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Me: okay I try to keep an open mind and this r*ylo fan is actually cool and part of minorities herself. The r*eylo: Yeah, they won’t have time to focus on minor characters like Poe and Finn in Episode IX and Poe’s story is over anyways.

Yeah even if a shipper seems reasonable or otherwise okay, in the end it never goes well. I was actually mutuals with a shipper for a short time, but she subscribed to all the usual horribleness of her fandom and it stressed me out to see that shit on my dash. Then she quietly blocked me at some point, which was her prerogative and was also a mercy tbh. I was just happy that my dash had become a noticeably better place and then realized why a few weeks later ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Re: DHF’s take on why Trump was elected, I’m pretty sure a lot of people voted for Trump because they were annoyed with the far left and desperate to get the right back in power at any cost. That’s not mutually exclusive to her theory, of course, it’s just that many Trump supporters voted for that reason instead of white supremacy. Or at least told themselves they did.

That’s an interesting statement, given that the far left has literally never been in power in the United States. The U.S. Democratic Party is center-right by global standards. And if voters supported an openly white supremacist candidate to get the “far left” (snort) Democrats out of power, then they were in support of white supremacy.

Solo: A Star Wars Story was a terrible Star Wars movie all around but I still can’t believe that there’s a scene where Darth Maul shows up! You wouldn’t understand him still being alive if you only watched the movies and even in the context of the current canon his appearance makes no sense!!

The Kasdans are terrible writers, and if there was any kind of serious quality control going on at LF a lot of the developments in Solo and TLJ would never have made it to the final product.

I was wondering, how did you find Lupita’s Korean pronunciation in Black Panther? My dad said she was pretty impressive for a non native speaker but I read elsewhere that some Koreans said she was barely intelligible?

I watched the movie twice in theaters and I thought she did fine? We lionize foreigners all the time for speaking truly terrible Korean in media, idk why she should be held to a higher standard. I could understand her, and more to the point of that scene she was ADORABLE. Her “ayyiiiing ❤️” slayed me and she could have been speaking any language, I would have done anything she asked. My actual face watching her:

I finally put my finger on what kept bothering me about Finn: he’s way too emotionally healthy. He acts like an ordinary Imperial citizen who joined the Stormtrooper Corps out of patriotism, but then defected when things got too bad; he does not act like a brainwashed child soldier who was taught only love of and obedience to the First Order virtually from birth. Heck, escapees from ordinary IRL cults are more emotionally scarred than Finn. How does he even have the intellectual and moral

context to conceive of resisting the First Order as a good
thing? At minimum, he should be wracked with guilt and constantly
questioning himself as to whether he should go back, and probably he
should have to be dragged along by Rey/Han at some point. This shit is
very hard to escape, and I kind of think Finn’s narrative trivializes
it.

You took all this time to get to the critique of Finn’s character as “unrealistic” that I called out months ago (link), congratulations! Not only are you perpetuating stigma against real-life child soldiers by painting them all with the same brush as naïve and frightening killing machines, you’re also disregarding the way people actually live in and react to totalitarian regimes. Even in a place as tightly controlled as North Korea, which was one of the inspirations for the First Order, most people know the regime’s bullshit is exactly that, bullshit. They are smart and often cynical as hell. If anything I would say they’re often less susceptible to propaganda than people from purportedly democratic countries like the U.S. and Japan, because they know they can’t trust the people in power and they have to survive on their own. I’m not sure how to tell North Korean defectors that their psychological profiles are entirely unrealistic and they shouldn’t exist. Would you like me to pass on that message to them?

Doctor Who is doing an episode on the American Civil Rights movement. This wouldn’t be a bad idea if they weren’t shooting it in SOUTH AFRICA, where white people are facing literal oppression. That is incredibly tone deaf. They could have chosen to film in Britain, they could have chosen to film in Canada, they SHOULD have chosen to film in Britain, but no, they chose the worst possible location to film an episode where white people are oppressive antagonists.

Misandry exists, and it hurts women. If you need to tear down
men for women to be strong, then you don’t think women are strong to
begin with. But the BBC would rather turn a beloved character (William
Hartnell’s First Doctor) into a sexist dinosaur for giggles. Utterly
disrespectful to the character and the actor, may he rest in peace.
Also, misandry ABOUNDED in The Last Jedi, especially towards the
characters of color, and it weakened characters like Holdo, Rey, Rose,
and FRAKKING LEIA.

I don’t understand why you don’t take misandry seriously if it’s
not against characters of color. Which I have no doubt will be the case
with the new Doctor Who, since the BBC has taken to literally firing
white men to fill diversity quotas. Like, can’t they just not have
quotas? Imagine having a quota that mandated fewer Black women. People
would be up in arms about that.

I’ve already pointed out why the assertion that white South Africans are oppressed is a load of hogwash (link, link). And naw, misogyny hurts women. What you call misandry serves several different purposes, all of which is to the detriment of women and are forms of misogyny. There are the jokes and caricatures to uphold traditional gender roles, such as the cartoonishly inept dads who can’t take care of their kids or keep the household running. Oopsie, it turns out men can’t be trusted with the home or kids and women should take care of all that after all! There are the Straw Misogynists who simplify sexism down to a few buzzwords and easily-defeatable villains, obscuring the cultural and institutional problems with sexism.

And yes, tearing down male characters so that female characters have to fix their shit is sexist, but it’s not sexist against male characters because no one takes these examples to mean men are inherently incapable or helpless. Media does not exist in a vacuum and there are millions of other pieces of rhetoric, fictional and real, that validate men as being strong and capable.

You’re right in that men don’t have to be torn down for women to be strong, that’s bad storytelling. But the problem isn’t “misandry,” it’s the fact that these kinds of distortions are seen as necessary in the first place. The problem is also racism when racist tropes are used to tear down male characters of color–and that was the problem with TLJ, not “misandry” against Finn and Poe.

Mislabeling the above, which are properly problems of misogyny and racism, to misandry and reverse racism is dishonest and misdiagnoses the entire problem. It’s a tactic of false equivalence, not coming to terms with oppression as it exists in our world.

My initial guess was the person was referring Dr Who’s use of homophobic jokes while also relying on LGBT fans to drive the international fanbase, but nope! I’ve got to stop being so generous in my assumptions, of course the “fake woke” is acknowledging that there hasn’t been a lady doctor before (which translates to putting down men how?). Besides the point, the “it’s about time” marketing is genius. It’s literally a show about time travel. It’s about time, like, actually. (Moth)

I should have known never to trust anyone who uses the term “fake woke.”