Hey there!

oh my god

we owe literally no one more on this planet than the woman behind fantasy name generator

her name is emily and and she runs it all by herself

everyone say thanks emily!!!

Thanks, Emily!!!

Hold up

“Ahh, Perry the Platypus! Behold: the INFINITY GAUNTLET!…. Inator. With one snap of my fingers as I collect the sixth stone, I will have infinite power, enough to…. create more resources for the entire planet! They will WORSHIP me as a hero, and I will take over the ENTIRE TRI STATE AREA!” “What? Kill half of all people? What kind of crazy person would do that?”

“You see, Perry the Platypus, when I was growing up, my parents only let me eat half of all my meals.”

death the kid is such a… weird character. i cant think of another character like him because he’s so weird. like, he’s the son of the grim reaper with horrible ocd and perfectionism issues and also he dresses like a preppy goth in full tuxedo but he also rides a skateboard named beelzebub and does cool tricks on it whenever presented the opportunity also he has guns. none of those character traits sound like they belong to the same person. hes somehow both the coolest and lamest character in the show. 

they dress like cowboys and theyre not even from the west or the south!!! theyre from fucking!!! brooklyn!!!!

This is something I noticed when I was nannying. The female child was always “so helpful!” Because it never even occurred to her that she could say no. She did what grownups asked her to do. The male child would mouth off, throw tantrums, get violent, and even threaten self-injury because you asked him to put his laundry in the drawers. (Except, of course, when his father asked.) It never even occurred to the girl to act that way. It certainly never occurred to her that she’d get what she wanted if she did.

Except it did occur to her to protest or tantrum, years ago, and she was punished for disobeying, while her brother’s resistance was not. We learn early on that the rules are different for us than they are for boys. We learn at such a young age that we forget how we were punished and praised and molded to this path, and thus our obedience seems natural to everyone around us, including ourselves.

And in addition to being punished more for disobeying, female children have empathy for the older women who slave over the housework all alone, and feel compelled to help them out of kindness. Male children don’t feel this because they’ve internalized ideas about the inferiority and subservience of women, and are already learning to see this as morally ok.

this happens at work! i replaced a male coworker when he got promoted. and found out he never did the admin work the job required. much to the frustration of the quality manager and admin who were both women. they ask me, i do it. it needs to be done but he would literally tell them he wasn’t doing it. it was part of the job he didnt like and he said no? and no repercussions. he got promoted! and i am like still reeling over it because if i just said no to a part of my job i would get fired. 

And this is totally learned behavior. I’m a preschool teacher, and we do family style dining with the kids, which means the kids help clean and set the table for breakfast, lunch, and snack. I’m always there for breakfast, and it’s just as often the boys asking to help get the table ready as it is the girls. They love to spray and wipe the table and set out the plates, cups, napkins, and spoons. It’s seen as “special” to get to be the table helper. So yeah, boys not wanting to help around the house is totally a learned thing and not “just the way it is.”

@supermunchor