Marguerite Bennett's Blog, page 31
September 4, 2017
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The Bechdel Test
Alison Bechdel’s original 1985 Dykes To Watch Out For strip that became known as “The Bechdel Test.”
never forget that this was originally meant to demonstrate that lesbian representation was so rare that you wouldn’t even see two named women interact in a platonic manner let alone in a sexual or romantic one onscreen.
I never really understood why this was lesbian specific until I realized how alienating it is to look for yourself on the screen and find not a single woman whose motivations and romantic interest and friendship and sacrifice aren’t focused entirely on men – esp if you’ve fought with heavy losses to decentralize men from your own life and focus on your more healthy non-coerced love of women.
Like, the bar isn’t “has a remotely shippable relationship with a woman”, it’s actually “has literally anything at ALL in her life that isn’t about men so I can relate to her dear God please.”
yes, thank you. I wish more folks understood this.
this comic is about the horrible isolation and alienation lesbians feel in a culture where, in the majority of movies, women barely ever even talk to each other about something other than men, let alone have platonic intimacy with each other, let alone have romantic intimacy with each other, let alone love each other, let alone express love for each other, let alone have lives focused on each other.
there are so few women who reflect us, and it’s genuinely a very lonely feeling.
charlottemarney:
tiny brain: lord of the flies with girls
bigger brain: lord of the flies wouldn’t...
tiny brain: lord of the flies with girls
bigger brain: lord of the flies wouldn’t work with girls because they’d work together and get off the island
expanding brain: girls and women are capable of violence and cruelty too
galaxy brain: young girls could build an equally hellish micro-society but it would function differently from the original because of differing socialization and men aren’t qualified to write it anyway
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frozun:
i think a lot of people forget that you can actually still come...
i think a lot of people forget that you can actually still come across as confident and have social anxiety
I TRY TO EXPLAIN THIS TO PEOPLE ALL THE TIME
outsider-my-ass:
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[Brooke Winters tweeted: “As a disabled...
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[Brooke Winters tweeted: “As a disabled person I don’t want to be told I can do anything if I put my mind to it. I want to know that what I can do is good enough.”]
September 3, 2017
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I’ve said this before and I’ll point it out again -
Menstruation is caused by change in hormonal levels to stop the creation of a uterine lining and encourage the body to flush the lining out. The body does this by lowering estrogen levels and raising testosterone.
Or, to put it more plainly “That time of the month” is when female hormones most closely resemble male hormones. So if (cis) women aren’t suited to office at “That time of the month” then (cis) men are NEVER suited to office.
If you are a dude and don’t dig the ladies around you at their time of the month, just think! That is you all of the time.
And, on a final note, post-menopausal (cis) women are the most hormonally stable of all human demographics. They have fewer hormonal fluctuations of anyone, meaning older women like Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would theoretically be among the least likely candidates to make an irrational decision due to hormonal fluctuations, and if we were basing our leadership decisions on hormone levels, then only women over fifty should ever be allowed to hold office.
Reblogging hard for that last comment.
I WANTED TO SAY THIS BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE DID and I’m damn proud.
Meanwhile, a shit-ton of women are going through “that time of the month” at any given time and throughout all of human history. Many of them are in positions of power, over anything from children to nations.
There have been no vast destructions. There are no roving gangs of bleeding women that, having gone feral for the month, make all the world into a low-key zombie apocalypse movie. There’s no myths of period-having women haunting the night and hunting the blood of innocents the way there are of werewolves. Young men do not avoid going out alone at night lest they be attacked by a woman on her period.
This “a woman president would destroy the world by having access to The Button at that time of the month” presupposes that every menstruating woman in the goddamn world is deliberately curbing her own destructive nature because we’re all holding out for one of us to get her hands on the button.
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