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i actually do think it’s anti-feminist to be fatphobic and yes i do mean that

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“Babe are going to bed? How did you get under there???”

“Mreh!” >:(

“Oh, I’m sorry! G’night!”

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"this is unbecoming of me" is genuinely a useful thing to have in your mental toolbox

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2027: Wizards of the Coast and the American Psychological Association collaborate on the D&DSM, 6th Edition, widely regarded as the worst thing ever published

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Perhaps police departments should be mostly staffed by part-timers. This way everyone also has a different normal job and thus are part of the community. In this way, the police are less likely to develop their own unique values different from the community. And thus, the state enforcing unpopular laws becomes more difficult (moreover since everyone has a second job, they can more easily just quit if they don't like what they are ordered to do). And with all the people it is harder to develop a culture of corruption. Perhaps, it could be a two weeks out of the year thing, if that works nicer with people's schedule. We want as many people to be policemen as possible (in fact, for police jobs that don't require physical stress, we should abolish any health requirements). Maybe, police work should be part of the gig economy. We need more good paying gig economy style jobs. Imagine the delight in giving the person who arrested you a low rating on the app afterwards.

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elayne doodle

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the idea of a clutch purse is nightmarish to me. the whole point of bags was so we could escape the torment of holding things. and now u gotta hold a bag.

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late 90s 01/02 on our backs magazine covers from bishopsgate institute archives. | originally posted by on your.knees on instagram.

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A Homage to Sappho | Norman Lindsay (C.1928)

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This HAD to be on my blog.

Credit: theemidknight on TikTok

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not only am i pro self diagnosis, i am anti-getting an official diagnosis. only get that shit formalized if youre getting accomidations and/or controlled substances out of it, otherwise the legal system and the psychiatric system do NOT need to know that shit

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tara hajimiri, this little girl was martyred in tehran by israel. she was just eight and dreamt of being a gymnast.

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I see a lot of "you go girl!" quotations of Virginia Woolf insulting 'Ulysses' on here.

I cannot and will not let it go unmentioned that Woolf's queerness and womanness does not erase the fact she was upper class and English, and that her description of Joyce and his writing is dripping in colonial and class contempt:

An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, & ultimately nauseating.

Now. This was written likely within a year of Ireland gaining partial independence from British colonial rule. 'Ulysses' was published on Feb 2nd, 1922, less than a month after the British administration left Dublin. This after several years of guerilla war.

This is not the case of a girlboss gay icon sticking it to a man. This is a person from a colonialist perspective calling the work of a person who came from a colonial underclass "underbred" and "illiterate".

She also assumes that James Joyce was uneducated. Joyce was culturally middle class (though he and his family had bouts of serious poverty) and went to the best private schools in Dublin available to a Catholic at the time and on to university. But she calls him "self taught". Perhaps because he was Irish. Or perhaps because an Irish education didn't count.

In the social dynamics of the time, Woolf was engaging in something akin to (not the same as, i am not saying it is the same, simply akin to) racist dog-whistling. Honestly if a posh English person called something an Irish person wrote "underbred" or "illiterate" today, it would still be considered unacceptable and apologies would be demanded, but in the early 1920s it was pretty fucking disgusting. She used eugenicist language and allusions lack of education as a cudgel with which to bash somebody she deemed culturally inferior to herself, after centuries of her culture suppressing his.

I understand that not everybody understands the existence of this dynamic. But now you do.

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just found out in medieval france, having a lion on your coat of arms was so prevalent that there was literally a colloquial proverb to clown on knights for being basic and not having a real coat of arms. the hate game was so strong back then. imagine medieval hate anons