Queer Feminist Scout.

I'm r0x. 21. she/her pronouns. Toronto. I'm a bisexual feminist who also happens to have lots of opinions and feels for Attack on Titan, Harry Potter, Madoka Magica, Hannibal and a few Disney movies.

[femroxx]

Batman Beyond is Batman as dictated by the female gaze and nobody can fucking convince me otherwise.

[femroxx]

ghostbusters AU concept: everything is the same except Lenny is Frank Underwood.

[femroxx]

You might want to delete that embarrassing post where you reveal that you have no clue what "radical" means in a political context.

lol who are you and what on earth are you doing reading anti-radscum posts from 2012?

Like the concern trolling is adorable and all but I wasn’t aware I had such dedicated readers and I’m not sure whether to be flattered or creeped out.

Do not message me again.

[burgundybirds]

ok so hear me out, “gaydar” but for bisexuality

BI-FI

“are you getting any Bi-Fi in here” “i only have like two bars of bi-fi” “why is there no bi-fi in here” “the bi-fi signal is great in here”

and my favorite: “what’s the bi-fi password?”

and for pansexuals? PAN-SCAN

[dwagon-writes]

Shower thoughts

So, I was in the shower just now and I thought about shaving legs. Not in the sense that I should really shave my legs (although I’m sure some people would think I kinda should…, that’s beside the point), but in the philosophical sense. Why do people shave their legs? Hell, why do I shave my legs?

I came to the conclusion that I shave my legs for one reason: my boyfriend.

Now before all the feminazis jump up and come to early conclusions, shouting ‘That’s oppressive!’ Hold your horses, shut up and read on.

It’s not oppressive at all, and I’ll tell you why. I shave my legs for my boyfriend, but I don’t do it because he asks me to or because he expects me to. He doesn’t. Whenever I shave my legs (which really isn’t very regularly, to be fair) I do it because I choose to do it for him. I make that decision and I do believe he likes it, but he will never ask it of me or expect it of me.

I think that is what feminism is, what freedom is: that choice. The choice to do something that may please someone, but only because you want to do that. If I choose to shave my legs every week, that’s fine. If I choose to do it only once every few months, or hell once a year, that’s fine too. 

[fandomsandfeminism]

1) You shouldn’t use the term “feminazi.” You shouldn’t be calling people nazi unless you are talking about actual nazis. It’s an insensitive and inaccurate comparison. 

2) Have you considered why your boyfriend might want you to shave your legs? Or if he even does? Have you even asked him if he actually cares? Why does his preferences get to influence what happens to your body?

Like you said, your hygiene habits are entirely up to you. Whether or not you shave is your choice, and your feelings about it are valid no matter what, but I think it’s important to examine why we make the choices that we make fully. 

My fiance has never expressed any real opinion whether or not I shaved. He was very supportive when I shopped shaving. If the only reason you are shaving is because you think it is something your boyfriend likes, maybe you should find out whether or not that is something he feels strongly about, and consider what that really means that he has such strong feelings about the way your body is groomed? 

[floralhamster-blog]

Okay but I think she was very clear as to why she shaved her legs do we need to go over that again

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yeah, here’s the thing.The OP boiled down to “Listen up feminists: I spend time, money, and effort altering my body to conform to traditionally gendered beauty norms SOLELY because I think my boyfriend wants me to, not because I personally want to in any way. But that’s ok right? Because I’m choosing to do it.”

And, all I’m saying is that maybe we should examine that logic a little more closely. 

[femroxx]

Ok seriously fandomsandfeminism spends so much time and energy patiently and gently explaining stuff to soo many people even when their intentions are dubious and there aren't enough reblogs with comments testifying to how amazing that is so here.

[cwote]

cold water vs hot water showers! 

[lookathernow]

[prettiesst]

chill becky died because of weed its not cool to make fun of the deceased

[citizen-zero]

YA literature? You mean books about Super Special White Girl and Her Mysterious Brooding Boyfriend?

[readyalit-blog]

Here’s a list of black YA leads! And ten Native American protagonists! And a list of ladies who love ladies in YA! And genderqueer / transgender YA leads! And more queer titles! And 2015 / 2016 YA books with Asian / East Asian leads! And bisexual YA leads! And Muslim YA leads! And asexual YA leads! And YA Interrobang’s entire section on diverse YA fiction! *confetti*

[nastygall]

[feathercut]

In Japan, the broccoli in ‘Inside Out’ was replaced with green peppers, which are more universally hated by Japanese children (source)

[spacecarols]

[quasi-normalcy]

No, I’m serious, if women all got together and went into electrical engineering or automotive repair en masse, then ten years later people would be talking about how it was a “soft field” and it would pay proportionately less than other fields.

Likewise, if men moved en masse to bedeck themselves in sparkles and make-up, then suddenly you’d get a bunch of editorials talking about how classy they look.

None of these things are inherently masculine or feminine; none of these things inherently elevate you or drag you down. But whatever women are seen to do is automatically seen as being inherently more frivolous than anything men do. And shaming women for not pigeonholing themselves into a narrow range of acceptable “masculine” behaviours is just going to result in the goalposts getting moved once again.

[an-gremlin-deactivated20160222]

This is literally what happened to basically every field women have entered. The opposite happens when men enter. Computers used to be a “woman thing” until the guys who did it got really mad about how badly their job was viewed and realized they could fix it by forcing out women.

[meariver]

Also happened/ is happening with the fields of biology and psychology….

[quasi-normalcy]

I honestly wonder how much of the backlash against public education in the last generation has been due to teaching becoming a woman-dominated profession.

[warpedellipsis]

Fashion used to be a men’s thing. Then women got involved in the late 17/1800’s, so men went the other way because it came to be seen as “frivolous” and “anti-intellectual” to care about how you looked. Add in the homophobia that arose around that time, bam, staid bland dress. Ditto leggings/tights, that are now called attention-whoring when on men they were required to show you cared about your figure and had the money to pay for such a fitted item. 

People want to say misogyny doesn’t exist, that male privilege doesn’t exist. Look beyond “living memory” and you’ll find that’s what drives the “inexplicable reversals” society seems to make on many things. Hell, just look beyond your own society, and you’ll find out that what’s considered “for men” elsewhere is held in high esteem while here it’s scoffed at purely because it’s “for women”: 

Skinny jeans are the height of masculinity in several east Asian societies, rather than being seen as “gay” in the USA because of their association with femininity. 

Medical fields in Russia are valued like kindergarten teachers are here, because it’s women who are the doctors instead of men.

Love and romance are highly valued in eastern countries, because men are interested in it too—of course they would be, surely you want to share your life with someone? Here, it’s strictly a women’s subject.

[darksnowfalling-deactivated2020]

The field of anthropology as a whole illustrates this.

Significantly higher proportions of females compared to males are currently entering the fields of archaeology and biological anthropology, and as this occurs, the prestige, funding, acceptance as valid kinds of science, etc, are fading quickly.

This has already occurred with linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology in particular went VERY quickly from being seen as a manly, scientific discipline (e.g., Franz Boas, Bronisław Malinowski) to being seen as a touchy-feely female thing.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

What I get from this is that we should equally distribute ourselves among all fields until we’ve ruined absolutely everything.

[werpiper]

math will save us! XD

[tabbybeans]

I hate living in Texas.

[mach6logan]

Can’t tell if this is anti-equal rights or pro-satan

[smdh420]

I’m deciding this is pro-satan

[oy--gevalt]

Definitely pro-Satan.

[parisiansundays-deactivated2014]

There are more people with eating disorders than there are with green eyes

You have more chance of surviving certain cancers than you do an eating disorder

Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate out of any psychiatric illness, largely due to heart failure or suicide

Now tell me it’s a lifestyle choice, a diet, “just a phase”.

[basicfitblrblog]

Y’all better be listening and telling everybody about this. Shit is serious mane.

[svinto]

i wish there wasn’t such a stigma around being proved wrong, bc it’s a part of life, no one can be right all the time. if we didn’t feel as much shame about it i think a lot of things would change a lot faster

[feminismandhappiness]

we all need to practice saying “I hadn’t thought of it like that” “I hadn’t seen it that way before” “I must have misunderstood the first time I heard about it” “if I had known those facts I wouldn’t have thought like I did”

[edwardspoonhands]

By the time you’re my age you should be really used to saying, “OH MY GOD I WAS SUCH A FOOL.”

[stonerbutchblues]

How could you be against free college. Like if I think about student loans for more than a few minutes I think about jumping off a cliff have some pity damn

[detached1026-deactivated2018090]

Because hundreds of thousands of people have already paid for their tuition. Should they be reimbursed? It’s not fair to the people who have already paid/ are paying for college. That’s why.

[stonerbutchblues]

Yeah I love thinking how my kids are gonna cry and have panic attacks because of the heavy student loans they’re gonna have just because they want to go to a good school. Yeah I really want them to suffer just like I did bc yknow I paid why should they have it any easier than me?? I don’t want America to be better than I found it. Fuck future generations.

[hauntedpamplemousse]

lots of people have died from whooping cough. better not vaccinate anymore; it’s unfair to people who have already died from it. 

[angelrecipe-deactivated20180602]

Hey

Does anyone else have like. Anxiety-related memory problems. Like, after you do something, you start wondering if you messed something up or did something wrong, and you get really anxious over possible mistakes you made and you genuinely can’t remember if you made those mistakes or not?

Like for example maybe you write someone a letter and then after sending it you start imagining you made some terrible mistake and despite the fact that you yourself wrote and proofread and sent it, you can’t remember if you did or not?

It happens to me a l o t and it’s terrible and scary because I can’t trust my own memories when I’m anxious

[femroxx]

yep. this is a real thing. it gets worse with trauma.

[gifcraft]

Bunny falls asleep

[llttlesophie-moved-blog]

bun didn’t actually fall asleep!! bunnies flop over like this when they feel safe and comfortable in their environment. they rarely stretch out and lay down because they’re prey animals, so when ur bun does completely lays on their side or their back, it means they feel 10000% safe around you

[nakedrussia-deactivated20150716]

[hey-its-mariam]

This is one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen in my life