In Progress

Period drama enthusiast

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Like a new friend!

[elodieunderglass]

[elodieunderglass]

A little visit

[elliegoose]

the idea that women are "more allowed" to express emotions than men under patriarchy honestly seems like a lie that serves patriarchy itself.

women are constantly pressured to dissociate from the way our circumstances negatively impact us, and we are straight up not permitted more emotional expression in any meaningful way that is received well in patriarchal relations. in reality, we are marked as "more emotional" and therefore taken less seriously than men.

nobody under patriarchy is allowed a healthy and full expression of their emotions, but framing emotional expression as an advantage that women have is bizarre.

[queeranarchism]

Women are only allowed to express emotions that fit the role of servitude - love, care, nurturing, admiration, submission, and some concern or sadness when appropriate.

Men are only allowed to express emotions that fit the role of oppressor - lust, assertiveness, domination, anger, rage, violence.

These emotions are divided to sustain a hierarchy that places women below men. Anyone who violates this division - an angry woman, a nurturing man - is punished.

And women who perform only the correct emotions at the correct moment are still punished with the accusation that those emotions make them inferior to men, whose manly feelings are re-imagined as rational drivers of their actions.

[queeranarchism]

By the way: if you understand this, then you should be able to understand that "the patriarchy harms men too" & "men benefit from the patriarchy" can both be true.

A system can both give a privileged demographic increased access to power and money, and at the same time force the members of that demographic into performing the rigid and emotionally stunting role of oppressor. It's not that complicated.

[radicalgraff]

Anti-Car sticker spotted in Buxton, UK

[down-the-rabbith0le]

[unreleasedmochi]

charli: i feel insecure around this successful white woman, who’s likeable, commercially huge and beautiful by all average western standards. this is all a me problem, but it’s impacting my mental health and it’s killing me that if i tried, i could never be like her. this experience is so deeply rooted in misogyny, to the point where my partner (a cis man) doesn’t even get it. i’m trying to separate myself from her and i don’t want to be in close proximity to her daily cause this insecurity makes me feel embarrassed and this back and forth in my head is tearing me apart

taylor, over a year later, for some reason: you’re a chihuahua on coke, you must be in love with me or something, and it makes me wet to know i live in your head, but like, i’m unbothered

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Like a new friend!

[uncleasad]

[Image ID: Post from Brandie Freely @ brandiefreely at 9:25 AM on 8/1/25: May something really sweet and unexpected fall right into your lap this month. And may it be just what you’d been needing to revive your spirit and your hope. May August be especially good to you. /end ID]

[2-way-monologues]

How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire

The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.

FYIIIIIIIIIII for anyone wondering why that angry husk Sophie Cunningham is getting so much media traction lately... Just remember, the DeVos family bankrolled Riley Gaines and they and other Christian fundamentalist vampires are always looking for new media darlings to further their goal of erasing every type of woman who isn't white (and even white women will get erased from public and professional life if they have their way).

Gaines fit seamlessly with a right-wing strategy that dated back to 2015, when the Supreme Court recognized the right to same-sex marriage and when Christian conservatives, fearing they were losing the culture wars, began searching for issues to fire up their political base. “We knew we needed to find an issue that the ­candidates were comfortable talking about,” Terry Schilling, the president of the socially conservative American Principles Project, later told the New York Times. His group polled voters on a range of messages and found that trans people in women’s sports struck a nerve, including among conservative Democrats and independents. Thus began an effort to transform the debate about trans athletes into a political lightning rod.

Although why they chose a woman who is essentially just a dumber Ann Coulter hologram is beyond me. Her hair even looks drier.

[tomb-mold]

the problem is i really do love staying up until one billion o'clock. it just cant be helped

[fladurblegon]

“What if poor people abuse the system?”

The system intrinsically abuses poor people.

Hope this helps.

[breninarthur]

"What if poor people abuse the system?"

Rich people abuse the system far more and out of pure greed, not necessity or desperation so idrc about that

[ghoulodont]

(stumbling out of the document covered in blood) ok i wrote 100 words

[yesterdaysprint]

The Wageworker, Lincoln, Nebraska, September 13, 1907

[yesterdaysprint]

The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, October 18, 1916

[yesterdaysprint]

The Weekly Industrial Worker, Seattle, Washington, April 6, 1918

[yesterdaysprint]

The Marion Times, Kansas, September 29, 1898

[treecitysessions]

There’s a catastrophic female loneliness epidemic happening rn but nobody gaf bc women aren’t going out and hurting people about it we just betray and destroy ourselves for nothing

[tpwrtrmnky]

The idea of Mario and Peach having any kind of relationship beyond the occasional kiss on the nose and "mama mia" is like viscerally incomprehensible to me

Not like in a prude way I just can't conceive of Mario experiencing... urges. He's a character outside the scope of that. I'm not saying he's asexual either cause positioning him on the allo/ace spectrum implies that it's a dimension of his character that at least exists, that he has at some point noticed it. I think he just jumps.

[tpwrtrmnky]

Luigi probably fucks though.

[tpwrtrmnky]

#op interrogate yourself about why you think this right fucking now

So unlike Mario, who continues to be essentially a void with no internality, I actually act with thoughts and intent and already did do that when writing this post.

Mario is a mascot of one of the most sanitized corporate brands in existence. He differs from real, full-fledged ace people in that his sexlessness is not queer, not transgressive in any sense of the word, just a void left by his position as a player character. He has no queer identity because he has no identity beyond the fact that it's-a-him, Mario.

[antigyro]

Ok but why is Luigi different

[tpwrtrmnky]

displays internality by being capable of fear. to fear is to have something to lose. and what does he stand to lose? fucking.

[tpwrtrmnky]

#I think the interrogate yourself post was about the fact Mario is fatter than Luigi

I, too, am fatter than the green twig, so like, when I lay out the precise reasoning of how Mario's non-characterhood motivates this idea, it would be nice if people could not careen off into "clearly you have strange views about fat people or italians or people who wear red or whatever"