#Julia Penelope

[haggishlyhagging]

The English words related to tool follow the patriarchal dichotomy of sex-based task assignment: the inside of a house, the female realm, and the outside, male sphere of activity. Housework, tasks performed inside a house, are "women's work," while tasks performed outside are "men's work." This division of labor is meaningful to English speakers even though they may not be conscious of its existence. Men use tools, instruments (with the exception of a few musical instruments), implements, machines, and gizmos outside. Women use utensils, appliances, and gadgets inside. In English, we speak of kitchen utensils, kitchen appliances, and kitchen gadgets—used by women, they are not considered tools. A search of the tools listed in Roget's International Thesaurus (1977) reveals only a few items stereotypically used by women (tweezers, nail file, bread knife, scissors), but numerous names for equipment reserved to the male sphere specifying types of drill, clutch, saw, plane, hammer, and wrench. Recently, though, KitchenAid has begun to advertise one of its mixers as a POWER TOOL, a tactic that blurs the boundary between the two experiential domains. Its actual effect, however, reenforces the barrier. Because women are leaving their interior domain for the male domain of "real" work, the ad imports the [+ male] phrase, power tool, and applies it to the equipment women use in a kitchen. Nothing has to change but the label applied to the objects women use; our "domain" remains the kitchen.

Man, the anthropologists tell us, distinguishes himself from other animals by his use of tools. Any object restricted to male use and ownership is a "tool," whether it's language, a hammer, or a penis. Men speak of their penises as tools, and describe their activity in heterosexual intercourse as "screwing," "nailing," "banging," "reaming," "drilling," and "hammering." So intense is the male obsession with their "tools" and females as containers or holes they penetrate that any two objects suggestive of that description, for example, electrical outlets and plugs, nuts and bolts, will have the metaphor imposed upon them. The essential distinction of PUD [Patriarchal Universe of Discourse] is the one which identifies the FUCKER and the FUCKEE.

-Julia Penelope, Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers’ Tongues

[ophelieverse]

Ready to defend Penelope Featherington from all of you haters:

[your-mums-nuts]

Shonda Rhimes and Julia Quinn: Colin and Penelope have a glow-up this season and become super cool and confident flirts with loads of swagger

Luke and Nicola: Colin and Penelope are LOSERS and they live in LOSER-TOWN where all the NERDS hang out

[lililovesthings]

I blame Bridgerton for unrealistic expectations of declarations of love...

Edit: I beg your pardon George and Charlotte in their rightful place :)

[arishatistic]

“Your servant, Mrs. Bridgerton. Always.”

Penelope and Colin in anticipation of Bridgerton Season 3!

[rainingriversofyou]

Romancing Mister Bridgerton - Julia Quinn

Artist: littimmm

[iiilllsam]

baby agatha with her mama this time 🫶 (of course i have to make a penelope version who do you think i am?!)

[booksydaisy]

Kate Bridgerton, I see you and respect your decision to extend your honeymoon with your hottie, simp husband. Like. I get it girl. But also. 𝘎𝘦𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭.

[sophiekarim]

CLAUDIA JESSIE as ELOISE BRIDGERTON

Bridgerton Season 2 — Bloopers

[harvey-guillen]

guys im sorry but this is literally so funny!!! let's have the comedy part of romcom in addition to the longing stares <3

[mrs-jamesbbarnes]

I love that they kept The Kiss. It was the moment in both the book and the show where Colin had a life epiphany while Penelope mentally prepared herself to let go of Colin forever.

The beauty of it is that when she thought she could be ready to resign herself to a life without him, she did the one thing that made him realize he could never let her go.

[haggishlyhagging]

The relationship between the spelling of an English word and its pronunciation has always been problematic and, at times, downright fanciful. In the fourteenth century, for example, femelle, from Latin femella ('little woman'), borrowed into English from Norman French, had been "standardized" to female, by analogy to the word male. This "standardization" simultaneously fixed the spelling of female and made the word look as though it were derived from male. (In fact, the two words are not etymologically related.) Here, as in other areas, men's certainty of their innate superiority to women elevated the ridiculous to the status of "fact," and misogyny, masquerading as standardization and "correctness," fabricated an etymology to justify a whimsical spelling.

-Julia Penelope, Speaking Freely: Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers’ Tongues

[ophelieverse]

The series’s name may be “Bridgerton” but the real main character has always been Penelope Featherington i don’t care what y’all say.

[agrippinaes]

NICOLA COUGHLAN as PENELOPE FEATHERINGTON in Bridgerton, Season 3

[lovelylildepressedsoul]

Rewatching Bridgerton seasons 1 & 2 for the zillionth time and am wondering if anyone else has caught this??!

When giving bb Simon advice, Lady Danbury tells him, “I attempted to dissolve into the shadows” and then goes on to say “I knew I would have to step into the light someday”

Out of the Shadows and Into the Light are the names of the first and last episodes of season 3!!

Just more evidence of Lady D & Pen’s similarities🥹

[danielaeditsthings]

“Home was in Bloomsbury. Home was with Penelope. Home was anywhere with Penelope.”

- Romancing Mr Bridgerton, Pg. 398

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These gifs come from my most recent Bridgerton edit. Check out the full video below. I hope you like it. 💛