#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

[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

[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

[saint-augustines-pears]

One of the interesting ideas I've picked up on as a woman reading through political history is the difference in what being a leader in medieval history means versus enlightenment. In medieval poetry (Gawain, Roland, Beowulf), a leader rules out of love for his people. He does not rule because he wants power, he rules because he knows he is able to serve them well. He is to be the humblest among his people, not proud and tyrannic. He is one of them. In essence, the ideal good in medieval history is to provide a place in which virtue can flourish. These ideas are explicitly taught by Gregory the Great, in the Pastoral rule, which is worth a read.

Versus Enlightenment, where the good shifts ever so slightly from virtue to stability. The people are no longer people, but another environmental factor to the ruler's rule to be controlled. A good leader does not serve his people on their journey to heaven, he focuses on his own stability in power regardless of what it is he rules.

I'm not about to say that medieval history was filled with good rulers, or even that there were very many. But the philosophic ideas around leadership during that time were very different from the ones that Machiavelli taught. And I wonder how this effect plays out when we consider the relationship of men and women.

[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.

[howtomakeyousee]

[mrsoulstice]

🙂‍↕️🙂‍↔️

[vintage-tigre]

[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

[abiwaif]

Oh my word...

[dosesofcommonsense]

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

[sportsandlaughs]

[taylorbelieversweets]

Feeling great today 🥰🥰