Feministy Counseling

Feminist ~ Counselor ~ Grad Student ~ Bisexual ~ Cis ~ White ...trying to trust the process...

[phdstudents]

when grad school makes you lose all sense of time

[sophiaslittleblog]

My motto for the day.

[suzeart]

I’d been kicking this idea around for a while and trying to think about how to articulate it. Pretty happy with how it eventually turned out! 

Sometimes I think about my reasons for getting tattoos (just for myself, not because they need justification). Adding onto this painting metaphore, I think getting ink is a way for me to put down portable roots. I move a lot and will be doing it again soon, and until I can actually settle down and paint some walls I’ll take visual control of something more accessible, namely myself.

[suzeart]

Morning reblog!

[secondlina]

Damn that was beautiful.

[rosalarian]

I feel this so hard!

[tastefullyoffensive]

by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

Honestly, Senator Sanders is the only person who I think would characterize me, a woman running to be the first woman President, as exemplifying the establishment. It’s really quite amusing to me.

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton is one of the most privileged women in the world. She has been a Senator, Secretary of State, and First Lady. She is very nearly the definition of an establishment politician. Being a woman does not change that. 

I am furious that she would twist this legitimate criticism of not only supporting but representing the status quo into an accusation of sexism against Bernie Sanders.

If I was undecided in this race, this is what would be the final straw for me against Clinton. This was low. 

(via ameliacgormley)

For Real.

(via iammyfather)

This is what it looks like when you verbally disappear into your own ass. 

how can she even begin to frame sanders’ opposition to her as sexist?? she’s a white woman who upholds the establishment, THAT’S why. stop trying to use your gender to guilt people into voting for you. gross

(via fem-mew-nist)

[sheismysquishy]

Anxiety is panicking about being late and then sitting in the parking lot for 20 minutes because you are so early

[eric-coldfire]

Star Wars fans: Rey is such a boring Mary-Sue.

Tumblr: No she isn’t! There is a perfectly logical explanation as to why she mastered everything she touched perfectly on the first try.

Star Wars fans: ….how then?

Tumblr: She used the Force.

Star Wars fans:

[imadra-blue-deactivated20200728]

that is literally how the force works if you can use it have you never seen a star wars movie before or

anakin never finished a race, then wins one first time out

anakin never flew a starship before and manages to do what the other pilots couldn’t: blow up a droid control ship

let’s not forget luke

luke never used a lightsaber or piloted an x-wing before, then the second he uses the force, bam, perfect first time out

lmao look at this person tryin’ to call rey a mary sue like it’s 2004

[keltena]

[ Image in the OP is Han saying “That’s not how the force works!” in The Force Awakens; images in reply are of the parts of previous movies being discussed. ]

[downtroddendeity]

That and like. She has better reasons for knowing this stuff than the above dudes do.

Like, of COURSE she knows all about mechanics- she’s been scavenging starships for parts most of her life, so knowing what’s what and how it works is a crucial life skill.

When she handles a lightsaber, she’s very obviously using it like she would a staff (and spends most of the fight running away from Kylo anyway). You know, like the staff she carries with her all the time for self-defense in the desert hellhole she grew up in.

Everything we see her do with the Force is stuff Kylo did in front of her- he invades her mind, and she invades his and then mind-tricks a Stormtrooper (which still takes her three tries). He Force-holds her and later tries to Force-pull a lightsaber, and she Force-pulls it to her instead.

Practically everyone in the Star Wars universe is casually multilingual, and the only character in TFA who’s shown to be unable to understand at least one of Chewie or BB-8 is Finn, who was raised and brainwashed as a Stormtrooper (and neither the Empire nor the First Order seems to be much of an equal opportunity employer when it comes to species). Given her scavenger history, Rey having met astromech droids before isn’t just possible, but likely.

Her skills are better-established than either Luke’s or Anakin’s before they matter, but nope, she’s the Mary Sue, apparently.

For god’s sake, if you take Episode 1 at its word, Anakin was a goddamn virgin birth caused by the will of the force, and has an extensive prophecy about him being the Chosen One.

Like. Seriously.

[bingbongdingdongus]

Op so boring

[femmepeachy]

male character: *is literally good at everything immediately on the first try* men: makes sense I guess female character: *is also literally good at everything on the first try but there are actual reasons for it* men: ????!?!????!?!?!?!? *brain explodes*

[iron-sunrise]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[mirandaadria]

This is what I keep saying over and over and over. The only fake nerds and geeks that I’ve ever seen have always been men.

[geekandmisandry]

God, fake geek boys.

[confessionsofabrokegradstudent]

Trying to finish my dissertation proposal

[confessionsofabrokegradstudent]

#tbt

[feministcounseling]

mention your prospectus one more time bitch

[feministcounseling]

Hearing my classmates verbally masturbate about their skills and experience

[feministcounseling]

Taking a class with all EdD’s

[cishits]

Expecting marginalized peoples to disregard their own emotions to calmly educate you is the epitome of entitlement.

[demegoddess]

[wellthatsadorable]

Same.

[confessionsofabrokegradstudent]

When I tell my dad I need to finish my dissertation

And he says “What’s that?”

[lake-erie]

[nerdfighterwhatevernumbers]

I like how she didn’t even directly mention men and he still said that

[queerlittlecreature-deactivated]

men KNOW that theyre the fucking problem

[rawjeev]

There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Arundhati Roy (via rawjeev)

[male-tears]

Did you know that only female bees can sting the male bee does not have a stinger and when winter comes the queen kicks all the male bees out so their left to be dead :D