#Hair Ties for Women

[satsuha]

valerio for 60min challenge

[jerys]

finished bridgerton last night n genuinely if cressida cowper doesn't get her own spin-off series following her life at her ghastly aunt's secluded estate where she meets some fairly stereotypical local with a heart of gold and no concept of reputation who endeavours to slowly excavate the years of neglect until she's comfortable and secure in herself and her relations with other people after a brief period of dislike due to her natural spite and his abrasiveness leading to a pivotal scene where - crucially - she gets to WEAR HER FUCKING HAIR DOWN. i will kill myself in front of shonda rhimes

[serpentface]

Are braids culturally expected for women in wardi?

It's a cultural expectation throughout most of Imperial Wardin in the sense that it's a very longstanding conventional feminine beauty standard, and will be understood as a signifier of good grooming and status. This region is also quite culturally diverse so nothing here should be taken as an absolute universal for people within the Imperial Wardi cultural sphere, but rather a description of broad trends and/or hegemonic social convention.

It functions first and foremost as a visual signifier of good grooming and ideal feminine beauty- ie you can take the time to neatly do up your hair every day before you enter the public sphere. It can specifically function as a status symbol as well, with particularly elaborate and complicated styles (especially those impossible to form without help, which generally implies access to servants) coming in and out of vogue among the upper classes.

This style exists mainly for the public eye, with hair being done up at the beginning of each day and undone upon returning home for the evening (or once out of the public eye, if guests are visiting the home), though braids may have protective components and be worn semi-permanently depending on the hair type.

Women who do not braid (or otherwise put hair into protective and beautified styles) will often be seen as excessively masculinized or slovenly. The social consequences are Generally not anything more dire than peer judgment, though with a few exceptions. There's parts of the region (mostly the northwestern cities) in which sex workers are specifically forbidden to braid their hair (as a visual marker of their status). This is not ubiquitous enough for direct 'unbraided hair in public=prostitute' associations to be universal, but impactful enough for it to develop additional connotations of wantonness or an oversexed nature. (Sex workers face very severe social stigma throughout the region; one does Not want to be mistaken for a sex worker, especially upper class women).

Unbraided hair might be used as a rhetorical device (ie an attack on a woman's character might include describing her as/comparing her to 'a girl with unkempt hair, worn loose and blown horribly about her face with each gust of wind' or etc as additional ammunition to the main argument) which will be automatically understood by the audience as describing a slovenly, lazy, oversexed, or unduly masculine nature (depending on the context). By a similar metric, praises of 'well-braided hair' in speech or verse would function as a shorthand to communicate the beauty, social esteem, and desirable femininity of the subject.

The fact that braided hair exists mostly for the public eye and will often be undone each evening within the home (and also direct associations with sex workers in some parts) can also lend an intimate or erotic component to depictions of unbraided hair. Imagery of a woman in the process of undoing her braids is common in erotic art and verse, and outright pornography will usually depict hair unbraided (or partially undone, as if the process were interrupted). This does not translate to unbraided hair IN OF ITSELF being seen as sexy, rather this view of a woman in the intimate domestic sphere has voyeuristic elements that contribute to the sense of eroticism.

[mahikamihan]

hhhhno thoughts only roller derby

[edge-oftheworld]

while we’re in the spirit of celebrating basic autonomy over things like hair I know most of us are too young to have participated in anything at the time but as a society we really need to apologise to britney for a certain event circa 2007

[kingkumi]

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[harlequinfrog]

My DnD group's DM is collaborating with the players on worldbuilding and I'm the only one playing a gnome so she gave me the go-ahead to make up whatever the hell I want as long as it doesn't affect gameplay too much. MY CITY NOW

[mihai-florescu]

You. Western anime fan. Are you normal about anime boys with long hair.

[robo-milky]

I don’t play Reverse anymore but that new Tennant skin is making me act up…

[befuddled-calico-whump]

reblog this and put the weird storylines you used to act out with your toys as a kid in the tags

[docc-artblog]

生塩ノア by DaSiu(委託募集中)

[todayisafridaynight]

you never realize how hard it is to find a specific shade of blue for a suit until you go to find a specific shade of blue for a suit

[worstloki]

Do you think there’s such thing as “acceptable” hair length on Asgard?

I mean this specifically for guys, Thor and Loki has shoulder length hair, volstagg’s is sort of long but constantly tied up .. idk I feel like maybe they’d have some kind of unspoken social “rule” about it.

I don;t think so for men since the Warriors 3+Thor+Loki provide a pretty good range of hair lengths. We don't see anyone Asgardian completely bald/shaved till Skurge in Thor 3 tho, so that could be a limit but I reckon that might be more cultural than formal.

I think the idea that slaves would have their hair all shorn off is possible but we don't really see anything in support of that besides the Thor 3 mural, where the slaves don't have any hair.

Women seem exclusive to long hair though.

[quinnfabrayapologist]

Do you ever wonder how exactly there came to be such a transphobia problem in British feminism?

Not really. Pretty straightforward IMO.

Britain is highly patriarchal and pretty much just an oligarchy at this point, given the majority of people in charge were born rich and went to one of a handful of private schools. Fair amount of them are also journalists to some degree, or work with journalists on the regular, so when those pesky feminists wanted to dismantle their little boy's club, they stoked up a culture war to give them a new target.

A great example is the NHS. There's been issues lately with supply of oestrogen. I have a former classmate who is a raging transphobe and in her fifties. She's constantly on twitter talking about how the reason she can't get her hormone replacement therapy for her menopause is that trans women are taking all the oestrogen. Her source? A right wing newspaper linked to half of the current PM's cabinet. The real issue? The Tories have been systematically gutting and selling off the NHS since they came into power, which is causing shortages now, because the Tories want the NHS to fail so they can say 'see? NHS doesn't work. Time to privatise the whole thing' and make a mint doing it.

So basically, the minority we should actually be worried about - the 1%ers who have had everything handed to them on a silver platter all their lives, including some of the highest powers this land has to give, and are using that power to take our country apart for profit in the houses of parliament - have convinced a decent portion of feminists that a minority with basically no power is the root of all evil.

And so, using their institutional power (being the law-making elites) and their influential power (clickbait articles they've usually written themselves), they've convinced a portion of feminists that the upper-class, born-rich, bred for rule, blue-blooded bullies who thrive off the patriarchy aren't the problem, trans people are, and so the sect of feminists they've successfully turned against trans people are now fighting to uphold the patriarchy on behalf of the Conservatives and calling it feminism.

[masschase]

for the ask meme: 6. a headcanon about their family, for matt

Character ask meme (accepting for any SR characters)

OK I wasn't expecting to get any of these up tonight but yay :)

I'm sure it will surprise precisely no-one that i have a lot of hcs for Matt 😅 but I'm going to stick with just doing 2. At least I have some saved in case I get asked again 😂

One of my favourites is that his full name is Matthew James Miller because his dad was a Bond fan. He would be completely ecstatic if he knew his son was in MI6. Unfortunately Matt elected not to tell his parents about his role because of the additional risk to them. There is a misconception that SIS agents can't tell anyone what their job is, but in reality they can but it would theoretically put those people at greater risk.

So up until their deaths when the earth blew up, Matt's family was under the impression he worked for an international software company, which occasionally took him out of the country. I can't help but wonder if he ever ended up in the field during his visits to DC though. Not his role but we all know what the Saints are like.

I'm slipping another one in because I've yet to have anyone disagree that Matty is an only child 🤣 I mean come on. The bloke looks for siblings everywhere.

Specifically in my headcanon his parents were in their early 40s when he was born, and he was a bit of a miracle baby, as a result probably a little spoilt. His parents weren't super rich, they were middle class but living in Islington easily drained most of their finances. Being boomers he sometimes had to help them with the internet and other tech, which is where his fascination first developed.

I pretty much made up random names for his parents while drawing 😂

Don't look at creepy baby-Matt TOO much 😂😂😂

Oh, and he was very, very blonde.

[sunugf]

today in class i looked up and i noticed that the girl in the front row had a scrunchie in her hair, the color of it matched her shirt. you could tell where the outlines of her sports bra went along her shoulder blades, and somehow she looked very beautiful to me in that moment. i didn't even see her face at the time, but she looked just so pretty to me i can't explain it