Rise, ye furies from baleful abysses

Odd mix of things I like. Mostly opera, science and video games. Or whatever catches my fancy..

[memewhore]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

Woman murders man in broad daylight

[theknightinslippers]

[halorvic]

[no-one-offical]

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[crypticgoose3]

beautiful like to reblog ratio on this

[drtanner]

That's because people are reblogging it every time they see it. Like I'm doing right now lmao

[sororsilentii]

[treecitysessions]

[beemovieerotica]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I drink two cups of coffee per day not because I have an addiction, but because my body has adapted to the presence of caffeine enough that its absence causes mild but unpleasant side effects.

[liquidpaperfoundation1]

I dusted the TV stand not because it was dusty but because it was covered in fine particulate matter that settled from the air.

[athena-cat-wizard-official]

I reblogged this post not because I liked it and wanted to share it, but because reading it elicited a pleasant sensation that I felt would be appreciated by others

[sororsilentii]

[ladyshinga]

Updated version of Boy Who Cried Wolf but there are actual wolves every single time and no one ever believes the boy - they get closer and closer every time he tries to warn them, until it's too late and the whole town screams at the boy for not warning them "enough", and blame him for the wolves at their door.

[dnkskwoqpwpwkwbwbwbwb]

that would be the girl who cried wolf

[ihatemenandtherearereasons]

I love it when women

[ontheidiotbox]

[gokusclit]

Being a lesbian will make u feel like the entire world is experiencing mass psychosis

[marinella-ela]

[ackwardroots-deactivated2022090]

[majchic]

[melonwah]

[ayaahh00]

Men’s sperm starts aging and mutating after 35, while women’s eggs don’t actually age . Males brains have smaller hippocampuses so less emotional regulation, EI and empathy . Also their Y chromosome is literally shrinking over generations, and their biology is more fragile. Their immune systems are weaker, their lifespan shorter and their high testosterone only fuels impulsivity and aggression. Their DNA is more flawed yet this is the sex that claims to be biologically superior and natural born leaders.

[leoascendantgirl]

Women want power to escape abuse, men want power to abuse it.

[barbievspredator]

Women’s Eggs Resist Aging at the Mitochondrial Level

Discover a study revealing that human egg cells stay genetically stable with age, resisting mitochondrial DNA mutations and preserving ferti

Women are really capable of anything and we are the closest thing to perfection.

This article talks about how women release healthy eggs all of their lives.

I said it before, a woman can have a healthy baby until she hits menopause and this ^ is the proof.

[theradicalbutch]

So after decades of blaming older women for all of the heightened risks of genetic defects in “geriatric pregnancies” it turns out that the men have been almost entirely responsible for it this whole time. I never want to hear an old man claim that he “needs” to date a woman in her 20’s because of women’s “biological clock” ever again

[barbievspredator]

I will do you one better, because that's not the first study like this. This is graph showcasing amount of spontaneous genetic mutations in newborns relative to the age of parents.

Men hit the wall AT 30.

[arcticyarn]

the male specimen’s first instinct when encountering an adult woman is to evaluate her sexual attractiveness. the second is to complain about her every action henceforth eternally.

[haggishlyhagging]

Words such as biddy and tart have shifted dramatically in meaning since they were first used positively as terms of endearment. Tart meant a small pie or pastry and its first metaphorical application was as a term of affection and warmth. Not surprisingly in a society where women are evaluated as sexual objects, the meaning shifted to that of a young woman who was sexually desirable, and then - of course - to a woman of careless morals. Finally and currently it refers to women of the street. Whore once meant a lover of either sex (and was not negative) and slut and slattern referred to 'a person who is negligent of his appearance' (Schulz, 1975a:68-9). Harlot was 'a fellow of either sex' and in Middle English the reference was more frequently to males, and wench was also a child of either sex' (p. 70). Be they affectionate - or even neutral terms such as child — the crucial factor in determining whether they represent positive or negative values is sex.

The semantic rule which has been responsible for the manifestation of sexism in the language can be simply stated: there are two fundamental categories, male and minus male. To be linked with male is to be linked to a range of meanings which are positive and good: to be linked to minus male is to be linked to the absence of those qualities, that is, to be decidedly negative and usually sexually debased (for further discussion see chapter 5). The semantic structure of the English language reveals a great deal about what it means to be female in a patriarchal order (note that female is not even an autonomous category but a derivation of the male: it is minus male) because by definition males are assigned the positive attributes.

Unless irony or insult is intended it is usually a violation of the semantic rule to refer to males with terms that are marked for minus males. There is a jarring of images if and when people make such a mistake. It is all right, for example, to call a mixed sex group 'guys' or 'men' but it is a mistake - and an insult - to refer to a group which contains even one male as 'gals' or 'women'. You 'may call a woman a bachelor without implying abuse', states Muriel Schulz, but do the opposite and 'call a man a spinster or an old maid' and you are violating the semantic rules - perhaps deliberately if you intend abuse - for you are saying that 'he is a prim, nervous person who frets over inconsequential details' (p. 65).

There are numerous examples of the way in which there is no loss of prestige when females are referred to in male terms but there is a loss of prestige when males are referred to in female terms. In a society where male primacy must be carefully cultivated, semantics makes a substantial and significant contribution in structuring this supremacy.

The semantic derogation of women fulfils a dual function: it helps to construct female inferiority and it also helps to confirm it. The process is not a simple, linear one, but a more complex, interactive and dialectical one. In a society where women are devalued the words which refer to them - not surprisingly - assume negative connotations. But because the options for defining women are confined to negative terms, because their meanings are primarily those of minus male, women continue to be devalued. By such an interrelated process is the subordination of women in part created and sustained. It is a semantic contradiction to formulate representations of women's autonomy or strength and so it remains unencoded and women are deprived of the opportunity to formulate positive representations of themselves.

It is unlikely that women were instrumental in achieving this end.

-Dale Spender, Man Made Language