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"I'm going to teach my sons to respect women."

A lot of women say this in response to all the sexism they see and experience. But it only works if you teach him to question all sources of power. If you're a single issue feminist and you want your son to question his privilege as a male but uphold your privilege as an adult, you'll fail miserably and it will be your own fault.

If you spend his entire childhood demanding that he obey all adults no matter how abusive and you call that "respect", then when he's a teenager and you teach him to "respect" women, he'll think women are just one more group of people who he has to submit to, and he'll easily fall for propaganda that feminism is a female supremacist movement. If you call him "disrespectful" when he says or does something sexist and you've also called him "disrespectful" for backtalk, eye rolling, muttering, or breathing loudly, he'll think you're just being an unreasonable authority figure once again. If you spank him and try to teach him that domestic violence is wrong, he'll see you as a blatantly obvious hypocrite.

Single issue activism is useless, and your child will see right through it. You can't just add "women" to the list of people your child must respect on command. If you want to prevent your child from becoming a bigot, you have to teach him to recognize bigotry in all forms, including when it's coming from you. You have to teach him to recognize that the way children are treated is bigotry. You also have to teach him to recognize ableism, racism, classism, and other ways that you may be privileged.

You've also got to un-teach oppositional sexism.

For guys to really, properly be okay with women existing in all the ways men do, they've got to be okay with men existing in all the ways women do.

If you're gonna respect female primary wage earners you've got to respect men who make less than their wives or who stay home with the kids, and you've got to kill the attitudes that contribute to their exclusion from "mother and child" spaces and events (which in turn excludes their kids, and/or puts pressure on their mother to do these things instead).

Really respecting women the same as men means respecting that they're not incapable of harm, too - the whole idea that they're not is intensely bound up in the ways in which they're not taken seriously!

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GUYSS IF YOU LIKE THIS GO READ good job! by dharmainitiative on ao3!!!!!! Rated E for the record

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AHAHAHAHA all they need is paint! Which i will get this weekend while fabric shopping for the costume, so in the meantime i shall begin work on the scabbards!

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Artist is Mike Danilov.

where's that masterpost of quotes that have no right going as hard as they do. I'd like to submit "Protagonism is best left to teens and the insane"

Every time I consider making a sandwich I think of this fucking tweet.

The stupid thing is that it puts me in the mindset of being an NPC looking forward to a balanced, delicious, good-looking sandwich, instead of some vegemite half-heartedly smeared between a couple of bits of bread. So now I'm like "well if my goal is Sandwich, it should be a good sandwich". I mean it's gotta look good in the thought bubble right? Some guy wandering around in a computer game would be imagining a picture of a ham and cheese toastie AT MINIMUM, probably with tomato and some greens in there. Possibly he'd imagine a full on sub sandwich.

I have started putting actual effort into making tastier, prettier sandwiches. Because of this fucking tweet.

#tricked into eating healthy by autism wanting the meme to be happy

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sometimes i wonder what it's like to he mentally stable. anyway *resets the universe* this time it's gonna work out for sure

Every character is aroace to me until proven otherwise

Big fan of Nona trying to invite both Judith Deuteros and We Suffer and We Suffer to her birthday party, but not the nice lady teacher.

I headcanon that this is to minimize the chance of Pyrrha ever talking to her again

I was gonna say something about "maybe she decided she could invite one adult group or the other and Crown's boobs were top priority" and/or "maybe she thought her friends would make fun of her for inviting the teachers" but actually, you know what else about the list is ridiculously funny?

The fact that Noodle is invited but Aim isn't.

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they had no reason to be serving challengers realness for hsm promo 😭