mango heart

"on god's green earth" is way too fun to say even when you don't believe in god and know most of it is blue, actually

the idea that every summer will be as hot if not hotter than this for the rest of my life is unbearable i need to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) murder an oil executive

As a society we're reluctant to call fathers out for what they are, which is usually the biggest threat to their own children. The way society values and protects fathers at all costs, comes at the cost of child abuse.

And the legal system backs this up as well; I’ve seen dozens of cases where there is a father in a custody battle who is abusive/negligent and 9/10 times he’s still going to get at least partial custody because “kids need a father.” The socially constructed necessity of having a “father figure” is prioritized over the physical wellbeing of children constantly, and the fathers usually get away with it because we see them just being with their kids as being beneficial to the children’s development regardless of how destructive the father actually is

I work in a criminal court and I can confirm. The crime of child sexual abuse is overwhelmingly the crime of fathers and stepfathers abusing their own daughters. Anecdotally, in the two years I've worked in criminal law, every child sexual abuse case I've seen was either a father, grandfather, or stepfather. InVoices In the Night by Toni McNaron, she and other feminist scholars theorize that incest is in fact the primary way that patriarchy is enforced in our society. As she said: "We believe that there is not a taboo against incest; merely against speaking about it… if we begin to speak of incest, we may realize its place as a training ground for female children to regard themselves as inferior objects to be used by men, as training that females cannot trust other females (our mothers usually didn’t stop the behaviors and often passively acquiesced). Incest is an early and very effective behavioral training in powerlessness and subservience."

It's wednesday

Do u think that we can convince women at large that leg and arm and armpit hair is just as chic as bush hair. Its bush summer can we do leg hair and arm hair summer too. Please. Is that too muchh to ask

You don’t build self-respect by demanding better treatment from others. You build it by refusing to stay where you’re treated poorly.