The Tumblr reply with big blocklist experience is awesome. What could have possibly prompted this
There are a lot of really important statements here to be made about releasing the learned (and inaccurate!!) fear that testosterone makes/will make you dangerous, and how the reality is that it’s an important, complex, mood-and-body regulating hormone, because there’s almost nothing in your body that only has one singular function - you’re a system, none of your parts exist in isolation.
The less important observation to be made here is:
my personal favourite
The fact that “dolls having a tea party” has stuck around in the public consciousness is fascinating to me.
Like, back in the Old Days that would be a way that women would actually socialize. So if a girl had a doll tea party, she was imitating her mom / other contemporary women.
But these days contemporary women don’t have tea parties. So now, the idea of “dolls having a tea party” is an echo of an extinct behavior, only repeated and referenced because it used to be so prevalent.
So a Barbie in a big hat themed for a tea party is a bit like if they made Transformers that turned into stagecoaches and horse-drawn buggies.
Like I wouldn’t buy the fuck out of stagecoach transformers
so last night when i was trying to sleep y'know it was dark and quiet and my eyes were closed but then i suddenly started laughing because i remembered this gif
