#FUCK MAN

[ashirisu]

I admittedly loved girl dinner and girl math when they first started trending bc they felt so fun and positively commiserating to me. Girl dinner reframed negative self-talk around food into a group of friends giggling about how actually their lazy, no-spoons meals were kinda like a poor woman’s charcuterie board if looked at in the right light, and girl math brought a “treat yourself” mindset to the backward, jumping-through-hoops justifications we often do to convince ourselves that we are in fact deserving of nice things that make us happy.

The problem is that, even if these interpretations had been clearly and explicitly stated from the beginning (which they weren’t), control of the narrative was lost the literal second the trend broke containment. Misogyny is so inherent to society that you can’t even tack the word “girl” onto concepts and trends made by girls, for girls because once the gender essentialists get whiff of it, it’s over. Men start using it to belittle women, women start using it to belittle women, terfs start using it to exclude trans women while simultaneously belittling cis women, spin-offs and bastardizations start popping up to further reinforce the binary gender divide, and what started as a fun way to connect with other women and girls about the ways you playfully defy society’s expectations that you constantly be pretty and healthy and thin and fiscally responsible and good at cooking and the perfect budgeter and homemaker is suddenly being used against you to remind you that, to them, your personality should only ever amount to eating disorders and shopping.

“I’m just a girl” and whatever is going on with the pink collar jobs trend (supposedly, I’m not on TikTok anymore so I haven’t seen it firsthand) started a lot closer to the negative end of this spectrum for obvious reasons, and hearing that it’s apparently still going strong makes me fucking uncomfortable for what I hope are obvious reasons.

But at the same time I do lament the loss of safe places to laugh about the ways we as girls and women cope with the weight of patriarchal expectations without those jokes being ripped away from us, broken in half and pasted back together the wrong way around, and handed back to us with a little note that says no, being a woman means being miserable. never forget that you are stupid and lesser. you will be happy with the role you’re given, and if you ever make a joke about your experience with your gender ever again, you better make sure it’s at your own expense.

You can be talking to someone and she'll be like, "Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don't deserve voting rights teehee." And you'll be like, "What." And she'll be like, "Oh I'm sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it's this Tiktok meme where, if you're a girl and you do something dumb, you say 'Women don't deserve voting rights teehee.'"

And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."

And then you drop it there because like, you're harshing the vibe.

[normal-thoughts-official]

donated 50 reais to a palestinian GFM today

it amounted to 8 dollars

several days' worth of expenses for me became a single digit donation for them. barely enough for a blanket. just like that

it really sucks to know that my money is inherently less helpful no matter how much it'd pay for me, and there's nothing i can do

[monophobix]

hey so are we gonna talk about how the most visible emotion we’ve seen from viktor this season is fear and it’s right before jayce shoots him hahahaha

[hana-no-seiiki]

yandere! husband who’s so fucking in love with you that even dreaming about kissing another person makes him wake up in cold sweat, rushing to the bathroom to wash his lips raw.

funny how even as he proceeded to surround himself with water, only the guilt drowned him.

[obrienpolycule]

You're telling me Katniss is a living reminder of everything Haymitch has ever loved and lost? Cool!

[certaindreamchopshop]

The handholding??

THE HANDHOLDING??

[dnd-shows-have-my-soul]

This last hour has been fucking insane

[http-sawposting]

🫀🫀🫀

and he has come to absolve you of your sins, the sacrificial lamb weeps for it knows it’s fate is sealed

[limerence0faloser]

WHY THE FUCK IS EVERYONE SLEEPING ON CASTLEVANIA NOCTURNE!?!

The animation, the style, the fucking fight scenes!?

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL WORK OF ART DEPICTING THE DUALITY OF NATURE, THE STRENGTH AND FURY OF A WOMAN, AND THE BEAUTY OF INDIGENOUS AND AFRICAN SPIRITUALITY AND HOW IT WEAVES THROUGH BLOODLINES AND CONTINUES TO POWER US EONS AFTER OUT ANCESTORS ARE GONE

I'm speechless. I almost cried seeing the casual intimacy between people of the same gender and even different beings entirely

Almost cried seeing the dark skinned black woman get super powered and fuck shit up

Fuck. This is such a good show I can't process it right now I need like three weeks

[leshorros]

no because rio going “she is my scar” and then following agatha when she storms away AND THEN AGATHA ALMOST KISSING RIO ??? ON A MARVEL / DISNEY+ SHOW??? IS THIS REALITY????? SOMEONE PLS SEND ME THE SCENE I NEED TO WATCH IT AGAIN

[pest725]

Ouuuughhh he's eating my brain

[shivvroy]

pit girl's death as an echo of javi's. both run onto what they believe is solid ground only to fall straight through. both allow the yellowjackets to believe "it" has chosen their victims' deaths, not them, but who watched him drown? who sharpened the sticks?

[blossoms-phan]

thinking severely about dan being a part of the lesters……….

[russilton]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN LEWIS FUCKING HAMILTION OFFERED TO GIVE GEORGE HIS UPGRADED PARTS AND GEORGE REFUSED TO TAKE THEM FROM HIM these two are gonna put me in an early grave I swear to Christ

[moriphyte]

“i never used to be this angry”

[specific-dreamer]

daryl’s dally is who dally really is. he portrays dally as the kid that he is, his voice isn’t has a rough, he cracks in certain places and it’s real easy to remember this story is about children. babies if you will, the only adults in this story are darry and two bit; no matter how many times dallys been locked up or how grown he likes to pretend he is, he’s still a kid. and daryl!dally does a great job at portraying a lost kid pretending to be big and bad

joshua’s dally is the dally that pony sees. he’s the glorified version the dally. the one that’s a bully because the world made him tough. the one that doesn’t feel anything he doesn’t have to because he only cares about himself and that’s all he needs. with joshua!dally it’s easy to forget that dally is a just a kid, it’s easy to see the grownup that dally wants to be, its easy to get angry at him because that’s what dally wants