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parents are so crazy because they can say the most fucked up shit to you when your brain is forming and it sets the tone for your whole adult mind set and then they forget about it the next day

The “rise of lonely men” thing also neglects this.. like im glad women are choosing less and less to partner with men who don’t respect them, and glad they are able to find meaningful non romantic connections in place of this. But like can we acknowledge how much it sucks that a lot of women simply can’t find a man to be an respectful, equal partner with them, and have to just give up on that part of their life? There are certainly women who just prefer being single too but like

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fun fact: the reason that the plural of goose is geese but the plural of moose is not meese is because goose derives from an ancient germanic word undergoing strong declension, in the pattern of foot/feet and tooth/teeth, wherein oo is mutated to ee. however ‘moose’ is a native american word added to the english lexicon only ~400 years ago, and lacks the etymological reason to be pluralized in that way.

men: hmm… what if i could leverage my wealth and power to have sex with poorer, less powerful women who don’t want to have sex with me

weirdos: this is very feminist! and not at all evil

fewer posts about “why do straight women date men who hate them” and more posts about “why do so many men hate women that it’s genuinely difficult for straight women to find romantic & sexual intimacy with a man who doesn’t hate them”

Where did the whopping huge meteor come down? I assume if there are core samples, we know where it was, and maybe there are remnants of it?

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Chicxulub Puerto, Yucatan, Mexico, fucking exactly

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also the people of Chicxulub Puerto are fully aware of this, and even created a memorial for all of dinosaurkind on their own dime!

and personally, I think this single heartfelt block of concrete is more fitting than any number of sleek expensive monoliths in the world's best museums.

at an unremarkable time in this unremarkable place, the world ended, once. it's good to remember that.

Oh...man...

Anonymous asked:

can you be a radfem if you are involved with organized crime?

I truly don't know what to tell you. This is definitely one of the stranger things I've been asked. Radical feminism is an ideology, not an identity, and it's rare for anyone to behave in perfect alignment with their chosen ideologies.

However, if the crime you're involved in harms working class/impoverished people, especially women and children, I'd say no. It's not compatible with radical feminism. It's hard to imagine organized crime that doesn't harm people in some way.

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fact that i know from growing up evangelical it seems like a lot of people don't know: for many christians who reject the LGB but are more accepting to the T it's because of homophobia and the endurance of sexual inversion theory, yes. but for many of them the major factor is simply that they take the bible very seriously and the LGB is condemned by the bible but trans people aren't mentioned at all (obviously)

fact that i know from growing up evangelical it seems like a lot of people don't know: for many christians who reject the LGB but are more accepting to the T it's because of homophobia and the endurance of sexual inversion theory, yes. but for many of them the major factor is simply that they take the bible very seriously and the LGB is condemned by the bible but trans people aren't mentioned at all (obviously)

Lady Catherine: Your youngest sister is probably way to young to be out.

Elizabeth: Yeah, she probably is.

The Letter: A lesson about how even young girls who are raised carefully can make bad decisions with their half-cooked teenage brains on a poorly supervised beach trip.

Chapter 39 (wherein Lydia wastes money and brags about pranks): An object lesson in how Lydia is waayyy too young to be out.

Elizabeth: PLEASE don't let Lydia go on a poorly supervised beach trip, she's WAY TOO YOUNG TO BE OUT.

Mr. Bennet: Nah, it's fine.

Jane Austen sets up a ton of culpability for what happens with Lydia, but the fingers aren't actually pointed at her. Lydia never should have been in Brighton. Lydia shouldn't have been running around Meryton unsupervised. Lydia shouldn't even be out. Because she is clearly not able to behave like she is supposed to.

Lydia never had a chance.

Also let's talk about the fact that the novel has a scene where Elizabeth and Jane have a conversation in which they basically condemn society for making it so Lydia's only "escape" is marriage to the guy.

Yes! Elizabeth is ashamed of Lydia's behaviour but she also pities Lydia and regrets that this is the only solution:

“And they must marry! Yet he is such a man.” (emphasis author's)

Their sister’s wedding-day arrived; and Jane and Elizabeth felt for her probably more than she felt for herself

Especially when she sees them and Elizabeth recognizes that while Lydia is blindly in love, Wickham is most certainly not.

Wickham’s affection for Lydia was just what Elizabeth had expected to find it; not equal to Lydia’s for him. She had scarcely needed her present observation to be satisfied, from the reason of things, that their elopement had been brought on by the strength of her love rather than by his; and she would have wondered why, without violently caring for her, he chose to elope with her at all, had she not felt certain that his flight was rendered necessary by distress of circumstances; and if that were the case, he was not the young man to resist an opportunity of having a companion.

Elizabeth has a great deal of pity for her sister. It's implied that she supports Lydia for the rest of her life. Elizabeth loves her and is very sorry that this was the only way.

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it’s literally impossible to have a normal discussion about media consumption on this website because every time you say ‘this website moralizes media consumption to a bizarre degree and treats what shows people watch like the be all end all of activism’ then people who think there’s nothing wrong with writing incest fanfiction start agreeing with you and every time you say ‘media consumption is not a morally neutral activity and fiction does impact reality, and there is certain media that you can’t ethically consume’ then people who call stephen universe ‘irredeemable media’ start agreeing with you

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it’s literally impossible to have a normal discussion about media consumption on this website because every time you say ‘this website moralizes media consumption to a bizarre degree and treats what shows people watch like the be all end all of activism’ then people who think there’s nothing wrong with writing incest fanfiction start agreeing with you and every time you say ‘media consumption is not a morally neutral activity and fiction does impact reality, and there is certain media that you can’t ethically consume’ then people who call stephen universe ‘irredeemable media’ start agreeing with you

Anonymous asked:

You keep saying 'what if' and the answer of course is that it'd be cool and good if it came to be. Just getting enough economic support to live a reasonably comfortable life is good enough for me. It'd be so nice. Basically, your world view has nothing at all to offer except a pinky promise of a better future.

I've been trying to upset you for fun and that's pretty much it. I've pretty much done everything I can; there's only so much you can do without getting to know someone enough to know what would actually hurt them (I don't have the time or patience.)

Ty for humoring me though, I'll give you some information that may be relevant to you. So, idk your position on Bees or if honey is vegan, but if you aren't just a mammal supremacist do care about insects like bees, you probably shouldn't consume almonds or any almond products. Almond trees do not self-pollinate and rely on pollinators like bees, and they only bloom for a bit more than a week. The majority (80%) of the worlds' almonds are produced in huge monoculture orchards in California. Since the bloom is short and the orchards are monoculture, it's impossible to keep bees year round there, and therefore these orchards have contracts with other farmers throughout the country to truck in bees for the bloom and then send them back. The entire bee colony is shoved in truck and transported for potentially days twice in a short period of time. There is naturally a high rate of mortality for the bees. Here's an article about it https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/07/honeybees-deaths-almonds-hives-aoe

Re activism -

Activism without empathy and understanding is pointless. How many times have governments vowed to address exploitation - women's exploitation, anti-Black exploitation, disability exploitation, animal exploitation - only for government action to miss the mark and completely fail?

I don't mind if you see my blog as pointless, I'm honestly inclined to agree with you. But I like coming here to understand what an issue is, what people want to do about it, and how to make compelling cases for activism - you know, do things that can and do have real life implications.

(I personally provide pro bono legal advice to women who need it ((I'd like to open up my own legal centre one day))

Re veganism -

I think you misunderstand veganism as a diet; it isn't, it's the philosophical belief that non-human animal lives have the same inherent value as human lives (which naturally leads to a reduction - not necessarily an elimination - of animal product). That being said, I don't really like almonds, so it's not an issue for me (but I'm happy to learn about it, so thanks for the ref, I will spread the word and do my best to ruin every single almond-inclusive food!).