Declan Tumbles

Musician -- Bristol/Falmouth, UK

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(via https://open.spotify.com/album/5rPe33c2n1KqHDmCXdu3kO?si=u6gtH_hISIWL2diORF8jMQ)

I made an album and here it is, reblog for `1 year of good luck.

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My band just released our debut single, please give it a listen and maybe a cheeky reblog as it helps out a lot!

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$$$ need new blogs to follow, like or repost or wut for a follow $$$

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p e a r   c i d e r

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-Jungle Havana-

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Just released my debut E.P “El Sondio” with my new musical project Jungle Havana, really appreciate anyone checking it out soundcloud.com/junglehavana

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Visit Original Link

New track I’ve been working on with some mates, a fusion of Latin American and Jungle / DnB music. Appreciate anyone giving it a listen and sharing it around.

https://www.facebook.com/JungleHavana/

https://soundcloud.com/junglehavana

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gonna drop a latin/jungle tune I’ve been working on with a mate tomorrow so keep your eyes peeled and your cheese graters at the ready

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Watch:  Chicago woman had some great responses to a white man’s disturbing racist attacks.

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I reblogged this 0.2 sec ago but I love her clapbacks so much

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my hips don’t lie but sometimes they bend the truth

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todays word of the day today is self loathing and disapointment 

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“When you fall into complete darkness, the faintest light can guide you out”

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Orpheus was the greatest poet who ever lived.

 His music was so beautiful that when he played rivers would stop flowing, winds would stop blowing, and the skies would open up so his wondrous melodies could be heard by the gods in heaven. 

One day, his wife Eurydice was bitten to death by vipers. Overcome with grief, Orpheus played heartbreaking songs on his lyre. The gods were moved, and so advised Orpheus to travel to the land of the dead and sing his songs to Hades to bargain for his wife.

 So it was, that Hades heart was softened. And he allowed Eurydice to leave on one condition, that Orpheus would walk in front and never look back…

They took the upward path, through the still silence, steep and dark, shadowy with dense fog, drawing near to the threshold of the upper world. Afraid she was no longer there, and eager to see her, the lover turned his eyes. In an instant she dropped back, and he, unhappy man, stretching out his arms to hold her and be held, clutched at nothing but the receding air. Dying a second time, now, there was no complaint to her husband 

What, then, could she complain of, except that she had been loved?

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Dressed up smart for once and felt like a grown up.

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The Profit Of Purity

You fall asleep To dreams of greed It’s inconceivable You’re evil mind of malice Twisted and contorted In the cellar of your palace

But me, I see the sun shine over These fields in which I lay my soul bare The blades of grass that hold my integrity And the wind the carries away the rest of me

-William D. Settle

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Winter

This winter lasts forever Summers just forgotten days Hazy memories are incomplete

The clouds all make a brief retreat The hills a different shade of frost This sun is kinder upon my face A reminder of a brighter place

-William D. Settle

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Let’s examine a traditionally male-dominated role that is very well-respected, and well-paid, in many parts of the world — that of a doctor. In the UK, it is listed as one of the top ten lucrative careers, and the average annual income of a family doctor in the US is well into six figures. It also confers on you significant social status, and a common stereotype in Asian communities is of parents encouraging their children to become doctors.

One of my lecturers at university once presented us with this thought exercise: why are doctors so highly paid, and so well-respected? Our answers were predictable. Because they save lives, their skills are extremely important, and it takes years and years of education to become one. All sound, logical reasons. But these traits that doctors possess are universal. So why is it, she asked, that doctors in Russia are so lowly paid? Making less than £7,500 a year, it is one of the lowest paid professions in Russia, and poorly respected at that. Why is this?

The answer is crushingly, breathtakingly simple. In Russia, the majority of doctors are women. Here’s a quote from Carol Schmidt, a geriatric nurse practitioner who toured medical facilities in Moscow: “Their status and pay are more like our blue-collar workers, even though they require about the same amount of training as the American doctor… medical practice is stereotyped as a caring vocation ‘naturally suited‘ to women, [which puts it at] a second-class level in the Soviet psyche.”

What this illustrates perfectly is this — women are not devalued in the job market because women’s work is seen to have little value. It is the other way round. Women’s work is devalued in the job market because women are seen to have little value. This means that anything a woman does, be it childcare, teaching, or doctoring, or rocket science, will be seen to be of less value simply because it is done mainly by women. It isn’t that women choose jobs that are in lower-paid industries, it is that any industry that women dominate automatically becomes less respected and less well-paid.

http://cratesandribbons.com/2013/12/13/patriarchys-magic-trick-how-anything-perceived-as-womens-work-immediately-sheds-its-value/