but don’t assume she is the devil because she made this mistake
and don’t try to invalidate taylor’s feminism because she stupidly thought a tweet was about her when it wasn’t
recognize anaconda’s impact
don’t slut shame nicki
don’t hate on taylor
don’t hate on nicki
don’t hate on anyone
don’t make it a competition between fans
discuss the real issue because I bet nicki would prefer that we discussed what she was trying to point out than trying to destroy taylor which is only taking the focus out of what nicki was trying to talk about
Now that Satoru has died maybe Nintendo can finally catch up with other gaming companies when it comes to their representation of women which, frankly, is really poor.
I’m not glad he’s dead, but I’m glad he’s gone.
Wow… I only played Nintendo games to have FUN. Not look at their “poor” representation of females. Have you even played Smash Bros, Hyrule Warriors, or Wind Waker where you take control of female characters to kick ass? I’m sorry, but you make feminist and the movement look really pathetic right now.
FUCK OFF
FUCK OFF
YOU FEMINAZI SHITS WON’T BRING DOWN HIS MEMORY JUST FOR YOU SHITTY HATE MOVEMENT
BACK THE FUCK OFF RIGHT NOW
I found the angry nerd.
i found the feminist that never ever played a nintendo game
because nintendo is really good at including women and diversity
how can you call your movement a movement of peace when you spit on someone’s death and say “i’m glad he’s gone”
he did so much, more than you’ll ever do in your life
so shut up
Many of people a grieving the death of someone who took a very big place in their lives. The death of such person should not be an opportunity for you to bring in another trouble, which frankly, makes no sense in this situation because Nintendo made a lot of kick ass females.
I can start with Samus. There’s not much to say about it, it speaks for itself, Samus is at the top of her own whole Metroid franchise There are three female champions in Pokemon; Cynthia, Iris and Diantha. All highly respected in the Pokemon world. In smash games, you have Lucina from Fire Emblem, which is kick ass on her own for trying to change the fate for an entire team. From Smash again but also from her own franchise, you have Zelda.
Now not only did your point not really work in the first place, you’re using the death of someone really important to make it pass. When someone clearly upset call you out on it, you simply call them an ‘’angry nerd’’. Saying you’re glad he’s gone. That’s pretty heartless from you, and instead, you should maybe be apologizing.
Nintendo took a big place in a lot of people’s heart, helped them through a lot and the death of Satoru destroyed a lot of them, it’s a sad day in our lives, so instead of making it a feminist issue, try to have a little compassion.
“Nintendo can finally catch up with other gaming companies when it comes to their representation of women“
You were saying… ?
and that’s not even the half of the quarter of nintendo’s women characters
so please shut up
They can’t even fit in only one picture
I’m a feminist and a gamer and this is just infuriating. This is not the time to be like, “Now fix the company.” It’s not like he left the office, this man died. It’s not like we lost some tyrannical, oppressive madman, he ran a company whose goal was to entertain us.
Hell, even Sony had the decency to tweet their condolences and they’re competing with Nintendo. Even they can take time out from competing with this company to voice how much influence this man had on the industry and show them some love.
white feminism strikes again, demonizing black women and deeming them unfit to be “feminists” for having sexual agency while simultaneously babying men so they don’t feel complicit in misogyny
what is this trash?
People do realize that feminism isn’t a competition, right? We’re not trying to out feminist each other. The definition of feminism is equality for everyone, trying to outdo one another with who’s the biggest feminist literally goes against what feminism is. We’re about working together, not tearing each other apart.
So stop.
the problem people have with it is the concept that white feminism. Its the concept of a woman of color using feminism they are called out and are judged for “using the movement for their own gain” or they are too sexual even though at the same time a white woman does it and its applauded. While yeah Emma is cool, people are mainly upset that it looks like another instant of white feminism is made to be more superior over other forms of feminism. but i completely agree with you bri, feminism should not be a competition
I mean the whole, “Dur hur hur sorry Beyonce but you lost this time,” and just… pretty sure she didn’t do that to win some contest? Spoiler: neither did Emma Watson. They spoke out about feminism because they’re feminists, not to outdo the next girl. Pretty sure they were both applauding each other for speaking out and aren’t like, “Ugh can’t believe she’s trying to outdo me I AM SUPREME FEMINIST!”
white feminism strikes again, demonizing black women and deeming them unfit to be “feminists” for having sexual agency while simultaneously babying men so they don’t feel complicit in misogyny
what is this trash?
People do realize that feminism isn’t a competition, right? We’re not trying to out feminist each other. The definition of feminism is equality for everyone, trying to outdo one another with who’s the biggest feminist literally goes against what feminism is. We’re about working together, not tearing each other apart.
I’m freaking out I don’t usually reblog this stuff but this is like incredible
I always found the Barbie debate interesting because I never wanted to look like her. Essentially, I treated her as a way for me to use my imagination. I would play with her and make up stories with her, she’d go on all these grand adventures, I used her as a way to have fun and be creative. I never looked at her body and wondered why I couldn’t look like her. She was a doll, a toy, something for me to play with, to dress up and be all these amazing things. I gave her magic powers, I made her one of the Thundercats, I turned my shoe box into her car because I didn’t have the actual car, I pretty much did what I wanted and it was great.
Like this post says, it is great to have representation, but this Barbie body image argument always seems to ignore all of the things you can do with Barbie by just taking her at face value.
Black women portrayed as damsels in distress is progressive and feminist
This is a really intriguing statement to me, and I’m thinking it through trying to figure it out, but my brain’s not making the connection. What am I missing? I can see the “progressive” part, I think, since it tends to mean the central female character is black. But how is it feminist? I’m not meaning that in a challenging or confrontational way. I am genuinely interested.
Kerry Washington, on her role as Bromhilda in Django Unchained
On playing the damsel in distress: Look I can see how it’s not particularly feminist [for white women] to play the princess in the tower, waiting to be saved. But as a black woman – we’ve never been afforded that luxury. There was no man coming to save you; it wasn’t part of the story. In some ways, this telling is a statement of empowerment.
It’s feminist when it’s viewed through the intersection of race because all women aren’t treated the same and never have been. Things a white woman views as empowering (like being a “strong independent woman who doesn’t need a man”) isn’t empowering for black women, as we’re expected to always save/protect/defend/care for ourselves (and everyone else) and never have anyone saving/protecting/defending/caring for us.
Exactly. We don’t get to be saved. We’re too busy being portrayed as saving everyone else. In EVERY. FORM. OF. MEDIA.
Even in the supposed fairy tales, we save ourselves *glares at PATF*
Note how the fandom SCREAMS AND HOWLS when Black women are romanced. They whine and cry about ‘ruining the character’ because they ‘wanted a female character who was badass and didn’t need a relationship’
That character is always black. ALWAYS. We are expected to be devoid of any and all sexuality and feelings. We dont get love. We don’t get affection. We don’t get to be vulnerable and saved by a knight in shining armor.
And because Blackness is the polar opposite of whiteness, and whiteness has sole control over womanhood, we are denied femininity, delicacy, and fragility.
Black women being saved is EMPOWERING because having to save my damn self from white supremacy is not a selling point.
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This is what I meant the other day when I was talking about how I would love to get down with the “empowering female characters through independence and lack of masculine relationships” but until the stereotype of Black women being these strong, mammy, magical negro types in narratives are squashed, I am all for writing Black women characters who are vulnerable, delicate, and damsels-in-distress who get the hero at the end of the story.
All the luxuries white women have been afforded from the beginning is just a showcase of privilege. Their brand of feminism is “We’re tired of being portrayed as ONLY feminine, we can be masculine and strong too!” but for Black feminism, the breaking of seemingly inextricable chains is vastly different.
WE ARE PORTRAYED AS THE POLAR OPPOSITE OF WHITE WOMEN. Where white women are portrayed as soft-spoken, excellent diction, and pleasant company, Black women are portrayed as loud, AAVE-using, disreputable company and unpleasant to be around.
Feminism means different things to different women, but our brand of feminism is breaking our own stereotypes and stigmas which are different from the ones white women have to face. We ALL face sexism, but you have to be able to intersect those with how race factors into it and how it is an integral part of how you are viewed and treated as a woman.
I actually went to a panel that addressed this very thing at WisCon this year. I thought it was so interesting because I never once thought about this before.
Interestingly enough this just came up on my Facebook. I posted something about the whole Ray Rice thing (him knocking out Janay Palmer in the elevator), and my mom made a comment about how yes, it was wrong, absolutely, but why in the hell would she still marry him? She should leave his ass.
One of my friends (white) responded about how it’s so wrong to victim blame, how it’s not that easy.
My mom responded back about how you should never let anyone do that to you, you leave the person, period.
Anyhow, this debate went back and forth and this post just made me realize that… they’re coming from two different places. As black women we’re told to be strong, to not take shit from anyone, ever. And my mom knows women who were attacked in their relationships. One stabbed the guy in response, the other hit him with her car. We don’t take shit, period. And that’s great.
At the same time that kind of instills this in us, to the point of if someone has a moment of weakness it’s, “What the hell are you doing?” And it’s not just us who say that to each other. "Why did she go back to him?“ Is asked from everyone: black, white, media, everything. Instead of feeling bad for her, now we feel like she’s doing something wrong. We’re angry at her for going back to him. How dare she. She must be in it for the money. That’s not what a strong black woman would do. A strong, black woman would fight back, or leave his ass. I mean my mom flat out said to me, "If that were me and he knocked me out, he better not be there when I wake up or else.” We HAVE to be strong, have to have a thick skin, we’re taught about the wrongs of the world and told to be ready to face them. You won’t see us break down, won’t see us cry, and if you do it’ll be temporary until we get up and fight back.
Is it bad to be strong in certain situations? No, of course not. At the same time there’s nothing wrong if you don’t have that strength, if you need help, if you need to take your time to get through something. This supposed strength we have isn’t developed overnight, it’s developed over time. The problem is that we rarely see the process, we rarely see the struggling black woman, the crying black woman, the unsure black woman, the confused black woman, we just see the end result. And even then the end result isn’t always pleasant (watch a Tyler Perry movie like Temptation to see what I mean by that).
I am never coming back to this site ever again. I guess when a Japanese person wants to talk about feminism and politics in anime they will be shut down by hundreds of non-Japanese people. Some white people even have the gall to claim that they are “familiar with the cultural context”.
I have received massive amounts of hate mail with people telling me to go kill myself, calling me slurs such as “jap”, calling me transphobic/homophobic and even telling me that my experiences as a Japanese trans woman are invalid because Japanese males look “naturally feminine”. I have been very anxious and I couldn’t get any proper sleep last night.
Thank you to everyone that supported me. I appreciated it and I would have liked to stick around longer but I will take my leave now.
Wow SJ tumblr, great job. Happy now? See what stupidity does? You know something though? That post has been reblogged by thousands of people by now, so even though this person is gone, her words will remain. I sure as hell WILL NOT erase that post. The truth won’t be silenced simply because the butthurt can’t swallow it.
All I hope for is that the OP feels better after leaving this hell.
I’m kinda sad that person is leaving who made that post. People always seem to forget that anime comes from a different culture altogether, so our views aren’t going to be the same, and just because we want a series to mean something doesn’t mean that it does.
I kinda feel for that because we do that here so much. We had that period of media where all gay people were super flamingly happy and just… no, that’s not the case at all. But then we also had a period where all gay stuff was dramatic and sad which, that’s not always the case either. And I’m not saying that there isn’t a struggle, I’m just saying that not all gay couples have terrible existences full of injustice. My partner and I live a good life, and yes the world can suck for gay couples, but we’re not sitting around miserable about it. We haven’t been beaten up or anything dramatic, and as far as I know neither have any of the gay men in our lives. I’m not saying that doesn’t happen, but there was definitely a period of time where there were two options in gay media: super flaming best friend or angst. It still happens today, but we do have moments where we can get (for lack of better word) normal couples in gay media. But for a time I would talk to my dad about gay people and he’d be like, “Wait he was gay? But he was so normal.”
As for lesbians, there was that fun period where all lesbians were butch and “might as well be men.” I remember this well, because when I told people I was with a woman I got the, “Wait but you don’t look gay,” response. Oh I don’t? What does gay look like? It’s not always flannel shirts and buzz cuts. No disrespect at all to the ladies who do that, but that’s not every single lesbian you come across. But, for a period of time, that was the assumption. Still is, sometimes. Or the, you know, “Tee hee we’re gunna make out in front of this guy hahaha being lesbian is fun.”
Same with being black, too. There’s assumptions about what kind of music I listen to, shows I watch, just… general information I would know, or things I’m supposed to like. For example: 12 Years A Slave. There was like this weight, this expectation, to run to the movie theater and see it. But when I was like, “I’m not in the mood for that kind of movie,” I got this look of, “HOW COULD YOU NOT WANT TO SEE THIS RIGHT AWAY?!”
Because maybe I don’t want to see a movie about the sucky life of black people today. Maybe I will later, but not today. I grew up surrounded by movies and series like that. Amistad. Roots. Higher Learning. Do I only have to go see movies about the struggles and hardships of my ancestors (or in the case of Higher Learning why minority life just sucks)? Can’t I go enjoy some “Best Man Holiday” or something?
And you already know my feels about being plus sized I rant about that enough.
It’s great if you take something from a series, but don’t assume that was it’s point or that it’s the absolute truth. Don’t bash the folks who don’t see it your way. This girl had a different opinion and, from a writer standpoint, if I were giving a presentation on anime and feminism, I’d WANT an opinion from someone in the culture, that would be an interesting take, don’t you think? What I might think is sexist, or what I think may have a deep meaning, may look completely different to someone in that culture. And could you imagine being in that culture and someone just assuming all of these things about you because of the media from it? Wouldn’t that be an interesting spin for an anime and feminism presentation? I wouldn’t taken that girl’s response as research, maybe even messaged her and asked some legitimate questions. Instead she just got bashed on for having an opinion. How dare Japanese women have opinions about anime?
What if this had been reverse? What if the girl dumped him and then he smashed all of her CDS or her cellphone and laptop? How would society react? By calling him abusive and controlling.
See, female on male abuse is seen as funny or comical. you see those commercials with the wife throwing the boyfriends stuff out the window. IF the genders were reversed, everyone would see it and call it out for what it really is…abuse.
Abuse is not funny in any way shape or form.
This is why we don’t need feminism.
This mother fucker also owes him a fuckton of money.
thats more than 600$ worth of games!
that’s a fucking felony, theft and destruction of property. call the law on the psycho bitch!
“This is why we don’t need feminism.”
Actually, it’s why we DO need feminism. Because feminism isn’t about making women superior and putting men on the bottom. Feminism IS about making everyone equal. The “comedy” behind male abuse is a result of the patriarchy, which is exactly what feminism is trying to destroy. The patriarchy mocks weakness in men, so when men get abused, it’s not taken seriously. It’s a joke, it’s funny, it’s no big deal. “You’re a man, suck it up.”
That’s not what feminists want. If you think that’s what we want, then you you’re not talking to the right feminists. It’s about equality, NOT just reversing the roles, understand?
It’s not okay to abuse women, it’s not okay to abuse men, it’s not okay to abuse ANYONE. That’s the fucking point. The point isn’t “whaa it’s time for women to get to be mean you need to lean your place”. The point is gender inequality is stupid and unhelpful to everyone.
So if you don’t like the way men are treated, don’t hate on feminists. Join them. We don’t like it either.
Reblogging for this last comment because it speaks the truth.
This is the story of a geeky anime/gaming gal by the name of Chibi. Please fasten your seat belts and prepare for... some sort of ride? Oh! I love to write, and I also love doing crafty things. I go to conventions with my partner and sell woodburned things, clocks, mirrors, and more! So expect to see those on here too :)
