One of my closest colleagues at work believes women are biologically suited to manage the home. He also believes any portrayal of women as having qualities traditionally attributed to men (as physically strong, as leaders, as warriors or soldiers, etc.) is misogyny - he argues it devalues femininity by implying women have to be masculine to be valuable or equal to men.
It DOES bother me that so many depictions of “strong women” in media are characterized like men. Apparently in movies a “strong female character” has to be physically strong and be able to kick ass. I would love to see more respectful and nuanced portrayals of feminine strength (in male AND female characters) through nurturing, empathetic, patient, and perceptive protagonists. I do think that femininity has been devalued in Western culture and could do with more respect. However he’s clearly full of shit about the “biological imperative” bullshit and has been huffing the Jordan Petersen pop evo psych junk “science” pervasive in the man-o-sphere.
yes, the kernel of truth makes it hard for him to see past the narrow way that it’s true to see the forest of misogyny he’s in - to him, the feminists are the true misogynists
He’s very religious and might have some rigidity with how he views gender, e.g. he doesn’t think trans people are their gender, the assignment of their sex at birth for him is the ultimate truth about their gender. Ironically he will respect a chosen name of a trans person, but won’t respect their pronouns, seemingly out of a rigid sense of not wanting to participate in deception, which is how trans people are perceived by him (even if innocently, the way a schizophrenic person is delusional through their mental illness).
One of my closest colleagues at work believes women are biologically suited to manage the home. He also believes any portrayal of women as having qualities traditionally attributed to men (as physically strong, as leaders, as warriors or soldiers, etc.) is misogyny - he argues it devalues femininity by implying women have to be masculine to be valuable or equal to men.
He’s right. I’m currently excitedly cleaning before I cry about not having 6 kids and a husband to serve. #BornToMop
It DOES bother me that so many depictions of “strong women” in media are characterized like men. Apparently in movies a “strong female character” has to be physically strong and be able to kick ass. I would love to see more respectful and nuanced portrayals of feminine strength (in male AND female characters) through nurturing, empathetic, patient, and perceptive protagonists. I do think that femininity has been devalued in Western culture and could do with more respect. However he’s clearly full of shit about the “biological imperative” bullshit and has been huffing the Jordan Petersen pop evo psych junk “science” pervasive in the man-o-sphere.
yes, the kernel of truth makes it hard for him to see past the narrow way that it’s true to see the forest of misogyny he’s in - to him, the feminists are the true misogynists
It’s like people don’t understand what a spectrum is, whether that spectrum is gender, orientation, autism, etc.
He’s very religious and might have some rigidity with how he views gender, e.g. he doesn’t think trans people are their gender, the assignment of their sex at birth for him is the ultimate truth about their gender. Ironically he will respect a chosen name of a trans person, but won’t respect their pronouns, seemingly out of a rigid sense of not wanting to participate in deception, which is how trans people are perceived by him (even if innocently, the way a schizophrenic person is delusional through their mental illness).
There are two types of “strong female characters” in Hollywood and thus in popular culture.
Wasn’t there another character like the first type in the alien franchise too?
Miyazaki films have some strong feminine characters!