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deadpowol

thememedaddy

beggars-opera

Female coal workers at the Rose Bridge Colliery, Wigan, UK, 1860s

Featured in the book "Victorian Working Women" Portraits from Life" by Michael Hiley

marzipanandminutiae

this is what I mean when I say the Victorians understood situational clothing

because this was their working apparel

but sometimes you see picture combinations like this:

they did mostly wear more conventional clothing outside work hours! you probably wouldn't look at the picture on the right and assume that was a girl who wore trousers and worked at a coal mine, but it was! they did understand "hey a hoop skirt dress doesn't work for every function and adjust for that!"

almost like they were...human beings with human intelligence and flexible thinking! wow!

stephexmachina

when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.

stephexmachina

AND SO IS BEING SOMEBODY'S MOTHER‼️

stephexmachina

it is about being a woman. hope that helps!

vibrantstarfire

reading comprehension questions for the notes:

is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?

why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?

are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?

core concept: what is gender essentialism?

is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?

look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?

what trait are you perpetuating when you assume that women who do not want to be wives and mothers must be aroace or trans? is it gender essentialism?

gardengnosticator

getting teary eyed thinking about gerda gottlieb's paintings of her wife after she transitioned

gardengnosticator

narcissus-thee-squeekual

thing is, for a lot of these paintings it wasn’t “after” lily elbe’s transition. there was no after to it. the one op posted was painted in 1928. this was 2 years before lily legally changed her name and began undergoing revolutionary gender affirming procedures. unfortunately she died due to complications of an experimental uterine transplant in 1931.

up until that point, during the day lily continued to dress in masculine clothing and even attended galleries showing gottlieb’s paintings of her. which was kind of iconic. she got to stand in a room full of people who were marveling her beauty, not knowing she was right next to them. it must have been such a cute little secret for them as a couple.

here’s gerda and lilly together

not to mention that for most people there is no real “after” to a transition. especially for these trans historical figures who had to balance identity and safety at all times.

i think having a wife paint these portraits must have felt really amazing for lily. to be able to see herself through the eyes of someone who loved her. i’m very much seconding op on the getting teary eyed.

here are some of my favorite gottleib lily paintings

bloggoth

poor old granny scorpion-shoes. no one ever saw her death coming

bloggoth

it was pneumonia.

bloggoth

yes, her pet scorpion pneumonia, who lived in her shoe. tragic.

bloggoth

he shot her point blank

theonion

staff

for april fools we’re deleting this entire site sayonara you weeaboo shits

valtsv

i feel like if you stabbed an angel the blood trail would look like this

amazoogle

kvothbloodless

Hey. Hey!

socialmaya

ode-on-a-grecian-butt

theyer old enough that they used to connect

finnglas

They're older than Florida. The Floridian peninsula is the solidified runoff of the Appalachians that got caught on some coral. It's why we're like this, I think. You don't stand a chance of being normal when you were created by the shed skin of an elder god draping itself over a hollow skeleton. You're always going to be a little Off.

galladegamer

despazito

we are the daughters of parents who should not have had kids

ourskiesaboveus

actually, caesar was stabbed 60 times. it just looked like 23 because, after the tumblr update,

pixelartpeach

Hey do you guys remember when Google worked. Do you. Do you remember when it worked better than the Tumblr search function.

jv

Once more, Tumblr ends winning by just being there and doing nothing

mikkeneko

#*blows a kiss to the three remaining staff members making the buttons look Worse or whatever their latest project is*

victusinveritas

Happy International Women's Day

victusinveritas

salvadorbonaparte

happy international women's day to international women

salvadorbonaparte

the wording of this is a joke but I'm serious in the sense of solidarity with immigrant women, refugee women, women in exile, women in the 'global south', women in all countries where women's rights are being attacked.

salvadorbonaparte

It should go without saying that this includes trans women, since they are women.

women's rights include many things from trans rights (see above), reproductive rights, voting rights, labor rights, access to healthcare, access to education and many many more issues. These are usually not exclusively women's issues but often primarily or openly target women and people read as women.