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You know what, fuck this post. Maybe women wouldn’t feel the need to other themselves if so many enjoyable, genderless activities weren’t so heavily gendered to begin with. Do you know why a woman would feel the need to say, “Yes, I’m a girl and I play video games”? It’s because she or other women she knows have had their hobbies and interests invalidated based solely upon their gender. So much of this leads to woman internalizing this casual sexism, which is the most insidious part of the whole thing. Girls strive to differenciate themselves from being “girls”. ‘Yes I’m a girl, but I’m not like those OTHER girls. I’m cool, because I like guy things.’ So why do women other themselves this way? Why do they form little groups on Facebook for their interests, explicitly announcing that despite the hurdle of being a woman, they’ve overcome and somehow gotten to enjoy this activity? Because “girl” has become shorthand for “shitty” on such a grand scale that it’s embarrassing. Feminine is embarrassing. Feminine is weak. Feminine doesn’t play Counter Strike or enjoy stupid wrestling or burp loudly in public because it’s funny. Both men and women write off a girl as trying to be a special snowflake for being proud of belching in public, but here is the sad truth: belch in public as a girl and you get flack for it. You get surprise. Distaste. Most likely you get admiration from male friends, because you did something as gross and masculine as release noisy air from your dumb food hole, but are still so adorable! It becomes a badge of honor; you’re one of the cool girls who is like a guy. You internalize it. It becomes identity.
When I worked at a comic book shop from the time I was 16 until I turned 22, due to the fact that I FUCKING LOVE COMICS, I would answer the phone and have customers ask me if there were a man there that could answer his comic book questions. This was not an isolated incident. This happened monthly, sometimes weekly. I had boys sit at my counter and make eyes at my stupid pubescent face while telling me how gosh, I wasn’t like other girls. I liked comics and games and could eat a whole package of jerky myself.
That is a huge steaming pile of turds.
Girls are funny and gross and awful and beautiful and ugly and just as diverse as any group of young men. Also? They’re marginalized, fucking fight me on it.
I love video games and I have a vagina, I don’t feel the need to announce this over the head set, no. But you know what? Fuck the people judging girls trying to feel even slightly empowered doing the things pictured above if they feel like it. I’ll bet half of them are women themselves, trying to ‘outbro’ each other. “Vagina award for doing things everyone else does” Fuck you, girls get so much shit for this kind of stuff it’s not even funny. Alluding to things being equal is bullshit.
re-blogging for this great, and true, rant.
THAT COMMENT. It’s not that they want to act more privileged than others, it’s because they get so much hate for being chicks who break society’s feminine standards. Stop. You look like giant douches.
(Source: kanyewesticle, via piraticalpenguin)
You love all the books I love
You love to make art
You love to make art of book characters
You love using color
Your style is perfection
Yes, I think there is only one solution here.
Please don’t hate me for my gratuitous gif use, there are just no others like you.
"Raiding the fridge once more, I gather potatoes, ham, and—Yes!—peas from the freezer."
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Fifty Shades Darker, p. 79.
that’s the most excited anyone has ever been about peas.
(via 50shadesofsuck)
Really? Cause I’m more concerned with the refrigerated potatoes. That’s a little bit weird. It would take up a huge frackin’ lot of room in the fridge to store a sack of potatoes. But I guess Christian would have some football field sized refrigerator stocked to the brim to Anastasia would actually eat something and have sustenance beyond her damn orange juice.
HOWEVER.
Can ya’ll please stop this whole “She’ll choose Damon!” “No, She’ll choose Stefan” stuff you’re doing. Because let’s be honest with each other, the writers will stretch it between all three of those characters for as long as humanly possible.
Slight Season 3 Ending Relationship Spoilers:
Next season (since she chose Stefan this time) she’s gonna choose Damon, at some point. Then, they’ll have problems and she’ll go back to Stefan. Then Stefan will reject her and she’ll go back to Damon.
It’s pretty much going to be “toss the hot potato” until the show ends, and even then, Elena might only end up with the guy she’s with at the time it gets cancelled. (Which hopefully won’t be for a few more seasons.)
So “Stelena” people, relax. She’s not going to be with Damon forever. And “Delena” people, ignore Stefan and Elena, she’ll choose Damon again at some point.
This is also going to happen for all those “Forwood”/ “Klaroline” people. It’s gonna get confusing and it’s gonna get wishy-washy for a while. Dear god I hope not though, because I love Caroline and I might have to stop liking her if she turns into Elena with regards to her romantic relationships.
Just like I’m sure Bonnie and Jeremy are getting that “vibe” with each other again. So, look for that relationship drama.
Bottom line, it’s a show for teens and a majority of teens love relationships, especially romantic ones. But Vampire Diaries needs to keep you on your toes and keep you interested so they do a large number of twists to all of the relationships (not just romantic.)
I wish something honestly unexpected would happen like Elena and Elijah running off to Vegas. And Caroline going to live with like Katherine or something. That would make me happy, and laugh hysterically.
Since my sister and another person have expressed interest in people to follow, I decided to do a Follow Friday.
Sailor Moon Blogs
kyralih.tumblr.com
dumplingheadcanon.tumblr.com
sailorsomething.tumblr.com
idesofnovember.tumblr.com
allthingsusagi.tumblr.com
ask-usagi.tumblr.com
sailorfailures.tumblr.com
iwillpunishyou.tumblr.com
cosmic-heart.tumblr.com
fyeahsailormoon.tumblr.com
endymionandserenity.tumblr.com
Artist Blogs
prettycolors.tumblr.com (A series of pretty colors to use)
technologicme.tumblr.com
ren-ne-rei.tumblr.com
yunyin.tumblr.com
sakimichan.tumblr.com
victoriaying.tumblr.com
mcoats.tumblr.com
viria.tumblr.com
gingahsnap.tumblr.com
amymebberson.tumblr.com
mademoiselleclau.tumblr.com (Though she is not able to update frequently anymore, since she had her baby, Victoria. :D )
alicexz.tumblr.com
briannacherrygarcia.tumblr.com
andante-ace.tumblr.com
andells.tumblr.com
burdge.tumblr.com
Author Blogs
leahclifford.tumblr.com Author of A Touch Mortal/ A Touch Morbid
hexybellerachel.tumblr.com Author of the Hex Hall series
karenhealy.tumblr.com Author of The Shattering, Guardian of the Dead and When We Wake
myramcentire.tumblr.com Author of Hourglass and Timepiece
novaren.tumblr.com Author of Imaginary Girls, Dani Noir (Fade Out) and 17 & Gone
michellehodkin.tumblr.com Author of The Ubecoming of Mara Dyer and The Evolution of Mara Dyer
maureenjohnsonbooks.tumblr.com Author of The Name of the Star, Girl at Sea and the 13 Little Blue Envelopes novels
alexbracken.tumblr.com Author of Brightly Woven and Darkest Minds
kamigarcia.tumblr.com and margaretstohl.tumblr.com Author of Beautiful Creatures series
fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, Looking for Alaska and Will Grayson, Will Grayson
hollyblack.tumblr.com Author of The Curse Workers Series
Piaceri.tumblr.com Autor of Angelfire and Wings of the Wicked
naturallysteph.tumblr.com Author of Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door and Isla and the Happily Ever After
kimharrington.tumblr.com Author of Clarity and Perception
taherehmafi.tumblr.com Author of Shatter Me, Unravel Me and the e-book Destroy Me
bethrevis.tumblr.com Author of Across the Universe
veschwab.tumblr.com Author of The Near Witch
Bookish Blogs
50shadesofsuck.tumblr.com (Pretty much just making fun of 50 Shades of Grey)
bookalicious.tumblr.com
whispering-literature.tumblr.com
cover-to-cover.tumblr.com
bookfessions.tumblr.com
Musical/Broadway Blogs
thelostdisneyprincess.tumblr.com
Just plain fabulous people
edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com (Hank Green, John Green’s brother)
patriarchal-paradigm.tumblr.com
meebee6.tumblr.com
claybabay.tumblr.com
theadler.tumblr.com
bronned.tumblr.com
iputabirdonmyhead.tumblr.com
saras-scrapbook.tumblr.com (But she is in London for a little bit, so she might not be updating.)
Zodiac Tumblrs:
Zodiacsociety.tumblr.com
Manga Blogs
shoujoromancemanga.tumblr.com
iloveshoujomanga.tumblr.com
girlsbydaylight.tumblr.com
vitaaminn.tumblr.com
Disney and other animated films blogs
disneycollegeprogram101.tumblr.com
disneyworldcastmembers.tumblr.com
fuckyeahdisneygifs.tumblr.com
disneyyandmore.tumblr.com
Today, I watched the film Cyberbully staring Emily Osment. (It’s a pretty good representation of cyberbulllying, I highly encourage people to watch it.) I was looking on the tags for “Cyberbully” since I wanted to reblog a few pictures from the movie.
That was when I found a post with a girl wearing a blue t-shirt that said “We are impolite to you on the internet: Cyberbully.” I promptly freaked out because I was concerned there were actually people that support and encourage cyberbullying.
Well, here is where it gets tricky.
According to StapledSlut on Deviantart (who I believe designed these shirts or sells them.) Says “Cyberbullies! We correct you, the things you say, and the weird way you drew that thing. We don’t like the things you like, and we say we don’t like it! We poke fun at that gank tail you wore to comicon and point out the dirty mirror in your glam pic. Also, torsos aren’t 6 heads long.”
I’m sort of confused? This paragraph implies that these “cyberbullies” are simply expressing their opinion, because it’s different and will possibly get them called a bully. I have a few issues with this. First of all, calling yourself a cyberbully, even as a satire or joke, is completely inappropriate. Actual cyberbullies don’t conveniently wear t-shirts or post on their profiles that they enjoy hurting someone’s feelings. It is not funny when the type of person you’re claiming to be kills about 4,400 people a year (fact from bullyingstatistics.org) by causing them to commit suicide.
Also, it extremely depends on your views and opinions as to what constitutes “cyberbullying.” I’d like to believe that these people expressed their opinions calmly and logically rather than viciously and merely got tired of being called a bully for stating an opinion. However, it’s a very thin line as to what constitutes a bully.
Logical criticism:
“I don’t agree with what you’re saying and these are the reasons why. It is untrue. It is hurtful and I am against it.”
Cyberbullying:
“Oh my god, that is so dumb. All sluts like you shouldn’t even live if you say things this stupid.”
If you’re treating the person you’re talking to, and especially disagreeing with, like a logical, calm and respectable human being, then it’s expressing an opinion. It could be one they don’t like, but at least you can’t be faulted as being rude, a bully or hurtful.
If you’re not treating them with respect and merely talking to them in the most derogatory, insulting way possible, you are not expressing an opinion. You are being rude and malicious on purpose, which is absolutely unacceptable in any situation. Calling someone names is especially offensive and unnecessary. At this point, you’re not giving them the respect they deserve as a fellow human being.
Basically I am calling into question the name of this group. I don’t feel it should be used in any context along with expressing your opinion. If people start believing that bullying can be categorized as “opinions” and protected under free speech then there will be no hope for the victims. They will continue to be harassed, continue to feel lost and isolated as well as continue killing themselves. I don’t want to lose a family member or friend because someone thought it was fun to bully another human being online or in person.
Maybe calling the group “frank” as in “Open, honest, and direct in speech or writing” (as defined by google.com) That has no extreme connotations and is a little bit clever.
I just felt a need to express my concern over the name and the continuing use of insulting comments by anonymous users and others that I see on tumblr and other websites.
If you know someone being bullied, or are being bullied yourself, here is some helpful information.
Suicide and Depression Hotline: National Hopeline 800-442-4673
hazelden.org has extremely good information on how to prevent and stop bullying.
Also, SPEAK UP tell someone about being bullied, they might be able to help.
Juliette is the main character in Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi. She’s beautifully broken and totally fierce. I love her! Since Tahereh revealed some e-novella news today, I thought to do this set.
It was much harder than I thought! Warner would have picked all her clothes, of course selecting the best and the fanciest (and the most likely to showcase her arms.) He wouldn’t give her many flats, probably just flip flops. So, Juliette, to cover as much skin as possible would probably wear heels in self-defense. To learn what the accessories mean, you have to read the book. ;)
can-you-hear-the-mockingjays:
Because she’s this good at identifying plants
and yet, she died of eating the Nightlock? That was no mistake on Foxface’s part…
She’s not identifying plants. She’s finding pairs. The things she’s matching just happen to be plants. You’ll notice that two plants are lighting up at a time, not a word and a plant symbol.
