inquisitive-june
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Call me June or Juniper | I'm not listing all my beliefs because I'm still learning but my feminism focuses on women's issues | Open to book suggestions related to STEM and feminism
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Today, I snapped at a man for cutting in front of me in the pharmacy line.
I was standing back where I was supposed to be while the woman in front of me was getting her meds. Like most pharmacies, mine has you wait like 10 feet back from the counter in an attempt to protect patient privacy.
While I was waiting, a man sidled up, looked at me, and then wandered up to the counter. The (male) clerk stopped what he was saying to the patient in front of me, looked at him, and asked, “Did you have a question?”
“No, I have a prescription,” said the idiot man “My name is [X]”. He had an accent, and between that and his name, my guess was that he was from the Middle East. Might explain his casual disregard for my presence, idk.
“You need to step back for patient privacy,” the clerk said, gesturing towards where I was standing. I was parked right next to the sign that said “line starts here.” There was no one else in line.
The man looked at the clerk. Looked at me. We made eye contact. He looked at the clerk. Walked over to me.
Stood in front of me.
“Dude, I was here first,” I said. Loudly, both because I was surprised by the rudeness and because I wanted to draw attention to this guy’s shitty behavior. I’m a big believer in the power of shame.
The (male) pharmacy clerk looked up at the man, then at me. He did not say anything, despite clearly seeing what had happened. I figured this was just going to be yet another situation where a woman standing up for herself has to do it alone. Frustrating, but not surprising.
Idiot man turned around slowly and said, “What did you say to me?” Literally looking down his nose at me since he was at least a foot taller than me. He seemed in disbelief that a short, fat, ugly woman would dare speak to him.
I repeated, louder, “I was here first. The line is behind me.”
Idiot man said, “I am in a hurry,” as if it were obvious I had nowhere important to be. He shrugged and turned back around.
Before I could really react to that beyond briefly contemplating murder, a (female) clerk stepped up to the counter and called out, “I can help who’s next!”
Idiot man stepped forward. The fucking audacity. I reminded myself I would not like prison.
Female clerk said sharply, “No, not you, that lady was here first.”
I don’t know how long she’d been watching the interaction or where she’d come from, but damn, it turned out that I wasn’t alone in taking a tiny stand against this guy’s shitty behavior after all!
I stepped around the idiot man and shot him a smile over my shoulder. He did not smile back. When I got to the counter, I whispered a quick thanks to the (female) clerk for shutting him down. She smiled, shrugged, and whispered, “If you hadn’t said anything to him, I probably would have ignored him too.”
Lessons learned from this encounter:
1. Men will not call out another man’s misogyny even if it happens right in front of them
2. There are, however, women watching and taking their cues when you stand up for yourself, even if it might not seem like it at first.
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the other day i was watching a video about athenian democracy. it was really neat to learn about, going over how it changed from psudo-monarchy, to oligarchy, to a direct democracy where everyone had a say. you didn't need to be born to a certain family, you didn't need to own property, and you could even be an immigrant (a big deal for ancient times), and still vote. everybody had true equality in government.
except, no, you still had to be a man. and that's given lip service in the form of "well not everybody-- women and children couldn't vote," but then for the entire rest of the video it's shortened to everybody, everybody, everybody, the people the people the people, how fair and equal and modern and sweet.
women are not a footnote. we have always been half the population. so that society where every man could vote and run for election and make a change from the bottom up and none of the women could, was a useless society. what a pointless shameful ridiculous idea of democracy.
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A lot of women’s clothes aren’t made with functionality in mind. The most egregious example I can think of is that dress with the holes on the sides. I saw a video of someone raising her arms to put her hair up, perfectly exposing her bra in the process. The people who designed that dress just expected women not to raise their arms while wearing it. They just expect you to stand there with your hands by your side like a mannequin.
it truly infuriates me that a good portion of womens clothing feels like… fake clothing. movie prop clothing. clothing that is not actually meant to be worn by human beings (but is still full priced). im thinking of those wafer fuckin thin cotton hoodie sweaters and those flimsy stretchy skin-tight “denim” jeans.
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Terrarium for tail, or a tailrarium if you will. Blame my discord friends for this pun.
Also, I sliced up my finger in a bout of stupidity so I gave up on this drawing midway 🥲
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I know everyone is focusing on the sharpness but my god the BACTERIA
I know everybodys talking about the article but its this tweet itself that makes me lose my shit
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saw this post the other day that talked about how so many of us are soooo scared of appearing even momentarily human towards each other these days. like you can't see me sweat or cry or without makeup or with food stuck in my teeth or laugh loud and ugly. everything must be composed and sanitised and photo ready at all times. it's like corporate office culture seeping out into our homes and our lives and for what. it's not cringe to be a real person around other real people
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Going to be thinking about this for a very long time.
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International pageants allowing women to showcase their cultures and speak on topics that are important to them and winning opportunities to be worldwide activists is such a beautiful thing. But why do they have to walk around on stage half naked in heels covered in makeup to get it
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Why do men take power but women are always expected to settle for being Given empowerment? I don’t want what you’re giving me. I don’t wanna put stock in a feeling that doesn’t translate into legitimate action. What does empowerment actually do for women except placate our anger? I don’t want women to Feel empowered, I want women to Be powerful.
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brb gonna go on a spiral thinking abt this all weekend (bc i think its insanely true)
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