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the notion that many male comedies, like those of judd apatow or seth rogen, essentially function as romcoms for men because they rely on this nerd fantasy that mirror the beauty and the beast trope of a beautiful woman redeeming an undesirable man is giving me so much to think about. more evidence that women who love the beauty/beast trope have savior kinks and lack the self esteem needed to chose themselves.
— Feb 01, 2026 03:22PM
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“In the introduction to True Story, Lindemann writes that more of her sociology students can name the entire Kardashian clan than can list the members of the US Supreme Court.”
She really dragged my ass with this one.
— Feb 01, 2026 09:16PM
She really dragged my ass with this one.
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“On reality television, exterior womanhood is work, which is perhaps why, paradoxically, trans women have been more visible and more welcome within the genre than virtually anywhere else in popular culture. The labor they’ve put in, and the totality of the makeovers they’ve endured in order to become fully themselves, represent, in this realm, the ultimate badge of honor”
— Feb 01, 2026 09:13PM
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“In a 2004 essay for the London Review of Books, the writer Hilary Mantel noted that the ideal woman of the era had “breasts like an inflatable doll, no hips at all, and the tidy, hairless labia of an unviolated six-year-old.” Such a form, it’s worth noting, can’t actually be humanly attained. It has to be purchased.”
— Feb 01, 2026 08:59PM
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“In her 2022 book True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, the sociologist Danielle J. Lindemann explains why reality shows, which are overwhelmingly watched by women, have catered virtually since their inception to a straight-White-male worldview. Research suggests, she writes, “that women are socialized to perceive themselves through this gaze, and to internalize female objectification.”
— Feb 01, 2026 03:37PM
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Connecting the modern spectacle of reality TV with Romans watching gladiators fight is sooooo good. Audience voting or participation really is modern pollice verso.
— Feb 01, 2026 03:35PM
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“Television is our culture’s principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore—and this is the critical point—how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged.” - Neil Postman
I know this chapter is literally about how pop culture reflects the realities of misogyny in everyday life but whew so much of reality TV is built on misogynistic foundations.
— Feb 01, 2026 03:26PM
I know this chapter is literally about how pop culture reflects the realities of misogyny in everyday life but whew so much of reality TV is built on misogynistic foundations.
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- kinda inspiring me to go through popular aughts films
- if the roles, were flipped. what might cinema that hates men look like and how might it be successful in the way that misogynistic cinema in the aughts thrived? does it simply rely on a mass audience that is overwhelming sexist?
— Feb 01, 2026 03:10PM
- if the roles, were flipped. what might cinema that hates men look like and how might it be successful in the way that misogynistic cinema in the aughts thrived? does it simply rely on a mass audience that is overwhelming sexist?
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“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking) exclusively with (or upon or to) the other sex, i.e., women. All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men…. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.” - Marilyn Frye
— Feb 01, 2026 02:50PM
