existential female despair

I have kind of a niche political view on tumblr, which is that I think misogyny is bad even when it’s just hurting women

and I don’t even think it needs to have a singular benefit for men for feminism and the abolition of patriarchy to be worthwhile

I hate to sound like the fun police for a second but a lot of you very uncritically believe military imagery is cool and don’t unpack that and this makes you extremely susceptible to propaganda.

the thing widow's bay does with the final girl is super interesting to me. i don't have fully formed thoughts and i feel like i should know more about the horror genre to truly convey them, but it's just this thing where the final girl is any age and she's everywhere. the story doesn't end with her overcoming the obstacle, her life continues, and how do you continue after the impossible has happened to you? patricia is the clearest archetype, she survived as a teen only to still be the final girl in her 40s after a lifetime of dragging rumors and shame after her for having survived in the first place. she never stopped being that final girl! ruth is another one. she is elderly and survived a life of pain and loss, only to be the moral compass of the story as the final girl in the warren bloodline. everyone wanted to dismiss her because old birdies like her seem so unimportant, only to be the most important piece of all. sarah westcott was also a final girl of sorts, tasked to be warren's last wife and his downfall. she had to crawl through mud and take charge of children she didn't even know to try and save herself and a town (she didn't even belong to!) plagued by her husband's arrogance. warren's daughter frances was also a final girl. she endured the literal extermination of all her family and survived the drowning and lived long enough to have children even though the man who took care of her never treated her as a person. over and over again, women survive and endure in widow's bay. like even after her attack, lauren survived, even if not of sound mind, and became the wife in the attic asylum amidst pain and loss. but she endured, she thought of her son every second, she was trying constantly to reach out to him. there's just a lot of resilience from specifically the women in widow's bay. even the name of the island, it points at a woman who outlasted her husband. it's all final girls. we're all final girls. and we never stop being final girls.

and implying that rape is just the natural outcome of having more testosterone

Its okay to be a raped corpse. Who told you you can't be a raped corpse? I want you to be a raped corpse. :) be a raped corpse for me.

@spambotarchive

"TERFs didn't take it seriously" mother fucker radfems reported that person to the fucking FBI on multiple occasions and have been tracking as much as they can about them because they openly threatened minors with rape. Genuinely what the fuck are they talking about like I would seriously love to know where they're getting their information from.

Nah, fuck this. I did not get graphic rape threats and incest fantasy and "if you don't support kids getting HRT and surgery you're a pedophile" and various forms of "feminists deserve to be raped to death" for this stupid ass fucking white moid to sit here and blame feminists. FUCK you. I am so fucking sick of feminists being blamed for every fucking thing in the entire world. Of course this white male who larps as a woman is itching for the opportunity to paint feminists in a bad light. I am so sick of them I genuinely am I don't fucking care if it sounds hateful. The shit those bots have been putting in our inboxes months before they reached tras was actually fucking sickening and it made Tumblr literally unusable for many of us, and they targeted fucking minors too bc obviously they're bots. Fuck you fuck this whole movement.

i really cannot stand the character archetype in film of the "unpopular nerdy ugly girl" being portrayed by the most conventionally attractive, thin, clear-skinned actress ever you cannot tell me that amanda goddamn seyfried was some fugly lesbigay loser as a foil to megan fox you cannot tell me beloved babyfaced winona ryder was a social outcast at her school you cannot convince me that rachel sennott and ayo edebiri are notoriously "ugly, untalented gays" even riverdale lampshaded this by fully acknowledging that cheryl shouldnt have starred as carrie in the school play and it shouldve been ethel cause ethel is The Fat One Nobody Likes and ethel even IS chubby enough that you could actually consider her "fat" but she's still an acceptably Cute type of fat but in the end she STILL gets denied the role anyway. real ugly and/or fat girls are straight up not allowed to exist on camera even when the narrative tells you they're there they're not actually there. im just so tired. where is the acne. [flinging myself against the walls of my padded cell] where is the acne where is the acne wwhere is the fucking acne