toshio-the-starman:

ruinedchildhood:

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that’s because ‘slut’ means the end in Swedish. In Danish, it also means ‘closing’ or ‘going out’. How do I know this? Because I visited friends in Copenhagen for Christmas and I was faced with the greatest sale sign to ever grace my eyes:

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— 6 years ago with 350825 notes

crazyexedits:

♪ Let’s conflate all the guys, Let’s generalize about men! ♪

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— 7 years ago with 5108 notes
perfectmistake13:
“A woman watches the witches fly by in 1922's Häxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages).
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perfectmistake13:

A woman watches the witches fly by in 1922's Häxan (Witchcraft Through the Ages).

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— 7 years ago with 5964 notes

cecaeliawitch:

respectthefemalebody:

moirroar:

ironbasementwizard:

cecaeliawitch:

We need more stories with no men in them. There are certainly enough, more than enough, with no women. To have more stories where the only characters are women would be filling a deficit. More about men is just feeding a grossly overbloated ego

Call the Midwife!!! (Netflix)

I mean, there are men in it but they are peripheral and, at best, side kicks

The Descent!! Zero men, all women horror. And they’re not dying half naked in the woods they went spelunking and got trapped. I need 100 more movies like that one. Also there are two endings, I recommend the US “happy” ending cuz the U.K. ending is a real bummer. Amazon video has the wrong ending :/

The Craft! The male characters are barely even in the movie, they exist as like, symbols or plot devices, they don’t make real plot driving decisions. I forgot they even existed until I remembered that a couple main characters have dads who appear briefly in a couple scenes.

I love you guys, keep it coming!

I know AHS is uneven most of the time, but one of its better seasons is Coven. Men only exist in the periphery and barely have speaking parts. The female cast is fantastic. Like, a woman with Downs Syndrome has more lines than some of the male characters COMBINED.

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— 7 years ago with 1627 notes
Women love horror: Why does this still surprise so many dudes? →

respectingromance:

This is pretty cool: an article that discusses women loving horror and why, while not bashing women also loving romance. Like, it’s respectful of both things. Wow. 

Well done, Kayleigh Donaldson.

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— 7 years ago with 79 notes
#this was excellent 
"

Crimson Peak, and Edith herself, originate from books. Books, in particular, written by women. Young women. Girls, almost – girls like Edith. Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Daphne Du Maurier, and of course the Bronte sisters; Gothic romance has, since its conception, been the arena of female imagination. Of course men have written in the Gothic mode, but they tend to write a different type. In fact, scholars of the genre consider the line between Gothic romance and Gothic horror to be a gendered one. Where women tend to write stories of social oppression and interpersonal horror, men write ones where the supernatural is actually real, and actually the sinister force at work.

There are many theories as to why this is the case. I favour a simple one: women have long had a great deal of very real things to fear; they do not need to make up ghosts and monsters to menace them.

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Jacqui Deighton, “I Don’t Want To Close My Eyes: Edith Cushing, Crimson Peak, and Gothic Girlhood” on Shakespeare and Punk. 
Keep up with her column, GIRLisms, here. (via heatherfield)

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— 7 years ago with 7845 notes

mcgonagollygee:

i want to talk about the characterizations of ben wyatt and jake peralta. arguably jim halpert could be included in this conversation, but i want to focus on ben and jake because they’re such clear subversions of well-known tropes

firstly, you have ben wyatt. the nerd. he’s established as a hard-ass and a geek early on, and it would have been so easy for the writers to fall into that trope of presenting him as below leslie, as her eventual agreement to date him has a victory for all male nerds, because he had successfully tricked a woman into being interested in him. 

instead, we get ben wyatt, a dork and a feminist. he’s nationally ranked in settlers of catan and he likes to sit around in a batman costume and he loves game of thrones. he also loves his girlfriend enough to lose his job for her, and it’s never even addressed whether he minds that leslie will probably end up with a higher status job than him - because why would he? he loves and supports her, and his nerdiness is presented not as a flaw, but as a complement to her single-minded determination - they’re both total nerds with an overlapping ven diagram of interests.

secondly, jake peralta. the character we’re introduced to in the first episode is cocky and a smartass, and while he’s loveable, we completely understand why he would drive amy up a wall. jake and amy are less alike than ben and leslie are; arguably they’re opposites. again, there’s a trope that the show could have fallen into: “endearing idiot eventually wears down woman who is too good for him, and she realizes she was too uptight all along”.

but again, we get something completely different. jake peralta, known for being Too Much, consistently respects amy’s boundaries and tries as hard as he can to be honest about his feelings, while understanding that amy is her own person. she buys orange soda for him and he gets a new mattress for her. there are so many examples of the respect in that relationship - they’re both so stubborn, but they love each other so much. he’s always known that she was going to be his boss. they’re different, but they love it about each other.

all i’m saying is, this purposeful subversion of gross male stereotypes is so important - and so much easier (and so much funnier!) than people think

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— 7 years ago with 26359 notes
#this