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[ihatethesexpisto1s]

me expressing my love and support for harry and his music when no one asked:

[kinoaida]

[feelboss]

me: i’m fine

internally: *the tunnel scene from willy wonka*

[jacklives]

[quasi-normalcy]

No, I’m serious, if women all got together and went into electrical engineering or automotive repair en masse, then ten years later people would be talking about how it was a “soft field” and it would pay proportionately less than other fields.

Likewise, if men moved en masse to bedeck themselves in sparkles and make-up, then suddenly you’d get a bunch of editorials talking about how classy they look.

None of these things are inherently masculine or feminine; none of these things inherently elevate you or drag you down. But whatever women are seen to do is automatically seen as being inherently more frivolous than anything men do. And shaming women for not pigeonholing themselves into a narrow range of acceptable “masculine” behaviours is just going to result in the goalposts getting moved once again.

[an-gremlin-deactivated20160222]

This is literally what happened to basically every field women have entered. The opposite happens when men enter. Computers used to be a “woman thing” until the guys who did it got really mad about how badly their job was viewed and realized they could fix it by forcing out women.

[meariver]

Also happened/ is happening with the fields of biology and psychology….

[quasi-normalcy]

I honestly wonder how much of the backlash against public education in the last generation has been due to teaching becoming a woman-dominated profession.

[warpedellipsis]

Fashion used to be a men’s thing. Then women got involved in the late 17/1800’s, so men went the other way because it came to be seen as “frivolous” and “anti-intellectual” to care about how you looked. Add in the homophobia that arose around that time, bam, staid bland dress. Ditto leggings/tights, that are now called attention-whoring when on men they were required to show you cared about your figure and had the money to pay for such a fitted item. 

People want to say misogyny doesn’t exist, that male privilege doesn’t exist. Look beyond “living memory” and you’ll find that’s what drives the “inexplicable reversals” society seems to make on many things. Hell, just look beyond your own society, and you’ll find out that what’s considered “for men” elsewhere is held in high esteem while here it’s scoffed at purely because it’s “for women”: 

Skinny jeans are the height of masculinity in several east Asian societies, rather than being seen as “gay” in the USA because of their association with femininity. 

Medical fields in Russia are valued like kindergarten teachers are here, because it’s women who are the doctors instead of men.

Love and romance are highly valued in eastern countries, because men are interested in it too—of course they would be, surely you want to share your life with someone? Here, it’s strictly a women’s subject.

[darksnowfalling-deactivated2020]

The field of anthropology as a whole illustrates this.

Significantly higher proportions of females compared to males are currently entering the fields of archaeology and biological anthropology, and as this occurs, the prestige, funding, acceptance as valid kinds of science, etc, are fading quickly.

This has already occurred with linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology in particular went VERY quickly from being seen as a manly, scientific discipline (e.g., Franz Boas, Bronisław Malinowski) to being seen as a touchy-feely female thing.

[curlyenglish]

Me: *whispers* So i said to her, angelina i want to i really really want to but what about brad, brad's like a son to me. youre a good man. i know i know. BZZZZZZT come in ! one direction are here to see you. who? one direction, you're making their new movie, shall i send them in? Sure ! i love new movies. THEYRE HERE THE REAL MOVIE STARS THE BIGGEST BAND ON THE PLANET. all right they are, i love the direction come on in guys take a seat!! CAN i just say what HUGE fans we are of you guys huge! niall louis liam harry zack! its zayn. Sure whatever you say big guy - We cannot wait for this movie, its gonna be the greatest movie of all time. Im talkin' academy awards, emmys, baftas - Have you ever seen forest gump? sure. better than that. Have you seen the Hangover? yeah. Funnier than that! Have you see titanic? 'Course. sadder than that. Sounds ok - its better than okay zack... its award winning. We wanna introduce you to our marketing guy - Marcel! Marcel! oop hi HERE HE ISSSS hes gonna run you through some thoughts for the movie. REally nice to meet you guys im a hhhhuge fan. cute as a button every single one of you ! first scene im talking massive dance number - I'm thinking a hundred dancers, fireworks, the lot, dance is just so hOT RIGHT NOW! hey.. you know i used to be a dance? really? what kind? eh.. mainly tap. hmmm you got the shape for that . I want you to meet leeroy he's gonna be your choreographer! Leeroy! hm HI BOYS HI! OK SO HERES WHAT IM THINK FIRST EVERY NUMBA IS GONNA BE REAAALLY BIG - STAY WITH ME CUZ IM QUITE QUICK AND FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT andonetwothreeforfivesixseveneight and niall for the shimmy for the shimmy for the shimmy and zayn pirouette and louis do the splits and liam you stay exactly where you are 'coz you are perrr-fect... we'd never do that. ohh... so.. thats something for us to work on - thanks Leeroy! so lets take a look at some of the styling options for the film, now personally i think this one is the one - absolutely not, we'd never wear that - right.. how 'bout this one! - no - it tested really well! - never in a million years- tada!!

My Mom: .....

Me:....

[hiyatus]

[fuckyeahharrystyles]

i actually felt my heart drop to my fucking stomach

This is the best moment ever, hands down.

[brown-nena]

I warned y'all

[lvchd-deactivated20170404]

Killed Confirmed at 6:20PM

[let-them-eat-cake21-deactivated]

HE DEAD! You know he dead.

[ugly-bread]

Brutal

[usbdongle-deactivated20200531]

you ever notice a lot of stuff is considered poor and gross unless its upper middle class (white) people doing it

food trucks in the 90s were the realm of taco trucks and fairground food and were always considered unhygienic and nasty until all these rich city kids started opening food trucks and now they’re “trendy” and “innovative”

riding your bike to work is only considered geofriendly if you can also afford to drive a car but don’t want to, then you’re saving the earth, everyone else isn’t somehow??

recycling old cheap stuff to be used as furniture and wearing really old clothing is a sign of poverty unless you’re doing it a certain way or wearing a certain kind of old clothing

double standards are gross and you should expose them in your life as much as possible

[schrutevshalpert]

[one-harrystyles]

[strangcore]

makin’ my way downtown walkin’ fast not that cold im climatised

staring blanky ahead just makin’ my way with all my files to the car

and I need to and I want to its why I practise law

if I could free steve avery do you think kratz ’d be mad at me ‘cus you know id walk a thousand miles if I could just fix the judicial system

[zaynharry]

x

[godlymalik]

i can’t believe 1d’s last performance is going to be on the same stage they started on

[gay4zayn]

Zayn and Liam scene from “This Is Us” +

[lexiegreysgirlfriend-deactivate]

anyway I can’t wait for the ot5 reunion over the break

[zzyx]

*whispers* i’ll try…but i’ll miss you too much leeyum….