“why can’t female heroes kick arse in heels” because it’s not practical and will literally snap your damn ankle you can scream weaponised femininity all you want but first off, you need to admit that they’re not an almighty symbol of empowerment, and secondly that if you do a job with a lot of physical activity in heels you’re risking your own safety. all these women fighting in heels on tv are going to end up seriously injuring themselves.
weaponised femininity is a concept made up in an attempt to get us to embrace the industries created to hold us back/profit from our insecurities so that we can continue to fit into the male expectation of what a woman should be and not question why we are forced to spend thousands on our appearance every year
just a small anecdote. I had a friend who worked in theater; she was the stage manager and an actress came to her in tears one day because the director absolutely refused to let her do a choreographed fight scene in less than 3 inch heels because “they’re platforms so you’ll be okay.” My friend, who is a woman’s size 10, brought her own heels in the next day and DEMANDED the director put them on and try the choreography before the actress did it. He finally agreed to change it, without putting the heels on.
so like I know you might think of “all those women on tv fighting in heels” as fictional woman who WOULD hurt themselves in real life, but its fiction so its okay…except those women are portrayed by real actresses who are actually fighting in actual heels, being directed by dudes who have never worn a pair of heels in their lives, alongside men who aren’t expected to constantly wear things that make their stunts 2x more dangerous than they have to be. Just a thought.
Men take “let’s see feminine women being badass” to mean “let’s see women impractically focused on their appearance in combat situations.“
That’s why I loved Black Panther even more Nakia took off her heels and used them as weapons and was running and driving around barefoot in that one scene
A number of stuntwomen have spoken out about getting injured on sets because the character is wearing heels and skimpy clothing that provide no protection or padding. It literally harms rl women.
Tumblr’s at it again, thanks to the new European Privacy Laws. There’s probably nobody who will read this, but it pissed me off so much that I decided to make a post about it. (Ignore the weird language mish-mash, depending on your country the language might differ.)
OK, so many of us get this screen when we try to access our dash:
Realise how the ‘OK’ button is a nice, attention-grabbing blue? If you’re like me, you’re not exactly into reading a 100 pages document and tend to just click it.
My tip? DONT. Instead click on ‘Manage Options’ right next to it:
Now you’ll see this page:
Still pretty harmless, right? That ‘Accept’ button is looking really attractive right now. Instead, click on Verwalten (Probably something like ‘Manage Options’ or something in english) and you’ll get to this page:
Now that’s not too bad, right? I just switched all the buttons to ‘off’, because I’m jealously guarding my personal information and don’t want Tumblr to go off and do who knows what with it. Looks like we’re done! But wait: There’s a SHOW option.
When we click on that one, what we will get is this:
A HUGE list with OVER 300 ENTRIES of companies that can use your data by default if you’d just clicked ‘OK’ on that very first page. Coincidence that this list is hidden that much? Me thinks not. They’re all switched on by default, but I am still a petty bitch that doesn’t want to give out her data, so I switched them all off. All 300+ of them. There is no option to switch them all off at once, and even if you disable all the options above, the companies are still switched on.
(If you wonder how i got that number, I copied the list into excel and looked at the cell number. No way am I actually counting all those entries)
I too, am a petty bitch who unticked every single one.
This petty bitch recommends taking five minutes to turn all of the above off.
This (and the fix) doesn’t apply to the US version, according to the comments. However, silver lining:
Forcing consent in these forms like they’re doing in Europe is an actionable no no:
“GDPR: noyb.eu filed four complaints over “forced consent” against Google, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook
Corporations forced users to agree to new privacy policies.
A clear violation of the GDPR. Potential penalty: up to € 7 billion in total.
Privacy à la “take it or leave it”? The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which came into force today at midnight is supposed to give users a free choice, whether they agree to data usage or not. The opposite feeling spread on the screens of many users: Tons of “consent boxes” popped up online or in applications, often combined with a threat, that the service cannot longer be used if user do not consent. One the first day of GDPR noyb.eu has therefor files four complaints against Google (Android), Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram over “forced consent”. Max Schrems chair of noyb.eu: “Facebook has even blocked accounts of users who have not given consent. In the end users only had the choice to delete the account or hit the “agree”-button – that’s not a free choice, it more reminds of a North Korean election process.”
“One day on set, Wright’s hairstylist was playing with putting her hair in buns when director Ryan Coogler walked in and remarked, ‘Hey, you look like Princess Leia! You gonna wear that?’ Wright played coy, but says she ‘turned up on set with my Princess Leia buns — and he loved it.’”
I accept this passing of the kick ass female character torch.
Both Disney princesses, both hair icons. I am here for it.
OSHA and journalists: *show that Elon Musk’s companies have unsafe work conditions and violations to people’s working rights*
Elon Musk: “I’m thinking about a website where you rate articles and journalists! We can rate down ”“fake news”“ and rate up my friends! It may not matter to normal people but it’ll matter to the journalists >:^)”
I know I’ve been mentioning it here and there and my followed are probably like “Omg Suus we get it, you’re going to London comic con, shut it already”, but here’s an actual official announcement anyway!
I’m going to be at the comic village of London comic con! I’ll be sharing table CV205 with the lovely @iellas, selling my various cute stickers and prints and enough bioware fanart to keep a hardy fan going for a year. Feel free to come round and nerd about various games or kpop or anything at all!
I’m gonna do chibi commissions too, if you’re into adorable cuteness or the dumbest noodle arms, I’m your girl!
That white fragility, I tell ya. Always barging in black spaces trying to dictate, demand, and derail anything that doesn’t center or include whiteness. We will gather your ass while staying on the topic at hand.
Pride month is coming up, so here’s a reminder that the Stonewall riots (in which trans women of color fought for us to have rights) wasn’t about marriage equality, it was about police brutality.
and that the fight for marriage equality wasn’t about being heteronormative it was about lgbt couples being able to have the same legal rights as straight couples regarding their relationship especially during the aids epidemic. it was so that lgbt people could be with their partners while they died.
while i believe OP’s intentions are good, this is what i mean about tumblr really not doing a minute’s worth of research on the Stonewall Uprising.
trans women of color did not fight for gay people; twoc fought alongside gay people. the Stonewall Inn was not a trans bar (maybe you’re thinking of the Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, which did take place in a gathering place for trans women, and also happened several years before and on the other side of the country from Stonewall).
it was the call to action from a butch lesbian – most people say she was Stormé DeLarverie, a black and biracial butch lesbian – that galvanized the crowd into action that night.
the only photograph we have of the first night of the riots is of the homeless gay youth who slept in the nearby Christopher Park fighting with police.
even Marsha P. Johnson (most likely one of the women OP references) corrected anyone who claimed she started the Uprising – she didn’t even arrive at Stonewall until nearly forty minutes after the beginning of the raid.
the Stonewall Inn wasn’t a trans women’s bar; it was a mafia-owned bar of questionable repute that was known for not being exclusive like many gay social gatherings were at the time; because of this, its clientele came from many walks of life: trans women of color, yes, but also gay men and lesbians and drag kings and queens and the street kids from the park.
there were upwards of 150 people when the Uprising began, and hundreds and hundreds of participants over the course of the next several nights. many of them were people who wouldn’t have normally been found in the Stonewall Inn but who lived in Greenwich Village.
to act as though the Stonewall Uprising was the sole work of a small number of TWOC is ahistorical at best, and is at worst a lie that’s been sold to you by people on tumblr who want you to hate gay men and lesbians for never fighting for their rights and making other groups do the dirty work for them.
i think my issue is that this post leaves out part of the equation. yes, during the Stonewall Uprising trans women fought for gay men and lesbians. they also fought alongside gay men and lesbians. and gay men and lesbians fought for and alongside trans women. the participants of the Uprising didn’t come from one single group, and to act as if they did does a disservice to everyone involved.
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