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[gerlehaggard]

gonna try going gluten free dairy free sugar free for a little bit to see if my back pain might be a little bit of endometriosis

[beemovieerotica]

[sea--burn]

five. hundred. cigarettes

[nobrashfestivity]

Milton Glaser MahaliaJackson, Easter, 1967

[nobrashfestivity]

Diane Arbus Shrine of the Black Madonna, Detroit, Michigan 1970 gelatin silver print stamped 'a diane arbus print', signed, numbered 'c.(47) #13-XX-OU-1620' by Doon Arbus, Administrator, in ink and Estate copyright credit

[gerlehaggard]

My beloved friend keeps getting accepted to all the writing residencies I keep getting rejected from :) :) :)

[gerlehaggard]

Thank you lesbian electrician fixing the light around the basketball hoop at this Storm game

[gerlehaggard]

MVP

[gerlehaggard]

Thank you lesbian electrician fixing the light around the basketball hoop at this Storm game

[breakerofcurses]

[pwhl-mybeloved]

[dorothyo]

[nobrashfestivity]

Hilma af Klint  The Atom, No. 5 1917 © Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

[melonwah]

[floorwax]

a collection of some of my favorite animal crossing: city folk objects via (x)

[miamaimania]

“Garfield Reimagined” by Anthora Guarderas ☀ Cartoon cat meets abstract distortion

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[avocado-moon]

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

[onbearfeet]

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

[gerlehaggard]

some pics of Patrick from when he was So Small (on the left being treated for worms and ear mites)

[bonivers]

(girl who is already extremely private) i think i need to Move In More Silence