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Women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men,
we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it,
but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.
This reminds me of Jennifer's Body and men's reaction to it.
This reminds me of Jennifer's Body and men's reaction to it.
Men were disturbed by Jennifer's Body, most women weren't. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it.
They had a similar reaction to the movie Teeth.
They had a similar reaction to the movie Teeth.
Men are self-proclaimed horror movie buffs but one movie where vagina can chew off a penis terrifies them, huh. Pathetic.
Then of course you have movies like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that
Then of course you have movies like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that
they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients and Birds of Prey.
My conclusion? Most men are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women,
My conclusion? Most men are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women,
(horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).
But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men,
But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men,
especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.
So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off?
So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off?
Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?
Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing.
Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing.
These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.
In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.
And they flinch every time.
#KAM2020 #HorrorMovies #MenFearRetaliation #AsTheyShould #misogyny #CancelMen
And they flinch every time.
#KAM2020 #HorrorMovies #MenFearRetaliation #AsTheyShould #misogyny #CancelMen
