creepiness, it's, it's, it's worthwhile!

can we pretend that airships in the smoggy sky are like shooting stars? i could really use a fantastical contraption right now, fantastical contraption right now...

no ao3 users, people switching from wattpad to ao3 is not colonization, and it should not be treated as such

lesson 2: yes, even the ones you don't want to fuck

lesson 3: also you have to respect the ones you do want to fuck. even if you don't get to fuck them at the end.

lesson 4: sometimes (not always but often enough) respecting women means shutting the fuck up. whether you like this or not is immaterial. you will likely find that this is something of a cheat code for respecting women because so few people do it. this is because we live in hell.

lesson 5: the fact that you say you respect women does not automatically mean that you do. there is no incantation that makes the cultural effects of misogyny disappear.

lesson 6: your position relative to misogyny is a political concept and not a moral one. whether you are a "good person" is irrelevant. if you do not actively seek to understand and account for your position of relative privilege then you will exploit it without even noticing. this is harmful to women.

lesson 7: whatever objections you currently have to the previous 6 lessons are definitely not new and there are entire academic libraries going over them. this is part of lesson 4.

lesson 8: in some ways privilege, be it gendered or racialised or otherwise, is like walking through life with a hammer duct-taped to your hand. you didn't ask for the hammer, there are few (if any) personal consequences for using it and when you're pissed off, it can be really really tempting to swing it. you must never do this, even if you have one million ways to justify it to yourself. even if you hate a particular woman, you must resist the urge to weaponise misogyny against her. there are no exceptions to this.

Lesson 9: respecting women includes trans and intersex women

#If I could make any two historical figures meet I want to introduce Alexander The Great and Ghengis Khan#I feel like they'd have a lot to talk about seeing as they're both Horse Girls#also the conquest#but mostly The Horses

its kind of fun to uninstall programs you arent using to free up space and see them all beg for their lives