In popular culture we have “the bachelor pad,” and “the bachelor lifestyle,” but no such phrases for women. Women who live alone are objects of fear or pity, witches in the forest or Cathy comics. Even the current cultural popularity of female friendship still speaks to how unwilling we all are to accept women without a social framework; a woman who’s “alone” is a woman who’s having brunch with a bunch of other women. When a woman is truly alone, it is the result of a crisis—she is grieving, has lost something, is a problem to be fixed. The family, that fundamental social unit, dwells within the female body and emanates from it. Women are the anchors of social labor, the glue pulling the family, and then the community, together with small talk and good manners and social niceties. Living alone as a woman is not just a luxury but a refusal to bend into the shape of patriarchal assumption and expectation.
Helena Fitzgerald, The Fierce Triumph of Loneliness (via podencos)
when ppl erase zelda’s accomplishments as a female character by making sheik a separate character and having zelda do nothing for the 7 years that link’s asleep in oot 😊😊😊😊
Just want to give my followers fair warning that I might end up drawing reylo stuff sometime soon— if you don’t want to see that I’ll understand and you can go ahead and unfollow me or do what you need to do to feel safe/comfortable
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