved my life. I’d appreciate it if you all could at least share, and contact your lawmakers if possible!
• There will be a hearing on Wednesday (17th April) where KOSA, along with some other bad internet bills, like the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act could be pushed.
While the bill needs to be aproved by both the house and senate WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER LEAVES CONGRESS.
SPREAD THE WORD !!
This isn’t my usual content (which I promise we will return to soon), but KOSA will prevent me from using recourses that I desperately need and will prevent others from using recourses that have honestly saved my life. I’d appreciate it if you all could at least share, and contact your lawmakers if possible!
• There will be a hearing on Wednesday (17th April) where KOSA, along with some other bad internet bills, like the Protecting Kids on Social Media Act could be pushed.
While the bill needs to be aproved by both the house and senate WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT NEVER LEAVES CONGRESS.
SPREAD THE WORD !!
This isn’t my usual content (which I promise we will return to soon), but KOSA will prevent me from using recourses that I desperately need and will prevent others from using recourses that have honestly saved my life. I’d appreciate it if you all could at least share, and contact your lawmakers if possible!
It’s 1AM and all I can think about is how I haven’t dated a boy ever AND I WANT TO SO BAD.I wanna experience cute dates at aquariums at amusement parks or just relax inside and cuddle while doing something together or being in the presence of each other even though you each are doing our own things. I wanna experience teenage romance with a boy so bad I want them to see me as a boy and love me as one and respect and love me for who I am PLEASE I JUST WANT A BOYFRIEND AND FALL IN LOVE PLEASS
incredible how much housework you can get done if you take a chance and believe in yourself and also have fifteen other much more pressing responsibilities
i love the fact that one day i will get all those things
i love the fact that even though i am not where i want to be in my transition, i am still a man
i am a man
and i love being one
i love loving men and i love being a man who loves men
there is nothing wrong with loving being a man or loving loving men
im hopelessly full of joy and pride and love for men and for my own male identity everytime i go online and see myself addressed as such, or every time my sister calls me her brother, or everytime my mom mentions im going to be an uncle, or whenever my brother brings me into doing inherently men related tasks in my household
and nothing will stop me from spreading that joy
manhood and masculinity are experiences that can be, should be, and are full of joy and love and positivity
i love being a man, and i love loving men
dont derail this post or reblog it changing what i said. this post is about men. nothing you say or do will change the fact that this post is about being a man and loving men!
I am not really trusting this. Truth is that gender is much more complicated than that and discluding a group can be harmful to many people. There are men who have experienced sexism. Im not quite sure im explaining well what im trying to get at here but this feels off.
I think you’re right to be suspicious of any categoricsl absolute Statement made about something as multifasceted as gender. For example, im sure there are trans men who have experience sexism directed at them for being perceived as a woman and sexism for being trans. By making a categorical statement like that you are either excluding them by saying “trans are not really men and therefor they cannot speak as men” or by saying “trans men are men, therefore any misogyny they experienced is invalid and they shouldn’t complain about it.”
Either one is a bad take. And the person who wrote this probably didn’t mean to say that. But merely by expressing it in that way, they show that they do not percieve trans people to be included in general terms like men and women, and so do not consider them normal.
That being said, the person responding is probably making an argument in bad faith. Like a reverse sexism/racism/“insert broad group here”-ism argument. .
But I think I get what you mean and I believe your instinctive discomfort with a statement like this comes from a place of broadmindedness and is correct.
February 28, 2024 - American military veterans burn their uniforms calling for a free Palestine, at a vigil for Aaron Bushnell in Portland, Oregon. [source]
heads up: this games charity bundle was finally approved on itch.io! it opens this friday, april 12th, and will run for a week. all proceeds will go to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund.
you can check out the bundle on itch.io and follow @vgforpalestine on twitter for more updates!
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