Sometimes I'm normal and sometimes I look down at the copy of the Iliad in my hands and think about how many forms it has taken, and how many people have read it on stone, on wood, vellum or papyrus, handwritten painstakingly or industrially typed, in a hundred different languages which may or may not still exist. Three thousand years ago a man wrote down a story and we've reading it ever since. And then I have to lie down.
Reblogged schofielded
As someone in and around their 30’s it has been INSANE to see feminism in popular media descend through
- Women can wear pants and play sports and that’s equality. Women don’t just belong inside the house. This woman has a career
- This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. She’s probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But she’s still a person!
- If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, that’s girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls don’t HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!
- What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!
- What I don’t think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually
- Uh she can’t do that, that’s a blue job, she’s a pink job girly. Food? Yeah, she’s having #girl dinner, which is a handful of almonds. Time for our 15 step skincare routine, which is empowering. Hashtag #girlboss. Ew no, touching dirt? She’s just a girl. You can’t expect a girl to do that. Haha #girl logic
Like obviously demonizing and belittling stereotypically feminine interests and occupations isn’t the answer and that’s not what I MEAN, I just see the argument going from
- Why would you want to wear pants? Boy stuff is icky anyways
- Women have the same potential as men
- Women can do anything men can!
- Women shouldn’t be TOO MUCH like men, though.
- In fact, maybe women choosing to stick to historically female roles is BETTER.
- Actually, maybe women NEED to stick to feminine things.
- Woman actually have completely different needs and impulses than men.
- Is staying at home and raising babies the REAL empowerment?
- Women need to make sandwiches to survive actually
- Women are weak and incapable of complex thought and that’s *better* than being a man
- Why would you want to wear pants? Boy stuff is icky anyways
Reblogged captainkaltar
seeing straight men be disgusted by booktok smut recommenders has actually radicalized me to the side of booktok smut recommenders. girls your taste may be atrocious but i will never disparage you for exposing mainstream discourse to the concept of soaking through your underwear. spent my whole life listening to men talk about penises it’s about time they get jumpscared by women talking about pussy in crude detail on social media. go forth and goon my warriors
I work at a bookstore and hearing one of my male coworkers call smutty romantasy "the downfall of society" because it's "literally just porn" radicalized me
Men have an entire industry. Entire industries dedicated to their sexualities. Let women have fantasy sex. there's not even a camera crew involved.
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Reblogged terpsikeraunos
Major human pastimes:
- frying dough
- classifying things and then arguing about the classifications
Reblogged thoodleoo
comic about content
Next-level: Ephesian Artemis with top surgery scars
Reblogged vaspider
Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.
Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:
“Boss made a dollar Granddad made a dime But that was a poem From a simpler time.
Boss made a thousand Gave pa a cent But that penny paid the mortgage Or at least it paid the rent
Now Boss makes a million And gives us jack Smugly blames the workers For the labor that he lacks.”
And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.
Reblogged euelios
Reblogged thoodleoo
aeschylus is dead sophocles is dead euripides is dead and me i feel not so good
—aristophanes, 405 bce