wannabe-catboy

[wannabe-catboy]

roleplaying a fictional character is so funny because there will be 100 people roleplaying the same fictional character

and 100 more people roleplaying each of the other characters in the same canon

and you end up interacting with more than one of them

so you get things like “clearly they have forgotten who we are” from someone who is somehow the same character as you but has a VERY VERY different vibe

and you’re like damn I am embarrassing our character. I am making him look pathetic. this other person roleplaying me is so much cooler.

but you remember that making a really cool character into a bit of a failure is like the funniest thing you can do to them and keep going

[wannabe-catboy]

in honour of pride month,

here are some songs I think are trans-coded.

what ifs

something wild

rewrite the stars

let it go

I may be elaborating. Probably not.

Feel free to add your own suggestions. Anything related to unconditional acceptance or self-actualisation is automatically 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️, sorry not sorry.

[wannabe-catboy]

I think what a lot of people are missing is that the push to decrease barriers for women in male-dominated fields is the government/school/other organisation’s perceived solution to a very real problem.

For example, I was talking to some bugger online who unironically thought sexism no longer existed because the laws favoured women. Asking him what he meant revealed that he was referring to the quotas some workplaces had where they needed to hire [minimum] amount of women.

Ok, I said. And do you think this means that the women being hired are less suited to the job than the men they would’ve otherwise hired?

Yeah, yeah he did.

And why is it that there are so many less “qualified” women for the job than there are men? Why do they need to actively instate a quota to even begin to balance out these numbers?

Readers, there were many correct responses to that question. Ranging from “the interviewers are biased against the applicants perceived to be women (https://gap.hks.harvard.edu/orchestrating-impartiality-impact-“blind”-auditions-female-musicians)” to “girls are not given the same education opportunities and/or are dissuaded from going into those fields by well-meaning but biased parents”.

He straight up admitted that he thought women were inherently less rational.

Because people who think women are inherently less suitable for jobs relating to rational thinking should be taken seriously when they claim that sexism died when the other half of the population got the right to vote.

And yes, I think these regulations treat the symptom and not the cause. Maybe there are better ways to combat sexism than setting laws that make companies hire more women, but these options almost always fall into the category of “stop making our teachers, interviewers, parents, coworkers, bosses, etc. sexist”.

And you pointing to an imperfect solution is hardly a proof against the veracity of the underlying problem.

[wannabe-catboy]

Weirdly enough my first tumblr account was also a roleplaying account. Except I was roleplaying an actual fictional character that I couldn’t give two hoots about.

Ironically, the stuff I post isn’t stuff I’d like and reblog if it turned up on my dashboard. Idk why people interact with it at all.

I think I’d prefer to make posts that I would enjoy reading if they were from someone else.

[wannabe-catboy]

self-introduction:

I’m Evan, he/they or they/he (can’t tell which one).

The person running this blog is a girl and will often refer to myself as such. Treat this blog as you would someone else’s OC - character is a catboy, person running it is not. Hence the wannabe.

This is just where I’ll post my thoughts from time to time. Hence the name “Evan’s thoughts”.

Idk. Do what you will but get off my blog if you’re a radfem or Trumpie. That should cover about everything.