So done with this

everyone always has a million excuses prepared for male behavior. man pulls his dick out in front of a random woman? mentally ill, victim of capitalism. teenage boys flocking en masse to the alt right? loneliness epidemic, victims of girls not being nice enough when asking for basic human dignity, the left is making boys feel bad about themselves. woman snaps at a service worker for messing up her order? no one is invoking any oppressive systems to explain her actions, no nuance, she's just an entitled bitch.

“The way I personally stay true to the story I started down on is to give myself permission to not teach anyone anything. I’m not writing a manual. I’m not delivering bromides. I know that a lot of people do take enormous pleasure and relief in lines or phrases or ideas from stories that ring true to their own lives, but it’s important for me that I tell a story and that I’m not writing Chicken Soup for the Necromantic Soul. It is getting harder and harder again, especially for authors from marginalised places or backgrounds, to write works where the takeaway isn’t ‘this is to succour all my marginalised people’. For anyone on the female-identified axis this is especially hard because it seems to me that most books by anyone female-adjacent have an expectation that they will comfort the uncomfortable and discomfit the comfortable etc., whereas a guy can just tell an adventure story and be done with it. This ties in with an idea that I think nowadays that good art is moral and bad art is immoral: i.e. if a story is bad it actually has to be because the lessons are bad, and if a story is good it must somehow be beautiful on the moral scale. We go looking for why the art we love is moral even if the art we love is a donut. I think this is the pressure of capitalism on time – that everything has to double or triple up in benefit compared to the time we take on it: if we’re prepared to waste eight hours on a book we had better be able to tot up at the end how that book was also feeding us in some way. That’s brand time we just used.“  (Tamsyn Muir) Holy shit, Ms. Muir, marry me.

The irony of saying all of this while using "on the female-identified axis" and "female-adjacent"

very very interesting, strongly recommend reading

They’ve always been like this 🙄

I’m making this rebloggable again now that Thin Is Definitely In.

Thinking about how people say we shouldn't tell women the horrors of childbirth because it'll scare them and discourage them from having children and well, isn't that just arguing against informed consent?

i cannot imagine thinking i was wrong to get mad that a homeless man sexually harassed me because i saw a tumblr post

Whether or not the specific guy who illustrated this book is a predator or not, why take that risk? Could they not have found a woman? It's a book about girls for girls, surely someone with personal experience would be more qualified.

I love when a tumblr description says, "just a little guy" or has the word "goblin" in it because that let's me know the person is definitely a woman in her 20s.

Imagine making a movie about Greek mythology and actively avoiding shooting a rainbow that showed up for you. Iris showed up for you and you ignored her. I hope she curses Christopher Nolan.

At the moment you make a critique of patriarchy suddenly all men are black brown disabled mentally ill poor immigrant queer refugee polyamorous diabetic toothless from a developing country and all women are white rich warlord 1stworlders

the way so many shows, especially historical shows, will be like, "and let's throw in some PROSTITUTES to liven things up a bit, what a nice titillating garnish to add to our period piece" make me want to kill all male screenwriters forever and ever

can’t stand “___ is SEXY AND HOT FOR MEN” activism. because no, men shouldn’t have to find consent sexy to respect the word no, men shouldn’t have to find fat women sexy in order to view them as human beings worthy of respect. why do we need to expand our current beauty standard and who is considered “fuckable” in order to spoon feed the concept of basic empathy and respect to men…