When women's struggles become fatalism for consumption, you get *gestures at the entirety of the current cultural-social-political climate*

May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄@goddessblade.bsky.social · 16h ago

This really stood out to me as one of the film's probably unintentional undercurrents, which is a thread of female frustration and often powerlessness being acknowledged by the text in a way that feels like it's attempting to address it, but really does more like reify it

Like I stole from gender theory: there are two genders, women and faggot. “Man” is just being a normal human.

May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄@goddessblade.bsky.social · 15h ago

LRP: The vertical view of gender—with men at the top as the "full, complete" human gender—is a much older way of understanding gender than "the gender binary" and remains a big influence on how we see the sexes today. Women have long been viewed as defective, inferior versions of men.

LRP: The vertical view of gender—with men at the top as the "full, complete" human gender—is a much older way of understanding gender than "the gender binary" and remains a big influence on how we see the sexes today. Women have long been viewed as defective, inferior versions of men.

a lot of people seem to think there is a fundamental inferiority to women that simply isn't true and a lot of those differences are less your biological makeup and more the fact that boys get so much more support, food, and training than girls, that gulf vanishes the more you equalize those things

Micah@rincewind.run · 23h ago

it's the old serena williams tweet in action, that there is a physical difference between the top tier of male athletes and the top tier of female athletes gets taken by far too many delusional men as "I can beat a woman at anything" no, you cannot beat a decent athlete of either gender at anything

idc what you say, having helen get facially disfigured and verbally apologize for the "pain she caused" is fucked up and i can't believe i'm still not seeing more people take issue with this

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The Odyssey’s relationship to gender is probably the aspect of it I most want to explore. I see it as a story about masculinity in a profoundly fundamental way.

May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄@goddessblade.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’ll need time to dig into this more but I also felt that the text has a lot of emergent subtext—and outright text—to do with the patriarchal confines of the setting, but there’s only so much room that the plot has for that such that it feels frustratingly superficial at times

We saw The Odyssey and I have a lot of thoughts about it and its themes. Many performances were really good too!

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Look at how often characters with emotion-based powers are female or queer-coded. It’s not necessarily all the time, but it’s very common. Look at how often female and feminized characters have themes of coming under influences or losing control of themselves and needing to be regulated, contained.

Jean Grey is a really iconic example of both the wilder and empath tropes and has a lot of baggage associated with both of them, and these themes can somewhat dominate all adaptation versions of her, despite her impressive complexity and long history as a character.

This is another important feature of both the wilder and empath tropes: strong association with womanhood and sexism. It’s really common for female characters to inhabit one or both of them and have a lot of themes around emotional power.

Serial Experiments Abigail@popeguilty.bsky.social · 3d ago

Nope, sorry, the only interesting story you can tell about a powerful woman is that she becomes too powerful and can't handle it and has to be put down Apparently

Spider-Man Brand New Day spoilers * * * * * * * * I think this is the first adaption I’ve heard of where Jean is introduced *without* the X-Men. It should be really interesting to get to see her stand on her own with a different backstory

One more week until Mara releases, which means one more work of getting it at its discount pre-order price! Come and get your yummy trans lesbian space shenanigans with a side of heady anarchism. "Very cinematic. That was such a wild ride" -- @trishusband.itch.io prismata-press.itch.io/mara

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Anyway, I was very enthused by how much people want to know this stuff because being an editor can often feel like being a solitary pedantic nerd (for some reason)

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KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 3d ago

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Started reading a non-fic book by a trans woman autho published in 2017 & she cites several other authors who were active in that era and then I realized that almost none of these girlies except for me are still writing publicly and also some of them are dead & then I s p i r a l e d

Watched the finale to The Amazing Digital Circus and I’m still deciding how I feel about it

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Well, we were on our way to see The Odyssey, and then I got violently sick in the car and made a huge mess. Now I am back home, cleaned up, feeling a lot better, and absolutely starving.

Just got violently sick

The world of gender, you can’t make it up

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As a Jean stan I’m curious about her being in the new Spider-Man movie

Maybe I’m biased because I’m a het women with a bi partner, but I’m staggered by the whole straight women not wanting to date bi men thing. It just seems like a way to dissociate yourself from any kind of queerness. Can’t relate!

I think cis people need to reckon with just how much their voices have power over trans people’s voices

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