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If you say gullible really slow it sounds like green bananas Wanna follow? Just send me an ask

[virgoassbitch]

Why do men always have to act like they gotta teach you shit… like?? I don’t know who fuckin asked you but it sure wasn’t me so keep your motivation speeches to yourself

[seulmates]

every interaction with a man is a combination TED Talk, valedictorian speech, personal training session, and getting grounded by your dad 

[bauliya]

so women are supposed to grin and bear the books, the comics, the movies, the plays, the tv shows, the stories, the sci-fi, the translated ancient poems, the fucking millennia of men writing about their self inserts torturing women and it being declared as High Art by other men, we’re supposed to read it in our free time, study it in classrooms, include their styles in our own writing, accept their cultural influence as natural, watch it in the cinema, write about it, talk about it, accept it, aspire it, but men can’t tolerate three seconds of female wish fulfilment of a woman snapping the wrist of a creep without feeling personally kicked in the balls.

[darkshrimpemotions]

This reminds me of something I observed in college while I was doing my honors thesis on women in modern horror films. I watched a LOT of horror during that time as part of my research, and sometimes that was done with my family around.

And my dad and brothers? Were deeply disturbed by the movie Jennifer’s Body. I was flabbergasted. It’s not scary! It’s not even that gory. But they were horrified by it. These men who grew up on 70s slashers were legitimately shook by 90 minutes of Megan Fox eating a few teenage boys, mostly off-screen.

Similarly, my all-male reading panel for my thesis? Were so disturbed by my synopsis of the film Teeth that they couldn’t even talk about it. One of them said he couldn’t look at his wife for a week after reading it.

Again, grown-ass men who study and teach media for a living. Who definitely watch and enjoy horror movies. One of whom was a huge Tarantino buff. We watched and read worse in his intro to mass media class! But one movie about a girl whose vag could bite was enough to haunt him.

Then of course you have things like the Gone Girl backlash–men yelling that Amy Dunne is evil and women clamoring to assure everyone that they know she is not someone to emulate–the backlash against Carol Danvers, and, more recently, the griping from MRAs against the upcoming film Hustlers, which is about strippers scamming their Wall Street clients.

My conclusion? Most men–at least most straight, cisgender men, who are both my sample population and most of the ones whining that Carol is a “villain”–are perfectly fine with, and desensitized to, media where men do violence to women (horror movies), or men do violence to men (horror and action movies). They’re even sort of fine when women do violence to women (“ooooo cat fight!”).

But they get intensely uncomfortable when women are depicted doing any kind of violence to men, especially in films that tilt the balance of power to the other side of the m/f gender binary beyond a single moment or scene.

So woman as flesh-eating monster with men as her preferred cuisine? Woman who responds to unwanted sexual contact by biting it off? Woman who frames her cheating husband for murder? Woman whose response to harassment–behavior that many of the loudest whiners know is both creepy and reflective of their own thoughts/actions–is to break something?

Too scary. Unacceptable. Disturbing. These men hate being presented with the idea, even in fiction, that their position of power is socially constructed, that it could easily be flipped the other way. It terrifies them.

In feeling that terror, they experience a tiny modicum of what living, existing, moving, being perceived as a woman in the world is like.

And they flinch every time.

[tzikeh]

Here have a newspaper comic from 1993

[eternallybutthurt]

I haven’t stopped laughing at this

[jaimeedarling]

hmmm... there's probably an INFINITELY more humane way to do this...

i get that they're not killing them and they end up fine, but imagine the trauma of you, a mammal, going through a long ass tube, not knowing what's going to happen to you, and you can't breathe. 🤷‍♀️

[itsaruse]

They get misted with water throughout the thing, and it results in fewer injuries than the 'ladder' method. Also, it's a fish. It never knows what's going to happen to it at any point in time throughout its life.

[bacon-dragon]

"a mammal"

[kllingboys]

Squishy 🥺

[ruinedchildhood]

[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[anxietyproblem]

[archbudzar]

I’m just glad our paths crossed

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(C.B)(3.13.19)

[catchymemes]

[silly-slacker-person]

This girl found her niche and rolled with it

[snugglebunchesofeyes]

get that money, honey

[somewhereinthedetails217]

This adds so many new layers to the original now, it’s like “seriously bro? Again??”

[gentlemanbobwhite]

[moonpaw]

its fake water season lads

[moonpaw]

forbidden water time

[peachie-supreme-deactivated2020]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

©一边航来一遍拍

[hclark70]

[beardyboywonder]

every gamer’s reaction upon finding a blood-covered room: well that’s not good

[honeystopthecar]

I am pretty sure that is not exclusive just to gamers.

[faries-mermaids-magic-oh-my]

Y’all this is the cutest

[sophie531896273240810891]

it makes me sad seeing bi girls on here coming to terms with the fact that theyre bi and then being like “i‘m not saying i have a voice in the lgbt community because i’ve only dated men, i know my opinions don’t matter because of that i know i’m not really part of the community” it makes my heart hurt. if you’re a bi woman and you’ve only ever dated men, you’re still part of the lgB!!!!!!!t community like that’s what the B stands for!!

[hobiflu-remade]

me at age 13: ugh pet names are so lame lmfao I never wanna be called “baby” gross lol just call me my name thanks

me now: oh my ANGEL!!! my sweetheart my love! 💘😔💕💖😤💓 my honey, my baby! the love of my life!!!! 💝💗😖💞 my dearest!! my beloved, my heart, my cutie pie!!!!! 🤧💘💓