Object of My Procrastination

Picture this. Only 4 books are published. The 5th is about to be published. I finally let someone bully me into buying the first four in a box set. I can't even get through the first book because "Isn't this a coed school? Why is Hermione like? The only girl going there?"

Apparently it doesn't get better either. In later books when they fix their "token girl character" problem it seems like ALL OF THE GIRLS in the story cannot exist without being attached to a man, and most of their defining personality traits are their relationship to one of the male leads.

I cannot.

Because she's a joke

And they show they support a culture of male sexual violence , Misogyny and homophobia. Their disturbed postings show they hate women who have survived male violence who name the issue

2) Tramsgender women are 4 times more likely than Cis-gendered women to be victims of violent crime

3) 1 in 4 women in the UK have been sexually assaulted and 97% of women in the UK have experienced sexual harassment. "She's a sexual assault survivor." YEAH! A LOT OF WOMEN ARE. IT'S KINDA A REALLY BIG PROBLEM. I don't know why it pisses me off, but for some reason, it just does... like that kind of argument just... assumes that... being the victim of sexual violence is so incredibly rare that the person you're talking to can't have possibly also experienced it, and therefore no one else is allowed to criticize her because she was a survivor is sexual violence and there's no way anyone sense experienced that.

4) She doesn't like women. Like... that's why I hated the Harry Potter series. She DOESN'T support women. I was... like... 9 years old and I couldn't put my finger on what made me so uncomfortable about the Harry Potter books. And it's because she made all this fuss about discrimination about being a female author, but she wrote virtually NO strong female characters by this point (note only the first 4 books were out). I didn't have the words for it as a 9 year old girl trying to learn to love reading for the first time, but I was so confused how a female author that talks about her own experiences like that could neglect writing women so much. That's why I reached for other authors. Now I'm much older, and I understand it more. She just doesn't like women. She can PRETEND to like women all day, but as an actual AFAB person in STEM that's experienced misogyny, I have far higher standards for female representation.

Even in her later books when she INCLUDED more women. She had the money, the fame, the ability to actually create positive change in how women can be viewed through her work and... you know I kinda wish she didn't include women at all. They are all reduced to love interests, with the sole existence to further the male emotional development. Even Hermione. The only exceptions are like... Mcgonical and Luna Lovegood. It's writing like that which ENCOURAGES male violence because it sets a standard that women cannot exist independently of men.

Elon Musk's DOGE is entirely responsible for raising grocery prices and next week he will be crowned the world's first trillionaire.

Congrats, MAGA

Holy shit, this sick old man can't even keep himself upright, seated in the Oval Office. He's practically sideways. How TF is this not a bigger story?

It’s total insanity, the way they all stand around and keep talking as if everything is completely normal. The rest of the world has to think that the United States has completely lost its mind. What is happening!??

There was no reason for how he went after Kirsten Walker today on Meet The Press and then stormed out of the interview.

Part of a president's job is to explain thing to Americans with facts and proof.

He thinks the Press and regular Americans are here to worship him.

He may be president but once again he is not a King.

He is an elected official and accountable to the people.

If Trump can't give us true facts then he needs to be impeached.

So sick of him, his MAGA minions and all their BS.

#DemsUnited

The Amur Leopard and Clouded Leopard (which recently celebrated its 50th cub born at the zoo!)

The Sumatran Tiger

The Red Ruffed Lemur and Ring-Tailed Lemur

The Cotton-Top Tamarin and White-Cheeked Gibbon

The Colobus Monkey and De Brazza’s Monkey

And the Mexican Spider Monkey!

They want to build this in the zoo parking lot and act like its no big deal

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