The Bewilderness

Mostly reblogs of smart people saying smart things. No men or trans cosplayers please. I am one of those raggedy old second wave Womens Libbers so please spare me the pomo. I have no patience for it. If your tumblr is blank I block. 🍑

[cbssurfer]

Flow and movement… one with the ocean

[quinntheestallion]

Trans people when they're losing: I just want to exist. That's all I'm asking for.🥺 Trans people when they're winning: I'm going to write a letter to the medical board to try get the lady who said the word "mother" instead of "birth-giver" at the health seminar fired. I also scrolled her twitter it appears she liked a JRK tweet two years ago, so definitely think we need to get this transphobe outta here.

[mossghoul]

It’s so odd to be an adult with a career and realise you have specialist knowledge, and not even be actively aware of it. I’m reading some investigative journalism about an international maritime shipping disaster/crime and it had a whole chapter on Lloyds of London explaining insurance syndicates, underwriters, reinsurance and I’m like yes blah blah blah why are you explaining this obvious shit in such detail?

Every job is like that. For every job, there’s a field of specialised knowledge you develop without necessarily being conscious of your expertise! Amazing to be alive and learning for all your days!

[queen-mayhem]

Every once in a while, I catch myself doing the thing in this comic, and it's always delightful to realize it.

[mothprincess]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Afternoon on a Hill,” Collected Poems

[mithliya]

“million dollar jailbait” on the cover

“the most perfect nymphette”

“she’s only 12 years old and destined to be the next sex symbol”

[ihatemenandtherearereasons]

Exhibit 1165

[wahbegan]

Some more highlights:

“She’s been playing the prepubescent Vamp since she was eight. At that tender age, she dropped her Carters for a photographer and posed nude.”

“Producers literally held their breaths waiting for the remarkable Brooke Shields to reach a reasonable age of fuckability, not yet legal but oh, so sweet. Welcome to the end of innocence, Brookie.”

“She’s a sweet temptation to all but blind men and eunuchs. She’s sister, daughter, sex object, victim, lover, tramp. We can look forward to watching her fill out over the next decade.”

[marinella-ela]

[homopsychology]

Thinking about that Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote that's like "When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that." You can apply this to everything, from members of governments to the authors whose books you read. Men are centered almost everywhere and have been for years. Equality doesn't have to be 50% men and 50% women. It can be 100% women to balance the decades when it was 100% men. Choose women's liberation and choose only women.

[melohde]

A woman in her natural state of body (that is with no make-up, without shaving, etc) is not masculine.

[valariestan-deactivated20230811]

why are men more concerned with women making smart and sexy misandry jokes online than the fact that male on male murder is making men the most killed demographic worldwide... like y'all are worried about the wrong misandrists 😬😬😬

[rad-siren]

Who is the number one killer of men? Men.

Who is the number one rapist of men? Men.

Who is the number one pedophile of boys? Men.

Who is the number one torturer of men? Men.

Who drafts men into wars? Men.

Who steals the poor man’s labor? Men.

Who makes fun of their mental health? Who preys on their children? Who are they afraid of when they walk home at night? Like all this overcorrecting of misandry is so fucking funny when you realize who actually are the real “misandrists.”

[omnivore-odyssey]

Man who care about male victims of violence can and are welcome to join various groups and peoples working to stop this violence. Many of those groups and people are feminist.

[witchesversuspatriarchy]

Facts are facts

[flyliketherin]

White Male Egos are a public health crisis.

[happifying-things]

[animatedamerican]

what an excellent kaiju

[ruffboi-mags]

Very polite, attempts to leave trees and fences intact. 10/10, would be invaded by again.

[blackbirds-on-the-marsh]

[Video description: A fluffy calico kitten makes their way through part of a model city. The city is made of painted paths lined with miniature trees in autumn colours, and in the background is a building slightly larger than the kitten, complete with a mini painted pool. The trees reach the kitten’s underbelly as they step over the trees and fences until they reach a road section with a few tiny cars and streetlamps, all with working lights. With their path clear of trees, the kitten speeds up as they continue down the road away from the camera. End description]

[hmsindecision]

Men who slam doors and furniture are making sure you hear how much they want to hit you.

[apexsexual-deactivated20200227]

No. They are using a completely responsible and non-harmful outlet for their anger. This shows how much they don’t want to hit you. Some people even purchase actual punching bags to have a permanent outlet at home or join a material arts club. These are healthy coping mechanism often encouraged and approved by therapists. Also, needless to say it’s not exclusively men who do this.

[hmsindecision]

I’m a few months from my liscense to practice therapy, and I already do in supervision. No, slamming doors and throwing around furniture is not a recommended technique by any well-trained up-do-date therapist. Doing this with someone else around is creating at atmosphere of intimidation. Literally I have been over every single one of these points for years, you can check my #door slam post tag. I’ve replied to all these points many, many times over.

[mintelly]

Anyone with a basic knowledge of social psychology or neuroscience knows that neurons that fire together, wire together. If you respond to something with anger, you’re more likely to keep responding to things with anger. No competent therapist would tell a patient to respond with violence- that’s literally just making you more prone to violence.

Men who slam doors and furniture are making sure you hear how much they want to hit you.

[shadowrogue]

Also, I’m guessing those with “basic knowledge of social psycology or neuroscience”, would be totally against BDSM and other such kinks. 

“neurons that fire together, wire together.“, so if slamming doors makes one more prone to violence, actually hitting and choking someone would make one even more prone to violence.

[hmsindecision]

That’s true, actually.

[eve-made-the-right-choice]

None of us said it wouldn’t? We are against BDSM for this exact reason? Our philosophy is internally consistent?

[tilthat]

TIL that the Soviet Army raped over 2,000,000 German women after defeating Nazi Germany - an estimated 240,000 died in connection with the rapes. Antony Beevor describes it as the “greatest phenomenon of mass rape in history”

via reddit.com

[crashoutcannibal]

“According to Antony Beevor, revenge was not the only reason for the frequent rapes; but the Soviet troops’ feeling of entitlement to all types of spoils of war, including women, was an important factor as well. Beevor exemplifies this with his discovery that Soviet troops also raped Soviet and Polish girls and women that were liberated from Nazi concentration camps as well as those who were held for forced labour at farms and factories.”

[criticalhitxx]

Dr. Marci Bowers to Jazz Jennings (then 18): “poor thing, you could be a porn star with all the photos were taking”.

This “joke” was told in the presence of Jazz’s mother, who then LAUGHED.

Tell me this isn’t abuse again. Tell me this isn’t a fetish again. Go ahead.

[bumblee-stumblee]

This transwoman is the same one that tells parents to their kids should masterbate to reach orgasm because it could be likely they might not be able to reach it after vaginoplasty.

[hellnrage43]

This man is also the one who says he knew exactly what was going to happen by destroying children's genitals, like Jazz's, and still did it anyway.

[corporationsarepeople]

This is the future conservatives want.

[just--space]

Centaurus A : A mere 11 million light-years away, Centaurus A is the closest active galaxy to planet Earth. Spanning over 60,000 light-years, the peculiar elliptical galaxy also known as NGC 5128, is featured in this sharp telescopic view. Centaurus A is apparently the result of a collision of two otherwise normal galaxies resulting in a fantastic jumble of star clusters and imposing dark dust lanes. Near the galaxy’s center, leftover cosmic debris is steadily being consumed by a central black hole with a billion times the mass of the Sun. As in other active galaxies, that process likely generates the enormous radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray energy radiated by Centaurus A. via NASA

[corporationsarepeople]

This is the future conservatives want.