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today i learned how they vaccinate sheep and OH MJY TGOD
gotta put the sheep in the sheep chute to shoot the sheep
never have I ever seen a creature so passively Not Having A Good Time before
When a lamb is stuck it'll just Sit There. They won't struggle unless they think they can get away.
#these poor things!#there HAS to be a better way
Poor things? They're fine. This is like a baby in a car seat. The sheep are not in pain, they are not overly uncomfortable, they are not unusually scared. They probably are a bit annoyed. But this setup isn't hurting them or straining their bodies in any way. It's shaped specifically to hold their limbs out of the way without hurting their back, hips or shoulders. It's 'plastic cone on a cat with stitches' level of inconvenient, for a handful of seconds, and it's certainly much safer and easier than the other method (trying to restrain the lamb on the ground with your arms and knees while carefully giving it a delicate vaccination).
Similar concept: Babies getting x-rayed
This is giving off "piping bag of mouse" post vibes
Going to add tiny birds being weighed to the post
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okay, but how do we stop boys from falling down the rabbit hole??
There are a few different suggestions ranging from interpersonal to systemic, and much like birth control none of them are 100% effective but they increase their effectiveness if you use more than one.
Make sure your kid has positive role models of all genders. Preferably several of each. This does require an amount of people having opportunities to and comfort with interacting with children for extended periods of time.
If a kid is gonna get radicalized into misogyny it helps if they can go "but wait... my aunt Meg isn't like how these people describe women, and actually my uncle Byron is visibly happy and healthy without needing to act like how these people say men should be." This is without these role models even necessarily needing to verbally intervene.
2. Make sure your kid regularly interacts with peers their age of all genders, especially pre-puberty.
Being able to talk to someone of the opposite gender without being weird about it is a skill that takes practice under the patriarchy. If your son is completely isolated from girls when he enters puberty then his main exposure to them will be through porn. And if he can't interact with girls outside of a sexual context without walking away feeling like he did it wrong, that puts him in a state where he's vulnerable to these online misogynists.
3. Don't just foster kindness; foster introspection.
The manosphere is at its core reactionary. It's emotions-driven rather than reasons-driven, which is maybe why the rhetoric of men being more logical than women slowed down in the past 20 years. You can certainly try to make sure your kid's emotional needs are met and that they have the ability to meet them themselves as they become more self-sufficient, but also make sure they have the tools to regulate and reflect on the occasion that they don't.
The fact is, the manosphere is nothing but a grift meant to pull in angry people and keep them angry to keep them watching and spending money. It won't solve their problems and it will make them bitter people. Lots of people notice this happening and get out early, but they have to either see it destroy someone else or recognize that it's destroying themselves in real-time. That's hard to do when you're in it, but it's easier if you have practice with introspection.
4. Include men's issues in feminist activism.
These boys are told by the manosphere that feminists want to make men's lives worse, and feminists corroborate this narrative when they say that the patriarchy benefits men and that it needs to be destroyed.
I have always advocated for the notion that the patriarchy benefits a select small group of men while ignoring the rest and actively oppressing women. The average working class man is just as likely to benefit from the abolition of the patriarchy as a woman is. A lot of female feminists scoff at this but I've personally used this rhetoric to break a few men out of their pipeline before it was too late.
It's critically important that men see feminism as a viable solution to their problems because for the most part right now their only option is MRA.
5. Something about walkable cities
Part of the reason boys are falling so hard into hyper-misogny after generations of increased progressivism is because actual social isolation is at an all time high. Solving the problem of social isolation is its own can of worms but the reintroduction of 3rd spaces, making sure teens and adults can physically meet up regularly, and so on would go a long way.
Generally, the higher proportion of socialization is done in a physical location, especially in a public space, rather than in private and online, the better. That's not to say online friendships are bad by any means, but there's a phenomenon of participating in discord groups and forums as an alternative to having friends that is destroying people of all genders, and men in particular are being radicalized through this process.
6. Destroy the patriarchy.
Easier said than done, but it would definitely work.
On 6 specifically, you have to foster masculinity that doesn’t build itself on the patriarchal ideas of masculinity. A lot of patriarchal masculinity is the result of misogyny so if you logically follow one, you also follow the other. This is harder said than done because you are literally fighting against the influence of society.
My brother started to slip fown the pipeline in his late teens/early twenties.
It helped that we had a kickass mom that was smarter than everyone he was listening to and could argue literally everything he said with a logical explanation.
But what also helped, was my tumblr. No kidding.
I had a habit of reading him out all the funny stuff in my likes, usually while he played a video game. It was just sibling bonding.
I started to sneak in posts that articulated points I couldn't. Essays writen by black women and why something was racist. A theory on how the patriarchy is founded on personal property and paranoia. Satirical cartoons and comics. A reminder that trans people were human beings that deserved rights. Affirmations of all the things he was justifiably mad about from people that weren't hijacking that anger for anything.
I never preached. Some of it was stuff he still agreed with. And I never dumped a bunch on him all at once. I just made sure that when I found something good, I put it in my likes. The same as I did for when I found something funny I wanted to share with him.
In a way I kind of accidentally pulled an uno reverse on the alt right's tactics. They thrive on humor. They get these boys listening to them by telling jokes first.
If anyone is curious, my brother is to this day pissed at the people that tried to indoctrinate him and preaches the dangers of the centralist to alt right pipeline and the logical fallacies they use. He learned everything he could on political theory and is now a proud communist. (He will also preach to you about how what you think communism is, isn't true communism and how the world has never seen a true communist state. Mom and him will still debate if true communism is even possible or if the corruption we've historically seen in every attempt is inevitable, but he's now arguing from a place of learning for himself and forming his own opinion instead of parroting what he's been told is the "correct" opinion.)
Angie/Maddie🦇❥