ronald regans grave is a gender neutral bathroom

some of you cute little brussels sprouts just need to have the bitterness bred out of you, don't you

Sometimes my brain does what I call a split second mental “refresh” which leads to me abruptly getting disoriented and going “ah! I just had a refresh.” It is unclear what to make of this because I made the term up

she is just like me fr

nhl commentators love to be like “and how did you know he would be there to receive that pass? did you feel him? would you know him by touch alone, by smell” and then the guy’s like “i looked”

Have you guys noticed how much the internet/technology just does not listen to you anymore? I click “don’t show this artist” on Spotify and I get recommended a music video by them on the front page. I click “skip this update” on a pop up every time I open a file organization app and it’s right back there every time. O click unsubscribe on a newsletter and it keeps showing up in my inbox!! I click “delete my account” and the next time I open the website they suggest I “reactivate”.

*stares into the camera*

@tikkunolamorgtfo

Just saw on Quora a guy asking if Poland was more German or Russian and every reply was a Polish guy detailing the ways they wanted to kill him

I’m not entirely sure you can write a “feminist retelling” of the odyssey from the perspective of a single female character because where the position of women becomes so interesting in the context of the epic is as a collective and how simply inescapable the presence of women is as the major scaffolding of the entire story. it is not imho the physical journey home that is the major backbone of the odyssey nor Odysseus on his boat with his men, but the consistent metaphor of weaving which reflects womanhood as an identity that is actively constructed and physically tangible in the cloth and clothes he is constantly having to receive from the xenia of other people, and this forms the connecting sinews between a lot of parts of that are slightly smaller but that ultimately do end up forming the physical bulk of the narrative - Athene, penelope, eurycleia, melantho, Helen, calypso, ino, nausicaa, arete, Circe, Persephone. The story starts with Athena’s actions and it ends with her too. Odysseus is undoubtedly gendered as male but he moves through a world in which the individual actions of diverse women stitch into an inescapable web. Even when Odysseus goes to the land of the dead its Persephone’s land. He meets the blind seer but he also meets his mother

I guess I’m not against the specific point of view limitation and I have fiddled with it myself and find it interesting, so much as the current publishing need to do this at the same time I don’t think I’ve seen a single modern adaptation/retelling that really includes what a major presence women as a whole are in the odyssey. I think I’m haunted now I’m actually reading it by how the retelling tends to restructure the story specifically in a way that limits their centrality in the narrative (to focus on Odysseus’s quests before Ithaka! Which is fine! Not a bad thing! But has lead to a social construction of the odyssey in which women collectively hold less space in the text than in the original odyssey, and it’s from this perspective of semi-erasure the new retellings are working from. You can’t put a voice back into the story in the space of the erasure of the voices already there

the thing about the omg why are the women in the odyssey just sitting and weavinggg thing is that like I am absolutely not here to argue they are NOT living patriarchally confined lives! But the social situation in the odyssey is not a divide between getting to go on a cool YA anime magic quest with a sword or sit home and do nothing. The social setting in the odyssey is that the war is over and the war was a real war, which means it fucking sucked and people died. Odysseus’s men have died. “Why doesn’t she get to pick up the cool swordy thing?” Because the men who picked the cool swordy thing up are literally dead and often for reasons far beyond their personal sphere of control and they aren’t here any more and who is are women with their looms

float like a butterfly (nervously forgets end of quote) green like a pea

Regarding last reblog: one technique you can use IRL is that when you're in a group passing around vague ideas about Where to Go Next with no consensus, if your preference has been brought up and no one made strong objections, you can often get your way by waiting a few minutes for nothing to change and then go "so everyone is good with X, right?" And act as if the decision is mostly made.

Another way of putting it is that forcing people to make a fucking decision is in many ways the same as making the decision for the group, if no one steps up to do the same

does she actually think men are inherently biologically evil or does she think they are empowered by misogyny and have a higher chance of facing no consequence for mistreating her and are taught that its their prerogative to do so?