#supporting women’s success

[voguegenics]

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[astrogirlythings]

[jrueships]

men can and will talk abt wnba players' looks first and make it sound like they're models and not athletes, but immediately scrutinize and deride women for being fans of men's sports bcs they think they're only in it for the handsome looks and don't value a person's skill outside that, and that's a valid reason for alienating and rejecting their opinion because that's a bad thing to do objectively

[d-1hater]

rewatching young justice and honestly s2 M’Gann was so fucking crazy

Girlie discovered police brutality and decided it was her favorite Earth thing and proceeded to mentally destroy (literally) so many people

[zevranunderstander]

no hate to people who are into that shit but I just saw a post that was like "how the succession characters would react to you having a panic attack", and um. well. they would do absolutely nothing

[evermoredeluxe]

Based on how Jason was today he knows that the way Travis is being criticized isn’t fair. It’s not that he is being criticized, but how almost the entire focus is off-field stuff instead of people looking at his play.

Also, and they wouldn’t say this: they’ve worked hard even before Travis started dating Taylor to not be an overly bro-y podcast. Like they can still be bro-y (see the episode with Chris Jones), but it’s always in a “bros hanging on a deck drinking beers talking shop” way and not in a way that puts down women or anything. There’s a lot about the criticism of Travis at the moment that boils down to: he chose to be a supportive partner to someone who was selling our European stadiums this summer.

all of this. and travis is too humble to let out his frustrations publicly.

[swift13s]

Chappell roan responding to stalkers

VALID

Taylor Swift calling the music industry an asylum

VALID

Successful women are still humans who deserve HUMAN RIGHTS (CHAPPELL PUT IT BEST SO GO WATCH HER VID)

[twinge-of-cosmicangst]

[moniqueesworld]

[dreamlandgirlie]

the way people are already comparing mamiko (shohei ohtani’s wife) to taylor 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[lesbiancolumbo]

not to be that guy but when you reblog posts from me i do see your tags so if you’re gonna reblog posts and put just absolutely fucking stupidity in the tags and just blatantly lie about things can you pick someone else to subject that to. i’m a good person and don’t deserve that

[pynkhues]

Oooh I’d absolutely love to listen if you’d ever want to share your experience with the differences in male and women writers 👀🤍

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Hahaha, mm, look, I should disclaimer this with the fact that a lot of the men and women I spoke to at the writers centre weren't necessarily writers so much as they wanted to be writers?

The writers centre I worked at was a non-profit arts support service, so we were separate from the authors guild / union, but basically the organisation they'd refer people onto a lot for anything from people wanting to do creative writing workshops and masterclasses to people needing advice on preparing their novel manuscript for submission to legal advice on publishing contracts or even just connections to bookstores. It was a real mix of stuff, and our clientele ranged from absolute beginners and hobbyists to probably some of the most famous Australian authors working. I'd say most of the membership though was early career writers who had probably had a couple of short stories published, and were hoping to get a novel out.

I worked there for five and a half years and it really burnt me out. It was a pretty gruelling job, the pay was shit, and while a lot of people calling up were lovely, a lot were calling either to vent about rejection or were in a crisis mode usually because they'd just been preyed on by self-publishers and vanity presses and were now stuck in contracts that would financially ruin them.

But yes, haha, in my experience of working there and talking to writers literally all day, every day, from across the spectrum of experience:

Men will never sign up as a member (ergo pay their dues), donate or support the Centre, but WILL take advantage of the free advice line. I think we worked out at one point 92% of our paying members were women, yet I'd say over half the calls I took during the day were men.

Men consistently think they've written a hit. Quotes I've never forgotten include "This'll be bigger than Dan Brown and Robert Ludlum combined", "Now, is it you I should talk to when the bidding war starts?" and, my personal favourite: "I've written the greatest book since Federation."

They WILL send you their manuscript even though you are very clear that you do not read manuscripts at the centre. We are eight staff, we have 4k members, it is not possible.

Sometimes! Those manuscripts they send you will have capital I Images on the covers of them to 'catch your eye'. The worst one I ever saw was a woman stark naked spread eagle with a swastika photoshopped over her vagina.

Men do not think workshops will help them. They know enough and if you suggest a workshop on, say, writing fight scenes, or preparing your manuscript for publication, they will get audibly annoyed at you and usually wrap up the conversation.

Men will call to ask you why their self-published book isn't selling on Amazon like it's your fault.

Men will call to ask you why their traditionally published book isn't selling anywhere like it's your fault (I don't know, man! Probably because publishers have no marketing budgets anymore!)

Men are Never Wrong and also Always the Victim, which I guess is basically what you'd expect, haha.

[euoiabloom]

Success is only goal

[thingswtiy]

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[books-apples-socks]

listening to "the southern book club's guide to slaying vampires" is such a mixed experience because on one hand you're treated to a wonderful narrator (bahni turpin) whose voice acting is beautiful and who makes wonderful character choices in pronunciation and mispronunciation and on the other hand.... the book itslelf is racist and sexist

[actual-sleeping-beauty]

I love when women win. Even when said women are awful.