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Why i am really pissed off (about gender roles and bad teachers)

lost-girl-pip:

renirabbit:

This is my kid and she is 5

She wanted to take hulk with her to school today, and she was so happy that i took her pic. he love avengers, she watched the movie multiple times, and she always asks me for their action figures, especially from Black widow and Iron man but  unfurtunally She only got the Hulk one that was from her older  cousin  (not only because  i´m broke but also i cant find any black widow anywhere)  but thats not why i´m really freaking mad…..

As soon as she got to the school her teacher looked at her, and with wide eyes and a disgusted voice and said

You, with a Hulk doll? well that is surprising

so i immediately stepped in and asked the teacher to please pay attention during play time, because i didnt want her to have a hard time with the boys,

after i picked her up the teacher told me that everything went ok.  that my baby had gave the toy to the boys and went to play something else.. that struck me as really weird, because Nico was really exited about playing with her friend and his Capitan america. so on the way home i asked what happened 

They took him away and didnt let me play with them because i´m a girl, they also trip me so i fell during P.E, but i didnt saw who did it. 

She also told me that the teacher did Nothing, not even when she fell and cried….

But the worse part is that she spend all the 40 minutes back home hugging her hulk and givng it kissed and telling me how she didnt want to take it again to school because she doesn’t want her friends to be mean and take it away again,  but my heart really broke  when she asked me

Could you please take care of him tomorrow when i will be on school?

 he is brave but i dont want him to be alone

Now we will sit to watch Avengers again with a bucked of pop corn and the hulk.  but i know that will be a long long time before i manege to convince her that she doesn’t have to hide the fact that she loves this heroes, and that the problem is with the other boys not with her. 

This story will be heard, dammit.

(Reblogged from rikki-tikki-tavvi)
crazyemoo: lascocks: yourkickstartersucks: Some nerds were so mad about that “sexism in video games” Kickstarter that they made a competing series to prove that somehow an industry almost entirely staffed by men that makes products intended for men is actually discriminatory against men. This is what happens when women try to voice their opinion on how society treats them: hordes of men feel unreasonably threatened and scramble around like idiots trying to bring the discourse back to a place where men are in complete control, either through harrassment and threats of violence or by making some garbage like this. If you hear anyone trying to pull this embarrassing bullshit, do your duty as a decent human being and rub some dog turds on their face and neck and maybe pee on them too LOL LOL BOYS HA HAHAHAHA NO Well, I read through it and I can actually agree with some of the stereotypes and things that are listed. Do I think that video games are bad fro men? Not neccessarily, but I do think it makes a good point in the sense that yes stereotypes hurt everyone, women and men.   So, I can somewhat understand where this is coming from.  I mainly just don’t agree with putting men or women up against gender standards and expecting them to meet them. *shrugs* I looked through the tropes and I have to say I agree with a few of them. The Musclebeast:Why are all men 7 foot roided up killing machines? (That’s a good question.) Mr Emotionless McStonefaced (There’s always one and he has such a saaaaaaaaaad back story or some malarkey like that) Cannon Fodder (Hmmm? You mean that character that’s just there to die? Yeah, I’ve noticed they are mostly men. Well, stop stuffing video games full of male characters and maybe we can add some female characters to the cannon fodder.) The Fat Comedic Sidekick (WHY DOES HE HAVE TO BE FAT?!) Men Are Always The Heroic Ones: Pressuring modern day men into being heroic alpha males.This potentially sets a standard men can’t obtain. (…I suppose yes, but how many men actually go out of their way to be heroic? Actually how many PEOPLE actually do that? :\) The “Average Joe” As The Bad Guy, And The “Macho Man” As The Hero. (Hmmmm. Idk…I thought recently there had been more of an average joe kind of thing in video games, but I could be wrong.) Men As Sex Symbols (Your point? Wait…how often does that happen? Wait…what?) Double Standards -Why is it okay to see women killing men, yet the other way around is met with criticism? (Yeah, why can’t men kill women? Well, might because in real life this does happen a lot and you don’t really hear that much about women killing men? It meets the double standard thing so I want it discussed, personally I kind of have been waiting to see a male character kill off a female character because COME ON!!!) Sexuality Stereotypes or “All Gay Men Are Flamboyant” - Or a gay man’s sexuality is his entire character!: At the risk of opening a whole new can of worms, it’d be nice to see sexuality expressed in a more natural, less forced manner. (THANK YOU. I agree with this one most, but that really doesn’t get you guys off the hook.) Well, I agree with some and some I don’t see it but I could be falling back on prejudice myself. I’m not all for this project but I can be open enough to say they do bring up some good points.  I’m interested to see where both projects go. View high resolution

crazyemoo:

lascocks:

yourkickstartersucks:

Some nerds were so mad about that “sexism in video games” Kickstarter that they made a competing series to prove that somehow an industry almost entirely staffed by men that makes products intended for men is actually discriminatory against men. This is what happens when women try to voice their opinion on how society treats them: hordes of men feel unreasonably threatened and scramble around like idiots trying to bring the discourse back to a place where men are in complete control, either through harrassment and threats of violence or by making some garbage like this. If you hear anyone trying to pull this embarrassing bullshit, do your duty as a decent human being and rub some dog turds on their face and neck and maybe pee on them too

LOL

LOL BOYS

HA

HAHAHAHA

NO

Well, I read through it and I can actually agree with some of the stereotypes and things that are listed. Do I think that video games are bad fro men? Not neccessarily, but I do think it makes a good point in the sense that yes stereotypes hurt everyone, women and men.  

So, I can somewhat understand where this is coming from.  I mainly just don’t agree with putting men or women up against gender standards and expecting them to meet them. *shrugs*

I looked through the tropes and I have to say I agree with a few of them.

  • The Musclebeast:Why are all men 7 foot roided up killing machines? (That’s a good question.)
  • Mr Emotionless McStonefaced (There’s always one and he has such a saaaaaaaaaad back story or some malarkey like that)
  • Cannon Fodder (Hmmm? You mean that character that’s just there to die? Yeah, I’ve noticed they are mostly men. Well, stop stuffing video games full of male characters and maybe we can add some female characters to the cannon fodder.)
  • The Fat Comedic Sidekick (WHY DOES HE HAVE TO BE FAT?!)
  • Men Are Always The Heroic Ones: Pressuring modern day men into being heroic alpha males.This potentially sets a standard men can’t obtain. (…I suppose yes, but how many men actually go out of their way to be heroic? Actually how many PEOPLE actually do that? :\)
  • The “Average Joe” As The Bad Guy, And The “Macho Man” As The Hero. (Hmmmm. Idk…I thought recently there had been more of an average joe kind of thing in video games, but I could be wrong.)
  • Men As Sex Symbols (Your point? Wait…how often does that happen? Wait…what?)
  • Double Standards -Why is it okay to see women killing men, yet the other way around is met with criticism? (Yeah, why can’t men kill women? Well, might because in real life this does happen a lot and you don’t really hear that much about women killing men? It meets the double standard thing so I want it discussed, personally I kind of have been waiting to see a male character kill off a female character because COME ON!!!)
  • Sexuality Stereotypes or “All Gay Men Are Flamboyant” - Or a gay man’s sexuality is his entire character!: At the risk of opening a whole new can of worms, it’d be nice to see sexuality expressed in a more natural, less forced manner. (THANK YOU. I agree with this one most, but that really doesn’t get you guys off the hook.)

Well, I agree with some and some I don’t see it but I could be falling back on prejudice myself. I’m not all for this project but I can be open enough to say they do bring up some good points.  I’m interested to see where both projects go.

(Reblogged from crazyemoo)

Emoo: I'm so tired of this "No Male Role-models in Brave" shit.

isaia:

historicalslut:

quixoticandabsurd:

So tired of it.

Because seriously, nobody batted an eye when I was little and walked out of the theater after seeing Toy Story proclaiming, “Woody is so cool! I want to be just like him!”

Nobody cared that I was a little girl looking…

(Reblogged from crazyemoo)