I just noticed one thing about the reasons men and women are getting canceled. My main point (aka TLDR): a woman is criticized for what she said, and a man for what he did. Here's an example.
There's a female content creator named Omocat. She made a game called Omori, which has been pretty successful. But there's been a controversy going around her since 2014. So, you may find proof on the internet, I'm just telling you real quick. So, she joked about shotacon back in 2012-2013 and also made a shirt merch design with the word 'shota' on it. She apologized, two years later, and stopped selling that shirt. After that, she said nothing controversial, but people came at her in 2020, just before she was about to release her game. The controversy was always going somewhere in the background, but literally yesterday she wrote that this shit was going anew, and she again explained herself.
Her actions were problematic, but a lot changed in ten years, right?
Now, here's the controversy surrounding another part of the Omocat's team, the main game composer, Pedro Silva. It's on the screenshot because I'm too lazy to write that down, and If you wish you can find out more on the internet.
As we see, Pedro Silva got canceled because he (they, whatever) literally ABUSED his partners, and If I had to believe this Redditor, it was not so long ago before the game was launched. Interestingly enough, as you see the thing I underlined, fandom somehow came to blame Omocat, as If she was responsible for his actions.
I can't give much more examples, but If you do, you can reblog this, whatever. I'm not really following any internet drama surrounding celebrities and media people, but since I love her game, I had to check it out.
Tho I remember the controversy around Jenna Marbles in 2019-2020, for the 'blackface' in her 2012 video. Can you see the pattern I'm talking about?
Or even JK Rowling! Did she kill, rape, or abuse any trans person? No, but it was enough for TRAs to cancel her. For her words. For what she said, not did.
While women are criticized for everything they say/do, If it's fair or not, men get canceled for doing atrocious, wicked things. And sometimes they even don't! Yes, Depp sympathizers, I'm looking at you. Can you imagine how many men could have gotten canceled for being racist, anti-semitic, homophobic, ableist... Don't even get me started on misogynistic.
Gyns, do you feel this was too? I'm just curious If it's a big, big pattern or if I'm just basing this off a few situations. Anyways, share you opinion or something, I would be glad to hear it!
seeing people treat their female babies like dolls pisses me off so bad. why does a six month old need pierced ears. let that baby wear something she can get dirty and play in
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit
it kinda sucks ass when ppl don’t hate from the heart fr….like it’s just something to do bc the social media climate tells you so. not because you actually feel it :/
one thing that i think mainstream feminism does not address nearly enough is the impact of patriarchal religion. in the US, for example, many girls grow up being EXPLICITLY TAUGHT that women were created to be subservient to men and that their destiny in life is to be submissive to their husband as if he were god. this is not a rare experience.
Men who feel this victimized by a woman’s “no” are monsters.
What cultural relativism is good for: understanding in some countries bugs are a delicacy and that isn’t ‘gross’, red means luck in some places and war in others, death is a great tragedy in some places and a celebration of life in others, etc.
What cultural relativism is not good for: justifying child brides, justifying domestic abuse and sexual slavery, justifying the generalized rape and harm and misogynistic practices against women and girls, etc.
It's literally crazy seeing people foam at the mouth about radfems, as if feminists are these dangerous evil murderers that are watching their every move and just waiting to kill a trans person because they just hate them soo much. If it's a man saying it the male socialization is so obvious, they just really enjoy beating women down and making sure women know that if you step out of line even once (by talking about feminism too much or something) they WILL threaten to rape you or beat you, and they will get everyone on their side because "feminazis". You can see that they've clearly waited for the moment when it's acceptable to openly hate and threaten women; now you'll even be praised for it.
If it's a woman saying it, the internalized misogyny is so obvious; they're trying so hard to show men that "See, I'm not one of those crazy feminazis, I'm on your side", they're trying to stay safe from being the next woman labeled a fascist because she reblogged too many posts about women's rights or talked about periods or having a vulva or even thought about all the women and girls suffering and dying because of sex-based oppression. So they'll gladly throw other women to the wolves and let them be ridiculed, threathened or stalked to have a fleeting feeling of being safe from misogyny themselves. But they never will, because the moment you dare to think and speak for yourself you will also be called a terf, swerf or a fascist for thinking that women are oppressed by men for being women.
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