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If you see a woman with short hair/no makeup/body hair/comfortable clothes/etc and immediately assume she’s Not a Woman, you’re regressive as hell by the way

depsidase

laurierrose

thatraginglesbian-deactivated20

knowing u existed when ur grandmother was carrying your mother is such a raw female experience and things like that rlly puts into perspective why men r so jealous and had to come up with whole religions that put like the father the son and the holy ghost above real female power. “you were made from Adam’s rib” yeah haha ok buddy. you’ve existed inside two female reproductive systems before u even knew u were ALIVE and have the gall to say some dumb shit like women come from? A RIB? LMAO

bringiton

"There's a little witch in all of us." PRACTICAL MAGIC (1998), dir. Griffin Dunne.

comrade-meow

“For the kink community to feel okay about itself, it needs us to believe that there exists out there a huge number of men who are deeply, passionately, personally opposed to sexual violence and also super aroused pretending to rape and beat bound women. Sorry, not buying it.”

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Huff Yupp (via yoursocialconstructsareshowing)

THIS. THIS IS THE POST THAT ALL BDSM PEOPLE NEED TO READ.

(via lesbianwarfare)

galasgamingcorner

Would you take care of Fen, while I’m away?

janmisali

"don't you mean figuratively"

often, when people use "literally" in exaggerations, linguistic purists "correct" them by saying they "mean figuratively". the common counterargument among Cool Linguists tends to be "well, language is dynamic! words change meaning over time, and the word literally can mean figurativelyǃ’

this counterargument would be good, except that it misses the much more important way in which the linguistic purists complaining about "literally" are wrong.

no, literally doesn't mean figuratively!

in a use like "I literally died when I saw them", the word "literally" is not communicating "oh, by the way, this is a figure of speech". it still means literally! it's a hyperbole, and it's using a word that means "this means exactly what the words appear to mean at face value" as a way of enhancing the hyperbole.

the meaning of the word "literally" doesn't change just because it's being used in this way. it doesn't mean "figuratively"; it means "really" (which, not a coincidence, can also be a synonym for literally in its more technical sense).

what I find amusing about this is that these linguistic purists have latched onto a thing they dislike, but they can't really explain what they don't like about it or even what the thing they dislike means, so their "correction" is just "hey, you should have said the opposite word instead!". it's like if topology pedants saw people say a straw has two holes and corrected them by saying "um, actually, what you meant to say is that a straw has two bumps"