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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

Irvine, CA
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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

      It's always, like, girl who runs off to do a Daring Thing and insists in TSTL ways that she's Capable because she Wants It, sans any context

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    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

      The ways in which traditionally feminine duties are inherently devalued in these settings is, of course, another key facet of the problem.

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    3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

      Which brings me back to clueless dudes who don't realise sexism is what shapes a LOT of female strength, the way pressure makes diamonds.

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    4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

      These guys just, honestly, cannot conceive of what strength means for a woman outside of "wanting, however badly, to be like a man".

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    5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

      But then, in MMFR, you have these women whose strength is *defined* by a rejection of everything the men around them want.

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    6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

      You have Angharad using her pregnant belly to shield Furiosa from Immortan Joe, while he bellows at her that her child is his property.

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    7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

      You have Angharad and Capable arguing for Nux's life - "No unnecessary killing!" - because they *know* he's brainwashed into wanting death.

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    8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

      You have Cheedo, heartsick, trying to flee, letting the Dag and Toast pull her back, then later pretending to flee to manipulate Rictus.

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    9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

      You have the Dag baring her teeth, hiss-spitting at war boys after her chastity belt comes off, unafraid and absolute. "We are not things."

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    10. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

      You have Miss Giddy staring down Immortan Joe in the heart of his Citadel - "You can't own people! Sooner or later, someone pushes back!"

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      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

      Later, as Joe has Angharad's baby cut out, it's Miss Giddy alone who covers her dead eyes, who holds her hand - who sees HER, not a body.

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        2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          But there are still people who'll watch that film & recognise Furiosa as the only *really* strong female character, because she hits stuff.

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        3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          These people will miss the power of her opening shot, that shows us the brand on the back of her neck; the same brand that Max just dodged.

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        4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          They will not understand in full why Furiosa is looking for redemption, because they'll miss what the context tells us about her status.

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        5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          The kind of guy who sees no worldbuilding flaw in Sexism Without Sexists won't blink at a lone, exceptional woman working for Immortan Joe -

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        6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          - because her internality on the sexism around her, the dissonance between her status and that of the wives, won't register to him.

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        7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          He'll just think, "Oh, she must be So Good At Fighting that Joe let her be an Imperator," even though Joe literally thinks women are things.

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        8. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          Because ultimately in that logic, women who fight - who are even the most reductive form of Strong - are as fantastic as the setting itself.

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        9. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          After Google fired their sexist memo-writer, the guy went on Twitter comparing STEM diversity initiatives to an attempt to hire Santa Claus.

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        10. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          That's how implausible female strength is to these people: they literally think it's an element of fantasy worldbuilding, like dragons.

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        11. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          (Except, you know, that they actually LIKE dragons and care a great deal about the consistency of their portrayal in the setting.)

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        12. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          As a rule of thumb, the kind of guy who thinks female strength & competence are rare is oblivious to how much of both his ignorance fuels.

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        13. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          Women who work with sexists have to do twice as much to avoid the roadblocks those asshats throw down, both intentionally & by default.

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        14. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          Watching MMFR, I was reminded of all the gun-toting survivalists who keep "prepared" for the End Times. THAT'S how you get war boys, folks.

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        15. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          Just today I saw an image of armed white supremacists wading through floodwaters in Houston to "stop looters". Like I just. For fuck's SAKE.

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        16. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          There's a dark irony in how, for a scary number of people, "survivalism" means "being the most lethal". (Angharad called bullets anti-seed.)

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        17. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          You have this whole movement where survival doesn't mean helping others, it doesn't mean saving things or rebuilding better; just more guns.

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        18. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          I'm wandering away from the topic of characterisation here, I know. But how many guys who protested MMFR have since picked up tikki torches?

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        19. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          What really fucks me off about so much anti-antifa ranting is the idea that all this anger and willingness to punch came from nowhere.

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        20. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          Which. Of COURSE you think that, if you're in the habit of confusing strength with violence. You didn't see that strength was always there.

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        21. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          And now that fascist calls for violence are being met with vocal plans for retaliation, that's being conflated as two equal platforms, FFS.

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        22. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          As though the act of opposing something inherently equalises you to it, either in terms of power or moral equivalence!

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        23. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          Following that logic, anyone who fights ISIS is as bad as ISIS, and a gang of adults who torture a puppy are justified if it bites back.

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        24. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          But yeah, sure. Let's keep pretending that "enduring, subverting and getting around sexist fuckery" isn't a form of strength w/o violence.

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        25. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          Let's keep pretending that it's possible to write stories that aren't in any way informed by politics, whether the world's or the writer's.

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        26. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          Or we can acknowledge that the worlds we make are universally products of the one we inhabit. Cross-pollination is inevitable, powerful.

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        27. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 1 Sep 2017

          As Miss Giddy says, sooner or later, someone always pushes back. We are not things. FIN.

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