You know I probably would have figured out something was up with me genderwise sooner if people assigned female at birth were not conditioned from a young age to absolutely loathe their bodies in order to sell beauty products and diets and unattainable standards

I think Wyll is prettier than Astarion. There I said it. Astarion is more interesting certainly but mainly because Wyll is easier to look at. I just kick my legs and giggle whenever he's on screen. Mesmerized by him. Cannot tear my eyes away type shit.

Women, so pretty, so shaped, i am so lesbian,,,

It's crazy that people still uphold show!Sansa as a well-written character and pretend that liking her is the pinnacle of feminism when it would be infinitely more impactful to acknowledge her terrible and misogynistic writing. This is the same character who, while written by two men, was thankful for the abuse she suffered because it allowed her to grow. The same character who we had to be told was smart because the writers were too lazy to develop or show her intelligence. The same character who had to rely heavily on the men surrounding her and ended up accomplishing nothing on her own merit ( and no, thinking that she deserved to be Queen doesn't mean that she earned it). She is not well-written, she is not complex, and she is not a feminist character. Which is fine! If you enjoy her then good on you, but please stop pretending that she's something she isn't just because you feel the need to justify liking her character

In lieu of Stuff Your Kindle day, can we talk about the issue of how the m/m genre of books, romance or not, is almost entirely dominated by women? Can we talk about how the most recognisable gay couples in media are written by women? Can we talk about how queer men can't even write about ourselves, how we are only allowed to exist when it's from the point of view of a straight woman sexualising us?

Can we talk about that? Or am I going to get called misogynistic for pointing out the disparity between who gets the writing deals, & who gets their books turned into movies, & whose shit gets popular versus whose doesn't? Can we talk about how m/m fiction is only allowed when it appeals to a cishet gaze, or is that too much for tumblr to take?

Can we also talk about how trans queer men are even more hated by publishing? Can we talk about how we get shit from both sides? Can we talk about how books about the experiences of being a queer man, written by queer men, never get the same recognition as books written by women on this subject (barring academia which has its own problems)?

Can we talk about that? Can we?

ruthlessly deleting old 2021/2022 posts (not by me) from my dean studies tag like *click* un-incorporating that from my beliefs system! also the way SO many posts have me like ok uh-huh good aaand then say one completely wrong thing that loses me. it's so many posts.

one of the most frustrating things about reading naruto meta is that every now and then you'll run into a post that's absolutely brilliantly thought out, has stupendous points, and pulls out all the stops on almost every level....

and you just have to stop and wonder how someone can simultaneously be so good at media analysis and so fucking bad at accepting that sometimes authors just cannot and/or will not write female characters on any level

i hope all the terfs looking at my blog rn are able to grab me a beer and maybe make me a sandwich perhaps while they’re at it

I'm a bisexual cis woman that doesn't really dream of dating heterosexual cis men, but like... I'm not going to beat myself up over being attracted to men. We exist ✨

kuukou being popular with men still just kinda cracks me up lol

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I have… lots of thoughts on milsiril and kabru and the commentary on mixed-race family/adoption, in particular white parents with children of color. I think it’s really cool kui incorporated this into the story because lots of (particularly white) people just think adoption is this pure altruistic thing and don’t think about the negative affects it has on kids (again, kids of color) to not have people of their own culture to grow up with.

Had a guy tell me that boycotting isn't gonna help at all, I'm illiterate and it's baffling that I've passed one of the most difficult exams ever, my boycott hasn't stopped the genocide, IDF is still getting funds, why didn't I think of the poor man who opened a franchise of fucking Baskin Robins before I decided to boycott, reports showing how badly giants like Starbucks and McDonalds are suffering mean nothing and that he can write a report too, if i had checked the degrees of the people before believing their reports, I should break my phone and stop using my car, and when I told him that his laugh reacts to all my messages aren't helping, he told me just like your boycott, my laugh reacts have no impact.

ANNNNND when I stopped replying to his messages, the mf had the nerve to send me a message saying that he wants to offer me constructive criticism that I'm very rigid in my opinions and I should learn to be flexible when he didn't, for a second, move from his rigid pov.

And then people ask why we need feminism and why it's hard being a woman.

mood: dan fielding getting indignant that he is the least threatening person in the courtroom, defiantly stating he doesn't have to flaunt that he's 6'4, and then not even struggling to step over things with his stupid long legs

Sometimes I just think there’s something deeply wrong with me idk