margaret atwood was right

but this is innate :) there’s no outside pressure on women to be beautiful no matter what :) it’s her choice :) :) :) if it makes her feel good it’s empowering :)) i’ve given thousands of dollars to sephora

this is fucking terrifying to me. you’re giving birth! how pretty you look doesn’t matter! women shit themselves giving birth, your doctors aren’t gonna care that you don’t have eyeliner on while pushing an infant out ur vagina omg

Not to mention this is dangerous. You’re not supposed to wear makeup or dark nail polish because they wont be able to check your vitals correctly. The oxygen readers dont work with dark nails. The doctors wont be able to see if you’re turning blue if you got foundation caked on covering it. You arent allowed to wear makeup or have dark nails for any surgery, why the fuck is it allowed during labor?

Isn't it interesting how every single one of my friends' boyfriends/husbands has a rare untreatable combination of ADHD, anxiety, autism, and trauma which completely excuse and explain all of his shitty abusive behaviors while simultaneously justifying his refusal to do his own chores?? And isn't it fascinating that this pernicious epidemic of severe learning disabilities has completely escaped the purview of the medical profession, leaving speculative diagnosis entirely up to the careful conscientious examination of Dr. Girlfriend?

Imagine being the gays at a pride event in 2004 living their lives when someone grabs the microphone and announces to the room that Ronald Reagan was pronounced dead. Can you even imagine the hype, the celebration, the pure elation

This is the Pride Month that It will happen. I feel it in my gay bones

i don’t understand how neil gaiman intellectual properties still trend on here so regularly he literally trafficked women. like it’s not even a discourse thing or a “he’s problematic” thing he was “cancelled” for human trafficking. he repeatedly isolated women, usually his or his ex-wife’s fans, with no support system for the purpose of raping them while they were dependent on him for income and housing. that’s human trafficking

Hell yeah kick down the generational walls that keep us from recognising that older women and younger women have things in common

The thing about being an atheist is that there really is no winning. If you just criticize the religion you grew up in and live around, people will be like, "Why don't you criticize other religions? You just have religious trauma and are taking it out on religion." And if you do criticize other religions people are like, "You don't know what you're talking about, and you're only criticizing that religion because you're bigoted against them." People just want you to shut up accept theo-fascism.

listen to sexworkers but only the ones filming anonymously from the comfort of their bedrooms and never the ones who are trafficked or groomed and are forced to do scenes that they don’t want to with people they don’t want to at the risk of their livelihood or even life because those stories bum me outttt and therefore don’t count despite making up the majority of cases.

something i've noticed that has become really annoying in the past 10 years or so is this fad of what i've been calling, for lack of a better word, "structural whataboutism." it's that thing where, when faced with a concrete, resolvable problem in your community, your answer is to blame it on a vast, unsolvable issue of structural inequality and then throw up your hands. "there's trash all over the ground in this corner of the park" becomes "well, that's where MEN OF COLOR congregate after their 12-HOUR GRAVEYARD SHIFTS and i'm not going to support a CARCERAL SOLUTION to a CAPITALISTIC PROBLEM. WE NEED TO ELIMINATE POVERTY AND THE SUBJUGATION OF THE WORKING CLASS" and it's like okay but sis. someone still has to go pick up the trash. we don't need a carceral solution, we need more trash cans. you're not going to eliminate poverty and the subjugation of the working class and even if ya did, there would still be trash on the ground. how any of this passes for radicalism within their peer groups i simply don't understand. it's radical laziness more than anything else

the replacement of websites with apps sounds so backwards when you actually describe it. like hmm you have to download an entire program onto your device each time you want access to a portal, where it takes up storage indefinitely. somebody should invent an app where you can "browse" any portal just by typing in its address... 🥴