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Vintage Phantom of the Opera movie poster featuring the cutest version of the Phantom ever.

I’m a bitch I’m a lover

we were all thinking it, so here it is XD

is it just me or

I would have a LOT less anxiety about responding to emails if all email interactions were like this

Filling out course evaluations for classes you did shitty in

models of color with pretty eyelids

so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.

This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

And they flinch every time.

Here have a newspaper comic from 1993

Lmao, TRUTH

@ everyone in the notes saying they want to see the calculations...I mean google is literally free but hey I’ve got nothing better to do rn

So you’d have around $962,390,000

And yeah, while $962,390,000 is a lot, it isn’t a billion and it is also still much, much less than 1.5 billion, for those of you who are just that bad at math 🙃

So the op of the tweet is correct, you wouldn’t be a billionaire and you wouldn’t make what Jeff Bezos does in a week. I feel like this really wasn’t that hard but it’s w/e ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Eat. The. Rich.

man if u ever in your life have the opportunity to see a therapist i’m literally begging you to do so bc they really do just straighten your stuff out so blunt like when I was 17 my dad died in a fire while he was between life insurance so we had nothing and the bank took our house and we lost like everything and when I was 20 I said I didn’t know why I think the way I do and my therapist said “that’s normal for victims of trauma” and I said “but I haven’t been through any trauma” and the look she gave me was more potent than any verbal wakeup call I’ve ever gotten in my entire life

you may think “that’s nice but I actually don’t have trauma or a good reason to be the way I am. I’m just broken and bad,”

but I’m here to tell you I LITERALLY thought the same way. And looking back that’s so….Like I’m sure any of you reading what happened to me would say “yeah that’s valid trauma.” But I really thought I’d been through nothing and had no “excuse.”

You’re not different than me. You’re not bad.

Gigantmax Meowth

me: here’s a list of fictional characters i want to bone

my gf: this in no way diminishes my attraction to you. here’s my own list

me: 

dailysuca

Ah the tranquility of having blocked all the shitheads already😌

Fav interaction:

his logic:

“Respond to me landwhale” is prolly the most iconic line of his whole tantrum

honorable mention: “thanos is purple”

This post keeps getting better every time I see it :,)

I’m sorry everyone, I just really needed to share my experience with RE2 so far.

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