![]() ![]() There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it. You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her? He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.) (Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own. ![]() The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. #there is no feminist belief that can come from someone who views women as vaginas with legs that are too frail to do anything men do #i’ve yet to meet a terf that actually cares about women more than about hating on trans folk having feminist in their name does not mean their ideas are automatically feminist #i don’t consider feminists for the same reason i don’t consider the democratic people’s republic of korea a democracy #or nazism socialism. #and don’t say ‘no true scotsman’ that’s not it #i can not consider terfism to be feminism in any fucking way #the feminist idea that women as equals to men should be allowed to compete with them with the one that both must always be separated #the feminist idea that women are allowed to have body hair and be tall or muscular with the one that they’re to be scrutinized if they are #the feminist idea that women don’t need to adhere to arbitrary standards of femininity with the one that they do or they aren’t women #the feminist idea that women are more than their reproductive systems with the one that womanhood is defined by a reproductive system #you can’t reconcile the feminist idea that men and women are equals with acting like they’re different species ![]()
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