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Fox News’ problems don’t end with Tucker Carlson. Laura Ingraham, for example, has been spouting racist and anti-immigrant commentary for years. 

AMERICAN GODS ⇢ 2x01

I was 17 when this happened, he had TOLD me he was 19. It’s also not illegal in my state. I met him through a friend of mine, i saw him on her friend’s Snapchat story while i was using her phone, asked for his snap and he added me back, you know, the whole process. I disclosed that i was 17, and he said he was fine with it seeing as he had just turned 19. Anyway, we talked for a few days and I learned that he lived not too far away from me, worked at a mall nearby, and that we had a lot in common. We planned our date for a Tuesday (which was strange) and he drove me to a theater that’s about 40 minutes from my house and an hour from his. Where I live there are two much closer theaters so this was pretty weird. We get there, and I ask him if we can get snacks. He says no, that he plans to go to dinner afterwards. I noticed as he bought the tickets that they were only $12 for both of us combined, but it didn’t really matter at the time (it will).We saw a movie I had really no interest in seeing but I guess it was alright. He tried to do the old arm around the shoulders trick which I quickly shut down and asked him politely not to do again. He seemed alright and apologetic. Anyway, we leave the theater and he asks where I would like to eat. I say Chili’s. so we go to chili’s. I, at the time, had been working at McDonald’s and was very excited when I got a notification on my phone as we drove that said my first paycheck had been deposited into my account so I stupidly said out loud, “just got paid!” that was my downfall.

“You’re…different. I’ve never met a girl like you.”

She stares at him, hands stilling over her sword. “What?”

“All the girls in my village are so boring,” he says. “So focused on finding husbands that they don’t bother learning about the world.”

“Girls in your village aren’t allowed to own property or vote,” she says, somewhat incredulous.

He winces at her tone. Need she be so harsh? “Well…it’s not like they’ve ever needed to, we’re a very progressive village and I always vote in favor of their needs. You’re not like that though, you fight for your rights yourself.”

“They are fighting for their rights,” she says. She sets down her sharpening stone, a frown stretching across her face. “No voting, no property, no wages of their own to purchase necessities. Besides finding a kind husband, what else do you think they can do to find a good future?”

“Th-they could leave,” he says. He did not expect the conversation to go this way. He expected her to blush like she had when he complimented her sword skills. He finds himself oddly defensive. “The men in my village aren’t slavers. The girls can leave any time.”

She snorts. “On foot? Your village is a hard, three day ride from the nearest city and that’s by horseback. And, even if they made it, what skills do they have? What references? The risk is too high for any woman to leave, that’s as good as trapping them. The fact that it takes me holding a sword for your opinion of women to change just shows how small-minded you are.”

 He bristles, unable to refute her. “Look, I was just trying to pay you a compliment! There’s no need to attack me.”

“Trust me,” she says, standing when he moves to loom over her. They’re of near equal height and, if he was trying to intimidate her, he fails. “You’ll know it when I’m attacking you. This isn’t it.”

He doesn’t seem to hear her, flustered to be seeing her eye-to-eye. “Furthermore, I think I’d know what sort of girls I grew up with! They’re timid and lack a desire to explore the world.”

“The world you created for them doesn’t take long to explore,” she says. Her sword is bare in her hand. “Marry or descend into poverty. Bear an heir or be cast into poverty. Behave or be thrown into poverty. I was there for a week and figured it out. But,” she continues, looking him up and down, “maybe I shouldn’t be so quick to judge. After all, you’ve lived there your whole life and you still haven’t figured it out.”

He splutters. “That’s not–there are other options–”

“When the revolution is done,” she says, coldly, “and your people are forced to give women rights, see how many stay and how many leave. See how many suddenly discover their wander-lust. See how many end up like me.”

She leaves him there and stalks off to the edge of camp. She leaves him there with his mouth opening and closing, and heart pounding in his chest.

She leaves him there with the unsettling realization that he doesn’t want the women in his village to end up being like her, so different and strong. Because, if they did, where would he be? Where would his home be?

fuck your stereotypes

long hair is not “girly”

the same way short hair is not “manly”

hair has no gender

hair is just hair

&as long as you’re not disrespecting a culture with the way you do it