i love when people draw 2 characters cuddling and it looks like this
40K notes
·
View notes
(reposted to avoid backlash on the OP)
nobody's unlovable and loneliness isn't new, this just what happens when the first generation of men and boys allowed to say "I desire kindness" emerge at at same time as women and girls allowed to say "I don't owe men anything".
And they're both right, they're both correct- Masculine figures are allowed to ask to be treated gently and Feminine figures are allowed to decide who they share intimacy with.
The PROBLEM is men thinking "I deserve gentleness" is the same as "someone owes me intimacy".
Men need to start GIVING what they ask for.
If men were kinder and gentler, if we raised our boys with emotional literacy and taught them compassion and self-care and generosity, personal responsibility and concern for others, they wouldn't see WOMEN as a united monolith marching out to deny them their "right"- they'd have support networks and friendships of their own to rely on, not just a mom or a wife to dump all their needs onto.
Men being lonely isn't new. They're just allowed to talk about it now. And, coincidentally, the socially-conditioned second-class-citizen support role is rapidly vanishing.
We've yet to stabilize: its that instability that has people chewing at the rope.
It's a rough transition, but that's all it is. A step to something better.
834 notes
·
View notes
the point of relationships of any kind is not for them to last forever. relationships aren’t a “failure” because they ended. it doesn’t mean the love was not enough!!! on the contrary!!!! it means the love was enough for you to know when to let go and set the other person free. it means you’re humble enough to understand when something isn’t working, when it is no longer healthy or functional. there is love in that. there is love in recognizing that the memories will remain and so will the lessons.
2K notes
·
View notes
WOAH just saw spiderman eating pizza on a roof
6K notes
·
View notes
you ever see a poll and just Know that a character lost purely because their source material is less well known than the winning character's
48K notes
·
View notes
LOOK AT HOW PRETTY ALL THE LGBTQ+ TAGS ARE
330 notes
·
View notes
the thing about cowboys. is that I have feelings for them
16K notes
·
View notes
Source details and larger version.
161 notes
·
View notes