An article of mine that I wrote for my own site with little intention has whipped up a storm of attention via twitter, and been reposted at the New Statesman, a national UK magazine that I've written for before in the past. The subject? The portrayal of women in a recent film
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Absence of misogyny/sexism in film =/= film with genderless characters.
Of course men will complain about the one instance where women get to be portrayed as people and not cardboard cut-out representations of male desire and preferred aesthetic.
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I'm just a freelancer so I don't get it quite as bad, but writing about genre things as a woman makes you a magnet for hate comments and actual hate e-mails as well. It's lovely stuff :/
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Health care - Alright! So this means that men will stop telling women that we're imaging our heart attacks, that it's immoral for us to remove an unwanted parasite from our bodies, that we either owe our bodies to our children or that we must refuse our children the best source of nourishment unless we want to be labeled perverts, that our weight is the cause of every health problem we have ever, that our health care is and should be more costly because our gender is a per-existing condition, and so much more, right? I'm down.
Family law - I'll take a step further. Let's have gender-neutral families. So let's create a world in which women don't stay home to raise the children vastly disproportionately to their male partners, where women aren't expected to do the vast majority of the chores even when they're working just as much as if not more than their male partners, where daughters are given the same inherent value as sons, where women are stereotyped as nurturers and forced to ( ... )
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You know, now that the important comic book imbalance has been sorted. Ha. Oh, I wish. I'm not even a fan of comic books, and I really wish this were true.
I'm sure the ignored homless and suicidal men in the UK will be taking comfort from the reporting of this important issue. Women are significantly more likely to be suicidal. And, frankly, I hear absolutely jack-shit about that fact outside of feminist discussions. It's usually about the menz and how suicidal they are.
Ugh. Fucking MRAs. They must all know on some level that sexism against women still exists and is still prevalent, because virtually everything that site as sexism ( ... )
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I agree that on some level they must know but they somehow manage to turn everything into how much worse it is for men. It'd be impressive if it wasn't so gross :/
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