[lovelustquotes]

[saying]

[demonius-darkblade]

hell world

[kyleblackpaw]

[avicecaro]

if they can’t say fuck on tv they shouldn’t be able to say bitch or slut either. if your kid starts saying fuck it means they picked up a funny word that shows strong emotion. if your kid starts saying bitch and slut it means they’ve already learned it’s okay to call women these things. which is really worse?

[yesterdaysprint]

The Evening News, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, February 28, 1933

[yellew]

*falls behind in life* haha the lag

[extrasad]

“Today I saw your face and I lost my breath a little but I didn’t collapse like I would have six months ago.”

— I still miss you sometimes but I’m not drowning anymore and maybe they were right when they said it gets better (via extrasad)

[telltaletypist]

the fact that “abolish the police” went from a fringe, radical stance that no one took seriously to a national talking point after just 7 days of protests is itself a massive victory. keep pushing.

[sexatoxbridge]

[itscolossal]

Archaeologists Excavate a Stunning Roman Mosaic That’s Untarnished From an Italian Vineyard

[ziraseal]

[lavenderfables]

The smell of fresh bread is straight serotonin.

[apollosbuttcheeks-deactivated20]

You know, it's wild how aphobe blocklists and terf blocklists were a huge part of what made tumblr well.. tumblr, but never in my years of being on this hell site have i seen alt right or white supremacist blocklists. Teens are so fucking dramatic.

[women-only]

please tell me how a trans woman “feels” and “thinks” like a woman without using sexist stereotypes. please tell me how a male thinks he’s a woman without being sexist. i’ll wait

[memesandlaughs]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[lookataleaf3000]

Lundy bancroft legit has dedicated his life to working directly with abusive men to interrupt their thinking and behavioral patterns, and making said patterns knowable and nameable by women. That is what male feminist ally behavior actually looks like. Obviously the every day person isn’t going to spend their entire life doing the kind of work he does, but on a micro level, recognizing and speaking about male pattern aggression/manipulation and disrupting those patterns in yourself and those around you is something you can actually be striving for.

That means not using your newfound gender awareness as a way to make women caretake your guilt, or coming up with clever ways to “overcome” that guilt, or using feminist rhetoric as a social capital or manipulation tool. It’s not that we’re not all very glad that you’ve learned how to cry – it would just be nice if you weren’t just doing all the same old stuff “once more, but with feeling.”

[respectthefemalebody]

I love the way he never believes in their lies. I love the way he looks at things with complete honesty about the situation. I love how he is a man who is genuinely unwilling to trust abusers.

Here’s a free pdf of his book, Why Does He Do That?

[parliamentaryinquiry]

I cannot believe I didn’t realize until this moment that Lundy Bancroft is a man.

[dworkinlover69-deactivated20210]

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

He also really doesn’t beat around the bush. He comes right out at the beginning of the book and says he’s using “he” for the abuser and “she” for the victim, because that is the majority of cases. As with all “good” men, I’m cautiously optimistic, but Why Does He Do That? is a very resource to have. At the time of writing he’d counselled over 1000 abusive men IIRC.

[wordsofdiana]

Me as a kid: Poison Ivy tried to kill those billionaires just because they wouldn’t protect the environment. What an evil lady.

Me today: