#poor women

[ater-love]

Every time antis say “no one will love you like a mate because a mate’s love is the most strongest type of love” I remember Rhys’s mother and I get so sad.

You are telling me no one would have loved Rhys’s mother more than her mate? Who, let’s not forget, hated her and treated her like crap?

Poor woman

And no one will ever love Elain more than someone who needed to know if she was worth it? Someone who doesn’t even understand her? Someone who can live away from her and can’t stand to be in the same room as her? Someone who found her lacking in comparison to his ex lover?

Yikes… the bar is in hell for these women

[bee-sidebranch]

[itellmyselfsecrets]

“A UK Department for Transport study highlighted the stark difference between male and female perceptions of danger, finding that 62% of women are scared walking in multi-story car parks, 60% are scared waiting on train platforms, 49% are scared waiting at the bus stop, and 59% are scared walking home from a bus stop or station.

The figures for men are 31%, 25%, 20% and 25%, respectively. Fear of crime is particularly high among low-income women, partly because they tend to live in areas with higher crime rates, but also because they are likely to be working odd hours and often come home from work in the dark.' Ethnic-minority women tend to experience more fear for the same reasons, as well as having the added danger of (often gendered) racialised violence to contend with.” - Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)

[labradorite-princess]

I hope A'ja Wilson is okay.

[omg-hellgirl]

Marianne was in the middle of her seventh month when, without warning, her water broke and she miscarried on November 22, 1968. The stillborn infant was a boy. (By some tragic twist of fate Yoko Ono miscarried John Lennon's baby only hours later. Ono, who was still married to the American movie director Anthony Cox, was also seven months pregnant.)

Christopher P. Andersen, Jagger Unauthorized.

[redtail-lol]

If you use arab.org like I do please consider taking the extra 30-60 seconds to click on ALL of their causes. Palestine is important but so are the environment, refugees, children, women, and the impoverished across the middle east and it doesn't take away from Palestine to click for multiple causes. The arab world faces a lot of problems and they only get worsened by how western nations have oppressed and attacked them. Clicking is small but it generates something and overtime it does benefit the greater good. It takes all of us clicking as often as possible but we can do it! It's really easy and safe and they have proofs on their site on how they do make an impact and are donating your click money

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Persuasive – but mostly nutty – theories about economics, religion, class and gender drove poor and working women from the country and into the sweatshops of the early factories in the middle of the eighteenth century.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[oh-dear-so-queer]

Poor women could also be used as an outlet for homosexuals. Lady Saville was said to have converted her son, Sir George, from homosexuality in 1750 by taking him away from a male lover, a waiter at Mount's coffee house, into the country to have sex with servant girls and agricultural workers. Henry Harris reported the cure: 'Lady Saville has taken her younger twig of Sodom into the country, and by way of weaning him from that unnatural vice, takes great pains to cocker him with every Abigail in her house and all the milk maids cunts in the neighbourhood.'

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[tenth-sentence]

Most of those accused of witchcraft were women – and two-thirds of them were poor single women.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[anyataylorjoys]

POOR THINGS (2023) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

[inkskinned]

how odd, to watch the creative writing exercises of angry men in the comments of instagram. you noticed it first in the comments of conventionally attractive women - but then it started appearing everywhere else, too.

a young man talks about what lunch he's packing his wife. there is a little story under it, with 300 likes, fabricated from nothing. "this is pointless. if you treat her like this, she will take the lunch to her office and fuck her boss and divorce him and take all his money."

you scroll. a young woman talks about what lunch she's packing for her husband. it is always uglier when the subject of the video is a woman, you've noticed. "you sit on camera and you smile and you are cheating with the neighbor and then you're going to lie about being sexually assaulted by your husband and -"

you stop reading. it has 567 likes.

where did this even become a thing? people making up stories in their head, disgusting long-winded assumptions about intention and sexual disgrace. the evil twin of fanfiction.

like - it's just a lie. it's a lie that they are telling, baldfaced and assumptive. the undercurrent is of course misogyny, but the trouble is that they're so fucking certain. that's what makes the hairs on the back of your neck rise. there is this pervasive, inventive desire for them to be right. that they must be right. all women are cheating, lying, gold-digging bitches. no exceptions.

in the reverse, when women say i'd rather meet a bear in the woods than a strange man - men funnel in from the sides. they defend each other with a vibrance and capacity for empathy you wish applied to like, the other half of the population. a man could be saying i absolutely did kill her and these creatures in the comments would rise up with king shit. she made it happen. they love each other to the point of this sick strange self-gaslighting, a fervent and unhinged cognitive distortion. all men are good, wonderful people. all women are terrible, conniving, seditious, annoying.

and when did it become okay to just, like... say that kind of a thing? at one point, you find yourself typing out a witty and snappy retort. why are you spending so much time fantasizing about other people babe. but as you stare at the screen, some part of you pictures this man in public, saying these things to your face. his soapbox, high and mighty. his mirrored sunglasses and his empty life: tired and lonely.

what a sad and horrible loop he's locked in. he is terrible to women, so women don't talk to him, which he uses as an excuse to act more terribly. he blames this "failure" on women, rather than on his behavior. it cannot be that he is the problem (that the solution is to just put his ego down and accept women as equals) - he begins to invent a sculpture to replace the flesh frame of each person he sees.

it isn't just a woman posing on the beach. it is now a slut with a desperate need for each person to crave her body. it isn't just a woman yelping with surprise during something upsetting. it is a hysterical, unhelpful cretin who will probably make things worse instead of better. it isn't a person.

someone's very sweet wedding vows get moderate attention on instagram. in the comments, a man says good fucking luck you'll waste your life providing while behind your back she's absolutely fucking the best man. this will be so cringe in 2 months when she walks out on you.

you think - is that what you need to be true? is that what you need to happen, for the world to make sense to you?

[puppyboygf]

women with god complexes are so annoying. you'll say "oh my god" at something and they'll go "yes?" and then you have to pretend you don't wanna kneel in worship then & there

[radicallicious]

no but like what's the deal between celebs and buccal fat removal? sure it's been talked before here and who doesn't know about how damaging it is and such but to think that some women are still getting it baffles me...

[journalsandjourney]

That’s why they’ll always be backwards and under-developed. You don’t abuse and lock up half your population if you want to grow.

[lazylittledragon]

my absolute favourite genre of transphobic propaganda is when the caption is like “look at this poor, confused little girl who was forced to mutilate herself :(” and the picture is just the hottest man you’ve ever seen in your life with a full beard and a body that would make thor weak at the knees

[demaparbat-hp]

Oh, Aang, you're really in it now...

This is Zu—I mean, Jian Li and Katara's second meeting in the Kyoshi Warriors AU. The first proper one, anyway.

Once they get through a minor difference of opinion or two (“I can carry my own basket!” “Never said you—” “I'm not weak!” “I didn't—” “Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean—” “Would you listen for once, woman?!” ) they'll become nearly inseparable.

For now Jian Li will carry Katara's basket all the way to the Kyoshi Warriors' dojo and, once there, they'll mercilessly tease Sokka when they see him in uniform.