Inside Wembley Stadium:

Ciao Raffaella 🥀

✨Queen Raffaela ✨

“How was your family like?” “I’ll tell you what: I was raised without a father. He was a wealthy man but too much of a playboy so my mom divorced him in 1945. She was ahead of her time and it stuck to me. I never felt the desire to get married and it always angered me not being able to adopt without the obligation of a ring! Today when we discuss adoption by same sex couples and straight couples as well, I give this a thought: “Who was I born with? And who did I grow up with?” and I answer those questions: with two women, my mother and my grandmother. Get kids out of orphanages, they won’t grow up badly with two fathers or two mothers, I had two women. Does it look like I came up badly?”

This was Raffaela Carrà, a woman so ahead of her time, an outspoken mind for what was right even if it meant going against popular beliefs and shocking the public. She rose to stardom back in a time when Italy was still drowning in bigotry, when women were still seen as a possession of their husbands, she openly spoke about same sex couples in a time when just the existence of the LGBTQ+ comunity was erased and denied. She sang “se ti lascia lo sai che si fa? Trovi un altro più bello che problemi non ha” [“if he leaves you, you know what you’ll do? Find a better looking one who doesn’t give you problems”] in a time when Italy’s law still allowed “il delitto d’onore” or honor killing, she dressed however she wanted to because she owned herself, even if it meant wearing costumes that were considered outrageous.

When the news about her passing came out yesterday the instinctive and collective reaction was “NO. It can’t be true”…and that’s right, it’s not true because legends like her never die. She will forever be an icon and a pillar to the world of entertainment as we know it today, she was one of those women who paved the way for many others in generations to come, she advocated for important battles at a time when freedom of expression was not so granted, she was a necessary figure along the way to get to where we are today in our culture. An impressive artist who used her art and platform to change the tide, an impressive woman who meant so much for our country to people of all ages. She was, she is and she will be forever a timeless icon.

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Being raised around a cat is the first lesson a kid will unknowingly learn about consent

From a male point of View castration seems so brutal, do you understand that?

Ah, I wondered when I’d get an ask like this.

You know for the majority of history most vets have been male, right? It has been men recommending and performing castration for our domestic animals (for very good reasons). It has certainly been men defining and refining the techniques, both historical and current, in use in domestic species. No complaints from any of them about the procedure being brutal.

I think it’s rather recent for grown men to apparently have this kinship felt with testicles of other species. Goodness knows why.

You understand a castration is a vastly less invasive and it’s less painful procedure than an ovariohysterectomy (spay) right? And there are less complications after surgery? And overall it’s such a minor, insignificant thing that a cat can be done in three minutes and a dog in as little as fifteen?

You know it’s not your balls we’re talking about, right?

And you know modern surgical techniques are all about gentle tissue handling and analgesia, right?

The animals don’t care. Only humans seem to have this preoccupation with their gonads being part of their identity.

Look, you’re allowed to have your testicles. You’re allowed to be proud of them, fond even, but only your testicles are your testicles. You can certainly be sympathetic to other individuals, but relax a little, would you?

Castration is most certainly a minor procedure in the scheme of things, and by far much more minor than anything the lady’s would have to go through to get the same result.

So please understand that.

EDIT: Castration kink blogs, this post could not be more obviously not for you.

Made this and thought you would enjoy 😊

You are correct. I enjoyed this very much, and suspect others will too.

pleasure. pain 🌙

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