Down The Gender River

This is my place that is full of ramblings about what I want to ramble about. Xe/Xem/Xyr pronouns, proud aroace autistic enby. This is my blog: http://downthegenderriver.blogspot.co.uk/

[ravioliet]

huge fan of when characters love each other and are closely bonded in an explicitly nonromantic way. however ☝️ i am very much not a huge fan of what happens when characters like this are introduced to fandom

[sxpxrmxrgxr]

[aptronyms]

stop… making… her… a… MOM FIGURE !!! *my psychic powers throw everything across the room*

[aptronyms]

everyone who has said "yeah! she's not a mom figure, she's an OLDER SISTER FIGURE!" on this post owes me $200. WHY DOES SHE HAVE TO BE ANY OF THESE STUPID FAMILIAL FIGURES!! WHY CAN'T SHE JUST BE FRIENDS WITH HER FRIENDS!!!

[jadebread64]

they called the period between classic and new who the Wilderness Years because they ended the show on 7 and ace walking into the wilderness. this means that the forseeable future should be called the "Why The Fuck Is Billie Piper Here" Years

[shop5]

let’s be real the pressure to use AI as an adult is exactly what they said the pressure the do drugs as a teenager would be like but the people that told us that caved immediately for the AI and definitely did not just say no

[uberfluss]

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

[thesebonesbite]

Magnus Archives fan I see

[partywithponies]

THIS IS SO FUNNY I'M SORRY

[kingoftheu]

[vamptits]

filtering down ao3 results from 14000 to 6 based on a single tag is foul. im sorry none of you are as enlightened as me ig.

[vamptits]

normal one. next question.

[mothgirl-is-a-gateway-drug-deac]

peer review

[eatcopperwire]

[nemfrog]

Breast, thumb and finger bandages. Cassell's people's physician : a book of medicine and of health for everybody. 1900.

Internet Archive

[luckyladylily]

Considering how it is incredibly well know that a default distrust and hatred of masculinity led to radical feminism and trans exclusionary radical feminsts, a group that is incredibly violent and hateful to trans women, I find it fascinating (read: Incredibly short sighted and foolish) how many trans women are openly embracing that kind of rhetoric. They seem to alternate between "fuck terfs!" and "I really vibe with the idea that masculinity is inherently evil and corrupts everything it touches"

You get the feeling that to some trans women the problem is not that terfs are bigots, but that they target trans women specifically.

[doodle-dust]

Friendly reminder that age verification is NOT safe, i repeat

THIS SHIT IS NOT SAFE!

[daughter-of-sapph0]

when i was a kid i was taught to be safe online. never give out my name, location, or any personally identifying information. i was told to immediately block people who ask for A/S/L. i was taught to always hide who i was, use a pseudonym, only share my email with people i absolutely trust.

and now im supposed to give my legal driver's license to every single porn website and use my email and sign up for ads and junk mail every time i want to read an article and agree to webcrawling ad tracking surveillance to do anything online anymore.

but yeah, its for kids safety. sure. i bet the panoption is much safer than the club penguin and nickelodeon dot com that i had as a kid. so glad we got rid of kid friendly spaces and in turn had to make the entire internet advertisement friendly. so glad we tore down that public park and replaced it with a strip mall and parking lot next to a police station

[alastors-totally-canon-deertail]

It’s crazy that the common smart ass response to saying you love Alastor is for people to say ‘You can’t fix him.’

First of all bitch, I can’t even fix myself breakfast. What do I look like trying to fix somebody?

Second of all, ‘fixing’ would imply there’s something wrong with him. As if Alastor isn’t perfect.

There is nothing about him I want to fix. The atrocities are a part of him and I think they’re funny.

[downthegenderriver]

Just because I want to befriend him doesn't mean I want to fix him. I'd be a terrible friend if I denied him his enrichment.

[poeticnorth]

Pagan writers when talking about female deities: "They're a mother goddess"

Pagan writers when talking about male deities: "Well, their role and function is a lot more complicated and important than just just being a father god, and here's a 10k word essay discussing why they're more than just a father god"

[homewardskies]

OOOOO I HAVE SO MANY THOUGHTS

This is what originally turned me away from Wicca (among other reasons). So many books, blogs, and other resources seem to have so much built-in misogyny that it boggles my mind.

It's part of why I hate the invention of the "Mother-Maiden-Crone" archetype so much.

No, Hekate is not MMC. She is a powerful force of sorcery and liminality. No, the Morrigan is not MMC. She is a Goddess of bloodshed, mercy, and power.

Reducing such multi-faceted entities, such influential spirits, down to the box that patriarchal systems tried to fit them in is so disrespectful.

Freya, Frigg, Aphrodite, Hekate, Athena, etc. Do many Goddesses have aspects of fertility, nurturing, parenthood? Yeah, they do, just like Zeus, Ares, and Njordr. Is that all they are? Is that even the core of what they influence? Not always.

Immediate red flag if any book you're reading only has Goddesses in the footnotes, as mothers.

[ashleysjourney]

Very well said 🙏

[bramblepatch]

The thing is you can have a grassy lawn or even a golf course without it being an ecological disaster, you just have to a: be cool about having the occasional non-grass plant in the mix and b: be willing to live in a climate that supports grass without irrigation.

[bramblepatch]

Golf courses in California are an abomination which is why the sport was in fact invented in Scotland.

[abstrusetheorist]

I always thought that golf as a sport should be adapted to the local native landscape. I think this will encourage regional pride when local golfers completely trounce visitors at Swamp Golf, Desert Golf, Forest Golf, etc. Rich tourists will be pressured to travel extensively to experience all forms of golf, instead of staying in their backyard country club golf courses. Internet discourse will probably somehow get worse but I think this is a small price to pay.

[anarchistmemedistro]

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