😮💨 Went out to socialize with some coworkers yesterday. I mention that I'm bi, and then just a minute later that I have a husband.
Coworker (who is a lesbian, for the record, so what follows isnt straight ignorance) that I really do not know: oh, wait, you're married?
Me: ha, yes.
Them: And you're bi?
Me: ...yes?
Them: wow, so like, an open relationship?
Me: ....?????? No?
Them: really?.....so, you're married. In a monogamous relationship? And...you're still bi?
Me: ...................yes? I...still think women are attractive? Like my husband still thinks women are attractive? Getting married didn't change that.
Them: oh, wow, how interesting.
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Why don't we talk more about Behind the Wall by Tracy Chapman ? This is like... THE song. A masterpiece. Two minutes of a wonderful voice singing about domestic violence and police's indifference in the most beautiful way without any instruments or music behind. I cry every single time I listen to this, rare are the lyrics that are as beautiful and heartbreaking as the lyrics of this song, and Tracy Chapman's voice truly is one of the most amazing voices ever. You need to listen to Behind the wall by Tracy Chapman !
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it physically hurts me to try and write a friendship like the one i have with my best friend and realizing that it sadly reads like the characters are romantically in love
like bro wdym they can't be half of each other's heart and soul without being in love. i literally do it everyday with her. wdym they can't love each other with a love so strong it defies labels yet not want to sleep with each other or get married. I LITERALLY DO IT EVERYDAY WITH HER.
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I kinda like but dislike that Rumiko and Sunrise (and fans) have never even mentioned that miko (priestesses) are virgins. And that their shinto ability to tend holy places comes from being unmarried virgins. In modern day I guess it is not really required but I kind of wish more people analyzed Kikyo, the dark priestess, Kaede and Kagome in that light.
Personally I think that due to the era Kagome would not be allowed to remain a miko after getting married and having a child. She would still be one of course due to her spiritual ability, but I think she would no longer be allowed to remain in that societal role.
Kagome is so spunky though that I see her rebelling against it. I think Kagome's strength in being outspoken is another great contrast between her and Kikyo. While Kikyo was confined by society and was only freed from expectation when she became an impure monster. Kagome was outspoken and loud to where she didn't have much of a societal role and yet remained 'spiritually pure.'
There is a huge theme of 'societal expectation' in Kagome, Inuyasha, and Kikyo that I think being a miko is a part of.
Personally I'm torn on Kagome loudly choosing to get married and have a child VS remaining a Miko and Kagome choosing to attempt to do both.
More thematic headcannons in the tag below..
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although i have a lot of hard feelings about romance novels and often come out of them 9/10 times with hatred and embarrassment laced into my heart i do think most people can agree that romance novels at large have developed in response to the control over people's sexual lives and how that's subsequently led to a desperate desire from the sexually repressed to be equal participants in a sexual environment. it's not so much that women want to be in relationships with dominant men to whom they play housewife or baby incubator or worse. it's that women want to be in relationships at all. and because the standard for relationships at large is the nuclear family, this is what subsequently shows up in your literature. why do you think religious women in particular are such a huge audience for romance novels despite the often conservative environment they grow up in? it's bc the consumption of romance novels does not exist in spite of that conservatism but bc of it. to be gatekept from any expression of sexual desire until you marry or until you fornicate for the purposes of having a child is to breed in young women a desire for what we would now no longer consider practices entailing any self-respect. you're kept in an ideological cage all of your life, naturally you reach for what's immediately out of reach rather than consider that there could be more out there that is available to you. it sucks! it's sad, it's horrific, it makes me wanna cry. but i can also never quite blame women for it bc they're not the ones who've created this environment of sexual conservatism (ie the real puritan culture, the one that hypersexualizes virgins by obsessively protecting their chastity prior to marriage bc said chastity can only ever belong to one man). man has. religion has. patriarchy has. why would i focus my hatred on women who are merely coping with the status quo rather than the systems in place that we actually have to change to allow for more sexual freedom and agency?
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Fair warning: I'm stoned and about to go to sleep. This shit might now make sense, but I hope it does.
Imagine someone writes you into a book as one of the characters. You may be friends, or have had conversations with them, or whatever. What are three things that would make you angry or upset if they left them out of who you are?
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no but like it's still kinda insanely funny to me that eddie literally called billy 'brother' and told him he loved him and billy was like 'go fuck yourself' like i'm never getting over eddies face it was too funny ohmygod mabdjdkdfndjdnms
like yeah billy was obviously an asshole he constantly disrespected eddie and stepped all over him eddie had every right to demand better treatment and an equal power dynamic but.... fucking billy's wife wasn't the way to do that and then having the nerve to call billy brother a day after he admitted to that like bro what did you expect i can't menfrkdkfjdk
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https://twitter.com/tstytimezefronk/status/1677167889487372290?t=ftJ5LXJxa2cRerx7Jb-5eQ&s=19 i thought of you when i saw this fgfggf first i thought of me cause 🤤 and then of you cause we share the same huge crush on her ❤️🔥
Lmaoooooooooo yessss she’s one of us
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