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I wrote the two-post, 7 -part caption story that immediately follows about a year ago and I must have been in a particularly dark place. You may want to take a pass on it if you don’t care for the more extreme stuff I post.
Anyway, I just want to emphasize that as with most of my posts (although not all), these are fantasies and not things I actually want to happen. That is particularly true of this caption set. Despite what you might think from reading this, personally I am doing fine and I’m well adjusted. I’m in a Femdom relationship with some who treats me with love and care and nothing like this.
That said, this caption set still turns me on, so I thought I would post it. Enjoy!
[TW for discussion of forced sterilization and racism]
So someone on Feministing (I think) finally made the connection that trans* rights and reproductive rights/abortion are both fundamentally about bodily integrity and autonomy and therefore have many intersections, and proponents of both should be working together (something I’ve been saying since day one, along with many other trans* people before me).
Well radical feminists aren’t having it. Apparently the fact eludes them that forced sterilization and forced birth are two sides of the same antichoice coin. Which brings me to my main point. This so-called “conflict of interest” has happened before (maybe more than once?). During the second wave the interests and reproductive rights of wealthy, white feminists and WoC were going in opposite directions. White women were demanding access to abortion and to voluntary sterilization without restrictions from paternalistic doctors and simultaneously WoC were struggling to: be allowed to have children, not be demonized for having children, not be forcibly sterilized (often without their knowledge or consent), and not be tested on for development of contraception or other medications. Guess who was prioritized. Exactly. There’s a history here and a lot of tension and mistrust (rightfully) still remains because rich, white women made “reproductive rights” synonymous with what they needed access to and completely avoided the fact that the right to have children is as much of a reproductive rights issue as the right to abort/not have children.
My point is we know these radical feminists hate intersectionality because they think sex-based oppression is the only thing that matters (this is racist all on its own) and we know they hate trans* people. The fact that they don’t see how important forced sterilization is now anymore than they did back then has some serious implications considering the intersection of race and trans* status. Forced sterilization affects us all but TWoC are disproportionately the victims of violence and often have an even more precarious and tenuous relationship to the medical establishment, opening them up to all kinds of violations, particularly in regards to reproductive rights. That once again forced sterilization isn’t a priority for radical feminists and reproductive rights activists is further proof of their racism and the fact that White Feminism™ is alive and well, in case you doubted it for a split second.
I would point out it’s not just radscum. Sure, radscum are the most obvious and most extreme but mainstream/liberal feminism still doesn’t really give a shit about reproductive rights as anything but abortion and voluntary sterilisation. Oh, wait, I take it back, they will sometimes mention fistulas and women in the developing countries but it’s still self-centred and paternalistic to other people. White Feminism™ lives in the mainstream as well as the backwater sludge that is the radscum.
Oh, definitely, definitely! I was just a little hyper-focused on them because this was a direct response to some stuff I saw on radical feminist blogs, but you’re absolutely right and I do usually go after mainstream/liberal feminists just as hard on this issue as well. They’re certainly not much better.
You’re born and it’s all “she’s such a beautiful baby just like her beautiful mum” you’re “blooming into such a beautiful girl” “don’t worry you’re still beautiful on the inside” you’re killed or die from illness “so tragic…she was so beautiful.” “She faded away but never lost her beautiful smile” you meet the person you will love and the first thing they say “you’re so beautiful”, become overworked for your entire life but “she always has time to take care of herself and stay beautiful” shakily apply more concealer and bronzer with your Parkinson’s-ridden elderly hands “she’s so beautiful at her age what’s her secret? She doesn’t look her age at all, ageing with beauty” on your deathbed “she was a beautiful woman inside and out”
I feel that wars are extremely disrespectful to women.. women make literally all those people and then men just destroy them, disregarding insane amount of pain, work, sacrifice, love, energy, time it took women to make just one person, and then they go and demand “you have to make more!!!” and we’re like “uh we literally saw what you did to last bunch no thanks” and then they’re offended and call us murderers?? like excuse me I would like to not contribute a human resource for your killing game? And I think you all owe women about thousand apologies? Stop unmaking everything we make and breaking our hearts in the process, and this is even without addressing the rampant violence and sexual aggression towards women in wars, every single war is a crime against women more than anyone else and nothing will change my mind.
“Liberalism has the following weaknesses:
1. It focuses on individual rights rather than collective rights.
2. It is ahistorical. It does not have a comprehensive understanding of women’s role in history nor has it any analysis for the subordination (subjugation) of women.
3. It tends to be mechanical in its support for formal equality without a concrete understanding of the condition of different sections/classes of women and their specific problems. Hence it was able to express the demands of the middle classes (white women from middle classes in the US and upper class, upper caste women in India) but not those of women from various oppressed ethnic groups, castes and the working, labouring classes.
4. It is restricted to changes in the law, educational and employment opportunities, welfare measures etc and does not question the economic and political structures of the society which give rise to patriarchal discrimination. Hence it is reformist in its orientation, both in theory and in practice.
5. It believes that the state is neutral and can be made to intervene in favour of women when in fact the bourgeois state in the capitalist countries and the semi-colonial and semi-feudal Indian state are patriarchal and will not support women’s struggle for emancipation. The State is defending the interests of the ruling classes who benefit from the subordination and devalued status of women.
6. Since it focuses on changes in the law, and state schemes for women, it has emphasised lobbying and petitioning as means to get their demands. The liberal trend most often has restricted its activity to meetings and conventions and mobilising petitions calling for changes. It has rarely mobilised the strength of the mass of women and is in fact afraid of the militant mobilisation of poor women in large numbers.”
—Anuradha Ghandy (Avanti), “Philosophical Trends in the Women’s Movement”
The complete and total hypocrisy that is art museums in Florence (and most of Italy) will never cease to be ridiculous.
They literally have dress codes that women can’t wear shorts or short sleeve shirts - despite being a popular summer destinations - because it would be indecent and informal, meanwhile almost every painting is a voyeuristic image of naked women for the appreciation of the male gaze.
Message is clear: women can’t show skin for their own physical comfort without being sinful, but men can choose to reveal women’s flesh for their own pleasure and monetary gain and it is called art.
Sergio’s torn hamstring is in his left leg. If you would recall, he suffered through a hamstring problem from the Cruz Azul match during the Club World Cup and though he was advised not to compete in the final, he pushed through it and eventually scored a vital goal. This goes to show that he has not fully recovered from that knock, aggravated it by playing weekly this year and thus, this 5-6 week long absence is the unfortunate price he has to pay. This could possibly explain his recent decline in quality in defense. Madridistas will have to place their faith in Varane and Nacho, and hope that Pepe could return soon once he’s fully fit and available.
Provocative!
Informed consent is essential with any pharmaceutical product.
Dr. Pain (Luis Quiles)
“About the senator in California Dr. Richard Pan, and the vaccines business.I’m not an antivaxx but I don’t support the pharmaceutic lobby, and it’s sad to see how many people can’t see the shades between both things.”
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Originally published at: https://www.eschergirls.com/photo/2022/04/14/kinda-clever-boobs-and-butt
Submitted by Anonymous
A boobs and butt cover that’s not a boobs and butt pose. Painted costume/skin aside, cuz… yeah, I’m actually kind of impressed at this cover for its creative way to get both boobs and butt in without doing the pose.
It is something I’ve mentioned about the boobs and butt poses in comic panels, that you can just show the butt and boobs in separate panels if it’s really important for the sexy factor. So this gets the Captain Kirk Kobayashi Maru commendation for creative thinking.
And on the topic of creativity, I do like how everything about the back cover is mirrored to make it look like we’re literally looking from behind the front cover.
(Cover of Foxfire #1, Malibu Comics)
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cool people by chloe x halle is about merlin and lancelot
cus darling when u smile it’s like the rain dries out now there’s no more room for clouds got me singing hallelujah when u hold my hand it reminds me of there’s still cool people in the world
Yvonne - The Last Sun Legionary by Filipe Augusto
It’s always great to see great art not just of warrior women, but of older warrior women who have clearly fought many times, won many victories and are absolute in their confidence any authority.
This piece is particularly inspiring since Filipe happens to be the senior concept artist at FUNCOM ZPX, the creators of the Conan Exilesgame.
So the next time someonerushes to assure youthatthe artists really, really wanted to draw barbarian babe in a leather battle bikini, feel free to point out that they may actually have wanted to draw a granny in plate armor - but someone said no.
- wincenworks
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Warlocks from Dungeons & Dragons
Today in evil is sexy, a comparison of the official artworks for the core subtypes of warlock available in the Player’s Handbook. They’re separated by their type of patron who is respectively: The Fiend, The Archfey, and The Great Old One as they appear in Volo’s Guide to Monsters.
Now, Wizards of the Coast has started to revise materials, so technically the Fiend is no longer confirmed evil - but this artwork predates that decision and there’s a more important factor I want to highlight here.
One of these types of Warlock gains an ability where, by killing enemies they gain temporary hit points and so are unusually well equipped for dealing with. So one of them is supposed to go up the front while the other two hang out at the back.
Can you guess which one? If you guessed the one that looks like she can’t move or breathe without getting some sort of bruising or chaffing from her absurd bikini armor: You guessed right!
I know that text errata is much cheaper, easier and more effective - but part of the problem with these images is that they also appear in official Licensed platforms such as Roll20 and DnD Beyond.
So please Wizards of the Coast, can we have a new pic for “Warlock of the Fiend”. Pretty please?
- wincenworks
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Today in the overlap of classic comic books and “male writers have female characters explain their ridiculous costumes are good for women actually” we have two classic pages from Emma Frost, aka White Queen (who we’ve previously featured been slut shamed for a costume male creators put her in) giving a ridiculous diatribe about how the costume is sexist but that means it’s empowering and is her armor actually… in a way that’s so convoluted it breaks the Female Armor Rhetoric Bingo.
But why does Emma wear that ridiculous outfit? Did legendary X-Men writer Chris Claremont have complex thoughtsonfeminism, sexuality and social dynamics? Was it a symbol of power in the era it was created? You can probably guess the answer is: No. Not even a little bit. The opposite of that.
The actual origin of the outfit is that in the 1960s, there was a super popular, super edgy (for it’s time) TV show called the Avengers and it had an episode A Touch of Brimstone in which super spy EmmaPeel infiltrates a club of debaucherous millionaires (trying to re-enact the legendary Hellfire Club) by posing an ultra elite, submissive sex worker, “The Queen of Sin”
(By the way, if the actress looks familiar and you can’t quite place her - that’s because the last time you saw her she was probably saying “Tell Cersei.. I want her to know it was me.”)
There’s more homages in there but yeah, after shamelessly copying content from a popular television show, Claremont then realized it was absurd even in that context and rather than reflect or revise, felt the need to put in this ridiculous warble about sexism in favour of women actually, if they just have the will to use it for their own advantage.
This is one of many reasons it is very difficult to have patience with people who insist that there’s actually good explanations and a lot of important symbolism in these things - because the symbolism is almost ways just misogyny and horniness with extra steps.
- wincenworks
P.S. That before someone rushes in to let me know Emma is evil at this point of her character development - the issue here is not whether she’s good or bad, it’s that the story is showing her beliefs as functions and has given her advantages over the other evil women. It’s not portrayed as a delusion of the evil, it’s portrayed as a truth that only the evil are willing to exploit.
Edit: I have received a couple of messages advising that Emma’s monologue was penned by Ann Nocenti, which creates a fun complicated dynamic given their history working together and Claremont’s history of sharing opinions. Further commentary to follow, but thank you to the people who reached out.
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Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos
This week’s positive example brought to you by the ongoing baby crying from various people who present themselves (dubiously) as the old guard of RPGs with anti-progressive rants. Since it got announced, I don’t think a week has gone past I haven’t seen someone shitting their pants in anger of it.
But, what stands out to me is how every one of these images captures a spirit of fantasy adventure, that focuses on the adventure itself. Everyone’s attire has a set purpose and is factors in with what they’re doing. It also gives extra impact to the dance scene promo image.
It’s like these students wear clothing appropriate to the occasion and hence reserve their body hugging silk for fun occasions.
This is why its so ridiculous when we get people ranting at us about how any criticism of as some sort of declaration of ultimate evil - because ultimately they don’t really want comics,video games,tabletop games, movies, etc to be about their respective plots and genres - they want them to first be about protecting their position in the status quo and soothing their insecurities… the rest of it is optional and hence why their explanations are so tedious and predictable.
Because, in case you forgot, many of the early artworks and concepts for Dungeons & Dragons supplements and modules were so absurd they practically beg to be edited into pure comedy gold.
- wincenworks
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game heroes happyhour by Gustavo Viselner
when the video games heroes meet for a beer there will always be an awkward moment
There’s a lot of things I like about this piece, a lot of nostalgia invoked, but also I can’t help but love how it showcases how ridiculous JainaProudmoor’soutfit is and have been since she was introduced. She’s so out of place compared with so many other iconic video game heroes, including Lara Croft.
For that reason, I also particularly like that it’s international icon of toxic and fragile masculinity, Duke Nukem, who’s the one who wants to move in.
- wincenworks
Gustavo is on tumblr, @viselner, but hasn’t posted this piece and doesn’t seem to have updated at all since July 2020.
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So the first look at The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, specifically this magnificent set of plate armor that has been made for a very badass looking Lady Galadriel has provoked some… eh… I think the professional term is “engagement” ? (Almost all of it positive, but of course there’s a select minority trying their hardest to appear relevant and failing to a comical degree)
Of course, they’re absurd as someone has already pointed out it could be inspired by the historical artwork depicting the armor of Joan of Arc and frankly, if you’re not in love with that blend of practicality and femininity in the fluting, the layering of plate and chainmail, and the adornment to emulate a delicate necklace then I don’t know what to tell you.
This is the best feminine fantasy armor I’ve seen made for film. Ever.
But it’s not just this amazing suit that man-children are shitting their pants over, there’s also the stills of certain characters who belong to certain fantasy races.
Their voices are, by far, outweighed by the people who are super excited to see this level of quality in the fantasy genre and the kind of story that this sort of commitment to quality warrants.
And for the sentient shitbags crying that “when this tanks, they’ll blame bitter white men” - I assure you that nobody will give you a second thought.
You already promised to tank the wildly successful films:
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
- Wonder Woman (2017)
- Black Panther (2018)
- The Witcher: Season 1 (2019)
Nobody believes your cadre of bitter little goblins has the power to crash shit, scurry back to your filthy warrens.
- wincenworks
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I think it’s a pretty good example of how progressive voices generally get blamed for the actions of conservative powers, both by conservative reactionaries and centrists - the changes after all, are to appease the Chinese government’s “decency” standards - like these are the most troublesome aspects of Genshin Impact.
This isn’t the first time that the game has been altered at the behest of the CCP, but since last time it only involved issues of nationalism, capital G gamers were less concerned about it than they are about losing sight of a fictional navel.
The changes are obviously trivial, the designs are as ridiculous as before and the overall vibe is still the same but now it conforms to some arbitrary rules. No lessons are learned, and nothing grows from the experience except tantrums. The stories that can be told are more limited, and the incentive to come up with something truly ridiculous to game the rules raised.
This essentially the same strain of absurdity that leads to mainstreaming many of the worst aspects of bikini armor as once it becomes about arbitrary rules, creepy marketing guys look for ways to get around those rules while still being slimy and condescending.
Hence why Escher Girls has a massive collection of baffling images spawned from the weird rules that as long as you do something to indicate a nipple exists, and is covered (even if its miles from a believable location) you can show as much tiddy as you want… acres and acres of tiddy. So much tiddy, it breaks physics and language at the same time to assure you - she’s a woman.
On top of that, you’re almost guaranteed that even though there’s multiple articles talking about how it’s a decision made independently by bureaucrats within the PRC, shitlords are gonna blame western activists and random women for it like this kind of puritism hasn’t traditionally be levered against women.
If you catch anyone doing this though, feel free to point out to them that this is what actual censorship is and what it looks like: a government making up rules about what arbitrary things are and are not allowed because they say so.
- wincenworks
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vintage bridal fashion: 1967
lynda bird johnson.
susan hampshire.
liza minnelli.
kathy kersh.
priscilla presley.
ann-margret.
raquel welch.
princess margriet of the netherlands.
queen margrethe ii of denmark.
Norman Osborn… Green Goblin is just like, I mean to see him work when we’re on the set, and… “God’s don’t choose. We take!” And you were like, “Ohhh ssshit!” And that cackle, “Heh, heh.” I was like, “Ohhh.” I mean, it was real. You know, I forgot I was in the movie. I’m sitting there with my popcorn like, “This motherfucker is good.” - Jamie Foxx
Willem is just fearless. And Willem doesn’t give a flying… whatever. I’m doing this. He’s just like, so un-self-conscious as an actor. Just totally free, and that’s the dream. - Andrew Garfield
It’s one of the most surreal experiences I’ve ever had in my life. When he becomes the Goblin, he is terrifying. And in the rehearsal, he starts doing the laugh, and he’s saying all this different stuff about how much he hates Peter Parker, and we’re doing this fight scene, and I just became like, a five year old kid again, watching him in the theater. - Tom Holland
WILLEM DAFOE as NORMAN OSBORN/GREENGOBLIN
SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME (2021) | behind the scenes
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Vija Celmins (Latvian/American, b. 1938), Hand Holding a Firing Gun, 1964. Oil on canvas, 24 x 34 in.
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