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Your male fave is not "Bubblegum Bitch." He is not "Pink Pony Club." He is not "Brat." You know who WAS all those things? Anne Boleyn

lizbethborden

[buzzer noise] Wrong. Henry VIII was patriarchy

lizbethborden

He was also, arguably, "No Air" by Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown.

#this is an ancient meme reference

I had a guy come in to the cafe with a giant Yeti water bottle and ask me to put water in it for him. Ok that's fine. It was one of these type deals, though.

Maybe not that exact one, but something like it. Like a half gallon size at minimum and very wide. The only handle on it is on the lid, which he removed. I have the hands of a literal child. They stopped growing in the 4th grade. I had to use both hands to grip this gigantic water bottle and fill it with water and ice. There was literally no way for me to hold it one-handed without it just falling right out of my grip. I felt like a FMC in an Alpha Werewolf Breeding Grounds Fucked By The Monster Romance Novel of the Summer trying to wrap my fucking little baby hands around this girthy thing. I was like I'm going to fucking prolapse if he pulls out jesus christ

monochrome-anomaly

watching pluribus and the whole carol losing her temper thing is such an interesting metaphor. this insane stuff is happening so she rightfully gets angry which makes bad things happen to everyone, and everyone blames it on her. instead of the thing that's making this happen. they're like no matter what you need to remain calm, pacified. 800m killed by the pluribus that's ok it's collateral. but 11m killed by carol without her even knowing or intending it, so in fact they were also killed by pluribus, and everyone's mad at her.

#normal type experience of being a woman

theweight

this orange was pregnant. Isn’t the world amazing

#you ate the baby...

escuerzoresucitado

Krabi (1976), Václav Mergl.

babehog

Something that the Americnas of this site wont even comprehend. Shit like this happens everyday in europe and we get used to it because the alternative is some yanke bullcrab

#listening and learning

fulda-gap-express

who is the Toronto baseball warlock

femalegothic

On challenging pornography in public

swampreligion-deactivated202501

i love my misandrist mother i asked her one time if she liked lord of the rings and she said “i’m tired of men going on adventures”

carriefisher

BAILEY’S 3K CELEBRATION —👀 (make me choose) + yellowjackets or stranger things for @stars-bean

"I really am very grateful that your hobby seems to be figuring out how to be a perfect serial killer." "Why does everyone keep saying that to me?"

Christina Ricci & Sammi Hanratty as Misty Quigley in Yellowjackets (2021-)

#we used to be a society

It seems that the biggest part of this chair/horse problem is that there isn’t a word in English that people agree succinctly groups together all people being discussed in this context outside of…well…female/women/etc.

I’m not advocating to limiting ourselves to only these words as I do want to be inclusive of trans people. However, I think instead of saying “there is no definition to the word chair/woman and therefore none of it is real,”, progressive spaces should accept that (for the time being) there is not a perfect way of talking about what we want to talk about.

This stride towards linguistic perfection makes it difficult to talk about misogyny/etc because well-intended progressives don’t know what to say and it can lead to walking on eggshells instead of productive discussion. I don’t know what the solution is but we don’t have to pretend that we are so stupid that we can’t understand obvious es differences between a chair versus a horse/etc.

I agree with you in a general sense, but have to disagree with you that there is no perfect way of talking about what we want to talk about. I personally use the terms "female people" and "male people." They do succinctly group all of the people on the planet earth into the two categories that are most important for us to understand things like patriarchal oppression, so to me, they're perfect. The only objections anyone has to these terms and others like them are on the basis of how the terms make them feel--not because there really is some kind of third category (intersex people are not a "gotcha" here) or because somebody has somehow truly and fundamentally jettisoned their original category. Does that mean that i think feelings should not be taken into consideration in specific contexts? No--but I do think the premise of "there is no perfect way to talk about..." is something of a red herring. It obfuscates the fact that, well, that attitude is all about some people's feelings about the words, and not about the meaning of the words themselves. It implies that because some people have some feelings, therefore, the value of the language has been harmed/we cannot use it. But these emotions some people have do not make the language available to us inaccurate/inapplicable/muddy/wrong. "Female" and "male" still apply despite any given person's emotions, much as I might (this is a hypothetical example, not me actually being demented btw) object to being called "white" because it makes me feel bad emotionally, but that doesn't change the applicability and necessity of that term to me and my experiences.

#I know i'm being pretty blunt here. This isn't meant as an attack/me scolding #I agree with the gist of what you're saying but disagree with some of the assumptions underlying it

fidelcostco

I’m so scared, what the fuck does this do to you

memesnotwelcome

and when you have the horse-chair comparison , it defines the horse based on what a person can do to it and doesn't acknowledge the horse's existence outside of the view of person who wants to sit down on something and doesn't care who or what has to bear his weight . it reminds me of the attempts to define womanhood with femininity both on gay/trans tumblr and the 'normal' straight people on the outside . yeah this thing every misogynist society has conceptualized and forced women to do under threats of sexual and physical violence is totally the end-all be-all of the experience of womanhood and the one thing linking women as a group together . and a horse is a chair

That's a great point. You remind me of a point I see on the thinkier/more political side that "a woman is anyone who performs certain kinds of feminized labor." That definition is similarly about what is "done to" one (the requirement to perform labor--for whom? And by whom are these forms of labor feminized? What are the context in which these forms are considered feminine and by contrast to what?). It seems to argue, in the same way that "womanhood is femininity" argues that the visual symbols of female oppression are what makes one a woman, that the types of work women are forced to do by the systems that oppress us (sex work, caregiving, etc) (pardon me for the term "sex work," I'm trying to use the language these people do) therefore define what is/isn't a woman.

The last example on this post is a great illustration not just of a tree, but of the utter uselessness of the linguistic philosophical word games that Tumblr users like to play. You may recall the suggestion that defining "woman" or "female" is like trying to define "chair" and how that's impossible and useless because you can make the argument that a horse is a type of chair or whatever. Anybody who exists as a woman in the actual real universe knows that that's absurd, but it's often difficult to clearly demonstrate just how and why that is in terms such a pseudointellectual will accept. In this case, the OP was asking for a material description that would allow them to make a clear illustration of a dragon, and when they were provided this sort of philosophical response, they in turn responded humorously, sending up the reply by demonstrating how functionally useless it was for their stated purpose (describing a dragon to someone who has never seen a dragon). It would be nice if tumblr users could figure out that this applies similarly to describing types of human that share a broad spectrum of experiences and oppressions in common But Alas.

libraford

Googled something about quick hydration and it suggested big jug of water, couple tbsp pickle juice, dash of lime juice.

Its surprisingly tasty????

libraford

Pleased to report that after a day of this i am not longer craving caper brine and my mouth is not dry as usual. There's some good suggestions in the notes too that I want to try.

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-Agua pepino: water, cucumbers, lime, sugar, optional mint.

libraford

I have been reminded of:

-shrub: vinegar, sida water, elderberry (or other berry), sugar.

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I have now been informed of

-sekanjabin: honey, vinegar, mint, water.

libraford

"Wow, I wonder why this post was popular this week."