[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

honestly + unfortunately I am never surprised by men laughing at a woman’s expense

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

like marilyn frye said: “to say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). all or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. the people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. in their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. from women they want devotion, service and sex. heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Don’t worry guys, fish don’t feel pain! When they’re harmed they only experience an unpleasant stimulus that they do their best to avoid any means necessary! It’s just a stimulus picked up by the nerves that’s sent to the spinal cord and the brain, it doesn’t count!

[creekfiend]

gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I've made this exact post like 3 different times atp but. It's endlessly funny when people (especially tech company people) treat Asimov's three laws as a legit proposed framework for Artificial Intelligence safety when like. Nearly every single Asimov story they're featured in involves something going wrong as a result of a robot trying to follow three three laws in a situation that makes execution of the laws ambiguous or contradictory. They're not a guideline for legit AI programming they're a plot device designed to cause problems due to interacting in weird ways with complicated hypothetical situations!

[rathayibacter]

we've implemented the safety standards from the award-winning These Are Insufficient Safety Standards series of novels!

[ot3]

normally when there's a new trend I simply let it pass me by and feel enriched for not succumbing to peer pressure to purchase an object I don't need. but I will admit with my whole chest that I was wrong about air fryers they are exactly as useful as everyone was acting like they were a few years ago.

[hoppershostakov-deactivated2026]

I think that 10 year old me saw this photo and subconsciously decided to base my entire personality and all my life choices on its aura.

[goddessactuality]

[toastyglow]

fun fact sometimes languages sound weird to u because they're not commonly spoken, and sometimes they're not commonly spoken because a concerted effort was made in the past to eradicate them from existence. so. maybe not something to play into.

[just-a-little-dead-inside]

[cmbyn-bts]

“The vibe on set felt exactly like what the vibe of the movie was. Super laid back. It felt like a vacation. I mean, if there was 5 minutes of just downtime or something happened everybody would just like kick back in the grass, open a newspaper, drink coffee…”   - Armie Hammer

BTS of Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.

[letsummerneverend]

May 2016 vibes 🌞🍑🤗

[gender-trash]

zero patience for "irreversible damage" rhetoric because like... parents are allowed to do all kinds of other irreversible body modification to their kids and nobody gives a fuck. you can pierce your kid's ears, you can sign them up for a sport that will injure them for life, you can provide or withhold medical care like vaccines according to whatever whims you like. i've mentioned this before but my mom forced me to get laser hair removal done on my legs when i was a teenager because my body wasn't mine, the way i chose to upkeep it was a reflection on her. "irreversible damage" is very much part and parcel of the broader belief that parents own their children's bodies.

[psshaw]

Y'know how they say a child writes the best poetry before they learn what poetry is "supposed" to look like? I think a visual artist makes the best visual art before they learn how well it would sell if they made an enamel pin of a possum saying "be gay do crimes"

[sleepnoises]

investigating designing a quilt block using a tremendously odd workflow of grid paper notebook & sketchup & clip studio paint

[sleepnoises]

included a mistake or two to let the ghosts out. this was not foundation paper pieced, just a lot of noodling around

see also: my woim

[sleepnoises]

back at it with my Troubled Berries

[sleepnoises]

Possum in the garden (flimsy, 48" by 51½")

[sleepnoises]

#is the three pink blooms a more traditional block? It looks familiar #if so I love its inclusion all the more (tags from @leopardmask-ao3)

i'm responding to these tags so i can post my original mockup:

the three pink blooms absolutely is a traditional block that comes with a lot of different names and variations. i copied it by sight/with graph paper from the above image (Carolina Lily block by Quilt Missouri) and from this Bernina blog post about the Tulips In Vase block.

you can see i was planning to include more traditional blocks and got lost in the sauce of making stuff up. the less traditional blocks in the mockup are by BurlapandBlossom on etsy

ed: the possum is paper pieced! i learned how after making the first couple posts in this thread

[sleepnoises]

i think the echo quilting kind of brings out a keith haringlike energy

[sleepnoises]

Only thing left is to gift it! 🎉

[langernameohnebedeutung]

...tbh when discussing words that just exist to make men's problems sound like their own separate category of human experience of a gravity that women wouldn't Understand and that can't be debated, one of the big ones is "emasculating".

It's so big, people overlook it.

It's feeling disrespected. It's feeling humiliated - by treating a guy in a way that would be normal towards a woman. Or to make sth sound extra-serious when happening to a man.

If doing the dishes or cleaning the bathroom or doing the laundry "humiliates" a guy, it means "feeling humiliated by not being granted male privilege in a situation/by doing sth that I find beneath me.".

If you feel disrespected by a woman correcting you or beating you in a sport, it means that means you feel entitled to a woman intentionally losing to you or letting you say anything you want to protect your ego.

"Emasculating" makes it sound like this is a special male experience. But it's not like women aren't getting disrespected for doing the things that men feel emasculated by (hence "stay in the kitchen"/"make me a sandwich" type jokes).

Except that's considered a deserved form of disrespect that you aren't even allowed to get mad at. "Emasculated" just means that as a man you don't deserve it and suddenly it's unfair - and a man feeling "emasculated" is often used as an excuse for them to get back at a person they feel disrespected by. You will literally have lawyers and courts excuse violence against women bc "he felt emasculated". Whereas a woman has to "take a joke" and "lighten up".

As a woman, I've been emasculated all my life in this society.

[picsthatmakeyougohmm]

[creekfiend]

I don't think men saying out of pocket shit to me on the internet is because they're men. everyday billions of men wake up and don't say out of pocket shit to me on the internet. this is clearly an active choice

[creekfiend]

genuinely one of the scariest and saddest kinds of conversations that I find myself regularly having with various women is where they will describe something that a man in their life has done or said to them that is absolutely horrific and then when you express horror about it they are just like "haha well you know how men are"

girl that is not how men are. I have many men in my life who I care about and none of them are like that. that man is not biologically compelled to treat you like shit. it's a choice he is making. ARERRGH

[kragehund-est]

it actually is insane to me that it's a cultural norm for men to suck ass at getting their wives/gfs gifts. especially when they whine about how they have no idea what women like.

man, you're not getting a gift for Female Domestic Partner. you're getting a gift for Natalie, a person whom you have been married to for 7 years, whom has lived in the same home with you for a decade, whom speaks to you every day about her thoughts and interests, whom you presumably love, and whom you can directly or indirectly ask what she wants. it's not that you don't know what half the human population wants, that's irrelevant. you don't know what Natalie wants and that is inexcusable.