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SLUT WORLD IS UNDER ATTACK

- Antigonick, Anne Carson

whomst else loves antigone on this fine evening

— Antigone, Jean Anouilh

antigone’s only crime was being right in the presence of a man send post

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) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” 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 didn’t 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:

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t 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).

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

Women invented language while men were hunting. I mean…

For reference and further fact-checking.

I feel that wars are extremely disrespectful to women.. women make literally all those people and then men just destroy them, disregarding insane amount of pain, work, sacrifice, love, energy, time it took women to make just one person, and then they go and demand “you have to make more!!!” and we’re like “uh we literally saw what you did to last bunch no thanks” and then they’re offended and call us murderers?? like excuse me I would like to not contribute a human resource for your killing game? And I think you all owe women about thousand apologies? Stop unmaking everything we make and breaking our hearts in the process, and this is even without addressing the rampant violence and sexual aggression towards women in wars, every single war is a crime against women more than anyone else and nothing will change my mind.

This take is absolutely scorching.

human instincts

You can live without men

I’m sure some sex workers do enjoy their jobs but I care more about being able to raise girls in a society where they don’t have to see themselves as commodities and preventing the mass exploitation of vulnerable women, sorry! I thought we had agreed as anti-capitalists that personal freedom sometimes has to take a backseat so we can create a society that works toward collective good but I guess you guys just really love porn

Oh that is adorable

That pause 💀💀

Queens

time to say It... racism and xenophobia towards mexicans is a specific problem in america that needs to be talked about NOW. there is a culture of fear and hatred very specifically focused on the fact that mexicans dare exist outside of mexico that even extends past white majority areas and into other communities of color. its going to lead to something that can never be undone if other people don't start actively and enthusiastically giving mexican people their support and solidarity. i'm begging you, go out of your way today to research what you can do to help struggling mexican people in your community (which i guarantee there are)

if you aren't mexican reblog this but don't add any dumb shit to it please

it’s gotten to the point where i no longer feel safe in my own neighborhood. i read about the 9 year old girl who was taken in for questioning as she was walking to school and now i don’t let my cousins walk to the park alone. i’m afraid every time i leave my house. am i next? is my mom? my siblings? my grandparents? will they be there when i get back from rehearsal? will i be another statistic for racists to deny?

“These are my children.”

“They look nothing li—”

“LOOK HOW BEAUTIFUL THEY ARE.”

for some reason I really like that she’s called Hilda.

This happened on my grandmothers farm when my mom was little,

baby ducks act a lot like baby chickens so in the beginning it wasn’t so bad

the main problem is that baby ducks  LOVE water, but baby chickens get very very dead from it,

so you can imagine the mother hens surprise and horror the first time they go by the farm pond and ALL THE BABIES RUN TO THE WATER AND JUMP IN

my grandmother had to come out of the house to investigate all the noise the hen was making

The mother hen was clucking and screeching in distress and running circles around the pond while the duckies were having the time of their lives.

This happened a few more times before Momma hen was like FUCK IT YOU WANNA SWIM SEE WHAT I CARE , and would sit a distance away watching them in the pond.

if the ducks ever abandoned any eggs my grandmother would always put it under that particular hens nest cause from then on she always knew how to deal with her “water loving” delinquent children

BEST ADOPTED MUM

“Half my children are fucking idiots but they’re my children and i love them”

any group of children between ages 7 and 14 will, if left unattended for over 40 seconds, begin to form weird cults

seriously you go into another room to get a band-aid and you come back to find a quartet of ten year-olds prostrating themselves around a dirty baby sock they found on the floor and chanting “speak to us, master” and that’s just life

I am a teacher and my students formed an unhealthy obsession with a can of unopened sprite I had on my shelf. They called it their god. One day I found them holding rulers in the form of a cross singing Kumbaya, so I hid the Sprite as it was becoming a distraction. So the students made a change.org petition to find it.