given the new popularity of games and other media such as Love and Deepspace and yaoi and stuff, i see many men going 'SEE! women are just as depraved as men are, now stop complaining about female sexualization in games!'
and oh my god you idiots. lets take some super typical examples from popular media. what differences can we see?
note how much male 'sexualization' (more of a power fantasy on men's part) focuses on musculature, on explicit strength, power, vigor and toughness. they don't even need to be showing any skin. all these are considered sexually attractive by men and women, as a result of our lovely culture. now for female sexualization, its mostly about the showing the (unnatural) curves and arches of their body, being coy and inviting, passive and alluring. women are a spectacle to be acted upon and men are the actors.
look at the filmography, angles and posing for each image, look at how sexy men are shown as relaxed, yet towering and active, and how sexy women are dressed skimpily, are coy and posing unnaturally to invite attention. this is the standard across genres, aimed at both men and women.
imagine if you opened a survival game you were greeted with a man in booty shorts and a ragged crop top, with his back arched, looking longingly at the the player. is it the same as a shirtless man with defined abs and a smoldering look? exactly, it is fucking NOT the same. men would consider it extremely humiliating to be sexualized the way women are sexualized. if its humiliating for a man to do, its humiliating for a woman to do, you're just used to women being humiliated.
take a moment and imagine if sexy women were almost only shown as dominant, active and physically strong, and sexy men as only meek, coy and passive. now imagine if these unnaturally posed meek, coy and passive sexualized male characters were absolutely everywhere, in games, tv shows and movies where it made no sense for them to be there. imagine if they were the only male characters present and you couldn't change their looks. if this held true for at least half of all sexualized characters in media, i would cede my position and admit that male and female sexualization are just as bad as each other. until then, shut the fuck up š
I love to see the general public finally waking tf up
Guess what group has been talking about all these things for years and was demonized, shamed and threatend for it š¤
It doesn't matter how progressive a man is, the second a woman does something he doesn't like, he calls her a c*nt.
found this on pinterest, thought you all might like it :3
This photo made my day. Solidarity with #GiselePelicot and all survivors.
Radfems: I am concerned about female genital mutilation, the systemic rape and abuse of women in Africa and the middle east, the womenās rights violations in Afghanistan, honor killings in Islam, the human trafficking taking place around the world, sex tourism, and the lack of womenās rights in many countries. Also, we need to focus on femicide as it affects women everywhere but especially in the global south.
Liberals: ā¦
Radfems: I also hate makeup and beauty standards.
Liberals: WOW. You white western radfems donāt care at ALL about whatās happening to women in the global south. Or the abuse of women in third world countries. What about whatās going on in Afghanistan? You donāt care!!!
On December 6th 1989, fourteen young women, many of them engineering students, were murdered in the mass shooting at Montrealās EĢcole Polytechnique that was prompted by the killerās hatred of women and what he said was āfighting feminismā. Ā On December 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, we remember: GenevieĢve Bergeron HeĢleĢne Colgan Nathalie Croteau Barbara Daigneault Anne-Marie Edward Maud Haviernick Maryse LaganieĢre Maryse Leclair Anne-Marie Lemay Sonia Pelletier MicheĢle Richard Annie St-Arneault Annie Turcotte Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
Okay tbh.
Even when I was a TRA, I felt a bit stupid when Iād say ātrans womenā experienced worse oppression than ātrans menā.
Because a part of me believed in sex-based oppression, but I couldnāt say that without being called a terf. So I just didnāt question it. But now Iām questioning it because⦠how is it that someone who was born male, was treated better for being male, and was afforded more privileges for being male can say, āIām a woman teehee!ā and all of that male privilege is just gone?
And how a female can be treated as lesser than and experience medical discrimination on the basis of her female sex, but they call themselves a man and woosh! All of the misogyny theyāve faced is gone!
āErm well it is because trans women are women and trans men are men, so women are treated worse than men! Erm achshually this is feminism 101!ā
But a woman isnāt treated horribly for saying sheās a woman. A woman is treated horribly because her sex is female. Trans men are female and therefore they experience misogyny. Trans women are male and donāt experience misogyny (unless you ācountā the misdirected misogyny when someone falsely assumes a TiM is a female, which is, as I said, misdirected and not an example of them actually experiencing misogyny).
So, if weāre comparing the oppression of trans men (TiFs) and trans women (TiMs)⦠I believe females are oppressed while males are not (on the basis of sex). So even if youāre still a TRA⦠it doesnāt make sense to deny reality and claim trans āwomenā have it sooo much worse than trans āmenā because doing so would be denying sex-based oppression. And denying sex-based oppression is denying history.
Yāall get me?
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āTERFs are not real feminists, all they do is bring down trans people, instead of actually addressing the female problems, in Afghanistan, etc.ā
We do speak about these matters, you just donāt know because you are not a part of the radical feminist community. The thing is, you are not interested in it. The only thing that sparks your interest is the ādollsā.
Hence why you are showed with radical feministās posts with gender critique.
If you knew anything about radical feminism, you would hear conversations about skin- selling business in Nepal that targets the sex workers, you would know of the conversations about how surrogates were treated in India by the agencies, you would hear us talking about the patterns of misogyny in the global media.
But you are not interested. You have no desire to actually look into radical feminism, and understand what it is about. You have your agenda that you have to feed with hatred for āterf bitchesā