Female-aimed Trends That You Hate? - Sperg about recent trends you despise from media, make-up, social, etc

[2mm and 99 others]

If you're using them to TREAT your acne, you're still retarded, because all you need to do to treat zits is LEAVE THEM ALONE and they go away on their own.

One point of the stickers is, that they make one leave the zits alone and not touch them, if they can't help themselves. The salycilic acid or coloid silver on them speed the healing up and they are to be used overnight, I've never seen anyone using those in public.
I got rid of the kind of acne the stickers are for, by cutting down on sugar.

 

[Chromeo]

If Black Widow had her canonical training and also some kind of superpower that allowed her to control her weight or density, or something like that, it could be more fun and feel less pander-y.

I don't particularly care about Black Widow, but from what clips I've seen the pandering isn't that horrendous. Who cares if she's so good at gymnastics or whatever that she can kick 10 big burly men's asses in a row in heels? It's a superhero movie and she's the main character, of course she's going to do that. The real problem is it's a Marvel movie, they're literally the codifiers of capeshit slop. Any woman they write is gonna suck because every movie they write is gonna suck.

Hey there's... Uh... I guess it depends on what you mean by butch. I looked up some lists and they seem to be stretching what a butch is.

You know, my standards for a butch woman irl and a "butch" woman in this context are probably very different. I guess my "Butchdel" test would be a female character with a traditionally masculine trait who DOESN'T have a super feminine appearance to compensate. Luisa Madrigal is super strong, but she also has a dress and makeup. Maria Posada knows Kung Fu and is a Strong Female Character Who Don't Need No Man, but she's a model with waist-length hair. Rainbow Dash is a scruffy gross athlete but she's literally got a rainbow mane and tail and frequently gets makeovers to wear dresses and makeup (and eventually decides she likes getting mani-pedis.) I suppose there are some tomboyish child characters, like Buttercup from the Powerpuff Girls, but then her teenage self is boy-crazy, ditzy, actively dieting, and has long hair and an exposed midriff. It's hard.

 

[Catboi]

If I see another woman with those awful botox lips and everyone saying it looks good I'm going to scream

Even IRL I keep running into it, it's like a plague with women under 30.

 

[NoReturn]

I don't particularly care about Black Widow, but from what clips I've seen the pandering isn't that horrendous. Who cares if she's so good at gymnastics or whatever that she can kick 10 big burly men's asses in a row in heels? It's a superhero movie and she's the main character, of course she's going to do that. The real problem is it's a Marvel movie, they're literally the codifiers of capeshit slop. Any woman they write is gonna suck because every movie they write is gonna suck.

I care because the writing is lazy. They use "AND DEN SHE KICKS ALL DA MENS BUTTS!" as a replacement for writing an interesting character. Capeshit is capeshit, but I do care when it start seeping into other things.
Similarly, Rapunzel as a quirky upbeat character worked in Tangled because she was raised in a tower and isolated. Disney saw the success of that personality and then just kind of cloned it for Anna, Moana, Mirabel, and Asha.
It's lazy.

 

[Kalamazoo 2 Timbuktu]

I was thinking about how much I hate books for women on the way home from work today.
There was this series someone I know tried to get me into where she jokingly called it "fairy porn" and I just knew in my heart I wouldn't be able to read it.
There's romance slop and erotic slime, and then the rest of women's space in literature has been overwhelmed with <QUEER BOOK>

This exactly.

I feel like it’s a way to target females, like video games or comics are predominantly male. There can’t be that many women out there into ‘knotting’ or a lizard man sticking his tail in your bum. Essentially bestiality. They all have the same basic plot, no charterer development and the main focus is sex.

 

[Apochrypha]

"Manifestation" is for wasp mothers and fat black women who play with tarot cards.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Any cosmetic procedures and how many women are already getting botox in their 20s now. Extreme fear of aging and having a skincare routine that requires 20 different products, jade rollers, face brushes, cooling packs, undereye masks etc. Just ridiculous how much money we are supposed to spend to avoid getting any lines while moids can't even wash their face and age like milk.

A lot of the stuff marketed as being anti-aging has mercury in it. It's not usually the organic kind(which can turn you into a potato if you touch it in its pure form), but why would I put any amount of mercury of any kind on my skin? Skin lightening creams also usually have mercury in them.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

The drag queen/Kardashian inspired make-up with baking and contouring and highlighting, overdrawing your lips way too much and the giant fake lashes. Thankfully that's on its way out.

BBLs and lip fillers, why would I pay to make myself look like a nigger? Honestly any trend that's clearly inspired by porn and trying to make women look more like porn stars/blow-up dolls.

Any cosmetic procedures and how many women are already getting botox in their 20s now. Extreme fear of aging and having a skincare routine that requires 20 different products, jade rollers, face brushes, cooling packs, undereye masks etc. Just ridiculous how much money we are supposed to spend to avoid getting any lines while moids can't even wash their face and age like milk.

I also hate the e-girl fashion because of how pornified it is, though I am in the minority who thinks the excessive blush is cute if done well.

You just reminded me that one of Marilyn Monroe's dresses was worn by Kim Kardashian. They should stop lending deceased actresses things to quote unquote celebrities.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

The example he uses is Sarah Connor, who is a boss but uses her smarts to work her way through the world, escaping the mental hospital by holding a nurse hostage with a hypodermic needle in a much more realistic way than just beating up all the men. Smarts, skill, ingenuity, something that is realistic and the qualities are still admirable.

Sarah Connor had to train for years just to have a minimal advantage when escaping a Terminator, and only because the events of the first movie that she spend running away traumatized her. but then in the recent animated Terminator movie there's a strong female protagonist who straight up fights a Terminator in hand to hand combat and takes several direct hits yet survives to keep on fighting, something that no human being in this universe should be able to do and is completely insane banana cucko logic but its there because she a stronk #Girlboss.

I think thats a good example of the gap between simpathetic and strong female protagonist to retarded virtue signaling nonsense that breaks the worldbuilding.

 

[ThePozzedOutCritic]

This same shit with Razorblades and Body Wash. Men get a 3 in one for 5 bucks at the most and then we have to pay 8 dollars for simple decent shampoo if we want to maintain a good regimen.

Forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't women's body wash just a better over-all product than men's. I heard they do it because they can get away with selling a worse product to men since your average man doesn't care enough to check.

 

[Luna hates niggers]

The "Office Siren" trend had a mini-saga/drama

It was really really big on tiktok for a few weeks there and one girl was crying because she went to her job with an office siren outfit. She got fired from an internship because she couldn't dress in work appropriate clothing.

 

[Otterly]

@NoReturn yeah that’s the ad! She’s in jeans and t shirt, not cords, I misremembered. But that’s how I remember my childhood. Dressed like that, playing like that - just ‘a kid , and a girl’ rather than ‘girl so must play with the following.’ It’s not like we were never in a dress, it’s just that day to day clothes were more practical.
We have regressed HARD on gender stuff. It’s pretty sad.

 

[2mm and 99 others]

Forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't women's body wash just a better over-all product than men's. I heard they do it because they can get away with selling a worse product to men since your average man doesn't care enough to check.

The man-targeted 3 in 1 shampoos are good enough for those who have 5 short sad strands on their head. It can wash any hair, yes, but makes them hard to brush. The ones for long hair/women in general have something more in them.

 

[Otterly]

People love to tout out the whole "Women do most of the spending!" stat, but of course they do. Moms are the ones doing the grocery shopping for the family,

I point this out every single time. It’s not women spending more on fripperies to the point it’s 80% of all spending. Its ’groceries, eldest has grown out of his shoes again, etc.’

anyway makeup and skincare and plastic surgery can all go to hell. I'm ugly and I'm proud goddamn it.

I very much doubt you are. You’ll look back on pictures of yourself and wonder why on earth you thought that, I promise you,
The only skincare most need is a very light moisturiser - if you live in an arctic hellscape, thicker moisturiser. I know a few older women who have amazing skin and they have all used nothing at all, or at most just slapped a bit of Olay or Nivea on at night. Constantly stripping the skin with makeup and removal is bad for you. Perfume is bad for you - the term ‘fragrance’ allows manufacturers to get around labelling. Fragrance can be ANYTHING and no need to label!

 

[Frank(en) Castle]

They use "AND DEN SHE KICKS ALL DA MENS BUTTS!" as a replacement for writing an interesting character.

This is going to sound bad, but I was super impressed in the theatre when Brainwashed Bucky demolished Black Widow and Agent 13 in Civil War. They literally struck their cool little poses and then Bucky proceeded to man handle them.
It was great because he’s a 200+ pound dude with a robot arm, and these tiny women decided to go hand to hand with him.
Like you said, cape shit is cape shit, but you’ve gotta have a limit somewhere.
It also makes sense in universe since Widow was scared of The Winter Soldier in the last movie because of how good he was

This new thing, the "morning shed," where you peel off the 50,000 things you applied to yourself to sleep in to keep your skin young or whatever

This is fucking insane to me. All my exes who wore makeup made sure to scrub everything off before bed and told me you should never sleep in ANY kind of makeup. Now you’re telling me they’re making shit specifically TO sleep in?

 

[w.a.m.s.]

While on the subject of strong and "strong" female characters:

I hate this trend of female leads whose main issue is self-doubt. Or its smarmy neighbor, external factors that try to convince her to doubt herself while she was right all along. "She had what she needed to confront her problems inside her all along (: she just needed to have faith in herself!" Unrelatable! Patronizing! And worst of all, boring!

Give me female characters that suffer more interesting temptations than "feel useless/bored and duck away from the main conflict." If a female character's arc absolutely has to be about learning to think better of herself, at least present it in a less coddling way - less "just give yourself some grace" and more "you were a shameless coward and maybe someone wouldn't have gotten hurt if you had involved yourself." Even then, it's much more interesting when female characters already have plenty of conviction and screw it up. Give me female characters that take their rage out on their enemies and and find themselves taking it out on their loved ones, or get greedy and struggle to stop convincing themselves "I deserve this", or convince themselves that they're doing the right thing while people pat them on the back for making horrifying mistakes. Give me women who think too highly of their own intentions or capabilities, have it blow up in their face, and learn from it and find a way forward anyway.

Realizing "I don't have to back off, I have it in me to solve problems" is unsatisfying 90% of the time because 1) it's like "stop disclaiming responsibility" and "please use your agency" were rolled across an entire character journey, usually one where I want to jump into the page/screen and yell "PLEASE JUST TAKE AN ACTION", and 2) human problems don't stop happening after you stop listening to the people claiming "you can't solve this." That's often the first step in the process of solving a problem, external or personal, but it's almost never the only step. Slapping it onto female characters' arcs in particular is irritating, especially when the writers respond to audience backlash against it by saying "it's a reflection of how women have external factors telling them to doubt themselves!" Sure we do, but we're also fallible human beings whose inner worlds include temptations, unmet needs, distortions, and the ability to make destructive choices based on those things. When someone markets their story as Strong Female Characters and it's just about the haters holding them back, it's coddling and pedestalizing, because it sends the message that the female characters lack that inner world - or that the inner world isn't interesting enough to be anything but admirable.

EDIT: a sentence clause

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Apparently calling yourself a "boy mom" is a badge of honor and there's merch in regards to is, as if these whores can't get more male obsessed. I feel like people assume I'm being hyperbolic when I rant about how many women are nothing but sentiant cocksleeves for men where literally their whole life is dedicated toward men. I'm not being an asshole, I can't dehumanize you if you already do it to yourself. What good are you other than rapemeat? I could never express my geninue thoughts on a lot of women irl because I would make the average online incel blush with how misogynistic I come across, yet am I fucking wrong?? WHY are these cock obsessed whores alive? They're destructive robots. Men... Cock... Yaoi... Boys.... Men. Penis.... What about men... Men

And of course it feels so SO nice to ve reminded, as a lesbian

I see incel seething about how most women are brainless whores that only want Chad Thundercock isn't limited to men.

 

[deermeat]

I see incel seething about how most women are brainless whores that only want Chad Thundercock isn't limited to men.

They don't want Chads. If that was the case, society wouldn't so fucked rn for women. They want porn addicted soyboys and spineless fags, men with "dad bods" and so on. To the point they literally cannot shut up about men, there's zero personality. These are the types of women who will stand up for their abusive sons and abusive husbands, any man as long as hes a man even if he identifies a woman. They exist as a shadow for men.

I don't know why other than people suggesting its something biological, but still you'd think these women would be able to weed out weak men, not having them be the hill they die on.

 

[Love Machine]

If I see another woman with those awful botox lips and everyone saying it looks good I'm going to scream

Even IRL I keep running into it, it's like a plague with women under 30.

Bimboification is the fire these days.

 

[NoReturn]

While on the subject of strong and "strong" female characters:

I hate this trend of female leads whose main issue is self-doubt. Or its smarmy neighbor, external factors that try to convince her to doubt herself while she was right all along. "She had what she needed to confront her problems inside her all along (: she just needed to have faith in herself!" Unrelatable! Patronizing! And worst of all, boring!

Give me female characters that suffer more interesting temptations than "feel useless/bored and duck away from the main conflict." If a female character's arc absolutely has to be about learning to think better of herself, at least present it in a less coddling way - less "just give yourself some grace" and more "you were a shameless coward and maybe someone wouldn't have gotten hurt if you had involved yourself." Even then, it's much more interesting when female characters already have plenty of conviction and screw it up. Give me female characters that take their rage out on their enemies and and find themselves taking it out on their loved ones, or get greedy and struggle to stop convincing themselves "I deserve this", or convince themselves that they're doing the right thing while people pat them on the back for making horrifying mistakes. Give me women who think too highly of their own intentions or capabilities, have it blow up in their face, and learn from it and find a way forward anyway.

Realizing "I don't have to back off, I have it in me to solve problems" is unsatisfying 90% of the time because 1) it's like "stop disclaiming responsibility" and "please use your agency" were rolled across an entire character journey, usually one where I want to jump into the page/screen and yell "PLEASE JUST TAKE AN ACTION", and 2) human problems don't stop happening after you stop listening to the people claiming "you can't solve this." That's often the first step in the process of solving a problem, external or personal, but it's almost never the only step. Slapping it onto female characters' arcs in particular is irritating, especially when the writers respond to audience backlash against it by saying "it's a reflection of how women have external factors telling them to doubt themselves!" Sure we do, but we're also fallible human beings whose inner worlds include temptations, unmet needs, distortions, and the ability to make destructive choices based on those things. When someone markets their story as Strong Female Characters and it's just about the haters holding them back, it's coddling and pedestalizing, because it sends the message that the female characters lack that inner world - or that the inner world isn't interesting enough to be anything but admirable.

This.
It's like it's verboten for women to have actual flaws or else they're "problematic" or "bad". Writers and producers are walking around with furies built from the collective tumblr hivemind flying over their shoulders. It's kind of like how Bella Swan's "flaw" was that she's clumsy. If you gave her too many negative traits, then fewer readers could identify with her, so it wouldn't sell as well. Only instead of thinking about reader self-inserts, it's more focused on making something that's as marketable as possible.

Let's look at two recent but very different Snow White adaptations for fun: Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves (2012) and Snow White (2025)
In both films Snow White is comfortable with who she is as a person (which is also true of the 1937 film), but in Red Shoes Snow's challenge is to defeat her stepmother but needs help to do it, and her love interest is a man who needs to go through a whole character arc of becoming a less superficial person. It's not just a love story, but the story also shows a similar lesson to the 1937 version where the viewer is implicitly told that they need others to archive their goals, and that people need to change and adapt to get along with the people around them.
In SW2025, however, Snow is just "perfect" from the get-go. She doesn't need anyone. The film was obviously rewritten and recut multiple times and she's the only one who does anything. Besides the queen, no other character really needs to be there at all. Minus the kiss, any given character could easily be removed and the story would basically continue as it was already.

Spoiler: NoReturn writes a movie

If I were to write an adaptation of Snow White myself, I'd set up a contrast between "Nice" and "Kind" between Snow and the Queen. Have Snow grow up learning things like noblesse oblige from her mother/father but then also have her be taken in by the Queen. Have her believe her stepmother is "good" until she sees the effects firsthand.
e.g. Maybe have a scene early in the film where baby Snow sees her birth-mother dressed up all fancy and ask her mom something like "Why are you dressed in that fancy dress to see the neighbor-kingdom?" and have the mom sit her down and say something like "See this fabric? This was made by Ms. Weaver down on 3rd street. These jewels were mined by the men of the woods and turned into this necklace by Mr. Fabricker. You remember him? We met him last week. When we go to the other kingdom, I get to show off all their hard work and other people will come to visit to buy things from them."
Then later in the film Snow sees the Queen doing shit like being polite to people, or even doing things that look like nice things to do, and she thinks "Oh this is a good woman" and it's not until Snow is a young woman that she notices suddenly the shops are all closing down and the only money and food people have are what the Queen provides directly if they do her bidding.