#tale as old as time…

[palms-upturned]

According to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the moral to be drawn from women’s (i.e., white women’s) Civil War experiences was that women should never “labor to second man’s endeavors and exalt his sex above her own.”

There was a strong element of political naïvete in Stanton’s analysis of the conditions prevailing at the war’s end, which meant that she was more vulnerable than ever to racist ideology. As soon as the Union Army triumphed over their Confederate opponents, she and her co-workers insisted that the Republican party reward them for their wartime efforts. The reward they demanded was woman suffrage—as if a deal had been made; as if women’s rights proponents had fought for the defeat of slavery with the understanding that their prize would be the vote.

Of course the Republicans did not lend their support to woman suffrage after the Union victory was won. But it was not so much because they were men, it was rather because, as politicians, they were beholden to the dominant economic interests of the period. Insofar as the military contest between the North and the South was a war to overthrow the Southern slaveholding class, it was a war which had been basically conducted in the interests of the Northern bourgeoisie, i.e., the young and enthusiastic industrial capitalists who found their political voice in the Republican party. The Northern capitalists sought economic control over the entire nation. Their struggle against the Southern slaveocracy did not therefore mean that they supported the liberation of Black men or women as human beings.

(…) Granted, the [Fourteenth and Fifteenth] Amendments excluded women from the new process of enfranchisement and were thus interpreted by them as detrimental to their political aims. Granted, they felt they had as powerful a case for suffrage as Black men. Yet in articulating their opposition with arguments invoking the privileges of white supremacy, they revealed how defenseless they remained—even after years of involvement in progressive causes—to the pernicious ideological influence of racism.

Angela Y. Davis, Women Race & Class

[puppymiqwerty]

Devastating News: the baddest bitch alive lives in buttfuck nowhere. But like... a different buttfuck nowhere from where you are.

[scholarhect]

although if john winchester loses in round two of that bad dad bracket that’s actually kind of insane. he’s THE bad dad

[sketchbooksys]

Is this anything. was thinking about it while doodling and this happened. may as well post it ig

[bubbi-pop]

Drawing Zanechan/Zana in 2024, the world is healing (+reference pic)

[figmentforms]

Part 242 of  “A Tale of Two Rulers” (May 1, 2023) ★Patreon- https://www.patreon.com/LorIllustration ★

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It's Back! Thank you all so much for your support of my work after my break last month! <3

I'm super happy to report that the mass the doc took out was officially declared NOT Cancer!!! Very happy about that, and also very happy that it's OUT of me! Now I just have a few more tests to see what kind of damage it left behind just by "clogging up the works" for all this time. Hopefully it will go well. I can't wait for the unknown of all this to be over with. (Not to mention praying so hard that someday, somehow, I get to be a parent after all this is over.) Thank you all so much for your kind words, patience and words of support as I took last month off. It really means a lot to know that  people care and understand. I appreciate you all very much! ( ＾◡＾)っ ♡

[lylahammar]

Weight loss is a completely morally neutral personal choice that anyone can make for any reason, but if you choose to lose weight because you hate your fat body, please do the internal work to get over that internalized fatphobia before or during your weight loss efforts. I’ve seen far too many fat people become skinny and immediately turn their internalized fatphobia outwards, and it’s a bad time for everyone. If you have to keep the weight off through a strictly maintained diet and exercise, it’s pretty much inevitable that you will gain some weight back at some point in your life (likely more than you had in the first place if yo-yo dieting is in play), and you will find that all the hatred you projected at the fat community will come back to bite you in the ass with twice the power. Work on loving your fat self while you’re there, and if you choose to lose weight then work on continuing to love your old fat self. Life will feel much better for yourself and the fat people around you that way.

[greyhands]

Okay, but have you considered Raphael with longer hair ?

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[crumb]

THE PASSENGER | 2023 + RESERVOIR DOGS | 1992

[tealgoat]

Act 6 sure is something

[daydreamerwonderkid]

*finally decides to start reading the 750k slow burn hurt/comfort fic I've been putting off until I was in the right head space to get absolutely destroyed*

*clicks on fic*-

[lasshoe]

jake johnson talking about nick and jess's first kiss and zooey telling jake "don't kiss me soft.... you have to grab me" ??? also NINE more takes????????????? release the footage i swear to god

[palecryptid]

been watching borderlands video essays again and i kinda miss him

[pettson]

i could make a comment on how tess being overlooked in the tlou fandom is because of the misogynistic views on older women we have in this society where any woman over 35 is not considered sexy anymore and therefore loses her worth, but do i want to

[industrial-tools-and-screaming]

obsessed with the In Tales of Time Odile looping AU by @tealgoat, act 5 Odile going off... oughugh .

[ryebecca]

a dagger tale as old as time: "Look, Anita! Puppies everywhere!" 🐶 🐾 ✨ | (a 101 Dalmatians!Bob AU because you can't tell me that Bob Floyd isn't the most Roger-coded of all time - thanks to @withahappyrefrain and @bobfloydsbabe for the idea!)