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“Rey is given a luxury that comes so easily to male heroes – she simply turns a corner, finds a magical item (Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber, no less) and it awakens the Force in her. Just that. No searing infertility, no rape, no revelation of past abuse, no heartbreak, no sacrifice. No heroine who’s validity is defined by what she has sacrificed, in the way of Katniss handing up her life for her sister, becoming a martyr for a revolution. In the way of Ariel, handing over her power to speak in order to walk on land. No poison apple, no needle on a spinning wheel here.”
Why ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ should bring back the unisex minidress
Star Trek: Discovery will feature an updated Original Series uniform in season 2, and here’s the deal: Those classic Starfleet minidresses should definitely be unisex.
While modern audiences often view the Starfleet minidress as a sexist relic, miniskirts had different connotations in the 1960s. In her autobiography Beyond Uhura, here’s what actress Nichelle Nichols had to say:
“The show was created in the age of the miniskirt, and the crew women’s uniforms were very comfortable. Contrary to what many may think today, no one really saw it as demeaning back then. In fact, the miniskirt was a symbol of sexual liberation. More to the point, though, in the twenty-third century, you are respected for your abilities regardless of what you do or do not wear.”
When The Next Generation began in 1987, the creators struggled between two conflicting desires. They wanted to be forward-thinking, but they also wanted to put Deanna Troi in sexy, figure-hugging outfits. Their solution was to make the minidress into a unisex item, with male extras wearing similar outfits. It didn’t last, but in 2019, it’s time to try again. By making minidresses available to any gender, Discovery would give Uhura’s classic look a truly meaningful update.
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You antifa soyboys hear that? This is why nobody is afraid of you.
imagine having reading comprehension thats this bad
The common representation of transwomen being this hyper feminine, painted, shaved, tiny waist, big breasted, tight clothes, long haired image really should say a lot about two things.
1) What men think women should look like
2) What men think being a woman is
Yes, because trans women suffer from misogyny and misogynistic expectations, too—when not represented as masculine, with stubble, fat, with tight clothes revealing “male” features. Which also says a lot.
Men cannot suffer from misogyny. Presenting themselves as hyped up versions of what they think women are is misogyny towards actual women.
If men cannot suffer from misogyny, then—as trans women do suffer from misogyny—we must conclude that they are women.
Besides which, the problem you are describing—that the popular representation of trans women is rooted in misogyny—is genuine, but your conclusion—that trans women are responsible (and thus misogynistic—is a non-sequitur. The problem is with their representation: what society believes they are and expects them to be; not trans women themselves. This is a problem that negatively affects trans women.
Plus like these people love catching trans people in Catch-22’s like this
Look like your identified gender? Relying on sexist stereotypes.
Look like you always did, with some modifications? You’re not “really” trans and just trying to get attention.
Like, can you just admit you don’t want trans people to exist and go already?
As an anecdote, an example that’s stuck in my memory for years was a TERF complaining about trans women turning up to women’s spaces with unshaven legs, citing this as “proof” that they were “actually men”.
I didn’t realise op was a terf immediately because like, they straight up say “the common representation of transwomen” and that’s exactly what cis men think of us, and how they attempt to simultanesously demonise us in the media while sexualising us — see how many trans women on TV in my life are murdered sex workers on crime shows.
like you’re so close. you’re so damn close. you know how bad mainstream representation is for trans women, but then you decide it’s actually objectively correct, that it must a perfect representation of us, made by us.
Uh, that’s how transwomen represent themselves, fam. Real life mimics fiction just as fiction mimics real life. 🙂
consume a lot of trans media then do u
Nah, just seen how transwomen represent themselves and seen how people try to blame “expectations of the media”. It’s kinda funny because the trans representation I’ve seen in media have been hyperfeminized versions of the same standards actual women follow. Take Lavern Cox, for example. She looks the same in OITNB as she does out of OITNB – hyperfeminized and how men think women should look. Imagine if gender roles didn’t exist and everyone was just allowed to dress and be as they were without lables. We can tell what sex people are 99% of the time by looking at them. It seems you are upset about the gender roles women have been facing for centuries – and more female sex workers are killed daily than trans sex workers are yearly. Transgenderism is a new concept, been around for less than 10 years now. Transwomen took what they “think” women should be from stereotypes without asking women what being a woman is actually like lmao. Drag Queens at least know it’s a costume and don’t pretend that they are actually women.
1) literally what is hyperfeminised about laverne cox. like, what. like, outfits she wears or. what. that she has long hair maybe? literally what about her presentation gives u that idea. or can u not name a second trans woman?
2) i can’t think of anything more demeaning than playing the Who’s Murdered Most game with you, except i guess, debating the numbers of dead sex workers with a SWERF. like, honey, my comment was on representation. it’s a concept that means, a portrayal, a fictional idea or narrative of what trans women are, usually with an underlying agenda. a narrative which you’re apparently completely immune to, oh Objective one
3) “transgenderism” was a part of many ancient religions, usually closely associated with fertility and mother goddesses. 10 years old. did you honestly think Julia Serano invented being trans in 2007. Even using an entirely transmedicalist definition, hormone therapy was pioneered in the ‘20s before nazis tried to stamp it out. so like, i can’t even imagine where u got that idea. are u a terf who seriously doesn’t know as much about trans people as the first paragraph of the wikipedia page for Transgender. are u seriously in that much of an echo chamber. were you trying to say something so amazingly incorrect to like, upset me? rile me up ? or is this some weird sort of anxiety like, you just found out terf ideology only came to being in the 1970s and decided you must have come first. not like it’s a reactionary movement that sprang to being out of a hatred for trans people, GNC people and queers, or anything like that.
or like, is this the same thing as you not understanding the concept of representation; did you think trans people only started to exist the day you first saw a mention of us. is this an issue with your object permanence? that how you see trans people must be exactly all there is to us, and that everything you know about trans people must be all there is anyone could possibly know about us.
““Crazy” is one of the five deadly words guys use to shame women into compliance. The others: Fat. Ugly. Slutty. Bitchy. They sum up the supposedly worst things a woman can be. “Crazy” is such a convenient word for men, perpetuating our sense of superiority. Men are logical; women are emotional. Emotion is the antithesis of logic. When women are too emotional, we say they are being irrational. Crazy. Wrong. Women hear it all the time from men. “You’re overreacting,” we tell them. “Don’t worry about it so much, you’re over-thinking it.” “Don’t be so sensitive.” “Don’t be crazy.” It’s a form of gaslighting — telling women that their feelings are just wrong, that they don’t have the right to feel the way that they do. Minimizing somebody else’s feelings is a way of controlling them. If they no longer trust their own feelings and instincts, they come to rely on someone else to tell them how they’re supposed to feel. Small wonder that abusers love to use this c-word. It’s a way of delegitimizing a woman’s authority over her own life.”
— Harris O’Malley, “Men Really Need to Stop Calling Women Crazy”
Amazon ‘used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under
Amazon continues to push the boundaries for how cartoonishly evil a company can be.
Amazon ‘used neo-Nazi guards to keep immigrant workforce under
hey did you know that socially transitioning kids are actually far less likely than their peers to believe in gender stereotypes? almost like no one is telling them they have to be girls because they like dresses or have to be boys because they want to play with the truck………
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olson kr & gülgöz s (2017). early findings from the transyouth project: gender development in transgender children. child dev perspect. doi:10.1111/cdep.12268
so yeah about childhood transition being a conspiracy to ‘fix’ gnc gay kids….
Neo-Nazis hold a shocking swastika burning ritual in Georgia
The world has no room for Nazis anymore.
Neo-Nazis hold a shocking swastika burning ritual in Georgia
‘The most over-aggressive policing I’ve ever seen’: Reporters at Georgia Neo-Nazi rally document cops brutalizing counter-protestors over bandanas
NEWNAN REPORTBACK! The 400 kkkops deployed in Newnan yesterday to protect about three dozen neo-nazis did the following:
-forgot about their ban on metal flag poles, clubs, shields, and firearms when it came to nazis marching with them, but violently enforced a non-existent law about wearing masks when it came antifa, holding anti-fascist counter-protestors at gun point and arresting ten of them for this “crime;”
-removed journalists covering the nazi rally if the nazis pointed out journalists they didn’t like.
It could not be any more clear that the police were there to serve and protect the nazis only. Not the counterprotestors and certainly not the people of Newnan.
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