existential female despair

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[mimosita]

ig: resibhaskoro

[fairycosmos]

IDK it pisses me off the way people act like murderers are some sort of great puzzle to be solved when 90% of the time its literally just a boring freak that hates women

[wishingformemoria]

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated. 

[wishingformemoria]

and you aren’t stupid for having trouble articulating yourself.

[andre-30008]

[notoriousmasc]

[anomalys-bane]

just because someone holds an opinion more calmly and less emotionally doesnt mean they're right either.

[cupcakesandmisandry]

[koiagain]

might be a hater But i fucking HATE the word whimsy its so overused No One even knows what it means anymore like ok buzzword buzzword buzzword bleak ass take Post on instagram with an ugly man in the background . Im so sick Of words

[captainjonnitkessler]

I've been thinking about "you cannot solve systemic problems with individual action" a lot lately and it's like. It's not that it's wrong exactly but I feel like it's become a thought-terminating cliche, a rallying cry for apathy and inaction.

You can't change anything with your actions so don't bother. You going vegetarian won't shut down a factory farm so don't bother. You buying something in sustainable packaging won't make a dent in the landfill so don't bother. You donating five bucks to a charity won't solve poverty so don't bother. You buying ethically-made clothing won't stop sweatshops from operating so don't bother.

I agree that the only way these problems are going to get solved is if the government enacts regulations to do so, but the key point here is that the government is not going to spontaneously do that. Everybody says they want to protect the environment and for people to make a living wage in the abstract but as soon as regulations start being passed people start throwing fits about how it's impacting their lives.

If the government banned factory farms, meat would suddenly be priced like a luxury item and people would throw fits about how poor people can't afford protein anymore, if they banned plastic packaging people would throw fits about how we're expected to bear the increased production costs, if they banned imports of items made in sweatshops or by slave labor people would throw fits about how they can't get their coffee and chocolate and electronics anymore.

There's a post on here about how community river clean-ups don't actually make much of an impact on water pollution, because the major cause of water pollution isn't random trash but industrial and agricultural run-off. But the clean-ups are still extremely valuable because they get the community invested in the cause of water pollution, the community starts taking pride in their local environment and start actually caring about environmental regulations on a personal level, and that grants activists the buy-in to push for changes that actually can reduce water pollution.

We absolutely must get individual buy-in before we can expect systemic change. You can't solve systemic problems with individual action, but you can't solve them without it either. Making small changes to your consumption habits isn't going to fix the world, but it gets people invested in and connected to the cause, it makes them feel like they're part of a larger movement, and it primes them to think of these regulations as wins for that movement rather than a sacrifice being forced upon them by the government.

"No individual solution for systemic problems" seems like it's just become a way to justify not having to actually do any work to address issues you claim to care about. It's just "surely someone will do something eventually" writ large.

[gnomebutch]

maybe “lash demons” was a bit inflammatory but people are so cruel and defensive when a woman ever mentions not wearing makeup it’s so creepy

[writers-bane]

[alienjoyer]

when people say sea creatures are aliens that pisses me right off. no man that’s your cousin. usually not even that far back. that thing’s still an animal. it’s not even like, a plant or a fungus or anything 90% of the time. and never a 🦠. thats cousin octopus. auntie fish. uncle sea cucumber. you know them.

[lamusedhermes]

Today’s watch.

[musicalmoritz]

Everyone has been lying about Supergirl. That movie was fucking perfect. Not surprised at all because I knew it would be, but I am still very pleased

[heyhoneyfox]

Maladaptive daydreaming as a child was like "what if I was in the digimon universe" and now it's like "what if someone genuinely loved me even though I'm flawed"

[marvelcomics22]

I don't care what anyone complaing that it's "too woke" or "too dark" has to say. Seeing Supergirl murder sex traffickers was amazing and I would watch it again in less than a heartbeat.

[arterialtrees]

Cool for You: A Novel by Eileen Myles

[hungry-skin-vacant-meat]

this one hurts

[now-exiting-fuckability-deactiv]

If it was a stripped woman on the cross men would jack off to it.

[hungry-skin-vacant-meat]

sigh. i wish you were wrong. i wish so badly that the world, that Males, could prove you wrong. but youre right. and they would prove you right ten thousand years over. and it fucking hurts.

[worldsandemanations]

By Sumeyra Yuce

[antiporn-activist]

If pornography made us healthy, we would be healthy by now.

- Dr. Mary Anne Layden

Dr Mary Anne Layden On Porn Addiction

Dr. Mary Anne Layden, Ph.D.Psychotherapist and Director of Education at the Center for Cognitive TherapyUniversity of Pennsylvania--Dr. Layd

[whereismydog]

I saw a post on tiktok talking about the message os supergirl. How it's telling young girls that they don't need to be perfect or 'lady like' to be a woman, they can be messy or blunt and still be a good person. They don't need to conform and be kind in the face of pain. They can scream, fight, cry, be ugly, be angry, and still be a good person no matter how much the world is determined to demonize them for it.

I've been so distracted with personal issues that I didn't even realize it. That's why it hits so hard for me, that's why it means so much to me.

My entire life I have been yelled at and hit for being too loud, for running around and not being lady like, for yelling and crying and screaming and 'acting like a boy'.

Kara is messy, she's blunt, she jumps into fights, drinks until she's loopy, etc etc

She's not a damsel or a perfectly behaved woman placed as a hero, she's just a person in pain. Who's pain is destructive and ugly in the way it's supposed to be, not some idealized version that keeps her 'pretty' for men to gawk at.

There's probably a bigger dive I could do but I'm emotionally exhausted lol