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Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

partywithponies

Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

partywithponies

There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

dizzyghoast

i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case

draconym

I'm at a convention for the game of Go with a friend who is almost 84 years old, and he is constantly being accosted by elementary schoolers who want to play him because every year there is a prize for whoever plays a game with the biggest age difference between players.

So every time I go to look for him, I see this:

draconym

People in the tags pointing out that this is a great way to get communities to interact: you are extremely correct. There were a lot of kids at this year's go congress (many of them extremely strong players) and it's very funny to watch them roving in packs looking for old people to challenge. At one point when my friends and I were sitting in one of the side rooms, a trio of elementary schoolers marched in and shouted "IS ANYONE HERE OVER FIFTY?"

Presumably so that they could compete for the Elder Slayer award:

makomoriz

no i don't. cheers

arteei

you use ai baby pictures i use stupid gifs that don’t fit the situation we are not the same

princessofheartaxhes

Whenever I say “noted” please imagine this

europe-abolitionist

(popular leftist voice) these right wingers are so mad because they get no women. if you are a Good Person a woman will appear and suck your dick.

lilkakow

(popular leftist voice) these right wingers are all sooo poorrrr and stupid. They are stupid because they are poorrrr, racism would never exist in my suburban area

lalatongzi

Popular leftist voice: these right wingers must have brain damage. They must be bigots because they are literally reta suffering from blsck mold, or brain damage.

vinterfeminism

(Popular leftist voice) right wingers deserve the natural disasters that hit the places they live in. We should celebrate every time there is an earthquake or cyclone in the southern US or in the Middle East or in the Carribean or in Africa because They hate gay people in Those Places so it's actually not a bad thing when it happens.

joycomplexx

(popular leftist voice) these right wingers are driven to bigotry by their weird fetishes. jd vance banged a couch, isn't that hilarious? tradwives are basically bdsm! if you practice total sexual purity you will never be swindled by fascism .

this-is-lookism

(popular leftist voice) these right wingers are so bad with their ideology because they are sooooo ugly. They are so fucking ugly and we are not bigots because we are sooo beautiful. Also that person cannot be a bigot! They are so pretty/handsome! And that other person that's bigoted is sooo ugly!!

so hungry. could eat a whole chicken nuggets

pangur-and-grim

alright I'm almost finished Project Hail Mary, and I have to say, I don't get why people are shipping the guy with Markiplier when he's already in a perfectly healthy queer-platonic relationship with the alien spider made of rocks

pangur-and-grim

that's insane. we need to change this

dykieran

also sorry i just don't find the trope of "woman who hates men learns to love men again because she met one really sweet dude" very compelling. at best i think it's boring and eye-rolling wish fulfillment for people who never got over their lesbian crush and at worst i think it's actively and purposefully misogynistic

tentiebear

Almost as bad as "man abuses and neglects woman but he actually loves her so it's romantic."

starguardianniom

Also as bad as "woman abuse and neglect man but she actually loves him so it's romantic". I never liked the abusive tsundere types who beats up the guy for little to not reason just because she likes him and is jealous he is paying attention to another girl who's not her when she's not even dating him yet and he doesn't know about her feelings???? And when does the guy needs to end up with the most abusive one who will beat him up at the top of the hat? It looks bad. I had so many problems with the main female lead in animes and mangas because they were so abusive and mean and like the guy isn't a mind reader can you tell him instead of punching him for not getting what you don't say? Like The Familiar of Zero, or Love Hina, the guy ends up with the abusive female lead and I'm like nope, they shouldn't. It's not romantic, they are gonna be in abusive relationships forever. As a woman I am not impressed by these girls.

dykieran

hey. i am begging you. you do not need to come onto my post where im complaining about a misogynistic trope and say "yeah it's just as bad as fictional misandry!" please. make your own post

each-uisge-enthusiast

also that is still just misogynistic writing NOT misandry. it’s women’s emotions being downplayed as ‘frivolous’ and ‘overdramatic’ while positioning men as poor clueless victims to their unpredictable and crazy mood swings. i’m so tired of hearing about this particular trope bc no one ever wants to look at it from the doylist perspective (wherein it is misogyny) everyone talks about it from the watsonian perspective (wherein they can cry misandry).

#in both instances women are having their motivations carved out to make the man the item of sympathy #99% of ‘misandrist’ tropes are just misogyny #if you think about it with your brain for more than one second

sailatina3

Im something of a movie buff i watched star wars once and never kill Bill or alien or terminator or pulp fiction or fight club. But I did watch hoodwinked which is probably more important than any of those other things.

saltedume

fanonical

silliest sims death out of these

guinea pig disease/rabid rodent fever

skydiving simulator

toadification

coffin scare

murphy bed

mummy's curse

jelly bean

transmutation

jetpack crash

vending machine

low-quality puffer fish

killer chicken

Voting ended onAug 3

walmart-the-official

Hey, don’t cry. Free online database of Japanese folk lore

bleu-guacamole

Might I add, free database of mostly European folklore and myths

bogleech

A Book of Creatures by @a-book-of-creatures doesn't update these days but is another thing along these lines, really huge, fully illustrated all by the author and cites all sources

moststylishcharacter

Best Outfit - Round 2 Match 43

Which outfit is your favorite?

Spike - Flashback Outfit

Huggy Bear - Salmon Colored Outfit

Voting ended onAug 3

#you people are so unserious #every mildly edgy alt teen in 2007 vs salmon serve of the century ???#and the edgy alt teen is winning ???#fake website

wiltkingart

from the bottom of my heart: just because something makes you uncomfortable doesn't mean it shouldn't be allowed to exist

ischleepzzz

"But what about <thing that literally kills people>?"

firedragon1321

This was on a non rebloggable post so I'm setting it free.

currentlycryingaboutlancelot

odyssey dashboard simulator

🚣‍♂️ captain.odysseus

between two choices here…

scylla

charbydis

Voting ended onSep 21, 2025

to be so honest neither are looking great but sometimes u gotta make tough decisions. nobody tell my crew about this btw

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⬜ crewmate-238-deactivated12109

the sirens are dangerous to YOU. i understand them though. we are holding hands and singing and they're not even eating me

🧜‍♀️ siren.girl.40 Follow

no we’re not

⚔️ 0restes

OP being deactivated really adds something here

🎵 demodocus.sings.a.lot Follow

the sirens killed him

🐅 circe.without.mercy

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🤴 telemakhos.of.ithaka

just fucked up so bad i met queen helen from sparta and called her "helen of troy" in front of her husband who literally spent ten years fighting a war to get her back FROM TROY. about to throw myself into the sea

💅 face.that.launched.1000.ships Follow

omg no worries babygirl come back anytime :))) happens to everyone

🤴 telemakhos.of.ithaka

was no one going to tell me helen of troy had a tumblr

🤴 telemakhos.of.ithaka

FUCK i did it again

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⬜ crewmate-24-deactivated9823

for real though has anyone seen elpenor

#i could have sworn he was with us when we were at circes??

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⬜ crewmate-438-deactivated5764

dreaming of burger made of helios' cattle rn. mmm

⛰️ oracle-at-delphi Follow

it is actually insane that people are reblogging this. do you know how disrespectful this is to helios and to all of the gods?? those are literally sacred cattle, i shouldn't be seeing odysseus' crew blogging about how they want to make them into burgers. it's not funny and it's not a joke.

⬜ crewmate-438-deactivated5764

#it was gonna be such a perfect day for a bbq but its stormy all the sudden #:( #oh well i guess we will just eat our burgers inside

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🐗 antinous420

how long could it possibly take to weave a fucking shroud

📷 ithaca-fact-checker Follow

fun fact! it can actually take 1,543 years to weave a burial shroud for one’s father in law, depending on the materials, style, and craftsman!

🤴 telemakhos.of.ithaka

ayyy ithaca fact checker i missed you

🐗 antinous420

who the hell is running this account

#that has to be a joke right #otherwise that would mean that like only an immortal could weave these #ik athena is goddess of weaving but she cant be the only one doing it #right???

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🏐 what.up.its.nausica

not the random naked man i found on my shore who i almost got betrothed to being odysseus king of ithaca are you KIDDING me

🏄 pisistratus-son-of-nestor

i thought he was dead???

🚣‍♂️ captain.odysseus

im not

🏄 pisistratus-son-of-nestor

@ telemakhos.of.ithaca @ queen-penelope-official HELLO???

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🐅 circe.without.mercy

actually disgusting that people are still following @/calyps0 when she literally kept odysseus captive on her island for seven years. yes odysseus is incredibly problematic and he should be held accountable for actions. yes i dont support what he did to polyphemus and i will block anyone who said that was deserved. but he literally has a wife and son he needs to get back to and it's disgusting that she tried to impede him like this

🏖️ calyps0 Follow

hey what was going on when he stayed at your place for a year

🏖️ calyps0 Follow

lmfao she blocked me

#girl this situation is messyyyy

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🦉 goddess-of-wisdom

why is everyone so mad at odysseus. he’s just a silly little guy. my silly little mortal. he does tricks. free him

🔱 earthshaker Follow

he blinded my son

🦉 goddess-of-wisdom

ok??? have you considered that maybe your son was being a little bitch

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🚣‍♂️ captain.odysseus

lmfaoooo ive been sending anon hate to polyphemus and he still doesn’t know it was me, odysseus, son of laertes sacker of cities king of ithaca who lives at ithaca palace and is currently sailing home on the aegean sea. click the read more to track my voyage home

#what are you gonna do about it big guy #nobody cares

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