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Arctic fox in Swedish lapland

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I feel like, we as a society, don't talk enough about people messing up needle felting.

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georgian key brooches with rubies, emeralds, garnets, amethyst, and diamonds. the gems spell out “regard”

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When we see a terf we block and don’t engage. In theory that’s great - leaves them without an audience, saves us from accidentally helping them recruit.

In practice things are less than optimal. You see some feminism 101 take like “bitch is a slur” and your hackles go up. Go on OP’s blog and there’s a bunch of posts about women’s rights. That could be a red flag - I don’t have all day to vet this person. Better not reblog, just to be safe.

What is the effect on the tumblr ecosystem? Feminist posts with any teeth at all can never go viral in this atmosphere! Any discussion of surrogacy more nuanced than “it is an individual choice” will get no engagement; only the most milquetoast sentiments can prevail.

I don’t have a solution. I just want to point out that the atmosphere of (justified) paranoia has set feminism on this website back 20 years.

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there's cultural christianity with tropes and traditions and unspoken expectations but then there's actual christianity where women are explicitly told their whole lives by the people who claim to love them the most that

women were created to be man's helper

the only way for a woman to be spiritually fulfilled is to get married and obey her husband as head of house

women are not suited to be teachers or leaders

women should not have any authority over men

men are a representation of god and women are a representation of sinful humans who must repent and submit themselves to god

and i dont think the psychological impact of the latter is really understood by those who only experienced the former

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Something I don’t think we talk about enough when discussing radical feminist issues is the specific types of abuse that Asian women and girls experience.

I live in an area that is around 40-50% Asian and all of my close friends are Asian and the amount of sexualisation that Asian teenage girls experience is so fucked up. Practically all of the girls at my school who are dating males (oftentimes MEN) who are considerably older than them are Asian. An alarming amount of East Asian girls in my year, including some of my friends, will heavily edit their instagram pictures in order to make their skin look extremely pale, their eyes look very big and overall trying to make themselves look childlike. A lot of Asian girls I’ve spoken to have a story about being sexually harassed where their race was specifically a factor (e.g. a man harassing them saying he wants a Japanese girlfriend). My friends have expressed concerns around being fetishised in relationships and a lot of them are only interested in dating other Asian guys for that reason. My south Asian friends have talked about being treated different than everyone else when they went through puberty because of their body hair, which has caused them to be very ashamed by it and embarrassed if someone points it out.

Let’s PLEASE talk about this more, no one should have to go through this shit.

#point: even other asian men fetishize each other and even amongst east asians #weeb fantasies kpoppie fantasies etc #what r u gonna do when even ur own race infantalizes u and thinks u outta be demure

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“Chipmunk tasting almonds for the first time”

(via)

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poly people make having multiple partners sound so unsexy. like how sexy to have multiple partners you can just imagine and then a poly person will be like "pls read this essay on collective non-monogamy negotiation practices for effective bargaining deescalation when computing non-sexual time allotted management polices between your primary amorous provider and your outsourced emotional stabilizing partner" like nvm nvm nvm that sound hellacious when does someone eat me out is it never sounds like never

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This flight is not gonna be a happy one..

#ngl its entertaining

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tiramisu am i right

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“Women are also rejected. Women also spend their teen years pining after dreamy boys who will never love them back. You don’t see us going around murdering people over it. You don’t see us setting up internet communities for the purpose of talking about how evil and shallow men are for not taking us to pound town. Women don’t go around killing men who don’t like them, because if you’re a woman in this society, a boy not liking you is the least of your problems. It is nowhere near the shittiest thing you’re going to be expected to “just deal with” in your life — one of those things being the fact that we are expected to “just deal with” how men are sometimes going to murder a bunch of people because they felt entitled to romantic attention from women. We are expected to “deal with” that, while never bringing up the terms “male privilege” or “male entitlement” or “toxic masculinity” and why those things so often lead to mass murder, on account of how that might really hurt the feelings of the men who have been gracious enough to not go on killing sprees.”

— That Is Not What ‘Lovesick’ Is | Wonkette (via holyfiiire)

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"ohh now that its over youre all supporting amber heard but u loved to bully her when it was popular" nope propaganda bots were filling up all social media and now theyre gone so u can see the people who were there the whole time

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