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The Western Interior Seaway
how am i meant to show my love when i peel an orange but need a shovel to give you a slice
i wish i had the words to express what this means to me.
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when the homework assignment gives you the oportunity of telling how you have been a victim of sexual harrassment in the workplace
this was absolutely not me trying to be funny btw. the case study is about a company with an extremely toxic misogynistic culture where the actual CEO harrassed women and it actually brought back some really shitty memories of stuff I experienced in my first callcenter job that at the time I didnt' register as actual harrassment because the work itself was deeply traumatizing. this homework assignment is fortunately easy but it's never easy talking about this stuff
iβll die on the hill that says βsapphic love isnβt inherently more wholesome and pure and saying it does will only hurt lesbian and bi womenβ
listen. if you go around talking about how much better and moral love between women is because male love is so sexual and bad, youβre not actually doing any good. i know too many lesbians who think theyβre predatory just for being sexually attracted to women because #feminism. the idea that love between women is the non-evil sexuality you will only shame wlw for what you claim is evil male sexuality, whether itβs a sex drive or finding women hot or if itβs(god forbit) the masculinity, because these are all traits wlw will have. and youβre not helping.
also just btw- this is introductory TERF rhetoric. the idea that men are inherently evil and are always a threat to women simply by virtue of existence, and that women are inherently purer/safer/more wholesome simply by virtue of being women, is the 'radical feminism' part of the acronym. It's gender essentialism, where "goodness" is given to women, and "badness" to men.
Octopus Chatelaine. Manufactured by William B. Kerr & Co. in Newark, New Jersey, ca. 1900. Medium is 800 silver, sterling silver. From the collection of Mary Nunn, exhibited by SFO Museum for their 'The Allure of Art Nouveau' exhibition, Feb 13, 2016βAug 26, 2016.
(Source: sfomuseum.org)