#dated but good

[ambiguityenjoyer]

Mary Renault's books are 40, 50 years old and yet so. Gay??? What a gift. Im in awe.

[delcat177]

“Ah man, I remember this bit with the father in Clock Tower 3, it made me cry.  I was such a sentimental teenager.”

FIFTEEN SECONDS LATER

“EVERYONE *SOB* SHUT *SOB* YOUR *SOB* FUCKING *SOB* FACES *SNUFF*”

[cyanine]

There is no historically consistent justification for the exclusion of women from healing roles. Witches were attacked for being pragmatic, empirical, and immoral. But in the nineteenth century the rhetoric reversed: women became too unscientific, delicate, and sentimental. The stereotypes change to suit male convenience—we don’t.

Witches, Midwives & Nurses: A History of Women Healers, Barbara Ehrenreich and Dierdre English