Lesser known facts when writing women:
- High heeled shoes don’t become flats if you break the heels off.
- The posts of earrings aren’t sharp.
- Nail polish takes a long time to dry and smudges when wet.
- You can’t hold in a period like pee.
- Inserting a tampon is not arousing or sexual in any way, ever.
Feel free to add your own.
– Bras leave red marks on the skin under and around boobs and it is a magical experience when taken off.
– Make up can take anywhere from 5 to 25 minutes depending on how skilled you are.
– Taking hair out of a ponytail after wearing it for hours does not make it perfectly straight when it comes down.
– Hair when wet sticks to the skin it no longer flows, idiot.
-When women with long hair kiss, turn around, do anything, their hair falls in the way.
– Stockings are itchy and tear like wet paper bags.
– Pantyhose, tights, leggings, and stockings are each different.
– Waxing hurts and leaves red skin for a while afterwards while shaving leaves stubble
– Most can’t run in heels unless they have been VERY worn
– Insecurity in appearance doesn’t mean “buy me a drink”
– EVERYONE HAS DIFFERENT TASTES IN EVERYTHING
-Having large breasts sucks. It sucks beyond belief. If a garment happens to fit your large chest, odds are it won’t fit the rest of you. Underboob sweat is real and terrible. Bending over for extended periods of time will tweak your back out. Running can be painful due to boob turbulence. Bras are hella expensive. Big breasts are not fun.
We have never, ever looked in a mirror and silently described our nude bodies to ourselves, especially the size/shape/weight/resemblance to fruit/etc. of our breasts.
Tag: ladythings
every-kiss-begins-with-potassium:
a) perfect example of people discrediting clever idea & intelligence of a female due to her appearance, and
b) all these people wouldn’t have noticed her kit, which was her goal in the first placeLol “she also wears sexy clothing to distract people from the bulky shoes”
She’s a genius, really
^^^^^
“I will distract men with my boobs.”
Men: are distracted by her boobs.
Thats SexyCyborg! She posted on reddit not all that long ago and she’s super proud of her boobs. She even has a little 3d printed doll made of her that she was stoked on.
She’s also smart as fuck.
I mean, some of those people are mediocre at best for going for the obvious go-to joke, but whatev.
She’s also the same person that made that light-up skirt a while ago.
So many straight guys are so horrified by the remotest possibility of someone they’re not attracted to being attracted to them.
Like given the smallest suspicion of a one-way crush they’ll be truly awful to women they consider unattractive or men who like men, even if the person in question doesn’t even come close to flirting with them.
But then they turn around and fucking harass women who don’t return their attraction – with zero self-awareness. It’s truly mind-boggling to see the same guy say some cruel shit to repel the ‘advances’ of a gay man or a fat girl who barely glanced in his direction and like thirty seconds later be pushing his luck with some girl who’s already said three times she’s not interested.
That’s fucked up.
It’s honestly just blatant policing of who is allowed to have initial attraction, and that I think really comes from this fucked up idea that attraction (hell, you could argue interaction in general) exists purely for their own benefit and pleasure.
Straight men get angry to the point of violence both at receiving non-intrusive interest that’s unwanted and at not receiving the interest that is wanted because they feel entitled to have their own wants and needs be the defining factor in all interactions.
They literally – frequently – expect other people to feel exactly what is convenient to them, and this phenomenon is a really obvious example. A major component of male entitlement is the bedrock assumption that anyone having emotions that don’t cater to a man’s interests is somehow attacking him.
A few weeks ago one of my coworkers was recounting the story of how a gay man who used to work with us told him – and I quote – “you have a nice smile” and about how he wanted to “punch the guy in the face” for hitting on him because it was sexual harassment and the guy NEVER should’ve gotten away with it.
So, I asked him if he’d ever told a girl he didn’t know that she had a pretty smile or that she was pretty and he said “of course I have” so I asked “was that sexual harassment?” and he said “well, no, I was just trying to be nice” and so I said “well, then why is a guy telling you that YOU have a nice smile sexual harassment?” And he was quiet for a really long time before he said “because he’s gay and I’m not /like/ that” (which I expected) so I said “what if you’ve been telling lesbians that they have pretty smiles or that they’re beautiful and /they/ weren’t ‘like that’?”
He got so angry when he couldn’t come up with a ~good answer to that and stomped out of the room. But I hope that it sunk into some part of his head that /his/ attraction isn’t the only one that’s valid or acceptable. Because I’m so sick of straight dudes acting like it’s the end of the world for ANYONE they don’t find attractive to be attracted to them.
This Doonesbury abortion cartoon was originally written by Gary Trudeau in 2012, in response to a Texas law requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion. It was banned from many major newspapers, and they ran syndicated cartoons in its place.
Now seems like an appropriate time to bring these cartoons back, with the passing of Texas’ new law requiring the burial or cremation of miscarried or aborted fetal remains. I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Trudeau decides to write the sequel.
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Edward Charles Pickering (director of the Harvard Observatory from 1877 to 1919) decided to hire women as skilled workers to process astronomical data. Among these women were Williamina Fleming, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Antonia Maury. This staff came to be known as the Harvard Computers.
The first woman hired was Williamina Fleming, who was working as a maid for Pickering. It seems that Pickering was increasingly frustrated with his male assistants and declared that even his maid could do a better job. Apparently he was not mistaken, as Fleming undertook her assigned chores efficiently. When the Harvard Observatory received in 1886 a generous donation from the widow of Henry Draper, Pickering decided to hire more female staff and put Fleming in charge.
As a result of the work of the women “computers”, Pickering published in 1890 the first Henry Draper Catalog, a catalog with more than 10,000 stars classified according to their spectrum. Pickering decided to hire Antonia Maury, a graduate from Vassar College, to reclassify some of the stars. Maury decided to go further and improved and redesigned the system of classification. It was published in 1897, but was largely ignored. Afterwards Pickering decided to hire Cannon, a graduate of Wellesley College, to classify the southern stars. As Maury had done, Cannon also ended up redesigning the classification system of the spectra and developed the Harvard Classification Scheme, which constitutes the basis of the system used today.
Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s insight that all the variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud are roughly the same distance from Earth, led to her discovering a direct relationship between the period of Cepheid variable stars and their intrinsic brightness. This discovery, in turn, led to the modern understanding of the true size of the universe, and Cepheid variables are still an essential tool for the measurement of cosmological distance.
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I’m uncomfortable
I think this should just be tagged as child molestation because those girls are getting touched. Do not trust men who are this invested in the sexuality of their daughters. They’re not keeping them pure for Jesus, okay?
REVIEW: Passengers Soils Its Escapism With Repulsive Reveal
I wasn’t planning to see this movie anyway because the trailer looked skeevy, but now that I know the whole plot I just want to kill it with fire oh my god
Holy shit that is SUPER-GROSS AND VIOLATING and every single woman should read this article, and then vehemently refuse to see this movie with anyone for any reason. In fact, this would be the first time in my life that I feel like I want to walk past lines of people getting ready to buy tickets and scream the plot of the movie at the top of my lungs. I want to spoil random strangers on the street. I want every woman who has a boyfriend or husband who wants to see this movie to explain, in detail, why she not only won’t see it, but if the guy goes to see it without her anyway, she will be GONE OUT OF HIS LIFE when he gets back. with the kids, if they have any.
(That may be a slight exaggeration. But only slight.)
That was actually worse than I expected. What the FUCK.
I saw this and was suuuuuper disappointed. I was gonna maybe see this. 😦
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This script has been on the black list since 2012, and has lost actors and distributors a couple of times. It originally had Keanu Reeves cast in the lead, with Rachel McAdams as his co-star. She dropped out of the project (perhaps this is why?). The film was also originally going to get distribution through the Weinstein Company who also dropped it. Again, not sure if it was because of content, but if Weinstein’s dropping you for content of this nature you know you must be doing pretty something pretty horrific.
Anyway the film had a long and checkered past getting to the big screen, and it seems like this is probably why.
Yikes.
A hero without a cape
Her name is Theresa Kachindamoto, and she is a senior chief – political leader of a region with a population of about 900,000 people.
She didn’t run for election; she was appointed, without her knowledge, while she was living and working in a completely different part of the country. She just received a call one day telling her to come back to her childhood home, because she was in charge now.
So she did; and when she arrived, she discovered widespread sexual abuse of children. She browbeat 50 uncooperative local leaders into accepting her decision to annul all the marriages. She then fired four of them when they continued to allow children to be married off in their areas. She still faces widespread opposition from parents who consider it their right to sexually abuse their daughters if they want to; but Kachindamoto very evidently does not give a fuck, and is continuing to use political and legal means to protect children in the region.
She’s not just an anonymous do-gooder; she’s an effective political leader despite incredibly difficult circumstances. Theresa Kachindamoto.
(via TumbleOn)
Theresa Kachindamoto
Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.
Like he will not be happy at all.
For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.
This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others).
Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status.
And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.
I will always reblog this.
if anyone is curious to read a book that is ‘lord of the flies’ but with girls, check out Beauty Queens by Libba Bray. It’s a bit silly but so, so good. there as canonical explicitly mentioned lesbian, bi, and trans characters.
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