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- Charting the Rise of Toxic Femininity
- CBS’s Canceled ‘Magnum P.I.’ Reboot Gets Picked Up by NBC
- Disney Studios’ Dismal Descent into Woke Propaganda
- Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Breaks Nielsen Ratings Record
| Charting the Rise of Toxic Femininity Posted: 04 Jul 2022 12:55 PM PDT
There are many examples that are readily found on the internet of what feminists and other social justice elites have labeled "toxic masculinity." This label continues to be an effective weapon when dismissing a narrative, an experience, or some facet of what we used to call normality. Even that word itself will lead to any number of complaints and labels such as the aforementioned "toxic masculinity." It's interesting to note that its identical twin, "toxic femininity" often goes not only ignored, but blatantly excused by modern social justice elites.
Unless, of course, it does not fit into their narrative of victimhood (cue Gina Carano).
It is interesting that it took a relatively longer time to find an adequate definition of "toxic femininity" than it did to find one for its counterpart. I finally settled for the following definition:
But where did such an idea that was so easily embraced by women as "positivity" emerge? What popularized it in modern culture? I always found it difficult to explain to people about why it had always been so important to fight every stage of this dwindling culture war. Politics are downstream from culture. I heard those words for the first time when I listened to Ethan Van Sciver interview Larry Correia on his YouTube channel. Five words that have completely encapsulated the last decade and the decline of this culture to its present day.
In 2005, Little, Brown, and Company took a chance on a new feminist writer named Stephanie Meyer and released onto the world the how-to manual for toxic femininity: Twilight. In this manifesto, the readers are introduced to 17-year-old Bella Swan and the lives of teenage girls all over the world were forever altered.
For those that may be unfamiliar with the story of young Bella, she becomes obsessed with a vampire and eventually manipulates him into turning her into one. But not before pitting two young men against each other, emotionally manipulating one into betraying his family, and bringing about the destruction of her adoptive family. She single-handedly achieves these goals by displaying what media refuses to identify as toxic traits. These traits, which inadvertently were passed on to millions of young girls, gave them the blueprint on how to achieve their most desired goals without putting in the effort.
When discussing toxic femininity, it is interesting to note that there are several traits that reappear in all the scarcely available literature. Some of those traits are shared by this character, whether a strange coincidence or a malicious attempt to corrupt the youth of this nation, only the author can properly answer. My role here is not to pass judgement, but to display the evidence for what we now understand to be clear signs of an abusive relationship which has been presented in not just several novels, but in high grossing films that to this day continue to damage our youth.
One of the traits that Bella presents is her expectation that Edward (the soy vampire) fully support her needs and desires without contributing much in the way of a partner. This is evidenced throughout the series, but more so in the movies and the way the actress Kristen Stewart portrays her. While I don't doubt that much of the blandness of the character can be directly attributed to her acting skills, this same level of criticism has been levied against the character in written form. This support is not in the financial sense, but more so in the form of continuously demanding emotional validation.
Another trait that she presents which strongly supports the previous one is her ability to emotionally manipulate Jacob, played by Taylor Lautner in the movies. This manipulation goes so far that Bella is able to completely convince Jacob of how inherently unimportant he is to her, yet somehow maintains an emotional leash on him that prevents him from experiencing life in a healthy way. Through this manipulation, she managed to emasculate him so much that he willingly stood by as her toxic relationship with Edward, played by Robert Pattinson in the films, blossomed.
Much has been written in feminist driven outlets on the level of abuse in the relationship between Edward and Bella, both in the films and the original material itself. However, as anyone with a shred of common sense would anticipate, these articles are heavily influenced to portray Edward as the abuser instead of the clear victim that he truly is. The idea of toxic femininity completely ignored by the mainstream and those who sought to appease those mental terrorists. Even to this day, modern feminists continue to push the toxic narrative that men cannot be the victims of abuse, you only need to look at the recent Amber Heard trials to confirm their bias.
For almost two decades, we have allowed our daughters to absorb these messages with little supervision. We have been amusing ourselves to death with the overwhelming power of social media, while allowing these sycophants to sway them away from our own brand of morals. Some would believe that the tide is changing, but there is a certain amount of cynicism that we should all maintain. We continue to see brands embrace wokeness as a shield, while not as effective as it had been, it is still an enduring business model.
If you know any men (or equivalent social pronoun) that is in an abusive relationship or has been victim of toxic femininity, implore them to seek help by clicking here. While the tide may not yet have turned, now is a fine time to continue looking back to know what path we must follow forward. But there is a positive that this abhorrent behavior has brought us, and on my next piece we will discuss how social justice elites have become their own worst enemy. The post Charting the Rise of Toxic Femininity appeared first on Bleeding Fool. |
| CBS’s Canceled ‘Magnum P.I.’ Reboot Gets Picked Up by NBC Posted: 04 Jul 2022 10:25 AM PDT
While it's still a rare thing, it has happened a few times over the years that one network cancels a series and another swoops in and picks it up. Often times it's a streaming service given a network series a couple more seasons, but this week we learned of a cancelled CBS series getting saved by NBC. The reboot of Magnum P.I. got a last-minute reprieve as NBC and USA Network made a deal for two seasons/twenty episodes just in time to keep the cast under contract.
The show stars Jay Hernandez as the titular private detective with the Hawaiian shirts and Ferrari along with Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill, Tim Kang and Amy Hill. The initial cancellation came as a surprise after four seasons, but Universal Television quickly looked for a new home and NBC took the lead with only the budget slowing down talks among efforts to trim costs. The show has been in the top 25 in total viewers and was the highest rated show to get the ax this year.
Most recently NBC did a similar thing for Brooklyn Nine-Nine after it was cancelled at FOX, the show got three more seasons after the deal was made. The post CBS’s Canceled ‘Magnum P.I.’ Reboot Gets Picked Up by NBC appeared first on Bleeding Fool. |
| Disney Studios’ Dismal Descent into Woke Propaganda Posted: 04 Jul 2022 07:55 AM PDT
A writer at Front Page Magazine’s spoken about Disney Studios’ dismal descent into woke propaganda, a most far cry from the family friendly image they once retained. And on the topic of Lightyear, which has fared pretty poorly:
And that’s surely for the animation technology and voice acting alone. It doubtless cost nearly double the amount for marketing and advertising, so you can see why it’ll take years for it to break even in sales, if at all. So Disney went miles out of their way to make a political statement, resulting in a box office embarrassment, just so they could appease a bunch of propagandists working for their company, and now, look where else it’s getting them:
And you don’t hear any of the woke western advocates complaining about that. For them, it’s only in western countries like the USA where this propaganda matters. All for the sake of driving down morale.
Breitbart says comedian Tim Allen, the original voice for Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story series, also took issue with the directions Disney’s been going in, effectively hurting the astronaut for the sake of wokeism:
There’s definitely valid concern Allen’s been blacklisted, and for all we know, chances are his notable 1991-99 sitcom TV series Home Improvement will never be revisited again as a result. That’s how far Hollywood’s fallen, sadly enough, yet the studios are reaping what they’ve sown, as the box office receipts for Lightyear have already made clear. If they need to deal with homosexuality in animation, it should be in a production that’s actually marketed for adults and/or older viewers, and refrains from building on politically motivated writing tactics. The failure to do so is exactly why mainstream animation produced in the USA is such a joke.
Originally published here. The post Disney Studios’ Dismal Descent into Woke Propaganda appeared first on Bleeding Fool. |
| Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Breaks Nielsen Ratings Record Posted: 04 Jul 2022 05:25 AM PDT
The Nielsen’s released their numbers for streaming service viewing minutes for the week of May 30th through June 5th and the 4th season of Stranger Things set a record for 7.2 billion minutes viewed in that time. This is quite a bump from the previous highs as no show had ever broken 6 billion minutes before and only Tiger King and Ozark ever broke 5 billion.
Now you have to keep in mind though that Netflix released seven episodes of the fourth season that week while the other shows on the list like Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Boys had only one or two episodes out in that time period. So, their 958 million and 919 million respectively are still very good weeks. In a way it's comparing apples and oranges when you try to compare a show that is dropped weekly compared to one meant to be binge watched.
This is not meant to take away the success of Stranger Things, but you divide that total number by 7 episodes and it's in the same ballpark as the other shows as Kenobi had 1.3 billion views its first week.
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