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4 dudes out together: unfunny, loud, annoying, rude, unnerving

4 women out together: hilarious, dynamic, fun, adventurous, unbothered, effortless

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Biker flappers on the beach! Mid-1920s

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The biggest “your experiences are not universal” thing I feel is whenever anyone talks about the universality of girls planning their weddings since childhood because. Well. Not me. God bless

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coworkers unthinking automatic ai use making me more and more misanthropic by the second

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> wants to reblog an otherwise good post

> post refers to homosexuality as ‘queerness’

> nevermind

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Source: Common Lives Lesbian Lives; A Lesbian Quarterly ( #29 - Winter 1989 )

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“Painting vulvae, focusing on details of women’s bodies, even the parts that are ‘supposed’ to be hidden, does sometimes feel like a small act of resistance ― a way of saying that women don’t need to hide, that we deserve a place, not just in the art world, but in every sector.”

“It’s part of this strange dichotomy that culture has created for women: reveal and conceal. On one hand, we’re always supposed to reveal enough of ourselves to be sexually attractive, but simultaneously we’re expected to conceal our bodies, our opinions, and, ultimately, I believe, our power.”

 -Jacqueline Secor

Incredible work and incredible words. This is the kind of art that fills my soul with joy at its unabashed, unashamed beauty. Feeling proud to be woman.

 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jacqueline-secor-vagina-painting_us_58ab534be4b07028b702f650?section=women

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anyway I love things like having independence, being intelligent, taking pride in my skills, not feigning incompetence, referring to myself as a woman instead of a girl, aging unapologetically, having pores, stretch marks, grey hairs, wrinkles and body fat, listening to my body's needs, eating as much as I need to satisfy my hunger, being bare-faced, wearing comfortable clothes, etcetera

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Gustave Courbet (French, 1819-1877)

The Sleepers, 1866

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every day i encounter a variation of "this woman made a joke but women can't make jokes so i will assume she's evil and take it at face value" on this website.

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I can't believe I grew up to be the type of person that says MOST therapy is sham pseudo science. I was getting a psych degree before a dropped out of college. I wanted to major in art therapy (I also studied art, big mistake, I am a shit artist) but to think I thought this was valuable in anyway is crazy to me now. The idea that everyone should have a therapist is just narcissistic drivel and coincides with big pharma trying to medicalize all feeling and profit off every person's dysfunction in a malfunctioning society. It may work for a small group of people, but it isn't a cure all prescription for most people.

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okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.

I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.

so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.

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Clovis François Auguste Didier (French, 1858-1939)

A Consoling Mother

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Every time a woman makes a pink job or girl math or girl dinner or I'm just a girl joke I unfortunately have to kill a random man on the streets. And you may think this is cruel or unjust but in reality that's just the way the cookie crumbles

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sometimes i do wonder if i should stop being such a dyke in all my movie ''''reviews'''' and then i go look at what everyone else is saying and see hundreds of delusional women fawning over Some Guy and decide i'm providing a valuable service actually

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okay it's late and i'm being mean but also this is the dumbest fucking thing i've read all day congratulations