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"masculinity is rewarded in women" "masculinity is accepted in women"

I had a friend who woke up at 4am to shower and apply makeup and everything. Lost literally sleep just to do this, wasted at least 3 hours each day. One day, she didn't feel like it and went to work without makeup. Her boss, a woman, pestered her all day and wanted to send her home. She never went to work without makeup again

The daughter of an acquaintance went to a nice school and sang in a choir there for years. Was very good, went to every concert. When she was about 15, she cut her hair. She still agreed to wear the mandatory gown even though she was a "tomboy". She just loved choir. School banned her from representing school. Because of her hair. Because girls should have long hair or the "aesthetics" were off

I'm not a woman or female but I'm read as such and whenever I have a buzzcut, strangers I've barely spoken to just try to touch it. Touch my head. Just reach out and caress my head without asking. Because they "want to know what it feels like"

Women who don't perform femininity (correctly) get harassed and their bodily autonomy taken away. They get bullied and touched without consent. They get everything commented on (if you think "brave" is a compliment you've never had it used on you)

If you don't think that femininity is enforced, and often violently, you're either a moron or you have no good intentions

In any case, I'm just not interested in what you have to say

stupidbeecandle

I had short hair growing up and was picked up and forcibly removed from bathrooms by adults I did not know more times than I can remember because it was assumed I was some sort of predator-child trying to sneak into the girls bathroom

Theyd act so smug and victorious as I kicked and yelled up until my parent or teacher came over and asked wtf they thought they were doing to me.

I got kicked out of girlscouts because the girls in my troop kept trying to single me out and prove I was a boy and leadership thought it was too much trouble

This shit starts young too. People hate a girl that doesnt fit (white, affluent, and "typical") the right notes of femininity

8d2t

apprentice uniform for brushbuddy too so they dont feel left out

noheboy

Day seven: Ten years later

Me gusta pensar que en el futuro Natsume estudiará arquitectura, influido por Shigeru.

Quiere dedicarse a restaurar santuarios y templos para que vuelvan a ser lugares seguros. Además, también buscará crear espacios de recreación en parques y áreas públicas con ese mismo propósito, ayudar a quienes son perseguidos por malos espíritus.

PD: Me tomé la libertad de poner mi alma mater de fondo UwU

PD2: Qué rápido se me fue esta semana. Espero con ansias participar el siguiente año.

@natsumeweek

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villaincousland

the thing about mothers in fiction is that a lot of fandoms seem to be under the impression that the worst thing a woman can possibly do is be a bad mother. like they can forgive deadbeat dads easily but the moment a woman is a bad or even mediocre mother she's the devil incarnate to them. and then you're like "i like her and i think she's interesting" and they immediately go "oh so you think it's okay to be a bad mother (which is the most evil thing a woman can be)". and don't even get me started on how they react to female characters who are bad stepmothers

passengerpigeons

do u ever think about corn sweat; and the fact that a large percent of corn grown in Illinois, iowa, etc is grown for ethanol and biofuel; and how solar power would be so many times more effective per acre than this; and how like 90+% of so many rare ecosystems in those states was drained for farm and suburbs (in many cases previously farms).

passengerpigeons

AND you could still have native plants around and even under the solar panels.

passengerpigeons

When you see what they did to the Midwest you'll want to fucking kill the corn lobbyists with your bare hands

grubloved

i'm listening to gathering moss, by robin wall kimmerer, and she is talking about a very odd job she was consigned to do, where an eccentric millionaire recuited her to consult on a "habitat restoration". when she arrives, the job they actually want her to do is to tell them how to plant mosses on the rocks in his garden. he wants it to look like a specific, beautiful wild cliff in the woods nearby, with centuries-old beds of moss growing thick and strong. she tells him it is impossible. such a thing would take decades to accomplish.

later, she is called back to look at the progress of the moss garden and is amazed by the thick, well-established mosses. how did they do it? she asks.

then they take her out to the woods and show her that they have been blasting huge chunks of rock out of the cliff, packaging them in burlap, and moving them to the owner's garden.

kcsmall

This quote really got me: "The owner is a man who loves mosses, and the exercise of power. I have no doubts of his sincerity in wishing to protect them from harm, once they conformed to his landscape design. But I think you cannot own a thing and love it at the same time. Owning diminishes the sovreignty of a thing, enriching the possessor and diminishing the possessed. If he truly loved mosses more than control, he would have left them alone, and walked each day to see them."

- Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer

grelinhoquino

Jiang Cheng will crouch down, pet Fairy, give her a couple of cookies, smile, give her a kiss on the snout, stand up and with the most serious look tell you that the dog is fat and spoiled because of Jin Ling.