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beccaelizabeth) wrote2017-05-26 03:24 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2017-05-26 03:24 pm
Scary hot
Today's daydream: lady demonstrates superpower, gets reaction like 'wow that's hot'
and I know that sounds like it happens a lot but I was just looking at gifs on tumblr and it's like women with power are scary and hot, but because they're wearing tight whatsits and doing wiggly walk. And like it's their power that is scary and their body that is hot.
I want a lady to be dressed like Winter Soldier and doing the stompy boots murder walk
demonstrate power
and the power is hot.
It feels quite distinct.
Also like I should rewatch Farscape, pretty much.
But I don't know if I'm being too picky.
I mean, like, it seems like Captain America power is a different sort than women get to get. Like he's solid and reassuring and an ideal whose power fits him comfortably.
Like, Wonder Woman and Supergirl both ought to be that kind of powerful, but usually the art does something weird to them instead? Or the story backseats them in favour of the nearest white guy. Or Wonder Woman's entire society gets rewritten to be scary-power instead.
Also I know I said Winter Soldier, but he gets the character arc a lot of women get, where it's all about trying to have agency in a world telling them who to be. Captain America is also trying to figure out who to be, but it feels different. Like he gets to have angst about deciding who he needs to be in this world, but of course the decision is his.
I don't know, it feels like a thing, but when I look at it the thing skitters away and goes fuzzy.
But like Continuum, she gets a ton of superpowers, but she's also representing scary big brother policies and it seems like the fact she has power is the scary. Like it doesn't generally make people feel better or like they're saved now. And again she has that arc of having to learn to have her own thoughts, which, not usually where a superhero starts?
Except maybe more guys are starting in that shades of grey did a bad thing feel terrible about it place. More traumatised Winter Soldiers around now.
There's a lot of women who have the exact same power set as a guy and get called lady thing or somethingirl. I like Hawkeye and his insistence she's Hawkeye and the thing where he's Hawkguy. I also like how Hawkeye used to wear a minidress, and dislike how it ends up on all the Worst Dressed lists. I mean, do you think they consciously notice they're gender policing? It was only meant to be a purple robin hood tunic without the tights, but as with all things, meaning drifts over time. But. Power. With the Hawkeyes it's like the older has legitimacy and the younger seeks it. And it's gendered. Because of course.
... I have seen many instances of a woman seeking to take up or join a man's lineage, like the Hawkeyes, or Bat family. I have seen times like with Wonder Woman where girls try and grow up to be like the wonder women before them. I do not recall a man deciding to name himself for a woman, or seek her out for a mentor, or look to her for approval in his heroic role. Hmm.
I can think of many times a woman's power was represented as an interruption of the order of things, or as associated with mental breakdown. I'm way more interested when women with power is natural, normal, and right. And leaves them mentally healthier, because hey, learning to stand up.
But, also, the scary hot thing? Where a woman dresses modest until power and then dresses sexy as part of being scary? It's so weird. Like, women are always meant to be attractive, but there's a set of signifiers that mean they're trying, and that's the difference between regular Willow and Vampire Willow, and it's somehow a bad thing. Though next time she goes evil it's differently signified.
I feel like there's a lot of sticky not nice wrapped around signifiers of women with power, and I dislike it, but when I try and zoom in to see what I mean I can find lots of examples that seem to be what I'm looking for but... bother me, still.
Like, women who kick arse but lose their memories, or their place in the hierarchy, or their original identity. Like they got their power through pain and loss. Like you have to explain a woman having power, and it's never as simple as 'she joined the army', but for men it can be.
Ugh, this is a lot of meta from a simple daydream.
I just wanted a guy who'd look at me like Gomez looks at Morticia, specifically because I'd just demonstrated I could kick his arse.
and I know that sounds like it happens a lot but I was just looking at gifs on tumblr and it's like women with power are scary and hot, but because they're wearing tight whatsits and doing wiggly walk. And like it's their power that is scary and their body that is hot.
I want a lady to be dressed like Winter Soldier and doing the stompy boots murder walk
demonstrate power
and the power is hot.
It feels quite distinct.
Also like I should rewatch Farscape, pretty much.
But I don't know if I'm being too picky.
I mean, like, it seems like Captain America power is a different sort than women get to get. Like he's solid and reassuring and an ideal whose power fits him comfortably.
Like, Wonder Woman and Supergirl both ought to be that kind of powerful, but usually the art does something weird to them instead? Or the story backseats them in favour of the nearest white guy. Or Wonder Woman's entire society gets rewritten to be scary-power instead.
Also I know I said Winter Soldier, but he gets the character arc a lot of women get, where it's all about trying to have agency in a world telling them who to be. Captain America is also trying to figure out who to be, but it feels different. Like he gets to have angst about deciding who he needs to be in this world, but of course the decision is his.
I don't know, it feels like a thing, but when I look at it the thing skitters away and goes fuzzy.
But like Continuum, she gets a ton of superpowers, but she's also representing scary big brother policies and it seems like the fact she has power is the scary. Like it doesn't generally make people feel better or like they're saved now. And again she has that arc of having to learn to have her own thoughts, which, not usually where a superhero starts?
Except maybe more guys are starting in that shades of grey did a bad thing feel terrible about it place. More traumatised Winter Soldiers around now.
There's a lot of women who have the exact same power set as a guy and get called lady thing or somethingirl. I like Hawkeye and his insistence she's Hawkeye and the thing where he's Hawkguy. I also like how Hawkeye used to wear a minidress, and dislike how it ends up on all the Worst Dressed lists. I mean, do you think they consciously notice they're gender policing? It was only meant to be a purple robin hood tunic without the tights, but as with all things, meaning drifts over time. But. Power. With the Hawkeyes it's like the older has legitimacy and the younger seeks it. And it's gendered. Because of course.
... I have seen many instances of a woman seeking to take up or join a man's lineage, like the Hawkeyes, or Bat family. I have seen times like with Wonder Woman where girls try and grow up to be like the wonder women before them. I do not recall a man deciding to name himself for a woman, or seek her out for a mentor, or look to her for approval in his heroic role. Hmm.
I can think of many times a woman's power was represented as an interruption of the order of things, or as associated with mental breakdown. I'm way more interested when women with power is natural, normal, and right. And leaves them mentally healthier, because hey, learning to stand up.
But, also, the scary hot thing? Where a woman dresses modest until power and then dresses sexy as part of being scary? It's so weird. Like, women are always meant to be attractive, but there's a set of signifiers that mean they're trying, and that's the difference between regular Willow and Vampire Willow, and it's somehow a bad thing. Though next time she goes evil it's differently signified.
I feel like there's a lot of sticky not nice wrapped around signifiers of women with power, and I dislike it, but when I try and zoom in to see what I mean I can find lots of examples that seem to be what I'm looking for but... bother me, still.
Like, women who kick arse but lose their memories, or their place in the hierarchy, or their original identity. Like they got their power through pain and loss. Like you have to explain a woman having power, and it's never as simple as 'she joined the army', but for men it can be.
Ugh, this is a lot of meta from a simple daydream.
I just wanted a guy who'd look at me like Gomez looks at Morticia, specifically because I'd just demonstrated I could kick his arse.