[projectiondepartment]

[Image ID: The poem “One Source of Bad Information”, by Robert Bly.  There’s a boy in you about three years old who hasn’t learned a thing for thirty Thousand Years. Sometime it’s a girl.  The child had to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like:  “Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.”  You live with this child, but you don’t know it.  You’re in the office, yes, but live with this boy  At night. He’s uninformed, but he does want To save your life. And he has. Because of this boy  You survived a lot. He’s got six big ideas.  Five don’t work. Right now he’s repeating them to you. 

/end id]

[cannibalchicken]

[gaylor-moon]

Petition to start calling it a “mantrum” when men get all irrationally angry and stomp around and punch shit after something inconsequential happens

[assassin1513]

🩵Ocean Water Space🩵

[theofficialastronomy101]

So happy to finally share this shot with you: a conjunction of the ISS and the moon. This shot required meticulous planning and precise timing to achieve, and the full image (in the second post in the thread) is one of my all-time favorites. CR:AM

[anomalysbane]

Once you start seeing how often women are used as shock absorbers in our society, you'll never stop seeing it. It happens in every way, emotionally, physically and sexually.

Just think, how many men come home and take shit out on their wife? How many men with violent tendencies take it out on prostituted women? how girls are put in classes with rowdy boys at the expense of their own studies, how many women are in the service industry, at call centers, how high the domestic violence rates of police officers is, how many women bend over backwards to take on the emotional needs of men, the list goes on and on

[beesmygod]

new thing i learned just now: in like 400 AD there was a monk named simeon stylites who used to live in a one room cell with a window but too many people kept bugging him for religious advice, so he climbed to the top of a pillar and shackled himself to it until he died 37 years later.

this became a cool new trend to the point where there were enough pillar monks of varying viewpoints that they would scream at each other all day

[pippinsquishums]

Link to source???

[beesmygod]

[anti-porn-unicorn]

This is a really interesting take

I know it certainly made me naive and “easy,” doing anything for male attention and validation

[old-cranky-and-right-deactivate]

A very long time ago, I came across a one panel comic that burned itself into my mind. Unfortunately it was so long ago that I can’t find it anywhere, but I can provide a description.

It featured a man and a woman, each longingly looking out into space (not at each other).

The woman is saying, “Where is my Prince Charming?”

The man is saying, “Where is my insatiable whore?”

And the comic is captioned “Disney and porn are responsible for the most miserable people I know.”

[roycohn]

mark's back monday

[susansontag]

it’s interesting how there have been studies that show advertisements featuring objectified women humiliate women in general and cause us to think about ourselves negatively, but people don’t seem to extend this thinking to women who actually walk around in this stuff in their daily life. maybe it’s because it enters risky territory wherein pointing this out is seen as blaming the victims of patriarchal gender indoctrination rather than the men creating and selling this image? which, sure, fine. but female celebrities and influencers wearing sexually degrading outfits will affect how women view ourselves and men view us, and even if there’s not free choice over that I think it’s still necessary to discuss

[gn-z11]

They don't have free choice when they have such an influence, their choices have implications for all women.

But these celebrities are controlled by men - managers, news companies, advertising contracts which demand a certain image, and there is fear deviating from these sexist societal norms will make them unpopular.

Many have been making the choice to remove implants and filler which is hopeful.

[70sscifiart]

The Brothers Hildebrandt, 1981

[deadlysunlight]

so many radical feminists cant admit that heterosexuality is inherently unequal, even without patriarchy. and no. birth control does not level the playing field.

[hedical-halpractice-deactivated]

Sooo real, u could never make hannibal or killing eve with a man and a woman as leads and have the show be the same. Even if you kept all the scenes, bc the meaning would be different.

[70sscifiart]

Paul Lehr

[marbleguard]

women literally have to have the mentality of prey animals every time we go outside and then we’re like “idk why I’m so stressed and angry all the time :( this is my personal failing”

[marbleguard]

(oh i have to change into sneakers for my walk home from work at 5pm because creepy men follow me and I need to be able to run, nbd)

(oh i have to walk up this stairwell and gee theres no one around to hear me scream if this guy walking up a level behind me tries something, I have my pepper spray tho, nbd)

(oh I’m having a fun night out where I have to keep my hand over my drink all night long and travel in a buddy system with my friends to prevent us from getting roofied and sexually assaulted, nbd)

(oh i’m driving through some backcountry roads at night and there’s a weird guy in a neon jeep making every turn I make, better just put my opposite blinker on to throw him off and then gun it back onto a highway, nbd)

(oh I’m going on a date with a guy I recently met, better let all my friends know exactly where I’m going and when I’ll be back so they can call the police if I don’t show up, nbd)

(oh this guy at the bus stop won’t stop sitting too close to me and asking for my number and sticking around to see where I get off, better pick a different stop than usual so he can’t figure out where I live, nbd)

it’s no big deal though. No big deal, It’s just life! This is just what going outside is like :) hmmm Idk why I’m so anxious lately… I think I need to go up a dose on my Lexapro

[marcos--budt]

correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure there are studies that have shown that this constant trauma (even from things that many men say aren’t “that bad”, such as catcalling) actually negatively impacts women’s cognitive abilities and mental health because we are always engaging in these types of thoughts and actions for our own safety. Similar to the cognitive effects of self-monitoring/self-objectification, it takes up time, energy and focus. It prevents us from living mindfully and peacefully in the moment. And then add the almost constant stress and fear. Imagine what we could do with all the time and energy we’re losing to these thoughts and behaviours (ie if men could simply stop disrupting our existence). And well, imagine if men would simply stop. harrassing, hurting, raping and killing us. :))

[antiporn-activist]

are you thinking of the swimsuit study by Tomi-Ann Roberts?

[butch-reidentified]

That Swimsuit Becomes You

That Swimsuit Becomes You

Link to study mentioned above

[holythefirm-deactivated20230530]

Some of the kindest women I have ever known looked like this

[meangirlpolitics]

Even the most misogynist men don’t want a world without women. Red pill guys don’t have fantasies about a literally woman-free world - in their fantasy worlds, we’re sex slaves and servants, we have no rights and no power - but we do still exist.

“Misandrist” women fantasize about a peaceful, safe world with no men. Completely normal and apolitical women do, too - I’ve never met a woman who hasn’t, at least once, made an offhand joke about how there would be no war without men or something.

Men want us and need us, even when they hate us, but women know that we don’t need men at all.

[dragon-fat]

i said it before and i’ll say it again

men who hate women want to exploit and hurt them while women who hate men seek to avoid them as much as possible.

[kiefbowl]

I love plainly and specifically stating that men deciding to ejaculate inside of a woman is the cause of pregnancy and therefore they are the cause of abortion. I bring that vibe to the conversation that the everybody don't like.