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Lots of gendies will agree that gender roles are sexist they just fail to connect that to what they’re doing. They think they’re defying gender roles by ascribing to different ones. They think they’re abolishing gender by creating more. They fail to understand that they’re reinforcing the same constructs that oppress them.

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Double exposure, 1950. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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it’s funny how when a right winger hears I’m a gender abolitionist they are like “oh so you’re an insane radical leftist trying to undo the natural order of things. You hang out with the crowd with dyed hair and pronouns” and liberals hear I’m a gender abolitionist and are like “oh so you’re an insane far right extremist trying to maintain a cisheteronormative society. you’re in bed with trump voters”

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when i don’t like a female character on a tv show i treat it like homework. like i know she’s right. i’m the problem. i just have to try harder

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a list of themes and motifs in goncharov (1973)

Clocks, watches, and timepieces (the characters constantly check their watches before exiting scenes, there is a cukoo clock in the house goncharov primarily shares with katya which goes off twice at pivotal moments, the loudly ticking clock just out of frame in andrey's father's office, and the constant visibility of big ben through the window at the london office) - representing the idea of "running out of time". not only is every single character on a tight deadline, but many of them are on deadlines they don't even realize. goncharov's relationship with katya, for example, has to be fixed before she enacts her plan to fake her death (which he doesn't even know she's planning to do). also, the characters who die all seem to subconcioously realize that they don't have much time left. sofia's insistence that katya go to sicily alone, for example, is loosely motivated if sofia doesn't know that she's about to be shot.

Broken glass, especially broken mirrors (katya breaks her vanity mirror early in the film, right before asking sofia to help her fake her death, goncharov's face is reflected in the broken window about halfway through, andrey drops a glass when it's revealed that goncharov has pre-empted his betrayal) - each of these moments, though not very similar, ties into an identity crisis. katya is contemplating whether she can continue being a perfect little mafia wife, goncharov is, though we don't know it yet, grappling with his love for andrey and andrey's oncoming betrayal (wondering if he wants to be the type of person who would pre-emptively betray someone he truly cared about), and andrey (who decided not to betray goncharov not two scenes earlier, as a result of his own identity crisis) is regretting the person he chose to be. each of these scenes ties into the greater narrative question: is there a difference between who you are as a person, and what roles you choose to fill?

The color red (katya wears red lipstick in all her scenes with sofia, goncharov wears a bright red tie when he tries to make up with katya, sofia wears a red dress to the tense dinner with katya and goncharov, and andrey has his famous red jacket) - red symbolizes the better, kinder, (queerer) choice. katya and sofia wear red to seduce each other. goncharov wears red when attempting to fix his marraige, primarily as a way of lying to himself (idk this could be nothing but the tie is the only piece of red clothing that a character dons on-screen. everyone else simply appears wearing it in the next scene, but goncharov has to put the tie on in front of us, as a deliberate action). and do i really have to say anything about andrey?

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made a niche meme for @megan-mayhem in the groupchat but maybe some of my followers will also enjoy it (with apologies to matt bors)

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my cat hates taking his pills. the only way we can get him to eat them is to turn it into an elaborate pantomime - we take the packet out of the cupboard slowly and hold it up, saying “oh!! what’s this? what’s this? a TREAT? a TREAT for louis????” while making surprised faces. we offer him a pill… then, before he has a chance to sniff it, we wag our fingers at him and replace it in the packet so it becomes a Tantalising Forbidden Mystery. we continue doing this until he’s so confused and excited that he will eat the pill as fast as possible, just so he can find out what it is before we can take it away from him again. as soon as he’s eaten it he looks utterly disappointed and betrayed, like a child who just ate a delicious sweet only to find it was a chocolate-coated brussels sprout. it never gets old

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women burning things with bad memories attached to them as a form of therapy? powerful. iconic.

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1979 Sesame Street & Philip Glass “The Geometry of Circles #1″ animation (via: YouTube)

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I was looking up some female stand-up comedians to have fun during the holidays and I found this podcast, with Taylor Tomlinson and Whitney Cummings. They’re really funny and they talk freely, but more than funny, I found they were doing a good analysis of a lot of messed up things in het relationships; they discuss birth control, mental illness medication, how m*n act and what they expect after women get engaged to them, why they broke their engagements, stuff they deal with in dating, it’s pretty interesting! I found it engaging and they’re both funny and laugh a lot. I rarely find female-only podcasts, so I’m leaving a link!

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deleted all my social media apps so now sometimes i just open my phone and scroll thru google drive for a bit and then put it back in my bag

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gOD