one of the most comforting constants on this website is when a long-running show comes to an end and all the people who gaslit themselves to the point of psychosis over a ship that would never be canon go apeshit
jerma: listen… i just really like strawberries and bananas! (suppressed giggle) it’s not- it’s not weird to like fruit. to enjoy a yummy strawberry on a summer’s day! (looks at chat) “strawberries are weird and gross”. what?! huh?!? listen to yourself!! what are you even saying?!?
the game he’s playing: [grinding corpses to viscera in an abandoned hospital]
You have been offered a full-ride scholarship to get a four-year degree in this field, specifically. Upon graduation, you will be guaranteed a job in this field at the 75th percentile of average salary for the field, with the possibility of further advancement as the years go on.
However, you will never be able to get a job in any other field.
it’s frustrating when you’re talking about an inherently oppressive institution that dehumanizes everyone who is subjected to it and someone is like “it’s especially bad for those it is incorrectly applied to!” as though being the intended victim of an injustice makes it less of a tragedy
been thinking about this lately after some discussions about historical marriage where people have chimed in about how extra awful it would have been for trans men forced into The Wife Role because of dysphoria. which like. yeah. but the thing about The Wife Role in the context of not having civil rights and being the property of a husband is that it is inherently dysphoria-inducing to anyone who identifies as a human being instead of an object.
Reblog if you’ve seen a White person before but did not have a camera to document the encounter.
Why does everyone think fiction is just fantasy wish fulfillment now and not like an exploration of themes and ideas
People will be like “this movie is evil and gross because it depicts a predatory relationship” and then you watch the movie in question and it’s about how preying on young women is bad and impacts their lives negatively
“Why would they do this instead of just making everyone in the movie nice and normal and good” so we would have this conversation….
[Image ID: Newspaper clipping reading: A Lincoln man who swiped a pair of shoes worth $1 or less was fined $25 and costs, which meant thirty days in jail. An eastern banker who stole $100,000 was sent to the penitentiary for six years. If the sentence pronounced on the Lincoln man was just, the eastern banker should have been sent up for 8,333 years and 4 months. If the eastern banker’s sentence was just, the Lincoln man’s sentence should have been a little less than thirty minutes. /End ID]
something is weird with your baby’s genitals!! this might cause some slightly awkward hookups 30 years from now. as such it is imperative that we operate while its body is as small and prone to spontaneously dying as possible before it has the chance to form ANY OPINIONS
ladies is it feminist to continue to subscribe to, identify with, and popularize the patriarchal medical myth that normal menstrual periods are supposed to make you irrational, weepy and aggressive for a week out of every month between age 12 and age 45
so the issue here is twofold: first, if you have periods so bad that they are physically or mentally disabling to how you live your life normally, that’s an actual medical concern. it means you need medical attention and it is not normal. a lot of bad doctors WILL tell you its normal, thats a real issue, and getting help for disabling menstrual issues can be really, really difficult if you cant find a doctor who isnt a moron (not to mention endometriosis and pcos, please see my other posts about those issues). however you need to know that it is not normal or healthy or tolerable for your period to be more intrusive to your normal function than “i feel a little bloated, a little gassy, a little bit of pain (like as much pain as a hangnail or maybe you bumped your shin on something. pain you can walk around with easily and ignore easily).” if you cant trust yourself to make decisions, tolerate basic daily stressors, drive a car, or speak to people while you are experiencing the effects around your period, that is de facto a Medical Problem and no longer a Normal Period. if you experience despair, suicidal ideation, psychosis, or an inability to maintain normal social interactions during or around your period, thats an emergency and not normal. its also not normal to have cramps so bad you cant walk or stand normally, or to feel so ill you have to call in to work or rest in bed. not normal. so when we normalize this belief that “women* on their periods are normally and in all cases insane and crippled”, and that this is a fun Relatable thing about periods that we all experience, we are telling people who are actually crippled by their periods NOT TO SEEK HELP because thats just how periods should be. and they arent. thats absurd. human society would crumble if every person with a uterus was out of their minds for a full week every month for the entirety of their reproductive years. it is patently and on its face Not True
the second issue should be obvious but isnt: one of the central tenets of misogyny is that women are Irrational. this tenet underlies all aspects of patronizing oppression against women. “women cant be logical or rational, they are purely emotional and reactive” is a patriarchal myth that underlies misogyny in general. whenever a woman runs for president there is discourse about how you simply cant vote for her because shes going to nuke russia as soon as she gets her period. when we uncritically accept and perpetuate this belief, even upon ourselves, this is carrying water for patriarchal oppression. it isnt true, it has been debunked repeatedly in extensive scientific trials, and its just bottom floor, basement-level sexism. “girls cant be president because uterus make them crazy and weak.” believing this, perpetuating it, telling it to people, and thinking it about yourself is actively harmful
FOOTNOTE: we are referring to “women” throughout this post despite women not being the only people who menstruate because patriarchal myths about menstruating currently are leveraged exclusively against women and people perceived as women (even if incorrectly perceived as such). this is a post about misogyny, not menstruation itself, although trans men and other non-women who menstruate can intersect with this topic as well in different ways, usually through experiencing misogyny through being incorrectly perceived as or assumed to be women
