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Gems + meanings part 2
(part 1)
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Didnât she kill Jabba the Hutt?
23 Things That Definitely Happened In The Harry Potter Universe
things im tired of:
the evil stepmom trope
the im not like other girls because i donât like skirts, makeup or fro-yo trope
any trope that makes girls who like fashion and make-up seem stuck up, stupid, slutty and mean
the popular girl wants to socially destroy anyone who tries to get in between her and popularity trope
the i hang out with guys because itâs less drama than girls trope
the weâre best friends but im the girl your boyfriend cheated on you with because i was jealous of youâre relationship trope
literally any trope that has girls hate each other for NO REASON other than to portray all girls as jealous, petty and catty instead of portraying girls having each others backs and protecting each other
Does womanhood really start when you get your first period?
âAlthough menstruation is an important part of life that should be recognized and celebrated, equating a period with womanhood draws a box around the feminine experience, when in reality that experience is one that is different for every single female-identifying person. There are many different kinds of women who do not have periods ⊠and none of them deserve to be considered any less of a woman than someone who experiences the ârite of passageâ that is menstruation.â
Yeah yes yep Iâve always agreed with this. Not even considering the trans issues the concept of period = womanhood ignores for a second: Itâs not fair to be considered/expected to be âa womanâ at age 12 just because your body started to go through changes. Especially considering boys donât âbecome menâ untilâŠ.what, age 25? 30? Seems like it keeps going up as I get older..
exactly! this sentiment can be very damaging for people who get it at a very young age! like you are 10 years old, minding your own business, and all of a sudden youâre a âwomanâ and expected to act like it! like wtf!?
Am I the only one thatâs a just a tiny bit pissed off that this is still an issue?
The Original Series wasnât even in the general VICINITY of fucking around yo
How many shows these days would do this, and do it this way? These days, it would be all, âOhh, we have to be sensitive and show the nuances of each sideâ and try not to make either side seem wrong. It wouldnât be clearly spelled out, âpro-choice is right, if youâre against it youâre the bad guys.â
Jim Kirk is not here for your anti-birth-control, anti-choice, pro-death-penalty BS
James Tiberius Kirk was written and portrayed as a feminist and I will fight anyone who says otherwise.
Yep. Â That episode is exactly what you think it is: Â pro-birth control, pro-population control, pro-choice, and pro-womenâs right to choose. Â And yes, Kirk, the supposed playboy of the spaceways, is in favor of all of the above.
It was written and aired in 1969. Â
It probably couldnât air today.
THINK ABOUT THAT.
Also LMAO at all the sad whiny geek boys who are like âI miss the GOOD OLD DAYS of SCI-FI when it wasnât all about SOCIAL ISSUES and instead it was just about MEN HAVING FUN IN SPACE. Like Star Trek! Star Trek wouldnât put up with all this SOCIAL JUSTICE FEMINISM IN SCI FI bullshit!â And meanwhile Iâm just over here like ââŠdid you actually watch the show?âÂ
@judicialmistrangementorder
Itâs also important to bear in mind that the Original Series had a predominantly female fanbase, and during its initial run, was widely mocked and dismissed by mainstream (i.e., male) science fiction fans as being fake sci-fi for girls. Itâs difficult to overstate the influence women had on the franchise in its early days; most of the early Star Trek conventions were organised by and for women, and indeed, those same organisers were primarily responsible for the massive letter-writing campaign that prevented the show from being cancelled after the 1968 season. Without that campaign, the episode pictured in this post would never have been made.
The popular image of James Kirk as a sleazy womaniser is part of a conscious effort to erase that history and render the franchiseâs roots palatable to the misogynistic geekboys of the modern SF/F fandom.
For a summary of those points, see âStar Trekâs Underappreciated Feminist Historyâ by Shannon Mizzi, which draws from Patricia Vettel-Beckerâs âSpace and the Single Girl: Star Trek, Aesthetics, and 1960s Femininityâ.
And a gentle reminder that TOS was a Desilu production, which its board of directors voted to cancel after the second pilot due to cost concerns, a vote that Chairman Lucille Ball overruled. There is no Star Trek without Lucille Ball.
thereâs no such thing as a fake geek girl and there never has been.Â
Oh wow, I actually didnât know about the Lucille Ball connection!Â
percentage of rape victims (source):
women: 91%
men: 9%Â
median salary (source):
women: $17,629
male: $30,514
victims of domestic violence (source):
women: 85%
men: 15%
people murdered by their significant other (source):
women: 75%
men: 25%
those darn privileged females
DO YOU KNOW WHY THERE ARE SO MANY GENDER SPECIFIC SHELTERS FOR FEMALES?!?!?!?
BECAUSE PHYSICAL ABUSE HAPPENS SO OFTEN IN THIS COUNTRY THAT THEY HAVE TO BUILD THESE BUILDINGS IN EVERY. SINGLE. FUCKING. CITY.Â
SO THAT WOMEN CAN FUCKING HIDE FROM THEIR HUSBANDS OR BOYFRIENDS OR EXS OR BROTHERS OR FATHERS AND OH MY FUCKING GOD I COULD RIP THAT NOSE RING RIGHT OUT OF HIS STUPID FACE.
Why is it always guys that look like that too.
Also,
The main culprit to blame for there being more homeless men than women is a lack of adequate welfare programs, accessible mental healthcare, and veterans services, since veterans are more likely to suffer from mental health disorders and are overwhelmingly male and more likely to come from lower socio-economic backgrounds.Â
The main culprit to blame for there being more female college students than male ones is that women have less job opportunities than men, so college has become more of a prerequisite for finding a stable and comfortable career and income than for men, who are paid better for the same job and have more career opportunities available to them with less training.
The main culprit to blame for women having a longer life expectancy than men is mainly a combination of biology (women tend to be more iron deficient than men, which is actually better for cell regeneration) and life choices (men are more likely to smoke cigarettes and eat high-cholesterol foods for example)
And, as previously stated above, there are more gender-specific shelters for women because women are over 5 times more likely to experience domestic violence than men are.
So yeah. Thereâs that.
Also, that lip piercing looks like a leech is boring into your face.
Iâm laughign because men blaming women for their life expectancy is exactly the kind of BS youâd expect from MRAs
Letâs also debunk a couple more MRA talking points:
The main culprit to blame for more men dying by suicide is a combination of toxic masculinity (women are more likely to seek help after having suicidal thoughts than men) and gun access (men are much more likely to use a gun, which is instantaneous and doesnât allow them time to change their minds or get help).
The main culprit to blame for men getting the short shrift in family courts is ⊠the boogeyman. There is no reliable evidence of systemic discrimination against men in family courts.
Why is it so damn hard for white, middle-class, cis, straight, able-bodied, neurotypical men to admit that they have privilege and that theyâre not oppressed? Being oppressed isnât fun. It isnât something you want in on.
7 Things I Wish Parents Would Stop Teaching Their Children:
That nudity is inherently sexual
That people should be judged for their personal decisions
That yelling solves problems
That they are too young to be talking about the things theyâre already starting to ask questions about
That age correlates to importance
That interacting with someone of the opposite sex is inherently romantic
That the default for someone is straight and cisgender
8. That children owe their parents for letting them live under their roof and eat their food, and must pay them back.
9. That parents are always right and can never be reasoned with.
10. That telling the truth has no value, by punishing the same way, whether they tell the truth about an incident or not. (i.e., âIâm not mad, I just want to know what happened to the vase. ⊠Youâre grounded.â)
11. That abuse of any kind, or overkill punishment, is the right answer for their behavior, always.
12. That trying to reason with your parents will always in multiplying your punishment.
13. Through example, that they must hide everything from their parents.
14. That privacy is a privilege, not a right.
15. That having a disease or a mental health issue does not reflect on their parenting .
16. That, regardless of their parenting, your emotions are completely valid.
17. If you bring up a valid point and are mad for not being heard you are not mean or definate.
18. Being upset about what your parents say or do, is perfectally fine.Â
Is that so?
Women have been a leading force in sanitation strikes, calling for equal treatment and job security. This particular service industry has been the focus of multiple feminist manifestos and employment goals. Women fought long and hard to gain the right to work in sanitation, and theyâre continuing that effort to open up the field more. This issue is so big that Parks and Rec even made an episode about it.Â
Female sewer workers have repeatedly sued the DEP for unfair treatment, seeking to open up the industry and gain equal status with their male peers. Sewer work is often targeted for its biased hiring practices. Hundreds of female candidates fight for limited available positions, but most are turned away, despite having the necessary experience and skills. Feminist workers recognize that these women are willing and able to do the work, but arenât getting the opportunity to gain employment here.Â
Historically, coal mining is one of the most highly targeted careers for gender bias. Women have been petitioning for the opportunity to mine safely since the Industrial Revolution. This is actually one of the primary and best studied examples of women fighting to enter traditionally male fields. Lots of women, who both succeeded in the mines and didnât, continue to petition for increased access to this field.Â
And yeah, women want white collar jobs too. Go figure - A diverse population of women, with different abilities, interests and levels of education, are all fighting for the right to seek diverse forms of employment. Fighting for equality in one sphere doesnât mean that weâve forgotten about the others.Â
Just because you arenât paying attention to the feminist movement doesnât mean that the feminist movement is nonexistent.Â
âBut you never see [oppressed group] demand [x]â
No, YOU never see it. Because youâre not looking.
they made an entire movie about sexism in the coal mining industry even????
An epic UPDATE of Molly Wettaâs graphic guide to LGBTQ titles in YA literature now up on YALSAâs website.Â
Just a reminder that your partner has no say on whether you terminate your pregnancy or continue you. That is all up to you.
If you would like to have the discussion with them, you can go right ahead, but they cannot force you to stay pregnant or have an abortion. You withholding this information or going against what they want does not make you a bad person. In fact, the only bad person is them for trying to force your hand.
Again, you do not have to have an abortion or stay pregnant just because itâs what your partner wants. Itâs not their choice. When they get pregnant, they have the same right. Until then, itâs not their decision.
-Allie
Devils advocate here.
Yes. Your partner DOES have an input. You see, you are not the Blessed Virgin Mary. You are a regular person. That means it takes two to conceive a child. There are two parts: sperm and egg.Â
So that means that this is a dual decision. That both people have an equal responsibility, fault, and duty to make a decision together. Sooo⊠Yeah. about that.Â
Just because you can keep a father out of the âchoiceâ youâre so proud of, doesnât mean that you should.Â
My then-boyfriend when I was 19 thought he had a right to stop me getting an abortion because HE didnât agree with it. He was a) wrong and b) saw fit to punish me when I came back from the appointment.
Donât you fucking stick up for shits like that.
Unless my partner is the one carrying the pregnancy, they only get as much day as I say they do. A pregnancy does not pose the same risk, the same consequences, the same concerns for a cis man as it does for someone who can get pregnant.
Of course itâs hard if your partner wants to abort a child you want to have. But that can never justify taking control of their body and forcing them to go through nine months of pain to have a child they donât want to have
being a female means needing to see 10 different doctors to get a proper diagnosis because they always think youâre exaggerating and/or lying
define proper diagnosis. I mean, does that just mean the diagnosis you want?
no :) it means going to 10 different doctors who disbelieved your symptoms until the 11th found cysts on your ovaries :) which may mean infertility :) sit on a cactus :)
I call bullshit
Of course you do. Like the first 10 doctors. đ
I call bullshit on the story. If you think you have an issue you should see a specialist not just your PCP.
Like the 4 âspecialistsâ I saw for the crippling numbness in my face and legs I had for over a year while they told me it was âstressâ? When it was finally found that I had scars on my brain and spine? Those âspecialistsâ weâre male neurologist who wouldnât give me an MRI because âwomen stress too muchâ. Go fuck yourself.
MY SPINE WAS BROKEN FOR 2 YEARS BECAUSE MY DOCTORS TOLD ME I JUST HAD BAD CRAMPS AND REFUSED TO TAKE XRAYS. FUCK YOU AND YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. WHEN WILL BOYS REALIZE THEIR EXPERIENCES ARENT STANDARD???? I ALSO LOVE THIS IDEA THAT YOU CAN JUST GO TO A SPECIALIST WHENEVER YOU WANT LOL IF OUR PCP DOESNT BELIEVE US WHEN WE TELL THEM OUR SYMPTOMS THEY ARENT GONNA REFER US TO A SPECIALIST YOU FUCKING MOLDY WALNUT
My parents began noticing something large in my throat, saw a specialistâŠ.Guess what? Told me to lose some weight..even though I wasnât overweight. I would have my period for weeks at a time. Was told that it was teenage hormones and stress.
Two fucking years later I attempted suicide they ran a battery of tests as required and bam! They find out that I have untreated Hashimotoâs. The âthingâ was a goiter. Possible symptoms of an untreated thyroid disease is the goiter, unexplained weight gain, and depression. All they had to do was test my blood, but they said young people donât have thyroid problems. đ
-Allie
Ten years ago, my motherâwho is a pretty tough cookieâstarted feeling both ridiculously wired, anxious, and incredibly emotional. Every doctor she saw told her she was going through early menopause, even though she was still menstruating. Her health declined to point where she was barely sleeping, losing weight, and crying constantly, which was a huge red flag because my mother never cries. Finally, she went to see another doctor 2.5 hours away who referred her to an endocrinologist. And what did the endocrinologist say? He diagnosed her with one of the most advanced cases of Graveâs Disease he had even seen, and said if she had gone just a few more months without being treated, she could have FUCKING DIED.Â
Also, it turned out that her thyroid levels had been moving out of the normal range in a progressive pattern for years, but nobody bothered to look at her past test results until after the diagnosis. They would just do a test, see that it was âin the normal rangeâ and leave it at that. She could have caught it before she even had symptoms, instead of basically being accused of having hysteria.Â
i had a brain aneurysm/hemorrhage ten years ago, doctors still tell me im faking my disability BECAUSE YOU CAN TOTALLY FAKE LIMITED MOVEMENT OF THE LEFT SIDE
My sister had intercranial hypertension which was causing headaches, dizzy spells and loss of vision, and you know what the hospital told her? She was being a hysterical girl and making it up. A few weeks later she spent roughly a month in hospital and had several lumbar punctures to relieve her RECORD HIGH spinal pressure that was causing so much strain on her brain and optic nerves she was being sent blind.
Everytime I see this post (and itâs been a good 5/6 times), it has different stories and experiences of women who have been horribly mistreated by doctors and it just blows my mind that this is so big. Itâs absolutely disgusting how terribly women are treated in the medical world and something needs to be done about that.
my friend lea had back pain, then pain in her legs and feet, and then numbness. despite seeing 7 different doctors over 2 years, by the time they found the cancer it was inoperable. chemo and radiation didnât work. the cancer spread. she died and left behind a 5 year old daughter.
A few years ago I would go through spells where I literally could not stand on my own and I couldnât get out of bed. I would be freezing and too weak to eat. I would keep having heart palpitations as well. I got up the money to go to a clinic and they told me it was just stress and to basically just work on chilling out. I saved up money for a few weeks to do this and I pretty much get a âchill outâ from them. As time went on it got worse, most noticeably the heart palpitations were happening almost constantly. I went again to a different clinic and was told it was normal and that it was probably stress. They did no tests, and they told me it would âjust go awayâ. Two weeks later I ended up collapsing going down some stairs, and at the hospital it was discovered that I had such severe anemia that my heart could barely keep up with trying to get enough oxygen to my body. I had developed left ventricular hypertrophy (my heart muscle is too big) and because of them ignoring me and dismissing me Iâm at a much higher risk of heart attacks and stroke now.
I went to the doctor with severe intermittent pain in my upper right stomach area that was so bad I had to miss school. Despite the fact that my period has been on a regular 3 month cycle for years, and I still had two months left until my period, my doctor told me it was period related cramps and or indigestion. 2 months later Iâm in the hospital getting my gallbladder removed. It was so obstructed that there was gangrene developing my my system.
SoâŠeveryone whoâs given me shit for that one post (about medicine and equal treatment and shit) can just read this because Iâm sick of defending my case.
i know this post is already long but hereâs a pretty good article about how gender bias in medicine is quite literally killing women. it focuses a lot on heart attacks but it applies to all areas of medicine
Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.
Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.
Isaac Asimov.
yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point
If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels
Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms)Â was written by a woman (Lady Muraskaiâs the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide âIsaac Asimovâ reblogs and stick it
even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?
PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didnât even do a frickin google search For Shame
And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.
Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:
Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.
Even Isaac Asimov ainât having none of your shit, not even posthumously.
You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.
Got that?
Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it
I have literally been telling people this for over a year.
the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman
The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).
NYU students who back Trump afraid to show their faces.Â
âTheyâre afraid of losing friends, being ridiculed in class, getting worse grades and are even afraid of being assaulted and physically hurt.â
good
no, not good. because if we hate them as much as Trump and his supporters hate certain groups, we are no better than they are.
yeah I am
âif you hate these bigots youâre just as bigoted as they areâ
This âweâre no better than themâ mentality makes the critical mistake that hate itself is the problem.
Hate is not the problem. At all. Hate can be constructive. Hate can be defensive and come from righteous outrage.
The problem is irrational hate towards innocent people.
Hating a racist is COMPLETELY fucking different from hating a race. A whole race didnât do anything wrong. A racist did. Hating the racist is 100% proportionate, justifiable retaliation.
Fucking. Mic. Drop.
"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"
Earlier today, I served as the âyoung womanâs voiceâ in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, âShould parents read their daughterâs texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?â
I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.
I reached for the microphone next. I said, âAs far as reading your childâs texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.â
Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.
Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a childâs back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, âThis is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,â it was like Iâd delivered a revelation.
Itâs easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I donât think Iâd ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.
It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.
Apparently people are rediscovering this post somehow and I think thatâs pretty cool! Having experienced similar violations of trust in my youth, this is an important issue to me, so I want to add my personal story:
Around age 13, I tried to express to my mother that I thought I might have clinical depression, and she snapped at me ânot to joke about things like that.â I stopped telling my mother when I felt depressed.
Around age 15, I caught my mother reading my diary. She confessed that any time she saw me write in my diary, she would sneak into my room and read it, because I only wrote when I was upset. I stopped keeping a diary.
Around age 18, I had an emotional breakdown while on vacation because I didnât want to go to college. I ended up seeing a therapist for - surprise surprise - depression.
Around age 21, I spoke on this panel with my mother in the audience, and afterwards I mentioned the diary incident to her with respect to this particular Q&A. Her eyes welled up, and she said, âYou know I read those because I was worried you were depressed and going to hurt yourself, right?â
TL;DR: When you invade your childâs privacy, you communicate three things:
You do not respect their rights as an individual.
You do not trust them to navigate problems or seek help on their own.
You probably havenât been listening to them.
Information about almost every issue that you think you have to snoop for can probably be obtained by communicating with and listening to your child.
Part of me is really excited to see that the original post got 200 notes because holy crap 200 notes, and part of me is really saddened that something so negative has resonated with so many people.
I love this post.
Too many parents wonder why their kids arenât honest with them, and never realize their own non-receptive behavior and their failure to listen are the reasons why.
At one point or another, a child WILL keep a secret from you, but if itâs to a point where all their emotional feelings are being poured away from you as opposed to toward you, itâs probably because you havenât been emotionally trustworthy or open.Â
Adultism :(
not to mention, you then take away one of your childâs coping mechanisms. if your parents read your journal, youâre never writing in it again. if your parents monitor your conversations with friends, you wonât tell them when youâre depressed anymore. if you have a therapist that reports what you say to your parents, you wonât tell that therapist anything. now all those methods of venting, feeling better, self-soothing, sorting out your issues, and feeling safe are gone. âi want informationâ is not synonymous with âi want my child to talk to me.â those are two separate goals, but i think parents conflate them â i want my child to talk to me, but since they wonât, iâm stealing information from them. no. you didnât ever want them to talk to you. you wanted information. if you wanted them to talk to you, if that was your entire end goal, you would have approached things completely differently. stealing information from a child ensures they will never talk to you again. but if all you want is information, then you can take it however you want and call it a parenting success. if what you wanted was a child who talks to you, you would apply the same principles you do to literally any other human interaction in your life, and cultivate a relationship and trust.
I love these 10 cute motivational posts from chibird.
Ahh this is me! >u< Just a small collection of some of my art.
Anti-Trump ad shows women using Trumpâs words against him
By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL
Bimbo. Dog. Fat pig.
An anti-Donald Trump super PAC released an ad on Monday that hits the New York billionaire for his rhetoric by having women use his words against him.
âQuotes,â a 60-second spot released by Our Principles PAC, showcases women verbalizing quotes attributed to the Republican front-runner.
âI like kids,â one woman says, reciting a quote BuzzFeed reported last month. âI mean, I wonât do anything to take care of them. Iâll supply funds, and sheâll take care of the kids.â
âThat must be a pretty picture â you dropping to your knees,â another woman says, before a group of women combine to emphasize that this is how Trump speaks about mothers, sisters and daughters.
âIf you believe America deserves better, vote against Donald Trump,â a narrator concludes.
I think it is worth noting that this was paid for by a Republican anti-trump group and does not actually say, âvote for so-and-so,â just, âdonât vote for this go.â
Even the members of his own political party donât want him.