When Systemic Hatred of Women Online Goes Unnoticed, What Does it Say About Us? by Katie McCort (Data Analysist) has proven:

She has done an extremely extended research and included statistics, charts and data to back up her conclusions in this article.

The truth is out.

people complaining about the lack of content in fandoms lately: maybe if y'all didn’t steal and repost other people’s hard work and actually showed your appreciation for it by liking it, commenting on it, reblogging it, etc, and/or didn’t spend all your time harassing people who like things you don’t like, or like things differently than you, fanartists and writers would feel like producing more work?

The Acolyte and Stealing Indigenous Children:

If Sol had been White, you would have already made the connection but this is clearly a metaphor for the kidnapping and re-education of Indigenous children that happened for centuries. Sol believes truly in his heart that he is not doing anything wrong because he "cares about Osha" but he doesn't seem to care about the fact that he is ripping her from her home and even after everything happens, continues to believe that what he did was right.

Osha, just wanting to be a normal child and clearly not understanding what being a Jedi meant- did not really have a choice no matter what anyone says. She was taken from her family for no reason and her entire coven was killed for defending themselves. Then the Jedi covered it up and when Osha did not prove to be useful after her "re-education" failed- they threw her away.

Osha says that everything was her choice- but clearly that is a lie that she believes because she was "re-educated" by the Jedi.

Qimir is the only person she actually can relate to because they actually have the same background- going to the Jedi Order where they were "re-educated" and when they could not be "reigned in" they were thrown away. In Qimir's case- it was clear that his Master decided to straight up kill him to save face while Osha was forced out of the Jedi Order "by choice" when it was clearly just then gaslighting her out. The two of them are both victims of the Jedi belief that they are superior and what they do is right, consequences be damned.

i’m a firm believer that leap day should be a free day no matter what. i don’t care if it’s a thursday everything is put on pause for everyone and we all get to hang out and enjoy the extra day that only comes once ever four years. peace and love on planet earth.

I'm getting so sick of major female characters in historical media being incredibly feisty, outspoken and public defenders of women's rights with little to no realistic repercussions. Yes it feels like pandering, yes it's unrealistic and takes me out of the story, yes the dialogue almost always rings false - but beyond all that I think it does such a disservice to the women who lived during those periods. I'm not embarrassed of the women in history who didn't use every chance they had to Stick It To The Man. I'm not ashamed of women who were resigned to or enjoyed their lot in life. They weren't letting the side down by not having and representing modern gender ideals. It says a lot about how you view average ordinary women if the idea of one of your main characters behaving like one makes them seem lame and uninteresting to you.

Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.

it makes me uncomfortable how frequently attempts to raise awareness about adhd and autism in girls emphasize these kids as quiet, well-behaved, and not noticeably different from their peers. neurodiverse girls who successfully mask and suffer invisibly deserve empathy, of course, but so do the girls who grow up labeled aggressive, inappropriate, or “weird.” a lot of nd girls have meltdowns and social difficulties which are labeled as anger issues and behavioral problems. nd girls are often perceived as “bad kids,” especially if factors like poverty or race are already priming both adults and their peers to see them that way. i don’t think it’s honest or socially responsible to present silently blending in as the only or even primary way developmental differences manifest in girls.  

i still hate y’all bitches who say oc x canon shit is cringe like bitch you have ANY idea how flattered i would be if someone made an oc for my fantasy world? how utterly PSYCHED my ass would be they loved a character so much they fleshed out one themselves just 2 be with one of mine? fuck y’all haters

I, a hearing person who likes subtitles just as a preference, shouldn't have to read a subtitle that's obvious nonsense, go back a couple seconds, and listen again in order to figure out what's going on. An accessibility feature should not be the most half-assed part of a professionally made production. Scripted media has absolutely no excuse for not having subtitles or having subtitles that aren't perfectly verbatim. Professional captioning services should be ashamed of the shoddy work that they put out. Captions should be treated as a part of the production, just like filming, editing, audio balancing, etc - and anything that releases with missing or bad captions should be seen as unfinished

bring back the habits that made you happy as a child. there’s no reason you should ever have to give up harmless things that bring you joy. you don’t have to age out of having fun. finger paint. write mediocre fanfiction and questionable poetry. put chocolate chips in your waffles. sing in the bath, and while working in the yard, and while washing your hands. hammer tunelessly on a piano. spin in circles until you fall down. climb a tree. just because you’re now in charge of your life doesn’t mean you’re expected to give up on the things that make life feel worth living

I genuinely feel like I’m going insane sometimes

Some more of my thoughts and a sketch page of myself because I love me

i wanted to give my opinions on blue eye samurai as a genderfluid person who is sometimes trans masc.

sometimes, i do think people tend to project western ideas on non-western shows and you miss out on a lot of critiques on misogyny.

I think that it's important to recognize that Mizu is not a man because she wants to be (as far as this season) she is a man because she has to be. Mizu was extremely, in her own way, empathetic toward women in their various situations but could not allow herself to show it or to even hint of her real identity because she literally sees and understands how women are treated.

Either wives, prostitutes or highborn women, and either have no actual control of their lives. In order to commit to her goal, Mizu cannot fall into either of those roles. In order to stay safe, she has to be a man.

She has to be a man to survive, even if it's highly implied that's not what she wanted, and if things went differently with her husband, she would've been happy being a wife.

There are many perspectives of women in Blue Eye Samurai and Mizu's herself cannot be discounted because she does give us a clear perspective of a woman. And that is the perspective of one who must hide herself to stay alive.

It's not what she wants - her whole NARRATIVE is a critique on the misogyny Japanese women faced during that time. And how in order to survive she must go through extremes.

We saw that even for women like Akemi, as high born as she was, she had little to no control over her life until the very end, and even then, she is still bound by the laws of what women can do . LIKE YES, she IS GREAT she is, But she is still going to be expected to be a dutiful wife and be behind her husband, not in front of him or beside him.

That was also a huge point in conflict that Mizu has to also correct herself on. Just because Akemi is a princess doesn't mean her life is better. Mizu projected a lot of her own jealousy on Akemi because in her mind, Akemi was allowed to exist as a woman and have everything handed to her. She did not realize how similar they were until the end.

think a certain level of understanding about cultural differences and how misogyny plays a part in certain societies needs to be applied to her character. She is miserable with how she is. Having to be forced to be a man is not something she wants to do. She has to conceal herself.

That is why it was significant at the very end, before she fought fowler, that she presented herself as naked, hair down, breast exposed, as a woman. Because part of her probably thought she was going to die and she wanted to embrace her true self, the self she wanted to be, before she did that.

I watched the behind the scenes about the animation of Blue Eye Samurai and spoilers If you care but the fact some of you are pissed off the creators state Mizu is a woman over and over again is dumb. At this point, some ppl are so strangely sexist you do not think women are complex characters you can relate to or would never put revenge or being in disguise for safety (and ease of travel ) above conformity or femininity.

Mizu's mother told her two things: don't leave the house or they will kill us and don't let them know you're a girl because they're looking for a girl and will kill you. Mizu disobeys one of these and her hut gets set on fire with her mother in there. It's not hard to imagine why she'd continue dressing up as a boy for safety. If you really think a girl or woman would never dress up as a man to avoid being hunted down and killed, something is wrong with your brain. Women and girls famously don't like being brutally murdered.

That woman and child weren't allowed in the city to sell their goods and avoid starving because no male chaperone. How is Mizu supposed to get revenge if she needs a male chaperone to travel?

Some are denying central themes (because Mizu is relatable) like: the narrow paths women have- being a wife or an ' improper woman' ( working in a brothel ) to the point not even a princess was in control. Akemi is working within the confines of being a wife and we'll see how that goes. Disappointment doesn't mean bad writing because you don't think women would ever do that ( they do ) or God forbid you relate to someone different from you. She would have never ended up with Akemi because they're on very divergent paths. They were never going to scissor 😔 shame because it might fix her lol

Ideas get popular online and you're meant to treat pet theories like holy scripture. If you think the experiences of Mizu is too cool to be explored in a woman, first of all wooow!!, 2nd you're ignoring the story and it's a you problem.

(If you don’t want this added to your post, I can delete it and make my own but I liked what you said and had to get this off my chest)

THIS. LITERALLY THIS. 

Like, I think it’s really great that Mizu’s relationship with her gender resonates with so many people. It’s totally valid to make headcanons about it but some of y’all aren’t just doing that. Some of y’all are out here like or outright saying that you’re owed and entitled to Mizu not being a woman, or that she can’t possibly be a woman, because you can’t fathom women having complicated feelings about their gender, especially under a patriarchy, especially in a society where the ideal form of femininity is not inclusive to them because of their race (and economic class).

The creators of the show have made it clear as day that Mizu is a woman and that the overall story is an expression of the experiences of Asian women (mixed and not mixed) and how the intersectionality of their race and gender have affected their lives or the lives of those they’re close to who fall under those identities today by exploring those themes in the Edo period. It also gets into other things like disability which I haven’t seen talked about here a lot. 

So for some of y’all to say that the literal creators of the show merely view Mizu as a woman, or that gender isn’t central to the story’s themes (it is as well as race) so Mizu’s gender is canonically up for interpretation or (as a backhanded way of not really addressing the issue) saying that it’s ok to headcanon Mizu as a woman when she, again, canonically is… like it’s just ridiculous.

You realize you’re misgendering Mizu by doing all of that and confining her to an identity that benefits you like her mom/not mom did? And I really don’t want to hear to indefensible argument that these are just stories and you can play around with the characters like dolls because people make these stories with intent and put their own experiences into them which some of you are denying, in order to make this about you, because you can’t seem to relate to a woman of color or find her complex, nuanced and interesting the way she is. You realize you’re just doing misogyny and racism with extra steps? You realize you’re just repackaging those things in a different way? And I have a feeling that, predictably, most if not all the people doing this or acting like this is just silly “discourse” where people can’t respect each other’s headcanons are white queers because some of you guys will do this thing where you can't relate to a poc especially a woc without somehow making it about you and disguise it as "stating the obvious" that they're this identity or should be in this ship or saying we should let everyone just have fun even when poc call you out on it.

Also, not for nothing, but so far I haven’t seen anyone talk about how Mizu not wanting to be a boy but having to be could relate to the experience of intersex people who are forced to live as a gender they don’t identify with. Except I know why, because that would still make her a woman (and technically not queer) and some of you can’t fathom relating to that. I’ve also only seen a few people, as of right now, talk about how Taigen’s growing attachment to Mizu, who he still thinks is a man at this point, suggests that he’s bi or pan because I know some people, even in the queer community, don’t care about bi and pan people. 

Every marginalized person should get more rep, at the same time and not the trickled down version that we see in mainstream media where they go one group at a time. But, and I’m saying all of this as a queer woman of color (who’s been questioning but still identifies a lot with being a woman and as of right now feels genderqueer works best to describe my relationship with gender), some of you need to accept that this includes women of color and people of color in general regardless of whether or not they're also queer because we don’t get the same kind of quality or quantity of rep that white people do period. 

Also, we simply don’t know the people who worked on this show. Some of them could be queer for all you know, and they shouldn’t have to out themselves for your validation. Also, it’s not like the show itself has completely ignored the existence of queer people. It even shows how in a restrictive period like Edo, “There was a sense of sexual openness during the period that might defy modern expectations.” Madame Kaji assumes Mizu wants to be with a man at the brothel, Taigen has growing feelings for Mizu while thinking she’s a man, and, to me, Heiji Shindo and Fowler gave off some toxic couple vibes. (Edit:) There's also a literal threesome and discussion of kink in the same episode. And like, that might not feel like enough but there’s so much love, thought, research and nuance put into this show and all the topics and intersecting marginalized identities it does explicitly discuss that to write all that off because it doesn’t cater to some of your specific experiences (when the people who worked on this show don’t even know you or owe it to you) is very individualistic and entitled. 

The show has 4 seasons planned, which leaves room for explicit queerness if that’s the creator’s intention, but I really hope they get it regardless because woc and poc in general do not get shows like this every day in western media. It doesn’t matter to me that Mizu and the other characters aren’t the same race as me or explicitly queer because I’m capable of relating to and even finding solidarity in people who aren’t exactly like me. I’ve also had to relate to people different from me in the media as a queer black woman in a white cishet world. I like Mizu for who she is because she’s interesting and well written, not because I feel entitled to her being exactly like what I find relatable. 

If we can all understand that gender identity and presentation/expression are a complex thing, especially if we take it a step further and recognize how intersecting identities like race, class, disability and so on further influence that, even if someone just ends up being cis+ as we call them, then you should be able to understand why Mizu, as a woman, is written the way she is in a non-white culture and time period that doesn’t use the western terminology for gender and sexuality that we use today. 

Again, because I know if anyone reads this some of you will gloss over half of what I say and make assumptions, I’m not saying that you can’t find Mizu relatable if you're transmac, nb, sapphic, etc. That’s valid and so is having and sharing your own thoughts and headcanons about it. I personally like to headcanon her with some of my identities as a queer person. But some of you are blatantly ignoring the creators’ explicit intent when they wrote the show from their own experiences because you feel entitled to people, who don’t know you or owe it to you, catering to you specifically. And I see a lot of that in some shape or form in a tag that’s just starting to grow, because the show literally just came out last Friday, when there could be more discussions and analyses about the show and all it talks about and executes wonderfully.

OMG yes!!! Thank you @pumpumdemsugah and @doorhine for speaking up about this issue. ♥️

As a biracial + multicultural woman as well, I find it really frustrating how there’s currently more discourse about Mizu’s gender identity in this fandom (when it’s clear as day that Mizu is canonically a woman) than there is race discourse about Mizu’s mixed biracial identity. Being a visible ethnic minority plays a MUCH bigger role in Mizu’s life than their sexual orientation does. And honestly, it’s blatantly obvious in the story that Mizu presents as a man (as many women throughout history) only out of survival. It’s not actually a “metaphor” for something else.

Like yes, it’s great for other marginalized people to resonate with Mizu even if they aren’t biracial or bicultural women of color, but those people need to understand that they are outsiders looking in and that this story isn’t about them. Anyone who thinks that a story about a biracial cis-gender woman of color is too “boring” or not “cool enough” to explore is simply being racist and misogynistic.

been seeing some stuff on blue eye samurai and big yikes to nearly everyone pushing extremely western ideals onto these characters.

this is early edo period. 1600s. the japan you know now did not exist yet.

yall. please. there was NO concept of sexuality in pre-modern japan. that came with both the influx of christianity and western influence very very late in history. like, mid-1800s. (yes, there was christianity pre-1800s but it was not a widespread idea yet and wouldn't be until about the 1800s since, y'know, missionaries were routinely murdered before then)

"so and so is either bi and hasn't figured it out yet or..." no. that isn't how it worked then. nobody gave a shit what was between your legs. anyone could be attracted to anyone else. it was a little more common for male homosexual relationships to be between an adult and younger male - like many other places around the world - but two adult men could bang and love each other just as easily. relationships between women were quite common - especially since so many men were often away at war. there's tons of pornographic prints from the time depicting all manner of fun queer relationships. sex itself had absolutely no moral assignment to it. good sex was good health. it didn't matter who with. (well, social class/caste mattered more than anything else tbh but that didn't stop upper and lower class from fucking.) that isn't to say people didn't have preferences. of course they did. that is human nature. preferences arose more from physical appearance, caste, and circumstances with gender being about the last thing one would look for in a partner - romantic, casual, or otherwise. the only role in sex where gender actually mattered was for procreation.

there would be no queer awakening moment, no sudden switch flipped, no stigma to have internal conflicts about because it simply did not exist as a concept whatsoever. you were either attracted to a person or you weren't, it was that simple. gender played no role when it came to sex and sexual attraction. the japanese were lightyears ahead of western cultures in this particular area - like most cultures were before christianity came in and ruined everything with its backwards morals and strict good/evil dichotomy.

yall have got to realize queer rep will not and should not always adhere by modern western standards. there was no straight, gay, bi, or anything else of the sort. the closest they ever got was referring to roles during sex - as in who is giving and who is receiving.

i know this is mostly a made up story but it is still set within a very specific time period and culture, which should be honored and respected by not making it fit into our box. tons of research went into making this show historically accurate (albeit with some discrepancies but tbh they aren't really that huge) right down to the calligraphy writing. please please please don't whitewash the culture from these characters.

i say this mainly because without this knowledge, so many of you are going to build these characters up on a foundation they aren't meant to be on and then you'll rage about queerbaiting and bad queer rep if it isn't somehow super explicitly stated, if it doesn't match your very modern, very western ideal of what queer looks like. don't try to force this plot and narrative and characters into something they canonically and historically aren't. headcanons are a thing, AUs are a thing, fanfiction is a thing - leave your western thinking for those and let these characters simply exist as they should otherwise. this is one of those times where the queerness really does not need to be examined at all beyond what we get.

i know it can be hard to wrap your head around - sexuality is such a huge part of our identity in the western world and has slowly started to spread amongst other parts of the world in importance. but just keep in mind with these particular characters, that concept would be so very alien to them.

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