Source:Gender Stereotypes In Movies & School

Source: Gender Stereotypes In Movies & School

(Don’t forget that in all of the above situations, once you get old enough that your beauty fades the guy can just toss you out for a different young woman– since it’s beauty and youth that are the defining traits here in what makes her special– but he can be as old as he wants, because that’s “attractive” in a male, right? Only in a male though). Also, I think that in almost every one of those cases, as usual the woman has left everything in her life behind to move to where the guy is, and she goes on to shape her life around what the guy is doing. 

She did a good job pinpointing the aspects of a lot of these that have bugged me from the get-go. I really dislike Disney in general, there’s a wholesome, God-fearing corporation. It’s a corporation. It’s not some loving and nostalgic bit of your dearest memories. A corporation knows it had done a good job when people refuse to see it as such a thing and instead think it’s some loving old friend. 

It’s always been sickening to me that around the late ‘90s Disney basically repackaged a bunch of their old films that no one really cared for as the “Princess Collection,” because at the time it was trendy to wear stuff that said “princess” on it. Fascinating how the masses just ate it up, and suddenly they cared for these movies no one was really interested in anymore like Snow White and Cinderella. I know, you will now say “I have always loved Snow White/Cinderella!” (which are extremely sexist stories in the first place, you want a medal?) - but if you did, then you were probably a kid after the “Princess Collection” garbage already came out, so saying that you were into it at that time doesn’t take away from my point. I remember when I was a kid in the mid/early-’80s and Snow White was re-released and it just seemed really dated and uninteresting to us as kids. We were bummed that we had to see it instead of the Garbage Pail Kids movie. But call it part of the “Princess Collection” and suddenly everyone is begging Disney to take their money again. 

The social conditions which lead to an increase in prostitution, astoundingly, are not actually female enpowerment; they’re widespread poverty and exploitation. The increase in prostitution in Greece since the financial crisis is not actually because the women have been empowered by IMF/World Bank. The high rates of prostitution in refugee camps are not, astoundingly, because refugee camps are utopian bastions of gender equality. Invading armies typically do not arrive as liberators, so rather than explainig the growth of the sex trade in the wake of invasions of armies like those of the US or Japan as an act of genuine liberation, it makes more sense to seek other explanations.

One clue might be the fact that higher levels of prostitution are typically accompanied by higher levels of alcoholism, addiction, authoritarian political tendencies, crime, early death, unemployment, poverty, debt, and imprisonment. If this is caused by gender equality and womens’ liberation, then this form of womens’ liberation is the greatest enemy of people everywhere.

The Will To Change by Bell Hooks fucked me up good

y’all gonna be mad at Jay Z on behalf of Beyoncé for the rest of your lives huh?

It is going to take us decades to comprehend the damage pornography has done to our mental development and societal views surrounding women and sex.

sex positivity would be good if it was about destroying the current sexual culture and building up a healthy new one that doesn’t involve the sexualization of children, abuse, rape etc. but as of now it’s just dressing up the same harmful cultural norms as radical and progressive and ignoring the bad parts about it because that would mean people would actually have to analyze their behavior and that makes people uncomfortable