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women who seem to need a man in their lives to feel happy or any sense of definition. Been seeing it a lot lately. "Wah, wah! I just wish I had somebody! Somebody to treat me special and fuck everyone else who is happy around me because I totally call it not fair!"
also people i follow on Tumblr who answer negative asks from anonymous trolls. they get really riled up about it and that isn't bad enough but when you send them a comforting message to encourage them to keep being who they are and don't let things get them down, they then decide to go on a mass editing spree and erase every goddamn thing they said to vent about the situation. the whininess is alienating enough but then the mass editing is a particularly aggressive response i don't care very much for. like, at the same time as trying to tell their followers "It's okay guys! I'm just venting! Not a big deal! lol!" and put up this strong front, they make themselves look fragile and erratic when they just randomly erase everything; like just a couple encouraging messages or even a couple of angry ones is enough to set them off in a whirlwind of action that is not proportionate to what they're responding to.
FeministFrequency on some issues. Generally, I totally agree with her, particularly about the advertisements to children and her analysis of different tropes is fairly interesting. But I don't necessarily agree that when someone sits down to write a story or a script that they should focus on "okay, now how many female characters do I have as part of the core cast and do any of them talk to each other about anything meaningful?" I think overthinking about the problem isn't going to help anything, since half the time, overthinking the problem is where I think the Smurfette Principle and Token Minority even come into play - the story writer feels responsible and acknowledges that there's not enough superficial diversity and includes it just to have it there. Could they try harder to include more female centered stories in the mainstream and produce more product that doesn't sexualize female figures? Sure. But if I'm sitting down and writing a story or comic, I'll write what I want to see happen and where I feel my characters should go and develop. Fans be damned. Not trying to excuse away what they're doing and the whole of Hollywood is geared towards a sale and trying to make money, so catering to what fans want is important. But I don't want the writers of something like Inception to get bogged down in "Dammit! We've only got one girl in the main group..." when they should just focus on writing a good goddamn story that people will want to see.
also people i follow on Tumblr who answer negative asks from anonymous trolls. they get really riled up about it and that isn't bad enough but when you send them a comforting message to encourage them to keep being who they are and don't let things get them down, they then decide to go on a mass editing spree and erase every goddamn thing they said to vent about the situation. the whininess is alienating enough but then the mass editing is a particularly aggressive response i don't care very much for. like, at the same time as trying to tell their followers "It's okay guys! I'm just venting! Not a big deal! lol!" and put up this strong front, they make themselves look fragile and erratic when they just randomly erase everything; like just a couple encouraging messages or even a couple of angry ones is enough to set them off in a whirlwind of action that is not proportionate to what they're responding to.
FeministFrequency on some issues. Generally, I totally agree with her, particularly about the advertisements to children and her analysis of different tropes is fairly interesting. But I don't necessarily agree that when someone sits down to write a story or a script that they should focus on "okay, now how many female characters do I have as part of the core cast and do any of them talk to each other about anything meaningful?" I think overthinking about the problem isn't going to help anything, since half the time, overthinking the problem is where I think the Smurfette Principle and Token Minority even come into play - the story writer feels responsible and acknowledges that there's not enough superficial diversity and includes it just to have it there. Could they try harder to include more female centered stories in the mainstream and produce more product that doesn't sexualize female figures? Sure. But if I'm sitting down and writing a story or comic, I'll write what I want to see happen and where I feel my characters should go and develop. Fans be damned. Not trying to excuse away what they're doing and the whole of Hollywood is geared towards a sale and trying to make money, so catering to what fans want is important. But I don't want the writers of something like Inception to get bogged down in "Dammit! We've only got one girl in the main group..." when they should just focus on writing a good goddamn story that people will want to see.
