for a better tomorrow
Pokemon Heritage Post

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for a better tomorrow
Pokemon Heritage Post
9 times out of 10 if there is a super cool fag you're following on tumblr that you wish would reach out to you, they're probably waiting for the same thing
tumblr is nothing but a plexiglass prison full of socially-anxious bottoms
gods greatest punishment was putting 1 trillion cool rocks on earth and no one with eyes big enough to see them all
..ive been such a fool
thats okay ^-^ the wise man is blessed with knowledge once but the fool is blessed to learn every day
*gets scared and throws one of my cool rocks at your fourhead*
ow what the hell
Planet Zoo guest thoughts have a very distinctive Energy. I don’t know how to describe it but i love it
Imagine my shock as a neurodivergent teen when I first realized that using large vocabulary and eloquent speech doesn't make you less likely to be misinterpreted, rather it adds an entirely new layer of misinterpretation I had never even realized existed in the form of people thinking you're being snobbish or condescending when you're just trying to be specific
he makes me so happy and so profoundly sad at the same time
like this?
[Image ID: Text reading: "Sunny," you say, "Why is this chapter so fucking long?"
"Reader," I say, putting my hands on your shoulder, "Because I got 'be more concise' written on every single essay I ever submitted in high school." /End ID]
MY GOD WHAT HAVE I FOUND XD
I'm not sorry for having you know this exists XD
so, let's talk about this. because it's not quite true
Barbie was not the only fashion doll on the market (much less the only one to ever exist, a worrying claim from the first Barbie movie trailer). Dolls like Madame Alexander's Cissy, Ideal's Miss Revlon, and Uneeda's Dollikin were all available before Barbie's 1959 release
While Mattel would love for you to believe that Barbie was the first, Cissy- released in 1955 -would like a word.
Ruth Handler might well have SAID that she "noticed the only dolls on the market were babies," but she and her husband ran an existing toy company; Barbie was not Mattel's first project. She 100% would have been aware of the other fashion dolls available. In short: if she said that, she was...almost certainly stretching the truth.
There was indeed pushback against fashion dolls from cultural commentators who thought little girls should only play with baby dolls, to encourage Maternal Instincts(TM)...but that dates at least back to the French fashion dolls of the 1860s-1890s, which were accused of making little girls "worldly" in magazines of the day. It wasn't a new idea developed especially in response to Barbie.
What set Barbie apart from other fashion dolls was twofold:
Still unusual! Just not unique
But I'm not really here to split hairs about which was the actual first 1950s fashion doll. My main thesis is this: Barbie was NOT originally meant to be empowering.
...or disempowering. Or anything but a fashion doll for which a businesswoman trying to make money felt there was a niche.
Yes, she had a career at the beginning- as a fashion model. Hardly a job many men were trying to keep women out of. The first non-modeling careers she had were ballerina, flight attendant, and registered nurse, female-dominated fields that nobody was challenging women's right to pursue.
(Original Barbie box. If you can't read the text, it says "Barbie(T.M.) Teen Age Fashion Model.")
That's not to say that Handler was completely without deeper thoughts on Barbie's place in the world. She was adamant that, while Barbie might model a bridal gown, she would never actually marry Ken to prevent her from being tied down as a wife and mother. And certainly later in her life, she got onboard with the "girls can do anything!" messaging of later Barbie generations.
But to say that Barbie was intended to be #empowering or make a statement from the beginning is just revisionist history that's bound to leave people disappointed. I mean, what's Twitter OP going to think when they discover that an early Barbie babysitting set came with a little book called "How to Lose Weight" that simply said "Don't eat!" on the back? Handler was still president of the company at the time- how does that fit with this starry-eyed vision of her creating an empowering doll for little girls?
Putting Barbie on a pedestal is going to lead to just as rude an awakening as casting her in the "worthless bimbo doll" role.
i’d also like to chime in with some cynicism about the mythologized state of american women’s empowerment in the late 50s. women knew they could do men’s jobs because they had done them during the war. fifteen years previously women had built ships and airplanes! they’d flown cargo planes and drove trucks and worked in mines and and worked farms and fought fires and kept things running while men went off and killed themselves. then the surviving men came back and demanded, as their due, that all the women get back to the kitchen. and some women agreed and some women disagreed and were violently persuaded to agree. and that was the 50s.
women were very much removed, wholesale, by force, from the workplaces they had capably run. they were allowed to substitute for men in a pinch, but never ever compete with them. and the men who enforced this relegation knew very well that women could do men’s jobs, because they had just done them. it was imperative after that to make sure what had just happened was seen as a tragic aberration of the natural order, and best forgotten.
so like. women in the 60′s weren’t inventing women’s empowerment from a state of childish innocence. the older you get the more you realize fifteen, twenty years isn’t all that long. things can change, fast, and for the worse. these girls with their air hostess barbies, their aunts might have been pilots.
every step forward, women clawed back from men by force. feminism wasn’t invented out of a naive ignorance of any alternatives, where women suddenly suggest a bold new idea that just occurred to them and then men realize what big sillies they all were. women can do anything that men can do, and they always have. the fight is over whether or not they get to.
I know 'superhero costume' is a whole genre of costume but at this point you can probably be a superhero with any kind of costume
maid uniform
green screen morph suit
off season swag from spirit halloween
novelty scene wig
sheet over your head with holes in it
fursuit
Damn, missed it again
Happy Bog Day!
Happy Bog Day everyone!!!
Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread
was talking with my friends about therapy last night and determined that effective therapist for me would have to beat me in a fight
this would also go for a dominateix. like who are you to boss me around. I could crush you.
so you're a season 1 villain in a light shonen anime?
power scaling doesnt have to escalate forever. after a certain point I think things should become a point-and-click adventure game. nothing can be solved by 'punch hard' or 'move fast' or 'use fantastic powers' anymore, we're past that. things can only be solved by tying a slim jim to some dental floss and a rubber duck you saw across town 20 minutes ago to create some kind of rudimentary fishing lure that can float on top of lake mead and lure the interdimensional octopus out of hiding without scaring it bad enough it destroys the hoover dam in an alternate reality. you need to capture it in an ikea bag, but from space ikea. it's wrong to hurt an endangered species.
was talking with my friends about therapy last night and determined that effective therapist for me would have to beat me in a fight
this would also go for a dominateix. like who are you to boss me around. I could crush you.
so you're a season 1 villain in a light shonen anime?