Emil Robinson
I am so proud to say that my college is so LGBT friendly, that in a survey Res Life put out they forgot to include straight people.
This is a fucking power move
Ken was more than an antagonist/villain but a representation/metaphor for all the sweet boys in our lives who eventually grew up to be misogynistic men. Who take more than they’ll ever give. They are the boys who felt under-appreciated and unloved and found validation from Andrew Tate podcasts.
A lot of women if not all can relate to that on some level. Son. Brother. Friend. Cousin. Nephew. Uncle. It happens so much more than we want to think about. It’s so prevalent and sad that despite everything Ken did, Barbie apologized to him and received no apology in return.
Barbie Land was far kinder than Kendom. The Barbies were dismissive about the Kens, yes, but they were always treated kindly and with some decorum. Kendom literally made the Barbies their servants designed to cater to their every whim. Just look at that. And even then, Barbie apologized. President Barbie gave them a (admittedly low) position in the courts as a token of good will. A fairly realistic take right there but so sad considering the harm they’d done.
He stole her dreamhouse. He stole Barbie’s dreamhouse. And she apologized for hurting him.
Ken's greatest suffering came from being a beta orbiter in the friendzone. From not being taken seriously by the person whose attention he believed he needed to validate his own existence. He was never exploited or degraded or dehumanized. He was never subjected to malice or sadism or violence. He was not raped. He was not objectified. The Barbies always treated him with respect (kindness, goodwill), but not with Respect (gravitas, adulation, obsequiousness).
This is truly the worst fate many men can imagine. This is what they mean when they absurdly complain that women have all the power in society, that feminism has gone too far. Men are lonely, men feel unwanted, men feel disposable, men feel unneeded, men feel unimportant, men feel disRespected.
Meanwhile, Barbie is sexually assaulted within five minutes of entering the Real World. She unapologetically hits back because she has not yet been taught that women who hit back are punished. And then she is the one who gets arrested, not the man who assaulted her. In her mugshot, her face shows a mixture of bewilderment and violation. Ken, on the other hand, is beaming. He is oblivious, blissfully unaware of sexual violence.
Because while the Kens never perpetrate such acts, they have also never been victimized in this way. The "plight" of Kens in Barbieland, the one lamented and dreaded by the incels and the Andrew Tate fans, is in no way analogous to the realities of what women experience under patriarchy. It's not even close.
Even without any knowledge of sexual violence, Ken should be attuned the obvious discomfort of the woman he proclaims to be in love with. To the fact that someone has just harmed her. That she is being stared at with an undertone of violence. But he isn't. Because even in his state of innocence, even when he is supposedly HER accessory, he still sees her as a thing first and a person second. Ken's wooing of Barbie is about his desire to obtain and possess her to validate himself and give himself purpose. It is not about her as a person at all. So, while she is upset and confused after being assaulted, he is grinning his face off because he has found an alternative source of validation in patriarchy and is thereby freed of whatever self-serving incentive he once felt to have any concern for her well-being at all.
I like how teens are too young to figure out their sexuality unless its heterosexual
Idk how people find this old post like once a week but I will say as a closeted 15 year old nothing can describe how much confidence it gave me that everyone agreed with me. That it’s all bullshit. I was so angry and frustrated at the world not taking me seriously, and the thousands and thousands of people reblogging showed me that I wasn’t alone. I wasn’t crazy and heteronormativity is all bullshit. Being queer is as natural as breathing air.
It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc
I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks
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Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.
I am a photographer. It is my job to go into schools and take candid photos for the yearbook.
The number of kids that are on a 'do not photograph' list isn't large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.
If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there's a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.
At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.
At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.
This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.
Even outside of this- I've seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.
Leave people alone. The world is complicated. Make your own content.
We need to be going door to door telling men about bisexuality. We need to start standing outside grocery stores
People are like “it’s so beautiful no clouds at all” it could use a little clouds if I had to be honest.
waters so amazing because you can drink it really sloppy style and like spill it all over yourself and it doesnt even leave a stain. you dont even have to wash it out/ . because its already washed
Julia Butterfly Hill lived in a 180-foot (55 m)-tall, roughly 1500-year-old California Redwood tree for 738 days between December 10, 1997 and December 18, 1999. Hill lived in the tree, affectionately known as “Luna,” to prevent Pacific Lumber Company loggers from cutting it down.
Volti, Antoniucci (Albano 1915–1989 Paris) - Femme assise. Terracotta / 37x27x32 cm.
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William Orpen NUDE GIRL READING
Dimensions: 36.61 X 29.92 in (93 X 76 cm) Medium: oil on canvas
Finally, art that represents when you are doing something and feel the urge to hold one (1) boob and also are procrastinating getting dressed
eye-opening tumblr post for me included the words "people are meant to be burdens" as in humans rely on and support one another and it's not a bother it's our purpose; to love and be loved in return. so if you ever think you're being annoying just remember we were made to love and it's going to be okay
Imagine a world where homosexuality was still in the DSM but society had moved gradually toward some moderate acceptance of queer people, but only with the understanding that we are sick and that leading out our queer lives is medically necessary for us. in this paradigm, a person would have to get diagnosed with homosexuality by a psychiatrist in order to be permitted to have gay sex
this is basically the reality that trans people are living in right now. and that's for those of us that are lucky enough to live in a place where we *are* allowed to lead out trans lives once we get gender dysphoria written down in our medical charts
the 0 notes wont stop me from posting every single thought that crosses my mind btw. dont u guys worry about that