triangle wants to be a circle

*waving*

[ijo0oji]

the more you love your friends the more their features start to blur until all you remember is a pair of warm, welcoming eyes and laughter that feels like home

[escuerzoresucitado]

Effi Briest (1974), Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

[knifefightscene]

Oh

[knifefightscene]

Ohhhhh

[digitised-celluloid]

[p1sswallet-deactivated20231224]

Queen

[casualist-tendency]

Tim Garwood (British, b. 1984), On the rocks (Mermaid), 2017

[northw0man-deactivated20201019]

every beauty ad reads like a ransom note for stolen self-esteem

[politicalsci]

[vladtheunfollower]

“The fact is, a 14-year-old girl may be capable of agreeing to sex with a 49-year-old man, but she doesn’t have the emotional and mental maturity to consent. I was 25 before I realized that every man I’d slept with as a teenager was a pedophile. It seemed to me that since I’d courted the attention, that I was fully culpable. What teenager believes she is not mentally or emotionally capable of full consent? I thought I was an adult, although when I look at the picture of myself from the time period above, I see a child. I thought I was the exception for these men, the girl so precocious and advanced that it superseded social norms. I thought that I was “older than my chronological age.” It never occurred to me as a young sexually active teen that the adult men I had relationships with may have been manipulating me, that they had designs and motives I couldn’t see from my limited child’s perspective.”

—

Emily, XOJANE, “The Myth of the Teenage Temptress, or Why a Young Girl Can Not Consent to Sex with an Adult Man”

Everyone should read this article if they haven’t already. The anecdotes are upsetting and carry major TW (pedophilia, graphic depictions of sex), but the message is just so on point. 

[sridevi]

The baby girl that was born just a few hours ago… her father wants to drown her in milk because he didn’t receive a male heir!

Rekha as Ramdulaari // Lajja (2001)

[trishathebrown-deactivated20190]

This is why it angers me when people reduce Bollywood to frivolous musicals made solely for entertainment. Bollywood is a multidimensional platform that exposes a lot of prevalent issues in an often bold and unapologetic manner. Powerful scenes like the above illustrate how the Indian movie industry seeks to enlighten the public. I promise you, it’s not all song and dance.

[hijabihybrid]

I’ve been looking for the English sub for months 😢

[sespursongles-deactivated201906]

Men who venture into female-dominated activities are treated by women as cool and special men who must be welcomed and praised and made comfortable at all costs while women who venture into male-dominated activities are treated by men as laughable intruders who must be discouraged and pushed out

[bitter-badfem-harpy]

Throwback to when my high school bf discouraged me from going out for football because he knew the coach told his players to physically harm any girl that tried to join the team.

[blxckberrying]

The Rage of the Incels: Incels aren’t really looking for sex. They’re looking for absolute male supremacy. | The New Yorker

[huariqueje]

Femme nue   -   Alain Bonnefoit   1981

French  b.1937-

Watercolour,  48x63cm 

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & The Crisis in Masculinity

with Ed. M, Ph.D Jackson Katz

[rabbleprochoice-deactivated2014]

Same for mass shootings which are almost entirely done by white males.

If it was done by, literally, ANYONE ELSE of any other race or gender, I can’t even IMAGINE the shit that would be said by people.

[formerly-comealongpixie-deactiv]

I read somewhere, someone had this theory that the reason shootings are mainly committed by white males is because when women or poc feel alienated, depressed, etc, we are trained to keep it to ourselves, whereas white men are raised with a sense of entitlement that allows them to make their own problems everyone’s problem.

I wonder if it is true for shooting or for road rage or both or neither.

[writeswrongs]

the bolded!

[littie-titties-deactivated20190]

Is this shocking to anyone like every time I see something horrific stating males are mainly the perpetrators it’s like yeah water is wet, got anything surprising?

[autumnalsonata-deactivated20190]

“She says ‘I’m right in front of you and you don’t see me – it’s frightening.’”

— Marguerite Duras, from Blue Eyes, Black Hair (pub. November 1986)

[lovelysuggestions]

we are a generation of sleepy lovers, of big-hearted rebels, of tired fighters. we are a generation worn out, but unwilling to back down.

[daddywhorebucks]

[yidquotes]

Had Moses seen how my friend’s face blushes when he is drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man.

Jeffrey Gorsky (via yidquotes)

IDK if u meant to attribute Jeffrey Gorsky as translating this (he’s slightly off) but he didn’t write this, he even attributes the original in his book. 

This is the original text and it reads (at least in my translation),  If the son of ‘Amram [Moses] had seen the face of my beloved, his ringlets, and his gloriously beautiful face blushing whilst imbibing alcohol, he would not have written in his Torah, “…and with a man” [which obvsly refers to Wayiqra 18:6] This poem was recorded by Yehuda al-Ḥarizi in his work, תחכמוני, allegedly in Baghdad (x). (The Andalusian poet traveled quite frequently.)