Ever since I played a certain game written and directed by males, it's been bothering me that some males are starting to like making stories about misogyny too much. But not from their perspective, as they should write. Always a woman — always a *young* girl suffering, being helpless at the hands of males. How long until more males realize they can indulge in their hatred for women, portraying teens being victims of male hatred, and get no repercussions because they can just say they're realistically representing misogyny (by completely enforcing and supporting it)? How long until males show their brutal fetishes even more with the excuse that they're showing other sides of misogyny? The only story I know was made from the male perspective of misogyny is the movie called 'Men', and it was unwatchable and pretty pointless. It doesn't actually challenge anything or express any ground-breaking idea.
And this raises a question. Since I also wrote about misogyny, how is that awful game any different from my story? Well, in Paradiso Phantasma, no woman is a direct victim of male violence. The one scene where something bad could happen, the woman stands up for herself without being harmed first. Paradiso Phantasma focuses on the systematic grooming of women to marry young. It's not one evil male doing bad things. It's the entire world they built for themselves to enslave women. Lwinky Feis is the token guy who harasses women at work because Fruity is a company full of women, he's the only man. And he's allowed in that building because he pays his way in, though it's not explicitly said but it can be deduced since Jasmine clarifies he's a partner. I don't write categorizing males as good and bad ones, the non-existent non-misogynistic males and those who are brutal towards women. Because just like Luna's ''husband'', all men are misogynistic and will step on women to lift themselves up. And more often than not, this doesn't require direct violence. Luna's husband destroyed Luna for his own freedom. Marnie grew up alone because of the system males set up. Claire's character has not yet been fully explored, but her obsession with romance is directly linked to misogyny as well (I got inspired by a book about lesbian love addiction to write her). And Jasmine explains herself that her company is so shady because she was never given a choice. You can't point at a single male who treated these women badly.
As much as it's personal, it's also external. Males polluted the air and only gave themselves masks, leaving us to suffer their own actions. They should all be held accountable, even for the 'micro-aggressions' such as joking about women in ANY way. It's not so micro when a little girl grows up being treated as a lesser, a piece of decoration, an inherently dirty thing that somehow is also only tainted by the touch of a male, then our emotions of rage for this behavior must be muted for males' comfort. We must make ourselves small, ignore our will to fight against this mistreatment because 'it's not that deep'. All types of misogynistic aggression are equally harmful, they're the base for rape culture and femicide and patriarchy.
I got off-topic.
