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

Kalamazoo 2 Timbuktu said:
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.
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Blame BookTok for promoting these kinds of books and defending them (I know I'm a moid, but the smut and slopification of books has affected both sexes).
 
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If Terminator and Aliens came out today grifters like Critical Drinker would complain about them too.
Don't get me wrong I love these movies too. But it's been over 30 years and I'm a little annoyed at only seeing these movies being propped up. We had good movies/series with female protagonists in the last 10 years too.
Everything Everywhere All at Once, The Arrival, Mrs. Davis, Poor Things etc. Furiosa too I guess but I haven't finished it yet. Yes there's a lot of trash being produced by mainstream media. There was a lot of trash movies in the 80s too.
 
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crazedaze said:
I hate how we can accept men "in media" who swing from building to building 150 feet in the air on web they shoot out of their wrist, and men who stop airplanes from crashing with their biceps, but if women "in media" hold a sword or fight in a war or *gasp* are stronger than a man(!!!) we feel the need to bitch about how it's unrealistic.
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This shit is also dumb and it's why I don't usually like superhero movies past the first installation - making a single character that powerful only works if you're really good at weaving an interesting story that can incorporate that, and most modern studios can't do that once they run out of better material to adapt. I'm not bitching about Wonder Woman or Mystique, I'm mostly talking about jamming it into historical fiction/fantasy worlds where it doesn't make any sense. A woman being brave if not necessarily physically strong and fighting anyway? (Eowyn) Fine. A freakishly strong woman existing? (Brienne) Okay, but with the caveat that a freakishly strong woman is not going to fit into a size zero. A Soviet woman being a sniper? Knock yourself out, it actually happened in real life. A woman leading an army as a figurehead and spiritual leader like Joan of Arc or Aisha? Zero problem with that. A woman with an itty-bitty waist and double Ds flipping around and effortlessly beating ten men who are all bigger than her? Dumb. It's basically pornified Rambo.

Decades of this kind of media also, imo, has something to do with how easily trannies took over women's sports. When I try to explain the biology of this to normal people who think it's fine (people who have never done sports for the most part) a lot of them just don't believe me. They honestly have the mentality that if a woman trains hard enough she can beat any man, meanwhile Serena Williams will frankly say that she couldn't hold her own against male professional tennis players. People fall that deeply into a fantasy world once a particular fiction is so prevalent in the media they consume that it just slips into their preconceptions about the the world completely unnoticed.
 
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Otterly said:
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,
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Aww. ;w; <3
truthfully it's just funnier to say "I'm ugly and I'm proud" (like spongebob /millennial) than "I'm average looking and proud!" but thank you, that actually made me smile. And man, it's true too, I look at pics where I thought I was fat back in middle school and I'm like "oh my god I was normal sized, what the fuck."
 
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Mukhrani said:
Decades of this kind of media also, imo, has something to do with how easily trannies took over women's sports. When I try to explain the biology of this to normal people who think it's fine (people who have never done sports for the most part) a lot of them just don't believe me. They honestly have the mentality that if a woman trains hard enough she can beat any man, meanwhile Serena Williams will frankly say that she couldn't hold her own against male professional tennis players. People fall that deeply into a fantasy world once a particular fiction is so prevalent in the media they consume that it just slips into their preconceptions about the the world completely unnoticed.
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Yeah, that's basically my beef with this archetype. Stuff with superpowers is one thing but anything else and it needs to be accounted for in the world building. And it clearly shows that it being so pervasive has infected how people think about such things IRL whether or not they'd like to admit it. You're not immune to propaganda and all that.
 
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Mukhrani said:
jamming it into historical fiction/fantasy worlds where it doesn't make any sense
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Fiction and fantasy aren't supposed to make sense, they're supposed to allow for a fun escape from reality. Noone gives men any shit when Jackie chan single-handledly Kung fu's an entire army, Sherlock Holmes figures out the murder from a stain on a shoesole. Children can have books about being able to do magic, but women having a fantasy about being strong beyond reality in a fantasy fiction, that's too far and propaganda. Our only allowable power lies in being super pretty. This is just the complaint of a man who's sad he's not being glorified above women at all times.
People let trannies infiltrate the sports and the prisons and call us fronthole birthing persons and assault women at terf rallies because noone gives a fuck about women.
 
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Kalamazoo 2 Timbuktu said:
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.
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I am so depressed by the fact that omegaverse has made the jump to actual books that people pay money for.

And yeah it counts as a female-aimed trend if it's majority pooners that are into it
 
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Mukhrani said:
Decades of this kind of media also, imo, has something to do with how easily trannies took over women's sports. When I try to explain the biology of this to normal people who think it's fine (people who have never done sports for the most part) a lot of them just don't believe me. They honestly have the mentality that if a woman trains hard enough she can beat any man, meanwhile Serena Williams will frankly say that she couldn't hold her own against male professional tennis players. People fall that deeply into a fantasy world once a particular fiction is so prevalent in the media they consume that it just slips into their preconceptions about the the world completely unnoticed.
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Paper Machete said:
Yeah, that's basically my beef with this archetype. Stuff with superpowers is one thing but anything else and it needs to be accounted for in the world building. And it clearly shows that it being so pervasive has infected how people think about such things IRL whether or not they'd like to admit it. You're not immune to propaganda and all that.
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Another part of it, I think, is that very few women who HAVEN'T been harmed or abused by men in some way are aware of how strong they actually are. It's always very eye opening and kind of scary when men do that "OK, I have your wrist, get free." thing that older brothers/some dads do. It's IMPORTANT to know how much stronger than women men really are.

90 Day Beyonce said:
I am so depressed by the fact that omegaverse has made the jump to actual books that people pay money for.
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Programmer Socks said:
What is this obsession with being "seen" and "represented"? Is that from people watching too much TV and not having their own life outside of their Netflix addiction? Honestly, the only criteria for a character that I'm interested in is are they annoying and can I handle watching them. I've never once in my 52 years ever thought that a character should be relatable or mirror me in any way at all, from my interests, sex, body shape, tastes or background. Never even given that a second of consideration when choosing something to watch. How boring and vain do you have to be to demand your entertainment to be a reflection of who you are or think you are? That's such a tedious, one dimensional way of looking at the world. In Tess' case she can just glom onto anything now that she's telling the world that she's an anorexic dyke. Wouldn't shock me at all if she started identifying as Black.
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Crossposting here because of the media discussion.
I've noticed that among children, and certainly among little girls, there's a phenomenon where the little girls do look for characters who look like them because they're in that developmental stage where they're learning "How to be". This is part of why you'll notice - sometimes but not always - that if a little girl has a favorite Disney princess, it may be one that looks like her/her family (or is the "prettiest" one), but as she gets older it will shift to one she relates to more, regardless of how the character looks.

I posit that a normal part of healthy development is the ability to relate to people (and characters) who may not look anything like you, but who you relate to, identify with, or sympathize with. People who are stunted in some way miss this step so they demand superficial representation as adults.

That being said, then, I also think that the push for diversity in early-children's media can be a good thing, but that if we're going to accept these characters are surrogate role models, we need to be picky about who those characters are and what they're doing.
 
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I sometimes get caught up in YT shorts and oh lord, do I hate ASMR content

Some girl with long ass nails (I can't stand these, they gross me out, I blame Luna slater) "restocking" beauty products - aka filling them into containers or someone with a pink room full of girly weeb shit swapping out keyboard keys for key caps of some anime. And then she has to tap everything with her claws before doing her business. Everyone in the comments expresses jealously like "WOAH I WISH I HAD A ROOM FULL OF PINK WEEBSHIT OR 2000 BEAUTY PRODUCTS THAT DO NOTHING 😍😍😍"

I can't explain why, but this kind of content fuels my hate. It's just consumption, consumption, consumption. Same with videos of people who just promote "QoL" amazon products from China.
 
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So my work friends, really smart ladies, got the Stanleys probably before I knew it was A Thing, and when I noticed they had them I was kind of disappointed.
I've noticed that trend is pretty much over and now they're back to their old tumblers because those damn things were always falling over.
 
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Lady Bizness said:
So my work friends, really smart ladies, got the Stanleys probably before I knew it was A Thing, and when I noticed they had them I was kind of disappointed.
I've noticed that trend is pretty much over and now they're back to their old tumblers because those damn things were always falling over.
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The trend is over and now they're back to having their drinks get warm faster? :story:
 
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