#MEN AND WOMEN

[fernacular]

Not to be an Art Snob or anything but something that makes me genuinely so so tired:

The material/execution: wild and crazy and innovative, high technical skill, the artist doing genuinely cool and unexpected things in regards to the process of creating the piece

The subject: a generically pretty woman with a completely neutral expression gazing off in a Direction

[belamercado]

Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy... Sometimes, the men-they come with keys, and sometimes, they come with hammers.

- Warsan Shire

[coye]

I don’t care if a man chooses to date within his career or tax bracket. I’m just saying that a woman dating down isn’t the same as a man dating down. When a man dates down, he benefits from the woman providing him with children, domestic labor, comfort, support, and companionship. But when a woman dates down, the man brings domestic violence abuse, laziness, brokenness, trash sex, and controlling behavior into the relationship.

A broke woman doesn’t hurt a man’s finances in the same way a broke man does to a woman. The dynamics are completely different. Men dating down can still maintain their status while benefiting from what a woman offers. Meanwhile, women who date down find themselves in situations that can be damaging and detrimental to their well being. Stop pretending that dating down is the same for both genders. The consequences is vastly different, and women bear the brunt of these imbalances.

[shiiro-arts]

Natsu having to fight almost all his verse because Lucy collects hoes more than she collects enemy golden keys

[posing-as-neurotypical]

You can't be a feminist if you hate men.

[vintage-tigre]

[haggishlyhagging]

Around age 15 . . . I sought my friends among the boys. They were the interesting people in my sphere—the dynamic ones. One could talk ideas with boys; one talked only about people with girls. Already I had absorbed the bias that girls are passive and inherently limited. Small wonder I wanted to be "one of the boys." But the boys didn't want me to be one of them. Gonads were always breaking up beautiful friendships. Against all evidence, I kept believing it was possible and right to have boy-friends.

At age 22, I was still trying to maintain a close asexual relationship with a man. He was fun and interesting; I was fun and interesting; obviously a fun, interesting friendship was in store. He told me bluntly that he could waste no more time on such a dead-end relationship. Either it was going to be fruitful sexually or as potential wifely material, but he had neither time nor need for girl-friends. I accepted his explanation as valid and terminated the relationship. My female conditioning was so thorough that ten years passed before I realized that what he really said was that I was good as a body or as a property, but not as a person.

-Gabrielle Burton, I’m Running Away From Home But I’m Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer on Women’s Liberation

[abiwaif]

Oh my word...

[dosesofcommonsense]

The best one that’s lost in my Meme horde: Mansplaining is acceptable when coming from a Trans Woman.

[mrsoulstice]

🙂‍↕️🙂‍↔️

[sportsandlaughs]

[disguisedfeelings]

Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women; kitchen of lust, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy.

Sometimes the men - they come with keys, and sometimes, the men - they come with hammers.

By Warsan Shire, from The House

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Leonora Carrington - Burial of the Patriarchs (ca. 1963)

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“there have been so many times i have seen a man wanting to weep but instead beat his heart until it was unconscious.” ― Nayyirah Waheed

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“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad if you won’t let them play Chivalry, only some; that not all men write books in which women are idiots, only most; that not all men pull rank on me, only some; that not all men pinch their secretaries’ asses, only some; that not all men make obscene remarks to me in the street, only some; that not all men make more money than I do, only some; that not all men make more money than all women, only most; that not all men are rapists, only some; that not all men are promiscuous killers, only some; that not all men control Congress, the Presidency, the police, the army, industry, agriculture, law, science, medicine, architecture, and local government, only some.

I sat down on the lawn and wept.” ― Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God

[maplebean2003]

Men?

😳

Women?

😳

Cheers to the fact that everyone is hot 😼

[i-am-aprl]