#today I am a woman

[lifes-remedy]

Bat Mitzvah Bounce

To Celebrate Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Season 2 coming tomorrow. These two are just incredible. Mazel Tov Casey!

[jenniferdiazisatransgirl]

Casey and Rainbows

So since episode one, I have felt like Casey maybe LGBT+, although given her Dads it is very possible she is just an ally. But just a few things of note;

1. When she gives Lunella her card during the first episode, it is one stripe short of a Pride Flag.

2. During the sleepover episode she has a Pride Flag sleeping bag.

3. In “Coney Island Baby” she says that she always eats something colourful before going on rides so if she vomits it is rainbow coloured.

Girl really likes rainbows to the point I feel she is hinting at something. Like I say, she may simply be an ally, especially considering her Dads but this isn’t simply the only reason I think she is LGBT+.

Like there is the way she initially acts around Lunella, however this can be put down to the fact she is socially awkward and then of course in “Today I Am a Woman”, one of her Dads saying that Moon Girl is “a keeper”.

I’ll give at this stage it is relatively weak evidence, but it is stuff I can’t help but notice none the less.

[mandareeboo]

Is there any jewish peeps who watched the bat mitzvah episode willing to give me a rundown? Loved it but understood none of the Yiddish and there's no transcript out for me to self-translate.

[mask131]

I am re-reading the Silmarillion, and something strikes me. The women of Tolkien's world have been talked about TO DEATH especially with all the recurring debates surrounding the Rings of Power series.

As we all know, Tolkien was not a "feminist" in the modern sense of the word. He had a very male-centric point of view and appreciation of the world, he had male-driven and male-centered stories, and actual women characters were sparse and rare. There are only five really big female characters in "The Lord of the Rings" - the quintet of Galadriel, Eowyn, Goldberry, Lobelia and Shelob. [No, don't talk to me about Arwen, she only really was a character in the movies, in the book she's just there in the appendix and she was literaly an afterthought of Tolkien to act as Eowyn's romantic double...]

Consider this. Galadriel, Eowyn, Goldberry, Lobelia and Shelob. This tells you everything you need to know about Tolkien's women, in good and bad.

The Silmarillion has the same motif of having a lot of female characters, only for most of them to be just footnotes, secondary characters with no lines, under-developped one-liners... with in a contrast a handful of super-cool, super-badass, complex and developed heroines at the center of the plot.

Aka, on the bad side, when listing the Valar, while Tolkien gives an interesting personality, great domains and cool attributes to all the male ones, half of the female ones are just... there. And do one stuff. And never appear again. I mean come on... Vana and Nessa? Estë and Vairë were done dirty... That's the actual type of "non-feminism" Tolkien has. It isn't about him hating women or trying to be offensive in his depictions - it is about him just, not putting as much thought, effort and care into his female characters as his male ones, a bit the same way he creates the vast expanses of the East and South of Middle-Earth and then never bothers actually developing more of it or seeking to tell tales of it - but that's for another discussion about Tolkien's "racism". Here we talk about women.

But here's the thing, aka the good side... When Tolkien does find the time and care to develop and flesh out a female character, by Iluvatar he goes all out! Again, we are back on what I said earlier: the women of Lord of the Rings can be counted on one hand... but these fingers are Galadriel, Eowyn and Shelob, so you can't claim he isnt writing powerful, important or uninterestng female characters. Which leads me to my original remark - as usual I get driven away in digressions of all sorts and kinds.

Have you ever noticed that Melkor's greatest enemies, the ones he fears the most, and his most effective foes... are women? Tolkien might not like to put them front and center of his tales, and he might have been a man of the early 20th century England in culture and mind, but boy does he has something to say about how women are actually the first enemies of the literal embodiment of evil and destruction! I mean think about it. Varda of the Stars, and Yavanna of the trees. Nienna has her ambiguous relationship to him - her tears work against him, and yet without her plea for him he likely would not have been released from the dungeons of Mandos. You have Melian with her Girdle, and Luthien with her Hound. And of course most of all Arien, guardian of the Sun, not only one of the rare fire spirits that Melkor couldn't corrupt (despite him basically ruling over all fire), but that frightens him so much he keeps hiding away and doesn't even dare to attack her... [I also reblogged some times ago a post praising the brilliance of Tolkien keeping the old European sun-moon motifs but switching the genders. The weaker, inconsistant, lustful, whimsical, disorderly, untrustworthy Moon is now a male principle, while the steady, dangerous, strong, powerful and beautiful Sun is a woman.]

It is actually REALLY easy to do a feminist retelling of Tolkien's work. Melkor doesn't fear Manwë as much as Varda. Aulë's works and servants get corrupted by Melkor, while Yavanna's do not. Melian and Luthien actively works against him. He friggin' pisses himself when the Woman of the Sun shows up. Sure, there are some evil female characters that serve him down the line and are relegated to the "obscure footnotes and undescribed secondary characters" zone - Thuringwethil the vampire or queen Beruthiel. I coul also dropped deleted characters from early drafts, like the ogress Fluithuin. But among them stands Ungoliant... THE only true female big bad on the dark side of Arda. THE badass, nightmarish, creepy eldritch abomination. And who ends up double-crossing Melkor, almost KILLING him, and again making him basically shit in his pants - as Varda and Arien do.

The first enemies of Morgoth are not the Valar, or the Maiar, or the Elves... It's women.

[ryonello]

I SUPPORT WOMENS WRONGS 🗣🗣🗣

[cutie-chimera]

Just goofin'

[sergle]

When I talk about something bad I've experienced, Baked In to my experience as A Woman, I am not "making my little cousins feel like shit for being women", because I am talking in a space with, allegedly, adults. I am not bringing my problems to children in the first place. That said, I don't HAVE to make my baby cousin feel bad, because she's already experienced sexual harassment in her life, and she's only 8, and doesn't even understand what any of it means yet. And everyone in her family can try to instill confidence in her, and never talk about our bodies in a negative way. But she can still feel like she's too chubby, because she still goes to school, and talks to other kids and their parents, and still sees ads, and still watches tv. We can be positive, but we can't fix the root of the problem. And I don't HAVE to tell trans women that "pain is a rite of passage", because that's not a Rule being enforced (by me), because I've already sat and listened to my friend complain about constantly shaving as a Baseline necessity and how it hurts her skin and she has to put makeup onto fresh cuts on her face because going out without a full face of properly feminine makeup would make her life worse, and being anything less than thin and lithe makes her "less feminine", and ALL the things that can make her "more feminine" are behind a paywall. And I can try to make her feel better, and I can hear her experiencing the tenfold version of problems I relate to, but I can't fix the root cause of her problems by just telling her not to complain. Forcing happiness as a core personality trait for women is not the Girlboss Feminist move that you think it is, and no amount of gender euphoria in the world will make you immune to systemic oppression.

[witchysniffles]

HEY SO UMM...DID WE KNOW ABOUT THIS?? BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THIS IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT

stumbled on an ~8 min clip of a/ubrey p/laza on an australian podcast and she...well...just listen

the whole thing is good obv but around :50seconds is where it gets really good 👀

[sealochs]

[defiledtomb]

How did it go ? 👁👁

I FEEL ALIVE

[jenniferdiazisatransgirl]

“Today I Am a Woman” (Spoilers)

So Season 1 of a show tends to be my gathering my thoughts stage to really get a feel for the show and any theories I might have.

I really do like the focus on chosen family in this episode. Early on Casey’s Dads discussing their wedding and saying while it was small it was great to be surrounded by their “chosen family”.

Later in the episode, when Casey realises that her focus on making her Bat Mitzvah the best party ever has caused her to push away her friend and overshadowed what it should be about. She in this moment mentions “chosen family” and how in that moment, her best friend Lunella is missing.

Chosen family is a big thing in the LGBT+ community. We don’t always have the acceptance of our families and therefore we seek acceptance and support from our friends, friends who in time become our chosen family. The family who accepts us for who we are and not who they desire for us to be.

With the backdrop that Casey’s Dads are LGBT+ and the fact this reference to chosen family first came up in the context of their wedding, I really like the way it was brought up and used.

While both Casey and Lunella have families who love and accept them for who they are, both characters are shown to be socially awkward in their own individual ways. Both admit to not really having friends.

Lunella seems to bury herself in science and academic stuff, while Casey seems to get a sense of belonging and approval through her role as a social media influencer. In each other they have found friendship though and given the two of them don’t easily make friends, I can see how they’d be each others chosen family.

Adding to that last point though, I do like how this explores Casey’s seeming addiction to how people view her online. It kinda blocks out her connection to the outside world in this instance. I feel it kinda parallels a bit with the episode where Lunella is playing chest against that AI and ends up being obsessed with winning, in her obsession she ends up blocking out the fact the AI wants an equal they can make a connection with.

Also, I’d be remiss if I didn’t bring up one of Casey’s Dads saying that Moon Girl is “a keeper”. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t ship Lunella and Casey a lil bit. Like it isn’t a ship I’m overly invested in, as I think they work fantastic as friends but the first episode did seem to hint at it initially.

[yardsards]

im like the lorax when it comes to women's body hair. we should let it grow.

[fightingdragonswithwho]

He kept us outside. But he kept everyone outside. When he let you in... when the sun shone... it was warm. Yeah. It was really... It was warm in the light. But it was hard to be his daughter. I can't not... You know, he was... hard on women. He couldn't fit a whole woman in his head. But he did okay. You did okay, Dad. We're all here and we're doing okay. We're doing okay. So, goodbye my dear, dear world of a father.

SUCCESSION Church and State

[faunandfloraas]

im so glad im not the only person that looks at seungmin and goes "❓tism❓" bc he is Way Too Relatable to me as a person w autism

yeah..... like I say it in jest but also..... well, yk. sometimes you notice something and you notice something and you notice something and you go Hmmmm

[geneticcarnage]

un. be. lievable. are you seeing this shit

[rehide]

it's the nine year anniversary of me starting tokyo ghoul! it's honestly so crazy to me how much of my life tg has been with me for and i'm forever grateful to it for all the memories it has left me with, the friends i have made because of it, and for being such a huge factor in who i grew up to be. in celebration take this image i made several months ago

inspired by that one tumblr edit of charles ii