#no men required

[isawthismeme]

[darth-jayne]

An OBGYN created a master list of gynecologists who will perform sterilization for women without the "over 36 with two kids and husband's consent" bullshit. Just in case anyone ever needs it or knows someone who might

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Djia_WkrVO3S4jKn6odNwQk7pOcpcL4x00FMNekrb7Q/htmlview

[zu-is-here]

Studio Magazine #2 ft. the bday boy ♡

[10/10] Cross from xtaleunderverse by jakei95

[gatekeeper-of-witchcraft]

thinking about the cycle of: women do better in school - more women become teachers - men are socialized not to listen to or pay attention to women - men do worse in school

[potato-lord-but-not]

HOW DO YOU DRAW WOMEN PLEASEPLEASE0LEAXE IM SUFFERING SO MUCH. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO DRAW MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE IRENE ADLER IF I CANT DRAW WOMEN ASJUIDJDJID

im so jealous of your ability to womanize sillies like gimme that ability NOW 😞😞 /silly

literally just add eyelashes that’s literally the only difference I have when drawing men vs women

you could even add some lips…

wait hold on is that….

ADORA BELLE DEARHEART !?

[genericpuff]

men will talk to a tree before talking to a therapist and they think this is somehow a gotcha towards the women who chose to be alone in the woods with a bear

[afriblaq]

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Okay listen, I'm real tired of seeing that post that's like "actually bell hooks was talking about how we raise boys" and other miscontrusions of what it is that The Will to Change is about.

So directly from the source, from bell hooks herself in the preface:

"The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love is about our need to live in a world where women and men can belong together. Looking at the reasons patriarchy has maintained its power over men and their lives, I urge us to reclaim feminism for men, showing why feminist thinking and practice are the only way we can truly address the crisis of masculinity today. In these chapters I repeat many points so that each chapter alone will convey the most significant ideas of the whole. Men cannot change if there are no blueprints for change. Men cannot love if they are not taught the art of loving.

It is not true that men are unwilling to change. It is true that many men are afraid to change. It is true that masses of men have not even begun to look at the ways that patriarchy keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving. To know love, men must be able to let go the will to dominate. They must be able to choose life over death. They must be willing to change."

I ain't wading headfirst into the discourse here. This isn't to state some opinion, but to correct the record about what bell hooks was talking about.

No one is saying you have to agree with her, but don't misconstrue what it is she wrote about to make it look like she agreed with you. The Will to Change is not solely about how we raise boys; it is also about men and the will of men to change.

[siderains]

magneto manspreading and covering charles mouth with steel while demanding him to shut up??? oh my god get a ROOM

[gideonisms]

I've never felt older than I did walking through the target today. why is all the clothing suddenly beige?? Are jumpsuits back??? I knew that the youth now wore baggy pants. But what I did not know is that they now don't sell jean shorts that hit mid thigh without swallowing one whole

[xaviers-school-dropout]

I think the ideas that

“Raven is a bad parent”

And

“Raven loves their children”

Can and should co exist. I will never sit here and say Mystique is a good parent, but I think acting like they don’t love their children is just being willfully ignorant of their characterization since the 80s.

I see a lot of people try to claim Raven doesn’t care about their kids. I actually think they care a LOT, it just, doesn’t deter their actions. And they’re not a good parent, don’t get me wrong, but that doesn’t mean they don’t love Kurt and Rogue and I think trying to claim they don’t actually does away with a lot of Raven’s character nuance.

A lot of the tragedy and depth of their relationships come from the fact that Raven DOES love their children, but it’s not enough. And Kurt and Anna Marie know that, and that’s part of the tragedy of it too.

I’m not a Mystique defender, but I am a Raven Darkhölme characterization realist. A lot of people flatten their character to add more sympathy to Kurt’s story especially, which feels kinda iffy to me. But that’s for another post.

From a storytelling perspective, it adds so much more depth and tragedy to all characters involved to not make the relationship so shallow and one sided as “Oh Mystique doesn’t love them”, and even to juxtapose Raven’s relationship to them with Irene’s is a whole other thing I may talk about one day. But like, you do the story injustice to flatten it down to just “Oh Mystique sucks”

Tl;dr - Raven Darkhölme is a shitty parent but they do love their kids. And that’s the whole tragedy of the thing

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

hot take I think the sexes would be much happier if we just accepted each other as mysteries instead of constantly shaming one for not being more like the other.

like, personally, in my own life, the whole idea of romance & marriage became way more exciting and attractive when I ditched the notion that men are just bigger stronger women, or women are just smaller prettier men.

like. not only is it okay that men are from mars and women are from venus, it's good.

do I know what's going on in my guy friend's head? I used to think I did, but it turns out I don't. Turns out I've never known what was going through the heads of any of the men in my life. And you know what? what a relief. he can do or say things that don't make sense to me, and they don't have to make sense to me. I know he's a smart, good-hearted guy; I can safely assume he had a reason for saying or doing that thing. And if I listen to him over time, I may even start to understand what that reason was. But I don't have to. What I can recognize instead is that each sex has a wisdom in their way of thinking and doing which befits given situations. More often than not, a situation requires both.

But you simply can't get both from one person, and you shouldn't demand it. And what a relief knowing my guy friend doesn't expect guy thoughts and behavior from me.

[jokesonyouimfruity]

Im alive temporarily,

So uh, have some Jason I forgot to post like a month ago and an oc (His name is Maribelle 🤷)

Hockey buddies,

I drew these like awhile ago but lost motivation tbh, but here anyways

[on-a-lucky-tide]

How do we feel about trans Gaz? Yes, no, maybe?

[astral-shiro]

One day someone tries to make fun of Kafka’s "spare tire" in Ichikawa’s hearing and he turns around and silently shows them a video that Kikoru sent of Kafka tossing 50lb bags of concrete powder like he’s picking fucking daisies

[lbhslefttiddie]

no two sv characters have less chemistry than sqq and mbj so of course i am incredibly delighted when they have to interact. i think if pressed mbj would not be able to tell you sqq's and i think thats so fucking funny