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How can I do this as a MAN?

Honestly, platform heels are absolutely not my favourite thing to wear for pole, but they are deeply connected to the history and modern context of pole. And if by wearing them I can show some people that it’s OK to not fit the “standard” template of masculinity or femininity, then that’s worth a bit of extra effort!

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1lluminae-files

UNMUTE!!

teaboot

POV u are delicious

dramatic-dolphin

the thing about the concept of gendered socialization is that so many people use it as like another kind of gender essentialism. you know it's not an immutable trait right. you can literally overcome it.

"i'm like this because women are socialized to be shy and quiet and subservient" okay good on you for recognizing it, but that's only the very first step. the next few steps are that you Stop Doing It. feminist thought vs feminist action.

dramatic-dolphin

and when ppl see a trans woman being confident and unafraid to take up space and decide it's because of her evil evil male socialization, i'm always like "wait you're saying this woman was raised as a child to be loud and confident and take up space? that's awesome, i thought that's how we WANTED people to raise girls? why exactly is it a problem now? 🤔"

like WHY are you telling trans women that they literally have to make themselves smaller and conform to the WORST gender exceptations of women to be seen as real women. since when is it evil and masculine to be confident, i thought we were supposed to be doing that. i thought that was feminism.

derinthescarletpescatarian

They also treat socialisation as some indelible artefact of the past, not an ongoing process. Women aren't just more shy and cautious on average because they were taught that as small children; they're like that because of the environment they're still in at forty or fifty. It's not some irremovable childhood brainwashing, it's a reasonable reaction to current circumstances. A great many trans women become more shy and quieter after coming out or transitioning because the people around them socially punish them for not doing so, same as previously shy and quiet cis women become more confident and take up more space when put in environments that don't punish them for it. They act like someone's personality and behaviour are branded into them based on whether they have a penis at eight years old, but that is simply not the case.

Whenever I see people who are like "trans women are all loud and aggressive and uncouth (/negative)" I automatically think "do you think black women are all loud and aggressive and uncouth (/negative) too? Because that's what you sound like. You sound like someone who met two or three women from an oppressed minority that were more confident than you wanted them to be, and decided that the whole demographic was beneath you in a different way for daring to not stay in their place."

Well brought my van in for an oil pan leak and left with A BENT FRAME!!!! Wtf

I swear to the unholy both back doors won’t open or close properly what do I do now?

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labelleizzy

Everyone reblog this. Mandatory.

carbonyldichloride

Starseeker

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A tiny Grocky

princesssokphanny

A once-in-a-lifetime shot — the moon perfectly framed by a rainbow. Caught at just the right time. 🌈 🌕

starlightandtears

Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.

vodcar

Flossie Wong-Staal - Wikipedia

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossie_Wong-Staal

yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666

you can always tell a major breakthrough is made by a woman, a woc or any poc because it’s either completely ignored or never credited like it just happened by itself

toomanyf4ndoms77

“Oh, Steph forced her way into being Robin!” It’s called taking initiative in a male dominated workplace.

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dubiousculturalartifact

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

rosethyme

"Who stabbed you in the eye, Polyphemus?" "Moi! Moi stabbed me!" "He stabbed himself. Sad."

cassettetapecryptid

prev tags from @heydocverdant

cricketcat9

100% would watch

kyraneko

Kermit's got all of the suitors convinced that entering the competitions multiple times under multiple names will increase their chances of winning, so the "meanwhile, back in Ithaca" scenes are a montage of the humans constructing elaborate false identities (with props) to compete again and again and again.

Some of them may or may not be references to previous roles the actors have played.

waitafrikk

i hate when a book describes a pause as pregnant. get your dick out of the pause

lunyselene

terry pratchett is the only person who actually knew how to use a pregnant pause

waitafrikk

hes the only one who could do anything good ever

What I find sad is I can’t show kids all the things I see on walks. I saw some endangered turtles in a small pond and couldn’t point them out because I can’t trust my little boy cousins not to show their friends or will post to half the planet where the are so they can me trapped or fished out and crushed by psychopaths. Keeping my mouth shut is the best thing I can do to save them, but sharing beautiful things with other humans used to be a pleasure

A naturalist friend helped find a lot of extremely old trees on manitoulin island and geo mapped them with pics so the Ontario govt could look into saving them and the next year went back to one to find it had been cut down. Then two, three, four, some hadn’t been fully cut down, just cut until it was understood the centre was rotten and unusable and left to become dangerous. The info had been sold to some mennonites so they could cut them down for furniture is what we were told. Thanks for abusing the foresters trust Ontario govt!

He’d also found some wild orchids and took some pics and showed very few people because they’re usually stolen for rich assholes and when he went back a week later all that was left was a shovel scrape.

kosmogrl

chaoticneutralwife

the next day after exerting myself too much because i felt good for once

vixvigil

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

rosslynpaladin

I need you young people to know it was almost never this hot when I was a child. Millennials and Gen Xers are all nostalgic and excited about summer because it was about ten to twenty degrees cooler to experience it back then!

I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.

But any time you wonder wtf the weather is doing- THIS IS NOT NORMAL, NO. THIS IS NOT WHAT IT WAS EVEN TWENTY YEARS AGO.

should-be-sleeping

In the 90's the record breaking summer temp where I lived was like 85 degrees btw. It's been over 100 for a week straight now.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Where I live, the deciduous trees have been losing their leaves in winter instead of autumn for several years now and the first time I got swooped by nesting birds this year was July 15th, the actual dead middle of winter. They're supposed to herald the spring.