Do you know a piece of media that is deeply misogynistic and want to see it fight similar media?

Be it a book, tv show, movie, comic, or anything else, have you ever encountered something and been like, "Wow, the misogyny is really jumping out here"? Whether it's sidelining female characters and downplaying their abilities, objectification, sexualization, transmisogyny, misogynoir, fridging, gratuitous sexual violence, women walking boobily down the stairs, or anything else, sometimes the contents of a work are just dripping with misogyny and you're like, "No, stop it! Bad creator, bad! Treat your ladies better!"

And now is your opportunity to see these works fight each other! It's time to go to bat for the ladies who deserved better and decide what is the #1 work we should point to and go, "That. Don't do that. Like anything in that."

Submit the work you want to beat with a bat labeled "Respect Women" here! The form closes December 13, 2023 at 12am EST.

NOTE: You can submit a work and add additional propaganda later when you have more time under the condition that you add "(repeat)" after the title of the work you're submitting.

You can view how many times a work has been submitted here.

NOTE: This is updated manually, not automatically, so there will be a time delay in updating the count.

EDIT: I previously forgot to actually open the form, but it is now open!

RULES:

• The misogyny must be in canon, not fandom
• Don't submit a single work multiple times, but please submit as many different works as you want!
• No terfs or other bigotry
• No real people, real groups, or Harry Potter

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After an oopsie doodle of forgetting to open the form, it is now open! Submit all the media your heart loves, loathes, and has Complicated Feelings about due to how it writes women!

Really excited for this! I was wondering if you could crosspost this onto reddit, specifically r/menwritingwomen which is a whole subreddit where people post about books that write women horribly (most of which did not appear in the previous tournament since almost no one reads literature on Tumblr besides warrior cats I guess...), I feel like you would get a lot of good media options there, there are some particular ones that are repeat offenders but weren't in the last tournament, and I haven't read them so I can't add them myself.

Also why no Harry Potter, normally the reason for that is to not promote an author who spreads hateful ideology, which makes sense in a "best x" tournament, but I don't see how criticizing something for misogyny is promoting it in any way. Just wondering because I was thinking of doing a canon racism or canon ableism tournament, and my instinct was to not exclude any media for this reason, and I was wondering what was your rationale for not doing this.

The reason for no Harry Potter is that I wish to starve Rowling of all her cultural relevance, be it good or bad. Let her work be forgotten. The less she matters, the less her word matters. Granted, I am but a drop in a pond in that sense, and her work actually can’t be forgotten when discussing fiction trends of the late 90s and 00s, but it’s the principle of the matter. I wouldn’t fault anyone for taking a different stance in critical polls (e.g. your racism and ableism polls) or polls focusing, on, say, fandom (e.g. the fandom wank poll I am considering running, because fandom is its own can of worms, although do I want to open that can of worms? Is that worth learning the bullshit and hilarity fandoms I’ve never heard of have pulled?), as everyone has their own approach to fucking this terf over, but this is mine in this instance. Maybe it’ll change in the future, as you do have a good point, but this is it for now.

EDIT: Also, posting to r/menwritingwomen is a 10/10 idea, and I’m totally doing it now.