mc hot dog

jesus christ made seattle under protest

[johnnythehorsepart2]

[citizenpublius]

Tomboyism usually describes an extended childhood period of female masculinity. If we are to believe general accounts of childhood behavior, some degree of tomboy behavior is quite common for girls and does not give rise to parental fears. Because comparable cross-identification behaviors in boys do often give rise to quite hysterical responses, we tend to believe that female gender deviance is much more tolerated than male gender deviance. I am not sure that tolerance in such matters can be measured, nor that responses to childhood gender behaviors necessarily tells us anything concrete about the permitted parameters of adult male and female gender deviance. Tomboyism tends to be associated with a “natural” desire for the greater freedoms and mobilities enjoyed by boys. Very often it is read as a sign of independence and self-motivation. It may even be encouraged to the extent that it remains comfortably linked to a stable sense of a girl identity. Tomboyism is punished, however, when it appears to be the sign of extreme male identification (taking a boy’s name or refusing to wear girl clothing of any type) and when it threatens to extend beyond childhood and into adolescence. Teenage tomboyism presents a problem and tends to be subject to the most severe efforts to reorient. We could say that tomboyism is tolerated as long as the child remains prepubescent; as soon as puberty begins, however, the full force of gender conformity descends on the girl. Gender conformity is pressed onto all girls, not just tomboys, and this is where it becomes hard to uphold the notion that male femininity presents a greater threat to social and familial stability than female masculinity. Female adolescence represents the crisis of coming of age as a girl in a male-dominated society. If adolescence for boys represents a rite of passage (much celebrated in Western literature in the form of the bildungsroman), and an ascension to some version (however attenuated) of social power, for girls, adolescence is a lesson in restraint, punishment, and repression. It is in the context of female adolescence that the tomboy instincts of millions of girls are remodeled into compliant forms of femininity. That any girls do emerge at the end of adolescence as masculine women is quite amazing. The growing visibility and indeed respectability of lesbian communities to some degree facilitate the emergence of masculine young women. But even a cursory survey of popular cinema confirms, the image of the tomboy can be tolerated only within a narrative of blossoming womanhood: within such a narrative, tomboyism represents a resistance to adulthood itself rather than to adult femininity. Tomboy identities are conveyed as benign forms of childhood identification as long as they evince acceptable degrees of femininity, appropriate female aspiration, and as long as they promise to result in marriage and motherhood.

Jack Halberstam, Oh Bondage Up Yours! Female Masculinity and the Tomboy (via citizenpublius)

[dateagirlwhosuggestion]

date a girl who treats you the same way she treats books

[itsrainingmensheviks-deactivate]

I’ll critique you continuously and won’t be too bothered if I break your spine

[bookphile]

And then I’ll review your performance on several social media sites and ask for feedback.

I’ll also insert rectangular metal and paper objects into your body whenever I need a break from you, and store you on a shelf in my house

[dukeofbookingham-deactivated202]

I’ll be done with you in less than a week and move on immediately. 

[writerly-blonde]

I’ll switch between you and others several times whenever it pleases me

[berlynn-wohl]

I’m not going to spend any money on you unless you can tell me something I don’t already know about the Cold War.

[professorspork]

I used to date your twin, but I lost her.

[robotsandfrippary]

When you get old and worn out I’ll replace you with a digital copy that will never age.  

[vermofftiss]

I’ll occasionally take you off the shelf and open you up to inhale the sweet smell of your innards

[nicbutt]

I’ll occasionally loan you out to my friends

[slavetomyheadcanon]

This thread is everything I dreamed it would be.

[johnnythehorsepart2]

[marisapapen]

[mchotdog]

Dear lord, please reincarnate me as a perfect chubby mermaid dog. Amen.

[mchotdog]

My thanksgiving feast.

[trueb1eu]

[art]

Artist: Sivan Karim

Tumblr: http://sivankarim.tumblr.com/

[pixendrit]

[johnnythehorsepart2]

[mchotdog]

Why I'm single

[mchotdog]

It's been a rough year dudes

[alien-trash-queen]

[carriecourogen]

[bouffantsandbrokenhearts]

Bobby Pins and Lips.

[rewelcomed]

[laksmi-corredor]

[dfilms-deactivated20161206]

How To Be A Detective, 1952

[mchotdog]

I think 28 is the year I hit my stride and finally find a little equilibrium. I can feel it. Things have been steadily getting better and I think they're gonna gel in my 28th year on this planet. But I also said 2016 was going to be an amazing year and look at the hellscape it's become...