ultra-radfem:

i want women and girls to be safe so bad

whencartoonsruletheworld:

i see a post talking doom and gloom about how we’ll never escape toxic masculinity. i think about back in 2017 when american girl released their first boy doll, and a review for him went viral in the collecting community. the review was written by a mom, who said they went into the store to get their daughter a doll, only to see their son’s eyes light up like fire when he saw a doll that looked like him, and now every night he puts his doll in pajamas and rocks him to sleep. i think about the toddler in my daycare room a few years back who was obsessed with baby dolls, carrying them everywhere, and his mom proudly told us he uses his sisters’ old baby dolls and wants to be just like them. that toddler saw another toddler crying one day and gave her the doll he had to cheer her up. i think about the eight-year-old boy i saw a few years back, excitedly waving around raya’s sword in a target checkout line like all his dreams were coming true. there was a video on my instagram the other day of a little boy at disneyworld crying with joy upon meeting his hero, mulan. i think about the voice actor for bow in the she-ra reboot saying his nephews only wanted adora action figures. celebrity men are wearing dresses on tv now. last halloween i saw a little boy dressed as elsa. i went to go see spiderverse over the summer, and in the line ahead of me was a boy who couldn’t be older than twelve or thirteen, bouncing and beaming, giddy with excitement over getting to see the female-led romance movie elemental. i think about the five-year-old boy at my library who breathlessly asked me where the pinkalicious books were, eyes widening when i had more on my cart, his mom explaining that he is all about pinkalicious and fancy nancy. i saw so many pictures online of boys and men dressed in pink to see barbie. teenage boys are gonna open their phones and see the man who wrote fucking game of thrones dressed in pink to see barbie. when i was a kid, a boy dressing in pink was practically a social death sentence. there are boys running around in pink on my street right now.

irareee:

palettesofrenaissance:

ms-revived-frogs:

lunar-fem:

janetune:

I’m so sad about the fact that we got from “the future is FEMALE” to “actually woman is anybody who identifies as a woman” in like, a few years?

‘all of these marginalised people matter except women’ 94k likes.

Also female can and does include all of those things. Like do they really see it as problematic when we have intersectional solidarity on the basis of being female?

This is a public social media site and when I came across this post and I saw these additions, so I want to add something to this. I got carried away so I apologize, but I’ve purposely reduced my time being online and things like this factor into my decision to do it

I’ve seen posts like that screenshot online, on t-shirts, and in real life all in the span of a few years, right after there was the first ever women’s march. There was starting to be waves of recognition of women’s rights, our injustices, and there was call to action. It felt really promising. There was merch, articles, people were becoming interested in books and topics, and then suddenly… It stopped.

Now I know I cannot be the only person who not only noticed this and got confused about this. And then seeing things like that twitter screenshot was really, really confusing but also not surprising. I know that there are people out there who will agree with this screenshot while turning around and in the same breath say something about how they support women and so on. But truly, I urge you to honestly ask yourself why would you say that (the screenshot) in the first place? You know what that phrase “the future is female” was coined for, what it means, and what it stands for not only for women and girls but our history, present and prevailing inequality and injustice. The fact that many women aren’t taken seriously by doctors is proof; the fact that women and girls don’t feel safe walking alone is proof.

Ask yourself: truly, what good is saying that, in the screenshot? What does it accomplish? You getting some kind of “good points” on the internet? For clout? Because you want to feel special? So you can feel good by shitting on others? “No, the future isn’t female. Fuck you.” Why? Why would you say that? Why is this a bad thing? As the previous comment said, women and girls are a variety across the board; they’re not a monolith of ultra feminine, skinny humans who wear makeup 24/7. You shit on women and girl across the world (because you know that phrase resonated with women and girls everywhere; remember, they’re literally half of the global population) and you do this for who’s approval and benefit? It’s definitely not women and girls. If anything, that screenshot says that you don’t give a fuck about them. Why was that screenshot necessary? By this, you’re more of a misogynist if anything else.

Misogyny is so prevalent across the world, from menstrual huts to women not being able to divorce to women still not allowed to go to school to women being barred from certain professions to grown women not being safe walking alone to how casually words like “bitch” and “broad” aren’t taken to offense. So, in a way, it’s no surprising that that tweet is popular. Misogyny is present in everyone, including women, and this tweet and many agreers are present examples of that. Additionally, if you have shit and put down women in order to prop yourself up, you’re not someone safe, you’re not someone who has the best of women and girls in mind, and likely, subconsiously, don’t care, and you’re not a feminist.

Through and through this is misogynistic thinking, males rights activist thinking, or whatever you want to call it. And while we may never know if the creator of the tweet is which, that message is definitely hateful. Why can’t the future be female? It won’t hinder or hurt anyone. Literally, the only people who dislike that phrase are those who hate (or dislike, if you want to put it, making it seem light) women and girls. And this isn’t even men but some women too; as soon as women start getting the focus, or even have something that’s solely just for them, it’s deemed as something bad or as a threat. Ask yourself, “Why is that bad?” And, “Who does that threaten?” While you’re figuring out your victim, think if there are females already in that group. If so, again ask yourself why can’t the future be female? Some self reflection for everyone across the board is necessary

This isn’t a political blog and has never intended to be and never will be, but all kinds of people roam this social media site. And because of that, people like that 👆 are concerning because of the above but they likely believe women and girls are a stereotypical monolith, that all conform to (often the stereotypical) gender roles gleefully

* p.s. those questions (“ask yourself”) are whats called reflective questions that are used for self reflection, sometimes seen in an educational settings, and aren’t actually questions needed to be answered in here

feijoaaas:

darrthvadr:

When the modernized ball gown on the left emulates/pays tribute to the source material than the one on the right.

the budget for the live action thing was $160–255 million

afreemanlearns:

duckdotcom:

slapping modeling clay around blindly without thought or purpose, i look down and find a perfectly sculpted replica of myself seated at a table with a lump of modeling clay before me, similarly shaped into a still smaller instance of the same scene. and i am afraid to look up

unworm:

I think one of my first, idk, peak thoughts was that “femininity” is strictly a performance while “masculinity” is simply the absence of performing. It is masculine to keep hair where it naturally grows on the human body. It is masculine to not partake in makeup or uncomfortable fashion. It is masculine to age, while it is feminine to stay forever young. It is masculine to be a person, while it is feminine to be an object, a very unrealistic and unattainable object at that.

I became ‘GNC’ when I realized I had the choice to just… not do all of this extra shit imposed on me, and I could exist happily and comfortably without it.

That’s why I reject the ideas and labels of masculinity, feminity, and gender nonconformity. I exist in my body and I will live in it until I die. I will exist as female without adhering to sterotypes, masculine or feminine. I am female, and I need no other words attached to be a human person.