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[fan_eunice]

Doctor Who fandom? Don't make me come back there. What the everloving fuck. *dives back to safe little pile of sane people*

For future reference, a few things that are not feminist:

1. Slut shaming. No, not even if you couch it in concern that wearing short skirts sends the wrong message that women are whores. And they shouldn't be sexually confident lest people think they are whores. Or act in any other whorish way that only whores would act, and if they'd just act like proper ladies you wouldn't have to go around pointing out their whoredom. ESPECIALLY THEN.

2. Insisting that women who are smart, confident and proactive are unrealistic. Dismissing every single female character exhibiting such traits as unrelatable/smug/too much. Perhaps the word you're looking for is uppity? Bonus points if you immediately start falling all over yourself every time a male character exhibits such traits.

3. Pretending you are engaging in feminist critique if said critique only magically appears in relation to one specific showrunner, show, and his specific characters, and gleefully ignores either the broader context of media as a whole and/or the rest of the show's run. Clue: Media is steeped in sexism. All of it. Yes, even that thing you like. It's a tangled, complicated mess that is broader and deeper than which flavor of it entertains you more. Hint: petty nitpicky bashing of female characters as a method of critique? Not helpful. Ever. And please see number one again. Memorize it.

I really hate people. Except you guys. You guys, I love.

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[be_themoon]

Not even touching the clothes thing, except to repeat my general flail of "She's 5'11" and made of legs! EVERYTHING is short on her!"

As a 5'11", very leggy girl, I can testify that this is VERY TRUE. Skirts that hit other people's knees are miniskirts on me, shorts that would be halfway down the thighs of anyone else are only 1/4 down mine. It's frustrating currently, as I mostly circulate in a group of people that consider modesty as a prime virtue. In college, I fully plan to flaunt my legginess, and the first person to tell me I can't will not end up happily. I'm getting so angry at all the people going "she wears such slutty clothes!"

[marymac]

Yeah, my sister's housemate is not quite that tall, but is similarly Made Of Legs, so despite them being theoretically the same size, many are the conversations which have started 'Aideen, with all the love in the world, and it looks very good on you, but we can see your pants.'

[be_themoon]

Yeah - I have a pair of shorts that were bought for me by my sister, who's a very modest person, because on most people they would have been normal shorts. haha, no. on me, they're the equivalent of mini-shorts.

[marymac]

Opaque tights are a god-send, really.

(Actually, all the 'Oh my god, short skirts!' folks, they have noticed that like every sensible daughter of Northern Europe she wears opaque tights with them, right?)

[fan_eunice]

I can sympathize from the opposite spectrum, being Very Short and not particularly slender. Which means it is a rare day when I find a pair of trousers that aren't about four feet too *long*.

Really, when it comes to women's clothing there is a sweet spot within a few inches and pounds where clothes might actually fit you ...and the rest of us mostly get to flail around desperately lamenting not being mannequin shaped.

I fully support your future leggy flaunting! :D

[be_themoon]

oh, man, yeah. two of my best RL friends are 5'2", and shopping with them can be really interesting, because neither of us can find anything that actually fits in the way it's meant to. something that looks great on her will be too long on her in the smallest size and too short on me in the biggest size. *sigh*

wheeee!

[regicidaldwarf]

Just had to jump in to say another 5'11" leggy girl right here and YES THIS IS VERY VERY TRUE.

[be_themoon]

*high fives* REPRESENT.