In Which Rebekah Rants

[seiaa]

So this is really random and is only brought up because of random articles I managed to find while looking for something else entirely, though Disney related. This also has absolutely nothing to do with anyone in particular and if anyone has put up any blog posts or anything vaguely resembling this topic anytime recently I DID NOT KNOW and this has

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[chieira]

I think that people are so desperate for a good, female role model that they forget that they're expecting the impossible. No one is a good role model all the time. I don't dictate my life by whether or not I'll be failing as a woman if I, say, let my boyfriend buy me dinner. And, as you pointed out, if I'm in a life or death situation, I don't care if it's a man who saves me or a woman. As long as someone kicks the crap out of the guy holding a gun to my head, I'm good.

In a movie, you have a very limited time to establish a character. You don't have someone's entire life to show the variation that is bound to be there. So I get that people expect that limited amount of time to establish the character in a favorable way. But I agree that people definitely go overboard. I hate how you can't just enjoy something anymore, you have to analyze it to death. If something is glaringly sexist, yes, I will be bothered by it. Naturally. But I'm sorry, I'm not going to sit down and watch and rewatch a movie trying to catch every single thing that could maybe, in some way, be considered vaguely sexist.

[seiaa]

Lol. THIS.

>:|

Seriously. There are just. There's just no pleasing some people :/ and I know people (oh god I know people, no one you know though xD) who just dig and dig and dig for anything to complain about under the sun. I haateee it.

It's just gotten to the point where a man can't do anything in a movie to help the girl without her being a damsel. >:|

[chieira]

LOL. I know people like that, too. One of my friends did a feminist rant just the other day, and while I agreed with the majority of what she was saying... yeah, again, there was that looking for something to be wrong.

Poor guys. If they stand back and refuse to help the girl, they're assholes. If they help her, they're sexist assholes. THEY JUST CAN'T WIN.

[seiaa]

Yeah seriously. I just. When an article or a discussion or a rant that has a REALLY GOOD ARGUMENT suddenly starts grasping for things it like. Discredits the rest of it. Kind of like a typo in a newspaper. Or a misspelling in something else important, even though everything else was great, it ruins it and throws everything else into the realm of doubt.