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republic-of-cheese · 4 months

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I'm not like other girls. I've somehow angered the Gods.

#not like other girls #angered the gods #i don't understand tags leave me alone about them

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chrissy-kaos · 10 months

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Wanna come have lunch with me?

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lepusrufus · 3 months

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The average human has a lifespan of about 80 years and this is what I choose to do with my precious time

#baldur's gate 3 #I'm not tagging everyone individually #fuck it we ball #I just noticed they're all facing the same direction EXCEPT Astarion #truly a diva #not like other girls

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miasmultifandomdump · 6 months

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It annoys me how so much of modern discourse around female characters is, to be frank, misogyny repackaged as being progressive.

If a woman's strengths and interests are associated with being feminine, such as cooking or enjoying nice clothes or being kind and compassionate, the entire fandom jumps on her as stereotypical or weak. It's seen as cool to bash on "women's work", never mind that your average misogynist has been doing it for decades, hell, centuries, and the jobs that are mocked as women's work are actually pretty essential to humans surviving and thriving.

And then, of course, if a woman shows the slightest hint of nonconformity, the entire fandom jumps on her because "oh!! she's trying to be not like other girls!! she wants male attention so bad!!" It doesn't matter how she is to the other girls in her life, if she wears combat boots and listens to punk instead of Taylor Swift, she clearly hates every other woman ever according to certain parts of fandom. It couldn't be that she's neurodivergent or LGBT or hell, even just a tomboy, she has to hate every other girl on the planet. /sarcasm

AND JUST TO CLARIFY. These tropes can genuinely be negatively done. The traditionally feminine girl can be a weak character and the tomboy girl can be an ass. But when you're calling a girl a "pick me" just because she doesn't live up to your idea of what a woman should look like or what you think feminism is... congratulations. You've simply repackaged sexism and called it woke. And lots of girls who see this crap online are going to suffer for it but hey, it was never actually about them, so who cares, right? /sarcasm

Anyway, to all the girls reading this post, you go ahead and be who you want. Be a princess or a president or a pop singer or a punk rocker or hell, all of the above. You're not a "pick me" you're not a "handmaiden" you're not trying too hard to be "not like other girls". You are fine. Don't let pseudo-woke nonsense get to you. It's just white noise.

#and to all of you guys who are maybe younger just know. youll learn to drown it out #you might still roll your eyes and if you have anxiety like me you might still have bad days but. it gets better #you are worth so much more than worrying about people who refuse to give you good faith and their stupid judgements of you #fandom critique #feminism #female characters #strong female characters #pick me girl #pick me #handmaiden #nlog #not like other girls #all queued up with nowhere to go

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typhlonectes · 5 months

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#kangaroo #not like other girls #animals #nature #memes

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swedo · 2 years

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Might as well post this on tumblr

This is based on a not like other Girls meme

#mp100 #mob psycho fanart #fanart #kageyama ritsu #mob psycho 100 #not like other girls

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grungeprincess2 · 8 months

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Video essays you have to watch

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floralcavern · 5 months

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I want an MC who acts like your classic ‘not like other girls, quirky’ type of character only for it to be revealed that she’s just deeply insecure and has never fit in her life and feels the need to make herself as different as possible in order to keep her walls up, but all she wants is acceptance and she actually does want to fit in, she’s just never been given that opportunity…

Oh, hi Uzi.

#Murder drones #uzi murder drones #not like other girls #Lol

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menacingpolkamusic · 6 months

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Ok but I fucking hate the anti-"not like other girls" trend. I'll bet money 90% of the people who said that in high school were ostracized by other girls for being neurodivergent or queer in some way or simply not being girly enough (have you been to high school?? Mean Girls is a documentary). Are we gonna talk about that? No, we're just gonna call it girl hate when a teenager doesn't like pink.

It's always 20 year olds yelling about this too like I'm sorry a 15 year old girl isn't a perfect feminist.

So really. I think these people are just the femme bullies again. Only they are "righteous" this time. It's a horseshoe.

#monologue #not like other girls #and you know what? it's also #transandrophobia

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alpaca-clouds · 4 months

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Individualism is a product capitalism sells you

Let me talk about something that is in my mind recently, because someone I know kept harping on about how much better individualistic philosophies were compared to collectivist societies. Which... scientifically is just not true. Which they would just not accept. I could show them studies on this and... they would just not accept it. Instead they kept harping on about how much of an individual they were. Which got me to just sit there and roll my eyes very much.

Because here is the thing: Individualism is a product that capitalism sells to you.

People under capitalism will always go: "I am a total individual!" And... like, they are not. Sure, we all have our individual experiences that formed how we think and how we go about it. But most of what people consider their individualism is... Just stuff that gets sold to you.

Be it your style of clothing, be it your interests and fandoms, be it your music, your make-up, or whatever. Most of it is just something that got directly or indirectly sold to you.

This entire "I am such an individual!" stuff is just basically a "I am not like the other girls" thing on a societal level. It is bullshit.

#anti capitalism #individualism #collectivism #capitalism is evil #not like other girls #rant #vent #anarchism #consumerism

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chrissy-kaos · 10 months

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Little b-slide clip out here for ya'll.. this one actually felt pretty good 🤙🏼🛹

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someoneintheshadow456 · 6 months

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This took a long time (and the quiz itself is long), but after so many years of observing toxic femininity on Hellsite, I'm finally able to give a name to this type of woman.

And yes, many of these questions were based on real posts on this site plus real life experience.

#feminism #toxic femininity #white feminism #girlboss feminism #intersectionality #pick me #not like other girls #neurotypical feminism #gender essentialism #egalitarian #uquiz #uquiz quiz #tldr: a girls girl is a woman who puts other women down to get validation from girlbosses #tumblr used to be full of them but most of them moved to twitter and tiktok #girls girl (derogatory)

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burningtheroots · 11 months

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"Not like other girls" vs. "not all men" — patriarchal division

We all know the popular "not like other girls" (or "not like other women", respectively) trope.

I‘ve been thinking about it a lot recently and what really annoys me is that society teaches young girls and women that girlhood and womanhood are inherently "bad" and hence not being like other girls and women is "good" and "desirable".

While many people believe that it stems from the girls and women themselves, I‘d like to emphasize the impact of growing up in a deeply patriarchal, misogynistic society and system which ultimately influences the steps we take.

The world we live in is built on female oppression, exploitation, rivalry and division. By ensuring that girls and women believe in what the patriarchy teaches us, men ensure their power and authority as we‘re busy trying to "fit in" and prove that we‘re the "good girls/women". Girls and women are conditioned to look down on other girls and women and aspire to be different — to be validated by men that they‘re not this flawed image of girlhood and womanhood.

Once we have internalized these misogynistic beliefs, we start to make our lives revolve around them and also spread them further. That‘s a common technique used by oppressors — divide and conquer.

Now we have lots of girls and women who desperately want to be different from other girls and women, who want to be as close as possible to whatever gets them men‘s approval and highlights that they‘re actually good instead of "flawed" like the rest.

Girls and women are always either "too human" or "not human enough". Whether it‘s looks, interests, personality etc.. We‘re trained to make entire lifestyle choices based on other people’s men’s perception. We‘re forced to balance between idealized womanhood and demonized womanhood.

The solution we’re presented? Putting other girls and women down to "prove" ourselves.

And it‘s not like there aren’t any tools for this, in fact, the patriarchy provides them abundantly.

The beauty & diet industry strive to divide us.

Fun activities which are still "gendered" to this day strive to divide us.

The media, social platforms and advertisements strive to divide us.

Sexualization and objectification strive to divide us.

Relationships with men strive to divide us.

Even when men commit atrocities, they divide girls and women, not men.

On the contrary, men and boys are taught to be united. Not in a coddly way, perhaps, but in a way that gurantees solidarity and immunity when needed.

"Not like other boys/men!" isn‘t a thing, instead, we got "not all men!", a.k.a. "I‘m like other men and because I‘m not bad, they aren’t, either!".

Whilst men are more prone to violence and deliberately inflict emotional and physical pain on others on a much larger scale than women, boys and men aren’t taught that it‘s desirable to be different from other boys and men. Rather, they‘re taught that it‘s good, desirable and admirable.

Instead of aspiring to be different — to be better — their focus is on defending men as a whole and excusing or justifying their misbehavior, whereas we‘re told that we must hold each other accountable for the tiniest missteps, especially when they involve men.

Girls and women are taught that their existence (& humanity) in itself is flawed, undesirable and needs to be strictly regulated, judged and altered.

Boys and men are taught that their existence (& humanity) in itself is self-evident, desirable and worthwhile.

That‘s why I put female solidarity and sisterhood above all else.

That‘s why I proudly say that YES, I am like other girls and women. We aren’t a monolith, we‘re individually unique, and yet we share the experience of being female, and we‘re united in our mere existence as women, and we don’t need to put other women and girls above or beneath us, or allow us to be alienated from one another.