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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past ‘dresses are for women and pants are for men.’ i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we’ve made

sorry i didn’t respond to your text right away. i was weeping at the sight of impossibly little white flowers scattered like stars in the desert brush

This isn’t the same flower, but you’ve reminded me of this excerpt from The Sand County Almanac :)

“he who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it […] a postscript to a hope”

yesterday i was hiking with my dog and passed by a family with their 14 yo princess of darkness trotting behind them in very unsuitable clothes and uncomfortable shoes that clearly weren't meant to get dirty on forest mud. oh the quintessential teenage experience of doing something in a way that is stupid and sucks because it's important that it's your own way 🫡

The experience of being a teenager, especially, is relentlessly being forced to do things by authority figures who have arbitrary power over you. As a result "Okay, I'll do it, but I'll do it in the least compliant way possible" is a persistent and entirely sympathetic element of being a teenager

Okay as someone who professionally works with kids, I'll weigh on on this and say: the thing about defiance and "brattiness" is they are defense mechanisms for having no power in your life.

Kids and teens do not have power in their life. Even in the most ideal of circumstances. They can't really make informed choices about voting or houses and especially in America, the entire social structure is hostile to letting them go where they want to go.

So OP is absolutely right and put it beautifully. "it's important that it's your own way." I've seen preverbal babies force their shoes off their feet in response to a completely unrelated obligation because I can force them to take a nap but I can't make them take a nap AND nicely keep their shoes on. It is arguably a pretty stupid defiance, but defiance isn't about being smart.

It's the scream of a person without power insisting if they have no choice but to do this, they will do it their way! And that's more important than practicality. It's more important than being reasonable.

I firmly believe that deep down adults aren't less bratty or defiant than kids are- they're just given more leeway and power so they're more used to having control and use that to cope. The average 30-year-old would absolutely have a meltdown in the pasta aisle if they were regularly dragged to places they didn't want to be by another adult who they were never allowed to be away from or choose where they were going besides very limited exceptions.

(also disclaimer that in using the term "bratty" I am by no means condemning this behavior. It's born of a frustration that is completely understandable.)

Being followed by a car for 2 turns in the city: "I'm about to be murdered. Let me call my mom and write my will because this is it"

Being followed by a car for 6 hours on country highways: "The relationship between Blue Subaru and I is beyond compare. We're family. My road brother."

You get it @vangogh-vanhoe

Anastasia Trusova, “Rainbow in the rays” Acrylic on canvas / 40 x 60 cm / 2022

Once again begging anti-theists to realize that to get to a world without religion you’d have to commit cultural genocide. So maybe you shouldn’t push for that

There’s a lot of people on this post trying to explain to antitheists what cultural genocide means and that yes, they want to do it, but I also want to be clear that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with theism. Believing in a god is not indicative of a failing society or a side effect of personal turmoil. World peace would not make religion useless. Believing or not in a god is not linked to one’s morality, and it’s truly offensive that antitheists seem to think so.

I support women in STEM (Scary experiments,Time loops,Existential dilemmas,Madness).

I am a faggot and a pointless animal and a strange individual

you’re allowed to just exist this summer. you don’t have to glow up or feel the need to constantly be changing and progressing. you can just be.

we need to bring back the word square like i don't think it's problematic that you listen to taylor swift i just kinda think it's lame as hell

HIV/AIDs awareness poster featuring a Two-Spirit couple embracing | c. 2007

The solution to homelessness is housing.

if i think of baby swordfish again i’m gonna be sent into a coughing fit

best baby animal of all time. only the essentials (big funny snout)

THERES EVEN SMALLER ONES ARE YOU SERIOUS

fr tho imagine being this thing and you grow up into a beast that kills things with its nose what would you even do.

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it's a cruel, cruel summer! 🍌🐟