Tropes vs. Women: The Straw Feminist
The Straw Feminist trope is a deliberately created, exaggerated caricature of a feminist that is used to undermine and ridicule feminist movements.
“The Straw Feminist is set up to perpetuate and advance the myth that feminism is no longer needed, that we have arrived at gender equality and anyone who disagrees is quickly demeaned and portrayed as an extremist.”
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I’ve said it before; if we could build an engine that runs on offense, we could tell the Middle East to bugger off forever.
For the record, I’m adopted. I HOWLED at the joke, as did the ENTIRE theater.
But there will ever be thin-skinned people who will feel the need to make everything about them, or perhaps maybe just feign offense in an attempt to gain favor or demand reparations.
I’m looking at you, Al Sharpton.
If the thing in question is popular or newsworthy, it will be a more likely target for such publicity-seeking outrage-mongers. I recall the Arab community (to be more precise, people claiming to represent the Arab community - the actual community was too busy eating popcorn and enjoying the film) demanding the lyrics be changed in the opening song to Disney’s Aladdin, to remove the reference to hand-chopping.
And in a story I know I’ve told before, so shut up and be polite and pretend you haven’t, Back when DC did the Death of Superman story, editor Mike Carlin gave an interview, discussing the mysterious new villain Doomsday. He described him as “an outer-space madman”. A group of Psychiatrists got a letterhead printed up and sent out a press release to all and sundry, pillorying DC for being offensive to madmen or something. When I interviewed Mike shortly afterwards, he began to discuss Doomsday.
“We don’t know much about him, but we know one thing…he’s NOT a madman!
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Sometimes I remember that Benedict Cumberbatch actually exists and inhabits the same planet as me and is utterly amazing and I’m just like
whoa
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no
because this is actually fucking true
this prick ass bitch
can
- draw
- act
- pretty sure he can sing like a fucking angel
- and is like super shitting nice
- and it pisses me off
- and to add it all
- he is gorgeous
the only thing we can pick on him for is that he can’t cut fucking tomatoes
YEAH JUST TOMATOES
UGH I HATE THIS MAN
Not only that, but he also:
- Reads a significant amount
- Reads actual, intellectually stimulating literature
- Can carry out urbane conversations
- Is extraordinarily humble and modest
- Has the leanest waist I may have possibly ever seen
- Is ginger.
Some more stuff to add on to the list:
- his immense, extensive vocabulary
- the ability to look damn good in any type of hairstyle
- can maintain attractiveness even with that creeper!stache
- he can fucking write. Seriously, he could have chose to be a journalist or some shit. May I remind everyone about that holiday article he wrote?
Totally reblogging this again already just for the truth in the comments.
And may I add, he can also
- play piano
- play violin
- scuba dive
- rock climb
- ride motorbikes
- and to add to the writing thing, that piece he wrote about the carjacking was pretty bloody amazing too. I read it so early on after learning of his existence and I cried.
- oh yeah and his arts funding campaigning. YOU HERO.
- and his impressions are better than most impressionists I’ve seen
DAMN YOU CUMBERBATCH FOR MAKING ME FEEL SO INFERIOR I HATE YOU (I don’t really)
I hear…
- he does car commercials in the UK
- his favorite movies include Zoolander
- one time he met humanity and it told him he was pretty
- he punched Martin Freeman in the face once - it was awesome
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Broken in spirit and drinking heavily Gable completely withdrew from the world for seven months. “Why, ma?”, he kept asking. “Why, ma?”
I’ll be updating this as often as possible on my blog so be sure to check out the main post on my page. But I figured some people might like having just one version to reblog around since the original post is pretty old now. Plus with Avengers having come out I figured it’s…