[babyanimalgifs]

A massive grouper (toilet on the left for scale) 

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[j-liz]

[swingsetindecember]

ok, i’m built like a noble ox. like i am 6′1 and i am sturdy lady. like thighs for days. if you try to move me. you will be moved. body images aside (lol, i am self conscious about my size, yeah it’s life) 

so like, i am very used to girls standing next to me in public places. i end up acquiring a pack of ladies. just because women are like, that lady is a lady men stay away from. i am jerk kryptonite (usually, i get my fair share of creeps, such is life) but most men have self preservation that this 6′1 ox will break them. and i will

so usually i am in my own phone and look up to another lady standing next to me. and i will immediately look up and make eye contact and nod. like, you know, that nod. i see you and you can talk if there is something wrong. i end up on a reg basis being a defacto bodyguard to these young ladies and small women while waiting for buses and in the metro. 

i am a large oak tree. i protect the other birds. 

ladies, we all got roles. find tree in the wild. we’re always happy to provide shelter from the creeps.

i’ve regularly said, “move on, she doesn’t want to be your friend”

[grimm-fairy]

I’m in love

[paranoidhousecats-deactivated20]

Story time: So I’m 6’2 and “big boned” as my mother would call it. This happens to me all the time and a couple years ago I managed to get the the front row of a Macklemore concert. This woman, probably 5’4, squeezes up next to me and says, “Hey, I’m here alone, do you mind if I stand in front of you?” Of course not. So we’re all having a good time, dancing around, when all of a sudden this Bro™️ is behind me telling me that I’m too tall to be in the front row and it’s not fair. Now, keep in mind that this concert was outside, in February, in Vail CO. It was FREEZING so not only am I of the stature I am but I had my hair up and a beanie on and a big coat and boots. We try our best to ignore him but Bro™️ is drunk and very clearly thinks I’m a man and proceeds to punch me in the back of the head.

LIL SIS WENT OFF, FOLKS. This tiny woman literally moved me out of the way, jumped up, and head butted Bro™️ in the face with such a fury. I thought she was going to kill him, it was truly a beautiful moment in my life.

The moral of the story is that for every tree in the wild there is a cute little birdy who will defend its shelter to the death. Stick together ladies👯‍♀️

[cricketcat9]

Some of us are oak trees, some of us are little birdies, some of us are squirrels, some of us are…tree snakes… but whatever you are, stick together, ladies! 

[starkmaiden]

Mary and Kitty Bennet alone at home after their sisters get married.

[mini-wrants]

“Why aren’t we allowed on the wall?”

“BECAUSE WE’RE NOT BETROTHED TO MEN!”

[xekstrin]

the delivery on these lines, the music in the background..... I had to watch this several times

[kurdishstruggle-deactivated2017]

“Men are afraid that the woman becomes strong. Because the strength of a woman can destroy his rule.”

(Abdullah Öcalan, Kurdish Leader & PKK founder)

[bulbasaur-propaganda]

This is amazing 😍

By daveliquidlizard / Instagram

[kingkumaaa]

When the whole party is down but your bard is up

[artemisandlioness]

My brain when I’m half knocked out on my sleeping tablets:

What country does Germans speak

No ... Germans’ the country. What language do Germans speak

Germanese

[artemisandlioness]

What the FUCK

Dark Angel season 3 would have been

E P I C

[artemisandlioness]

I’m almost finished Dark Angel and I know Max and Alec don’t get together but damn it I still ship them. I don’t love that I’m shipping a hetero couple but they’re both so damn pretty...

[vampireteethcollection-deactiva]

If you think that bdsm can be used as self harm by women of all sexualities but think that lesbians cant self harm with het sex... your pattern recognition begins and ends at the glaringly obvious

[taramaclaywasaterf]

Last time this bullshit discourse went down I remember multiple women saying “if you were a real lesbian you would’ve just walked away, even if you were only 13 or 14” when talking about lesbians who felt pressured to kiss/have sex with boys/men when they were very young. It was at that point I said “fuck this shit” and tuned out the whole thing. It’s gone straight from genuienly protecting the lesbian label from bisexual and heterosexual women appropriating it, straight to victim blaming, misogyny, and outright hypocritical denial of the most basic tenets of feminist theory (female socialization, heteronormity, the pressure on young girls to have sex, etc.)

There’s nothing wrong with the term “gold star.” I think it IS something that should be celebrated. And we need to be working towards a world where ALL lesbians are goldstars. But the fact of the matter is, in the world we’re living in right now- that’s not the case. Telling women that they’re not “real” lesbians because they felt pressured to kiss a boy once at age 11 is flat out ridiculous. Telling a woman that she’s not a “real” lesbian because in high school she ended up “consenting” to having sex with a boy one time because that’s what she felt she had to do to be cool, or to be “normal”, or because he pressured her, is disgusting. Telling a woman she’s not a “real” lesbian because she’s forced to partner with man because she’s genuinely scared for her life due to homosexuality being illegal and/or punishable by death where she lives or the oppressive religious beliefs of her family, is fucking cruel. Telling women like me who were abused, groomed, raped, and forcibly impregnated as teenagers by an adult man and still have to take burning hot showers just to get the feeling of his hands off us, that we’re not “real lesbians” because if we were, we wouldn’t have “let ourselves” be groomed and raped (yep, that’s something I was actually fucking told last time this ~discourse happened!), makes you flat out fucking evil.

Last time this all went down, I watched them tell a 60-something year old lesbian who kissed ONE boy when she was a teenager (maybe even younger than that) and hated it and has since been exclusively with women, that she’s not a real lesbian. ONE boy. The implication that dick is just so goddamn powerful that so much as breathing in its direction one time before you’ve barely even hit puberty is enough to define you as a person for the rest of your life makes me fucking sick.

There’s a massive difference between wanting to have sex with someone + consenting to it + enjoying it + seeking it out again, versus doing something you feel you HAVE to do because you think you have no other choice. They need to be focusing on the bisexual women who are actively sleeping with men while calling themselves lesbians, not demonizing other lesbians for not having the same life experiences they did, because this shit has crossed so many lines it’s fucking unreal.

[primordial-fungus-monolith]

Women go to college to get more knowledge

Men go to my torture maze to atone

[beca-mitchell]

The gardener did not even introduce herself to the new au pair. She barely acknowledged her at all. Simply treated her as if she’d always been there. The others just assumed they’d already met, which, if she were honest, was how the au pair felt when she first saw the young woman.

[padre-conceptual]

@femoid420 didn't want to reblog directly because that post is long as hell and I've already reblogged it once, but gay men don't have a history of straight and bi men appropriating their sexuality to this extent. There's no equivalent of "political lesbianism" for gay men, and if there is, it's not popular at all. Some bi men call themselves gay or straight instead of bi, but it's not to the same extent, nor do they write articles and stories about how they still sleep with women despite being "gay" (the "I slept with my male roommate because of covid" woman and the radfem professor who made a whole film about dicks come to mind).

[femoid420]

sure, gay men don't have an equivalent to political lesbianism, because no movement framed male homosexuality as a political choice. however, plenty of bi men call themselves gay while continuing to sleep with women, and there isn't months-long tumblr discourse over it. gay men have married women and fathered children only to come out later in life, and no one questions them and says they're really bi. no one says a gay man who has had a single past experience with a woman isn't gay. to be very clear, i am not defending non-lesbians who appropriate the label and attempt to redefine it to include attraction to men. i understand the anger and frustration towards those women. they're homophobic as fuck and make things more dangerous for us by saying we're available to males. sometimes this discussion just veers too close to "women are fundamentally changed by intercourse with a man" for my comfort, and i feel that it's right to point out that men do not get the same treatment.

[deseos-de-la-via-lactea]

[lizzibennet]

did carrie underwood effectively utilize girl power when she dug her key into the side of her bf’s pretty little souped up four wheel drive, carved her name into its leather seats, took a louisville slugger to both headlights and slashed a hole in all four tires? discuss

[silenthill]

yes because this song was 90% of what convinced my mom to divorce my dad.

[artemisandlioness]

You fucking bet she did

[carrionkid]

i love “character kills their abuser” stories so much

more characters killing their abusers and less forgiving their abusers

[jdeko]

yay for violence! murder is always the solution!

[sovietz]

correct! justice for victims!

[girlslovegrls]

im here for my lesbians who’ve done stuff to try and like boys that they aren’t proud of. for those who feel gross because they’ve kissed boys they didn’t like and for those who’ve done more. compulsory heterosexuality is hard and tricky and i want you to know you’re no less of a lesbian, you are not dirty.

[genderresister]

This is false. Please stop spreading this. Lesbians don’t willingly “do stuff with boys to try and like boys” . Compulsory heterosexuality is not a lesbian experience, It’s a bisexual experience.

Refer to @regina-geourge for more insight on lesbian sexuality.

[bulldyke-rider-deactivated20251]

Trying to like men is a lesbian experience. Maybe it wasn’t your experience, and it wasn’t my experience. But it’s a lesbian experience.

You think bi women work for years to be straight? No, if they don’t wanna have same sex relationships for any reason, they just live their lives with men. It doesn’t take effort.

Internalized homophobia causes some lesbians to do things they do not want to do. But maybe they think they’re supposed to. Maybe they think they can fake it till they make it. Maybe they have unhealthy ideas of sexuality and think being uncomfortable and unhappy and maybe even in pain is something they should just put up with. There are places in the world where women still have to marry men; even in the US, you can be coerced into arranged/semi-arranged marriage. Maybe they’re intentionally trying to convert themselves, or maybe they just don’t know.

[genderresister]

I’ve seen lesbians dispute the very idea of compulsory heterosexuality. which posits that lesbians can experience doubts or confusion about their attraction to women. Which is not true, lesbians are women who are fully aware of their attraction to women and aversion/lack of attraction to men when they hit puberty or even before then. Homosexual women do not desire sexual/intimate contact with men. The mere thought disgusts them. No amount of heteronormative control can persuade a lesbian into sex and relationships with men because it is a violation of their intrinsic nature.

I’m not a lesbian myself, I’m bi. But I’ve read some eye-opening dialogue on comphet written by lesbians.

[opisaterf]

if you’re bi you need to mind your fucking business and stay out of lesbian issues, especially profoundly sensitive ones like this. you’re extremely out of line.

[genderresister]

So I’m not allowed to combat lesbophobia because I’m bi? I’m not allowed to share unpopular views? Yall are starting to sound alot like libfems.

[opisaterf]

arguing with lesbians about their own intracommunity issues IS lesbophobia. you’re not combatting anything. you’re dictating lesbian experience to actual lesbians as someone who is not a lesbian. you do not get to pick who the right lesbians and wrong lesbians are. you sound a lot like a dickhead.

[genderresister]

HOW AM I DICTATING THE LESBIAN EXPERIENCE WHEN IM LITERALLY REPEATING WHAT A LESBIAN SAID.

I thought it was lesbophobic to say that lesbians have sex with men, but go off I guess. Lol.

[opisaterf]

are you dumb? is something seriously not clicking in your brain????? you’re repeating it TO OTHER LESBIANS. you don’t get to pick whatever opinion you agree with and then use it to argue with lesbians that disagree when it’s an intracommunity issue. you don’t get to weaponize that opinion at other lesbians to undermine their sexuality based off of painful and traumatic things they might have done while growing up in a deeply homophobic society. it’s like a man trying to argue against feminism to me while saying “how am I being a misogynist when I’m literally repeating what Phyllis Schlafly said?”

[riprootsradical-deactivated2021]

what i don’t get here is the idea that only real homosexuals ALWAYS know EXACTLY what their sexuality is IMMEDIATELY and if they EVER have ANY experience with the opposite sex, they cannot be homosexual. 

[genderresister]

Well, yeah. uncertainty or curiosity over ones sexual orientation is a bisexual experience. Lesbians, like straight women, know that they are solely attracted to one sex and averse to the other.

[smittywerbenjaegermannjensen]

Compulsive Heterosexuality is NEVER a bisexual experience, and is ALWAYS a gay experience. It’s also not “Curiosity over one’s sexual orientation.” 

Compulsive Heterosexuality is the act of engaging in heterosexual activity while being homosexual, that’s why it’s “compulsive,” by it’s very definition it cannot apply to bisexuals as bisexuals are attracted to the opposite sex naturally. 

Compulsive Heterosexuality is compulsive and takes root in gay people’s behavior because of conservative societies, upbringings, and social pressures leading gay people to feel self loathing and denial at their own sexuality. 

They will try to “cure” themselves, try to make themselves “normal,” and punish themselves for their own homosexual urges with it. They may also grow up completely unaware of what their attraction to the same sex has meant, and will have misinterpreted it as admiration or platonic love- and continue down the path that everyone they know goes down- Heterosexuality. 

The scars left behind can be extremely traumatic.

It is 100% pure homophobia for a bisexual- who has NO understanding of what it’s like to be gay- to be lecturing real gay people on a gay issue. 

I have seen gay users on this site claim Compulsive Heterosexuality isn’t real because of how threatened the gay community has been by bisexuals claiming to be gay. They will claim that someone who has experienced this is actually a bisexual trying to call themselves gay to be appropriative. 

Those gay people will engage in debates with other gay people who disagree, and so on, as it’s been for years- but it’s not the place of a bisexual to butt in. 

If you’re so worried about homophobia, then don’t sit there and try to tell gay people about the gay experience- and educate yourself. You don’t even seem to know the difference between CH and experimenting. 

[sappho-the-witch]

Yeah fuck me I guess for trying to “cure” my homosexuality and be “normal” and try to have my extremely hateful, christian family to love me and to not have their god send me into an entirety of torment.

A lot of this discourse is just so unsympathetic to lesbians who live in 3rd world countries or under the Bible Belt, where christian cults thrive and literally beat the fear of god into their gay children. Sometimes with a belt, sometimes with a bible, sometimes with a 2 by 4. A lot of yall show that you dont know what it’s like to have your anatomy and sense of self completely ripped away from you by a christ cult, only for them to fill you up with self hatred and demand you perform the role they laid out for you like a monkey.

Yall need to learn some fucking empathy

[artemisandlioness]

A bisexual: hey guys listen to me and this one teenage lesbian that other lesbians can’t stand, we are the authority on the lesbian experience

Lesbians: you’re not and that’s offensive

A bisexual: Wow you’re lesbophobic