Oh Really? A Scientist!?

I like to take walks. And I like to ask questions. Sometimes, I do both simultaneously.

[legalist217]

oh yES

[obscurevideogames]

Revoloutionary Girl Utena (Sega - Saturn - 1998)

[lesserknownwaifus]

Walpurgisnacht, Mahou Shoujo(Puella Magi) Madoka Magica

[euphorictruths]

Ponder, Loci- Helvetica Blanc; 2021

[segacity]

Hey You! ‘Jet Set Radio’ SEGA Dreamcast

[calpicoboys]

[wiki-but-made-them-up]

[astercrash]

[notlikingbestgirl]

Out of Touch

[hustlerose]

Out of Touch Thursday

[arbyscurlyfries666-deactivated2]

OUT OF TOUCH THURSDAY

[snuv]

but im out of my head when you’re not around…

[rockmilkshake]

happy birthday.

[saltwatersweets]

this is the only out of touch thursday you can reblog this

[spookyyarn]

I scheduled this on 7/3/2020. Hope I got the day right…

[genderkoolaid]

part of the problem with amatonormativity is that if you aren't interested in a long-term monogamous relationship people assume you will be a miserable empty incomplete shell of a person so you have to insist on your ability to be genuinely fulfilled by things other than marriage/monogamy/romance/etc. but at the same time society is shaped in a way where not being interested in those things can easily make you alienated, between marriage and reproduction being depicted as natural life stages that everyone needs to go through to be a fulfilled adult and it being considered standard to prioritize your romantic relationships over your platonic ones. and if you ever express loneliness or anxiety or guilt over this experience then people take that as proof that you just need to Find The One to make you realize that all your feelings and desires were actually just immaturity/fear of commitment/trauma this whole time and the societal norm IS the only way for you to be truly happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[disappointed-by-lack-of-soup]

Have you had soup this month?

Yes

Multiple times

No I hate you die*

Voting ended onApr 11

*this is silly and exaggerated on purpose, you are not a bad person for choosing this option. It doesn't actually mean that you want me dead.

[troubledodyssey]

Huntrix don't miss

[pixiecorpse]

frankenhooker🫀🧟‍♀️

[chubbybunnytgirl]

[sacred-portal]

[whatbigotspost]

Gen Z men twice as likely as boomers to say wives should "always obey"

“It is troubling to see that attitudes towards gender equality are not more positive," said Julia Gillard of King’s College London.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

>Particularly among Gen Z, our data shows an interesting duality: they are both the group most likely to agree that women who have a successful career are more attractive to men but are simultaneously most likely to agree that a wife should always obey her husband and that a woman should never appear too self-sufficient or independent.

Incredibly stupid things are happening

[cryptiddies]

I know these two things seem contradictory, but there’s nothing a conservative man loves more than to tear off an angel’s wings. There are plenty of women that would willingly choose the obedient SAHM lifestyle, but these kinds of men always seem to go for the opposite. Why? Because it’s a power play. There’s no need to break a horse that’s already broken, and that would do nothing to validate that man, his ego, and his place in a world he sees as designed for him.

[ifoundmybeatingheartagain]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Another factor is that these men avoid dating conservative women who already want the lives they want them to have because those women's standards are too high. Specifically, such women expect to be the obedient stay at home mum, but they also expect their men to be the masculine ideal from the other half of the equation -- they tend to look down on their men if they cry, they expect them to be able to financially provide for the household, they want them to uphold their end of the bargain. You see this again and again in groups of conservative men who go out of their way to date liberal women; there is a power play, to tame someone untamed and bring her into line with his expectations, but there's also her lack of expectations of him. They want a woman who will do all the household and keep the home but ALSO will not reject him for not being able to afford to finance the family alone. They want a woman who'll respect and obey him but ALSO be fun and relaxed and let him show whatever emotions he wants. They want the Perfect Trad Wife who won't expect him to be the Perfect Trad Husband.

You see the same thing in conservatives who complain that all their leftie friends are abandoning them, but who won't just hang out with right wing friends instead. They don't want to hang out with other righties because a group of righties quickly becomes judgy and hateful and socially competitive, and is only fun to hang out with when they want to vent, whereas their leftie friends were more relaxed and fun. They want license to be unpleasant and expect unreasonable things of others, but want the people around them to be pleasant and not expect unreasonable things of them.

[camo-thy]

Some dungeon meshi fanart

[kikokuso]

I have a new favourite batshit rail idea

Please build it for the funny please please please

[vacuously-true]

You're right. I SHOULD be able to take the train from Minneapolis to Berlin.

[apricops]

just be yourself and don’t care about what other people think! Why would you care about what other people think about you?

(DISCLAIMER: what other people think about you will determine every aspect of your support network, your ability to get housing and employment, the quality of your medical care, how you are treated by the legal system, and how likely people will be to sic the police on you for violating social norms.)

[apricops]

hey, listen, I get where you’re coming from but I don’t think this one is capitalism’s fault. I really don’t think capitalism is responsible for the general concept of social ostracism. We can’t just use capitalism to mean “bad thing-ism” we gotta remember that some words mean things

[polygoddess]

I think this one is capitalism *and* colonialism.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

colonialism also didn't invent social ostracism I'm sorry

[bisquid]

I feel like capitalism is at least partially responsible for how whether or not you're 'likeable' enough to be employed dictates whether or not you have a roof over your head or food in the fridge. Like, yeah social ostracism isn't new or unique to capitalism, but I do think modern capitalism in particular has simplified the line between 'how others perceive you' and 'how likely you are to be/become homeless/arrested/institutionalised/fired/killed 'in self defence'/deported/etc'

[apricops]

In David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years, he talks about a subgroup of Inuit people who lived in “primitive communism.” Everything was shared. If you asked someone for it, they gave it to you, no questions asked. They refused to even see it as ‘gifts’ or charity, it was just what you were supposed to do in your community, with one hunter famously saying “by gifts, you make dogs out of men.”

Then Graeber shared another story from the group - once there was a member of the group who got on everyone’s nerves by asking the hunters for all of their best cuts of meat every time they returned with their haul. So one day the hunters invited him along on a seal hunting trip and then abandoned him on a raft in the Arctic ocean to die of exposure.

Social ostracism has existed before capitalism and it will outlive capitalism. Sometimes capitalism has even gone against social ostracism, like the famous example of the Sears and Roebuck magazine - the massive company could offer uniform products with uniform prices, which was a godsend for rural Black people because they could finally buy things for once in their lives without ludicrous markups from the local shopkeepers in their community!

PEOPLE WHO ARE DISLIKED BY THE COMMUNITY HAVE ALWAYS STRUGGLED TO LIVE AND IT WAS NOT LESS OF A PROBLEM BACK WHEN SOCIETY WAS ORIENTED AROUND SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE BECAUSE OF FUCKING COURSE IT WASN’T!

[whetstonefires]

my favorite fun fact that runs against the idea that decentralizing society to local communities reliably Makes Things Better is that in early modern Spain, an accusation of witchcraft could be settled by local authorities or taken to regional magistrates that answered to the crown.

and the local option had both a much higher rate of conviction and a much higher rate of execution for those convicted.

because the forces behind a witchcraft accusation often have deep roots in the local politics of a place, to which the broader justice system is not answerable.

making the royal officer much more likely to say 'that's stupid go home' when someone says they dreamed about their next door neighbor sneaking into their baby's bedroom, so she needs to be punished.