As We Proceed

to give you what you need

[walkerrainge]

This is a girlfriend appreciation post.

[dalesbianthespian]

Oh my love.

[walkerrainge]

This is a girlfriend appreciation post.

[showmethesneer]

just a beautiful picture of Marsha P Johnson that i found. i thought i would bless my dash with it this #20gayteen

[sharkboxes]

[twinkrundgren]

more and more every day i develop more hatred towards radical feminism and people who adopt their ideas and call themselves trans friendly because they know what transmisogyny is

[twinkrundgren]

youd rather demonize maleness than deconstruct the patriarchy and the structural power cis men have and wonder why your anti male posts get terfs in the notes.

hint

it doesnt matter if YOU don't think trans women are men. if the only difference between you and terfs is that you dont misgender trans women i dont want to hear what you have to say. you're one hop, skip, and a jump from coming to the same conclusion anyway.

[twinkrundgren]

as long as you believe maleness and masculinity are inherently evil, abusive, and Oppressive, you are not an ally to any trans people except ones that are feminine enough for you. you are not an ally to bigender people, amab nonbinary people, or transmasculine people. you aren't even an ally to butch trans women, because as soon as a trans woman steps out of line, you bring up her "male upbringing". as long as you can draw a line between your Unruly Trans Person and Maleness, you win! Because, don't you know, maleness makes you evil?

you are unable to see past your elementary understanding of why cis men have so much power over us and you will always, always, hurt queer people more than you'll ever deconstruct the patriarchy and male privilege in your spaces.

you do not get to replace biological essentialism with gender essentialism.

[walkerrainge]

I should’ve told you I didn’t want you to follow me on everything. Why the fuck did you do that? I didn’t want to fear the worst. I didn’t want to let my anxiety run everything. I let you follow me here and there and on everything and now you’re gone. And all I can feel is your absence.

[guerrillatech]

[realythatswhatyouregoingwith]

Marriage equality is still an ongoing fight✊

[ars-matron]

Exactly why my cousin never married the father of her kids. She's lose hers and their insurance if she had. She'd lose the supplemental income she got as well.

[aimlesswalker]

this is why my partner and I aren’t legally married. We can’t afford my medications without medicaid. This is a separate issue than disabled people losing their SSI benefits when they marry. They’re both important but a lot of people forget this one /:

[naamahdarling]

It's interconnected. Being on disability often comes with Medicaid. You could lose both your financial benefits and your insurance.

[lovelustquotes]

[walkerrainge]

Groveling on my knees for her to take me back

[hopelessbaka]

[walkerrainge]

I feel like I’m gonna die of a broken heart

I messed up with this girl and I kept making it about myself and I sent her a letter when I was meant to not be contacting her at all and I think I shouldn’t have done that because now she unfollowed me on all social media and forced me to unfollow her.

It’s making me physically ill. I have all of these things I never could have asked for but the girl I want doesn’t want anything to do with me and I don’t want to breathe. I just need to spill my guts. I need to get rid of all of the feelings I have for her inside of me. They’re rotting inside of me, poisoning my insides.

I only want her. I may never love again. Maybe this heartbreak will be good for my career. I’ll spend all of it dedicating my work to her. I love her with everything in me and I just want her to know that. I know exactly what I did wrong I regret so much I wish I could just stop myself before I did that.

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[evolvedleo-deactivated20170414]

me, procrastinating: haha it’s okay I work best under pressure! :)

me, working under pressure:

[emoji-mashup-bot]

😬 grimacing + 😐 neutral

From Twitter

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

[kinkadinkyy-deactivated20251129]

Bend it Like Beckham (2002) dir. Gurinder Chadha

[strangehorse]

#of course it doesn’t!!!! but to be clear u were a lesbian

[astrodidact]

[napoleoninrags]

There should be no billionaires.

[reverseharem-deactivated2020021]

is it time for frank cho and milo manara to die or what

[kiefbowl]

That’s basically a naked woman I’m YELLING

[houroftheantichristwolf]

What a pervert. What the FUCK does he not know how clothes work? What the hypothetical fuck is she wearing then if we can see all that?

[auntiewanda]

It’s like how bath towels in comics miraculously wrap completely around breasts. Or how even when injured and dead on the ground women in comics have to be twisted into “sexy” poses. Or how women in comics walk like they’re in high heels even barefoot. 

It’s the only way men know how to draw women, because to them female characters are only there to be sexy. They only think of “women” as exploitative costumes and camera angles, high heels and titillation. Sex objects to ogle, plot objects to further male heroes’ narratives and drama, not heroes to cheer for. 

[brithwyr-deactivated20170122]

I’m sorry, I was labouring under the impression that this was the crowd that thought women should wear what they want..?

[auntiewanda]

And that applies to fictional women who are depicted by men how? You can’t apply agency in the plot to something metatextual when it comes to fictional characters. 

[brithwyr-deactivated20170122]

Come on, let’s not pretend this is a male exclusive thing.

[auntiewanda]

We’re going to have this argument are we? Not to mention you’re deviating from the original point that attributing agency to fictional characters’ clothing is asinine. 

What you have here are images of power, and do you really believe these characters are designed with titillating heterosexual women and bisexual and homosexual men in mind? Because I don’t think you do.

This is why the Hawkeye Initiative exists. Take common female poses in comics, put a man in the role, and see how “empowering” and “strong” it actually looks: 

Also: 

[feminism-is-radical-deactivated]

He got the painting for fighting against ‘censorship.’ Note that they handed him a gross design of a female being objectified, because at the end of the day, that is all they really want, to be allowed to objectify women. They don’t care about censorship in general it is about their ability to sexualise and degrade women without consequence.

[dyketales-deactivated20180601]

You can see her butthole for chrissakes

[pmastamonkmonk]

I think the best imagery I’ve seen to explain the difference between what men think male objectification is vs what women actually want to see is the Hugh Jackman magazine covers.

Hugh Jackman on a men’s magazine. He’s shirtless and buff and angry. He’s imposing and aggressive. This is a male power fantasy, it’s what men want to be and aspire to - intense masculinity.

Hugh Jackman on a women’s magazine.  He looks like a dad. He looks like he’s going to bake me a quiche and sit and watch Game of Thrones with me. He looks like he gives really good hugs.

Men think women want big hulking naked men in loin cloths which is why they always quote He-Man as male objectification - without realizing that He Man is naked and buff in a loin cloth because MEN WANT HIM TO BE. More women would be happy to see him in a pink apron cutting vegetables and singing off-key to 70s rock.

Men want objects. Women want PEOPLE.

[aglassroseneverfades]

This is the first time I have EVER seen this false equivalence articulated so well. Thank you.

[this-account-is-a-mistake]

i just wanna put it out there, the drawing he did, you could see her vagorno. draw a man with his dick out and itd be criticised. theres a difference between drawing someone to look confident and powerful and straight up drawing nudity.

[wombshaker]

If rich people stopped donating to charity because of a 1% wealth tax, doesn’t that... tell you everything you need to know about billionaire philanthropy?