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I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

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Nest of Pikachu by Diane Özdamar

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I NEED ALL OF MY FAR CRY 5 JACOB AND JOHN GIRLIES TO SEE THIS MUSIC VIDEO!

TRUST ME. IF YOUR BRAINWORMS ARE THE SAME SPECIES AS MINE - you’re welcome.

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good morning i'm mad about werewolf 20th anniversary transphobia again

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Supernatural is very quotable, but unfortunately the best lines are “you gotta go be gay for that poor dead intern” and “freedom is a length of rope. God wants you to hang yourself with it.”

They encompass the full spectrum of the show from a complex interrogation of religion and free will to satirical borderline homophobic comedy.

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Wait, you were actually born in the 1900's? Thats so cool

i am going to eat my own entire skin

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Honestly this is really my thing with a lot modern feminism takes that just drive me bananas - nobody asks why.

Why do women wear bras?

Why do men not wear make up?

Why do women shave?

Yes, beauty and grooming standards are tools of patriarchy, but 1) it cuts both ways and 2) tools are not structures.

Tools have to be developed. Weaponized.

American women shave their arms and legs because of capitalism. In the early 1900s, companies that specialized in men’s hair grooming wanted to expand their market, so they targeted women. At the same time, garment manufacturers were producing sheer garments and then in the 20s, hemlines rose. Women’s magazines carried advertisements for both, and helped weave together the idea that underarm and then later leg hair was unattractive and unfeminine.

Men used to wear cosmetics all the time. However, shifts in social norms discouraged this practice by the early 1800s. Manliness was more and more defined by “not doing womanly things” so by the late 1800s, being effeminate made a man weak and unattractive. Homophobia was only a minor concern until well into the 1900s if I’m not mistaken. And let’s not forget that around the same time we start seeing the rise of proto-feminism - Mary Shelley’s mother was Mary Wollstonecraft who wrote one of the earliest essays on women’s rights.

As OP states above, bras are functional garments just like corsets and stays. And women from around the world have used various types of support garments or clothing techniques to help support the girls for centuries. Construct a medieval kirtle just right and it basically has a built in bra. Or lace yourself up just right and again, built in bra. Also, “corsets/tight-lacing causes health problems” was basically a meme that got passed around as fact.

Women started shaving their legs and underarms because of capitalism. Women are expected to shave now because patriarchy just picked up the tool capitalism created. And honestly in my experience as a woman that never shaves her underarms and rarely de-furs her legs - nobody says shit. They may judge, but I’ve never been approached about it, not even from my boss. And shaving differs from culture to culture even within the US.

Women wear bras because many of us require a little help keeping our girls where they need to be. We are expected to wear bras because our breasts are so heavily objectified that a female-presenting nipple is automatically obscene. Bras became a tool to exercise control over a woman’s sexuality because a secondary sexual characteristic became inherently pornographic.

Men stopped wearing cosmetics culturally because with women gaining more and more rights, masculinity shifted to be more and more about contrasting women in as many physical ways as possible. Men were no longer defined by their status, so they had to define themselves in a different way. Patriarchy survived by focusing more on the physicality of men. It’s why it started to punish any perception of “womanliness.” And this isn’t just a Western thing - some version of it now exists in many cultures around the world.

So out of these three things, which one is actually a pillar of patriarchy? Which one is there purely to reinforce gender norms and patriarchal power? Women shaving (which is not a universal thing), wearing bras (which is grounded in the universal need of anyone with boobs to support said tits), or men not being allowed to wear make up openly (which used to be a thing and then feminism happened)?

I think instead of being worried about bras and razors, maybe we should discuss how we break down the notion that masculinity is defined by “never being girly.”

Honestly the way in "feminist spaces" bras are talked about like they're a beauty treatment is so weird. They're a support garment. Some people also wear them for modesty, which like if you don't care about that fine but a lot of people do, but either way they're ultimately practical, supportive underwear pieces and not necessarily anything more. You can get very utilitarian ones and very decorative ones and we've incorporated them into sexual play like we have panties, but they're just there to help keep your tatas from smacking you in the face.

Whether its some skinny small-tittied bitch in the 70s burning them or some skinny small-tittied bitch now sharing psas like "you don't Have to wear a bra! Feminism!" they never fucking go away. Like pretty sure the folks who don't have to already know that. I'm not wearing one bc I want to appeal to patriarchal beauty standards, I'm doing it bc the alternative is Deeply physically uncomfortable and even painful, and that's what the fucking things were invented for. I get that you're Thin™️ and Normal™️ or whatever but the rest of us aren't. Like why dont your call out jock straps or shoes, obviously people only wear those for sexualized and performative patriarchal reasons and no actual practical function, right? Like live a goddamn day in my cup size before you talk to me about this shit again.

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Jacob in that one part of that one scene we all know and love 🩷

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since yall wanted to know if hannibal went to super mega hell too 😔✌️✨

Part 1 -> here

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there's a lot to bitch about re: supernatural but at least it was made in 2005 starring teen soap actors on the cw with one million episodes per season. that's real television. if they made that shit now it would be like six episodes on apple tv and glen powell would be in it. so count your fucking blessings.

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LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!

Fandom is the space to be horny on main! Especially for grown ass men dancing around a stage shirtless while crooning the horniest shit you’ve ever heard! And based on II reposting the belly tat photos, they may just be okay with that honestly.

There are no thought crimes! Finding strangers aesthetically pleasing/sexy is natural human behavior! It’s incredibly easy to not be a dick about it!

I try not to get into any discourse but I had some thoughts

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Have you been waiting long

For me?

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spot the difference