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"bare face isnt giving what you think its giving"

it is or you wouldnt be pressed enough to come talk shit online to ur friends instead of saying it to the womans face

#feminism

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New pride pin arrived just in time for the fundraiser I’m volunteering at on Thursday.

#me

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When I’m wondering what exam superstitions to attribute my success to this semester, ignoring that the studying is what actually earns me a good grade

#lawblr #law school #academia #yes I WILL be watching Saltburn after my first final #yes I WILL be wearing my Designated Exam Outfit

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#the HDM fandom has remained largely normal #the Dune fandom was never normal to start with

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thinking about how dracula has never been accurately adapted into a film and thinking about how dev patel would play the hell out of jonathan harker

#movies #need need need neeeeeddd

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Via IG

When he imagines being a glove on Juliet's hand, to touch her face... 🫠

#Shakespeare

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"more saltburn text posts" we all chant in unison

#Saltburn #movies

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Recently I’ve been thinking about different components of sexual orientation, and how it is effectively formed of both internal identity and external behaviour. It’s interesting that, without a detailed conversation with other individuals, we can only assume their orientation and identity on the basis of their external behaviour, which is all that is visible to us.

For example, if someone is in a long term, committed, monogamous relationship with a member of the opposite sex, they are assumed to be straight, and their behaviour is interpreted as representative of heterosexuality. But they might be bisexual. If someone is in a long term, committed, monogamous relationship with a member of the same sex, they are assumed to be gay/lesbian, and their behaviour is interpreted as representative of homosexuality. But they might be bisexual.

In this context, what external behaviour could someone exhibit that would lead to the assumption they were bisexual, and therefore that their behaviour is representative of bisexuality? They’d have to be engaging with the same sex and the opposite sex more or less simultaneously in order not to be assumed to be straight or gay/lesbian. How might that work?

They could be having regular sex with multiple people of both sexes (bisexuals are promiscuous, bisexuals are easy, bisexuals are sluts). They could be having multiple concurrent and short term relationships with people of both sexes (bisexuals can’t commit, bisexuals will leave you for a member of the other sex). They could be having sex with people of both sexes at the same time (bisexuals are kinky, bisexuals have group sex, bisexuals want to have threesomes all the time). They could have a committed relationship with a member of one sex, and affairs with members of the other sex (bisexuals CHEAT). They could be non-monogamous and having various relationships with members of both sexes (bisexuals can’t be satisfied with just one person).

So. In order for other people to recognise you as a bisexual person, you have to be engaging in some form of stigmatised and nonconforming sexual activity, all of which just happen to be typical stereotypes about bisexuality. The only way to be perceived as a bisexual person is to conform with bisexual stereotypes. A bisexual person who doesn’t conform to a single bisexual stereotype cannot be perceived as a bisexual person, and therefore cannot disprove or undermine those stereotypes in the mind of the person perceiving them. Because if they don’t conform to a single bisexual stereotype, they are perceived as heterosexual/homosexual, and their nice, conforming, virtuous behaviour is ascribed to that perceived monosexual identity. Even if they had previously exhibited bisexual behaviour (bisexuality is just a phase, they’ll eventually pick a side).

Alternatively, they could verbally assert their identity regularly enough to offset the assumptions others make on the basis of their behaviour (bisexuals are self-obsessed).

There is no way of being consistently perceived as a bisexual person, in the current landscape, without reinforcing bisexual stereotypes in the minds of those perceiving you, because if you don’t align with and reinforce those stereotypes you are unperceivable as a bisexual person.

#bisexuality

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#Dune #movies

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Because I had the audacity…

I emailed my former civil procedure professor when the majority of GRA/GTA positions were posted on my school’s hiring board, saying basically that “hey bruh I noticed you didn’t have a GRA post up, lmk if that changes.”

He emailed me last night offering me a GTA position, and I don’t think I’d be getting this position if I hadn’t put the idea in his head in the first place. I’m really looking forward to the opportunity, both because it’s the doctrinal class most relevant to my field and because this is the kind of professor to assign things like “hey a new Trump-related filing just dropped, can you do a first-look analysis for me.”

So this is your sign to send a similar email when you’re in a similar position, before some mediocre white man beats you to it.

#lawblr #law school #still not sure I know what a civil procedure is

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i am but a humble academic, worshipping at the altar of jstor

#academia

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that was incredibly helpful, thank you!!

so since bimbo culture is inherently a male gaze-centric aesthetic and way of life and therefore incredibly difficult to reclaim (i don’t want to say impossible), what exactly can women and female appearing people reclaim?

reclaiming something is to take it back. wearing your shackles like jewelry is not nearly as offensive to the people who put those shackles on you in the first place as you’d like it to be, and that’s one of the first things to understand. there is nothing that benefits patriarchy more than women doing men’s dirty work for them and enforcing the standards on ourselves.

what’s actually been taken from us? our minds, our bodies, our work, and our connections to each other.

reclaim your mind: be confident assertive and proud the way you were before you were taught you shouldn’t be and own your successes and failures both, stand tall and apologize less and don’t downplay your intelligence, become financially independent and pursue whatever interests you no matter what others tell you.

reclaim your body: understand your body learn about it read about it, pay attention when your body is telling you something is wrong because there is medical neglect towards women and we downplay our pain until we die and we don’t deserve that, get strong and see what your body can do, eat as much as your body needs, listen to what your body actually wants instead of what you were told you were supposed to do with it.

reclaim your work: claim your labor and your skill for yourself, women’s work has been exploited by men for eternity so stop being passive in the exploitation of childbearing/rearing and housework and emotional labor and cooking and gardening and all the “women’s work” that men have decided we should only do for them, and set your boundaries and hold them firm and work for yourself.

reclaim your connections with other women: men have worked so hard to pit women against each other and every woman has to unlearn this before we can get any closer to being free, so seek out female spaces and read up on female centric history and demand female doctors and roommates and colleagues, listen to the women around you and talk to the women around you because what will give you power is the woman you are and the women you surround yourself with and that’s it

#feminism

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Me rn. Pleaseeeee let me be safeeeee

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Oh damn the Catholics have joined in on the war against AI "art".

#art

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YES I’ve been chased and hissed at by a Canada goose but it doesn’t make me hate them guess I’m just built different