Women Have Another Option. They Can Aspire To Be Wise, Not Merely Nice; To Be Competent, Not Merely Helpful;

or I would love to be put down like a lame horse

this sucks so bad i need to [remembers suicide jokes only worsen my mental health] get sent to the farm where all the dogs go

idk why people are surprised the fans are eating up the gay incest plotline in the White Lotus, did you think mommy and daddy are only straight fetishes?

(incest is a form of validation run for the subordinate in the relationship and since queer people usually got it less than their counterparts...)

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!

we can mention how unfair it is an intersex individual that has a significant amount of phycological advantage over an adult human female, competed in a category that she was not fit for while still acknowledging she was raised, criticised and shaped by female socialization. I think that's a thing we can do.

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reread tsoa and can't stop thinking about the fact they knew of achilles and patroclus.Everyone knew it, they must have seen: achilles falling to his knees in the middle of the agora cause patroclus has too much blood on his tunic from a rough day at medic, patroclus becoming the first soldier ever to return from battles without even a stracth bcz his feral dog can't stop doing laps around him, the way achilles doesn't attend any council meetings without him and doesn't make a single decision without eye contact with his philtatos, patroclus small talking with the camp and Achilles "I can't function without patroclus" pelides sulking,the fact that when patroclus ask someone if they slept well the other party can't do the same because everyone heard them last night.

I might be off the mark here but I feel like so much of what other women call gender envy is just wanting to be sexually desirable without having to be a pristine passive object. It’s wanting to be active and kind of gross and rough around the edges and weird and attractive on your own terms, which is completely understandable, but bleak that those are only considered possible for men. 

once you start noticing how casually misogyny is incorporated into society theres literally NO going back. look at our insults! theres so many words to degrade womyn just existing the same as men.

bitch, slut, whore, cunt are just used to insult us for being confident/sexually active.

even passive terms like crazy cat lady and calling confident young girls 'bossy' ARE contributing to this!

the first step to unlearning internalized misogyny is learning to stop using terms like these.

"There were only the remains of what she left behind in her country.(...) The son she couldn't bring along,the son whom she wasn't sure would forgive her for it. She would have loved to explain her reasons for leaving him. Why she took his sister Sumeya with her but not him. To recall what were they doing to girls in their country, Gine. She remembered vividly the time they took her away from home, and hold her legs down.The splitting pain that forced her to faint, the known agony coming back everytime her husband laid with her and like a repeating torture with every birth she carried to term. The ugly act that were passed down from generation to generation.That offense to womanhood...

She couldn't let them do that to her daughter.Albeit she knew it was inescapable. She once heard 96% women in Gine was "cut". Although she never want to school, she knew that this meant. It meant her mother, her sisters, her neighbours, her cousins, her friends... It also meant Sumeya.(...)One friend of hers told her the way out. "You can only take one child with you. You cannot cross it with two. " So she made her pick. It was the most devastating choice she had to endure but she had made it to The Palace in a exhausting year. Sumeya was saved. "

Laetitia Colombani delivering a woman's memories about vaginal mutilation in her novel Les Victorieuses.

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.

good omens season 2 finale is the best ending they could have give.everything seeming to work out in the end,gabriel getting his memory back,the literal duke of hell and the archangel getting together,them going off to distance stars to love each other,the significance of the song Everyday, hell and heaven stoping the fight and resigning for the foreseeable future,metatron stopping angels from hurting aziraphale,crowley realising he can say his love outloud now and he's going to goddammit,aziraphale getting recognized by heaven authorities for the first time in his existence,being offered of his dream job and he's going to refuse it in the first sight cause he wants to be with crowley no matter but the gift horse is getting bigger,including crowley in heaven by his side,CROWLEY IN HEAVEN AS AN ANGEL ONCE AGAIN LIKE HE HIMSELF INTERNALLY WANTS.but it all crambles cause they terribly misunderstood each other.crowley thought aziraphale would, *wants* to choose heaven over him INSTEAD of him and he gets defensive acting like the idealism aziraphale is showing is ridiculous and unimportant. aziraphale was never fond of hell or it's ways but it's light as feather to voice them without so much regard,without ever thinking maybe it will hurt crowley(cause when he voices hell isn't enough crowley thinks HE isn't enough) when he secured the job of being the leader of "good" they are oh so horrifyingly scared to get hurt they make one another the knife they turn inside themselves.and oh also THE KISS ofc