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Happy pride month
This will probably be my most controversial post by far, but it needs to be said.
Gendered socialization is unequivocally real. Boys and girls are treated and socialized differently before they're even born.
Female babies are disappearing en masse, because male babies are more valued.
From an extremely early age, parents respond to their childrens' emotions differently based on gender. Mothers over-estimate the crawling abilities of their infant sons compared to infant daughters.
Mothers speak to their infant daughters more and talk them more about emotions than they do their sons.
By the age of 2, boys already show an avoidance to the color pink and other items traditionally seen as feminine, laying the ground work for early demonstrations of misogyny in childhood.
When children enter pre-school, there is no difference in math abilities between boys and girls. But such gaps begin to appear as children grow older.
The vast majority of girls report feeling unsafe going outside, and at least 2/3 of girls have reported experiencing sexual harassment at school by the time they 16.
Further on in education, women will understimate their scores, while men will overestimate their scores. Women will perform worse on tests when first told that women, on average, perform worse.
Researchers argue that the prevalence of sexual assault against women is so high specifically because of early gendered socialization. The men who commit sexual violence consistently demonstrate specific ideals about gender and perform hostile masculinity.
The patterns reach well into adulthood, influencing occupational choices.
I could literally go on and on and on. There are countless studies and entire fields of academia dedicated to researching this. The fact that children are socialized differently paced on assigned or percieved gender is really not debatable.
I am sympathetic to the fact that transphobes have warped the concept of socialization to insinuate that trans women are destined to be violent or predatory, or that trans men are destined to be submissive and helpless. However, people weaponizing these frameworks does not mean that the phenomenon does not exist.
Furthermore, individual people's nuanced experiences with gendered socialization does not mean that these patterns don't exist on a large scale. Any interaction with society will confer the influence of gender biases, especially upon children to are extremely vulnerable to both subtle and overt social cues.
Again - gendered socialization is real. This is a core aspect of feminist analysis. I am not going to pretend otherwise.
me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me
I think in some part people refuse to believe in male and female socialization because they're scared of it and what that implies
He is my princess diana
it's so insane that so many gay and bi people just accepted the queer label and now people will ask "are you queer?" like that's normal lmao. now straight people say it like it's nothing it's CRAZYYY imagine any other group being bullied into doing this.
we need one hot gay male celebrity de jour to just passively say "I think it's kind of unchic to use that word" in a non-political context and the walls may start to crumble. like just on jimmy kimmel promoting something gen z likes saying "oh, I don't use that word. it's not very chic imo"
bro u have to come thrifting with me dude not only is all the clothing ran through, its also priced the same as new clothes and they won't have shit that fits you well
leo leclerc’s silence about pride month is deafening btw .. god rest the soul of canonical ally roscoe hamilton. they don’t make them like that anymore
As an autistic woman, I'm seriously tired of holding back my opinions on autistic men lest people interpret my complaints as me being ableist. Why is it that we're supposed to support and defend autistic men, but no one cares to do the same for autistic women? Why is it so taboo to point out how there's a pattern to the violence perpetrated by these men? Why is it that when they hurt us, no one cares?
School shootings. Incel culture. Autogynephilia. Paedophilia. Invading women's spaces. Making perverted art of children's cartoon characters. Incest fantasies. Why do I keep seeing highly functioning autistic men involved with these things? Why can't we discuss these issues?
Maybe it's because...no, I shan't say it...
because they're male? That's probably it.
Whatever. I'll continue to call high functioning males what they are, a menace.
But I also keep thinking about the women who have low functioning autistic sons and how they're treated. Autism doesn't go away once you leave childhood, those little boys will grow into adult men. I wonder how often injuries happen while these mothers are looking after their sons. How lonely and isolating it must be. I keep thinking about the single mothers, the older mothers, the mothers living pay check to pay check. The violence and the fear and, yes, the love, and the worry they must feel. I think about the siblings as well. And the nurses. How sexual harassment and physical violence happen, but all we hear about these instances are whispers.
Remember when Chris Chan was arrested for repeatedly raping his elderly mother and the “internet good guys” kept schooling people for not referring to him by his “preferred pronouns” and acting like he was a powerless victim too? Yeah.
wow what a typical girlhood milestone
i refuse to believe this is real 💀
???? what the fuck
Ummmm this is not what girls did at sleepovers.
And I may be mistaken but aren't boys the ones that typically compared their genitals? So nothing has changed for them
Weird as fuck to call it a “milestone of girlhood” and a reclamation of his adolescence and then immediately delve into sexually-charged activities. Men really do believe their porn is real life
Swinging at the hornets nest here (the “sex work is work” crowd won’t like this one lol) but there was a post going around about like “if you work in hospitality and you think you see a sex worker, no you didn’t. Keep your mouth shut and let them make their money” is honestly sending me. As many of you know, one of my jobs is working front desk at a hotel and like no lads…we can’t “look the other way” at times. Yes, we know when the working girls check in (many are regulars who are open about it, plus after working their long enough you Know™️ when a woman is because you can clock the signs) and of course we can’t stop them but there are times when you literally have to say something. Here are a couple of instances that have happened on my shifts alone:
-I was checking in two girls and knew something was off and asked to see both their ID’s. Only one had a passport and her 18th birthday was literally a week ago. The other one handed me her high school student card. We had to call the police when their pimp came in and started making threats bc we refused to check them in.
-a sex worker checked in the night before and a housekeeper went into the room the next morning and found the woman in a bloody mess. There were chunks of human tissue scattered throughout the room (the housekeeper quit after that. Honestly, housekeepers are literally on the front lines of the bullshit but that’s another story)
-something about a “couple” was offfffffff at check in. The woman was standing with her hands behind her back, had her eyes glued to the floor, and wouldn’t answer questions despite her name being on the reservation. The man was answering for her. When I asked to see her ID, he hands it to me, and when I handed it to her, her arms were covered in bruises. We didn’t let them check in
-there are two properties and one of them has an agreement with a women’s shelter. I’ve checked in women into one property only to see them come in months later to the other property under the womens shelters’ reservation with bruises and broken limbs (many of whom are indigenous women).
So yeah bottom line: with the World Cup soon approaching, all of us -front desk, maintenance, housekeeping, the kitchen staff, sales, you name it all departments- have had to do extensive modules on clocking the signs of human trafficking. You can’t just look the other way because it can mean missing the underaged girl or preventing horrific violence. Yes we have our regulars and yes sometimes it is what it is but no you can’t just look the other way and let them “secure the bag” because I guarantee there’s a pimp in the lobby/parking lot who’s the one getting the bag at her expense.
despite everything, I would want to be a woman in every universe, every time
war boys be like ‘oh shit who brought fucking death death’
#moon moon will ride eternal