I’m legit so tired of seeing photographs and illustrations of women posing for the male gaze. The put-on weakness, the half open mouth, the focus on her body, like everything created for men is automatically trash, and anything created BY men is automatically trash
Perhaps I’m starting to sound like an old curmudgeon who is lamenting that the good old days are gone. But I’m worried about these “genderqueer” kids who are taking artificial hormones and who are going to eventually realize that they were just a good old-fashioned homosexual the whole time and should have been just accepting that. Finding out you are gay has always been confusing, and I think it might be a more confusing process now than it was when I did it.
I feel completely alienated by the queer and GLBT community because it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with homosexuals anymore. I stared at a flyer yesterday for a gender diversity club and the symbol it had on it—a round circle with multiple gender symbols coming out of it—and I thought, this does not seem like the club I would need if I was a young lesbian coming out. For many years, whenever I saw a rainbow flag or the word Pride I knew that was for me, and it made me feel at home. I don’t feel at home looking at this trans symbol with lots of different genders on it. I’m not looking for an identity to try on.
if anyone was wondering why Twitter is so hellbent on defending trans rapists, its because trans rapists work there in high level positions! male privilege in action folks
the article says female but i can assure you the rapist is 100% male and raped his wife with his male penis
“We want the museum to understand that the moai are our family, not just rocks. For us [the statue] is a brother; but for them it is a souvenir or an attraction,” said Anakena Manutomatoma, who serves on the island’s development commission. “Once eyes are added to the statues, an energy is breathed into the moai and they become the living embodiment of ancestors whose role is to protect us.”
isnt the point of a museum to preserve history though? id prefer something be in a controlled environment than outside in the elements.
The moai have been standing JUST fine in the open in the island for literal centuries. Believe it or not, the Rapa Nui are NOT stupid; they know their island, how to live in it, and what materials and treatment to those materials do or do not last in the island they’ve called their home for ages. The moai are MADE to be “outside in the elements”.
And preserved for whom? I’m sure my ancestors wouldn’t feel it’s preservation to have a LIVING piece of their culture stolen by colonizers and kept away from them all this fucking long when I assure you, no one asked for their permission to take it in the first place.
That’s not fucking “preserving”, that’s just fucking stealing, and a loss of culture for the Rapa Nui.
I’m gonna steal the Mona Lisa, the Statue of Liberty, Queen Elizabeth’s crown, the stained glass pieces of Notre Dame, a sculpture by Michelangelo, keep ‘em in my house, charge white people for even just distantly looking at them, and call it preserving history.
what ageism is: elderly people living on social security alone not having enough to make ends meet, inaccessibility to public places for people with limited mobility, medical abuse in nursing homes, being assumed to be mentally incompetent, employment discrimination
what ageism is not: you getting mocked for being in your late 30s and getting into heated arguments on tumblr with high school kids about steven universe