Strangeness & Charm

It pisses me off.

I also only really do it once or twice a month so sometimes I do go out in public with hairy legs.

come on man i'm on my lunch break can't you wait???

For the "crime" of not wanting to be tracked/have ads pissed into your eyeballs 24/7.

Even if you've paid for the "privilege" of the latter.

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The first photo is from 1956. It shows a Black woman watching members of the Ku Klux Klan (a terrorist, racist, far-right organization focused on white supremacy) walking along a sidewalk in Montgomery, Alabama (USA). I couldn't find the photo's author, but most sources state that it was taken in 1956.

The second photo shows members of the Patriot Front group (a white supremacist and nationalist group, formed in 2017, that openly advocates what they call "American Fascism") traveling on the subway during the 250th anniversary of the U.S. independence in Washington D.C., while a Black woman watches them. The photo is by photographer Cheney Orr, taken on July 4, 2026, 70 years after the first photo.

Some unemployed guys created an anonymous account on insta where they literally just said the most vile things about these girls from the grade above mine, and the school administration didn't do jackshit. The same administration that cares so much about their image and would literally crucify a student for criticising them publicly or saying anything negative about the school online does nothing when male students go around sexualising female students on social media

These twelfth graders in my school literally made a list where they ranked girls and called them 'unrapeable' and these guys were completely protected by the schools vice principal who literally defended them. These 3 guys later went on to post a street interview where they called feminism retarded. They've left now, but the principal had a thing where she basically threatened all the students not to circulate that video

There are several instances where boys from my grade and the grade above have sexually assaulted or groped girls, and we have cameras and like a hundred eyewitnesses to corroborate it. The worst punishment these guys get is maybe a week of getting suspended and detention once. These guys who were caught vaping in the bathroom got expelled, which is insane. Literally molesting a girl is seen as a lesser crime than using a peach vape

Even during our history class, these males were discussing why there are no prominent women in my country's history. The obvious answer is that they were deprived of education, representation, freedom, liberty and suffrage. But these incels were openly speaking about how they believe women are bad leaders. And the teacher didn't even stop them

Everytime a teacher or principal lets a boy abuse, assault, insult, or degrade women, without holding him accountable at all, it sets a really shitty precedent that violence and hatred towards women is not just tolerable, but also normal. They're quite literally breeding a new generation of rapists and misogynists.

When they win it increases by 26%

Fuck your world cup

Fuck your football

End male violence

you ever just think about how the gulf between women’s rights in different countries is so massive and there are men working their fingers to the bone to strip back reproductive rights because they look at their society where women can live their lives free from being shackled to men through financial dependence and constant pregnancy and childbirth and think ‘this won’t do at all’

If your protagonist is a fighter or magic user, do you show other women in those roles? If your society is more relaxed about sex discrimination, have you built a world that looks like it?

Have you built a world where your female characters don’t all have to be The Best At Everything, or is almost every female character placed where she can be extraordinary next to a bunch of male counterparts? Are you comfortable letting a female wizard or warrior be average or unimportant, or does she have to be one of the most skilled and powerful of them all, able to match or best all the men around her? On the other hand, are you comfortable having a female wizard or warrior be indisputably the most skilled or powerful out of the wizards or warriors, without drawing attention to her gender, placing her in competition with men, or having her be an exception to the rule because she’s female?

Are you letting your female characters be mediocre and un-extraordinary? Your world is full of powerful sorceresses, fierce battle maidens and calculating noblewomen, but do women do things in this world other than be Exemplary and Great and Awesome? If you’ve established that women do business and fight, do you have female soldiers carousing at bars and vaguely dull female Evil Minions Of The Dark Lord bumbling around doing evil bidding and female apprentices slacking on work or is every background woman we see competent and controlled and intelligent and doing whatever it is she’s doing without error, whereas only men are allowed to be foolish, impulsive, mess things up, or just be shown unflatteringly during the couple sentences we know them? In other words, does the world show women being unapologetically human beings or are all your female characters basically making up for being women by not doing anything that would badly represent their gender?