celestialchild
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you ever thought that maybe the reason girls say they’re fine when they’re not, or they’re not mad when they are, is because the second they show any semblance of emotion they’re written off as hysterical bitches that are probably on their period?
(via terial)
When McFarlane reduces Swank’s amazingly powerful performance down to a punchline about her body, he’s doing more than making light of her talent. He’s literally inviting people to laugh at rape and murder. He’s construing breasts as existing for men’s pleasure, whether sexual pleasure or just to make fun of, all the time—even when they belong to people, like Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry, who identify as men. Even when they are exposed as part of a badly injured body, like Charlize Theron in Monster—another film based on a true story. Even when they symbolize the racist sexualization of black women by white men, like Halle Berry in Monster’s Ball. Even when they’re visible during a violent gang rape, as passerby cheer the attackers on, like Jodie Foster in The Accused, once again based on a real-life attack. Even when, like Scarlet Johansson, another target of the boob song, personal nude photographs of them were leaked without consent.
(via racebending)
Meet King Leopold.
He’s a good man. He’s one of the “good guys” on Once Upon a Time. We get to know him as a loving father and a kind man. When he finds Aladdin’s lamp he doesn’t use the wishes for himself. Instead he gives his last wish to the djin.
And he raised his daughter so well, too. She never had to doubt his love. She always had his encouragement and support.
Here’s what really strikes me about King Leopold:
He’s a good man by many standards. And yet he goes and proposes to a girl 1/3 his own age. He doesn’t wait for her consent. Her mother’s consent is enough. He doesn’t love her. He doesn’t even know her at all. He’s only searching for a replacement for Snow’s mother. Regina is an object with a purpose in his eyes. A cherished object, no doubt. But still not a person.
Misogyny is so deeply ingrained into our way of thinking that we’re willing to squint and ignore the implied rape and emotional abuse away. It’s nothing we got to explicitly witness so of course it didn’t happen. And he’s not an asshole. He is a nice man, by many standards. Regina could have done a lot worse. But despite him being a nice man, he’s also a misogynist, whose ethics do not tell him to tell Regina to go and be with the person she loves instead of marrying some king she hardly knows. His self-perception does not tell him that he might be a little too old to marry a young girl like Regina. No, he doesn’t have a problem with taking her away from everything she’s known and force his own life on her, because, hey, he’s a king and she gets along with his daughter.
You don’t have to be an asshole to be a misogynist. Because society tells us that this kind of thinking is the norm. Misogyny is not something only bad guys do. It’s good guys who don’t stop and question standards, who do detestable things and think it’s ok, because they don’t mean bad. They’re good.
(via eshusplayground)
