chippycore:

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kosmosxipo:

ALT

Happy Moon Landing Day!

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closet-keys:

i remember seeing a post like a decade ago (… fuck me have i been here that long) that was talking about the way in which cishet cultural understandings of gay men and lesbians have this bizarre paradox where gay men are assumed to be categorically incapable of misogyny and lesbians are assumed to hate men innately.

sometimes I still think about what that implies about the sort of dominant culture understanding of gender. just in terms of like…

the idea that a man not being sexually/romantically interested in women is a man incapable of hating women or harming women or leveraging structural power against women (implication that misogyny is inherently and exclusively enacted through sex and relationships, or perhaps weirder, that attraction to women in and of itself is oppressive).

the idea that a woman not being sexually/romantically interested in men is a woman inherently hateful towards men (implication that a woman’s disinterest in or unwillingness to engage with sex/relationships with men is directed at men as a hateful act, that a lack of attraction to men is inherently cruel or mean. or, perhaps weirder, that an “actual” lack of attraction to men is impossible and lesbianism is a deliberate and conscious performance of disinterest as a means to inflict cruelty on men, making “man-hating” a necessary prerequisite to the “performance” of lesbianism).

and then you start to see how those concepts also intersect with other weird ideas about gayness.

if attraction to women is in and of itself oppressive and misogynist, then that would certainly imply that lesbians themselves are oppressive and misogynist towards other women (and certainly many cis straight women and girls claim so). if misogyny is only enacted through sex and relationships then clearly straight women would be incapable of leveraging misogyny to harm other women or holding hateful views about women (and many cis straight women/girls seem to think so!)

if an unwillingness to engage in relationships with men is equivalent to or necessarily linked to unkindness towards men, then being mean and avoiding emotional vulnerability or physical intimacy in any context with men is how one expresses or performs sexual/romantic disinterest in men (and certainly many cis straight men do express and perform meanness and avoid emotional vulnerability and physical intimacy with other men, including even friends and family! certainly many cis straight men and boys are “accused” of being sexually interested in men for simply engaging with other men/boys in their lives with gentle kindness).

because cis straight people primarily encounter gender tension as something in the realm of romantic and sexual relationships with each other, they are often extremely lacking in understanding larger structures of gendered oppression (especially when they are also white and do not perceive contemporary gendered oppression as inextricably linked to structures of colonialism and whiteness and labor division/devaluation under racial capitalism). the surface perception of gender on this very small, interpersonal level without a greater power analysis or historical material analysis then leads them to just extrapolate these oversimplified ideas outwards and all sorts of weird shit gets projected onto LGBTQ+ people more broadly.

and then of course, LGBTQ+ people are not outside of this culture either–we grow up inside of it.

so many cis and trans lesbians and bi women (and straight and bi trans men too, and probably also cis bi men) go through some period of being terrified that their attraction to women makes them inherently predatory or harmful towards women.

sometimes cis (and sometimes also trans) gay men (and sometimes also ace men) inflict harm on women without understanding that harm as misogynist, because they don’t realize that–for example–groping a woman is still sexual assault even if you’re not attracted to her and doing it as a ‘joke.’ they might believe that talking over trans women repeatedly isn’t straightforwardly misogyny or decide that a (cis or trans) ace woman or lesbian is being “mean” or “misandrist” by not prioritizing them.

idk, every time I see the “mean lesbian” trope (not like lesbians themselves reclaiming it– though sometimes that can also veer into this if it is internalized rather than consciously a satirical critique to highlight the bizarreness of a simple absence of interest being construed as literal hatred) I think about how pervasive these ideas are and how they harm so many people beyond just those who identify as lesbians. I think the notion of the “mean lesbian” is sometimes considered like a small prejudice with minimal relevance outside of us, but it really is part of a much larger interconnected web of weird oppressive gender ideology.

bunjywunjy:

10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

AAAND WE HAVE LIFTOFF!

HAPPY MOON LANDING DAY!!!

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everythingcanadian:

fruitmeats:

*opens the groupchat at breakfast to backread like its the morning paper*

NEWS FROM BULLSHIT CITY:

Your Friends had a Weird Discussion About Marbles

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5weekdays:

gimmickbird:

fridaynightshameblog:

GOD OKAY ALRIGHT

Imagine a boyband and one of them chooses the gimmick “the poiosner”

Like in interviews he drops hints that he’s taken lives ans he jokes about not leaving your food with him and all his clothes have like snakes or green vials in the design

I stand by this, every boy band needs the bad boy, the nice one, the sensitive one, the athletic one and The Poisoner

haven’t stopped thinking about this post since i saw it. here’s a fashion board i made for The Poisoner

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cort3d:

Cheshire cat inspired computer worm. It has a floppy disk head and body segments that change between flat 2D squares to 3D cubes.

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charlesoberonn:

charlesoberonn:

Aliko Dangote, the richest man in Africa, has been tormented by a Brazilian man named Osvaldo for the last several years.

Aliko is not taking it well

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3liza:

forget touching grass I think some of us need to start by just going to other places on the internet once in a while