Female Fury

Gender is a social construct used to oppress women and girls. Proud bisexual. Header credit - magnetictapedatastorage

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

Recently I’ve been thinking about different components of sexual orientation, and how it is effectively formed of both internal identity and external behaviour. It’s interesting that, without a detailed conversation with other individuals, we can only assume their orientation and identity on the basis of their external behaviour, which is all that is visible to us.

For example, if someone is in a long term, committed, monogamous relationship with a member of the opposite sex, they are assumed to be straight, and their behaviour is interpreted as representative of heterosexuality. But they might be bisexual. If someone is in a long term, committed, monogamous relationship with a member of the same sex, they are assumed to be gay/lesbian, and their behaviour is interpreted as representative of homosexuality. But they might be bisexual.

In this context, what external behaviour could someone exhibit that would lead to the assumption they were bisexual, and therefore that their behaviour is representative of bisexuality? They’d have to be engaging with the same sex and the opposite sex more or less simultaneously in order not to be assumed to be straight or gay/lesbian. How might that work?

They could be having regular sex with multiple people of both sexes (bisexuals are promiscuous, bisexuals are easy, bisexuals are sluts). They could be having multiple consecutive and short term relationships with people of both sexes (bisexuals can’t commit, bisexuals will leave you for a member of the other sex). They could be having sex with people of both sexes at the same time (bisexuals are kinky, bisexuals have group sex, bisexuals want to have threesomes all the time). They could have a committed relationship with a member of one sex, and affairs with members of the other sex (bisexuals CHEAT). They could be non-monogamous and having various relationships with members of both sexes (bisexuals can’t be satisfied with just one person).

So. In order for other people to recognise you as a bisexual person, you have to be engaging in some form of stigmatised and nonconforming sexual activity, all of which just happen to be typical stereotypes about bisexuality. The only way to be perceived as a bisexual person is to conform with bisexual stereotypes. A bisexual person who doesn’t conform to a single bisexual stereotype cannot be perceived as a bisexual person, and therefore cannot disprove or undermine those stereotypes in the mind of the person perceiving them. Because if they don’t conform to a single bisexual stereotype, they are perceived as heterosexual/homosexual, and their nice, conforming, virtuous behaviour is ascribed to that perceived monosexual identity. Even if they had previously exhibited bisexual behaviour (bisexuality is just a phase, they’ll eventually pick a side).

Alternatively, they could verbally assert their identity regularly enough to offset the assumptions others make on the basis of their behaviour (bisexuals are self-obsessed).

There is no way of being consistently perceived as a bisexual person, in the current landscape, without reinforcing bisexual stereotypes in the minds of those perceiving you, because if you don’t align with and reinforce those stereotypes you are unperceivable as a bisexual person.

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

Let’s talk about sex baby

I enjoy kink in fantasy but haven’t tried it in reality

I enjoy kink in fantasy and in reality

I enjoy kink in fantasy but not in reality

I don’t enjoy kink in fantasy and haven’t tried it in reality

I don’t enjoy kink in fantasy but do in reality

I don’t enjoy kink in fantasy or in reality

My kink is being bald

Remaining time: 6 days 23 hours

Define kink however you personally wish to

[prokopetz]

Level 1: Asylums are scary because there's crazy people there.

Level 2: We shouldn't treat mental health facilities as objects of horror because it stigmatises mental illness.

Level 3: Asylums are scary because there's psychiatrists there.

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

“I feel that feminism, more than anything, teaches women how to respond to all crises and challenges with wisdom.”

- Shen Shen, Chinese feminist activist

Being a woman in China is getting harder. But in Chengdu, female-only spaces are flourishing

The socially relaxed city sees a cautious feminist revival in the face of growing alarm by authorities towards women who shun traditional ro

[cassia-longina]

The fact that men are so quick to equate abortion and murder really shows how little difference they see between female body and a public space.

[digitaldeathx-deactivated202605]

self-awareness check, list five things you like that aren't media pieces in the tags now ‼️

[moonshineshrew]

I decorated a folder to collect recipes from magazines or online etc 😁😁😁 Can y'all please send me your favourite recipes so I have some recipes to print out and add to my folder #myfolder?

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

Is this the best brownie recipe ever? No. But it’s tasty and only includes six ingredients you might already have on hand. Win.

Perfect chocolate brownies recipe

A perfect chocolate brownie recipe that's simple to make and tastes fantastic. It's everything you want in a brownie – fudgy, dark and choc

[chamels-twin-flame]

Men who have the stamina to make whipped cream by hand are ran through

[questcequecestqueca]

She played bass on 10,000 songs, including the most-played track of the twentieth century. She was paid $55 per session. Her name never appeared on the albums.

Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, 1964. A woman in a cardigan walks past the receptionist, a Fender Precision bass in her hand like a briefcase. She doesn’t sign autographs. She signs a timesheet.

Her name is Carol Kaye. In three hours, she will record what will become the most-played track of the twentieth century. She’ll pocket fifty-five dollars and head to another studio, on the other side of town, for the next session.

The record label will never put her name on the album.

Between 1957 and 1973, Carol Kaye took part in roughly 10,000 recording sessions. Not as the featured artist, not as a guest, but as a hired hand. She was part of an anonymous collective nicknamed The Wrecking Crew—elite studio musicians who actually played the instruments on your favorite records while the famous bands posed for promotional photos.

The work was relentless. Three albums before the day was over. Stale coffee in paper cups. No rehearsal. The charts arrived minutes before the tape rolled. If you couldn’t read a chart and nail the take in two tries, you didn’t get called for the next session.

Carol could do it on the first try.

She started playing guitar in grimy bars at fourteen because her family couldn’t pay the electric bill. Music wasn’t a romantic dream for her. It was survival. It was a job—factory work with better acoustics and lower pay.

But she was faster and sharper than almost everyone else. She corrected charts in pencil while the producer was still explaining what he wanted. In one session in 1968, she told a famous producer his arrangement sounded like a dying dog. She chose her own line. They kept her version.

That descending bass line that drives the Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”? Carol Kaye. The propulsive groove of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”? Carol Kaye. The acoustic-guitar intro to “La Bamba”? Carol Kaye. The iconic theme from Mission: Impossible? Carol Kaye.

She invented techniques on the spot, out of sheer necessity. When the bass sound was too muddy for AM radio, she stuck felt under the strings and used a hard pick instead of her fingers. The tone cut through the static like a blade. It became the sonic signature that defined 1960s pop.

Bassists spent years—decades—trying to crack the secret of the Beach Boys’ gear to get that sound. They were studying the wrong people. They should have been studying Carol.

She received no royalties. No residuals. No gold-record ceremony. No credit on the album sleeves. When “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” hit number one, Carol was already back in a studio cutting a soap jingle.

The biggest bands mimed her bass lines on TV variety shows. New York marketing departments decided a mom in classic clothes didn’t fit the rebellious-youth image they were selling. So they simply left her name off the album credits.

For thirty years, almost no one cared. The truth only began to surface in the late 1990s, when music researchers found the same union contract numbers on thousands of hit records. The very documents meant to preserve studio musicians’ anonymity betrayed them.

Think about it. Every time you heard “Good Vibrations,” “River Deep – Mountain High,” the Righteous Brothers, Nancy Sinatra, or Sonny and Cher, you were hearing Carol Kaye. She composed the soundtrack of an entire generation’s youth.

And yet the records still say nothing. She’s now over eighty. She wrote instructional books. She trained countless bassists. She is finally starting to be recognized by music historians who uncovered the truth about The Wrecking Crew.

But she never got what she deserved: her name on those albums. Credit for the music that defined an era. Recognition that those bass lines everyone associates with the “Beach Boys” were, in fact, Carol Kaye’s.

Fifty-five dollars a session. Ten thousand sessions. The most-played track of the twentieth century.

And the world didn’t know her name.

[animentality]

[unrespectability]

"[fictionalization of life at a notorious radical all-female protest camp] dw uhm the thing is that this all really helps the male parent on a journey of self-acceptance !!! #NotATERF!!!!" can we not have anything

[uncomfortablecliche]

males are inherently nationalistic due to the pro-state organ located in their ass

[human-pet-they]

Your therapist asks you "Who in this image do you see yourself as?" and then shows you a drawing of two shirtless skinny anime catboys with a thread of saliva going between their lips

[sour-charity]

It was actually just an ink blot but thank you, this gives me a lot to work with

[drbased]

What's a good Andrea Dworkin quote I can use an expression for my mii?

[drbased]

Dang, it has to be an annoyingly short sentence. 23 characters max

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

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[adamnagaitis]

can everyone reblog with the interest of theirs that was the most intense or continued for the longest because i’m so curious

[thatsonemorbidcorvid]

I made my husband ill with a few words – nobody is immune to the power of the nocebo effect | Helen Pilcher

My prank demonstrated how our minds can adversely affect our health, and scientists are increasingly showing that negative thoughts can prod

“You may have heard of the placebo effect, when positive expectations lead to positive health outcomes. But my interest is in its evil twin. The nocebo effect occurs when dismal expectations lead to negative health outcomes. The phenomenon can create, exacerbate and prolong symptoms. When these symptoms coalesce, people become ill – not from disease, but from the intimate relationship that exists between mind and body…

You don’t just have to take my word for it. There is a plethora of peer-reviewed studies confirming this idea. In one, patients fresh from minor keyhole surgery received a harmless saline infusion that they were told would temporarily increase their pain. It did just that. In another, 40 asthmatic adults breathed in water vapour from an inhaler they were told contained an irritant. Nineteen went on to feel wheezy. Twelve had a full-blown asthma attack…

Thoughts and neural activity can and do precipitate physical change. The work of Harvard’s Ellen Langer has shown, for example, that when people with diabetes are made to sit in front of a clock that runs at double, regular or half speed, their blood glucose levels rise and fall with the perceived passing of time, rather than the actual passing of time. Alia Crum at Stanford has shown that when people drink identical milkshakes labelled as “high-calorie” or “diet”, levels of the “hunger hormone” ghrelin drop three times faster after consuming the drink they believed would make them fuller faster.”