Does anyone else think about gender and that episode of Married With Children where Peggy

neonbluebell:

thepeacockangel:

bataillemeup:

thepeacockangel:

thepeacockangel:

redecorates Al’s bathroom in ultra frilly pink a lot?

And like what it says about the “bad wife” splashing femininity all over places men don’t want it but never where men do (her failure to ever cook)?

This one

TBH the picture of Peggy turning into a picture of the Grim Reaper is fucking INTERESTING symbolically, like femininity unmasked is the face of death, which like plays into my theories about the monstrous and the feminine

Femininity unmasked is the face of death

Exactly, femininity unchecked is seen as this nightmarish destructive force, invasive, infecting anything it touches.

Well, it’s not like that’s become the dudebro rhetoric in response to modern feminism, is it? “It’s killing us men.” and all that crap.

It’s an unsettling realization, though. This is the fear-filled psychological process that’s justifying a lot of nasty shit against women; the idea that femininity “out of it’s place” is, to their mind, a mortal threat.

God, men get so irrational when they’re emotional. *snrk*

I mean if you add in their fear that the slightest misstep in their performance of masculinity will render them suddenly magically gay… IDK I have theories about masculinity being an artificial category, strenuously maintained that allows for hierarchical capitalist society… and so like it is sort of an existential threat to their categorization of themselves