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feminism shouldn’t be about patting housewives on the back for making that decision but it should be about making sure that if that housewife’s husband starts cheating or slapping her around that she can be taken seriously, get a divorce, not have everyone in her life turn against her, not force her to send the children back to his house every other weekend where he starves them just to send her a message, and not be left in financial ruin

The Forbidden Knowledge

the thing about Chuck Bass is that he likes the challenge associated with Blair, but he only likes it when it doesn't interfere with his perception of her as his mirror image. her personhood and occasional desire for autonomy is something that makes him deeply uncomfortable at best, and violently angry and vindictive at worst. he initially only sees her as an extension of Nate, writing her off as his best friend's hot, if prudish and anal retentive, girlfriend. he never acknowledges her as a human being outside of that archetype until he eventually graduates into seeing her as a sexual being instead. he's known her since they were both children, and she still has to contort herself into somebody that's palatable to his tastes before he begins to think of her as somebody worth looking at. before this shift, it was Serena that he was fixated on in this manner, and it would've remained that way, had she not disappointed him by coming back from boarding school Boring. ultimately, it boils down to the fact that his interest in women doesn't extend to their individual identities. instead, he wants a warm body that he can trigger into sexy disputes at his discretion, a Thing that he can pour his negative emotions into through sexual predation or verbal put-downs. he doesn't want a person. and Blair tries to be that for him, more often than not. but unfortunately for the both of them, Blair Waldorf is more human than anybody could possibly fathom.

kill percentage should not be this high

me and @thomas-the-goat-of-satan thought about trans girl nate a little too hard, and now we've integrated that headcanon to our minds now

pls explain im intriguied

okay, so. what me and @thomas-the-goat-of-satan were talking about in our messages. the short version of it being the societal norms nate is placed in. very Gendered roles. his father telling him to Be A Man for the family and marry a nice girl and to continue the family legacy. like it's already interesting enough for nate's character of being pressured into doing things he Does Not Want. so looking at it in a trans angle makes it ten times more interesting and adds infinitely more layers to nates character. there's more, but I can't really find the right words to further it, so this is the short version of it

bro his arc (to me) was the most interesting out of everyone's in the first 1.5 seasons and then they DROPPED it after the jenate thing and he became the manwhore™ of the group bc he's hot and the directors wanted to focus on b/c (which shifted their endgames to d/s, which put nate in the empty spot and therefore made him useless to them!)

me and @thomas-the-goat-of-satan thought about trans girl nate a little too hard, and now we've integrated that headcanon to our minds now

pls explain im intriguied