#women hunters

[enbycrip]

We’ve seen it everywhere. But it’s incredibly important that this is seen, discussed and accepted in academic discourse for a whole bunch of reasons.

The misogynist idea that AFAB and AMAB bodies are fundamentally very different and that AFAB bodies are fundamentally inferior is putting up a huge fight atm.

It’s not only “gender criticals”, though they are a big part of this and transphobia is one of the big battlegrounds of it. It’s also the anti-choice stuff rolling across the US trying to define any body capable of pregnancy as having its primary function being a vessel for foetuses.

And to do that you need to play up the idea that those bodies are fundamentally very different, and that AFAB bodies are fundamentally “intended” for pregnancy and birth. Enforcing this fake history where AFAB lives were entirely defined by pregnancy, birth and child-rearing is a weapon in that, and exposing it as ideological rather than evidence-based is *incredibly* fucking important.

This *doesn’t* mean that we should stop pointing out the fundamentally ridiculous nature of considering hunting as important as it is painted in popular culture when most studies consider that 80% minimum of “hunter-gatherer” societies’ food is foraged. It’s a fundamentally Victorian construct that considers “hunting is the active, ‘masculine’ work so therefore it must be the *real* work of a society”, no matter how much evidence is found that foraging was far more fundamental to survival.

It is *so* important to keep on emphasising the constructed nature of not only human gender, but gendered structures in human societies.

There is this huge sociopolitical push from “conservative” religious and cultural forces all over the planet rn to push the idea that certain social structures - fundamentally misogynist ones - are somehow “innate”, “inherent” and “natural”.

Hence the push to attack trans people in particular. We put the lie to so many of their cherished myths just by existing. We are living magic - the proof of human fluidity; the living potential for change; the living promise that things Don’t Have To Be This Way.

[contact-guy]

THE COPPER BEECHES part two (pt 1 here), the conclusion. According to Watson: "As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success."

(This is part of the Watson's sketchbook series)

[ladamarossa]

Cuckoo (2024)

[velo-cats]

Frogleap

[haggishlyhagging]

Researchers found the female body was better suited for endurance activity “which would have been critical in early hunting because they would have had to run the animals down into exhaustion before actually going in for the kill”.

Scientists said the hormones oestrogen and adiponectin – typically present in higher quantities in female bodies – play a key role in enabling women to modulate glucose and fat, which is critical for athletic performance.

[lucyvelvett001]

Would you let me suck you on the first date?

[zaana]

i've made a twi'lek OC! her name is Shiri and i'm having too much fun with her

[browsethestacks]

Tigra

Art by Bruce Timm

[kelsh]

Super late post before For the Future airs but goddamn I am so exited!!!! Despite the leaks I have held out until the 21st and the feeling of getting to watch on the premiere day is *cehfs kiss*

Anyways, Willow and Evelyn potential parallels are always on my mind rent free

[blackerthings]

NICOLE BEHARIE AS CHRIS HUNTER

The Morning Show (Season 3)

[sunroseofthewood]

Me: *takes your trauma boy and makes him a trauma girl*

[punkeropercyjackson]

Fandom hoes be like 'female-coded' and 'the female experience' but get mad when you say a feminine male character might be feminine because they're actually a trans girl and feel connected to femininity because they wanna be female.Internalized misogyny is crazy bruh

[behindthescreamz]

continuity photos of some of the women of the saw franchise. (2005 - 2010)

[ladamarossa]

Hunter Schafer as Gretchen in Cuckoo (2024)

[ayellowapple]

Machi sketches for @o7k5a8m9i

[sorala]

if i had a nickel for every time an intrepid hero made up a piece of media as a recurring bit on the fly to help their character be a deceptive little shit only to later reveal that their character was secretly the creator*s of that piece of media in disguise all along I'd have two nickles which isn't nearly enough it's such a funny bit