“Be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues. For the people who had to grow up way too young. There is work to be done. There are songs to be sung. Lord knows there’s a war to be won.”
People universally seem to parse it as Mean but sometimes what you really, really need to hear is "this is not a socially appropriate thing to say, and you should not have said it"
Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.
Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.
There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.
i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.
I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case
it’s actually not misogynistic to say astrology is bogus, and it is indeed way way more misogynistic to believe that things that can’t be proven rationally through science are More Female.
I tag everyone who wants to share their favorite films watched in 2024
I’ve watched 135 feature films for the first time, and this selection was actually quite hard to make. Some I barely remember watching, some I really enjoyed. I wanted to include others, I really enjoyed Bullet Train (2022) for example, but in the end, these are all films that will stay with me.
(And this year the goal is to see a film every day, so 365, I look forward to the challenge).
I recommend all of these films if you ever get the chance to watch them. Under the cut is a short description of the films.
Bullets (2023) is a Swedish drama thriller about a kid who accidentally gets drawn into criminality, it explores the actual reality of criminal gangs and their exploitation of kids in Swedish suburbs.
C’è ancora domani (There’s Still Tomorrow, english title) (2023) is an Italian drama about a family in the 40s living with an abusive husband. It follows the wife in her daily life and leads up to the first election for women.
Eye in the Sky (2015) is an English/American drama thriller about the messy morality and the complicated laws surrounding military warfare surrounding wanted people and innocent civilians.
Flukten over grensen (The Crossing, english title) (2020) is a Norwegian drama about the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War Two and the struggles of Norwegian Jews from the perspective of children.
Jagten (The Hunt, english title) (2012) is a Danish drama thriller about a lonely pre-school teacher who gets accused of molesting a child, portraying the hunt of a pedophile.
Les misérables (2019) is a French crime drama about a trio of different policemen in a neighborhood filled with crime and distrust of the police. It follows bad decisions, police malpractice and brutality and riots.
Official secrets (2019) is an English/American political thriller about Katherine Gun who exposes a USA-UK illegal cooperation and their lies to the public leading up to the invasion of Iraq 2003 and her legal trial.
Papicha (2019) is an Algerian drama about a headstrong young student fighting for freedom in 1997 Algiers where new Islamic laws and rules change the lives of her, and specifically all other women.
Poor Things (2023) is an English/American philosophical epic about a child in a full grown woman’s body and her adventures and explorations of sexuality, inequality and men’s cruelty in a fantasy sci-fi Victorian like world setting.
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