[savage-affinity]

Context to the story:

The girl cut her hair once so that she could have bangs. The mother disapproved and decided to cut off 15" of her hair as punishment. The girl later again decided to change her hair style and the above was the result; she shaved her daughters head.

Having a few personal experiences with this kind of invasive behaviour it really hurts to see someone go through these kinds of things, where the parent tries to live vicariously through their childs life, to attempt to shape them and make their decisions for them depending on what THEY would do and give their child NO independence or self expression.

Thankfully, this mother thought her actions were 100% justifiable and posted it to Facebook as a bit of a “haha, teach my kid a lesson” and has been hit with brutal recrimination from her community and has had visits from Child Protective Services.

For so many young (and older) girls their hair is their self expression, and in several months I hope this girl will have hers back.

[jackpowerx]

Children are not their parent’s possessions.

Children are NOT their parents’ possessions.

CHILDREN ARE NOT THEIR PARENTS’ POSSESSIONS!!!

[ladylokianna]

Non ho più parole, solo parolacce. 

[halab1-deactivated20220711]

BYE

[blackmen]

[igglooaustralia]

[hoechlin]

[officialwhitegirls]

buzzfeed out for blood

[allowthehype-deactivated2015072]

why cant people in relationships go longer than an hour without talking about it

[canadad-deactivated20171111]

my girlfriend and i dont know

[grawly]

NEW TUMLER VIRUS

this shark is hungry. dangerous.

ｔｈｉｓ  ｓｈａｒｋ  ｗａｎｔｓ  ｔｏ  ｅａｔ  ｙｏｕｒ  ｂｌｏｇ．

if u dont reblog this cyber shark you’re blog will be delieted DONT RISK IT

[grawly]

youve angered it

[hashtagparksandrec]

[bradpitts-deactivated20151122]

[meanplastic]

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

bisexual people aren’t more likely to cheat in relationships but we are more likely to cheat at cards, while lesbians are most likely to cheat at jenga, and genderqueer people often cheat at mario kart

[moulinluge]

how the fuck do you cheat at jenga

[fancyeliza-deactivated20200804]

ask a lesbian

[triplepoints]

[tempusfuckingfugit-deactivated2]

this is never not funny

[thecommonchick]

LOL 😂

[part2of3]

[billycraplan]

when i find myself in times of trouble, danny devito comes to me, speaking words of wisdom 

[zen-like-deactivated20160905]

[jesuisuneetoile]

THIS IS MARRIAGE!!

Thats right!

Permission to be a bad ass. Nod.

He looks back at the guy like, “SEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU’RE SO FUCKED.”

Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if their husbands came home and tried to hit them or assault them, they had a weapon within reach. That weapon was for CUTTING THEIR HUSBANDS’ FUCKING FACES so that when he went out in public everyone would know he was an asshole, abusing jerkface and they would publicly shame him.

[fuuuuuuuckthis-deactivated20140]

I DID NOT KNOW THAT THAT IS GREAT

[wtfhistory]

LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT SPARTAN WOMEN FOR A SECOND.

In Sparta, women could own land and were considered citizens. THAT IS A HUGE BIG FUCKING DEAL. Why? Because that was RARE AS FUCK and there are lots of places TODAY where women don’t even get that much.

Divorce was totally fine, and a woman could expect to keep her own wealth and get custody of the kids because paternal lineage wasn’t very important. And it didn’t make her a pariah! She could totally remarry, no big deal at all.

Spartan women participated in some fuckin’ badass sporting events, too. And because they were expected to be as physically fit as the Spartan menfolk (who all had to serve compulsory military duties, btw, and couldn’t marry until they finished them at thirty) they didn’t have time for lots of swishy dresses. So they wore notoriously short skirts. According to some accounts, their thighs were visible at all times. HOLY SHIT. 

Also, In Sparta men only got their names on their graves if they died in battle. And women? Women only got their names on their graves if they died in childbirth. THE SPARTANS COMPARED CHILDBIRTH TO FUCKING BATTLE AND IT WAS VIEWED AS A GODDAMN BADASS AND HONORABLE WAY TO GO OUT.

FUCKING SPARTAN WOMEN. THIS DUDE HAD FUCKIN’ BETTER MAKE SURE SHE’S COOL WITH WHATEVER HE’S DOING, IF HE KNOWS WHAT’S FUCKIN’ GOOD FOR HIM.

[justin-john-deactivated20181027]

^^ I throughly enjoyed the history lesson dashed with the colorful adjectives.

[7seasplace-deactivated20180320]

I mean, he knew she was Cersei… lol

[ohdiogenes]

And the women were trained the exact same way as men were. As children they were equals ; they were not allowed to wear clothing until a certain age and at that point they were sent away to a training camp until they were 18. It was only the men who were sent into the wilderness for an extra two years to ensure their strength for battle. 

Plus the women could marry whomever they pleased and the men weren’t allowed to live with the women in their house until she said so. And they were tough in Sparta but also all about family. To have male offspring was good luck, to have female offspring was an honour. 

This part of the movie was true; King Leonidas really did kill a man because he insulted his wife and he always ensured that he had his wife’s approval. And while Leonidas was away in battle she did rule Sparta on her own. 

Sparta knew what was up. 

[finitedreams2-deactivated201902]

The Vikings are actually very similar to this!

There’s a lot of evidence of women being super hardcore warriors, either protecting the homestead while the men went viking, or even going viking themselves. (Viking is actually a verb, the act of going on raid.)

They also had divorce, which involved the woman getting together her posse and declaring that she divorced her husband three times - first at the entry to her property, second at the door of her house, and finally at the foot of her marriage bed. After that, she was no longer married to the dude, and could take all of the property she brought to the marriage and leave, usually to return to her parent’s home, but often also to marry some other guy.

…

The moral of this story is that patriarchy doesn’t just affect our present, but also our view of the past. Think that women have been oppressed across all cultures, throughout history? Wrong! Women have been kickass equals for millennia, but it is always the goal of oppressors to rewrite the past so they can use it to support their lifestyle in the present. 

History is written by the victors, and right now, the victors are men. 

[rescuemepotts-deactivated201901]

i fucking love the history side of tumblr.

[dopewastelanddonut]

[kierralondon-deactivated2019102]

fans: “hey JK Rowling! was there ever a trans student at Hogwarts?” JK: “why yas m'huntys her nickname around Hogwarts was… *uses the i’m feeling lucky feature on google* Ms. Evelyn Swordfish and she would twirl and dip down the halls and was a sassy Slytherin! glad you caught on? fans: *eats it up* JK: and… she was black ;) fans: *shit themselves into the 6th dimension*

[cottonkandyenthusiast-deactivat]

Literally what always happens

[deathanddeers-deactivated202108]

Basically