Couldn't Be Gayer If I Tried

“The Barbie movie is like basic gender studies 101. It’s like the bare minimum for feminism”

YEAH SOME PEOPLE HAVENT TAKEN GENDER STUDIES 101 AND WOULDNT YOU AGREE WE ARE CURRENTLY AT LESS THAN THE BARE MINIMUM FOR FEMINISM?

things do not need to be perfect to be good. You cannot teach someone intersectionality if that person has not heard of bare minimum feminism. You might be on step 100 but just because you started earlier does not mean that everyone can jump to your level. They have to climb the stairs too. And the people at the top yelling down to the people at the bottom that being at the bottom is bad, they need to be at the top, IT DOES NOT ENCOURAGE THEM TO CLIMB UP.

Also, despite the film obviously being marketed more to adults, it's still a film about a kid's toy. Certainly when I went to see it in the cinema, about a third of the audience seemed to be families with kids under the age of ten.

Like, I've seen posts derogatorily describing it as 'baby's first feminism', but like, for the five year old girl sitting at the other end of the aisle from me, it probably was???

And obviously who knows how much of the message she actually understood, but I still think it's nice that kids are being exposed to these ideas in some way. Given that sexism 101 is being pushed on kids basically from birth, it's ridiculous that feminism 101 has to wait till they're in college.

[ID: A tweet from @/pastoralcomical that reads: 'it's crazy that they only figured out tectonic plates in the 60s. a child in the 50s would say "it seems like south america and africa would fit together" and his mom would go "that's cute honey would you like a cigarette"' /End ID]

My Dad actually experienced the transition in a really funny way!

He grew up in a little farming community right outside a mid-sized city. They had a three-room elementary school (first and second grade, third and fourth grade, fifth and sixth grade), but then after that they went to middle and high school in the big schools in the city. Except, they had a special experimental program for kids in 5th and 6th grade they had identified as advanced in every school in and around the city, where they bussed them all in to a central place for advanced teaching half a day once a week. And Dad was in this program in like 1965.

Except, there wasn’t really a set curriculum or anything, because it was experimental. They just had a couple of their best teachers do whatever they wanted with the kids. It was nothing like the later “gifted” programs,” it was a lot less pressure and a lot more interesting things. One of the things they learned was plate tectonics, which was not just cutting edge, it was bleeding edge science at the time. So my Dad learns all about plate tectonics and goes home just happy as a clam.

Not much later, he’s getting a geology/geography lesson in his regular 5th grade class, and it’s out of the standard textbook with the standard explanations from the pre-plate tectonics theories.

So my Dad pipes up that actually that’s all wrong, because he learned it in his special class!

And the teacher says, “All right then, if you think you know better, you teach the class.”

My Dad is autistic, though undiagnosed. (In the 60s, extremely few people were getting diagnosed.) He did not notice the social undercurrents.

He said, “sure!” and popped up and took the eraser and erased her diagrams from the chalkboard, took the pointer out of her hand, and taught the class what he’d learned in his special program. While the class was sitting there in shock and fear because they could see how the teacher was seething with rage. But he didn’t notice, he just taught the class and then sat back down.

The teacher sent home a nasty note and had a talk with his parents. But my grandparents were not sympathetic, because after all, it was her own fault. If she didn’t like what my Dad did, she shouldn’t have made the offer for him to teach.

You wanna know what's crazy? Now knowing that Laura and Marisha didn't plan to be romantic this campaign at all, it is INSANE that everything went so perfectly, thematically, exactly the way it did.

The series of events from the rock breaking, Dusk showing up RIGHT as it was happening, to them making up just so Otohan could show up and kill Laudna not a DAY later literally because she wanted to get on Imogen's nerves ("Is she your favorite?"). And then Imogen obliterating Delilah with her own fucking hands for Laudna. Getting the circlet. Laudna holding Imogen on the ship they were about to crash having that Tether Talk^tm just before they were separated ONCE AGAIN.

Just the entire escalation that led to them meeting in Jrusar that day and Imogen blurting out "Can I kiss you?" in the mfing BREAD ISLE because she couldn't hold back her feelings is BONKERS.

Even down to Imogen saying she "thought dates were supposed to have sparks" after their date with pretty and telling Laudna she "has the biggest spark she's ever seen" a long ass time later in Bassuras.

The evolution of their feelings for each other, the tension that was building on that table every time they talked to each other. The fact that it all happened serendipitously with absolutely no previous plan and it went just the way it did? Immaculate. Showstopping. Absolutely astounding. If Marisha, Matt and Laura had sat down and planned this whole thing from the beginning it still couldn't have gone more perfectly.

When I'm liking your vent post just know that I'm kneeling with my sword to offer you support.

shoutout to the lord of the rings lighting directors. bold move to let the audience see what's going on in nighttime scenes. i miss that.

I feel like everyone should see this seal we saw in ireland

I drew them. creature.

AHH

YES

by the way now that people are witnessing my child, here’s some more.

context: the seals normally wait by the pier for fishermen to discard scraps, and while the pier was empty there were still a few fish scraps around and because they were looking at us Like That my dad decided to kick a fish scrap down for them

apparently they didn’t want it so we ended up with a video of what looks like us bullying the saddest seal in existence. tumblr wont let me add a video so I converted it to a storyboard

it must be said the ancient greeks got a little funny with it

Parry this, you filthy Macedonian.

not only do i put a little line through my 7s but i put one through my Zs too. i’m sick and twisted. you’re never getting out of this network of caves alive.

reblogging for the sheer Halloween ambiance of these pics

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The black cats are witches that summoned their pumpkin friend for a cuddle party

Hey Latin Americans do y'all know about French tacos?

They're basically a burrito that's been pressed down and cooked in a panini press. They usually have French fries and goat cheese in them.

Apparently they have their genesis with north-african immigrant populations, who have similar dishes with other sorts of flatbread.

They're not bad, but they're certainly not tacos lol.

To the credit of the French people, damn near every latino I've shown these things to has responded along the lines of "That's not a taco...but it's not a bad idea..."

Love that his reaction to being pranked was to pull the exact same prank on his buddy

the experience of animal in your house never gets old. fuck yes dude there's an animal in here. did you guys know about the animal

I find it interesting that the mouth salivates both when we’re hungry and when we’re nauseous. It doesn’t matter if stuff is coming in or out, our throat is like okay boys time to lube up the tunnel

Babe could you have phrased this in literally any other way

Alisa Shea, ‘A Feminine Touch’, 2021 Watercolour on paper, 35 x 50cm

What the fuck do you mean watercolour on paper

My friend sent me this no context

I want what they have

This is the true spirit of Halloween

LOVE the phrase if push comes to shove. if things get fucking violent

If slash comes to stab

IF SLASH COMES TO STAB!!!