Product Placement
sheepfilms
❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
No title available
Cosimo Galluzzi
No title available
titsay
todays bird
oozey mess
Not today Justin
Keni
Sweet Seals For You, Always
Misplaced Lens Cap
Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
⁂
noise dept.
art blog(derogatory)
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
ellievsbear
blake kathryn
seen from United States
seen from Germany
seen from Italy
seen from Brazil
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from India
seen from Netherlands
seen from Japan
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Brazil
seen from Canada
seen from Singapore
seen from India
seen from United States
seen from Brazil
seen from Germany
seen from Belgium
seen from Canada
@transfixedfool
about me:
detransitioning woman
bi
name/alias tbd
age: 26
last Testosterone dose: 7/22/24
I identified as a trans man from age 14 because of my trauma and my family pressures. Once I identified as trans, I fought tooth and nail to be seen as a man and gendered as such and never let thought of myself as a woman again…
Until now.
Now trying to find out what its like to be a woman on the other side of 4.5 years of testosterone. Its hard.
happy to talk to others but not here to argue
“It is common belief that whatever the situation, both sexes faced it alike. But the male peasant, however cruelly oppressed, always had the right to beat his wife.”
— Rosalind Miles, Who Cooked the Last Supper?
when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.
AND SO IS BEING SOMEBODY'S MOTHER‼️
it is about being a woman. hope that helps!
reading comprehension questions for the notes:
is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?
why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?
are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?
are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?
core concept: what is gender essentialism?
is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?
look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?
what trait are you perpetuating when you assume that women who do not want to be wives and mothers must be aroace or trans? is it gender essentialism?
hey people who know astrology shit. ive been having a lot of feeligs lately. any planets i can blame that on.
earth
This is why rich people, like really rich people, like Musk and Zuckerberg level people, don’t let their kids have screens. And they send them to schools without screens. They already know this. They’re counting on screens making the masses dumber, but they don’t want that for their kids.
that's why the nordics are rolling back digitalization.
crazy people need a ted talk from an "important" person like this to listen, this is basic child development stuff you learn when studying education. obv it's been known for years if it's part of current curriculum. but no one listens to teachers and social workers without a tiktok. social media creates authority somehow.
Like a month ago I messaged a craft group about accessibility for wheelchairs and the answer I got was “there’s a lot of stairs but we have cute boys who can carry you”. And it’s…not good. As a wheelchair bound person I largely depend on people when I want to go out and do *anything* so I’m used to it, I laugh it off, make an annoyed post about it and off I go. But I wanna just say a thing real quick.
Even if I wasn’t gay, wasn’t a survivor scared of men, getting help as a disabled person is just…Not a pleasant thing to us! Imagine for a sec how you’d feel being carried up a flight of stairs. You’re a grown person. You’re being touched in an awkward way. You’d rather do it yourself. You’re So Uncomfortable. It’s not where I look for the beginning of a romantic relationship. So like…could abled people stop doing this thing where they think helping us in a condescending and infantilizing way is cute? Cause I’m real tired. Just get me a ramp or lift and I’m cool. I don’t need a dating service when I’m just trying to go about my day
If you’re abled please reblog it cause like…the more ppl knows the better
“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”
— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
they killed him for this
Every day I handle more money than I will ever make. Every day.
At the start of my employment, my boss showed me videos of people stealing, and we both had a chuckle about it. How silly they were! There was a camera overhead, and it’s not to watch the shoppers. See, we can’t actually stop shoplifters. They get away with it maybe nine out of ten times. But we, who are watched and tallied and witnessed? We are always caught.
At first it was hard to hold one hundred dollars bills. An amount I had never seen before. An amount that didn’t exist in my household. It’s normal now. Here is something that is not for me.
“What the hell, I’ll take another,” says the man, pondering our 200 dollar watches. What the hell. Total comes to 580 and not even a flinch in his face. I have been working for 11 hours today and made only 110 dollars. It will go to my rent. Today I work for free, it feels. When I get my check, I will have 35 dollars left for food and saving.
The six hundreds he hands me go into the cash register. For a moment, I imagine having money. Then I put it away, counting out his change.
I know for a fact we sell our products for double what they are worth. That I could be making commission. That they could hand me those 580 dollars and change my life and not even mark the difference in their checkbooks. He’s not the only sale they make today, but I am the reason they made it. He’s not the only one spending 600 dollars, but if I hadn’t spent two hours with him telling me about his life, he wouldn’t have spent any. I go home. I don’t own a watch.
I have watched and rewatched a video on how to make salmon four ways. My shopping list is always the same. Pasta. Rice. Tuna. If I can afford butter it was a good week. I dream of the world I will never walk in, where I can throw the best fish fillet in the cart with a shrug. I hold hundreds in my hand and look up at the camera. I put them under the cash drawer.
I go to work. I scrap together my savings. I eat my bowl of rice slowly. My manager takes a paid week off from work just for his birthday. He owns a yacht.
I’m not worth the cost of a watch.
i wrote this while i was working at orlando’s walt disney world parks.
i was part of their college program. i moved to the state for it. they legally owned the building i was living in and still charged me rent. i ostensibly was being charged to work for them. it was a 2 bedroom apartment and they placed 6 adult women in it in forced triples.
as many as one in ten disney employees have experienced homelessness while working for the company. despite huge efforts to unionize, strike, or otherwise demand fair treatment; disney has refused to increase employee quality of life.
disney admits publicly that a good portion of their success is because the employees (“cast members”) are dedicated, passionate, and selfless. this is never reflected in pay. even “face” characters (ie those that are princesses etc) make barely above a minimum wage.
at the time that i worked there, i made $8.50 an hour. at one point i was asked to create a human shield around a bag because a bomb dog had alerted to it. for eight fucking dollars an hour.
i now work a very cushy office job. i have bought the salmon and cooked it all four ways.
i go to the store. i am nice to the person behind the counter. she looks up at the camera while she counts out my change. there is nothing fundamentally different about her and i.
we are both worth more than the watch, anyway.
for all of you:
For the longest of time I told no-one. It is only in the past few years that I have found the words to describe my experience. Thank you, Sh
This article really struck me because it talks about how a man’s trans identity, and the sexual aspect of it, can affect the women who are made to participate in the fantasy.
This man has a sexual fantasy playing out in his head when he’s socializing with women. Even just dressing in feminine clothes and spending time around women is sexually fulfilling for him.
Imagine if a man was walking around in dog fetish gear or something, asking women to lead him around on a leash. That would rightly be considered sexual harrassment, where he’s trying to involve unwilling participants in his sex life.
But when the fetish is for dressing “like a woman”, somehow it’s totally okay? We’re the ones who are wrong or overreacting for feeling uncomfortable?
We’re the ones in the wrong, just because there’s no easy way to describe or justify what’s making us uncomfortable.
Women aren’t just uncomfortable with these men in our spaces, our friend groups, our families, because they’re men.
We’re uncomfortable because even if there’s no obvious evidence or a way to prove it, we can just feel when there’s a sexual component to what’s happening, and we don’t like being forced to be involved in it.
We shouldn’t have to put up with this. And we can and should ostracize these men from our lives as much as possible.
One thing that led me to detransitioning was the realization that I hated being a woman, I didn’t hate being female. I hated being made to be quiet, being always less than my male peers and male friends and brother, being sexualized from a young age. I hated being forced to wear feminine clothing that made me feel horrifically uncomfortable, I hated the idea that I HAD to be interested in sex especially sex with men, I hated never being listened to or seen as intelligent, I hated not being safe to enjoy the things I enjoyed (nature hiking, comic book conventions, etc). I just wanted to be seen as HUMAN. Unfortunately no pronouns will ever make the world see female human beings as actually human. But I don’t hate being female. My female body connects me to other female people, as a sister and a friend and a lover. My body serves me. My body is able to create fucking human life. My body cleanses my insides every month to protect me from infection. My body is a fucking marvel of nature. It never needed to change. I never needed to change.
Graham offers an explanation for why many women believe that their “femininity” is biological and inherent and why, “we believe that we would choose to wear makeup, curl our hair, and wear high heels even if men didn’t find women who dressed this way more attractive” (1994, p. 197). Women believe this, she says, because “to believe differently” would require the acknowledgement that our behaviour is controlled by “external variables”; that is, men’s use of force and its threat. Recognizing this would mean that women would have to “acknowledge our terror” (p. 197).
Beauty and Misogyny, Sheila Jeffreys
This is the original excerpt from Loving to Survive:
“If women identified men - and not women’s own femaleness - as the source of our oppression, we would feel ambivalent toward men, not toward women’s femaleness.”
“ to the extent that females resist being feminine while still embracing our femaleness, we challenge culture norms of female subordination.”
Gatton Creek trail - near Lake Quinault
have you guys heard about the greenland shark. some crazy shit happening there.
they are sexually mature at ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS OLD.
their (live!) young gestate for. wait for it. eight to eighteen (??) YEARS. can have up to 10 at a time. good grief.
longest lifespan of any vertebrate, up to five hundred years
toxic flesh
has giant eyes but is usually blind because of a weird little crustacean that's evolved to live on and eat their eyes. this doesn't seem to bother them much.
lives in deep cold water and has the lowest swim speed and tail-beat frequency for its size across all fish species. just generally lives life in extreme slow motion
largest genome of any shark
eats everything including moose and polar bears
ma'am you are delightfully strange and I'm privileged to share a planet with you
this post prompted me to refresh my memory on Greenland Shark Facts and this detail about how they feed goes so hard
just vacuuming up their unsuspecting prey. whole !
Good news good news good news! Recent research suggests the eye parasites do NOT blind them!
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk sits in her office, eyes fixed on the computer monitor in front of her. "You see it move its eye," says the UC Ir
I <3 you a normal amount Greenland sharks
Emerald lined path in the forest - Olympic National Park.
this is the article:
"Female drug use exists in diametrical opposition to male drug use: with different causes, motives for use, experiences, treatments, and pre
I have never seen a clearer argument for female drug addiction as an intentionally weaponized gateway to being sex trafficked
I could not more strongly recommend reading the entire article, it’s absolutely devastating but it’s a very important read. It’s a chilling indictment of the way drug addicted women are horrifically mistreated, exploited, and so often forgotten about if not further victimized by the very people who claim to want to help them
Some of you are too young to remember this, but Amy Winehouse's husband/ex husband would habitually film himself shooting her up and then share the videos online. There was one circling before her death of Blake and another man injecting Amy while she was passed out. They were laughing.
