roman abused women and deserved to be blown to bits and is in no way a king
Preaching to the choir here; I’m well aware. I was speaking to his camp aesthetic.

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roman abused women and deserved to be blown to bits and is in no way a king
Preaching to the choir here; I’m well aware. I was speaking to his camp aesthetic.
harry styles & roman sionis - a suit comparison (we love our camp kings 👑)
It’s time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem Masquerading As Christmas Carol
Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here. Also a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s.
So. Here’s the thing. Given a cursory glance and applying today’s worldview to the song, yes, you’re right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape anthem.
BUT! Let’s look closer!
“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol.
See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.
Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because the woman has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.
So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.
remember loves: context is everything. and personal opinion matters. If you still find this song to be a problem, that’s fine. But please don’t make it into something it’s not because it’s been stripped of cultural context.
This is actually really interesting. I’ve never known a lot of the background to this song.
I’m reblogging this once this year and I’m not talking about it again.
i cannot fucking believe i never realized this
So as a division officer to nearly 60 sailors over 3 years. I asked every single one. “What made you join the Navy?” Here is the breakdown. 80% - To pay for college 10% - To get out of a bad family situation 5% - Family Tradition 5% - Because of 9/11.
“Would poor people literally risk their lives to win access to things that the rich take for granted if that weren’t set up as the only way to get them?”
Mexico loves Coco
Friendly reminder that Coco has become the most cinema-popular movie in the history of Mexico, with more than 16 million people watching it in only 17 days. It is expected to become the highest grossing movie in history too, with beyond 1000 million pesos made (40+ millions USD).
Friendly reminder that Jorge R. Gutierrez, director of The Book of Life, loves Coco and gives it his seal of approval.
https://twitter.com/mexopolis/status/929138787698880512
The movies are nothing alike (I have seen them both.)
Do not, I repeat, do not be outraged for whatever reason in behalf of Mexico and mexicans. We went, we saw, we embraced it. And we hope you do, too. Because we would love it if you could walk in our shoes for a bit, so to speak. And the more succesful it is, the more stories about us can be produced later.
no shade but some of yalls amazon wishlists be like
if you got a golden ticket to willy wonkas chocolate factory, in what ironic candy-ass manner would you be killed
i try to disseminate marxist literature to the oompa loompas and wonka stabs me thru the back with a candy cane sword
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the phrase “curiosity killed the cat” is actually not the full phrase it actually is “curiosity killed the cat but satisfaction brought it back” so don’t let anyone tell you not to be a curious little baby okay go and be interested in the world uwu
See also:
Blood is thicker than water The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
Meaning that relationships formed by choice are stronger than those formed by birth.
Let’s not forget that “Jack of all trades, master of none” ends with “But better than a master of one.”
It means that being equally good/average at everything is much better than being perfect at one thing and sucking at everything else. So don’t worry if you’re not perfect at something you do! Being okay is better!
These made me feel better
Also, “great minds think alike” ends with “but fools rarely differ”
It goes to show that conformity isn’t always a good thing. And that just because more than one person has the same idea, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a good idea.
what the fuck why haven’t i heard the full version to any of these
“Birds of a feather flock together” ends with “until the cat comes.”
It’s actually a warning about fair-weather friends, not an assessment of how complementary people are.
I’ve always felt like these were cut down on purpose.
I really like these phrases and plan on spreading this knowledge.
The early bird catches the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I want to make designs out of these.
Funny how all the half-finished ones encourage uniformity and upholding the status-quo, while the complete proverbs encourage like…living exciting, eclectic lives driven by choice and personal passion.
Reminds me how they shortened/twisted all the bible verses in Handmaid’s tale to control everyone.
THIS IS WHY I DONT TRUST THE GREATER SOCIETY
Food Wars (2015), J.C.Staff, Sentai Filmworks
Haitians can’t relate to this either.
Somalis can’t relate to this either
Boricuas can’t relate to this either
Jamaicans can’t relate to this either
Literally all poc have rice as a huge part of their cultures. Its our common denominator w. food tbh bet money that article was written by a yt
Do white people not put their rice in the fridge if it’s leftover? Do they just leave it out all night on the counter/table/etc. uncovered when they finish eating dinner?
They pets probably get into the rice after they finish eating and go to bed. That’s why they sick off left over rice
also whats with the huge fucking push to stop 14+ year old high schoolers from trick or treating. like … the fuck would you rather these kids be doing? getting drunk at a party? just let them have fun you bitter old losers.
Friendly reminder that the UN estimates it would take 30 billion dollars a year to end world hunger, which is approximately 5 percent of the annual US military budget. (~600 billion). Fuck the USA and fuck the military.
Also it would cost 20 billion to end homelessness in the USA. Combining this together with ending world hunger would cost a bit over 8% of the US military budget, which is still not making a huge dent in this ludicrous accumulation of money.
can trans activists do me a favor and google “phrenology” then come back to me and tell me again how the current push to prove that female brains are different from male brains is nothing like the scientific trend at the turn of the last century that used skull measurements to predict brain size and function as a means of debasing women and dehumanizing black people
while im on the topic.. why do anticommunists always do that thing where they say either “learn about history and you wont support communism” or “get a job and you wont support communism” bc actually reading about history and working at a shitty minimum wage job with a boss who was breaking a lot of labour laws is like.. what radicalized me
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