#Support women

[crazycatsiren]

Happy International Women's Day to disabled women, neurodivergent women, poor women, fat women, queer women, women of color, Jewish women, Muslim women, women who are sex workers, women who are addicts, women who are homeless, women who are single mothers. ♀️

[misskelley]

Support women.

[morallyrainyday]

happy mother's day to palestinian mothers. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers who have lost children. happy mother's day to palestinians who have lost their mothers. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers older than israel itself. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers who have escaped the gaza strip. happy mother's day to palestinian mothers still living in the gaza strip.

happy mother's day to all palestinian mothers. 🇵🇸✊❤

[dumplingprincessextraordinaire]

I support people doing whatever they want with fiction, including fujoshi here, y’all are loved and safe on my blog however there’s a certain type of fujoshi that makes me uncomfortable

It’s those kind of people who let their internalized misogyny bleed into their fandom hobbies and shit on female characters for “getting in the way” of their ship or just generally being a “not like other girls” because understand this, I’m very pro women as much as I am proship

[villainousshakespeare]

In Praise of Tom Hiddleston and Female Directors

As a female director (albeit of Theater and not Film) I have been feeling a little frustrated once again as awards season brings no nominations for women. This led me (as many things do, lol) to thinking about my favorite Muse, Tom Hiddleston.

One of the things that I love about TH is willingness and enthusiasm to work with female directors, and on thinking about it I realized that this allyship has also benefited him as well. Case in point:

1. His first movie, Unrelated, was directed by Joanna Hogg. Now, of course all of us see Hiddles as the perfect Beautiful Boy but imagine if this movie had been directed by a man. In that case, Oakley, the handsome younger man who charms and tempts the 40 something woman, would almost certainly be cast with some young beef cake actor, or at very least had them bulk up in order to play the role. This is who male directors seem to think we desire. Instead, Hogg casts TH and boy does she sell him. Oakley is a little shit, but the way he is lit, framed, directed makes him all but irresistible. The female gaze sees all of his ethereal beauty and shares it with us.

2. Next we have my personal favorite, Henry V in The Hollow Crown. In his big leading episode, Tom is once again directed by a woman, Thea Sharrock. Again, look at how his is shot. The female gaze follows him riding in like a hero from our collective imagination in his opening shot. He is strong and dangerous, savage even at times, without ever loosing that thread of empathy that Henry struggles to clamp down. And do I even have to mention the proposal scene? Watch that and tell me it isn’t pure wish fulfillment for the majority of people who fancy men. I liked him when I watched Loki, but Hollow Crown made me fall so deep down the rabbit hole that I may never climb out again (and honestly, I’m okay with this).

3. Lastly, we come to the role that pushed him over the edge into superstardom, The Night Manager. Can there be any doubt that this miniseries was directed by a woman? The entire show was an advertisement for how gorgeous he is. Yes, there are some lovely shots of Elizabeth Debicki in various states of undress, but Pine is the major eye candy here. See him in finely tailored suits, see him astride a motorcycle, see him bathing, both in a waterfall and in a shower covered in mud, see his much lauded English countryside looking all round and pert... it just goes on and on. It is not just the visual that Susana Biers gets either. Unlike other spies of film and television, Jonathan is emotional, chivalrous, and above all intelligent. Tom nails the role and the world loved him for it.

I am not saying that male directors do not make Tom look good (hello Conrad’s arms) or play to his strengths (see the psychological beauty of Adam). I just believe there is something to be said for the qualities that female directors can bring out. 

In short (ha, sorry, this ran on looooong, lol) Tom trusts women directors more than many of his fellow actors, and I think the results are that he shows a vulnerability in his work that helps make him more than just another action star. Women have helped make him the actor he is today, and I don’t believe the fact that his last two directors were women is an accident. He said in his interview for Leading Lady Parts that he needed to work with more directors (he had worked with five at that point I believe) and he has been as good as his word. Another reason to love this man.

* I also want to make a special shout out to stage director Josey Rourke, who has the career that I want and gave us this amazing contribution:

[meowmeow1meow]

i love scrolling through wormblr cus there’ll be a really silly post then the most gut wrenching analysis post

[askhomestuckeveryone]

I would like to offer best boy Tavros a flower crown. Because he deserves nice things!

(⬅️. ➡️)

[maralaai]

Happy International Women’s Day!!

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[auntymurda]

[crazycatsiren]

It's a wonderful day for another reminder that trans women are women. Forever and ever, amen. ❤️

[misskelley]

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NWSL+ is free

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We have access you just need to watch it.

[tears-of-amber]

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[dumplingprincessextraordinaire]

I don’t understand why we’re allowed to say that men using women for their bodies, emotional support or whatever else is wrong but only to an extent.

I wasn’t sure if I wanted to open up this can of worms again because it was received so terribly the last time but ya know what, who cares, I’m a woman and I still feel this way.

Men who dehumanize and use women as nothing but pure pleasure and resources are vile, and so are gay men who use women as beards. Now luckily, this has never happened to me because I’ve never been in a long enough relationship nor been married (and before you try to use that as an insult, I’m young, it’s normal for my age) but if a gay man pretending to love a woman and then use her as a cover, especially in long term relationships isn’t vile and dehumanizing I don’t know what else is.

Because like we don’t really put focus on supporting said women in this situation. In fact they’re usually the butt of the joke. “lol your husband is gay!” And their femininity seems to be questioned, too. It’s seen as a funny scandal. I do see the gay man getting a lot of support though 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think people and the internet in general just aren’t good at having two thoughts at once—you can be a victim and perpetrator in the same life time. Gay men can be the victims of homophobia and hate crimes, and also partake in misogyny and dehumanizing us women AS WELL. Because they’re still men, and as much as I’d like to relax and trust them, as a woman I feel like I can’t. For my own safety. I have experienced pretty harsh body shaming and hate from them personally. The way SOME gay men talk about women’s bodies and genitalia and use their lack of attraction to us as an excuse is disgusting.

Before you hit me with the “so you hate gay men” hunny bear, try to read the WHOLE sentence. I don’t hate gay men, I dislike the ones who use women as covers up. They don’t get sympathy from me is what I’m saying.

It just shows when people CLAIM they support and empathize with women, it’s really divided and half assed imo.

[chroniclesofnadia111]

Hopeful Nets: A collection of poems, essays, musings, and streams of consciousness. https://a.co/d/aJwWMTz

[seethesound]

July 25 is the birthday of a 19-year-old woman named Mahsa Mogoi, who was murdered by the rebels of the Islamic Republic in the Steel City of Isfahan.

Mahsa was a female athlete who received many titles and medals in the fields of Taekwondo and physical fitness. She took to the street during the Women's Revolution of Freedom on 31st of May. It is said that in the clash with four Basiji Batoom, all four had beaten her for her mastery of martial arts. The same day, on her way home, she was chased, and in a secluded area, several people in plain clothes shot her at close range with a machine gun and cowardly murdered her

Dear Mehsa, every year your family celebrated your birthday, but this year the good people of Iran and the world are your family. Happy birthday to you❤️❤️

[daeughterr]

The only thing the men vs bear argument is proving is that you should pick the bear.

Every. Fucking. Time.

Under every video I’ve seen of a woman telling her sexual assault story, I’ve seen at least one of the following.

“You can’t prove that it happened.”

“How do you know the bear wouldn’t do that?”

“The only reason it happened is because you decided to be a whore.” (Left under the video of a woman who was assaulted at 8 years old)

Pick the bear. Always.