btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here
Dan and Phil recreating and roleplaying falling in love. Phil wanting the lion costume. "Phil loves Dan". Phil choosing Dan over Hudson. Dan yelling at the girl in prague to stay away from Phil. Confessing with "that was the most fun I ever had". Phil still having the photocard in his phone case.
you must defeat my several exes which I refrain from passing moral judgment upon out of a place of empathy but whom definitely acted in ways that, although understandable within the context of their life and the forces they were subject to, inflicted a lot of deep wounds I did not deserve to delicate parts of myself which have not and may never heal. if you want in my boy hole, that is.
dan repeating âFOR COUPLESâ when showing the ultimate date night game and grinning ear to ear because heâs not been able to say that with his whole chest about this game before :) i want to die.
Yo I feel like the idea that the only historical women who counted are the ones who defied society and took on the traditionally male roles is⌠not actually that feminist. It IS important that women throughout history were warriors and strategists and politicians and businesswomen, but so many of us were âlowlyâ weavers and bakers and wives and mothers and I feel like dismissing THOSE roles dismisses so many of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers and the shit they did to support our civilization with so little thanks or recognition.
YES. This is such an important point. Those âgirlyâ girls doing their embroidery and quilting bees and grass braiding were vital parts of every domestic economy that has ever existed.
This is precisely what chaps my hide so badly about the misuse of the quote âWell-behaved women seldom make history,â because this is precisely what the author was actually trying to say.
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a domestic historian who developed new methodologies to study well-behaved women because they were
1) so vital, and
2) their lives were rarely recorded in the usual old sources.
âHoping for an eternal crown, they never asked to be remembered on earth. And they havenât been. Well-behaved women seldom make history; against Antinomians and witches, these pious matrons have had little chance at all. Most historians, considering the domestic by definition irrelevant, have simply assumed the pervasiveness of similar attitudes in the seventeenth century.â
Original article: âVertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial
Literature, 1668-1735â (pdf download from Harvard)
If you didnât know: Abagail Adams (John Adamsâ wife) led a very successful effort to fund the American Revolution. How did she and her tiny army of women do it?
They made lace, and sold it to the aristocrats. Real lace (the stuff you see on old outfits in museums, not the machine-made stuff you might be familiar with from today) is stupidly difficult to make, takes a lot of time and skill, and, well:
If you watch this through, youâll hear her say this is DOMESTIC lace. This is not fancy, this is for household objects. You can imagine what it would take to make some of the elaborate pieces you see on old aristocratic clothing, and see why it was so expensive and valuable. (Incidentally, if youâve ever heard the music from the musical 1776, in the song where Abagail and John are trading letters and heâs like âmaâam we need saltpeterâ and sheâs like âdude we need pins,â THIS IS WHAT THEY NEEDED THE PINS FOR. That song was based on real letters between the two.)
And this is all those revolutionary Revolutionary women did, every free moment of every day. They pulled out their pins and their bobbins and they made lace until they couldnât see straight, and they sold it to revolutionaries and royalists alike, anyone who would pay. Yard upon yard upon yard of lace to earn cash to translate into rations and bullets.
The war was won by a womenâs craft. Not even a âvitalâ womenâs craft like cooking or cleaning. It was won by making a luxury item whose entire purpose was to say âlook how wealthy I am, I can afford all this lace.â
Lace was not the only source of income for the Revolution. But it was a major one, and it is extremely fair to say it turned the tide.
If you know Discworld, you know the observations about âladies who organizeâ?
Thatâs not something Pterry made up. That is reality. Ladies Who Organize have been a major driving force of history - usually unremembered b/c everyone remembers the guy who was officially involved and not, eg, his wife who organized a massive letter writing campaign and seven soirĂŠes that funded Mr Historicalâs entire enterprise.
Ladies Who Organize both started and ended Prohibition, as noted above funded American Independence, and were the ONLY people who got their shit together with regards to eg the 1918 Flu in a lot of cities (Philadelphia is a really great example).
Ladies Who Organize is just ONE area of history where thatâs the case. Itâs just they did things in mostly socially accepted ways and when they pushed the envelope they did it strategically and tactically, leveraging whatever else they had to offset that.
Now, we get to know about them because they were not only nearly universally literate but MASSIVELY WORKED VIA LETTERS so as we started actually paying attention we had sources. Imagine how many of these weâve lost because the record ONLY contained the other stuff.
For the record, this is what the phrase âWell-behaved women seldom make historyâ actually means.
Thatâs not me just saying that, thatâs what the author of the book by that name meant by it:
At the time (1970s) that Ulrich was writing her article, she writes in the book, the discipline of history was not very interested in the everyday ordinary lives of peopleâespecially not interested in the ordinary lives of women. Her statement, âwell-behaved women seldom make history,â was a commentary on how her academic discipline was not interested in the activities of âwell-behaved womenâ because they were not considered worth studying. In that context, the words had a mostly literal meaning.
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Since women throughout much of history have been encouraged (if not forced) to adopt behaviors sanctioned by men instead of having the freedom to do as they wished, being a âwell-behaved womanââand whether that was good or badâwas based on a personâs perspective. Several posters/graphics currently available featuring Ulrichâs statement have pictures of well-known women who were pioneers/leaders in various fields (including Amelia Earhart, Rosa Parks, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg). These women, for the most part, were not considered âwell-behavedâ by society as a whole, at least at the times they were making the contributions to history for which they became known.
Most bumper sticker slogans do not originate in academic publications. However, in the 1970s, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich penned in a scholarly a
While telling the stories of these history-making women, Ulrich illuminates the intended meaning behind the slogan that is the title of her book. When the slogan appears out of context, it becomes open to wide interpretation, and has, subsequently, been used as a call to activism and sensational â even negative â behavior. In fact, Ulrich says, the phrase points to the reasons that womenâs lives have limited representation in historical narrative, and she goes on to look at the type of people and events that do become public record.
Throughout history, âgoodâ womenâs lives were largely domestic, notes Ulrich. Little has been recorded about them because domesticity has not previously been considered a topic that merits inquiry. It is only through unconventional or outrageous behavior that womenâs lives broke outside of this domestic sphere, and therefore were recorded and, thus, remembered by later generations. Ulrich points out that histories of âordinaryâ women have not been widely known because historians have not looked carefully at their lives, adding that by exploring this facet of our past, we gain a richer understanding of history.
âPeople express such surprise when they discover that women have a history. It is liberating that the past can not be reduced to such stereotypes,â says Ulrich. âI hope that someone would take away from this book that ordinary people could have an impact, and to try doing the unexpected. I would like to show that history is something that one can contribute to.â
one way this is so obvious is how people know medieval European farmers spent tons of energy making bread, but what women did is reduced to âidk childcareâ?
I need everyone on this post talking about how hot jumpsuits are in general to know that I agree, but also that we specifically need to sexualize them in a janitorial context. if your sexy butch in a jumpsuit isn't wearing a name tag and carrying a mop and wheeling around one of those big corrugated plastic trash cans then you need to pay more respect to our working-class heroes
I apologize for making a post that wasn't about feminine women. I will go back to the trash corner where you shove all the butches so you don't have to look at us. I hope the tumblr community at large can forgive me for briefly decentering the hyperfeminine. In the meantime however maybe you could make your own fucking post
i do appreciate the way that we tumblr users have evolved our language to discuss our feelings related to The Character/The Guy. you used to have to just say he was hot or he was making your ovaries explode or he was a precious cinnamon roll even if he looked bad or was just kind of standing there or whatever. now you can say things like âthe creatureâ or âhe looks so sopping wet hereâ or âi want to chain him to my radiatorâ like itâs just more inclusive and adaptable to the situation
as someone on the asexual spectrum, this shift in language genuinely made me feel more comfortable and happy in fandom spaces. i've never once wanted to lick a man's abs. i HAVE wanted to chain a man to my radiator. and that's beautiful.
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