“women don’t know how much rejection hurts” i wasn’t allowed to play with legos or touch a football or look at sports. i wasn’t allowed to eat more. i wasn’t allowed to talk loudly, to laugh too much, to inject myself into male conversations. i wasn’t allowed to be good at science. i was told “oh sweetheart, have another college in mind, STEM fields are hard.” i got turned down from jobs in favor of boys where were less qualified. one boss told me he was hesitant to hire me because my last name is hispanic and i’m pretty and he didn’t want the “controversy.” i couldn’t take up space on the train. i would be talked over in public places. i couldn’t eat steak or drink beer, they were “boy” things. video games were off limits, i wasn’t allowed to ask if i could see more characters like myself in them. super heroes were all men, women were just love interests. i wanted shirts with wonderwoman, with black widow, with harley quinn, i found next to nothing. i wanted pockets and colors other than pink and clothes designed for warmth, not sexy, i got nothing. women change their name to be published nationally. i wasn’t allowed to be emotional, i wasn’t good at driving, i wasn’t in charge of my own body. i wasn’t allowed to show off my body, i wasn’t allowed to dress modestly. i had to be pretty, whatever it took, but my eating was constantly made fun of. “she’s, like, anorexic” was a punchline, not a disorder. “she’s fat” was a death sentence.
boys said no because: i wasn’t pretty i wasn’t small i was too loud i spent too much energy on being funny on because i wouldn’t shut up what a feminazi i wasn’t smart i was too smart for my own good i was always reading i was always busy i was too needy i was too independent i was not who you took home i was too much of a house mom i was perfect and it was scary.
women don’t know. women don’t know. never sat in a room and wrote angsty poetry about this shit. somehow both overemotional and not capable of knowing how much rejection stings. which one is it. which one is it. i’ll give you a hint: we’ve been rejected since the first time our parents said, “no, not the blue blanket, it’s for little boys to play with.” we are used to having “no” slammed in our faces. we got used to it. maybe the reason it seems so unnatural to hear “no” is because for your entire life, you heard “yes.”
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these are both still male dominated like……….this is wrong this is not more women than men look its plain and simple wtf
Men, despite dominating STEM fields, demonstrating that they do not even have a basic grasp on math.
Okay as depressing as this is, it’s really hilarious.
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“SMALL CHILD WAS UPSET AND REQUESTED HUGS!
WHY WAS SMALL CHILD UPSET!?
WAS IT YOU WHO UPSET SMALL CHILD!?!?
WHY HAVE YOU UPSET MY SMALL FRIEND!?
DO YOU WISH TO DIE!?
IS THAT WHY YOU HAVE UPSET HER!?
I WILL DRINK YOUR ORGANS FOR DOING THIS!“
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The Best Thing You’ll See Today
Supergirl carrying a puppy while walking with Daisy Scouts.
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Britain ‘ignored plea by France’ to aid stranded Calais child refugees
Britain ‘ignored plea by France’ to aid stranded Calais child refugees
“In some cases British officials claim to have “misplaced” requests from
the French to help children, raising questions over Britain’s approach
to what humanitarian experts call an urgent child protection issue. The camp is scheduled to be demolished this month, with no provision
agreed by the British and French for most of the 1,000 unaccompanied
minors there, of whom at least 400 are eligible to enter the UK.” -
Homophobic attacks in UK rose 147% in three months after Brexit vote
Homophobic attacks in UK rose 147% in three months after Brexit vote
(contrary to the headline, it’s actually homophobic, biphobic and transphobic attacks, but wow. 147%)
The state of my former home makes me want to cry. We fought so hard and for so long for progress and it’s been so badly set back by fuckwit right wingers who’d like it to be the 1940s again.
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WAIT WAIT YOUR D&D GROUP GOT KITTENS?!
@thesupersquirrel is obviously doing this to make Erik and I feel bad for not having the time to play another game.
Kildrak is no mere kitten! She has joined the Brawnanvil clan and should be referred to appropriately. Damn tool-snatching shortbeard humans, never treat our animal kin with respect.
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Y’know what really pisses me off abou the rise of Farage in the UK and Trump in America and other assorted demagogues around the world? It’s the way the “traditional” right shakes their head and tuts at these figures as if to say “this is nothing to do with us.”
Farage and Trump are a logical continuation of 30+ years of neoliberal capitalism, white supremacist language cloaked in slightly more polite terms and a general contempt for the working class and marginalised communities. When politicians allowed migrants to be blamed for the worst excesses of unrestrained markets, what did they think would happen? When politicians started villifying single mothers and did nothing about soaring rape figures, where did they think it would lead? If you hold up wealthy people as role models, regardless of their ability or merit, how can you be surprised when wealth alone gives someone a viable shot at being president of the United States?
Some of the sentiments muttered by Farage actually aren’t a million miles away from the kind of shit that the Thatcher government used to come out with (concentration camps for people with HIV, anyone?). Trump seems pretty fucking ridiculous from where we’re standing now, but so did Reagan back in the day.
This is where that path has led us. And what prominent right-wingers really don’t like is that Farage and Trump are up-front about the prejudices and misconceptions that inform their views. Unlike some of the right, they don’t even bother to cloak their vicious fucking lies in good intentions.
And unless we get rid of this economic model, in 30 years from now, we’ll probably look at the politicians we’re dealing with then and think “man Farage and Trump don’t seem all that bad now.”
