Do I Look Like Mother Teresa?

Heather, 19, 5'8, European, pisces, English major, alpha female

[radishnt]

which one of u was going to tell me that tea tastes different if u put it in hot water?

[mothman-misato]

y- you were putting it in cold water?????

[boimgfrog]

Radish. Answer the question radish.

[radishnt]

yeah??? i thought for like. 5 years that ppl just put it in hot water 2 speed up the tea-ification process didn’t realize there was an actual reason

[boimgfrog]

You dont have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes???

[catsnraincoats]

[ID: Tags reading “u think i have the patience to boil water wtf ?????” /End ID]

why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it

[boimgfrog]

Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove

[catsnraincoats]

Its takes less than a minute

[boimgfrog]

Bestie is ur stovetop powered by the fucking sun

[catsnraincoats]

How long does it take you to boil a cup of water on the stove

[boimgfrog]

Like seven minutes

[catsnraincoats]

Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat n it boils in like two minutes… less than that is u use a saucepan…

[boimgfrog]

Crying you’re putting the whole mug on the stove ???? On medium heat???? Ur stove is enchanted

[pidoop]

Every single person in this post is a fucking lunatic

[silverjirachi]

Yet another post that reads like four shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief

[wizardlyghost]

(Enter RADISHN’T, MOTHMAN MISATO, BOIMG FROG and CATS'N RAINCOATS, stage left. They are having a HEATED DISCUSSION.)

RADISHN’T: Prithee, which one of you had planned to tell

Of diff'rent flavours gained by simple act

Of brewing tea with water hot, not cold?

MOTHMAN: Egad! you poured the water cold? Wherefore?!

FROG: An answer from you, Radish, I must beg.

RADISHN’T: Indeed I did, dear friends - why does this shock?

Without the guide of others I assumed

That heat was merely added for the sake

Of expediting this solution’s brewing!

Half a decade I have spent, or more,

Not questioning this worldview I had made.

In fact, I am myself a bit surprised

That you might think that I, your dearest friend,

Might have a patience of sufficient stock

To wait until a pot of water boils.

FROG: Three minutes overtaxes patience so?

The microwave will beep when it is done!

CATS'N: My friend, this answer vexes me the more!

Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?!

FROG: Are you in turn, my friend, so shocked to know

That I have not the patience, like our Root,

To boil upon the stove our favour’d drink?

CATS'N: It takes less than a minute!

FROG: On what plate?

Perhaps your dinner cooks atop the sun?

CATS'N: How long can take your stove to fill the task

Of boiling but a single cup alone?

FROG: In minutes?

CATS'N: Yes!

FROG: I counted seven, once.

CATS'N: Perhaps you ought to have your timepiece checked!

If on a middle heat you place the cup

You soon will have the scalding drink you crave.

Two minutes, in a mug upon the plate

Or even less, if you should have a pot.

FROG: You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live?

You place upon the iron stove a mug?

A mug, ceramic, filled with water cold?

How do these flames, though medium in height,

Not shatter like a glass this fragile thing?

Surely, then, your kitchen is bewitched

With magicks far beyond the mortal ken!

(The FOUR realise they have wandered into the THRONE ROOM. The ROYAL COURT watches with fascination.)

KING: Ev'ry single person in this group must be a fucking lunatic, it seems.

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World Heritage Post

[snobgoblin]

fuck your zodiac, were you a Barbie kid, Monster High kid, LOL kid, Bratz kid, Disney Doll kid, Ever After High kid, Lalaloopsy kid, or American Girl Doll kid because it really matters a lot actually

[bashmyhead]

my day will come

[la-laborista-republiko]

[heatherfem]

Controversial but (some) radblr women will eat like shit, not exercise regularly enough, not take care of their physical health, let their mental health suffer as a result, be at an unhealthy weight, not know how to dress, have a shitty haircut and act like it’s feminist praxis lol as if “breaking the stigma of women being too afraid to be fat and ugly” or whatever is more important and more revolutionary than being strong and healthy and looking after yourself

[nansheonearth]

Sometimes I think about how gendered education is discouraged because boys do worse in all boys settings. Girls do better in all girls schools. Coed education is encouraged so that girls can be used as a buffer to bring up boys scores.

Sometimes I think about how men are the majority of killers of women. But men are also the majority of killers of men.

Sometimes I connect these two thoughts.

[diaforapoulia-deactivated202503]

coed education is encouraged so that girls can be used as a buffer to bring up boys scores

i would say that in my country gendered education is a rarity now. and when it exists - it's usually extremely sexist (especially all girls schools)

most schools there have double desks

that means you have to share your working space with someone and often kids don't get to decide who's going to be their 'desk neighbor'.

this is a common practice that a girl always should sit with a boy to help him focus and study well because girls are all smart and neat and boys are little freaks.

i remember when i was in elementary school my teacher made me sit with a boy.

i was just a kid. i could read better than anyone and i enjoyed science; i was just trying my best to study. and he was disgusting and spoke all sorts of dirt. i asked the teacher to let me sit with my friend because i was really uncomfortable but she said that we are girls and we will talk a lot and distract everyone.

so basically that's what happens: teachers won't let you sit with someone who you think is nice. then they force you to sit with a dumb stinky gremlin for him to benefit at the cost of your comfort and attention to the lesson. then they blame you if the dumb stinking gremlin can't study properly even with your help. then they blame you if your own scores drop because you can't simply concentrate on your own work.

girls don't just bring up boys' scores. they often do it at cost of their own.

[lostandfem]

i was the most well behaved girl, so naturally i was placed next to the most misbehaved boys, usually after they got too friendly with their other deskmate

so yknow. being next to me was literally a punishment. but they dont think about what type of message that sends to the little girl theyre using 🤡

[radicalcatlady-deactivated20230]

In 2nd grade there was a boy who got bullied. He came in the middle of the school year and one of the first things he said in front of the class was that he already knew everything. Also he was a little older than the rest of us.

He sat next to me and would constantly ask me if I understood what was taught and that he didn't get it. I don't remember much but my mum told me that I would cry at home and didn't want to go to school anymore.

At some point my teacher said to my mum that him sitting next to me worked amazing. She responded that it didn't, that I cried about it and so on. Luckily my teacher listened and in the same school year the boy left our school again.

[folkfashion]

Skitswish (Coeur d'Alene) and Nimíipuu woman, United States of America, Antoinette Peters, by Tara Kerzhner

[siriusf12]

have you ever stayed up late with someone texting or chatting and known as the hours ticked by that you’d be ridiculously tired in the morning but it didnt matter because it was really fun and totally worth losing sleep over just to laugh with someone and enjoy their company maybe and then the next day you keep tiredly recalling how much fun it was

[shrikefem]

@heatherfem <33

[user610138]

I don't think it is a coincidence that tons of white people started using some variation of they pronouns after BLM went mainstream in summer 2020. White people had to confront their privilege en masse, and adopting a gender identity was a way for them to avoid blame for their role in white supremacy and act like they face the same oppression as black people. This is especially true when you think about how many white TRAs say that transphobia has roots in racism and reframe every racial justice issue as a trans issue.

[user610138]

To clarify, I think there are a lot of reasons why so many people have started identifying as some variation of trans or non binary over the past couple of years (wanting to be part of the 'queer' trend, internalized homophobia, internalized misogyny, body image issues, etc.), but at the same time I can't ignore how these identities are often used as a 'get out of jail free' card in conversations about race and privilege.

[user610138]

This goes double for white males who came out as non binary during the pandemic. You don't get to wipe your hands clean of white privilege and male privilege by putting he/they in your twitter bio and painting your nails.

[ahumanbeena]

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

[shwetanarayan-deactivated202504]

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

[isaacsapphire]

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

[jemthecrystalgem]

I’m relieved and surprised that once the original blind auditions didn’t work they didn’t just throw their hands up and go “Nah women do just suck I guess”

[puttingherinhistory]

Didn’t something like this happen with a film festival? They noticed women were only winning something like 5% of the awards at the film festival so they switched to blind judging and suddenly women were winning about half the awards at the film festival, forgot which film festival it was though

[lgbtpolitics]

This is why I am against the reframing of sexism to “Gender roles are imposed on everyone and bad for everyone”. That is true, on a surface level, but accounts for none of the discrimination specifically against women that exists in every field. It is compounded by gender roles, women in stereotypically male roles face more discrimination than they maybe otherwise would, but it is not the whole story.

Music is not something stereotyped as a mans thing. In fact I would go as far as to say the opposite, a lot of people might well class the arts as a womans thing. Yet this sexist discrimination is still wildly prevalent in those fields that are seen as womanly.

[pnkvmpr-hiatus-deactivated20240]

why don't you focus on getting some biblically accurate pussy

[cultof-aphrodite]

They say Venus takes many forms 🐚

[cornerstorebitch]

idealized feminine traits are just that - idealized. we call it nurturing so we don’t have to call it subordinate. we call it compassionate so we don’t have to call it passive. nice so we don’t have to say people pleasing. being a kind, considerate person is a good thing - but only when you have a choice. and only when you don’t sacrifice your own self respect and your own ability to prioritize yourself

[movedto-transmisogynistic-deact]

Would you rather be too hot or too cold?

Personally, I’m a too cold person. I die in hot temperatures 😔 my mortal flaw

[movedto-transmisogynistic-deact]

I’m not even being silly, I didn’t know too hot people existed until like, a few years ago. I couldn’t even fathom preferring to be too hot over too cold 😳

[locustsday-deactivated20240129]

my problem is finding this extremely erotic

[europeismyhome]

All porn sites to be banned in Israel. And it’s worse than it sounds

The measures are of the kind previously proposed in the UK, where all adult websites would be blocked by default

we need that

[r-ssjm]

wtf I love israel now

[spencer-shayy-archive]

I’m sorry, what exactly is bad about this?

[itisthefunpolice]

I’ve clicked the link. Literally they just have porn sites blocked by default and you have to request to have them unblocked, that way children don’t start watching porn. I can’t see any reason to be opposed to this, they’re not even “taking your porn away”, you just have to ask to access it because too many literal children are being exposed to it. Porn is a fucking disease, I’m sorry y’all have issue with the fact that maybe we should make the internet a safer place for young people and children.

[celtyradfem]

Congratulations on Israel doing the right thing by women and children.

[chadradfem]

Every country should have this as the default, if you’re really that desperate to watch women being abused then you can contact your internet provider and get them unblocked you piece of shit!!!

[theeleanorvance]

it’s “worse than it sounds” because the title indicates access to porn is banned when in reality it’s still completely possible for any adult man to gain access to porn (and give his children access to it as well)

the complaints about “censorship” are the funniest

[youn8ss]

i know for a fact that gay men do not profit from male privilege to its full extent or not at all and im not gonna debate with anybody over that cus for what?

[opabiniawillreturn-deactivated2]

gay men absolutely do profit from male privilege.

[slayerlez-deactivated20230502]

do you think being gay stops you from being male? because if you do, i'm sorry to tell you that being male in unchangeable.

i can't believe you seriously think gay men are seen as less than women. our whole society have been patriarchal for so long and even every little thing humans have created have been for males as a priority, or only for them. it has only started to change pretty recently in history. women have not been seen as human, women have been and still are enslaved. you can't seriously mean what you said lol

[youn8ss]

just say you dont know anything about gay men’s issues and have never been outside of the country you live in, yall gotta understand that just because you are unaware or oblivious doesnt mean shit doesnt happen. women even in the misogynistic countries are still given more power and social privilege than gay men. Period. hell women are known to participate to gay men’s oppression more than the opposite. You wanna know why simply because they see gay men as less of human beings. yall deny gay men’s history and suffering and act like this is a legitimate argument. thats why gc gay men and tehms dont even align with you anymore and good for them, they should do just that. go back to talking about titty suckin.

[bannedwebsites-archive]

youre not just evil, misogynistic and lesbophobic but also extremely stupid. there are places in the world in which you wont lose any privileges or rights as long as you remain closeted, you can do everything except kiss your boyfriend in public. but you can vote, you can own property, you can open a bank account, you can drive, you can leave the house without a male chaperone, you can work and receive your own salary, you can be in public without veiling and men wont throw acid on you because you letting your face be seen was supposedly perverted and promiscuous and a dishonor to your family, you cant be sold as a child spouse to someone much older than you, you wont have people doing invasive “virginity tests” on you if you claim that you were assaulted, you wont have a spouse from an arranged marriage that has the legal right to rape you. etc. and all of this happens to many women out there, regardless of sexuality, NOT TO YOU, but you dont think it makes them oppressed and you dont think the fact that you are free of it is an advantage at all. because you are a male, and males are by nature selfish and sociopathic it seems. you think anything horrendous is only an example of oppression if it happens to males. youre not for gay mens rights, youre just a MRA. youre spoiled and cant see beyond your nose, all males are like this, even the gay ones im noticing.

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

OP, cars are often released onto the market without ever having been tested on a crash dummy that imitates a female body - those that have, it’s often only in the passenger seat. As a result, women are more likely to become trapped in their vehicle after a crash, delaying medical care, and worsening long term health consequences.

Gay men are male. The impact of homophobia doesn’t change the fact that cars are designed for them. Or medicines are designed for them. Or mobile phones are designed for them.

You should read Caroline Criado-Perez’s ‘Invisible Women’.