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cornerofmadnessI am struggling to pull it all together right now. I don't want to get into it publically but right now I'm feeling very patronized and very worthless. Been so upset I can hardly function. Let me try to pull my thoughts together for this. Social Horror and feminism. In the past couple of months I've been reading a lot of things in those circles, Such a Pretty SMile, Squad and The Me You Love in the Dark and I'm bothered by a few things. Add into that an article (which I forgot to save) talking about misogynism and horror.
To me misogynism is part of horror but NOT necessarily a celebration of it (which the article hinted at). Sorry but women are still prey. We can pretend all we want but we know it's true. And some of the major horror movies kill women and men with equal abandon. So what the article was talking about and the above mentioned works have as a theme: subverting that expectation.
My problem is each and every one of them takes women from being prey to being the predator. Each one has them enacting the same ugly traits we assign to the patriarchy. My thought is this what we want? Is this how we take some power for ourselves? By acting like men? By becoming killers? It just seems like there has to be better ways of approaching this. Is embracing violence the only way to give women agency?
It's a curious idea and there isn't an easy answer. I just know that it feels somehow lazy.
Have some links
from around the web
Use This Equation To Achieve Book Marketing Success
Earn More Royalties With Bookshop: My Self-Publishing Experience, Part 11 This is basically one big ad for Bookshop which I had never heard of frankly
From Betty
Three Steps to Becoming a Successful Author
Writing The Book Blurb - Part 1
Getting off the Hamster Wheel
Show-Don’t-Tell Help
Using Physical Pain to Show a Character’s Past Trauma I need this for Dan
AMAZON’S A+ CONTENT NOW AVAILABLE TO AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS
Quick wins for your Valentine’s Day email marketing
Should You Use a Monster or a Villain in Your Story?
Twelve Traits for a Lovable Hero
The Four Rules of Using Fake Words
Outline a Short Story in Seven Steps
“Perfect to Me”: How Self-Editing Can Take Your Novel to the Next Stage
Relationship Thesaurus Entry: Fling
kishotenketsu and non-western story structures
To me misogynism is part of horror but NOT necessarily a celebration of it (which the article hinted at). Sorry but women are still prey. We can pretend all we want but we know it's true. And some of the major horror movies kill women and men with equal abandon. So what the article was talking about and the above mentioned works have as a theme: subverting that expectation.
My problem is each and every one of them takes women from being prey to being the predator. Each one has them enacting the same ugly traits we assign to the patriarchy. My thought is this what we want? Is this how we take some power for ourselves? By acting like men? By becoming killers? It just seems like there has to be better ways of approaching this. Is embracing violence the only way to give women agency?
It's a curious idea and there isn't an easy answer. I just know that it feels somehow lazy.
Have some links
from around the web
Use This Equation To Achieve Book Marketing Success
Earn More Royalties With Bookshop: My Self-Publishing Experience, Part 11 This is basically one big ad for Bookshop which I had never heard of frankly
From Betty
Three Steps to Becoming a Successful Author
Writing The Book Blurb - Part 1
Getting off the Hamster Wheel
Show-Don’t-Tell Help
Using Physical Pain to Show a Character’s Past Trauma I need this for Dan
AMAZON’S A+ CONTENT NOW AVAILABLE TO AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS
Quick wins for your Valentine’s Day email marketing
Should You Use a Monster or a Villain in Your Story?
Twelve Traits for a Lovable Hero
The Four Rules of Using Fake Words
Outline a Short Story in Seven Steps
“Perfect to Me”: How Self-Editing Can Take Your Novel to the Next Stage
Relationship Thesaurus Entry: Fling
kishotenketsu and non-western story structures
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