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Feminist Friday: Native American Actors aren't "in on" Adam Sandler's jokes about them, after all

Apr 24, 2015 01:59

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philstar22 April 24 2015, 13:13:36 UTC

1. I'm sick of romance being shoehorned in for every female character, and even more than that I'm sick of romance storylines changing the woman (but not the man of course). All of a sudden even the most self-assured female character is shy and nervous and takes her cues from the man ( ... )

maynardsong April 26 2015, 17:11:21 UTC

1. I'd like to see scenes of cunnilingus rather than blowjobs.
2. I don't actually have a problem with romance or sex. Both are wonderful! But it would be nice to flip some tropes, show agency on the part of the woman, show desire on the part of the woman. I hate that currently, men do the desiring and women are there to be desired. That men are more visual than women (supposedly) does not mean that women don't care about male beauty, or even that straight women care less about male beauty than straight men do about female beauty.
3. I am REALLY GODDAM TIRED of Beauty and the Beast couples, where the woman is gorgeous and youthful and the man is gnarly. Just once in my life I want that script flipped.
4. I am tired of women going in for abortions but changing their minds at the last minute.
5. I want to see scenes of breastfeeding portrayed as NORMAL and MAINSTREAM - not sexualized and not treated as granola hippie dippy earth mother goddess worshipping.
6. I'm tired of the screaming birth trope.

philstar22 May 1 2015, 12:54:22 UTC

So much agreed to 1. And I'd like the rating system to stop rating female orgasms or evidence of female pleasure higher than male pleasure or violence or rape scenes.

cactus_rs May 7 2015, 18:17:20 UTC

My most-hated tropes are the aforementioned hated tropes, so no need to reiterate. As for challenging: I think the Internet is going to be the undoing of the hegemony of media, or is at least going to partially disassemble it. Hashtags and Internet ~awareness~ campaigns are a way for the audience to send a message back to the studios, as they're happening in the same environments where studios are trying to promote their stuff. Presumably at a critical threshold of outrage, studios will realize that they need to address the complaint and generally be less douchey in order to remain relevant. Of course, this is a critical threshold that has to be reached discounting the backlash to the backlash, so to speak. If studios and producers and etc. aren't already hiring number crunchers and AI coders to sort messages on Twitter or FB or whatever else into positive, neutral, and negative and give each category a weight and connect said weights to box office performance and revenues, I don't doubt that they will be. The Internet is still a ( ... )