dress history researchers: corsets and stays are not universal torture devices that render basic physical functionality impossible. most women did not tightlace to extremes in their everyday lives. fiction and pop history distort the realities of those women's lives and how they wore their corsets to play into popular misconceptions partially originated by men both fetishizing and demonizing corsets when they were more common.
some person on the internet: OMG STOP SAYING ALL WOMEN LOVED CORSETS!!! CLEARLY YOU ARE SAYING THAT CORSETS ARE THE BEST THING EVER FOR EVERY WOMAN, AND THAT THEY NEVER HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH HARMFUL BEAUTY STANDARDS THROUGHOUT ALL OF HISTORY FOREVER AMEN!!!!
All this death and misery? The thousands of gun homicides and gun suicides and mass shootings? We don’t like it, sure. But it’s a price we’re willing to pay. We love our guns so much that we think all that horror is something the rest of you should just have to put up with. Maybe there’s some amount of gun deaths that would make us say “I’m willing to accept some inconvenience and limits on my gun rights to do something about this.” Would 100,000 dead Americans a year be enough? Five hundred thousand? We don’t really know. But whatever that number might be, nearly 40,000 per year, what we currently experience, isn’t enough. One mass shooting after another after another isn��t enough.
i wish everyone and especially RM fans who were making a fuss about Sergio not signing a RM shirt a very horrible weekend (and life) ...
when he signed a whole fucking collection of RM and PSG shirts last week no one gave a shit about it but now everyone is all fake outraged and hurt and self-righteous
you all seriously need to take a good fucking look at your lives and figure out where you went wrong that talking shit about people seems to be the only thing bringing you joy
This is a vent I just need to get out because I'm going crazy over my neighbor and their kids. Pls ignore if you don't want to hear me venting over hands-off parents and kids with no manners lol
I don't want to sound like a fucking dick, but I despise my neighbor and their kids. They let their kids free roam the street *all day* and leave them unsupervised (they range in ages 4-13) and they play on other people's property without permission from the home owners. Not only that, they are *incredibly* loud (right now the oldest is singing at the top of his lungs and his voice is literally echoing it's so loud). The kids constantly get into fights and have yelling matches and the parents are just chilling in the house letting the kids fight it out. The parents have taught these kids zero manners and are so hands off with them I feel like I'm going crazy. I don't blame the kids totally (although the older ones *should* know better at their age imo), their parents are really to blame. I haven't gotten to sleep in for weeks because of the kids coming out at 7:45 every morning and playing/screaming around the street (especially on the weekends).
This is just the tip of the iceberg, they've rammed a cart into my car at full speed after running it down a steep driveway, they leave their toys strewn across the neighborhood sidewalk and in the street, they even damaged my dad's car when he backed out of his driveway at night and didn't see the kids' basketball at the end of his driveway and it got stuck under my dad's car and broke a piece under the car. They've used my car as a shield while playing air soft and hit my car with the BBs, I could keep going with stories.
If you have children, parent them for fucks sake and teach them what's appropriate behavior for when they're in public/shared spaces. Teach them that sound travels and neighbors don't want to hear them screaming or loud-singing. Teach them to pick up after themselves. And teach them to respect other people's property!!
not me asking for recommendations on non-transphobic wiccan/neopagan books on reddit per a patron's request (I'm a librarian) and having a TERF throw a fucking fit about being "triggered" because requesting inclusive info threatens her identity, and "we shouldn't be having these conversations anyway!! my religion is NOT inclusive!!"
thankfully, she got her teeth kicked in by everyone else on the thread while I was busy making a booklist for our next non-fiction order, but what the fuck
I can only say this here without getting banned: TERFS fuck off and die, actually