God Forbid Women Do Anything - Tumblr Posts
Rant incoming
I feel like the problem with a lot of Disney's live action remakes (and arguably Wish) is they're trying to appeal to a crowd that no longer exists, namely the people who used to claim that the Disney Princesses were sexist.
All the interviews tend to include, "Well she's not chasing a MAN anymore" which...almost no one sees the princesses like that, anymore. Virtually NO ONE still believes the princesses are man-chasing sexist caricatures of women.
Cinderella is now hailed as an abuse victim who stayed strong long enough to get help to get out of her situation. Anyone who says she should have saved herself is basically regarded as a victim blamer. And it's very clear in the film she wasn't looking to marry the prince, she just wanted a night off. She was the only one who wasn't in line to meet him. She didn't find out she met the prince until he went looking for her!
Snow White is now hailed for her negotiation skills, ability to calm down after extreme stress (she had a moment of panic and had to cry for a bit, but who wouldn't after finding out The Queen hired someone to kill you?), and ability to take charge of a house of adult men. And again, she was an abuse victim, this time trying to escape ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS. While she dreamed of her prince, it was secondary to her main goal of SURVIVAL. There are also entire video essays about how Snow White gave hope to people during The Great Depression.
Everyone acknowledges that Ariel wanted to be human BEFORE meeting Eric. We all know she was a nerd hyperfixating on humans, and also standing up to her prejudiced father.
We understand Sleeping Beauty wasn't the main character, the Three Good Fairies were, AND PHILLIP WOULD NEVER HAVE BEATEN MALEFICENT WITHOUT THEM! He literally depended on them! WOMEN SAVED THE DAY! But even then, is it really such a sin for a girl to fantasize about romance and fall for someone with corny pickup lines?
We all understand Jasmine just wanted someone to treat her LIKE A PERSON. She rejected every Prince before Aladdin because they treated her like a prize. So why did they need her to want to be Sultan? How did that make her more feminist when she already wanted to be treated like an equal and have a say in her future? Is it only empowering if you want a career in politics?
We admire that Belle, despite living in a judgemental village, was kind to everyone (even though she found the village life dull), and her story teaches girls that the guy everyone else loves isn't always a good guy. What's sexist about teaching girls about red flags? And she didn't start being nice to The Beast until he started treating her with respect and kindness.
Do I really NEED to defend Mulan or Tiana? I think they speak for themselves.
Rapunzel was yet another abuse victim who just needed a little help to get out of her bad situation. In this case, she also needed to learn that she was an abuse victim, and that what Mother Gothel did WASN'T normal, much like many victims of gaslighting.
And don't get me started on the non-princess animals.
Perdita had a healthy relationship with Pongo to the point she was open to express her pregnancy fears to him, and was ready to TEAR APART Cruella's goons for daring to touch her puppies as well as adopting the other puppies. Like, she was so ferocious the goons mistook her for a hyena! She's basically that "I AM THAT GIRL'S MOTHER!" scene from SpyXFamily if Yor were a dog. She and her husband were a TEAM.....but they made a Cruella live action to turn her into a girlboss?! The literal animal abuser!? THAT'S the woman you wanted to put on a pedestal when Perdita was RIGHT THERE!?
Duchess kept her kittens calm after they had been catnapped and was classy as heck. Nice to everyone regardless of social class during a time period where that was uncommon.
Lady stood up to Tramp when she believed he had abandoned her and didn't really care about her. She found out he was a heartbreaker and was like, "Nuh uh. No. You are not doing that to me! You put me through enough."
Miss Bianca from The Rescuers was IN CHARGE the whole movie, and was willing to risk life and limb to save an innocent child. THAT TINY MOUSE TOOK ON ALLIGATORS! And she picked Bernard to accompany her because he was the only one who wasn't ogling her. And then in the sequel SHE DID IT ALL AGAIN! I wish I were as brave as her.
Like, the public haven't accused these ladies of being sexist caricatures since 2014 (Actresses and actors don't count, they're out of touch like the rest of Hollywood) yet Disney is operating under the assumption that the public still thinks that way, hence all the "sHe'S nOt AfTeR a MaN iN ThIs VeRsIOn" talk.
The live action remakes are trying to attract an audience that doesn't really exist much, anymore, and back when it did exist, was comprised mainly of people who didn't actually watch the films. The Disney princesses are no longer seen as sexist, and feminine qualities are no longer seen as weak or undesirable.
THIS IS DRIVING ME UP A FUCKING WALL. IMAGINE YOU ARE A GOOD PERSON WITH NORMAL HUMAN EMOTJONS AND THEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU “ACTUALLY YOU’RE EVIL YOU JUST DON’T KNOW IT YET.” AND THEN THIS HAPPENS TIME AND TIME AGAIN AND YOU JUSTIFIABLY EXPRESS FRUSTRATION OVER YOUR SITUATION AND EVERYONE ELSE GOES OH MAN THAT GUY COULD BE RIGHT THAT LOOKS EVIL TO ME, I DONT KNOW IF I CAN TRUST THAT! AND THEN ON TOP OF YOUR LIFE BEING A HIGH-STRESS TRAUMA CONGA LINE EVERYONE IS SUSPICIOUS OF YOU FOR DOING FUCK ALL AND IT UPSETS YOU, AND YOU GET MAD AND SCREAM WHY WONT ANYONE LISTEN TO ME!!!!! AND THAT MAKES EVERYONE GO OH GOD!!! LOOK AT ALL THAT ANGER AND EVIL!!!!! AND THEN SOMEONE TAKES ADVANTAGE OF YOUR DESIRE TO PROVE YOURSELF AS GOOD AND TRICKS YOU INTO DOING SOMETHING YOU DIDN’T KNOW WAS EVIL UNTIL AFTER IT WAS ALREADY DONE, AND NOW THE ENTIRE WORLD IS LIKE I KNEW IT, YOU REALLY WERE EVIL!!!! SO NOW NOBODY WILL EVER BELIEVE YOU AND EVERY SHRED OF ANGER YOU EVER FEEL WILL BE HELD AGAINST YOU AND ALL THE WHILE YOU ARE JUST A FUCKING GUY THAT LOOKS LIKE THIS👇
banned from the local ihop because apparently "not cocaine!" is the wrong answer to the question of "what is taking you so long in the bathroom? you've been in there for half an hour" being asked by the minimum-wage employee knocking at the door. god forbid women do anything
everyone wants a bad girl until she starts putting blood in your cocktails 🙄🙄🙄
I don't care if she commits atrocities, bro, she's justified by the narrative
day 5 of @podcastgirlsweek: god forbid women do anything. celebrate a female villain. defend your #problematic fave.
i am here in defense of abigail reed >:]
you guys have to here me out on this one cause i’m not 100% sure she’s classified a villain, but she is absolutely a #problematic fave okay
abigail reed is the deceased wife of solomon reed (aka the worst person ever). she took her own life, and was subsequently trapped in a fife by said terrible husband. while trapped in said fife, she was constantly screaming, which is really girlboss of her.
she did sew her son’s mouth shut and leave him to starve to death but WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES
(i’m joking, this was obviously wrong)
but!! she was clearly not well, and shouldn’t have been left alone with percy. solomon is not as responsible, but i still want to blame him for it. so i will.
also, her story (ep 40 graves - stuck on the needle) is written SO WELL
“Judgement day was past, and she had missed the rapture, and the rain burned her eyes and her soul. It was something else—invasive, a virus or a parasite, altering her. She could feel it churning within her bone marrow. She couldn’t let it, couldn’t be changed…”
BARS
“Abigail nodded, and descended quietly, brushing a hand through her son’s hair. It was funny, she thought, how much he looked like that preacher’s boy. She wrapped her arms around him, and he cried quietly, and she was not repulsed. The tears that fell from her eyes surprised her, burning like stars themselves.”
BARS!!!!
kind of the only reason she wanted solomon was because he was quiet and wasn’t annoying. and calls him a ‘funny little thing.’ which is SO REAL.
despite her upbringing and everything else, she learns to accept percy for who he is. her son, not her daughter.
she also saved riot, and didn’t kill that family.
i just really think she’s cool okay
I've been posting a lot lately . woops!
remade pog's sheet because i wanted to make it look more cohesive :]
look what you did. porn bots removed their bios bc you guys were all making fun of them. god forbid women do ANYTHING
People are always hating on Pinterest girls, saying that it creates unrealistic expectations for how to live your life. I say it's a great thing. It's a great way for you to imagine the life you want to have. It's an amazing way to get inspiration. I don't think having image-based moodboards dedicated to the life you want to live is NECESSARILY a bad thing!!!
Katniss is so delusional like the way she lies to herself she’s just like me ‼️‼️💪🏾
Like the amount of lies In this one extract (crazy) like shes so unreliable she doesn’t even know.
I know people shit on Marinette for being the showrunner's babygirl who can do nothing wrong but guess what she's also my babygirl who can do nothing wrong
Just found out there are actual people coming onto False's lastest video and making absolutely horrendous comments because she won Demise. Please just straight up say that you guys were too biased for your blorbos to win and cannot take the idea that a female creator who's not in the Life series took attention away from your little guys 🙄
False won fair and square, and she won the exact same way that Iskall won in in HC6 Demise: with the help of a friend. Grian rigged a trap to kill DocM77 because Iskall was his ally. Ren trapped BDubs and killed him because False was his ally. She was careful and paranoid in equal amounts as Bdubs and xB until the very end. Bdubs was literally bribing other Reapers they wouldn't kill him, and xB was keeping a keen eye on everything going on in his base. None of them logged out inside their own bases, and I'm sure none of them used the same bed twice.
If you're one of those people who went to False and Ren to complain about their videos being "scripted" and they're "cheating", or that False was being mean and bullying Ren, you shouldn't be watching Hermitcraft. Because for all the focus on "friendship" that you have on them, you sure as hell don't give the Hermits equal amounts of respect. These people have been friends with each other for years. You cannot make assumptions just because they were messing around on edited videos.
Everyone else, please go check False and Ren's latest videos and give them plenty support and good faithed comments! It sucks that they had to deal with awful people even though everyone was having fun and playing fair.
She's like so manipulative and she's caused so many problems but like. really, truly, god forbid a woman do anything
i support womens rights and wrongs <3
