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Happy Pride Everyone!!! 💜🖤💜 Welcome to my blog of Books, movies, shows, art, whatever. If it has a fandom, I probably post about it. Always happy to do art requests (sfw)
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queenofasgard-stolethetardis
aroacevaljean
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isleofapplepies

One of my least favourite dialogue tropes is when a man tells a woman, “You can’t do that” or “I wouldn’t do that if I were you” and she says, “Why? Because I’m a woman and therefore too weak to handle this/can’t take care of myself?” or something to that effect and the guy replies with, “No, because everyone who tried that ended up with a bullet in their brain” or something equally reasonable and not gender-specific that paints him as the rational not sexist guy and the woman as an irrational paranoid feminist who searches for sexism in everything. This whole scenario is built on the idea that sexism is over and women’s fears and suspicions don’t have a leg to stand on. It’s also self-congratulatory pseudofeminism bc it’s supposed to make the viewer/reader/listener feel that in this specific work of fiction women are treated respectfully and as equal with men.

huh.. never thought of it like that

But, what if the male character isn’t sexist? I meam…their fictional sure but…I’m not sure how to phrase this

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fandomsandfeminism

Its not a question of the character themselves- its how the writers are portraying them. The way this trope plays out, the whole moment revolves around the woman looking foolish for assuming that there is sexism happening. She is characterized as being irrational, jumping to conclusions, even insecure. While the dude is characterized as the calm, rational one.

It is a trope that specifically works by taking a woman standing up to sexism and saying “haha it wasnt actually sexist at all! Isnt calling out sexism foolish and silly. Thats what you get for assuming that men are sexist!”

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f1rstperson

I have the same reaction with homophobic jokes set up like this. Like the whole “you can’t marry a woman”, “why bc you think its wrong” “no we haven’t found you the right dress yet silly!” Or stuff along those lines.

It feels like someone setting up to punch you and then you duck and the person goes “haha, i wasn’t gonna punch you at all, why would you duck? You shouldnt just assume someone’s gonna deck you because they have their fists up.”

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randomslasher

…huh, wow. 

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tumblerislovetumblerislife

the fact that this was written two years ago and it’s still relevant… what does that tell you?

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runawaymarbles

I’ve been saying this for years but guys

Sandy Hook. 

Sandy Hook was the Nightmare Scenario. It was the “that’s not realistic.” If I’d been arguing with someone who was anti gun control and I said “someone could take a gun and go into a school and kill thirty kindergartners in just a couple of minutes, how would you feel then,” they would have said I was exaggerating, that’s manipulative and unrealistic. 

but that’s what happened. 

and the thing is

if thirty dead, white, upper middle-class kindergartners in Connecticut aren’t going to motivate change on gun control

then they’re never going to change for queer people in Florida, and they’re not going to change for music fans in sin city, and they’re not going to change for college students in Washington and Oregon, and they’re not going to change and they’re not going to change. 

A white man can buy 19 automatic weapons and no one is going to raise an eyebrow. And then afterwards they’ll send thoughts and prayers. 

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newttonn
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harknessed

peter parker: hey captain carol look at this cool picture of me on this pride flag!

carol: wow that’s cool man

peter parker: yeah! i took it on the anniversary of gay marriage being legalized! 

carol: 

carol: 

carol: the anniversary of WHAT BEING LEGALIZED 

peter parker: gay m—-wait where are you going????

carol, flying out the window: LOUISIANA 

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tumblerislovetumblerislife

When are we going to stop pretending girls don’t have hair on their boobs, between their boobs, around their nips, on their ass, on their upper lip, between their brows, on their cheeks, etc?

On their belly, on their toes, on their back, literally everywhere men grow hair

humans grow hair everywhere except on the palms of their hands and soles of their feet. this hair can rank from light blond and soft to dark and wiry, regardless of sex or gender of the person. shaving all of it is a mess and plucking it hurts like hell. humans are just animals with less thick fur. you wouldn’t shame a female animal for having as much fur as a male one, so stop doing that with humans.

reminder to my fellow trans girls freaking out about having hair there

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rhube

This fantasy that women are hairless except their eyebrows and long head hair is so bizarre. Yes, gents, it’s there.

Also, just FWI because this also annoys me: not all natural blondes have carpet that matches the drapes. That’s not a thing you can use as some kind of honestly test. You know, like how blond men often have darker beards? It’s like that.

Women have hair. It’s everywhere. It’s as weird and varied as men’s hair.

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thegameisonat221b
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unpretty

I tend to not be very descriptive of hot dudes but it’s not because I want the reader to be able to project their fantasies or w/e, it’s because I am really bad at describing the kind of dude I find attractive. I mean, I can try, but none of it turns out as the sort of thing that makes you go ‘hm yes that sounds like a hunk’. Like:

  • “He had a figure like stretched taffy.”
  • “His was the sort of face that you’d forget was strange, until you looked away from him for too long and had to reacclimate.”
  • “His hands attached to his wrists like an afterthought.”
  • “You could grate cheese on his collarbones.”
  • “His spine curved as he stood, as if no one had told him he didn’t have tits to stick out.”
  • “His fingers looked like he might have snuck some extra joints in there, somehow.”
  • “If you looked too closely at his shoes you would realize that, based solely on length, he was clearly part clown on his father’s side.”
  • “He was tall in the way of large dogs that forget they can’t fit in your lap anymore.”
  • “He loomed, but apologetically.”
  • “It wasn’t just that he had a nice bone structure – a phrase used almost exclusively to refer to skulls. It was that he had nice bones. If it were socially acceptable to compliment a man on his skeleton, he’d have received them daily.”
  • “Everyone said that his metabolism would one day catch up with him, even as it became increasingly clear that the day would never come. They said it, anyway, to make themselves feel better.”
  • “His nose looked like something an octopus would draw if you could describe a nose to it, and if pencils worked underwater.”
  • “Something had gone terribly wrong with his eyebrows. Were they the wrong shape? Was there too much? Too little? Scientists still don’t know for sure, but they advise against looking directly at them for your own safety.”
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unpretty

i posted this three years ago and all that’s changed is that my grammar is worse

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lassdielesbenleben
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zelldas

no other person on this planet was made for you, they were made for themselves. love is all about choices. no one is going to be perfect for you, and i think we need to stop raising everyone on the belief that someone out there, just one other person in the whole world, was “made for you” because it isn’t true. no one is made for you, besides you. other people belong to themselves. if you want to make it work with someone, it’s about hard work, understanding, compassion, communication, and choice