#uppity Women series

[coochiequeens]

No one tell these people that Viking men combed their hair and ironed their clothes and Viking women also joined their battles. Or else we will be seeing articles like “Which Vikings character was TQ+ in real life?”

https://www.bnd.com/news/nation-world/world/article275917576.html

Ok I hate to be one of those people who thinks they know better that people trained in the field but 🤦🏼‍♀️. Have these people every read Vicky Leon’s Uppity Women series? In her Uppity Women of Medieval Times she explains how after the plague a good number of blacksmiths were women. It wasn’t because they were non-binary or TQ+. It was because they were their brothers died and the fathers needed someone to help out with the family business since most professions were passed down within families.

Did they look at the remains of the men with hair decorations versus the remains of men without extras? My amateur guess would be that the men with hair decoration would show signs of being better feed throughout their lives. And that the hair decoration on men is a sign of higher social statues, which would bring more food, not gender identity. As for the woman buried with blades , a boar tusk and a fishing hook is it possible the blades were simple tools for ordinary household chores? Maybe the tusk is also a status symbol? Or that she didn’t got out and hunt it but killed one in self defense or in defense of her home and crops? That the fish hook is because she would supplement the family diet with fresh protein by visiting a local stream or pond? Not because she was some transmasc sportswoman but because back then everyone was involved in food production.

[notchainedtotrauma]

I've written a public essay in which I'm working out the way Black women and Black girls perform their sexuality in public landscapes. This essay references Megan Thee Stallion and her orchestrated abuse, Delainey Hayles as Claudia Du Lac in the TV series Interview with the Vampire and the Black woman as jezebel, amongst other points. Since this essay is public, to profit from it, I would appreciate anybody this essay deeply exalted to tip. Pp: ccd4t@virginia.edu

The moving gifs above best visually sum up the essay. Here are some excerpts to whet your appetite:

To be overdetermined by their flesh is a narrative running through Black women and Black girls. The gaze is othering, glassy and blotting. Many a day Black girlhood and womanhood appears a ghostly dot of excessive meat, a haunting blotted carcass. It strains towards the biblical Jezebel, the queen mother whose cruel sinfulness had her cadaver crushed up by wild dogs, as was prophesied by Elijah. Insofar as biblical Jezebel goes, she is murderous, sly and luxurious.

and

But Megan Thee Stallion floats through the world of anime and video games, with cosplay, references, and player technology soaking through her aural and visual performances. The rapper manages to insert within the playful and fantastic universe of the gamer a sexuality that is at once theatrical, hilarious, and self-referencing. Megan Thee Stallion isn't Jezebel, but Menat. What's more exquisite than two bad bitches ?

and

On stage, she becomes sexless and almost genderless, the little girl she is registering more as a an impossible child than as a gendered character; she is funny at the expense of herself. Lulu is scripted within the grotesque of the minstrel show; a high uppity Black girl that must be subdued with the violence of the hammer and the nail. She doesn't exude the menacing sexuality of the Black woman, as she's punished before growing into it. Claudia Du Lac's subsequent speech brings forth the misuse of the signifiers that burrow her flesh, and the constant vertigo to which she is therefore exposed as she must celebrate her pain.

[iguessitsjustme]

Love Sea Ep 1 Thoughts

Okay. I know I said my next liveblog would be She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat because it won my poll BUT I decided I’m gonna be liveblogging Love Sea as it airs each week. And I will be liveblogging She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat later today. Or at least starting the liveblog. But liveblogging Love is the only way I think I make it through this series. I got my snacks I my got a diet coke. Pray for me watching a MAME show. Keep in mind that I am not a fan of MAME generally (and I have now finished this episode and this show is no exception. Don't get mad at me if you click the read more and don't like what I say). Under the cut as per usual:

I do like water so the water effect and sheer amount of water at the very beginning makes me extremely happy. I want more water forever.

FISH!!!!

“Dive and go get it” is not an appropriate response to dropping a pen in the water. Accept your loss.

DON’T PUSH PEOPLE OFF OF BOATS. DO NOT PUSH PEOPLE OFF OF BOATS. I DO NOT CARE. DO NOT PUSH PEOPLE OFF OF BOATS. HE IS NOT WEARING A LIFE JACKET. HE IS NOT PREPARED TO BE IN THAT WATER AT ALL. DO NOT PUSH PEOPLE OFF OF BOATS.

A nice, tranquil place being called heaven on earth makes sense. Our protagonist showing up and immediately calling it hell on earth because ???? does not make sense. Maybe see more than two feet of it before declaring it to be hell?

Calling someone that speaks a different dialect an idiot when you are on their island…bold. Dumb. And bold.

Do not steal his phone. You’re just an asshole. You’re both assholes. But you pushed a man off of a boat so I hate you more. All the other guy has done is been uppity and snobbish. He hasn’t actively endangered anyone’s life for a laugh.

And now purposefully speaking a dialect he doesn’t understand. Yes, he was an ass about it, but you knew he didn’t understand and did it anyway. And now he has explicitly said he doesn’t understand and you’re rubbing it in his face. You can speak a dialect he knows and understands and you both know you can and yet…

Oh I got it. He behaves like a teenager. But like the kind of teenager that needs a good life resorting. He’s a bully but no one really calls him out for it because he disguises it behind class clown behavior. He needs a swift kick in the pants considering he’s an adult that’s behaving this way.

I dislike how these shows always portray women as incapable of talking about the hotness of these guys. It’s not just BL. Other dramas are just as guilty if not more so. But c’mon. Having women characters does not excuse your portrayal of the other women in the story as only caring about some random dude’s hotness. Mut is hot? Not my taste but I can see why people consider him hot. But I guarantee most women on vacation, while they talk about hot guys, are also doing other things and talking about other things. Like the books they are reading on the beach. And how hot they themselves are. And the next activity they’re doing. They aren’t laser focusing on Mut. Except that the show says they are. Because they have no identities outside of a weak plot device to convince the audience of how hot Mut is. If he was really that hot, this tactic would not be needed. It would be conveyed in the rest of the show.

See how differently it’s framed for the men? Women are the ones interest in Mut, but when it’s for the men, it’s that Mut is open to them. The attraction is his. This is definitely setting the tone for the relationship that’s being built. Cause our other lowkey asshole (I’ll learn his name eventually maybe) is a man. He is not interested in Mut. But he is apparently Mut’s type so Mut will be attracted to him. It’s a different way of taking away agency but here it is on a character level and not removing agency from an entire gender.

They better be delivering this to me I have a feeling I’m gonna need it.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA get em

This montage of people interacting with Mut trying to tell us what a good person and community member he is feels like such lazy writing. Incredibly lazy writing. Like makes me angry because despite her faults, I know MAME is capable of better than…that.

DID HE JUST LEFT HIMSELF INTO THE ROOM BECAUSE HE HAS A KEY. ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT.

Romance *gags* aside, this is incredibly poor customer service. He didn’t knock. He didn’t announce he was coming in. I’m hoping it’s not early in the morning and that our lowkey asshole is just sleeping in. He’s cleaning the room and going through not-his-things. HE TOOK PICTURES. Someone call the police. Or call the me. I’ll go kick his ass.

Also also also the fact that he had that key that he was supposed to give to lowkey asshole means that HE SHOULD NOT HAVE USED IT TO ENTER THE ROOM. HE SHOULD NOT HAVE HAD IT.

Okay I need a break. This scene has gone on entirely too long with just the two of them standing on talking. There needs to be some movement on the screen and the tiny amount of body movement is not cutting it. Lowkey asshole should be walking away during this conversation. That would be in character and provide the necessary movement. But as it is…this whole scene feels stale and stagnant. So I’m gonna go make some food. Maybe I’ll be less pissy about this whole scene when I come back.

Okay. I am back but I am not less pissy. Tell me, how did I manage to mess up pasta? Truly is a skill I must say. And I’m not that bad of a cook. I swear but…I digress. Let’s just get back into it *grumbles*

That was the weakest punch I’ve ever seen. And I have weak little noodle arms.

Even the GL part of this is toxic. Miss secretary ma’am. I have an idea. Send her all of the shit on your plate. Email her all of the shit you have to do. In the email tell her what hours you are actually available and if she cannot work with that, then that’s unfortunate but that is her only option.

You don’t call the owner’s secretary to fix a light bulb. You call maintenance. Girl if you don’t grow a spine and tell her no….

I had to mute this damn show because the music is trying to convince me this is romantic and I am not a fool. I have eyes. Also stop using flashbacks of things that happened earlier this episode. This is the first episode. We know what Mut is thinking about when staring at his hand. We were there for that scene five minutes ago.

If someone started reading what I was writing over my shoulder without being explicitly invited to, I would pour hot sauce in their eyes.

This hug makes me mad. I’ll leave it at that.

Okay. It’s time for something I can’t believe I’ve never done before! Rae’s hatred scale. Where I rank the characters on how much I hate them:

Vi - 2/10. Honestly give this girl a raise. She isn’t paid enough to deal with this. I do need her to get a backbone though. C’mon my girl you can do it. You can learn to stand up for yourself. I believe in you.

Rak - 5/10. Look I learned his name! I think. He’s lowkey an asshole but honestly he just wants to be left alone but was sent on this trip that he didn’t ask for and is now being harassed by this guy that he doesn’t like because his “friend” paid for it.

Mook - 10/10. Girl what’s wrong with you? I hope someone slaps you in your face. Learn how to treat people.

Mut - 1000000000/10. DO NOT PUSH PEOPLE OFF OF BOATS.

[jechristine]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-13697045/Zendaya-braless-paris-stylish-olympics.html

No need to click the article, think you can get the gist from the link itself. Since you know more about British media also from following Meghan and Harry, Is this a British tabloid specialty? The US is supposedly so puritanical but I don't remember any media here writing stories like these about Z whereas for the DM this is just one in a series of. It's just nipples, everyone has them 🤷‍♀️ can't have too many articles being nice about her, periodically they have to put one of these out. Is this how they generally traet women and women of color or is it part of a larger tactic depending on the level of cooperation?

This is the British tabloid sweet spot—slut shaming a WOC and implying that an American WOC is tacky (with a strong dose of uppity) in her supposedly ostentatious display of wealth. It’s a way to foster resentment and disdain simultaneously among its mostly conservative, white readership.

They’re so predictable🤮

[air3d3lalm3na]

feel like reading these new books aloud to someone over voice on discord. like being read to?

i find it soothing and relaxing - maybe someone else does too. reblog PM or whatever if you feel like that being you.

I was always told I had “a good voice for radio” and people enjoyed listening to me reading. i can do accents and comical voices and i treat it like an acting exercise.

Books are:

👩🏼‍🎤👩🏾‍🔬👸🏻 the Uppity Women of (time period) series, done by Wild Women Association. interesting books with a page or two each on cool af, fascinating women in history. told w some levity.

🧀🍷🌄 A book about someone’s travels in italy figuring out what gives the folks in some places more longevity and just cool stuff about their lifestyle

🐒🐣🐘🐇 A book about animals making unlikely cross-species friendships

✈️💌 a memoir about an Aussie girl who fell in love with a Frenchman and moved to France. Described as basically something sweet for true romantics.

🔛🔝🔜✨ a motivating book about how people from hard and street smart lives can consciously use that as an asset and build success for themselves and basically advice on how

…

I have a BUNCH of other books i accrued too from the other library giveaways. while she was here. but these are just from today.

[smarkbomb]

Wrestling Journalist Heroically Calls Out WWE Personality for Being a "Rape Baby"

One of WWE's most popular interviewers and hosts whose birth was a product of a sexual assault has finally been taken down a peg by a wrestling journalist who was sick and tired of her bragging.

It goes without saying that sexual assault victims and the children produced by some of those incidents get nothing but special treatment. WWE's Kayla Braxton is one of those children. Her mother was assaulted by an anonymous man who ended up fathering her. And she won't stop talking about it. Boring!

Thankfully, Ringside News stepped in and put Kayla in her place via a series of posts on X. As we all know, X is the platform of choice for heroes like this who work tirelessly to make sure women and minorities do not feel valued in the least by society.

You can see Ringside's powerful, coherent, well thought out posts below. This person definitely isn't human garbage and a complete waste of oxygen. Don't let the almost criminal level of basic grammar issues fool you. This person knows what they're talking about.

There's no news yet on who Ringside News will be attacking calling out next between sessions of binge eating lead paint chips. One can only hope they'll be waiting outside of WrestleMania to beat up some of those uppity Children's Wish Foundation kids, cancer or not.

[cksmart-world]

SMART BOMB

The Completely Unnecessary News Analysis

By Christopher Smart

August 15, 2023

JESUS TOO WOKE FOR THE RIGHT?

Jesus was a Capricorn and ate organic food — that much we know. But was he woke? Some conservative “Christians” think so and say His teachings are too “weak” and “liberal,” explained Russell Moore, former top official for the Southern Baptist Convention. “Turn the other cheek,” is too woke for the Christian right. "When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis." Amen. The family values folks have been preaching something besides brotherly love for a while now. Turn the other cheek? Maybe if they drop their pants first. “Evangelical” is a scary term for heathens, like Wilson and the band. It comes from the Greek “euangelion,” meaning “good news.” In times past “evangelical” referred to people and churches committed to the message that Jesus Christ is the savior of humanity. For some on the right it means something like, “Jesus Christ is the savior of MAGAtes,” others need not apply. Some 81 percent of white evangelical Protestant voters went for Trump in 2020, according to Gallup exit polls. After all, who is more Christlike than Donald Trump. “If you come after me, I'm coming after you.” Well, not exactly what Jesus of Nazareth would say. But then again, He keeps spouting those woke talking points: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” The dude is totally woke. “Love your neighbor?” Ha.

“TREETOP BARBIE” NO TARZAN

Nalini Nadkarni, professor emerita of biology at the University of Utah, was the impetus for a Barbie, known as Treetop Barbie. Nadkarni studies the canopies of forests and spent much of her career in the tops of tall trees where little-known ecosystems thrive. No Wilson, she doesn't swing on vines and call out “ungowa” to the elephants. Two decades ago the biologist put the idea to toy-maker Mattel to create a Barbie that climbed trees for scientific research, she told The Salt Lake Tribune. “I simply wanted to show little girls that being curious about and exploring forest canopies with a crossbow, ropes, helmet and instructional booklet about canopy plants is a possibility.” If Barbie can be an astronaut, a musician or a doctor, why not. But it was a no-go until 2019 when Mattel introduced it's Explorer Series with Barbies of various scientific professions. All told there are some 176 different Barbies with nine body types, 35 skin tones and 94 hairstyles. She does get around. And now Barbie is the star of a blockbuster movie that has over $1billion in ticket sales worldwide. They even love Barbie in China, but the movie has been banned in Lebanon, Kuwait and Vietnam because it “encourages unacceptable behavior and distorts society’s values.” They know trouble when they see it.

WOMEN'S SOCCER DESTROYING AMERICA

Unless you've been living in Iowa where Republican presidential candidates are eating corndogs and trying to be Mini-Trump, you know the Women's U.S. Soccer Team lost to Sweden in the World Cup. True patriots pounced — they knew too well why the U.S. lost: Because the team is a bunch of entitled woke communist losers. They hate this country and are led by the purple-haired Megan Rapinoe, an LGBTQ activist, who four years ago after winning the World Cup said, “I'm not going to the f---ing White House,” when President Trump so graciously invited them.“I'm thrilled they lost. Good. I'm glad you went down,” said conservative commentator Megyn Kelly. In 2016, the then-world champion U.S. Women's team began demanding equal pay. In 2022, they grabbed worldwide headlines when they got it! And if that wasn't uppity enough, they stood in silence during the National Anthem at the World Cup. Trump just couldn't help himself, writing on social media: “Woke equals failure... The U.S. is going to hell.” The internet echoed, “woke pieces of trash,” over and over again. Mike Freedman of USA Today summed it up perfectly: “We have not seen this kind of hatred since Colin Kaepernick took a knee.” It's so fulfilling to have someone to hate. It just brightens up the whole day.

Post script — That's a wrap for another strange week here at Smart Bomb where we keep track of AI (artificial intelligence) so you don't have to. AI, it seems, is everywhere. There's even a new app where folks can text back and forth to Jesus. We wouldn't lie about a thing like that. Maybe Florida's governor will give it a try after reading this headline: “Should DeSantis do mushrooms to be a cooler candidate.” The rapper known as Drake opened his L.A. concert with this: “Don't throw bras, my five-year-old son is here.” Throwing bras at Drake has become a thing ever since... well ever since women started throwing bras at him. It could be worse. Saying the political right is up in arms is like saying the sun also rises. Markers honoring Robert E. Lee's horse, Traveller, have been removed from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. Yes, those damn woke commies have cancelled a horse. What's next? Donald Trump's first wife Ivana is buried at his Bedford, N.J. golf course. Sad. But recently sharp-eyed players noticed that tall grass has grown around her gravestone obscuring it. We have no idea what that means. Last but not least, Republican state legislators, who have been clamping down on abortion rights, think women in the GOP never get abortions. Clearly they haven't seen “Barbie.”

Well Wilson, the Christian right is at it again. But now it seems they're turning on Jesus for being woke and empathetic. It's a troubled world and Jesus probably had a good idea that people were always going to screw up. “Forgive others and you will be forgiven.” So Wilson, tell the guys in the band to put down the bong and take us out with some love and understanding:

Jesus was a Capricorn He ate organic food He believed in love and peace And never wore no shoes Long hair, beard and sandals And a funky bunch of friends Reckon we'd just nail him up If he came down again 'Cause everybody's gotta have somebody to look down on Prove they can be better than at any time they choose Someone doin' somethin' dirty decent folks can frown on If you can't find nobody else, then help yourself to me Eggheads fussin' rednecks cussin' Hippies for their hair Others laugh at straights who laugh at Freaks who laugh at squares Some folks hate the Whites Who hate the Blacks who hate the Klan Most of us hate anything that We don't understand

(Jesus Was a Capricorn — Kris Kristofferson)

[brookston]

Holidays 3.8

Holidays

Be Nasty Day

The Bikini Bottom Free (Crabcakes) Day (SpongeBob Squarepants)

Brčko District Establishment Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Colorism Awareness Day

Donkey Appreciation Day

Exceed Medical Microneedling Day

False Case Day

Farmer's Day

Fill Out Staplers Day

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Day

International Women's Day (a.k.a. ... 

Day For Women's Rights and International Peace (UN)

Embrace Equality Day (2023 Theme)

Girls Write Now Day

Journée Internationale des Femmes (France)

Nari Dibas (Nepal)

Uppity Women Day

Xalaqaro Xotin-Qizlar Kuni (Uzbekistan)

Yellow Mimosa Day (Italy)

Jedi Day

Mother’s Day (Albania, Eastern Europe, Russia, Soviet Bloc)

National August Day

National Biobased Products Day

National Breast Implant Awareness Day

National Heroes and Benefactors Day (Belize)

National Oregon Day

National Proofreading Day

National Retro Video Game Day

Order of Charity Day

Organize Your Home Office Day [2nd Tuesday]

Revolution Day (Syria)

Stab e-Barat (Night of Records; Bangladesh)

Shuttlecock Day (Leicester, Yorkshire)

Teacher’s Day (Lebanon)

Volunteers of America Day

World Maths Day

Ziua Mamei (Mother’s Day; România)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Big Boots Brew Day

Drink It Now Day

International Women's Collaboration Brew Day

National Peanut Cluster Day

2nd Wednesday in March

Discover What Your Name Means Day [Wednesday of Name Week]

National Decoration Day (Liberia) [2nd Wednesday]

National No Smoking Day (UK) [2nd Wednesday]

Registered Dietician Nutritionist Day [2nd Wednesday]

Sterile Packaging Day [2nd Wednesday]

Independence Days

Mahonia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Matyár (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Annie Bonny Day (Pastafarian)

Apollonius, Philemon, and others, of Egypt (Christian; Martyrs)

Birthday of Mother Earth (Pagan)

Duthak, Bishop of Ross (Christian; Saint)

Edward King (Church of England)

Felix of Burgundy (Christian; Saint)

Festival of the Earth Goddess (China)

Holi (Hinduism) (a.k.a. ... 

Dhuleti

Dolapurnima

Dolijatra

Festival of Color

Festival of Love

Festival of Spring

Holika Dahan

Holi Phagwah (Surinam)

Phagwah (Guyana, India, Nepal, Suriname)

John of God (Christian; Saint) [Against Alcoholism]

Julian, Archbishop of Toledo (Christian; Saint)

Philemon the actor (Christian; Saint)

Psalmoid of Ireland (a.k.a. Saumay; Christian; Saint)

Romeo Scuggs (Muppetism)

Rosa, virgin of Viterbo (Christian; Saint)

Senan, Bishop in Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Thucydides (Positivist; Saint)

Weird Al Yankovic Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [16 of 71]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [13 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 67 [19 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [18 of 57]

Premieres

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (Film; 1967)

After Life (TV Series; 2019)

Beavis and Butt-Head (Animated TV Series; 1993)

Brutal Youth, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1994)

Captain Marvel (Film; 2019)

Chungking Express (Film; 1996)

The Downward Spiral, by Nine Inch Nails (Album; 1994)

Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time (Animal Film; 2021)

Fargo (Film; 1996)

Heavy Metal (Animated Film; 1996)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Radio Play; 1978)

Just Like a Woman, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1966)

A Knight for a Day (Disney Cartoon; 1946)

La Femme Nikita (Film; 1991)

Mask (Film; 1985)

New Jack City (Film; 1991)

Oz the Great and Powerful (Film; 2013)

Queen II, by Queen (Album; 1974)

Roberta (Film; 1935)

Royal Wedding (Film; 1951)

Subterranean Homesick Blues, by Bob Dylan (Song; 1965)

Superunknown, by Soundgarden (Album; 1994)

Today’s Name Days

Gerhard, Johannes (Austria)

Boško, Ivan, Ivša (Croatia)

Gabriela (Czech Republic)

Beata (Denmark)

Lepo, Viilo, Viilup, Vilbo (Estonia)

Vilppu (Finland)

Jean (France)

Gerhard, Johannes (Germany)

Hermes, Theofylaktos (Greece)

Zoltán (Hungary)

Giovanni, Salvatore, Severino (Italy)

Dagmāra, Marga, Margita (Latvia)

Beata, Gaudvilė, Laima, Vydminas (Lithuania)

Beate, Bettina, Betty (Norway)

Beata, Filemon, Jan, Julian, Miligost, Miłogost, Stefan, Wincenty (Poland)

Teofilact (Romania)

Alan, Alana (Slovakia)

Juan (Spain)

Filippa, Siv (Sweden)

Humfrey, Humphrey, Ponty (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 67 of 2023; 298 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 10 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 18 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 17 (Yi-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 15 Adar 5783

Islamic: 15 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 6 Ver; Sixday [6 of 30]

Julian: 23 February 2023

Moon: 98%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 11 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Thucydides]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 78 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 17 of 29)

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 3.8

Holidays

Be Nasty Day

The Bikini Bottom Free (Crabcakes) Day (SpongeBob Squarepants)

Brčko District Establishment Day (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Colorism Awareness Day

Donkey Appreciation Day

Exceed Medical Microneedling Day

False Case Day

Farmer's Day

Fill Out Staplers Day

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Day

International Women's Day (a.k.a. ... 

Day For Women's Rights and International Peace (UN)

Embrace Equality Day (2023 Theme)

Girls Write Now Day

Journée Internationale des Femmes (France)

Nari Dibas (Nepal)

Uppity Women Day

Xalaqaro Xotin-Qizlar Kuni (Uzbekistan)

Yellow Mimosa Day (Italy)

Jedi Day

Mother’s Day (Albania, Eastern Europe, Russia, Soviet Bloc)

National August Day

National Biobased Products Day

National Breast Implant Awareness Day

National Heroes and Benefactors Day (Belize)

National Oregon Day

National Proofreading Day

National Retro Video Game Day

Order of Charity Day

Organize Your Home Office Day [2nd Tuesday]

Revolution Day (Syria)

Stab e-Barat (Night of Records; Bangladesh)

Shuttlecock Day (Leicester, Yorkshire)

Teacher’s Day (Lebanon)

Volunteers of America Day

World Maths Day

Ziua Mamei (Mother’s Day; România)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Big Boots Brew Day

Drink It Now Day

International Women's Collaboration Brew Day

National Peanut Cluster Day

2nd Wednesday in March

Discover What Your Name Means Day [Wednesday of Name Week]

National Decoration Day (Liberia) [2nd Wednesday]

National No Smoking Day (UK) [2nd Wednesday]

Registered Dietician Nutritionist Day [2nd Wednesday]

Sterile Packaging Day [2nd Wednesday]

Independence Days

Mahonia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Matyár (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Annie Bonny Day (Pastafarian)

Apollonius, Philemon, and others, of Egypt (Christian; Martyrs)

Birthday of Mother Earth (Pagan)

Duthak, Bishop of Ross (Christian; Saint)

Edward King (Church of England)

Felix of Burgundy (Christian; Saint)

Festival of the Earth Goddess (China)

Holi (Hinduism) (a.k.a. ... 

Dhuleti

Dolapurnima

Dolijatra

Festival of Color

Festival of Love

Festival of Spring

Holika Dahan

Holi Phagwah (Surinam)

Phagwah (Guyana, India, Nepal, Suriname)

John of God (Christian; Saint) [Against Alcoholism]

Julian, Archbishop of Toledo (Christian; Saint)

Philemon the actor (Christian; Saint)

Psalmoid of Ireland (a.k.a. Saumay; Christian; Saint)

Romeo Scuggs (Muppetism)

Rosa, virgin of Viterbo (Christian; Saint)

Senan, Bishop in Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Thucydides (Positivist; Saint)

Weird Al Yankovic Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [16 of 71]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [13 of 32]

Prime Number Day: 67 [19 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [18 of 57]

Premieres

The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (Film; 1967)

After Life (TV Series; 2019)

Beavis and Butt-Head (Animated TV Series; 1993)

Brutal Youth, by Elvis Costello (Album; 1994)

Captain Marvel (Film; 2019)

Chungking Express (Film; 1996)

The Downward Spiral, by Nine Inch Nails (Album; 1994)

Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time (Animal Film; 2021)

Fargo (Film; 1996)

Heavy Metal (Animated Film; 1996)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Radio Play; 1978)

Just Like a Woman, recorded by Bob Dylan (Song; 1966)

A Knight for a Day (Disney Cartoon; 1946)

La Femme Nikita (Film; 1991)

Mask (Film; 1985)

New Jack City (Film; 1991)

Oz the Great and Powerful (Film; 2013)

Queen II, by Queen (Album; 1974)

Roberta (Film; 1935)

Royal Wedding (Film; 1951)

Subterranean Homesick Blues, by Bob Dylan (Song; 1965)

Superunknown, by Soundgarden (Album; 1994)

Today’s Name Days

Gerhard, Johannes (Austria)

Boško, Ivan, Ivša (Croatia)

Gabriela (Czech Republic)

Beata (Denmark)

Lepo, Viilo, Viilup, Vilbo (Estonia)

Vilppu (Finland)

Jean (France)

Gerhard, Johannes (Germany)

Hermes, Theofylaktos (Greece)

Zoltán (Hungary)

Giovanni, Salvatore, Severino (Italy)

Dagmāra, Marga, Margita (Latvia)

Beata, Gaudvilė, Laima, Vydminas (Lithuania)

Beate, Bettina, Betty (Norway)

Beata, Filemon, Jan, Julian, Miligost, Miłogost, Stefan, Wincenty (Poland)

Teofilact (Romania)

Alan, Alana (Slovakia)

Juan (Spain)

Filippa, Siv (Sweden)

Humfrey, Humphrey, Ponty (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 67 of 2023; 298 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 10 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 18 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 17 (Yi-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 15 Adar 5783

Islamic: 15 Sha’ban 1444

J Cal: 6 Ver; Sixday [6 of 30]

Julian: 23 February 2023

Moon: 98%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 11 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Thucydides]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 78 of 90)

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 17 of 29)

[jeanjauthor]

A good corollary to this is the book series Uppity Women Of... (fill in the blank category) by Vicki León.

Guess who is back? 

Encyclopedia Amazonica now becomes City of Ladies! I’m Niniane, your humble curator. I missed writing about women’s history, so here I am. 

An empress being celebrated like a goddess, a female doctor during the crusades, a forgotten composer…here are some of the stories that you will find on this blog. 

This time, I won’t just focus on warriors (though they will still be there). I want to shine a light on women and facts that caught my interest. I’ve dreamed of a place where I could do that and decided to make it come true.

So, let’s jump in the time machine and embark on this new journey!

And as before, please note that English is not my first language ;).

If you want to support me and enjoy what I do, here is the link to my Ko-Fi.

Hope you enjoy your stay here!

[thisisbookland]

•Today I decided to read instead of do school work. It’s a mental health day!•

The Line Up:

• The Iliad by Homer (Translation by Robert Fagles)

• The Borgias: The Hidden History by G.J. Meyer

• Uppity Women: Speak Their Minds by Vicki León

• Into The Wild (Warrior Cats #1) by Erin Hunter (E-Book, not pictured)

[valkyrieandstrangeridingaragorn]

I find it so depressing that the writers and so many fans think that a romance where one party treats the other party as someone lesser, as someone unworthy of respect, as an idiot unworthy of their time, as an annoying hindrance, all while being praised and placed upon a pedestal as if they're an infallible being by the very one they treat that way, is a healthy and beautiful True Love romance that should be fully supported. So very, very depressing.

It certainly is, yes. And a lot of these movies and series (the American ones, because this doesn't happen here at all) have the woman treating the man so so badly as some sign of feminism, as if all women should aspire to be like that: mean, cold and uppity who treat their male partners badly but it's okay because it's the man putting up with the abuse instead of her.

Needless to say that's not feminism at all. My cynical side thinks these men are writing women that way so that the MRAs can then claim men are the real victims and all women abuse them, but it is also concerning that a lot of women romanticize both the abuser and the victim - meanwhile in cases where the roles are switched and the abuser is the man they can easily see he's wrong and she's a victim.

It's almost as if they have read -not understood- a few posts on the patriarchy and they have decided the solution is to treat men the way some of them treat us. I see it a lot in fanfics as well, the woman negs the man constantly, she's always right and he's always wrong, and she can call him names and mistreat him at will but if he tries to defend himself he's a monster who must apologize to her - and they portray that as loving and romantic.

I'm all for portraying all kinds of relationships in media and certain dark topics can be pretty amazing to feature on movies and series but just like you wouldn't show an adult killing a 5 year old kid and frame that as the kid's fault, you can't show a partner abusing and mistreating their bf/gf and frame that as romantic and loving - that is, unless in the context of the movie or show it is understood that the character is always wrong and the abuse is another part of his immorality etc (I'm thinking American Psycho).

What you can NEVER do is show a character abusing their partner then claim it's the right thing to do because their partner "deserves" it. A romantic relationship is supposed to be a partnership between two (or more) people who respect and love each other and if the writers can only think of a romance based on a power imbalance then that's veeeeeeeery concerning.

[rwde-chibi]

Why would you even think that gay men would get together in a show about women. God, just another man getting uppity when women actually get things in media.

So like here’s the thing, I wouldn’t expect much if RT never went on about how inclusive they are. But they did, and so going into RWBY four seasons ago, I had expectations of literally the bare minimum. And four seasons later here we are, with only a couple canonically queer/genderqueer characters and like... they’re all bad?

Scarlet was confirmed to be “not into women” in the anthology books, so he could have been ace or gay and honestly the fact that this was confirmed in an anthology book and not the show makes me want to not count it out of spite but he got together with another background character in the novels, so... I guess this is a win for representation to some people.

Saffron and Terra are background characters. They are the equivalent of a kid’s gay dads who we see for one episode in every new cartoon on Disney Channel or Nickelodeon. They are inoffensive but they are also the only LGBT+ characters whose LGBTness is actually... in the show itself.

May Marigold is a background character that they announced on Twitter was a trans woman. And when you’re announcing things like that on Twitter... you’re just being J.K. Rowling. And while I get not making her transness a big deal in the show makes sense because she’s a background character... there has to have been a way to handle it better than just putting it out there on Twitter. Maybe an old photo or something from her asshole cousin who is named for some reason.

Coco went from a somewhat cool idea as a base character (ignoring the severely fucked up nature of her design inspiration) into being a controlling, sleezy character who got relegated to the Side Content Dimension never to be seen again.

And the big win for LGBT people everywhere, Blake and Yang still aren’t actually in a confirmed relationship because we’re gonna drag this out like Legend of Kor*a or St*r Vs except RWBY is going to be a 13-15 year long series at this rate and it’s gotten old.

I’m sorry I gave the show that was supposed to be inclusive a chance, before realizing it’s just not worth holding out hope for this to get better.

[thedreadvampy]

like the thing about me, right. and I cannot emphasise this enough. is that I am extremely conventionally attractive in a very like "English rose" buxom Kate Winslet In Titanic kinda way. with the good bone structure and very balanced features and flawless porcelain skin and freckles and rosy cheeks and hourglass figure and thick soft hair and naturally great eyebrows.

And the only ways I am not conventionally attractive. are that I'm not thin, I'm over 25, I don't wear makeup with the intention of looking more attractive (only for Drag Reasons), and I dress and style myself in a way which is specifically focused on looking as gay, alternative, physically imposing, and weird as possible. and the thing is. nobody who I want to find me attractive actually thinks any of those things are negatives.

like yes sure I have insecurities out the wazoo. I don't think I'm as hot as my slim muscular friends who are slim and have angular faces and flat stomachs and are thin. because I Am Not Immune To Propaganda.

(also I'm gay and therefore VERY conscious of the amount of just DEVASTATINGLY beautiful women in the world like holy shit there are so many unconscionably gorgeous people just wandering down the street at the same time as me on any given day, with any number of ages, body shapes, facial features, styles and presentations, aesthetics, skin types and tones, hair types and styles, levels of performance of femininity, whatever. like goddamn. WOMEN. I am aware that I'm hot but do you guys KNOW HOW HOT WOMEN IN GENERAL ARE. and I HAVE types like impolitic as it is I don't think all women are equally beautiful or attractive but my god among the subset of women (and non-woman dykes) who I personally find strikingly beautiful there is so much variety and so many deviations from what we're told we collectively should find attractive that although I tear chunks out of myself for not being thin or ripped or tall or having full defined lips or a hard jaw or plastic-surgery-perky tits or doe eyes I do actually. know that none of those things are necessary for a woman or dyke to be hot, bc very few of the women or dykes I have found mindmeltingly beautiful have had all or necessarily any of those traits. like we're much readier to wholeheartedly apply mainstream cishet white thin patriarchal beauty standards ruthlessly to ourselves than to others. anyway I got distracted thinking about how hot women are. back to the post)

so the thing is I know I'm on the upper end of societal standards of feminine beauty, particularly laying aside my weight (and we all recognise, I hope, that no woman is ever considered thin enough) and the decisions I'm actively making in the direction of being less conventionally attractive, which for the most part is a Deliberate Choice I Knowingly Make rather than an accidental side effect.

but a) you're not allowed, particularly as a woman, to believe yourself to be beautiful, because that's seen as conceited and delusional and narcissistic even if it's empirically true and/or not particularly a thing you find validation in. and b) I personally am Not Allowed to think that I have any meaningfully notable positive traits without immediately walking that thought back hard and slapping myself with a series of Brain Sanctions for getting too uppity. this is because I have severe brain poisoning from an unknown source or sources.

all of which is to say that since I was a fairly small child it's been evident to me on some level that I'm. you know. pretty. as a child despite being a horrible gremlin who perpetually looked like I'd just fallen out of a tree into a jumble sale I was nevertheless consistently recieved as adorable and pretty. as a teenager and adult, despite being a weird kid who was a total social misfit, a good proportion of people around me, whether or not they knew or liked me, found me attractive, and when people tried to come for my looks the only message they ever really landed on was "you'd be so unbelievably hot if you didn't dress weird/do your hair weird/do your makeup badly/do gender things wrong BUT YOU RUINED IT".

like I KNOW I'm hot but I'm not ALLOWED to know I'm hot because that would be Bad. if people compliment my looks I get really embarrassed and uncomfortable and shrug them off. if I look in a mirror I start nitpicking my appearance.

HOWEVER. If someone calls me ugly all bets are off. And it's not like a defensive thing it is deeply felt. I never feel more sure in my looks than when someone tries to convince me I'm ugly. It's vain off the chain. Ego off the leash. Cause I know I'm beautiful and you just gave me permission to think that.

Took my assessment of my looks out of the hands of the People Pleasing Brain and gave it over to the Argument Brain and the Argument Brain? That brain has no compunctions about whether I'm allowed to know that I'm beautiful, clever and loveable. its job is to collect empirical data and provide evidence for a bulletproof argument and whole you can convince me I'm stupid, wrong, fallible, bigoted, short-sighted, unpleasant and a bitch based on cherry picked evidence, the empirical evidence just stacks up vastly in favour of other people agreeing that I'm hot, interesting and that they care about me.

you know. TL;Dr choose your anon hate carefully bc while conflict makes me crumble there are several lines of attack most anons choose which just causes me to gigamax into a steel wall of ego.

"I think you got this fact wrong due to unexamined bias" - GOD I'm the WORST I'm a MONSTER I can never JUSTIFY MY EXISTENCE

"haha you're ugly/sexually repulsive/unloveable" - haha bitch have you SEEN ME I'm the hottest and most adored fucker in this McDonalds

the thing is nothing makes me feel more secure in my appearance than anon hate calling me ugly

99% of the time I'm like. embroiled in all the usual worries about my looks and body. am I too fat is my jawline bad am I too short am I too tall is my posture weird do I have a moustache am I getting wrinkles why don't I look like the beautiful women I met on the street

then someone tries to tell me I'm ugly and it's an immediate boost bc my first reaction. every time. is BITCH ARE YOU KIDDING EVERYONE'S BEEN CREEPILY IN LOVE WITH ME SINCE I WAS 14 IF THERE'S ONE THING I KNOW ABOUT MYSELF IT'S THAT I'M EMPIRICALLY ATTRACTIVE. like look at my life of being immediately objectified and sexualised by every straight man I meet despite deliberately dressing like a weird goth dyke. has it been fun? no. has it been miserable and traumatic and left me feeling like my skills and personality take second fiddle to having big tits and a cute face? for sure! but am I ugly? LOOK AT MY PROFILE PICTURE M8 I'M A CERTIFIABLE SMOKESHOW. PEOPLE'S PARTNERS ARE THREATENED BY ME EVERYONE WANTS TO FUCK ME AND/OR BE ME. I'M ADORABLE.

don't send me anon hate commenting on my appearance, guys. It releases the ego beast. I'm SO HOT.

look at me fuckos

ADORABLE. YOU WISH YOU WERE THIS CUTE. it's a shame about my personality but you can't win em all.

[sweetfirebird]

@paraxdisepink Prime has a first look thing for the Wheel of Time series. I cannot watch it. My entire soul is flashing back to high school and cringing. But Rosamund Pike is in it... as Moiraine apparently. So.

Getting to see Robert Jordan's "spanking uppity women like it's a John Wayne movie" kink happen on TV is gonna be... weird.

[ashtet]

Is it just me or is anyone starting to really dislike Jaskier?

I think more than anything it's because fandom is turning him into their Mary Sue Baby and I cannot stand that.

Like, all the bad parts of his character and his bad actions are either erased, or a explanation is pulled out of nowhere to make him in the right all along, or all his bad parts are celebrated as wonderfully feral, or awesome when if any other character did them or even less they'd be dragged through the shit and lambasted as a terrible person.

And all this stuff of him being BAMF, or Competent, whatever - like, when it's put as he's not actually useless and can survive without Geralt, fine - but when he's an amazing fighter, or can take down monsters Geralt can't, or shit like that?

Not only is it Mary Sue, perfect bard and fighter, viscount or magical! creature! bard! , better than the decades older and more experienced Geralt, but it's such a slap in the face to the very concept of Geralt and Witchers too.

These men are taken as young boys, trained for years to fight monsters, going through horrific trials at age 10 or so that only 3 in 10 survive, in order to be mutated because without the training and magic and literal superhuman abilities they can't kill the monsters, and then it's like well screw them this dude who's never done physical labour in his life can take down a monster bad enough to seriously injure and almost kill them? What an utter disrespect to those characters. And what use are they then? The entire world of the Witcher series is just turned on it's head because god forbid Jaskier not be able to do everything Geralt can do but better.

That also leads me into the whole Mary Sue thing, actually. Almost every fic has every witcher and character love Jaskier, and if they don't then they're mean to poor baby Jaskier and everyone else hates them. Even if it's completely out of character for them - including such wonderful examples as Yennefer being transphobic so Geralt and Ciri both hate her and love Jaskier (Yenenfer, who suffered so much involving physical transformations, being transphobic? Really?). It's all just so utterly about making every character revolve around Jaskier- either loving him, hating him, being nothing more than a prop to his story with no actual personality themselves except how they can serve Jaskier and maybe Geralt if they're together (especially Yen! ), or just not being mentioned because there's nothing to the world without goddamn Jaskier Julian Pancratz.

I mean, don't you know Jaskier is the main character? Not Geralt, Yennefer or Ciri - they can stay if they serve him, or revolve around him and are less powerful than him, and Need him so much all the time. But only then. And the sheer cheek of the show to suggest the character in literally half the episodes is a supporting one to the mains in all the episodes with the plot and timelines about them! It's JASKIER after all!

Oh, and if Jaskier isn't human, then so much the better! Not just so he and Geralt can grow old together, though - so Jaskier can have magic no one else does, and can be better and more powerful than just a weak little human, and preferably more than a witch or witcher too. Just because he's the best.

At the start of the fandom, it was better and not yet The Jaskier Show, but even then Yen and Ciri were ignored or in Yen's case outright demonised because we can't have a woman get uppity and in the way of Geralt and Jaskiers True Love, so even then Yen was hated for her negative traits and even when Jaskier shared them, he was loved. Just the sheer misogyny, especially that awful post that celebrated Yen being ignored and the fandom centering on Jaskier and maybe Geralt because fuck those women, this is the Witcher not the Sorceress! Or I guess now it's the Bard.

Oh, and one more thing! Not only is Jaksier the best, but all those rumours about witchers being dumb brutes are true! Jaskier Sue has to teach them how to read, talk, cook, wear clothes, any medical skills whatsoever and how to be Civilised people because the centuries old warriors don't know shit and are all just so fucking stupid they need Jaskier to teach them everything, even the basics of life!

:( Don't worry thought you stupid less than human brutes, your saviour Jaskier has arrived and will socialise you properly now.

Jesus, when Season 2 comes if Jaskier isn't a main character and not everyone loves him, I can already see the fandom tantrum. God forbid Jaskier not get everything!