Hopes and Prospects

20 something // Academic turned marketer // Radical feminist

[l-aurel]

I’m so platonically in love with my neighbours, they’re just the coolest. He’s a chef and she’s a dog trainer, and their kid is cute too. They’re aggressively/gloriously Italian, and refuse to let me leave their house without being plied with wine, pastries and home grown vegetables!!! Amazing!

[dailyflicks]

PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN (2020) dir. Emerald Fennell

[comrade-meow]

“(Asked about his stance on pornography, in response to perceived endorsement of Hustler, who had tricked Chomsky into giving an interview for the magazine.) Pornography is humiliation and degradation of women. It’s a disgraceful activity. I don’t want to be associated with it. Just take a look at the pictures. I mean, women are degraded as vulgar sex objects. That’s not what human beings are. I don’t even see anything to discuss. (Interviewer: But didn’t performers choose to do the job and get paid?) The fact that people agree to it and are paid, is about as convincing as the fact that we should be in favour of sweatshops in China, where women are locked into a factory and work fifteen hours a day, and then the factory burns down and they all die. Yeah, they were paid and they consented, but it doesn’t make me in favour of it, so that argument we can’t even talk about. As for the fact that it’s some people’s erotica, well you know that’s their problem, doesn’t mean I have to contribute to it. If they get enjoyment out of humiliation of women, they have a problem, but it’s nothing I want to contribute to. (Interviewer: How should we improve the production conditions of pornography?) By eliminating degradation of women, that would improve it. Just like child abuse, you don’t want to make it better child abuse, you want to stop child abuse. Suppose there’s a starving child in the slums, and you say “well, I’ll give you food if you’ll let me abuse you.” Suppose—well, there happen to be laws against child abuse, fortunately—but suppose someone were to give you an argument. Well, you know, after all a child’s starving otherwise, so you’re taking away their chance to get some food if you ban abuse. I mean, is that an argument? The answer to that is stop the conditions in which the child is starving, and the same is true here. Eliminate the conditions in which women can’t get decent jobs, not permit abusive and destructive behaviour.”

— Noam Chomsky, The Price of Pleasure.  (via nextyearsgirl)

[bloomingsalma]

let's just stay at home. susan ryder / anna valdez / karoliina hellberg / lachlan goudie

[forgottenforest]

Kate Winslet by Helmut Newton, 1996

[l-aurel]

Shit day. Lockdown extended by another week + I ended my lease on Diesel 😭😭😭

[l-aurel]

He’s a shithead, but dang he’s cute!

[l-aurel]

Lockdown again! You know what that means! Evermore and folklore albums on repeat!

[rablaf]

DO IT FOR HER

(her being you )

[l-aurel]

Got another offer for a job, but this time it’s at a cool food-waste fighting company and ahhhh I’m very tempted! But alas the role is in Melbourne 😭 God I hope this many people want to hire me in Brisbane one day hahaha

[jenniferlawurence]

Emilia Clarke on CBS Sunday Morning

[daenerysrtargaryen]

Ok real quick THIS is the problem I have with the show. “ItS jUsT fIcTiOn” tell that to the actresses that have to go through this

[feministnova]

i feel pretty stupid for thinking that the actresses weren’t affected by their roles in this show just because they knew they were acting. like what did it say to them that those were the roles they had to play that’s so horrible

[notcisjustwoman]

This is why I don’t watch this kind of garbage.

[cecaeliawitch]

“But as far as sci-fi and fantasy, I love that genre because there are so many things you can do, like rip someone’s tongue out of their throat and get away with it and rape beautiful women,” - Jason Momoa

[organic-homegrown-boyfriend]

Not to distract from the topic at hand, but I hope everyone extends the same sympathy to porn actors as well and realise how far more damaging porn can be to the mental well being of the women acting in the poem film.

[nicolauda]

prince phillip is dead and the newsreader was like “this has come as a shock to many” babe where have you BEEN

[politedemon]

[l-aurel]

Met the most gorgeous, funny and smart woman at a friend’s wedding today - but I think she’s straight 😭😭 RIP me

[fluoresensitivearchive-deactiva]

Men can’t write horror because they’re too focused on all the gross ways they can dehumanize women.

[hayraan-deactivated20190920]

[kibutsug]

[laguerradelasgalaxias]

Matthias Schoenaerts as Gabriel Oak in Far From the Madding Crowd (2015)

[l-aurel]

Ugh I was going for a walk this afternoon, and I was bopping along with my headphones on listening to my music and this old guy starts waving me down from across the road. He looked really worried so I thought he was in trouble so I went over and asked what was going on. And turns out he just wanted to talk to me because we was feeling lonely 🙄 And he wouldn’t stop staring at my boobs, and asked me if I had a husband, and did I live alone, and where was my house, invited me into his house etc etc. I was polite because I’m always worried men will turn ugly if I’m straight up rude to them, but I left asap and went home via a weird route in case he was following me.

I’m so sick of feeling on show and vulnerable when I’m doing something as inane as going for an afternoon stroll in my own fkn neighbourhood. Men, stop perceiving me! And for god’s sake stop initiating conversations when women are clearly going about their business and don’t want to chat. We’re not here solely to meet your needs omfg. Leave me alone!! Trust me, if I want to talk to you I will make it clear.

[expressions-of-nature]

Portree, United Kingdom by Agnieszka Mordaunt