My ongoing goal in life is to become more free in every way, and a lot of my shackles disappeared the moment I realized, "Oh, wait...I never actually HAD to participate in this in the first place!"
For example, after quitting makeup, I realized that actually there's very little that I need to carry around with me. I don't need a purse anymore to carry a makeup bag, and once I started buying cargo pants with lots of sizeable pockets, I was able to just put my wallet, chapstick and phone in my pockets and go. I even created a cool custom chain to attach to my wallet. I dont care a fig if that's a "guy" thing; its practical. (It seems as if fashion that is simple, practical and comfortable is allotted to men, and the fussy burdensome nonsense is allotted to women.) If you've worn a purse since you were 13 like I have, you can understand how freeing it feels to leave the house without it. I know that seems like a small thing, but not having a constant heavy thing hanging on your shoulder (which has to be guarded from theft at all times) is glorious.
And no makeup has meant no fretting about touch-ups. For the first time, I can splash water on my face on a hot summer day in town. More freedom.
I know that the belief that I needed to do these things as a woman came from societal influences, but suddenly it feels like I've been living an existence based on totally imaginary "rules" for SO long, and every time I discover another one that I can disregard, I feel like celebrating. Question everything you take for granted!
I truly do apply the idea of "prioritizing women" in my daily life. I will stop to help women with things but not men. I do data entry for work and if I receive something to enter from a woman that has a typo or punctuation error I fix it for her, but if it's a man's work I just copy it exactly as is and send it through. I extend the benefit of the doubt to women but never to men. Even on the road if I can see a woman driver who needs to merge I let her in, but if I know it's a man, he's gotta wait till I pass. I treat women how men treat each other and give the same amount of grace to men as they spare for women (nearly none). It's the little things.
bigotry would be "I don't like you so you are inferior to me" where as criticism is "I don't like your rules on life and I'm going to say it"
i hate how frowned upon it is to criticize religion when it harms women. it’s genuinely so fucking annoying. “you’re being a bigot” how? how is it bigoted to say it makes no sense that a muslim man can marry outside the religion but women can’t? how is it bigoted to say that women are not extensions of men and it’s ridiculous to portray them as such? how is it bigoted to literally just be honest about how ridiculous these religions are? my goodness, get your head out your ass
heyyyy i love this page I've read so many of the recs you posted thank you so much
are there any social media fics they can be canon complaint or an au.
Hi! I’m so glad the blog helped you find fics to read ❤️
Hope you enjoy these recs!
5 Times Alex Went Viral (+1 Time Henry Did) by @clottedcreamfudge 8 Of The Best Twitter Threads Featuring FSOTUS And Prince Henry by peppermintpatties 17 Firstprince Moments That Remind Us How Single We Are by peppermintpatties 25 Questions by @clottedcreamfudge Am I the asshole? by @everwitch-magiks and history remembered. by @sherryvalli (WIP) Everyone Knows Who You Are by @smc-27 rwrb media fics by th0ughts (series) Special Edition by @clottedcreamfudge the conclusion literally any normal human being would come to. by @chaa-kiao they'll talk about us by @tarmairons watch before it ends by @indomitable-love whenever you're ready by @tedddylupin With so much of my heart (that none is left to protest) by @kiwiana-writes (WIP)
Bonus Recs: (probably not exactly the social media you were thinking of but thought we’d throw these in anyway 😂) Going Platinum by @cricketnationrise Hashtag Soulmates by @everwitch-magiks
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the most seen i’ve ever felt by a character is claire from fleabag. she’s sharp, controlled, untouchable. but underneath she’s holding on by a thread and that’s where i see myself the most. the constant push for perfection, for things to make sense, while quietly feeling like nothing ever will. it’s the ache of wanting more but never being sure if you’ll ever get it. she’s tough, she’s cold, she’s misunderstood. and she’s exactly what it feels like to keep everything together when you’re coming apart at the seams. there’s a pain in her perfection, a truth in her restraint that i understand on a level i don’t even know how to fully explain. she’s every part of me that i’m still trying to make sense of.
just right before this moment crowley offers him a ride in 3 different ways THREE different times
do you reckon he just meant the speed of the car or something something how crowley wants to take this bond to another level and aziraphale struggles with facing what that means🤏and yes I'm mentally ill to answer your question
I bring a “I hate gender because it cause serious harm to women and homosexuals” to the table that the tumblr they/thems really dislike.
I need people to understand that I want more scary Stiles Stilinski. I'm feral for this little sopping wet cat of a man whom everyone underestimates until he goes from 0 to 100. One second he's being a little damsel in distress but then one of his friends gets hurt and suddenly he stands in a field of gore cackling at the sky because the bloodlust has driven him nearly insane. Bonus points if Derek is there and matches his freak.
maybe the next time you're going to "join" a group of people who commit %92 of all crimes you will consider the consequences of being treated like it
sorry since realizing my gender i have zero tolerance for the whole “man hating” angle of being queer i hate i hate it i hate you. stop. you are hurting people.
This is makeup and facetune.
Disclaimer: I am in no way trying to put down the women in the second photo set. They look great, they’re doing as they please, but I wanted to use their public photos in order to make a point.
Often times I hear the argument, “but makeup is an art form! How can women be harmed by the makeup industry if it’s a CHOICE and an art form?”
There is a gigantic difference between the two photo sets. The first are women who have applied makeup, face paint and other materials in order to create something on their faces that does not enhance their appearance or follow beauty standards. They are literally creating a painting/piece of art on their faces. The second photo set shows women who are using makeup in order to enhance their looks and quite honestly change the appearance of their natural facial features.
The makeup looks that are shown are what the beauty industry distributes their products for. These looks are what is deemed “beautiful” and “acceptable” in our society. It is what 10 year old girls are trying to achieve in order to feel pretty and gain attention and acceptance.
It isn’t an art form to put on eyeliner, eyebrows, matte lipstick, contour your entire face to the point in which you are unrecognizable from your bare face. It may be aesthetically pleasing, but it isn’t art. Women and girls are pushed to wear foundation, eye makeup, and whatever else every day. No one is pushed to look like a Rorschach test (see third photo in first photo set, lol). No one is pressured to wear makeup in the form in which we see at the top, but girls are pressured beyond belief to make their noses look smaller. Their eyes look bigger. Their eyebrows more shaped. Their eyelashes longer. Their cheeks higher. Their neck slimmer. Their eyes lighter. Their lips bigger… more seductive. And it goes on.
Know the difference between conventional makeup and artistic makeup. They are not the same, they are not to be conflated. We are not smashing the patriarchy with our winged eyeliner. We are not going against what men want by over lining our lips. Choice or not, we aren’t doing it for anything other than because we feel we have to.
Contour isn’t art.
the relatively small-fry feminist issue that upsets me the most is that girls hardly use parks, and in every survey and study, they cite boys as the reason. skate parks, basketball courts, soccer fields, they’re overwhelmingly male dominated starting at a very young age. girls get less physical activity, get out of the house less, and participate in less play, because as soon as those spaces have boys in them, girls are either pushed out, or stop using them before they can be.
and it’s a minority of landscape architects who factor this in when designing new parks. are they well lit? are the bathrooms clean and in a busy space? do they have walking trails, roller skating loops, bike paths, rather than only organized courts? are those paths wide enough to accommodate groups? are there multiple courts/play areas, sectioned off from each other? are there lit, covered seating areas, especially picnic tables or other group seating?
in an ideal world, girls would feel just as welcome jumping into a pick-up game as boys, would be able to claim a soccer field with their friends and not worry it would be overtaken or they would be jeered at, would feel free to take up hobbies like skateboarding and go to the park on their own. but they don’t. we’re not in that world. claiming a mixed sex space is an equal one is a lie, for now. we have to meet girls where they are.
la tristesse durera toujours. being a fujoshi is payback for all of the sexualization our sisterhood faces daily
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