Butch4Mushrooms

hey don't cry... sigourney weaver and winona ryder in alien resurrection okay?

I don't think it's talked about enough how the knowledge of women's millennia-long subjugation under patriarchy feels so incredibly demeaning and what it does to young girls self esteem when when they learn about it in school. I remember being 12 or 13 in history class learning about the Romans and how women were considered property to be passed from their father to their husband and for the first time feeling this awful and disheartening sense of humiliation and embarrassment, especially sitting there among my male pupils, being told by the male history teacher over and over throughout every single historical period that we were second-class citizens. What it must do to a girl's self esteem on a subconscious level, how it then might affect everything you say and do, not even mentioning how the misogyny in their daily lives affects them. My heart kind of broke when I realised that

The experiences of gays and lesbians are significantly different from those of bisexual people, especially bisexuals who primarily go through the world in opposite-sex relationships. We should be able to talk about life as exclusively same-sex attracted people without being pressured to modify our language for the sake of “inclusivity”

Unpopular opinion: if you are on your phone, you are not resting. Human brains literally need complete downtime to function properly. This means time spent not reading, not scrolling, not listening to music or podcasts, not tidying up, not having TV on in the background. I'm not good at implementing this either but that doesn't make it less true

This is so hard because I’ve definitely trained my brain to crave constant input but I’m working on what I like to call “cultivating boredom.” I find it makes me more creative to be completely idle sometimes. And interestingly it’s also easier to be completely idle when I’m outside. Ape brain shit.

people@women: have you tried loving and trusting your oppressor?💕