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does anyone have clothing suggestions for an aspirational butch on a budget who is 5′4′’ and wants to look like a very masculine woman from one angle and a sensual snake man from another. I want to look butch but emphasizing the titties. I want to look like a sneering 1950s greaser who makes other men uncomfortable with my delicate beauty. I don’t want to look genderless so much as genderfull. I want to look in such a way that every aspect of my outfit seems gender nonconforming but they’re all nonconforming to different genders. I want to look like the Fab Five gave a makeover to a butch lesbian, and I am not the person being made over, I am the Expert Butch that they pretend they’ve known for a long time and I teach her how to walk good. I want to periodically be described not as feminine but effeminate. I want to be a walking gender studies project. I want to be that part in a Shakespeare play where a boy acting as a girl acts like a boy who inadvertently seduces all the girls. I have fifteen dollars and big dreams
well, since this is remarkably close to what i’ve been working on achieving with my own style for like the last 5 years, I would like to share some of my findings with you, but first:
Welcome to the incredible tradition of genderfuck fashion, the realm of glorious beings like Tilda Swinton, Grace Jones, Janelle Monae, David Bowie. It’s a great place to be. The general ‘rules’ of constructing these looks are, I find, to either combine as many elements that are traditionally thought of as ‘feminine’ or ‘masculine’, or, if you like it simpler, to take smth ‘masculine’ and smth ‘feminine’ and turn it around or do the exact opposite of what fashion dictates at this time. (I am going to stop putting everything in quotes for ease of writing, but hopefully we understand each other: masculine and feminine quality are constructs and generally a major pain in the arse, but fun to play with.) Now, here’s a few gospels:
- trousers we buy at men’s departments, if you can find your fit. Jeans and any type of jean-style trousers should be skintight, but fall straight from the knee down. Slacks: tighter than acceptable for manly men. If your body type allows you, you can try to achieve a straighter silhouette from the waist down and downplay the curvature of your hips, but otherwise, just buy men’s trousers and make sure they’re offensively tight. - get a belt. thrift stores have lots of nice options. get a proper masculine leather belt with a metal buckle. if you’re wearing trousers, you’re wearing the belt. - shoes, well, imo there are a few classic options that still work great: brogues/oxfords, tall converse, and clunky stompy tall(ish) boots. wear these with everything, they’re pretty much an instant touch of androgyny for any look. - SOCKS. even if your pants are touching your shoes, you should have nice socks. if you’re up for advanced styling, color-coordinate them with the rest of your outfit. your socks are going to show when you sit down and a nicely-socked ankle between a good shoe and men’s trousers is sexy as fuck in a very genderfull way, I find. - now, tops is where it gets interesting. classic collared button-downs are a win, but the fit is key. either get them from men’s department and make sure they fit you as well as possible, or get them from women’s department and make sure they’re oversized. if you don’t have any tits to speak of, avoid anything with tailored room for boobs like the plague. a fantastic way to wear feminine tops and have them still be unsettling and in line with the genderfuck style is like this: a tight feminine tanktop or croptop under an unbuttoned men’s shirt. with oversized feminine tops: put a tight men’s tshirt or a bralette on first, then the oversized shirt, leave it unbuttoned, and tuck it in. wear the belt. think young Led Zeppelin. think David Bowie in those photos with his wife where you need a good minute to figure out which person is his wife. - scarves and neckties are your friend. so are waistcoats. - BLAZERS. if men’s blazers fit you, problem solved. if you need a women’s cut, get them oversized. wear them with everything. - a good masculine wintercoat does wonders. as do men’s leather jackets. - HATS. there are some Traditional Gay hat options, but, imo, get smth like a trilby and wear it with everything. it’ll class you up, plus it’s a masculine hat, so everything feminine you wear with it is going to get Genderfull.
Now, let’s talk about accessories and makeup: - if you do wear makeup, a great way to do it is to figure out what makes your face look slightly unbalanced, but in a good way. for example, the general rule with conventional feminine makeup is to wear both lip and eye makeup, but emphasise either one or the other. personally, i love turning this around: i either wear a lot of eye makeup and absolutely nothing on the mouth, or I do a Tilda and wear just dark/prominent lipstick, both of which make me look a bit unsettling. You can also do a I-had-sex-all-night rockstar smudged black or brown eyeliner, there’s literally no way to go wrong with that. Advanced Genderfull makeup would also be contouring for a masculine face with strong eye or lip makeup. - glitter. wear glitter with everything. wear glitter in the daytime. wear more glitter in the nighttime. a person that i don’t particularly like but who has excellent fashion advice, once said: “Just put glitter on it and sneer.” and tbh those are words to live by. wear glitter with the thick men’s leather jacket and stompy boots. wear glitter with waistcoats. it will take you into another realm altogether, i promise. - dangly earrings with a super masculine shirt, waistcoat, and tie - clunky men’s jewelry with lacy/floral/ultrafeminine tops - wear too many rings, and get acquainted with a big cuff bracelet, either metal or leather. wear chokers with men’s tshirts. - watches - a wristwatch has become a touch unusual, so work with it. make sure it’s not too big for your wrist (the face should be a touch smaller than the width of your wrist), but do make sure it’s bigger and clunkier than women’s wristwatches. no thin straps and coin-sized faces, please. - short nails - duh - and dark nail polish. the darker - and more glittery! - the better. - perfume, if you like wearing it, does miracles for the way you carry yourself and will subconsciously influence the way people perceive you. get a masculine fragrance and wear it when you need an extra touch of manly, and at the same time, get a feminine fragrance and wear it with the most masculine clothes. there’s nothing in the world like a dirty greaser in a leather jacket with smudged eyeliner that smells like flowers, i promise you. - and a word on haircuts to finish this off: if you have a more feminine face, get a masculine haircut. if you have a masculine face, get a girlier haircut.
I hope this gives you the general idea of what I’m talking about and that it helps. Now go forth and conquer, you gorgeous gender studies project.
I work at a daycare with infants.
One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.
There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”
My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”
To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”
Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.
This reminds me of a cousin of mine who ended up with her kids being taken away from her by social services for a number of reasons but mostly for nearly killing her baby daughter. How?
By starving her. She insisted that her baby was ‘too fat’ and had an aim to remove any and all ‘chubbyness’ so her baby would be thin. She’d already been warned by her doctor about the baby not getting enough food, but insisted she knew best.
After several months of this her baby passed out cold one day and was rushed into hospital where the doctors found her to have severe malnutrition, a low body temperature and low pulse rate. They asked my cousin what she’d been feeding her daughter and she said “one bottle of skimmed milk a day. I don’t want her growing up fat.”
Even after nearly killing her daughter my cousin maintained her view that fat = bad and ended up with all her kids taken from her because she was starving them and neglecting them.
When your fatphobia leads you to starving your own children then you’ve got serious problems.
(Note. She still, to this day, maintains the view that she was right and the doctors were wrong. “They just want fat kids so they can keep employed treating them for all those diseases that being fat causes.” = her actual words.)
My mom had me dieting with her when I was eleven. She had me eating less than 600 calories a day because she was worried I was going to “get huge.” She even grounded me once because she found out my friends were bringing me lunches! I ended up passing out, going to the ER, and getting two IVs at once BC I was so goddamn dehydrated. Soooooo surprised they didn’t call child services… And looking back, this was the root of my anorexia. I’m nearly 22 and still fighting it. Please don’t starve your fucking children.
For fucks sake babies are SUPPOSED to be fat, what is wrong with people? It’s just stored energy, and growing children need stored energy - an 11 year old is just about to hit some major growing years. Damn.
Fatphobia
Is
Real
and it kills
This is no joke. people will literally starve their own babies cause they don’t want them getting fat. A parent brought in their six month old baby who was having breathing issues and kept getting sick. the parent was asked if the baby was eating regularly and the parent straight up told the doctor that they only feed the baby once a day. ONCE A DAY. A FUCKING BABY. they even had the nerve to say because they didn’t want the baby to get fat. people like this are real. they would rather have a dead baby than a fat one.
My youngest son is a very big boy and has been since he was born. When he was 10 months old I took him for his well-baby check and vaccinations. The nurse noted his weight and said, quite casually, “He is in the 99th percentile for weight so he is at risk for obesity. You may want to keep an eye on that.” I said, “He is exclusively breastfed. He refuses to eat any solids yet.” What did she expect me to do? What would it mean to “keep an eye on” an exclusively breastfed baby’s weight?
She backed off saying, ‘Well he looks fine!” – proving once again that weight bias is not truly about health – But I know many other parents who are not as informed as I am about weight science and size diversity would react to this interaction by policing their child’s food intake, if not as an infant, then when he was an older child. This is exactly the type of seemingly-inconsequential interaction that starts the ball rolling on a lifetime of dieting, disordered eating, negative body image, and weight-based abuse for too many fat people.
Years later when he was five, another doctor measured his weight and height and commented that he is off the charts on both, but “at least he is in proportion.” And if he was not “in proportion,” I am sure I would have been advised once again to “watch his weight.”
I no longer allow healthcare providers to weight my children unless it is absolutely medically necessary. They are unable to control their weight talk, which is a known harm for children.
We need to completely eliminate weight talk from medicine, especially when it comes to children. Even the smallest exposure can have terrible consequences.
A friend from college had been going to the doctor because she was having trouble breathing. She was told to lose weight. Over the course of several years, she went back to the doctors time and time again, telling them that she’d been sticking to the diet but because of her breathing problems she had been unable to even walk for more than 20 minutes at a time. The doctor got her into an exercise programme and told her that she just needed to really try to lose weight because that was clearly the reason for her breathing problems. By the time they found the tumour on her lungs, it was inoperable. She only lived three months after diagnosis. She was 25. She’d had the tumour for over five years. The doctor was so focused on the fact that my friend was “fat”, that they refused to look for any underlying cause. They killed her.
Weight-first treatment KILLS. Fatphobia KILLS.
I have 2 scary stories to share about fatphobic doctors & parents harming their childs/patients’ health:
1. The 4 years old daughter of a friend of mine came to our house to spend the weekend. She gave me a letter from her mom that said that the child was in a glutenfree diet because she was getting ‘awfully fat’ when eating cookies or bread (my celiac ass; who gets dhiarrea and loses a scary amount of weight whenever I eat something with gluten was like ’???’).
You can bet that I went to the supermarket with the kid and told her ‘go & take whatever you feel like eating’ and the poor child came back smiling with her arms full of biscuits and cupcakes.
She didn’t got sick (as a celiac would get) and told me later that she hated the diet her mother made her follow; because her cousins didn’t had to pass through that.
And what’s the scariest thing about this story? Her mother was a NURSE. A fucking nurse who didn’t have a clue of the harm that she was doing to her daughter’s body!
2. My little sister started to feel fatigued and dizzy at 9 years old. She felt nauseated at the sight of food and had abdominal pain that increased with physical activity.
Mom got her to the ER and the doctor dismissed it saying: ‘she’s fat and probably is feeling ill after eating too much burgers, get her to make some exercise and she will be better in no time’.My mom didn’t felt ok with the diagnosis and took my sister with a second doctor who also told her that ‘the child was just fat’.
My sister’s skin was starting to get yellow as the days passed and the abdominal pain was getting awful so my mom (heaven bless her!) got her to the ER for the third time:
SHE HAD STAGE 4 HEPATITIS AND WAS ABOUT TO DIE.
She survived after a long and painful recovery who involved being in bed for a whole year (remember that we’re speaking of a 9 years old child). Luckily they saved her liver and she didn’t went through a transplant… but let this sink:
If it weren’t for my mother, fatphobia would have killed her. Fatphobia kills kids and teenagers, fatphobia kills inocent people everyday. It treats human beings as lesser than others and hurts them in their most vulnerable times.
It’s a real shame that we all have so much stories to share about this issue. A REAL SHAME.
Future doctors, interns, and residents following me:
FUCKING TAKE NOTE OF THIS!
Don’t let bias against your fat patients kill them!
(#and this is just when we actually go to the doctor and tell them we have problems #how many of us just give up #or won’t mention anything that seems like too much of a ‘fat’ problem)
i’d really like my thin followers to reblog this if you can. fat people are already here for each other, we need you guys to help us out too. this is something i never see anyone actually talking about in-depth, and it’s disappointing. be there for your fat siblings, too.
Nothing as bad as this, but when I was about 11 I was struggling with my body image and I kept trying to tell myself it was all in my head and then one day my doctor said I was fat and it really stuck with me because I thought if a doctor says it it must be true
my son has always been really skinny because he takes a medicine that suppresses his appetite. he’s 15 and a half now, and my grandmother keeps harping on how he’s gained wait. he’s 5′9″ and 138. he is, if you trust the bmi charts, smack dab in the middle of healthy for his height and weight. but he has a little flab around his belly, and he has some teeny moobs.
BECAUSE HE IS 15 AND ABOUT TO HIT MAJOR GROWTH SPURTS.
i get all over her, he does too, because she comments and just refuses to shut the fuck up about it. stop shaming kids about their weight, period. even if they’re unhealthily fat, there is a reason for it, and that reason isn’t always in their control. you can do irreparable damage to them being cruel about their weight.
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If you like playing Grand Theft Auto, then try American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
If you like playing Sid Meier’s Civilization, then try A Game Of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
If you like playing Final Fantasy, try playing Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa
If you like playing Mass Effect, then try Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
If you like playing Alice: Madness Returns, then try Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis
If you like playing Halo, then try Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein
If you like playing Portal, then try House Of Stairs by William Sleator
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This is amazing!!
I have to reblog for two reasons:
1)This is actually a good way to get people into reading.
2)That passive aggressive joke in the last one is pure genius.
…I almost killed myself
I put on my sunglasses, to hide my swollen eyes, over my tears. I cried all my makeup off. Went inside to have a milkshake. I don’t know why. I wanted something to drink as I figured out what I would do. I got a soda and a milkshake. Medium. The cashier looked at me and with a line around the corner of the counter he rushed away from the counter “Hold on “ he yelled to a coworker.
I filled my soda and went back and saw him looking all over. I go up and he gets close and says “I made it a large”.
That was seriously enough for me not to do it. His kindness. Someone went out of their way and as I went back in my car to cry I realized I could muster through a few other days. A few more weeks. Then I came down from that panicky high of anxiety, depression, and pain. I finished my shake. And it was enough time to let me feel better. I… I’m alive. I’ll make it through.
Try and be nice today. Tomorrow. Something as much as a smile. It helped so much.
Thank you man at McDonalds.
The milkshake saved my life
I hope you all can read this and remember to be kind
The smallest of gestures can save a life. My Mum answered her phone when I called and I am alive today because of that.
I’m glad you’re here.
It’s a phone call, a milkshake, a friend.
I feel like I shouldn’t keep reblogging this but when I do more people see what kindness can do…. I don’t know. Love everyone as yourself.
Nah, keep rebloging it. It gives hope.
walked sobbing around a city once wearing a summer dress in mid-september thunder and rain. basically dragged myself into LUSH as the smell of the store always made me smile. the shop was empty and dead due to the weather, just this blonde short woman behind the counter who smiled at me. i stared at her feet and asked ‘do you have anything for people who are scared a lot?’ (i was so out of it i had no clue). she showed me two bath bombs, one pink and one blue, and said both were good - i chose the pink, paid for it and left. i then sat at a bus stop clutching the LUSH bag in one arm and my prescription meds in the other - i’d lied and ordered a refill so i could just drift away with sleeping pills. when the bus arrived and i was out of the rain, i decided to have another look at my bath bomb, smell it and what not. opened my bag and saw she’d put the blue one in there for me as well and written on the receipt ‘feel better soon :) hope you like x’.
no one had ever been so selflessly kind to me before, i didn’t know what to do with it except hang around long enough to use the other bath bomb.
Actually I’m going to reblog this again because of the truth of the inverse: think of any time you have been casually cruel or petty to someone for humor or because you weren’t in a great mood.
The power of small gestures goes both ways.
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The artist is luo li rong
The statue doesn’t have big enough titties to have been made by a man.
I know I’ve reblogged this before but the schadenfreude is too delicious.
By the way, the statue is called La mélodie oubliée (The Forgotten Melody). Luo Li Rong also painted it:
And here she and the statue are in a more formal setting (museum or art show, I can’t tell):
“Dork ass losers”
OK not only do I think she’s a sorceress but now I have a massive crush on her
JUST LETTING Y'ALL KNOW WHERE THIS BLOG STANDS.
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even if the fraud was like 5% it wouldn’t compare to rich people cheating the system by trillions lmao
Also, SNAP “fraud” is like exchanging some of your stamps for cash to buy necessities you can’t buy with stamps, like soap or deodorant or tampons
TBH even if one hundred percent of people on food stamps were committing food stamp fraud I’d still be in favor of keeping the program around
Hey I wanna talk about this.
I work at a drug addiction counseling center. A ton of my clients have, at one time or another, sold their food stamps. This is basically exactly what the GOP is afraid of, right? Drug addicts selling their food stamps.
I have learned, now, to ask them WHY they sold their food stamps. Here is an incomplete list of the answers:
- I need tampons, and you can’t buy them with foodstamps
- See above RE: toilet paper
- I was living in a hotel with no kitchen then. I had to buy pre-prepared food
- The homeless shelter won’t let me keep food in my locker or room, so I have to buy pre-prepared food (Yes, really)
- I had to make rent
- My sister had to make rent
- My son had to make rent
- I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll die
- I needed co-pays to get my medication or I’ll loose control of my mental health
But the absolute most common form of food stamp fraud I see? Giving away food stamps to other family members who get no food stamps or insufficient food stamps to feed their families. I see that every month. People glassy eyed and hungry because they gave away their food to their adult kids, their grand kids, cousins, siblings etc.
So, is food stamp fraud rampant? In some places, yes. And I’m not about to chastise people for it.
This needs to be said over and over.
my hot take on the Chloe Dykstra article, I believe her and any other person that has the courage to talk about emotionally manipulative/abusive relationships
everything she says really hit me you can read it here https://medium.com/@skydart/rose-colored-glasses-6be0594970ca
The Book of Names lists each person murdered at Auschwitz
#and you have to remember how many names are most likely missing#from rushed trains and burned lists#from rushed transports and people who died on the death marchs#what about the names from people who died after their liberation#and then…#this is only Auschwitz#this was the biggest camp yes#but just one of many#and then remember sobibor and belsec#and try not to feel sick
This is why we punch Nazis. This is why this vile ideology must be stamped out viciously every time it tries to come out of its hole.
Never. Again.
The Birch (2016) Directed by Ben Franklin and Anthony Melton Watch it here.
I just starting bawling my eyes out
Slavery was a choice though right?
My grandpa lives in clarksdale, Mississippi and HATES white people with a passion. I grew up listening to stories like this. His cousins had to flee to Chicago in the 60s for trying to fight a group of white landowners who wanted to hang them for trying to leave the land they worked on.
Slavery turned into “share cropping” if you kept your slaves ignorant and isolated then they didn’t know they had been freed. This went on well into the 60’s the fucking 60’s these people are still alive dealing with this type of shit in the deep south.
My friend said to “fact check” this and I’m like…black ppl are literally saying they were kept as slaves what is there to fact check. Anyway, sharecropping was still slavery as far as I’m concerned.
I can’t sit through that video without wanting to scream and cry at the same time
Two women talking about a transwoman using women’s restroom.
Lady A: He is in there only to peep on women.
Lady B: Were you there to peep on other women?
Lady A: No.
Lady B: Neither was she.
Lady A: She is a he!
Lady B: Are you a he?
Lady A: No.
Lady B: Neither is she.
Lady A: But he has a penis!
Lady B: Have you seen her penis?
Lady A: Yes!
Lady B: Then I firmly believe you are the one who did the peeping.
oooOOOOOoOOOHHHHhhH SSssHHhIIITTtT
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He is right they’re NOT LISTENING.
Here’s all the signs he had
I’m working to accept my body. I bought crop tops today. I do not have a flat tummy and I do have stretch marks. You know what? My body isn’t “perfect,” but my body grew, carried, and delivered a tiny human. After all that, how can I hate it? #bodypositivity #lovemycurves #tigerstripes #mompride #fuckyourbeautystandards #mombodlove @scarymommy @torridfashion