there's a light on you

Something I see getting overlooked a lot when discussing queercoding in historical media is that in many cases it's not evidence that the writers secretly shipped it; it was aimed at straight dudes specifically to freak them out. Depicting a male villain as sexually interested in a male hero reads as horror to the cishet male audience. Like, Venom didn't spend years and years being blatantly characterised as Spider-Man's creepy stalker ex because Marvel's writers were all closeted yaoi fans. That was meant to be scary – which of course doesn't mean you can't read it differently, but don't give them credit they don't deserve!

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challenging all white women to put in even half the effort they spend on fearmongering to other white women about parking lot abductions to instead support MMIWG initiatives if they want to actually make a difference in protecting women

Funniest thing to come out of the Odyssey movie for me personally is seeing posts like "I can't believe Nolan added this aspect to the film that was completely his own original idea!" because apparently people only remember this is a 3000 year old story when they can make a joke about spoilers

Second funniest thing is looking at the OPs of those posts and seeing they're 18 year olds whose main base of knowledge is Epic The Musical

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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.

deep rooted respect for women who openly get mad and are okay w being perceived as bitchy