That one winx club post has over 12 thousand note

the sad truth is that most children who are groomed are made into victims precisely because the adults around them treat them even worse than their groomer, at least at first. groomers specifically look for vulnerable children who don't have people in their lives they trust and can rely on. isolation is pretty much the number one factor these abusers look for when choosing their victims

Something about the bastardization of the story time and time again proves that nobody in power really cares about the people who would resonate with King’s Carrie White. A girl so ugly and repulsive she’s been removed from her own story. The societal need for women and girls to be constantly perceived as attractive is what fuels a fair amount of her torment in the book, but that person isn’t even allowed to exist on the screen. We cannot empathize with her; it isn’t allowed. It’s fascinating to me.

idk as much as you can’t demand other people write what you want to read, i think it’s fair to be upset at the sheer lack of care for or presence of female characters and the prioritization of male characters and mlm relationships over wlw. “pick up a pen and write what you want to see” ok can we talk about misogyny and lesbophobia for a sec though

Majority of fanfiction writers are women and the majority of women are straight so they fetishize gay men instead of lesbians because they aren't attracted to women.

i wasn’t talking exclusively about fanfic (which i don’t even read but that’s beside the point). the stark lack of female characters in popular media is indicative of a larger issue in itself and we should be able to talk about why women and lesbians get zero attention, zero stories about us in the first place without dismissing concerns of misogyny and lesbophobia with “straight women are the only ones writing and creating and they’re just obsessed with men”. straight men also only write stories about men because they don’t care about women and don’t think they’re whole, complex, dimensional people who lead interesting or full lives. attraction is not the defining or leading motive for creative writing

and yeah i don’t really care about fan drama but in fan spaces, which are an extension of real life where real bigotry can proliferate as is the case with all things that don’t exist in a vacuum, people continue to fawn over mediocre white men with no personalities who had one on-screen appearance and completely disregard main women characters because “they’re boring”. at a certain point if you can’t stand to even think about women as dimensional characters that contribute anything to a story, if you can look at any man and see a multifaceted character with depth but then look at any woman and see nothing more than a cardboard cutout, then the issue is probably just misogyny, and i’m tired of giving heterosexuals a pass. sexuality doesn’t excuse not seeing women as people with as much interiority as any man

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out