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Trans men have a fictional idea of masculinity. Their idea of masculinity is actually what women are naturally if not forced into femininity.

They have their own version of what being a man is like and that usually looks like: being strong and protective,emotionally intelligent but guarded,funny,aesthetic,smart,logical,empathetic,leader etc

Thats the image men want to sell to women,and thats the image women have of men. But it is not what men actually are.

Their true nature shows best in the military if you ask me. When among other men,you can see how violent,brutal and terrible they really are. Not only that but natural followers,with a mind only oriented towards respecting hierarchies without question. These trans men could never ever handle the true brutality of men. The military allows their violence to bloom,even encourages it.

Men are not what you think they are.

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OLD WOMEN SHOULD NOT BE NAKED

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so far women fucking men and having children with men and dating men and marrying men and living with men and cooking for men and cleaning up after men and mothering men and working with men and befriending men and entertaining men and counseling men and defending men and loving men has not convinced men to stop hating us but any minute now ladies

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“I want to go on T, but what if it makes me ugly”

what if it does? Time marches on, it’s not gonna spare you. You’ll grow old, you’ll become ugly, you’ll die. And I won’t let you die in a body that isn’t yours just because the world beat you down and made you prioritize the surface level attractions of people who don’t respect you over your own happiness. Take the shot, become ‘ugly’, I’ll still fucking love you, man.

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dont take bird noises for granted

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btw I am doing it afraid

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this part of stevie nicks’ interview with rolling stone is taking me out

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The bad news: Stevie Nicks is over 70 even though my mental image of her is in her forties (what do you mean the 1980s wasn't a couple of decades ago) The good news: she's still a queen.

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“Stevie Nicks surrounds herself with girls. Wherever she goes, she brings girls. “I can’t imagine you in a bathing suit,” someone says in an interview for Rolling Stone, when Stevie says she likes to play in the pool in her backyard. “Yeah, well, you never will,” Stevie says. “And there is never — ever — a man in the backyard. If there is, he is banished to the front of the house.” Men don’t get to look at Stevie Nicks unless Stevie Nicks wants men to look at Stevie Nicks.”

— (via bjorkdoll)

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Crazy how “people deserve respect regardless if you find them fuckable” changed to “you need to find someone fuckable if you think they deserve dignity and respect” real quick in feminist and LGBT spaces. :/

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It actually just hurts so much how little women have been cared about throughout history. I see videos of women cooking their husbands lunch and dinner and the comments are full of men saying "she'd be wifed up instantly" and "she'd get a ring from me instantly"

Neglecting the fact that 99% of these losers could never afford a ring, note they just reward her like a dog getting a treat. A ring or getting "wifed up" is the most holy gift they can bestow upon us.

Know a comment I've never seen? "I'd cook for her too". Or "I hope she gets the same treatment in return".

Because men don't think of us as humans to serve and make happy. They think of us as animals to reward for serving THEM.

I don't want a ring. I want a steak.

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it would be 'ironic' if you were fully dressed in a suit and dragging around a man on the floor by a leash and you called the album "woman's best friend". that would be obviously subversive. like youd be doing a lil something there. how is doing a 1:1 imitation of a 50s housewife ad ironic. who is laughing

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You can be talking to someone and she'll be like, "Oh I made a silly mistake. Women don't deserve voting rights teehee." And you'll be like, "What." And she'll be like, "Oh I'm sorry! That must sound so bad out of context. No it's this Tiktok meme where, if you're a girl and you do something dumb, you say 'Women don't deserve voting rights teehee.'"

And you'll be like, "That sounds bad." And she'll be like, "No no. It's totally not that bad. It's just a meme. Men say it too. Like if a man does something silly he'll be like, 'I am like those women who do not deserve to vote.'" And you'll be like, "Does that make it better?" And she'll be like, "Well there was one guy who tried to make 'Men shouldn't vote' a popular meme. But it never caught on and also he got yelled at a lot."

And then you drop it there because like, you're harshing the vibe.

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something that rubs me the wrong way entirely is how people are so quick to call women bitches. "I love goth bitches" this "Coquette bitches have my heart" that. You're reducing women down to simply being dogs, being animals. You never hear girls go "I love sporty scrotes" (even though i think we should do that). Men are always naturally allowed their humanity while women aren't. Not even linguistically.

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Its come to my attention that a lot of people do not know how to deal with a hot car in summer. A lot of people will get back to their car, after hours of it being parked in the full sun, and will open the door to be blasted in the face with furnace-level temperatures, and you'll just clamber in and shut the doors and leave the windows closed and you'll start driving that thing, and you'll wait for the air-conditioning to battle and overcome the heat.

Thats. Insane to me.

The inside of a car can get up to 40°C/104°F hotter than the outside temperature. Why would anyone get inside that????? It's gonna take your air-conditioning at least half an hour to combat that and bring the temperature down to something even remotely reasonable, and in the meantime you're sitting there risking heatstroke.

Now, I understand that it's currently winter in the northern hemisphere, which is where most of this site lives, but a) I'm in the southern hemisphere and today was Lots Of Degrees, and b) y'all should read this now and commit it to memory or queue it to reblog in summer or whatever, because it boggles my mind that some of you get into a car whose interior is literally oven-hot.

So!!!! Some tips!!!!!

Get a sun visor. One of the big ones that goes inside your windshield. You will not believe how much cooler those things keep your car. Get one, use it. Leave it to bounce around in your back-seat on cooler days, but have it on hand for the stinkers. They range in price but two-dollar stores usually have them for pretty cheap.

Leave the windows of your car cracked open. It doesn't have to be much. Literally just the tiniest amount will mean that the heat building inside your car has a way to escape, meaning the interior temp will naturally be kept lower. The larger the opening, the better, but depending on the neighbourhood you're parking in, maybe it would be better to have them open just a sliver. Even the tiniest crack will help. Ever tried warming up an oven with the door open? It doesn't work well. This is the same concept. If there is a way for the hot air to escape, the inside of your car will stay a lot cooler than it otherwise would have.

If you're fancy enough to have an openable sunroof (that's the dream) then leave that open a bit as well.

Youve just gotten back to your car and opened the door, and its hot as fuck in there. Open another door, ideally on the other side of the car, and let the hot air escape. If you can open all four doors and the boot, then thats even better. A bunch of the hot air will flush out. Not all!!! But a lot. Give it anywhere from a few moments to a few minutes, depending on how much of a hurry you're in.

Get in, start the car, open all the windows. Yes, even if you hate having the windows open.

Put the air-conditioning on full blast, and make sure the recycle is turned OFF. This means it pulls fresh air from outside the car (hot, but less hot than inside) and pumps that into the car, further displacing the heat inside the vehicle.

Start driving, still with the windows down. Once you get up enough speed, the force of the air from outside coming in will blast the rest of the excess heat out of the car.

The temp inside the car will now be roughly equivalent to the temp outside the car. Still hot!!!! But MAJORLY less so, and majority more handle-able by your air-conditioner.

Put all your windows up, and switch the air-con over to recycle. This means it takes the air in the car and cools it, then spits it back into the car, meaning that with each cycle, the air gets progressively cooler a lot faster.

If you do this, your car will be a hell of a lot more comfortable a hell of a lot sooner than it would be if you got into a 60°C/140°F cabin and just.... endured that, until your aircon could overcome it.

This post has been brought to you by an Australian who knows not one but TWO people who get into 60°C cars and wait 15 to 30 minutes for their car to drop back down to a temperature that's even REMOTELY tolerable.