#The Women Behind the Door

[lilianeruyters]

Roddy Doyle || The Women Behind the Door

Spoiler alert: I do have to reveal something of the context Though The Women Behind the Door is the sequel to The Woman Who Walked Into Doors the novel can be read separately without a problem. I had no clear memory left of Doyle’s previous novel, I just remembered that he had accurately written about a wife being beaten up. In his last novel he repeats this feat: his portrait of Paula Spencer…

[aishabellasbigblogofeverything]

I love it when women hate men. I love it when women are allowed to vent to each other about how horrible and creepy men are. I love it when women form friendships with and prioritize each other over relationships with men(whether they're attracted to them or not). I love it when women put men dni in their bios and on their nude photos and on posts on their blogs. I love it when women refuse to mollycoddle and accommodate entitled male feelings with "but this doesn't mean I hate all men, I know a few men who are great, I love my father/sons/brothers/uncles/male cousins/guy friends" I love it when women complain about men WITHOUT "not all men" being a disclaimer. I love it when women avoid socializing with/refuse to be around/befriend/get close to men because they know men can't be trusted. I love it when women make "kill all men" jokes. I love it when women offer absolutely no concern or care for men's feelings and if their misandry offends men whatsoever because why should we, men are the oppressor class who have raped and killed and abused us and kept us as subjugated as second-class citizens for millennia, they regularly mistreat us and the women in their own marginalized communities still every single day and make this world so much harder and more awful for us to be in, and if we choose to hate them and not spare them any sympathy then so be it, and I don't just mean "men as a class" either, you can be a woman who doesn't want to have anything to do with any man on an individual basis and completely cuts off men from her personal life too and ykw I will love and fucking support you in that because men deserve absolutely NOTHING from us. If they're so tough and strong then they can handle it just like they can handle being lonely. If you are a woman who hates men, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A LESBIAN AND/OR A TRANS WOMAN, then just know that I love you. I love you, I support you, and you are safe here.

[peachellaa]

Undress me here :)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know WWX has a traumatic past with dogs, but sometimes you see that the dogs just want his attention, and a part of me is unsure who to feel sorry for more. Who's more pitiable, the dejected dog, or WWX who jumps into LWJ's arms?

Ran the numbers, and it turns out they are both equally pathetic.

[fideidefenswhore]

Anne's ability to hold the king off for seven years is part of her legend. The brilliance of her strategy was to cast herself in the role of the courtly lady, requiring Henry to play to perfect knight. Henry was nothing if not dogged in the pursuit of all the roles in which he cast himself—philosopher-king, warrior, even husband—and 'this persona of courtly lover...was fully formed in Henry and had been signaling...for an answering adept to come and lift its latch. In Anne, he had her: she was the mistress of Petrarchan contraries [...] the perfect [player] for the king's tender interest.'

Renaissance Prince: Elizabeth, Lisa Hilton

[immult]

giggling kicking my feet twirling my hair at Imogen consistently being so trigger-happy hihi

[daybringersol]

when you know french ‘women and femmes’ become a 100% times funnier cuz it literally just says ‘women and women’

[ourladyoftheflytrap]

Good lord the women you put on tumblr to engage with feminist theory are obsessed with 4chan style confessionals

(4chan style - the kind of confessional where u don't confess ur own issues or struggles but instead confess how much you hate other women and want them to suffer)

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

i wouldnt say that pretty privilege is fake i would just say that it doesnt protect you from misogyny

[ultfreakme]

I hope the Zuko movie opens with Mai and Zuko getting married, but you can just tell something is wrong. They’re smiling and greeting guests but there’s this distance between them. Cut to Mai, and she’s thinking about right before the wedding and Ty Lee is helping her get into her wedding clothes.

And Ty Lee’s like “I bet married life’s going to look great on you.” Mai just gives her a look, initially it seems cold, impassive, but then she frowns and Ty Lee giggles and says “You make a beautiful bride.” Mai’s brows furrow and all that, “You don’t have to lie.” Ty Lee; “I’m not lying, you’re beautiful, always were”. And then they lean closer and closer, eyes hooded and right when you think their lips are about to brush the door of the dressing room opens and Mai’s mom comes in and she fixes up Mai’s clothes and checks on everything. She’s like “Don’t mess this up.” Mai says “I won’t, obviously, what’s there to mess up?” AND SHE’S LOOKING RIGHT AT TY LEE.

The wedding’s done, but the Fire Lady is in love with a Kyoshi Warrior who is her personal guard and the entire thing is about them realizing no fuck this we’re done(Zuko knows okay he knows, or he eventually finds out but his ain’t about him).

(eventual divorce, mailee elope, Zuko’s like ‘I should’ve seen this coming’. Gaang, everyone in the FN court and Azula who saw this coming miles away: ‘I’m not gonna say anything’)

[lilianeruyters]

Time to Read

[m00nlight-woman]

I don't know if it's just me, but I think it's weird the amount of women who wear makeup to the gym. I saw a post on reddit the other day, where people were pointing this out (in less than kind ways, to be fair) and the number of women who were like 'well I like makeup in the gym! I feel so empowered and freed by wearing it while working out!' astounded me. Like, I'd understand if you're coming off of work and didn't have time to change, but there are literally so many women who just straight up say 'I don't want to feel ugly, so I put on lipstick and mascara!!'! It's the gym? No one is looking, why are you concerned about how you look? Especially because it messes with your pores when you do? Like you shouldn't go out to someplace like the gym in the mindset of 'how I am without makeup is not good enough for the GYM.' When I brought this up, someone compared it to having matching clothes, which I feel is kind of silly? You need clothes in a gym, and a matching outfit can often just be what you have. You're putting effort into having foundation, mascara, lipstick, eyeliner, or whatever else you use on you!

Like you can say it's empowering and freeing all you want, but if you say in the next sentence how you feel you can't go outside without it, I think that's insecurity and not empowerment.

[southern-titan]

OOOOOH so will is like def bi then?

//He'd never admit to it while sober, but yes. Will is bisexual. But, again, he's also wildly queerphobic, so there isn't really a circumstance outside of being black-out drunk where he would willingly admit to that.

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

No, y'know why else we need gender neutral bathrooms? Because there's always a line for the women's bathroom and never for the men's.

Like it seems common sense to make two identical sized bathrooms for men and women but. it. is. not. Female bladders are smaller on average so women have to pee more often, not to mention the fact that going to the bathroom to pee takes longer for women usually (an urinal is a lot faster). So if there are as many toilets in the men's room as in the women's bathroom, the women will have too little space and the men too much. (And usually the men get more because of the aforementioned urinals)

Therefore gender neutral bathrooms with closed off stalls and maybe a small room with urinals on the side.

[tersyne]

jonathan sure does avoid confirming where that blood on dracula’s face came from! honestly I’m very impressed at how active he’s able to be after the implied blood loss

[emdotcom]

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