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Dads who refuse to do anything that is traditionally considered “feminine” with their daughters are lame dads. I’ve been in the store and overheard a dad tell his little girl who might have been 12 to go by herself to go get pads after she asked him to go with her. “Go get them yourself.” and he looked mortified she even asked him to go. Like dude she clearly looks like she needs help. Take her to the god damn tampon/pad section and help her and if you don’t know what she needs go ask some one in their pharmacy to point out a good choice for you. Tampons and pads are part of pharmacy so chances are they will be able to help. Fuck all that. Help your daughters! They ask you to paint their nails, do it. It might turn out messy but so what? They ask you to have a tea party, do it. Sure the tea might be imaginary or just water and served out of tiny pink cups but get over it.
This. Also, don’t be afraid to teach your daughters “manly” things. You’re building something and she asks what you’re doing? Tell her. Teach her how to use that drill and do it right. Going hunting and she wants to come? Bring her along. She likes auto shop? Take her out to the garage. Even if she doesn’t, teach her how to do a basic oil change, how to change a tire. Teach her how to do things for herself and that she is fully capable of doing it. Don’t divide your kids into gender roles, see them as people.
Watch The Founder of Girls Who Code Perfectly School Trevor Noah On Why Culture Makes Or Breaks Women In Tech
On The Daily Show with Trevor Noah guest Reshma Saujani, an Indian-American lawyer and politician, discussed the initiative to encourage young women and girls to pursue studies and careers the booming tech field, where they are falling behind. But there are two moments in a girl’s life where we can reverse the trend.
Gifs: The Daily Show/cc.com
That was a great interview with Reshma Saujani.
CHECK OUT THEIR WEBSITE: http://girlswhocode.com
I saw her speak in person while I was a Viacom intern! Very inspiring. She’s hella cool.
I want an inverse spy flick. The spy is a woman. Her whole team is made up of diverse women. All the villains are women. There is only one man in the entire movie and he is a Strong Male Character who is like 25 and decently ripped and has a scene where he slowly steps out of a pool wearing speedos because he is Confident and In Control of His Sexuality. We see his ass when he has to tug down his pants to get at the knife strapped to his thigh. His nipples are always erect for no fucking reason.
They are undercover in a nightclub. In order to keep their cover from being blown, he has to kiss another man.
He knits to relieve stress and to keep his mind sharp. It is never discussed by any of the characters.
Someone asks him how he knows how to do Traditionally Feminine Thing. “I have four sisters,” he answers.
This is also how he knows how to fight while armed with nothing but a purse, a high heel shoe, and a can of hair spray. During this fight, he is, for no apparent reason, shirtless.
The lead spy is Helen Mirren. She nails the Action Boy in the shower. There’s a lot of lingering closeups on the way the shower spray runs across his breathlessly ecstatic face. We also hear every breathless whimper of his climax, while out in the hallway Lucy Liu is smoking impatiently, a duffel bag full of rocket launchers slung over her shoulder. The President isn’t going to kidnap herself, here, christ.
Action Boy emerges in a small towel, sheepish yet radiant. Helen Mirren emerges in a tuxedo, also smoking, also with a duffel bag of rocket launchers.
In one scene, the lead villain captures the Strong Male Character. He is, once more, inexplicably shirtless as she ties him to the chair. He makes some quips about his sexual independence before he is rescued by a sweat-drenched Helen Mirren, who kicks down the door and nukes everyone in the room. Strong Male Character’s hair remains perfect throughout the ordeal.
Strong Male Character is heartlessly slain in front of Helen Mirren’s eyes despite all of his skills and combat prowess. His body slumps to the ground, lifeless but supple. Helen Mirren makes a witty quip at Strong Male Character’s killers before quickly and dramatically slaying them all.
She steals one last glance at Strong Male Character. His beautiful eyes stare back from a handsome face with perfectly tussled hair, lips positioned a if in a gentle sigh. There’s no bringing him back now. Helen Mirren walks away, stronger than before. Strong Male Character’s death has hardened her, but given her the strength and resolve to complete her task.
Roll credits.
An after credits preview clip comes on as a teaser. Helen Mirren with a huge explosion tearing things up behind her walks toward the camera with a new Strong Male Character wearing the tiny, tattered remnants of a burned shirt about his flexing pecs and deltoids, and he is carrying the bag of rocket launchers as he steps in behind her.
Switch off your sperm with this new male birth control
Experience the sinking feeling, that anxious self doubt of “did I leave my balls on?” (a sensation similar to the nagging feeling you’ve left the iron on or the stove but with fewer house fires and more unintended pregnancies)
this looks crazy painful
id rather just have the kid(s)
if i witnessed someone turning their balls off like this id jump out the nearest window tbh……
this is disgusting i don’t want machinery inside my ballsack
Yeah no who’d want this amazing reversible birth control? Let’s just keep forcing birth control on women, making them take pills that literally include side effects like hormonal imbalances, blood clots, heavier and longer bleeding which can lead to anemia, and literally “sudden death”. Because birth control should definitely be the responsibility of women only.
Men are so weak that they can’t stand the thought of something inside their ball sacks. I have an IUD, motherfuckers. I HAD SOMETHING METAL PAINFULLY SHOVED THROUGH MY CERVIX INTO MY UTERUS TO TRY TO PREVENT PREGNANCY. No anesthetic, no numbing. Just a rod right up my cervix. Wanna know what that feels like? Not pleasant. Oh! And I got an IUD because hormonal birth control pills were causing migraines and heart palpitations. But something in your balls? Nah fuck that shit, that sounds invasive.
Y’all over here saying you’d rather have the kids then take the burden of birth control and family planning off your woman and let her continue to suffer with the current forms of birth control that don’t even work 100% of the time? You’d literally rather have to be responsible for a human being for 18 years than get a simple 30 minute procedure on your fucking saggyass ballsack? Are you fucking serious?
I’m just saying it’s better to be shot at by a gun with no bullets than be shot at wearing a bulletproof vest. And the bullet proof vest might kill you even when you’re not being shot at.
Science has been trying to push male birth control for ages and I’m fucking sick and tired of nothing ever getting funding, or getting FDA approval, or getting recognized as a responsibility for everyone, and certainly not just the responsibility of women. Fuck this patriarchy bullshit.
“Hey, take this potentially lifethreatening medicine for literally the next 40 years of your life, because I don’t want to touch my own balls for a half second.”
Yes, men have fewer options for personal birth control, because literally almost every single form of it is rejected by them for ridiculous reasons that are far less than or equal to the discomfort or side-effects involved in birth control methods that involve solely women.
It all boils down to men not giving a fuck about the women they have sex with as long as they aren’t inconvenienced. They would rather a woman take ~40 years worth of pills that can cause a heap of life-threatening health problems, or have invasive surgery, or have an IUD, or or or anything as long as it means they don’t have to do shit. Look at how many men don’t even want to use a condom. I mean, hey, a 30 minute outpatient surgery to install an invisible switch that doesn’t affect their long term fertility at all is too much trouble or too painful. But fuck knows these are the same guys who would tell their girlfriends or wives to go get an IUD or have a tubal ligation like it’s a mani-pedi. Assholes.
“I’m just saying it’s better to be shot at by a gun with no bullets than
be shot at wearing a bulletproof vest. And the bullet proof vest might
kill you even when you’re not being shot at.”Not to mention the bulletproof vest might fail while you’re being shot at
I just wanted to repeat that quote because that, right there, is the best argument-through-metaphor for effective male birth control. But cis dudes don’t want to assume any responsibility irt birth control, and they especially don’t want to use any form of birth control made for THEM because the idea of it makes them uncomfortable. They exaggerate the risks and side effects of pretty much every form of birth control for ppl who generate sperm, yet conveniently ignore the usually far greater risks involved in forms of birth control widely accepted for use by ppl who generate eggs.
Cis dudes seem to be uncomfortable with the idea of birth control that they’re responsible for, that alters their bodies, because cis dudes generally don’t alter their bodies in any way for the benefit of someone else–that’s something cis women and trans/nb people are supposed to do.
The resistance to “male” birth control is dripping in male entitlement and male privilege, all wound up with the bindings of the toxicity and fragility of masculinity.
Watch: How toxic masculinity follows men from birth to death.
if someone claims to be feminist but doesn’t support this, then they aren’t a feminist
When Jack Warner was casting the movie My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews, who played the original Eliza Doolittle on Broadway, was overlooked for the part, that was given to Audrey Hepburn.
That made her available to accept Mr. Disney’s invitation to play Mary Poppins.
At the 22nd Golden Globes, when she won the best actress award (she was up against Audrey for My Fair Lady), she had her sweet revenge.
THE SHADE OF IT ALL.
My boss told me this story and I didn’t believe it. It’s so good.
let’s talk about poe dameron’s badass mom: shara bey
Shara Bey was a badass pilot in the Rebel Alliance.
Battle of Endor
- She was in Greed Squadron, and helped protect the Millennium Falcon as it made its way up to Death Star II.
- While up there, she helped take down ships trying escape its impending doom.
- Shara pursued an escaping Imperial Shuttle – only to have its pilot inform her that it was Luke Skywalker.
- And then she covered his ass so he could get away.
- Afterwards, for almost three weeks straight, Sara continued to pilot for every possible mission under the sun.
- So much so that a peer actually advised she take a lighter assignment as her next one.
- So, of course…
Naboo
- Shara was tasked to be the personal pilot for Leia on essentially a covert trip to Naboo.
- The Alliance needed Naboo to join the New Republic, but since Naboo was the Emperor’s native planet, they needed a low profile endeavor.
- So it was just the two of them, Shara and Leia, for the entire operation.
- They successfully made it, and while the Queen agreed to Leia’s offer, there was some serious trouble brewing across the planet.
- Operation: Cinder. The op was Palpatine throwing a fit of buttrage from beyond the grave.
- In the case of his death, the Empire was to make Naboo, and a bunch of other planets, uninhabitable. They launched some satellites that could cause some serious damage:
The [satellites were] then used to create hurricanes, and by the time it had reached twenty percent efficiency, three class-five hurricanes (with another dozen forming) had been made.
- Shara Bey, though, figured it out:
- That 1: there were satellites and
- 2: they needed to be scrambled, or everything was fucked.
- But– there’s no one that can fight. The Emperor demilitarized Naboo years ago.
- But the Queen remembered: there was still something left, in their hangers. Relics of an older time: from the Battle of Naboo, almost 40 years prior.
- Yes, the weird little banana ships that Anakin flew in The Phantom Menace:
N-1 starfighters.
- So: Shara flew one. So did the Queen. So did Leia. And do you know which of them was in charge? .
“I suggest Lieutenant Bey act as flight leader. She has the most experience of any of us.“
“I think that’s a very wise suggestion, Princess Leia.“
―Leia Organa and Queen Sosha Soruna
- Ok, that one was sort of obvious. But still: Shara led the ladies up into space so that they could save Naboo from imploding.
- Shara started taking out satellites left and right. Leia and the Queen watched her six, destroying the TIE fighters trying to stop her.
- In the end, they were outgunned and rescued by the Rebel Alliance who had learned of the op via intel– but not before they’d taken out all the necessary satellites by themselves.
The Final Mission
- Unfortunately– Operation: Cinder was not just a one planet thing.
- They fought this shit for months, and week after week Shara’s hopes dimmed a little more that the war would ever actually, truly end.
- Because she wanted a life. One with her son. One with her husband, Kes.
- He’d also fought in the battle of Endor as a ground soldier, and when serving, Poe stayed with him.
- They saw each other rarely, and sometimes only for hours after being away from each other for weeks.
- Kes has talked before about settling down somewhere, to raise Poe. He put in for his retirement, but she was on the fence. Her boss put in a request for her, and she objected– for now.
- And then… Luke Skywalker wanted her for a mission. The last twig of a force-sensitive tree. The same tree that had thrived in the Jedi Temple before the Emperor turned it into the Imperial Palace.
- (Which is a Big Deal, IMO. I think Luke was looking for this twig because it was going to be the symbolic start of his temple. A place to recreate that which had been destroyed– and he picked Shara, for this. To fly with him. To find this ancient, sacred thing.)
- Despite complications and having to fight their way through stormtroopers, etc, Luke and Shara found not one twig, but two, and make it out fine.
- They talk, some, about her choice between staying with the Rebel Alliance or working on her family. Luke counseled that “living for the future is worth living”.
- Taking the tree, and his advice, Shara retired from the Alliance. She’d earned it, after all.
Her Legacy
- After all this, Shara retired to Yavin 4, where she planted the force tree and established her new life.
- She didn’t tell Poe many wartime stories– although she did start taking him up in her ship when he was six years old, and started to teach him how to fly.
- Unfortunately, just two years after that, Shara passed away in sudden tragedy.
- Poe decided to continue in his mother’s footsteps, and became a pilot for the New Galactic Republic.
- After he joined, he looked into his mother’s records and found– with great joy and wonder– all of her heroism. Her achievements. Testimonies of her skill from fellow pilots, and how they’d been saved by one Shara Bey.
Shara Bey was a badass in her own right. She was a pilot, a strategist, a mother. If you want to read them, they are available in comic form, which most of this is sourced from:
Star Wars: Shattered Empire, Part I
As always, if I’ve misrepresented anything or gotten something incorrect, please drop me an ask and I will update it immediately!
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