#shout out to women's day

[seven-oh-four]

#pokemon #snom #grubbin #charjabug #pyukumuku #pincurchin #pokemon memes #pokememes #shout out to women's day #gotta be one of my favorite genders

[lolrentz]

my international womens day outfit

i dont have a shirt on

#shout out to women #happy international women's day #i love women !

[avephelis]

shout out to the bisexuality community. PIPE BOMB !!

#it's me i'm the bisexuality community #rottmnt #donnie is basically the “Shout out to women's day fr 🤞🏾 Gotta be one of my favourite genders I fw men too if anyone was wondering” image #to me #anyway why is the purple in the actual flag so desaturated genuinely sobbing

[ourhouseishaunted]

trips and dozens of shitty sketches of trigun women fall out of my pockets

#this barely even scratches the surface im burdened at all times by the women who haunt my sketchbooks #some of these are like months old tho i just pulled out a grab bag #the chronicas are newer tho im trying to figure out how her face works #bc i have to make up for the utter devastation i felt when i first finished trimax and looked up her tag and there was Almost Nothing #shout out to the chronica content creators i wish to be among you one day #meryl stryfe #rem saverem #chronica #trigun #trimax #trigun maximum #.txt #my art #apologies for the quality of my scans. i know they r ass i am Sorryyy

[dkettchen]

niche ass crossover fanart noone asked for and my main criticism of barbie movie in a nutshell

#barbie movie #gentlemen prefer blondes #ken #ken barbie movie #marilyn monroe #jane russell #I watched gentlemen prefer blondes with my friend the other day and my brain decided this was a necessary consequence #the fashion is glorious in this movie if you like women and/or fabulousness you absolutely need to watch it #I've decided to cast blonde ken as lorelei and simu's ken as dorothy #seeing as they match the hair colours and general personality types well enough x'D #also shout out to barbie fashion for basically already being stuck in the 50s which made these redesigns hecking easy #I'm finally watching live action one piece? what better time to make FULLY UNRELATED FANART #about one movie that is just out long enough to no longer be relevant and one that is literally 70 years old

[monochromexz]

They hunt me in my dreams

#transformers #transformers bishoujo #shout out to women #transformers megatron #transformers optimus #transformers bumblebee #transformers starscream #the sillies #it’s been a while since i posted unfortunately i’m on the run from the government and seeking shelter in a foreign country #maccadam #one day i’ll get my sweaty hands on one of those figures

[coochiequeens]

These men just don't want to be around kids otherwise they would be the fun uncle, volunteer for Big Brothers and Big Sisters, be ok with dating women with kids and have a good relationship with the step kids. They just think they were entitled to biological offspring.

Amelia Hill

@byameliahillMon 28 Aug 2023 11.00 EDT

Father’s Day is dangerous for Robert Nurden. Childless not through choice but, as he puts it, “complacency, bad luck, bad judgment”, he tries to stay indoors and ignore the family celebrations outside.

But one year, he went for a walk. “I met family after family. There were children everywhere,” he remembered. “It was terrible. Just so painful. So many ambushes and triggers for my anguish.”

There is very little research into men who have not had children, although that is beginning to change. Research by Dr Robin Hadley has found that 25% of men over 42 do not have children – 5% more than women of the same age group.

Half of the men who are not fathers but wanted to be describe a huge grief and isolation from society. Almost 40% have experienced depression and a quarter feel a deep anger

Now 72, Nurden had a sheltered upbringing. Reaching adulthood, there was a lot he wanted to experience. “Having children was a very low priority. I was complacent: I just assumed it would happen,” he said.

It was not until he was in his early 40s that Nurden started to get broody. But by that point, he discovered, women of a similar age had already had children, if they were able or wanted to.

“I went into this 15-year period of not going into relationships or ending relationships quickly because I knew that person wasn’t going to want or be able to have a child with me – or that the relationship wasn’t going to be strong enough to last if we did have a child,” said Nurden.

He said high-profile older fathers breed complacency in ordinary men. “If I’m honest, even when I was in my 50s I believed that it might happen for me. But in real life, the Mick Jagger and Jon Snow-age fathers are actually very rare – and in any case, it’s medically not wise, as regards sperm quality.”

What compounded Nurden’s pain was that there was no public or private discussion about how men feel when circumstance leaves them unable to become fathers.

“There’s lots of publicity, quite rightly, about women and childlessness but men are very mute about this. Married men don’t want to hear it either: I’ve had men with children react with anger, as though they feel threatened, when I’ve tried to talk about my pain,” he said.

“I was mute too until recently, because as I aged, I found the regret grew into a great pain,” he added. “Unlike many other forms of grief, this compounds itself as it gets older: I wasn’t a father but now I’m not a grandfather. When I’m even older, I might find myself entirely alone.”

Nurden has published a book, I Always Wanted to be a Dad: Men Without Children, about his story and that of some other men. “It turns out that there is a lot of pain, regret and sadness out there,” he said.

Hadley, the researcher, is childless because although his wife had wanted children, by the time she and Hadley met, her age meant the risk of having one was too great. “I chose love but that doesn’t make the pain of not having children any less,” he said. “When a close colleague had his first child, I was so jealous that I couldn’t be in the same room as him.”

Being a father is a marker of status in many countries, said Hadley, but not in the west. “While there has recently been a lot more public discussion about how to be a good father, we still don’t have any narrative or celebration about how important it is for men to become a father in the first place,” he said.

Paul Goulden, the chair of Ageing Without Children, said that, along with the lack of public dialogue about becoming a father, he was “not convinced that there’s this Game of Thrones genetic push felt by men to have children”.

Instead, he said: “There’s this mistaken belief that men are fertile across their lifespan, so there’s no imperative to get on with it.”

That complacency persists because men without children historically have not spoken about their grief. But, Goulden said: “I hope Robert’s book will trigger a change in public dialogue around this issue. I think there’s an overwhelming sense of loneliness and fear out there about who is going to be there for these men, when they’re old and all alone.”

I wonder what their exes for these men would about them. Because the bar for Father's is so low that women showing they didn't want kids with them should really be a sign to do some soul searching.

Personal experience.......I think of my ex fiance who constantly said he wanted ro get married and have kids. However his actions said he wanted me to have the kids while he worked full time, he didn't believe in daycare so no job for me, and he would have to go to the gym almost everyday, he had a physically demanding job, and of course have his weekly card night with his buddies. And yes I stated all my objections but he had tunnel vision when it came to his fantasy family life. There's more but those were the issues relevant to this article.

#Men really being the victims #Families celebrating Father's day was ambushing him #Does he do anything for his father on Father's day or use his feels to push the emotional labour for that onto his siblings? #If childless men die alone it's because they did nothing to foster relationships with the children in their families #One on the men interviewed was economically stable in a stable marriage They could adopt #Shout out to that anon who sent this link #No one is entitled to biological children #A grown ass man was so jealous of a friend's baby he couldn't be in the same room. I hope he stays away from that family #Being a father is a marker of status in many countries said Hadley but not in the west...... #.....I posted articles explaining the fatherhood bonus versus the motherhood penalty in the workforce #What are they doing with their time and energy that they have due to not having kids? #Do they volunteer within their communities? #Attend social events? #Do they travel? #Do they try to look at the upside of not having kids? #Or just brood in resentment and anger? #I get the vibe of if these guys were younger they would be posting black knight stories on 4chan directed at women with children #A journalist just recorded their statements #A therapist would ask who iscthe anger directed at?

[corfisers]

in retrospect it's really funny for how long i refused to accept that i'm just A Guy because i was clinging to my sapphic identity (despite it not feeling entirely right even at the time). all the straight girls saying that i would've been nice boyfriend material were right actually, we just didn't know

#shout out to my hs literature teacher who i had a crush on for saying “you just don't like women” #because i criticized how remarque writes his female characters #ma'am. ma'am you had no idea. i think i died a little bit inside that day. ma'am i hope you're doing well still. kinda miss you #and shout out to all the girls who were saying they'd date me if i was a guy. surprising amount of those. curious #benvey tag

[toxicpineapple]

'Go on, cry' for harumeno or 'do you remember' for saimota?

Maki finds Himiko curled up in the corner of their closet, a raggedy stuffed rabbit plush held against her chest. She isn’t crying, but her lips are wobbling visibly, and she sniffles every so often. Clearly tears are imminent.

For a moment, Maki stares at her, and Himiko stares back, red-brown eyes glistening even in the dim lighting. Then Maki opens the door further and climbs inside, sliding it shut before she seats herself across from Himiko. The space is barely large enough for the two of them, and their knees press together when Maki sits down, but aside from shuffling a bit to make space, Himiko doesn’t seem to mind. She scrubs at her cheeks with the sides of her hands.

“Saihara’s looking for you,” Maki states.

“Weren’t you looking for me too?”

“Only because he asked me to.” Maki sighs. “You’d think a detective would be able to find you given this is the first place you go when you’re upset…”

Himiko shrugs. “Well… I’m a master of hide and seek. Plus, Saihara’s not the one who knows that. You’re the one who knows that.”

Maki will concede that point, as she’s not sure Shuichi has ever been jumpscared by Himiko’s eyes peering out at him while looking for spare towels. (Maki, on the other hand, has experienced this more than once.) Still, there’s a bit more that Maki feels she ought to say before she leaves Himiko alone.

“You know you don’t have to hide in here. Neither of us care if you feel shitty on the couch.”

Himiko’s arms curl tighter around her rabbit. “I like it more in here. It feels like everyone can see me out there.”

“Do you want me to leave?”

Himiko shakes her head, no. “You’re fine. I don’t mean everyone as in you and Saihara, I mean…”

She trails off, but Maki understands almost immediately. The outside world. The cameras, though they’re no longer being filmed. It’s hard to keep her skin from prickling when she remembers just how much of her life was televised during those months… it’s hard to say whether she’ll ever be entirely convinced her life is her own or not.

Still, that answers that. Maki nods, then settles in. She doesn’t have anything else to say, so she figures she’ll let Himiko do her thing.

Only… Himiko continues to sit there, staring at the floor of the closet with her nose twitching, blinking every so often as if to hold back tears. It must be because Maki is in here, but Himiko said she didn’t want her to leave, so…

Maki sighs, lifting a hand to lightly push Himiko’s bangs from her eyes. “Go on,” she urges, trying to keep her voice gentle. It doesn’t come naturally to her. “Cry.”

Himiko blinks, but the straightforward instruction must get to her, because it’s not long before her lower lip is wobbling again, her nose starting to run a bit as tears, fill her eyes. Maki looks away, and then back again, unsure what Himiko would have her do in this situation.

Eventually, Himiko leans forward, resting her forehead against Maki’s knees. Maki lets her hand fall on the back of Himiko’s head. That should be plenty, for now.

#harumeno #harukawa maki #yumeno himiko #shout out to women hope they have a very woman day

[sweetheart-ashy]

HAPPY WOMENS DAY

#i just want an excuse to keep posting this image #im a rodrick heffley boy #SHOUT OUT TO ALL THE WOMEN #YOUR LITERALLT KILLING IT. #YOU COULD COMMIT A MURDER TODAY #CUS YOUR JUST A GIRL. #womens day

[arolesbianism]

Thinking abt spiraling upwards side characters again. Charredpelt my absolute beloved

#rat rambles #spiraling upwards #warriors posting #girlies who are trying so soooo hard to support womens wrongs but the wrongs are that their wife is cheating on them #and now she cant even get closure cause said wife is dead along with the man she cheated on her for #like charredpelt isnt stupid she knows these cats too well but thats exactly why she keeps to this day justifying them to herself #all while living as the sole parent to their children #the worst part is that if she had just been properly talked to abt it first she probably would have been ok with it #but she wasnt. she didnt even get the choice to set up boundaries #for the record shes my favorite cragclan cat and has been since she came out as trans lol #shout out to daisystar tho my boy is so cute and also so messed up <3 #and egretpaw and furzepaw ofc get honerable mentions but theyre main characters so ofc I've thought a lot abt them #but yeah for cragclan I deliberately chose out cats I hoped would kill eachother and instead they just got into a bunch of love traingles #and then I made eagle clan with the same goal with a bloodthirsty deputy but then conestar just loved everyone and was loved by everyone #hell the one cat who disliked her at first is her wife now girlie is just sitting here loving her wife and family #I honestly couldn't tell you who my favorites in any other clan is tbh #I do adore most of elmclan but I cant say theres anyone I like that much more than everyone else #like honeystar is definitely the one who caught my attention first due to her hashtag trauma playing out in real time right away #but also thistlepeak and whimsygoose are sooooo silly I love them quiet kitty and their loud rude kitty husband #oh and also pumpkin shes not that deep of a character I just think shes cute #for eagleclan I cannot lie to you I barely remember anyone in there atm but I do love conestar shes so silly #and minkclan is another hard one caus they're the first one I made so I have a lot of love for basically all of them #but blazebelly was my og favorite shes like charredpelt but instead of having a wife cheating on her it never got past a one sided crush #and lightnip is also a current fave of mine shes so mean I love her #ratstar has always been one of my favorites of all the clans tho shes just so silly and incompetent #and shout out to nightfur for being the only cat I've ever seen generate with romantic feelings towards a cat #it was for my default dead cat raincinder who is also a shitty asshole but that just means nightfur is tragic now <3 #oh yeah I should probably provide more exicit context on the clangen stuff huh #basically I made the four main clans in clangen and used the gameplay as a skeleton for backstory and worlduilding #building off of premade characters and concepts has always been one of my favorite things (as seen by how many randomized aus Ive done)

[dysaniadisorder]

i am so sick of all in-community homophobia & transphobia being blamed on teenagers shut the fuck up i was raised by a butch woman do u know the amount of 25-year-olds who have claimed to be elders and told me not to use neos or say the word queer. a lot ok

#the sheer amount of queer teens in shit households. who do not believe they'll live to thirty. #years pass and one thing stays consistent adults are fffucking assholes #like. yeah. even the theater kid who's annoying about the terms twink and bear is still misgendered every minute of every day #like do u know how little we are even encouraged to know... i dont even see ppl having hope for us at this point #somewhere it went from 'queer kids; read queer books!!' #to 'gay babies are all sooo homophobic and they don't even know it' #shut up shut up i hate you. you cannot blame the entire communities problems on someone who's writing an essay on the pearl #shout out to my cw teacher who reccomended me a book; told me the main character was gay in the 1920's and winked at me #triple negative shout out to the 20-smth lesbian who tried making casual conversation w me about how she knows all her bi friends #are either special straight women or lesbians in denial. and i went ahaha. mhm. im gonna go #u guys are losing fucking sight................. anyways #just a rant ignore this

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Not Terf Queen actually making her mother's day tweet into both transphobia and a middle finger to mother's who didn't have their kids in a biological manner.

#shout out to the quote tweet going 'JKR's kids: happy mother's day! JKR: TRANS PEOPLE-' because dear god #thats what this feels like #she cant make anything without making it about her bigotry #while also showing she like the rest of terfs views women in a certain way #and if you dont fit into that way your not a woman to them

[omg-hellgirl]

Happy International Women's Day to all women and specifically to my girl Angie Bowie who — like all rockstar ex-wives — deserves RESPECT.

#shout out to Cynthia Lennon #angie bowie #david bowie #old rockstar #classic rock #rockstar gf #70s rock #70s music #70s era #rockstar girlfriend #glam rock #international women's day

[vulpinesaint]

my mom has told me that she actively chose to leave our church (and i think doesn't really associate herself with catholicism at large anymore? def not the like. People Who Suck y'know) because my little sibling and i came out as queer and she saw a lot of behavior from religious people that she didn't agree with. and that she's disappointed in her friend/my childhood friend's mom for not leaving as well when my friend is also queer. which is awesome but i also think very often about the fact that my grandmother (her mother) is gay and left the catholic church before i was born because of their stance on gay people. like i'm glad you're standing up for what's right now but your own mother being mistreated by the church wasn't enough for you? lol girl what's going on up there

#it's absolutely because of my grandma that she was so clear that she would support us if we came out and stuff too 😭 #idk since i was aware that my grandma was a lesbian i also knew that she left for episcopalianism Because she was gay #like my mom told me that. but she just. idk. decided to stay catholic for funzies? 😭 #like i get it. you feel a connection to it. grandma was a nun for a while. the family is In It #but your Own Mother? babe... #anyway shout out to my grandma she told me that she came out to some church friends of hers the other day and it went well :) #wish you would talk about being in relationships with women more often gramma you have so many gay grandkids now #well. like three. but out of five that's a pretty significant number #note to self ask my grandma about her relationships with women next time she comes to visit #valentine notes

[storiesfromthegrave]

Vihaan Samat in every episode of MISMATCHED season 2

#vihaan samat #Mismatched #mismatched s2 #i hope he returns for s3 but I am afraid he won't ;-; #shout out to great male character written by women! #the way Harsh deals with rejection ;-; how grown-up he is in that regard #he is such a cutie I cannot #I can talk about this show for DAYS