a cringe fail bisexual

mostly just a mix of reblogs abt radfem stuff and random shit i like

[undying-princess]

knowing how it tends to go with male authors and their wives it was probably marge who wrote the odyssey

[partywithponies]

Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

[partywithponies]

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

[partywithponies]

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

[dizzyghoast]

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case

[meangirlnurse]

fascinating how often men expect women to sympathize with their fears of being perceived as or treated like a woman

[meangirlnurse]

so much "masculinity" is constructed around the certainty that being gay or being a woman is inherently demeaning. and we're supposed to nod along supportively

[meangirlnurse]

"male loneliness crisis" ok so like.....what would happen if you started acting like a better friend to other men in your life? what's stopping you? is it the fear of being perceived as one of your inferiors?

[meangirlnurse]

"men aren't allowed to show emotions" ok so like…..what would happen if you started being more emotionally expressive? what's stopping you? is it the fear of being perceived as one of your inferiors?

[meangirlnurse]

#patriarchy hurts men #patriarchy hurts boys

i think you've VERY fundamentally misunderstood the point of my post tbh

men and boys first and foremost hurt themselves to avoid being perceived as their lessers (i.e. women and gay men)

they could stop. but the punishment is being perceived as one of us, and that would be just terrible. so they won't.

[kickair8p]

“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem.”

— The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004), p. 66, by bell hooks

So, yeah, those tags seem to me to be reasonably related to your point.

[meangirlnurse]

yes, your tags would be appropriate for an entirely different person's book. not my post. well observed

the entire point of the of the post is that i'm not going to sympathize with men experiencing "rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem" when that self-esteem is built on and maintained by the foundational belief they must be inherently superior to me

if they gave up that belief, those "rituals" would have very little power. but they clearly understand that they benefit from patriarchy more than they are harmed by it, which is why they won't let it go

hope this helps

[veritablevent]

you can't girlboss your way out of the humiliation of performing femininity. miniskirts are supposed to humble you by having you stay alert to them riding up and exposing you. high heels are supposed to humble you by having you move carefully, wary of twisting an ankle (or stumbling and exposing yourself). make-up is supposed to humble you by having you control your feeding and resting habits, lest you smudge it. there's sexualization imbedded in them. they are SUPPOSED to embarrass you, because the ultimate titillation is the assertion of control over you. you can't desex them.

[witchsteria]

i do think what gets ignored about carrie as a character is that she’s an incredibly easy target to bully; she’s a chubby, sheltered acne ridden teenage girl who wears frumpy grandma clothes and regurgitates the jesus freak shit her violently abusive mother tells her. she has violent thoughts about her classmates and is uncomfortable to be around. she’s far more interesting being a victim that’s somewhat uncomfortable to be in the head of than a tragic waif. she’s not a martyr, she’s a child and a child who’s been victimised her whole life shouldn’t have to be kind and angelic to be recognised as a victim. suffering teenage girls shouldn’t just be presented on screen as toned down glamorous thin ophelias, suffering teenage girls can be fat and poor and think violently. i do think we need to examine why culturally we need teenage girls to be beautiful and kind to valorise their suffering and treat it as bad

[askyfullfolilac]

when uve gotten lots of new friends this year and u all get along great and they seem to genuinely like u and they want to hang out often, but the "everybody secretly merely tolerates me out of politeness or pity and is constantly annoyed by me"-paranoia hits, and the urge to self isolate and push everybody away hits hard

[narutwitter]

[microraptorhours]

i love you archival work. i love you alphabetizing. i love you sorting. i love you reshelving. i love you document restoration. i love you shelf reading. i love you inventorying. i love you analysis. i love you archival work.

[disorientation]

Having a "stupider people have done this" attitude about the things you want to do can open so many doors

[throathole]

The way that when you’re a child other children can bully you and single you out as an acceptable target for abuse and socially isolate you to the point that it permanently changes your personality, your self worth and the way you interact with other adults for the rest of your life. And there’s nothing that can really be done about this. All you can do is just keep getting older and put more years between your current self and the frightened child that you were. Nothing happens to the kids that bullied you, they might not even remember doing it at all

[dimir-charmer]

Girls will be like Idk why im so unproductive recently and then you ask whats going on in their life and they list eight lifestopping crisies and then say 'yeah but i should be fine :/ '

[wifegideonnav]

can i be honest for a sec. if you see one of those things where they draw male comic book characters in female characters’ poses or use female video game characters’ animations with male models or whatever and your response is “haha yay i love it when men are sluts” you should strongly consider shutting up forever.

[wifegideonnav]

seeing a certain post go around again. i don’t know how to tell you guys this but the reason it’s funny to watch ganon run around like zelda is because the edit exposes the inherent lack of dignity in that kind of hyperfemininity. the humor comes from the juxtaposition between a “strong” and “serious” character and the visual signifiers of womanhood. they were crucifying anita sarkeesian in the mainstream for this surface level feminist analysis over a decade ago.

[archduchesskittycat]

2012.

[wifegideonnav]

can i be honest for a sec. if you see one of those things where they draw male comic book characters in female characters’ poses or use female video game characters’ animations with male models or whatever and your response is “haha yay i love it when men are sluts” you should strongly consider shutting up forever.

[wifegideonnav]

seeing a certain post go around again. i don’t know how to tell you guys this but the reason it’s funny to watch ganon run around like zelda is because the edit exposes the inherent lack of dignity in that kind of hyperfemininity. the humor comes from the juxtaposition between a “strong” and “serious” character and the visual signifiers of womanhood. they were crucifying anita sarkeesian in the mainstream for this surface level feminist analysis over a decade ago.

[archduchesskittycat]

2012.

[pngblog]

[piranesies]

they should invent putting on sunscreen that doesn't feel like putting on sunscreen

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[quiet-doll]

recently saw ppl discuss whether they put their medicines in a kitchen cabinet or a bathroom cabinet and i was shocked by the fact that many ppl said kitchen cabinet. so now i need you to reblog this and say where you keep yours