encouraging young girls to get plastic surgery because they’re insecure about not conforming to gender stereotypes enough will always be evil tbh.

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encouraging young girls to get plastic surgery because they’re insecure about not conforming to gender stereotypes enough will always be evil tbh.
When I was in high school we did an english unit on Octavia Butler and the teacher told us hey btw. You should call her "Butler" in your essays. Sometimes students call female writers by their first names unconsciously, but that's not acceptable. If you wouldnt call them William or Ernest you shouldn't call her Octavia.
And I was like cool whatever I was gonna call her Butler anyways. But that moment has stuck with me for my whole life because once you start seeing ppl calling women by their first names where men would be called by their last names you literally never stop seeing it.
what’s really amazing to me is that people are so afraid of body hair on women that even in a shaving commercial they won’t show a hairy leg. they demonstrate the razor by shaving a hairless leg. they show their product being completely useless instead of showing leg hair. it’s just crazy
From a pretty young age, I've always been skeptical of the notion that female victims of sexual assault are taken more seriously and have any sort of privilege over male victims of sexual assault, because I noticed most people, especially adults, genuinely seemed more upset and horrified when they heard of a man getting sexually assaulted.
For example, my mom's brother had a (male) roommate in uni who got up every morning at 5am to go for a run. Except one morning my uncle's roommate was violently sexually assaulted and later found unconscious by the side of the road.
I noticed as early as when I was 13/14 years old that if I told this story to adults, and left out the sex of the roommate (just saying "my uncle's roommate" without any gender markers) they would always assume the roommate was female, and their reaction to the story (as long as they were the assuming the roommate/sexual assault victim was female) was always a sort of boredom, they'd always say something along the lines of "hmm yeah, that's unfortunate and everything but she should have been more careful, it was probably a bad idea to be out running by herself so early in the morning" of course always with a bored "whatever" tone. Often if they were an adult they'd throw in a patronizing "well you're still young but as you get older you'll come to realize things like this are just a fact of life you know"
But AS SOON as I'd correct them and tell them actually, the roommate was a man, their reaction would INSTANTLY change from boredom to shock and horror. I'd get gasps, I'd get "WHAT?! A MAN?! HOW AWFUL!! Why would someone do that???" When just 10 seconds earlier when they believed that the roommate was female their reaction was a bored "well whatever these things happen and honestly it's kind of the roommate's fault you know" and suddenly it's shocking and horrible and WHY WOULD SOMEONE DO THAT when they knew the roommate was a man.
After a while it became, I don't want to say a game, maybe more of an experiment to tell that story, especially to adults, and leave out the gender of the roommate/victim, just to watch them every time a) assume the roommate/victim was female b) give some sort of bored and victim blaming response so long as they assumed the victim was female and then finally c) watch their reaction change to shock and horror and most importantly, sympathy, as soon as I corrected them to let them know the roommate was actually male. Every single time, without fail, it followed this formula.
So, when people claim male victims have a harder time than female victims when it comes to being taken seriously, I always gotta side eye them a little bit, because that sure hasn't been my experience.
Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. I click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.
Was recently in a rental car that kept turning the Bluetooth on my phone back on after I had turned it off
in barbieland, where everything was perfect for women, men were safe. they didn't suffer, they took full part in society, they just weren't the "main characters". but when Barbieland was captured by men, women were instantly in danger. they began to be held for service and objectified.
the authors conveyed the essence very well and clearly, which not everyone understood
Seeing a lot of posts like "umm why does everyone love bees and hate wasps, bees are bastards and they sting you why are they the only insect anyone actually cares about, why does everyone hate wasps when they're the same as bees"
Well you see, everyone ALSO used to hate bees. Like. You guys are just too young to remember when everyone who wasn't an apiarist or a gardener or an ecologist was militantly aggressive towards bees Because They Sting You. People would burn their hives and kill them all when they were found, not call a bee guy to relocate them, they'd stomp bees in the clover if they saw them. They actively hunted down and destroyed hives.
The reason "everyone loves bees" isnt an arbitrary whimsical choice because they're cuter than wasps. It's because bee lovers made a HUGE effort to encourage people to see bees as valuable pollinators and friendly little guys that just want to defend their hive. They taught people to see bees as cute and fluffy! There were awareness campaigns about the value of bees, there were advertisements, there were little documentaries and articles teaching people how to readjust their views on bees so that the hatred of them didn't cause complete ecological and agricultural collapse.
Bee lovers used to be in the exact same position that everyone who loves other insects is - you say that you like this creature and everyone in a 10km radius comes crawling over to tell you all the ways they personally would kill them.
The fact that it's so common now for people to think bees are cute fun little guys doing an important job is a fucking monumental victory and it was hard won, and it's as recent as in the last 20 years. When I was a kid in the 90s, everyone hated bees except ecologists and bug guys.
If you want this for wasps too (which i also want) you gotta put the work in to change people's perceptions.
True, I remember a kid in my 1991 grade school class even believed bees "steal" pollen from flowers. I also remember lizards, toads, and bats all still being loathed by everyone I met.
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how much of the strength divide between males n female is truly biological and how much is the result of epigenetic trauma from the worldwide comparative starvation of female children for thousands of years?
especially considering that nat geo article about prehistoric women being stronger today than female athletes. and even today girls are encouraged to eat less than boys, when i was a child i knew girls on diets aged EIGHT! chronic malnutrition severely impacts the ability to build muscle - multiply that by five thousand odd years, centuries of discouragement from exercise, positioning of strength as an ‘unfeminine’ quality, confinement to the home, constant pregnancy, sexual preference for weaker, delicate women, and you have a recipe for progressively weaker generations.
i don’t deny at all that there is some natural difference in strength levels, but i wonder how much of an impact the past millennia of misogyny has had on women’s strength, whether we will ever know the extent, and how long that would take to undo.
Also I think pedophilia plays a huge role in this. Men were taking for a fucking millennia really young brides and assaulting them I dont believe that it caused no consequences
They still are.
I don’t know how to embed a video on here, but this quote so poetically explained a concept I couldn’t put into words.
"Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott was a transgender man - LGBTQ Nation
here's an absolutely fucking infuriating article if you want to check it out. basically Louisa May Alcott was gender-non-conforming at a time when gender roles were much stricter than now, was attracted to women, and said that she felt like she had a man's soul in a woman's body, which used to be a common way of describing homosexuality before the word homosexual, so she must have been a man. go fuck yourself
TRAs calling every historical woman who displayed any level of gender non-conformity a man should be labelled as sexism, since it is. You cannot rewrite history to conform to your beliefs.
I wish more womyn would adopt the attitude that they can learn and do anything if they put their minds to it. No man would say he's fundamentally incapable of learning vehicle maintenance, carpentry, wood working, mechanics, handyman stuff, learning to use tools, etc etc. He just assumes he can learn how to do whatever strikes his fancy. Well so can we.
There are no exclusively male skills, there are no skills females are naturally incapable of learning or mastering
Sometimes we may have to compensate in ways men don’t for sheer strength required of certain physical tasks, but that’s not the same as them being completely inaccessible to us. It just means we need to work smarter than them, which we already know we’re good at
ANY woman is capable of learning ANY skill she puts her mind and efforts to
can’t focus on work. can only think of that one lesbian poem about chivalry
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