Post ApZCcDDbKk47RKidXc by RickiTarr@beige.party
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(DIR) Post #ApZCcDDbKk47RKidXc by RickiTarr@beige.party
2024-12-30T05:01:24Z
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Misogyny is so strange, as it will mock and even kill something just because women like it. If women like stuff they're supposed to like (romance novels, romantic comedies, cutesy anime, female centered TV shows) they will be mocked for it, but if women like something that's marketed towards men, even more so. Shows like Supernatural and Sherlock actively wrote episodes and characters to mock their female fans. Sons of Anarchy had one of it's very popular female characters brutally raped and eventually murdered. The MCU won't stop listening to angry young men when they don't like shows and movies (She Hulk, Captain Marvel, Agatha, Black Widow) that aren't even about them. Why does the demographic even matter here? Is women's money different than men's? There are more of us, why is so much media pandering to the young male demographic. It's so stupid, just let women enjoy and create fandoms. Not everything needs to be filtered through the male experience or a sexed experience at all.
(DIR) Post #ApZCcEOyvulN6v3Ev2 by stuartb@social.teamb.space
2024-12-30T06:45:26Z
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@RickiTarr This is something that, as a white, cis-het male (now, sadly, middle-aged) I have never understood - speculative fiction, which include most Sci-Fi, in particular looks at other possibilities - other times, other places, other experiences - and asks the question "What If...?"What if we could travel faster than light, what if we could live on other planets, what if women or minorities or those with different beliefs were treated the same as white cis-het males?Those first 2 options are ideas that everyone will go along with as part of the story, but a certain sub-set of the population get irrationally irate at someone putting forward that latter idea.They seem to be very much in the minority, but they are LOUD, and they seem to have far more capacity for extended, ranting, hate-filled screeds against the objects of their vitriol than the rest of us do for praise of thiose same projects.Take Doctor Who - when a shape-changing alien shifts form to resemble another hum,an, the fans barely bat an eye - except on the occasion they take a female form, in which case some fans were frothing at the mouth, ranting about... something, it was mostly an incoherent wall of abuse, but they were definately upset.Jodie Whitaker did a great job with the material she was given, it was just poorly written, paced, and directed, and generally a mess.As someone else said, incels gonna incel - , but the rest of us love seeing characters who aren't us - it's fiction, after all.
(DIR) Post #ApZCcFis1SGZCtMdYe by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2024-12-30T09:15:57Z
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@stuartb> Jodie Whitaker did a great job with the material she was given, it was just poorly written, paced, and directedExactly! The problem wasn't casting women, it was writing insulting bad scripts. Yes, misogynists will tend to jump on the bandwagon and blame the casting. Just like antisemites are going to jump on Israeli state oppression of their neighbours and blame it on Jewishness.And reputation launderers will highlight bandwagon jumpers to deflect legitimate criticism.@RickiTarr