#patronizing

[realpatriarchy]

Don’t worry, you’re not a bad feminist I promise. It’s about choice isn’t it? And your choice is to kneel, serve, suck, bend over and be bred. It feels right, it makes you feel whole and feminine when you cling to me.

[pratchettquotes]

"Excuse me," said Big Mad Adrian, his voice cargoed with suspicion. "I don't want to cause any trouble, right, but is this Death or not? I've seen pictures, and they didn't look like her."

"We did the Rite stuff," said Ridcully. "And this is what we got."

[...] "She's just some girl messing about," said Skazz.

Susan stared at them.

"She hasn't even got a scythe," said Tez.

Susan concentrated. The scythe appeared in her hands, its blue-edged blade making a noise like a finger dragged around the rim of a glass.

The students straightened up.

"But I've always thought it was time for a change," said Tez.

"Right. It's about time girls got a chance in the professions," said Skazz.

"Don't you dare patronize me!"

"That's right," said Ponder. "There's no reason why Death has to be male. A woman could be almost as good as a man in the job."

"You're doing it very well," said Ridcully.

He gave Susan an encouraging smile.

She rounded on him. I'm Death, she thought -- technically, anyway -- and this is a fat old man who has no right to give me any kind of orders. I'll glare at him, and he'll soon realize the gravity of the situation. She glared.

"Young lady," said Ridcully. "Would you care for breakfast?"

Terry Pratchett, Soul Music

[st4rs1ut]

so embarrassing but downtalking is such a turn on.. being spoken to like ur seven years old and are incapable of any thoughts or logic <3 being told ur too dumb to perform basic functions n tasks bc ud js mess them up anyways <3 being cooed at n pitied no matter whether ur giving or receiving.. guys who mock n tease n patronize n degrade n make me feel small i luv u all

[viviana169]

My painting

[songsofbloodandwater]

[Coyote was exhausted of running around in the sun every day and barely getting a mouthful, and asked Raven what he could do to be fed. Raven said "the white humans are pretty well fed and they have an education" so Coyote decided to go to university and get himself an education. Very quickly he realized universities are a lot more complicated than they seem...]

"So then I go to my Research Methods class, thinking I got it figured it out. In this class, the teacher (you got it, another white guy) said that your research must be ethical, that we must follow guidelines set out by the university for research on human subjects. The rules are there, my teacher said, to protect the Indians from unscrupulous researchers. Who made these rules I asked, you guessed it, a bunch of white guys. They decided we need protecting and that they were the ones to decide how best to protect us from them."

— Heather Harris tells Coyote's whole story in her article about the paradox of Indigenous higher education (2002) as cited in Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods (2008) by Shawn Wilson.

[itskhalil2]

Substitution in public debates Is also violence. #Gaza

[vikkicomics]

General Austertlitz von Ravenmark holding Military Cadet Vincent Odinkirk's chin. The original cartoon, either by Bruno Paul or Eduard Thörny, seems to have less of a story behind it, but with it being over a century old I may not fully understand it, the chin-holding appears to be a patronizing, fatherly gesture. In my own interpretation, some liquor has been stolen from the officer's mess the night before, and since the scent can easily be masked with tobacco and cologne, and breathalyzers haven't been invented, closer inspection is required. Vincent turns out to be sober, just very tired.