#i'm not sure if this is shitposting or not

[jukashi]

If we take a break for a moment from the funny meme or self-aware kink indulgence understanding of the 'bimbo', and instead examine it as a sort of sexist fantasy - that is, literally a fantasy of ideal womanhood as imagined by a sexist - then we can come to understand that the 'himbo' is not the masculine counterpart. There is discourse to mine out of the idea that the himbo represents a sexist fantasy of ideal manhood, but I think that the himbo actually represents a sort of halfway step between the bimbo and her true counterpart.

The bimbo embodies sexist 'ideals' of womanhood, taken to an extreme and bent to the desires of the sexist (presumed straight, male) imagination. She is:

1) physically attractive in sexual terms, to an extreme - both a pleasure to possess and a status symbol to display to others

2) always horny (thus, always sexually available)

3) unintelligent in the traditional sense - not good at organization, STEM fields, academic learning, etc. this keeps her...

4) nonthreatening - she won't outshine a man in any domain of (the sexist ideas of) male competence, and

5) dependent - in need of a big strong smart man to provide for her, reassuring said man's sense of self-worth

All of these line up with traditional sexist ideas of womanhood - where the bimbo has flaws, they're not feminine flaws, and she still possesses feminine strengths (according to the sexist mindset).

So, the male counterpart of the bimbo should embody sexist ideals of manhood, taken to an extreme and bent to the desires of the sexist imagination. If we compare to the bimbo's features listed above, then:

1) physical attractiveness is desirable for men but not a key feature - a man can be manly while being ugly in a way a woman cannot be womanly if she is ugly.

2) horniness is not seen as desirable for men - it is expected and excused by sexists, but it's considered threatening to those who are its targets and a lot of sexism towards men is based in this assumed threat.

3) traditional intelligence is considered manly, but emotional intelligence isn't - in fact, it's seen as unmanly.

4) being threatening is harder to extract from manliness, as is...

5) being dependent, but it is possible, even required - men are just expected to be non-threatening and dependent in a different way.

Remembering that we're looking for a sexist ideal rather than a sexual ideal, we need to identify how sexism towards men works. Men are not sexually objectified under traditional sexism, but they are still objectified. This objectification is based on utility - an objectified man is reduced to a tool. He is wanted for what he can do and how well he does it, not in himself. His personhood is reduced to what makes him useful and controllable, and when he is not being of use he is unseen. He does not feel pain, he does not feel emotions that make him less of a perfect undemanding worker or soldier, he is permitted to suffer or rage or weep only for the things he serves and never for himself.

The male counterpart of a bimbo would be:

1) physically obviously useful - big and strong and tough, to an extreme, convenient for whoever he serves and an implicit threat to their enemies

2) seldom horny (thus never sexually threatening)

3) emotionally unintelligent - lacking the ability to understand or express the feelings of others or even his own (if he even has them) - in order to help make him:

4) unthreatening, in the sense of being easily controllable and socially inferior, and

5) dependent - in need of an inspiring leader, abstract ideals or a sole source of comfort to fulfill his emotional needs, further securing his loyalty and obedience.

I put it to you, then:

Space Marines are the male counterpart of bimbos, and becoming one is bimbofication.

[pisscreant]

had a vivid dream where there was a "play as Kim" mod and I was super excited

after like 2 mins gameplay Harry just turned around looking scandalised and was like "Ohgod... It's me, Kim. *I'm* Grandpa Piss!"

he refused to elaborate even after I savescummed and exhausted all dialogue options

then a notification flashed like "THOUGHT GAINED: GRANDPA PISS" and I went to the thought cabinet screen. all it said was "What the fuck does he mean by that."

[hazbin-charlastor-hyperfixation]

[mofsblog]

I apologise if I wasn't very eloquent in my original post (I intended it to be a light-hearted shitpost and I did not expect this much attention). I will say I do still stand by what I said even if I feel like I did not communicate it in the best way. I know objectively that Vander is what brought them back together and I do think that if it had to be anything, it being him makes sense. However, my main issue is just that it feels very rushed and I wish it was given more time to be fully fleshed out and I wish we got more internal conflict from both of them before they reached this point. This feels like it needed a season to develop to feel organic for me

The reason why I made this post very watered down was mostly for comedic purposes but also in an attempt to convey how much development their relationships downfall had and how I felt their reunion felt underwhelming in comparison. Season one just put so much effort into making sure we understood every characters motivations intimately and I just personally found that lacking in Act 2. Like I could make a bunch of assumptions about the characters which I don't mind but it still feels a bit unclear which made the family reunion fall flat form me, personally. That being said, if you found it beautiful then more power to you. I'm glad someone got something out of it that I didn't

They really used all of season 1 and season 2 act 1 to hammer in the inherent tragedy of Vi and Jinx's relationship and how, despite the love they had and still partially hold for eachother, several factors out of their control (the majority of which can be seen as the direct and indirect consequences of them and other lower class being actively oppressed and treated like second class citizens by their own government and larger richer society at large) have lead to them both being traumatised repeatedly at an early age and drastically changing as a result and now they're past the breaking point and they've hurt eachother too much to probably ever be sisters again and theres nothing that can be done about it and youre left wondering what could've been.

and then two episodes and a nebulous timeskip after they try to kill eachother again, they reunite and have two scenes of arguing before being like. super chill and a family now. okay 👍

[violethursday]

Hey just so y'all know, I have the high quality version of that one Agent 4 image

Now I'm not the original creator, but I saved the image around early 2023 and its been sitting in my files collecting dust (not really since it's on a computer) until I was browsing said files today. Enjoy the quality btw.

EDIT 6/21/24: Thanks to @splatsavvy for knowing who's the user that made the image! Here's the link to the original post on Reddit!

[striveattemptfail]

had a conversation about my adhd recently then went to make this lmao

[harlotofupdog]

[shinedoitsulikeabright]

Had Odysseus been smarter, he would've perhaps asked Hades to help him evade Poseidon. I mean, Hades was surely annoyed. Poor guy had 500 new arrivals to deal with all because of his brother's little tantrum.

[foone]

Idea: getting robotgirl euphoria by keeping a Jira of all your body & mind's defects.

* BODY-074: "eyes blurry" (closed as we have a workaround (see GLASSES project))

* EARS-013: "trouble hearing conversations in some environments" (closed, not an EARS issue. See AUTS-549)

* TRAN-265: hair removal task, part of TRAN-250 epic. Currently open but on the backburner. See subtasks TRAN-267 ("Laser hair removal": closed) and TRAN-284 ("Electrolysis": open but unable to make progress, waiting on external conditions to improve)

[deoidesign]

Sorry I havent stopped thinking about them since I saw this post

[good-to-drive]

[artkaninchenbau]

For the record, I did figure that out a long time ago, it just gets funnier the more time passes

[bluevelvetea]

KN8 x AO3

All tags found on @dear-ao3

[hannibard]

Say what you will about the witcher season 2 but all the "Yennefer took Jaskier in the divorce", "Geralt and Yennefer are a divorced couple rasing a kid and dating the same man", "geraskefer love triangle with an oblivious Jaskier in the middle" memes and fics were top tier

[hazbin-charlastor-hyperfixation]

[existennialmemes]

Photosynthesis is one of those things that you usually learn about in a simplified way when you're little, that we grow up kinda taking for granted that we "know how that works."

But the process is actually so spine tinglingly bizarre, that if you heard about it for the first time as an adult, you wouldn't even believe it.

Plants are just transmuting light beams into highly complex molecules of sugar. By using the light as a fuckin' battering ram to shatter molecules of water apart. And we're just like "oh yeah, they do that, no big deal" as if that's not a seven layer bizarro dip of what the fuck.