I am a not-very-deep sort of person and I don't feel like apologising for that here. This is my opportunity to let out all my superficial crushes, trivial interests and all things nice and lovely I will come across on my way.
You need to know that I can be judgy, I can be blindly loyal to people I like/love/look up to.
Ignorance is bliss and more often than not I will choose bliss of given a chance.
Do you ever just stop and think about that photoset for the “Five Doctors” where Tom Baker was not present so they decided to pose his wax figure instead like it was a completely normal thing to do?
ngl i went through the first three trying to figure out which one was the wax one and it’s the exact last one i even considered
“Let’s pretend, for a moment, that you are a 22-year-old college student in Kampala, Uganda. You’re sitting in class and discreetly scrolling through Facebook on your phone. You see that there has been another mass shooting in America, this time in a place called San Bernardino. You’ve never heard of it. You’ve never been to America. But you’ve certainly heard a lot about gun violence in the U.S. It seems like a new mass shooting happens every week.
You wonder if you could go there and get stricter gun legislation passed. You’d be a hero to the American people, a problem-solver, a lifesaver. How hard could it be? Maybe there’s a fellowship for high-minded people like you to go to America after college and train as social entrepreneurs. You could start the nonprofit organization that ends mass shootings, maybe even win a humanitarian award by the time you are 30.
Sound hopelessly naïve? Maybe even a little deluded? It is. And yet, it’s not much different from how too many Americans think about social change in the “Global South.”
If you asked a 22-year-old American about gun control in this country, she would probably tell you that it’s a lot more complicated than taking some workshops on social entrepreneurship and starting a non-profit. She might tell her counterpart from Kampala about the intractable nature of our legislative branch, the long history of gun culture in this country and its passionate defenders, the complexity of mental illness and its treatment. She would perhaps mention the added complication of agitating for change as an outsider.
But if you ask that same 22-year-old American about some of the most pressing problems in a place like Uganda — rural hunger or girl’s secondary education or homophobia — she might see them as solvable. Maybe even easily solvable.
I’ve begun to think about this trend as the reductive seduction of other people’s problems. It’s not malicious. In many ways, it’s psychologically defensible; we don’t know what we don’t know.
If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable. Of course you’d want to apply for prestigious fellowships that mark you as an ambitious altruist among your peers. Of course you’d want to fly on planes to exotic locations with, importantly, exotic problems.
There is a whole “industry” set up to nurture these desires and delusions — most notably, the 1.5 million nonprofit organizations registered in the U.S., many of them focused on helping people abroad. In other words, the young American ego doesn’t appear in a vacuum. Its hubris is encouraged through job and internship opportunities, conferences galore, and cultural propaganda — encompassed so fully in the patronizing, dangerously simple phrase “save the world.””
I saw this film yesterday. It’s a classic. Groundbreaking. Legendary. I fucking hated it, it was boring or infuriating. The only redeeming quality was Mastroianni’s good looks and some pretty visuals and camera angles that I found pleasing. And tbh, Mastroianni isn’t that good looking either.
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminism is a cancerous ideology that will only ever make the cage of female gender roles smaller.
Me when I definitely know what Ontological means.
TERFS will say that women are a means of production like it’s an epic dunk and not an absolutely dystopic way to define a human being.
“Uhm, how does radical feminism make the cage of femininity smaller? Women are literally defined as brood mares for the state?” Do you fucking hear yourselves? Methinks maybe the current definition of womanhood is kinda fucked up and redefining it may do some people a lot of good.
Being on tumblr is like being a raccoon. I dig through the garbage for shiny things I like. Sometimes I find good things to share with my friends. Sometimes I find something horrifying, and also share it with my friends.
“the ontological reality of womanhood” is like saying “the ontological reality of being Canadian”
Show me a comprehensive ontological definition of womanhood and I’ll show you a plucked chicken.
Literally every definition of womanhood a terf shows you will have some large and obvious counterexample that most reasonable people would consider women.
“Females have vaginas” > “Behold! A hysterectomy patient!”
“females were BORN with vaginas” > “Behold! Intersex men!”
“Females were born with ONLY vaginas” > “Behold! Intersex women!”
“That’s a statistical outlier!” > “Intersex people occur roughly as often as Irish people, yet we all agree that The Irish exist!”
None of those are the definition of woman. The definition of “woman” is “adult human female”. It really isn’t complicated.
Exactly! And it doesn’t matter how big her cock is!
scars in fiction: I got this trying to save my lover from an assassin- but tragically, I was too late. now I carry the mark of my failure with me always, and I can never forget~
scars in real life: so I was trying to open macaroni sauce with a paring knife
