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⌈ Secret Post #4519 ⌋

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[Cow and Chicken]

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[Mary Death]

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[Deus Ex: Mankind Divided]

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[unrelated art by Kono Bairei]

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[Absolutely Fabulous, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley]

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[Jigokuraku]

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[Ruby Rose as Batwoman]

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[Good Burger]

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I’ve posted about this on FS before, but I was at San Diego Comic Con the first year Twilight had a Hall H panel. Hall H sits 6,500 people, and it’s not cleared between panels, so a lot of people, self included, would stand in line for hours and stay in the hall all day, sitting through stuff we didn’t give a shit for to see the things we were excited about.

I forget what I was there to see, but before that day, I mostly thought of Twilight as basically the teen equivalent of cheap romance novels that get sold at grocery stores; harmless brain candy. I work at a library and read the first one because I try and read all the books with a thousand+ person waitlist. It seemed silly and harmless.

Then I sat through an hour of Twilight mania in a room that was at least half hardcore Twilight fans. Every time whatsisface who played Edward opened his mouth, they screamed.

Before every Q&A, fans are asked not to ask personal questions/make personal requests. Grown women asked the actor what kind of underwear he wore, what it was like being the sexiest man in the world, and whether he liked older women. I wanted to sink through the floor in embarrassment and none of the insanity was even directed at me.

Before then, the worst question I’d heard anyone ask was during another panel I was sitting through to see something else. A gormless wannabe screenwriter told an actress she was beautiful and asked if she’d star in his sure-to-be-a-blockbuster film. She laughed, and all 2,000 people in the audience jeered and booed.

No one laughed or booed adult women asking sparkly vampire dude what undies he had on.

Oh christ
As much as the whole, like, *thing* of Twilight-hate went way too far, holy shit that was a fandom in dire need of some goddamn chill.

OMG Why? Why do people ask questions like that? I'll admit that I still like Twilight, but I would've been hella embarrassed had I been at that panel. Shit like that gives other fans a bad rep.

How patriarchy hurts us all, my friend. No one bats an eye at that behavior bc women are taught that men always want sex and men are taught that not wanting sex all the time is weird, and that rejection of women's sexual advances is "gay". Similar to cases where a female teacher assaults a male student, there are nearly always comments like "Lucky kid, where were all the teachers like that when I was in school, har har!" Double standards are harmful for everyone.

It's a double whammy. It's "men want sex all the time" AND "women are weak and harmless and can't hurt anybody"

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