#fuck patriarchy

[kendallville]

The 100 Greatest TV Performances of the 21st Century by Variety

Variety put Jeremy Strong as number two of the greatest tv performances!!! 🥰

Of course he's our number one, but being second after Julia Louis-Dreyfus is like a win!!!

Full list: Variety

[cormancatacombs]

Image description:

A screenshot of a pair of tweets by Janel Comeau @ VeryBadLlama. They read,

“ ‘our great-grandmothers were so much happier staying home with no jobs’

congrats on the generational wealth, I hope your great-grandma waved at mine as she worked her full-time job at the factory

my great-great grandma did not spend the early 20th century sweating her buttons off in a British garment factory to have me sit in my air-conditioned office pining for the days of yore”

End of description.

[cruel-kaya]

Kab Tak ?

How long are we going to endure it ?

[moonbean117]

[uhhh-i-couldnt-possibly]

I don't know if this is a super obvious realisation but anyway here goes

Basically why I think these characters are so relatable is because they constantly struggle with their self-worth which is really quite hard NOT to in today's times, especially for queer, neurodivergent, disabled folks. And to see these eternal, literally magical and powerful beings exist and struggle with their existence is just reassuring because if they find their way out of these struggles - well, then we can too.

And it's really very beautiful because it's so delicately done, with Crowley and Aziraphale respectively. Crowley is not necessarily struggling with their appearance, behaviour or attitude - that they are actually pretty confident about. It's more about the inner conflict that's being caused by being LIKED and appreciated by Hell. Because if hell approves of you - what kind of person are you? And even though Crowley obviously couldn't care less about what Hell thinks, they still feel they can't align themselves with Satan's side - they rather choose their own side. On the one hand it's because Crowley has once disappointed Her and knows the feeling of not being good enough. So now they refuse to have someone have that kinda power over them again. And on the other hand it's because Crowley knows there's good inside him - and he likes that part of himself.

What he struggles with however is aligning what is right and good and what is deemed acceptable by Hell. It's a fine line she treads - she never ever wants to overstep because where would she belong then? Too evil for Heaven, too good for Hell? No, better pretend to walk the line. And that vulnerability is very hard to admit for Crowley, she only ever comes to terms with it when she's afraid to lose Aziraphale - so she speaks up about what she truly wants.

For Aziraphale, it's obviously different. He hasn't fallen from Her grace, he is safe in knowing that he is "good". But he struggles to live up to Heaven's expectations of him. He only ever sees Heaven as the only true Good and is insecure about his own place in the puzzle. He doesn't fit, because he too questions like Crowley but also because he never wants Heaven to disapprove of him while simultanously constantly disapproving of Heaven (secretly). His self-worth struggles are more obvious in a way because Heaven is constantly reminding him. And obviously his love for Crowley overcomplicates things because of the rules he has set out for himself - a truly good being could never love a demon. Even though he knows that Crowley is every bit as good as he is - not all good. Never all good (just like a human being).

I just think this is very relatable for people not fitting in patriarchal, ableist, neurotypical norms that we were never meant to fit in. Putting Heaven and Hell on a pedestral of purely Good or entirely Evil is what leads to their struggles - if Heaven disapproves of you, how good can you be? If Hell approves of you, how good are you?

If you need help, how helpless are you? If you struggle, how insecure are you?

The point is, they can escape their insecurities by acknowledging their own side. And that they were never meant to fit anywhere but their own side. And that's what we could really learn from these characters 🤍

Take up space and demand your self-worth to be acknowledged and celebrated 💫

[walkawayinsin]

I'm neither Team Green nor Black

I am Team "Otto and Larys are the worst two-faced d*ckheads and the reason behind everything bad and everytime they suffer I enjoy it"

[evilgothmisandrist]

OMG it angers me how feminsim is such a not talked topic irl, n if u actually get ppl to talk abt it, when they r feminist or support it, they r always LIBERALS and will behead u js for wanting to destroy patriarchy from the roots n for not just saying “its their choice!!!! its empowering!!!! ur a bigot!!!! let people live!!! etc 🤗” No its not, their “CHOICE” was bc of the patriarchy, but yall js want to embrace it n add glitter to it n then when real feminists point it out yall get mad.

[ziggy-solarecreator]

[haley-harrison]

just had a cishet white dude complain to me that the business world doesn't take him as seriously if he doesn't grow a beard.

mf, image being a woman in this patriarchal society. no beard cheat-code. you just gotta deal with it and let your work speak for itself. 🙃

[lost-my-sanity1]

i don't know if some (i mean most) women will ever realise how misogynistic and patriarchal they are. and it really pains me to see my friends, family members, neighbours defend men like their life depends on it.

[fuzzyleapfrog]

Das wäre nett.

[daughter-of-lethe]

Aesthetic: Emerie of Illyria

[babypenguinbird]

"women should stop being whores and stop having sex if they care abput abortion so much." and men will start fucking eachother? as if enough women arent already getting raped everyday

[princessablogsstuff]

kisses _

[lilacsandcherries]

"ignorance makes you guilty"

"love is deadly"

first two photos shot with the yashica fx-70 quartz on cinestill 400d

third photo shot on kodak ultramax 400

fourth photo shot with the leica z2x on fujicolor c200

[purpleeivy]

misandry isnt a real life issue. hope this helps. consider going outside

Hey. Disrespectfully, fuck off.

Misandry is an issue because its a result if the patriarchy, not a "man hating woman" issue.

The patriarchy is founded on the (wrong) belief that men are this idealised human, and that women and anyone else is inferior.

Funnily enough, when the men don't fit this impossible ideal of Masculinity in a society where they should be number 1 (because again, doing so is impossible) they get humiliated and shamed by everyone around them, because they all buy in to the patriarchal values that the Man should be the best, and if you are a man and you aren't the best then you are a pathetic waste of space and deserve all the hatred and humiliation you recieve.

The combination of Misandry and Misogyny is why feminine boys get bullied, why trans women are the focus of the "trans debate". The patriarchy thinks "men" are violent and depraved, and that that's how it should be, so of course when people they percieve as men (unfortunately thats where transphobia comes in, as they see trans women as men) who abandoned their positions as the dominant ruler in favour of the weaker, lesser position (thats where the misogyny comes in, as the patriarchy views womanhood/femininity the way a billionare might look down on a homeless person), they demonize them and make them out to be monsters, publically humiliating and shaming them in an attempt to bring them back to their "rightful" place in the heirarchy.

Obviously, that's a load of horse shit, there is no innate heirarchy, men are not superior to women and neither are women to men, but the patriarchy hurts both of them in drastically different ways.

I didnt even get into the isolation that most men feel, touch starvation, emotional neglect, etc.