Wildflowers Between My Toes

Sarah. 25. Tea drinker. Bread Baker. Composed of classic literature & films. Dashes of cartoons. Professional Worrier 

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Elizabeth Goddard（American）

1. Wave Action Ⅱ    2. Playful Sea II　3. Circular Wave  2003   4.  Winter Wave Beats Upon the Shore  2006     monotypes   here and here

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This Alexander McQueen dress is everything

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my roles in life

GIRL ON VERGE OF NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

RECLUSE

GIRL #6

EMOTIONAL EXHIBITIONIST

GIRL WITH BLISTERS ALL OVER FEET

SNOBBY RELATIVE YOU CANT RELATE

student :) daughter :) friend :)

BITCH

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Bi women have to deal with so much shit constantly so I am sending all of my love to bi women today 💓💘💕💗💞💖

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Yakup İçik

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Claude Monet’s water structure and shades.

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Richard Armitage as John Thornton in North & South 2014. (for anonymous)

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unfinished scar paintings that have been in my files for a while skjdfsjk 😔😔

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aren’t you nervous about the vaccine? what made you want to get it

free bandaid

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Some of you need to realize that a woman doing something kind for a male partner is not always a sign of her own oppression wtf

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Me: hey babe I picked up coffee for us on my way home

Someone who has literally never touched grass: QUEEN HE DOESNT DESERVE IT - YOU ARE NOT HIS SLAVE - THE FACT YOU CANT SEE THIS MAKES YOU A TRADWIFE - GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN

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Some of you are falling for the radfem rhetoric that because the patriarchy exists no individual man could be a decent human being or deserving of kindness

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The same way that housewives who CHOOSE to be housewives while their husbands work DO exist and are NOT traitors or opppressed

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This is actually really important to me so I’m going to keep talking about it. My mom was a stay-at-home mom for my entire childhood. She chose to drop out of her master’s program to raise me, even though my father and her entire family had offered to come together and raise the baby so she could finish out her degree.

After I was born, she talked to a close friend about if she’d made the right choice - she felt like she was relegating herself to a life without importance - she felt that society had told her that to be important she has to go get her degree and “change the world.” Her friend told her that if she is raising her children to be good people, she’s changing the world by being present for them and helping them live their fullest potential.

My mom believed in this principle so strongly that she followed it for most of my life and dedicated long hours to schooling us at home (at least 3 of us kids were neurodivergent - I can confidently say I wouldn’t have survived as my authentic self in a public school).

My mom and dad have one of the best relationships I’ve ever seen - it’s one I aspire to and admire all the time. My father has overwhelming respect and love for my mom, which she has for him as well. They like to sit on the patio or in the living room and have a drink while they just talk for long hours alone together. They miss each other when they’re gone. I once found a love note from my dad to my mom the day he left on a business trip and at the time I was embarrassed but in retrospect who doesn’t want the kind of partner who writes love notes after being together 10, 15, 25 years?

To assume my mom was oppressed, conservative, didn’t make her own choice, didn’t think about the implications of her choice, or didn’t have a relationship that was both equal and loving makes you look stupid and to a certain degree sexist yourself.

People will be rude as hell to stay-at-home moms for no damn reason. Even if you haven’t seen it happen I guarantee it’s happened.

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It's also a form of misogyny to devalue what is seen as traditionally feminine work — the raising of kids, housework, cooking, etc. Any feminism that places value only on women occupying typically masculine roles — having careers, etc — is actually just perpetuating this misogynist tradition While it's important to give women options, it's also important to remember that there's a reason why we look down on this kind of typical "woman's work", and it's not (just) because we're afraid of oppression — it's because patriarchy has devalued and minimised it to the point of poisoning it in our minds. We don't see it as important, and yet it is one of the most important roles you will ever perform. And its one that should be enthusiastically performed regardless of gender. Otherwise all we're going to do is raise children who will perpetuate these patriarchal ideas

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I also think there's a kinda classism in the idea that homemaker women are always oppressed. Like "we, intellectuals, know what's right for them, the masses, who surely cannot recognize their own oppression without our help."

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What We Do In The Shadows (2014) dir. Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement

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