#battered men

[maskerat]

a niche game: *comes out*

me, 16 years later: hi.

drew these on a magma board my friend hosted.

[smol-soop-spoon]

richard papen and henry winter were so real for having emotional support books

[capriminoweirdo]

My internet was dying, im gonna drop something here ebfore my internet dies again

stupid doodles under

bey

[saintlevrant]

GIVE LEV HIS SMOOCHES.

[Just a lil suggestive doodle below the cut!! ]

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[nyormilt]

sorry, i just meant to make a little batter doodle and got… distracted… ^^; i cleaned up the sketch some, and then just totally… skirts, man. skirt, man. man in skirt.

. um, what was i talking about…? it rained today, i’m in a mood…

(hey, by the way, the outfit looks familiar for some reason, but i didn’t draw it with anyone specific in mind… is it Velma’s outfit?? from scooby-doo?? im losing brain matter by the second…)

[ninaandjames]

Black Nylons, late 1950s mens magazine. Elmer Batters.

[minglana]

so basically from helping make panellets w my friend i have reaffirmed the saying that my grandma always said her mom said to her: "a man in the house is worse than a cow in the hallway"

[capriminoweirdo]

Trips and falls oh hey guys

[rebellum]

"We should respect trans mascs and butches because they protect us at pride"

So I get what you're doing with trying to argue against the anti-masculinity crowd and trying to say that trans mascs and butches are an important part of pride as a way to emphasize our place in the community

But...

Why us?

Why are we disposable? Why are we not worthy of protection?

When are you going to protect us, too?

[pynkhues]

"I honestly think both in terms of fic for the show itself and for RPF, it's about race"

Ah, I wasn't expecting this, which as a brown woman is incredibly naive of me.

There's currently discourse on X about Louis being the most "boring" character which is also, undoubtedly, driven by racism.

(x)

Oh, I'm really sorry, anon, and you shouldn't feel naive. I mean, for starters, I could be wrong, and I'm being pretty speculative, but even if I'm right, the onerous of that isn't, or at least shouldn't be, on you. I think there's a lot of really great progressive things that happen in fandom, but at the same time fandom is created by People Living in Societies, and unfortunately biases and discrimination, at least in my experience, can and do seep through in ways that are both toxic and just flat out negligent.

The idea of Louis being boring is absolutely an insane and racist rhetoric too. He is so wildly interesting as a character, with so many layers of storytelling and nuance and contradiction, which I adore in him, and it makes me wonder if the people who find him boring are the same ones who want to make him the audience insert (insane given Daniel is literally right there) or to project all this 'battered housewife' narrative onto him, which - - look.

I've tried to shrug this off, but I literally just spent the entire day at a symposium on how the Australian government child support system is weaponised by abusive men against women post-divorce, so I'm a bit of a raw nerve about this topic, but it's made me even more pissed off at the Louis-Housewife arguments than normal.

Not only is it diminishing and completely at odds with his character, but what a way to show you've never, ever engaged with real survivors of, or conversations with, patriarchal oppression.

[ninaandjames]

Cover Photo Elmer Batters

[troublesomeobsession]

[softboiledteacozy]

Technically tagged by @vonlipvig but mostly just taking an excuse to show nine of my favorite novels

Tagging anyone who sees this who also feels the urge to show off nine of their faves (if you do, please tag me so I can see because I love seeing what people like to read)

[2024skin]

Sometimes I think I miss some of my old male coworkers and then I remember the way they defended Johnny Depp and im like nah

[szczek]

everyday i am filled with rage

[thegirlmirage]

The TERFs have gotten ahold of this post and are doing a lot to try and dehumanize me or send me death threats because of this. Some of those blogs were children or very close to it. I can't tell you how that horrifies me to see people caught up in a hate movement that obliterates self-examination so young. Those are precious days being stolen from those people. Being trans I know what it's like to lose that time and never get it back.

However it's important to recognise that there's clearly something in this message of tolerance that they don't want to get out, and foolishly by repeatedly reblogging versions of my post, they're actually raising the profile of the original message.

I'm quite weary of getting death threats, let's show them our compassion and unity will always overcome their isolation and hatred.

Reblog this post or any version of it that doesn't have the hateful messages attatched, spread the message further. If they didn't want to be a part of getting this message to see a wider audience then they shouldn't have started fucking with me.

Please reblog and fight fascism with me today!

My queers, we really need to put the "no men" thing away. Men are not inherently bad. There are queer men. There are questioning men. There's men that are just plain cool. Denying these men a space at our table is not helping - except the TERFs. I just came off the back of reading a transphobe gleeful rant about the need to have pride without men - They of course mean me. This kind of stuff is damaging to me and I really need us all to take a step back and maybe kill this "men dni, men not allowed" stuff. What you mean is "no men who are going to do mean stuff to me." And frankly those men won't give a shit about that kind of boundary.

But I promise you there's a fleet of good honest men who will see that and be sad they're not allowed in your version of queer spaces.

PATRIARCHY is what you hate. Dni Patriarchs.