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blorbocedes · 7 months

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when people try to argue that feminism is unnecessary, western import for bourgeoise women, that the wage gap doesn't exist, that civilisations are built solely by men in construction doing hard labour while the women are at home, show them the impoverished female bricklayers of India, who are 49% of the second largest industry (after agriculture) of 40 million constructors, and get paid less for equal work ($7/day for men, $4/day for women) because of gender discrimination and exploited due to being poor, illiterate, debt trapped, facing gender based setbacks (not being promoted to masonry or carpentry like men) and being unaware of their union rights

this work in general is exploitative, getting paid pennies on the dollar while corporations that build their mega complexes rake in millions, hazardous to health, no safety equipment, regulations, breathing in fine dust and construction pollution for both men and women. but women in particular face gender based discrimination such as getting paid a lower raw wage and lack of opportunities to get promoted from this heavy duty scaffolding work, in fact they often do more work than the men but aren't respected by their male peers. and the idea that only men historically have done hard labour, built civilisations is a false myth that erases the plight of the millions of women in the Global South.

#workers rights are women's rights #the feminism and discourse on tumblr exhaustively only focuses on women in the west #the 'men built civilisations' is a white supremacist and oft gender bioessntialist rhetoric #if you see these women carrying 20kg bricks on their head in sweltering hot sun and still believe in biological superiority thats your prob #this isn't a slay girlboss post but a reminder that women have and do exist in every workplace and how important the feminist struggle is #feminism #bricklayers and construction

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everyone-is-emptyy · 1 year

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animatedtext · 2 years

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#girlboss implies the existence of boyemployee #gif #animatedtext #wordart #transparent

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idlestories · 8 months

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caught myself thinking about how many greek myth retellings there are at the minute and why don’t we have more modern arthurian ones but then i remembered we actually have that covered

#i know books inspired by it exist btw lol i’ve read some of them #just talking about the recent explosion of girlboss greek myth in bookshops #mine

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aetsiv · 1 month

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every time i see someone mischaracterize matthias as a dumb, blonde, malewife with no personality except being nina's (dead) boyfriend i want to fistfight god and cause the mass extinction of humanity

#because like did we read the same books?#yeah matthias is a great boyfriend and sort of malewife-y #thats not the only part of his character!#like he isnt just some random character who only exists to make nina seem like a girlboss #he has so much character potential and development #just because leigh bardugo didnt make him have some big personality and act all main character-y #doesnt mean he's flat and boring and 2 dimensional #honestly leigh sort of wronged him by not giving her more relationships and development with other characters #and not giving him more development in genera #but from what she did give him #hes great #i get so sick of mischaracterization and lack of media literacy #six of crows #soc #six of crows fandom #matthias helvar #crooked kingdom #nina zenik #helnik #sort of #not sure if the nina tag and helnik tag really apply #but like the relationship and nina are both mentioned so i added it to be safe #mischaracterization #media literacy #or lack thereof

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jnxhc · 23 days

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𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘭𝘺.

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daenerysies · 3 months

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On the topic of Rhaenyra having bastards, I think it’s pretty obvious that if she was going to have to have bastards she’d need to find a man who was willing to have his kids passed off as another man’s and not be a snitch to that fact. It would also need to be someone who could be around her constantly without drawing suspicion. As her sworn shield, Harwin wasn’t a terrible choice to fulfill those exact needs. Rhaenyra was just unlucky in the looks department, something she had no control over and overall didn’t matter. There was no way to prove that her children weren’t Laenor’s, due to paternity tests not magically existing during that time. The definition of bastard is a child born to parents who are not wed to each other, with no legal father (and before someone pops up with ‘Actually!! They’d have to be proclaimed bastards to be legitimized!’ I am begging you to pick up a history book). Her children are trueborn, they were born during her marriage to Laenor and legally he is their father because he claimed them as his. One could spend their time arguing semantics over the matter, but it would be a waste of time.

Her children’s last name is Velaryon, not Waters, like it should be in canon if they were indeed bastards. They live and die as the trueborn children between Rhaenyra and Laenor. Bastardy is considered to be a legal status during that time, not a state of being. One either is a bastard at birth or is not a bastard at birth. Contrary to what a few in the fandom believe nobody besides Alicent and her direct ilk viewed them as bastards and therefore undeserving of their station. Even Septon Eustace refutes all of these claims, and he makes it very clear throughout his testimony that he HATES Rhaenyra. It was a tactical move by the immediate members of the Green faction to sully and ruin Rhaenyra’s reputation (something used time and time again during the medieval days because it was the easiest way to take down a woman vying for power), to prove that she was unworthy of the throne as opposed to the candidate they wanted crowned. It didn’t work, considering most of the houses supported Rhaenyra over Aegon despite these rumors.

Rhaenyra’s ‘bastard’ heir, Jacaerys Velaryon, was mourned deeply by members of both Team Black and Team Green and heralded by many as worthy of the Iron Throne, so please, continue spewing your biased rhetoric of the Greens being justified in starting an entire civil war, plunging the realm into chaos, over Rhaenyra having supposed bastards, when that never happened. The rumors didn’t matter. No one cared. The realm was not plunged into war because of them, it was because of Team Green’s lust and greed for power. The entirety of those rumors is a red herring. In all honesty, the only reason I believe GRRM made those boys potentially bastards is to prove to the reader that being worthy to rule does not rely on whether one is trueborn. Aegon was trueborn and unworthy to rule. Jacaerys was rumored to not be trueborn and he was worthy. It’s not GRRM’s fault that some individuals who consume his stories aren’t intelligent enough to understand that.

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animalpetcel · 5 months

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Now that AK EN's twitter released the files of the other incidents involving Arturia, I can confirm the thoughts I had since I finished the event that I think it was weird how people hyped her up as more intentionally malicious then she actually is.

Like, I was expecting her to be similar to Elbana given how certain people described the incidents/her actions but instead she's more like....Kjera? (not that my favorite goddess is evil just that both kinda mostly watch on the sidelines and help other characters realize their goals)

#arknights #like she's not an evil girlboss #she's just an artist who can strengthen emotions #I know some want her to be an evil girlboss for one reason or another #but at times it feels like y'all are making up a version of Arturia in your heads that clearly doesn't exist #which happens with a lot of characters #but I think Arturia is one of the worst cases #bc I'm not even sure how y'all got to this conclusion

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dork-a-doodle · 4 months

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I actually love the idea of them being siblings

No clue if that’s where they’re going with this, but I love it anyway

#I like to think she existed in the tma universe #but she was to busy girlbossing her way up the corporate ladder to notice her stoner brother was being possessed #and yes I fully believe uni era Elias had a beanbag chair #I don’t even know if they existed yet #but he def had one #the magnus protocol #the magnus protocol spoilers #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #the magnus archives #tma #tma spoilers #gwen bouchard #gwendolyn bouchard #elias bouchard #the dork doodles

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swettydoll · 10 months

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hot take, sad people are very much hot

#coquette #dollete aesthetic #girlblogger #girlblogging #this is what makes us girls #absolute girlboss #coquette dollete #dollette #girl boss gaslight gatekeep #hell is a teenage girl #gaslight gatekeep girlblog #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #girl blog #girl interrupted #girl interrupted syndrome #girlboss tbh #girlhood #it girl #i hate my existence

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reireichu · 2 months

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they didnt allow claudia to reach this modern era because if she said “lol okay boomer” to lestat, it would promptly end his career, his soul, his will to live and probably cause his hair to fall out.

#claudia de pointe du lac #claudia iwtv #lestat de lioncourt #claudia is here to end all careers #she is the bane of his existence and the object of his ire #she invented gaslight gatekeep girlboss #she rejects lestat’s attempt to mansplain manipulate and manslaughter #interview with the vampire amc

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miliamin1 · 4 months

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Everytime I read Nevermore I keep thinking of how to Annabel Lee absolutely everyone but her and Lenore are corpses. She's interacting with people she considers fully dead already whilst Lenore deeply cares about everyone's lives. And neither of them is truly correct! They're neither dead nor alive, and the stated rules are that only one person will live again. They operate under different beliefs about circumventing the game but so far neither of them has proof that it's possible.

#yes our girlboss only cares about lenore but her indifference to lives of others doesnt exist by itself #they're not alive! and by volume prospero brought more suffering to others than her and he would regardless of alliance with her #outside of not stopping other people's actions of hurt when she considers that dangerous to herself she does the same as when alive #lying to survive #and i really cant blame her #nevermore webtoon #og post

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everyone-is-emptyy · 1 year

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kdramedies · 2 years

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Oh In-joo, while naive in the context of the story we are being told, is not an idiot. In the first few episodes In-joo is established as someone who is resourceful, competent at her job, and a good sister. She always makes sure there’s a roof over her family’s head, food in their bellies, and tries to make sure that they’re (mainly In-hye) safe and happy. In-joo is really good at being poor. Which is why I don’t understand all of the comments I keep seeing calling In-joo an idiot or complaining that she’s too stupid so the show is “un-feminist” (whatever that means [does that mean women aren’t allowed to be a little dumb sometimes? Seems pretty un-feminist for women to be put into a box like that...]). Like, why the fuck would someone who has been dirt poor all their life suddenly be amazing in the world of money, murder, and politics? The first thing In-joo did with 2 billion won was buy name brand ice cream. That’s how poor she’s been throughout her life, corner store ice cream was her big first splurge (and it was on sale!). Some of her scenes have been played to add a bit of levity to such a dramatic show, the “hands up” scene is one of my favourites, but again, those scenes are of her experiencing situations that she’s never had cause to even wonder about before. I’ve certainly never thought about the bounds of plastic surgery, and if faced with a gun, I fully believe I would wet myself. But In-joo, someone who is earnest and takes things at face value, is somehow managing to survive in this world of lies and backstabbing she’s been thrown into. Some of it is dumb luck, some of it is Do-il saving her neck, but some of it is her. And I don’t just mean her badass moment in Singapore. Her resilience, her earnestness, her optimism and kindness. Every choice she’s made has contributed to the fall of the Jeongran Society. Her additions to their rag-tag team go largely unnoticed since she’s not unearthing the story behind it all like In-kyung, or a former inside man like Do-il, but In-joo is the one who has the mastermind behind all of this shaken. And it’s not just because this all started with Sang-a’s obsession with In-joo. Sang-a thought she knew In-joo, but like a lot of viewers, she didn’t know who In-joo would become. She thought In-joo would do anything for money, but instead In-joo would do anything for her family and her best friend, even after learning that their friendship was a lie. She didn’t know that behind her naivete In-joo was strong; stronger than her. Sang-a may be more confident, conniving, and quick-witted, but she can’t handle things not going her way. In-joo on the other hand, has never had anything go her way and as a result is more adaptable and quicker to bounce back.

This entire show is about classism and the ways that it divides us, schooling and intelligence is one of them. Without Hyo-rin’s family In-hye wouldn’t have had the opportunities they gave her. Without their great aunt, In-kyung wouldn’t have gone to university. But In-joo didn’t have anyone to give her a helping hand. People who are looking down on her character for being an “idiot” are only proving one of the points the drama is trying to make. If you’re poor, you’re considered unintelligent, if you’re considered unintelligent then people can treat you like garbage and get away with it. But Oh In-joo is done letting people get away with it.

#little women #tvn little women #oh in joo #people claim to want flawed female characters and then they actually exist and they call them stupid #it's annoying #like just say you want a girlboss who is a little clumsy and leave #kdramedies

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agirlwithglam · 28 days

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“I forgot that you existed”

It isn’t love, it isn’t hate, it’s just.. indifference”

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lavenderpanic · 4 months

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Not the Peggy dickriders missing the point so hard they stumble their way into my conversation about how I don't like that Peggy "Nazi sympathizer" Carter has displaced other female characters and characters of color in favor of heteronormative, poorly written plots about characters that we left behind five years ago

#obviously i'm criticizing the WRITERS who WROTE the FICTIONAL CHARACTER who DOESN'T ACTUALLY EXIST #she isn't real i promise i didn't hurt her feelings lmfaoooo #anti peggy carter #<- block that tag if you're pro-peggy btw #so you don't have to see my appropriately-tagged posts hating on your white feminist girlboss

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