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Unfortunately, this was most likely written by an English major, whose course, no doubt, has a lot more classes on queer interpretations and 'othering' in Harry Potter than on grammar or syntax.
interestingly, this author commits the classic anti-feminist error of assuming a character is male unless told otherwise. The hunter is not visible in "Bambi" and there is no reason why Bambi's killer could not have been a woman.This probably isn't what you're looking for, but it sure is a thing. Did I internalise too much misogyny, or is this an entire paper of FullMcintosh?
"Cleo is a lady, and she is aware of it. Her large blue eyes and see-through tail, which she uses as a veil to cover her face when she feels embarrassed, lend her an overtly feminine, even oriental look. She makes this sex appeal masquerade quite apparent. Surrounded by male characters, Cleo is the damsel in distress in Pinocchio, who is unable to save herself or to do anything of (narrative) significance. She is a childish yet sexualized woman figure, who has no other function than to look pretty on the screen, and is a fitting example of what Mulvey defines as “to-be-looked-at-ness” (qtd. in Cristian and Dragon 90)."
"Since the emphasis is on masculinity, and the male figure’s struggle to become accepted in a family (and society as well), all the female characters are made submissive and less relevant. Ultimately, both the Blue Fairy and Cleo, the two notable female characters conceal their objectification and insignificance in a masquerade of overt femininity."
"Dumbo allegorically presents a child’s emotional need for his mother and the ability to succeed without her. This orphan’s quest objectifies Mrs. Jumbo’s role and reduces her narrative function in the film. The animation has primarily been criticized for its racist portrayal of characters but considering notions of feminist film theory on black women, Mrs. Jumbo is not simply passive and submissive, as most of Disney’s women, she is a feminine figure under double oppression: gender and racial alike."
"Besides the human-nature conflict in Bambi – rendered with the hunter as active, masculine and the forest as passive, feminine –, the film depicts also the tension between the genders of the forest animals. Although the Disney studio shrewdly tried to conceal its obvious sexism behind the emphasis on the realism of the background and the cuddlesome, pretty characters, the simplified stereotypical representations play a significant role in the story of this mainstream classical Hollywood narrative. The most basic incentive behind the narrative of Bambi is thus the dichotomic conflict between feminine and masculine, let them be embodied as two fawns of different genders, a doe versus a buck or nature against a group of hunters. The peak of Disney’s sexism, however, is marked by the fact that the female character always loses ground in the battle: nature remains subjected to humans, Bambi’s mother is killed by the hunters, and Feline is left alone by Bambi."
I wish I'd saved/bookmarked it, but I ran across someone on an animation board once convinced that the related character of Leela from Futurama was actually a closeted lesbian and was growing increasingly frustrated that the show's creators (and this was post first cancellation, but not before it was renewed) were taking her in the "wrong" direction and clearly didn't "get" the character. Furthermore, this was before the SJW movement really took off, I can only imagine the poo-flinging-monkey levels of irrational hostility that same conversation would take on today.... because over time it became clear through her posts that the only reason she thought Leela was homosexual was because SHE was, so, obviously, any female character in a media aimed at HER had to be homosexual as well, it was the only explanation....
interestingly, this author commits the classic anti-feminist error of assuming a character is male unless told otherwise. The hunter is not visible in "Bambi" and there is no reason why Bambi's killer could not have been a woman.
PROTIP: any sentence containing the phrase "women and girls" can be safely ignored. Ditto for "lived experience".#everydaysexism
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No, a strong team of feminist womyn should make a stand by shitting and pissing all over the floor of that phallogocentric monument to white male colonialismThe British Museum is clearly in the wrong here. They should have send an employee to immediately bar the access to the men's toilets until the queue became as big as the one outside the ladies' room.
It's been a long time since I've seen Futurama but I don't remember anything to suggest that Leela was anything other than heterosexual. They just choose and pick the evidence they need.
But you see, it had to be a man, and a cis white male at that! Only a cis white man would do that.
It's been a long time since I've seen Futurama but I don't remember anything to suggest that Leela was anything other than heterosexual. They just choose and pick the evidence they need.
I think her "strongest" evidence was the fact Leela wore... boots.
No, a strong team of feminist womyn should make a stand by shitting and pissing all over the floor of that phallogocentric monument to white male colonialism
The answer is the Horse..
I've learned to expect just about anything from SJWs, so it's rare any more that I'm ever left speechless over something a SJW said.
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Yeah, a lot of SJWs have said, over the years, that they don't really care about truth, only ideology.
Idiotic reasoning like that is what will prove to be their eventual undoing, I don't doubt.
Yeah, there's a reason SJWism is only really strong in middle/upper-class youths in first-world countries. That's the only demographic that has the luxury of entertaining such idiotic notions. Every older or from a rougher background will take one look at them and see a bunch of pansies with no perspective on reality and a toxic attitude toward others. This is why SJWing will probably continue to be a thing for another 5-10 years, but as the true believers have to wake up and face the world, its influence will dwindle.It's not that bad, really.
I don't doubt that most people would think the common SJW ideologies (if you're not for us you're against us, everything can be offensive, all white people suck, etc. etc.) are too extreme.