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i think so much about that quote “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort” by Gillian Flynn because thats basically female socialization in a nutshell. We’re taught to hate ourselves and our bodies so self destruction looks pleasant and romantic.

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"You do not get to change what I am, just because you want to change who you are!"

SHE IS NOT HAVING IT!! (and I love her for it)

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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.

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Males are filthy animals.

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DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES ft. TVTROPES: Holga Kilgore

#dnd movie #dnd hat #holga kilgore #michelle rodriguez #phenomenal #honor among thieves

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The switch from the Paris Hilton era of beauty standards to the kardashian era of beauty standards gave me whiplash. It’s so fucked up that the expectations for women’s bodies change like clothing trends, but men have literally always had the same beauty standards basically. When I was 13, women were supposed to be stick thin and have no hips, and two years later we were supposed to be “slim thick” and it literally changes like every ten years. It’s an impossible game - if you were super hot in 2006, then it was physiologically impossibly for you to be super hot in 2016 because it required different fucking bone structure. All men are ever required to do to meet current beauty standards is be kinda tall (but wasn’t Tom cruise the “sexiest man alive” at one point?) and be in shape. Always. That’s it. A man who was considered hot a thousand years ago would still be hot! But women are supposed to radically change ourselves every decade, if we want to be beautiful. Fuck that.

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the only reason why ten year old girls are destroying stupidly overpriced products at sephora to make “skincare smoothies” is because they aren’t being given access to a yard with a variety of mud, sticks, rocks, puddles, and old ceramic planters to make potions in. the children yearn for the apothecary

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the first avenger: dr. erskine said that the serum wouldn’t just affect my muscles, it would affect my cells. create a protective system of regeneration and healing.

age of ultron: thor establishes that steve is not mortal.

endgame: we’re just gonna ignore all of that, and make steve old af to shock the audience, even though it doesn’t make sense that steve would age at all, let alone at the same rate as a non-enhanced human, because what happened in previous movies is meaningless.

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break unhealthy patterns even if they feel good in the moment

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You can rehabilitate a thief, anyone could be driven to thievery. You can rehabilitate a murderer, anyone could be driven to murder. You can't rehabilitate a rapist, because there is no excuse and no sort of justification for a rapist. No one is driven to commit sexual assault.

A rapist is no different than someone who kills and tortures small animals. Not all evil can be justified and forgiven.

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Hmmm...Apocalypse.

Augury side of tumblr what do these omens mean

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To think that some people don’t see a problem with society is disturbing

#kill all men #improve the world

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Plastic plants are plants. Period. And they need sunlight, dirt and water to be validated. Stop reducing plants to their parts not everyone is constantly spreading their seeds or being cross pollinating bee sluts.

Dont be a perf (plastic exclusionary radical farmer)

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i cannot explain how the phrase "los abusadores son hijos sanos del patriarcado" (abusers/rapists are the healthy sons of the patriarchy) changed my life. when you're faced with statistics, when you realize women are at higher risk around men they know and trust, it really changes everything.

and when you realize rapists aren't just some creepy-looking guys walking at night, that phrase helps you understand a rapist can be a man close to you, a man you know, a man you trust, a man you think would never do that, any seemingly well-adjusted man.

and given how hard latinamerican feminists are fighting to bring justice for women murdered by intimate partners like boyfriends and husbands and fight for abortion rights for little girls abused by male family members, we can't dismiss rape as a crime only committed by terrible men who can't adapt to society or say "real men don't do that".

it could be any man. that's the point.