naturally, she loathes mayonnaise

sjs, tbl, womens sports when sports are active. pro gritty. heme/onc rn.

[erikkarlsson]

joe thornton's #19 retirement night || 11.23.2024

[erikkarlsson]

joe thornton joins patrick marleau as the only sharks to have their numbers retired || 11.23.2024

[starrynet]

joe thornton reacts to people saying kind things about him during his jersey retirement ceremony

[fuckthesharks]

ready to CRY over Joe Thornton

[dewdropdwelliing-deactivated201]

gets personally offended when someone refers to rain as “bad weather”

[steampunkforever]

I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

[margoterobbies]

MARGOT ROBBIE Golden Globe Awards, January 7, 2024

[homestucktrashnow-deactivated20]

hiring a wizard to break whatever curse is holding henry kissingers shitty body together and laughing with childish glee as he instantly collapses into individual limbs like a lego character

[wolfcat-hybrid]

OP can I get your wizard's number

[homestucktrashnow-deactivated20]

sure dude he's number fucking 1!!!!

[guccifloralsuits]

what’s the first song on ur wrapped playlist that starts with the first letter of ur name

[raspberrybluejeans]

It amazes me how many teslas I see out and about. Like you guys bought one for real? On god? No joke?????

[pesmenos]

why is there such a stigma against wearing pads? like why is it that people who wear tampons are seen as ‘strong’ and ‘cool’? y’all know that someone people can’t wear them bc it hurts them or that they just don’t like them? stop making it seem like people who wear pads are childish and weak compared to those who wear tampons 

[postcardsfromtheoryland]

Ok kids buckle up because I know the answer to this question because I am a bitter, vindictive person.

So my first semester of PhD work in a musicology program involved this horrible class with a professor that wanted to suck the life out of all of his students by constantly belittling them. We had to write a short paper each week and present them conference-style and then he would tear us to shreds and do it all over again next week. The purpose of the class was supposedly to have us write papers about materials that hadn’t really been looked at by musicologists yet, and my class had music in advertisements. I was also the only woman in the class and the prof was lowkey sexist so I kept trying to do feminist topics without losing my entire will to live.

So we get to the end of the semester and I am just completely out of fucks, I have one paper left to write and I say fuck it, let’s write about pads and tampons, there must be something there, right? It turns out there IS something to be said there (and this gets back to OP’s question). Early pad and tampon commercials were very similar to each other; basically here’s a product to help you stay clean during your period. But around 1980, suddenly there’s public outcry and panic over tampons due to TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome). At that point no one really understood how TSS worked but they knew it had to do with tampons. So women freaked out and started switching to pads instead. Now the worst offender, Rely, was taken off the market and other tampon commercials got slapped with little warning signs like “This product could cause TSS” so women bought even fewer tampons. This is when the advertising strategies for the two products changed.

Pad advertisements were now about “cleanliness” and “purity” - they knew you couldn’t get TSS from pads and they were going to emphasize that fact. You’ve got women in white dresses with long hair slowly walking through fields of flowers with pastoral-y flutes in the background. And to fight back, tampon companies take it the complete opposite direction - they ignore TSS entirely and start showing businesswomen running to catch the subway, sporty women riding bikes, basically any sort either high-powered position or active woman showed up in these commercials with contemporary pop-song type music over the top. The clear intention was “yeah we know that these could cause TSS but they’re much better for your mobility, both physically and career-wise.”

I got done giving this paper and I look up to see my four male classmates and one male professor in varying shades of pale-ness and they just all sort of looked at me for a couple minutes without knowing how to respond. It’s one of the proudest moments of my PhD career so far.

Anyway the two products have been advertised basically the same ways ever since then. Now pads are much more comfortable and discreet, and we understand how TSS works and how to avoid it, but the commercial strategies are cemented. If you want to be a strong, on-the-go woman of COURSE you’ll wear a tampon because you don’t want to be one of those sissy ladies in the pastoral field of flowers over in pad-land, do you?

[faewithoutconsequence]

[ringneckedpheasant]

rip anthony “you’ll never stop wanting to beat kissinger to death with your bare hands” bourdain you would’ve loved this

[luntfontanne]

50-60 people abandoning their cars on the bay bridge during morning rush hour, throwing their keys into the fucking bay, holding a die-in, chaining themselves together… coolest motherfuckers in san francisco

[slowwshoww]

article from the guardian, nov 16 2023

[pink-cloud-99]

[allsonargent]

Timothy Olyphant as Joel Hammond in Santa Clarita Diet (2017—2019)

[animentality]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#i didnt realize this was about the writers strike i thought i was being presented with two groups of college students#i was like yeah the buisness majors aren't making it out alive.wait this is about something