#strong and capable men

[ken-do-attidude]

Keely is having the most fun running around with this camera

Richmond Polaroids: Sketch • Pt. 1 • Pt. 2 • Pt. 3

#is this an excuse to draw Jamie in the flame sunglasses? #maybe… #ted lasso #jamie tartt #sam obisanya #colin hughes #isaac macadoo #afc richmond #richmond greyhounds #richmond till we die #strong and capable men #locker room shenanigans #fan art #procreate #ken does the thing #digital art

[unexpectedbrickattack]

Is Gustavo even shorter than peppino if he is I’m gonna die

he is !! hes a little gnome !!!

#pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #peppino #gustavo #brick the rat #brick #he gets the Gnome treatment that i give to every little gnome #magical #whimsical #strong... #and a tail! #peppino is also very strong so its just like #two tiny men who are capable of bashing skulls in without meaning to #also brick is just huge like #hes just a bear with a rats face #the one true peppino weakness #OH i just realized i dont have like #actual heights for them #peppino is like 5'1 MAYBE 5'2 #which i think translates to 153-155cm #so gustavo would be roughly half that

[side-b-bumblebi]

Men who view women as their intellectual equals 😍

#pro tip for the boys: a lot of girls will respond a lot better to a stimulating conversation than to a guy trying to show off #ignore the movies they're lying to you when they tell you you need to be a show off #and if a girl wants that it's maybe not the best sign y'know? #but most girls just want to be treated like we're capable intelligent humans #that's all!! the movies and shit make it way more complicated than it has to be #and yes some girls do make things awkward and complicate everything #but maybe you wanna be careful about that because those girls generally have a lot to unpack #being friends with those girls is fine!! just make sure you have strong boundaries in place #and make sure she's doing some work on herself before considering a romantic relationship #but anyway i've had a lot of men in my life that i feel like wanted to be so much smarter than me #and not to be rude but they weren't?? i was just as smart and sometimes smarter #i didn't care that they were confident in their intelligence but i felt like i needed to dumb myself down #and it. freaking. sucked. i have no idea how i did it for so long #and i would even make jokes about like the guys i dated being smarter than me and nobody ever said anything?? #and again these guys weren't smarter than me. that's not an insult to them just acknowledging i'm smarter than i was gave myself credit for #i'm outgrowing the notion that i have to dumb myself down for men and it's so freeing #and you know what really helps me actually? being in college #and especially being in college with so many intelligent men who know they're smart #these guys KNOW they're smart. and not in an arrogant way in a secure and confident way #them knowing they're smart makes them the OPPOSITE of arrogant actually #it's weird but i stand by my observation and it makes sense when you think about it #if you're secure in yourself and your intelligence you don't need to proce yourself by making other people look dumb #these guys are secure in their self-image and masculinity. they don't need women to be dumb and weak to feel strong and intelligent. #and it's so freaking endearing. i love that for these guys so much. #i am just so thankful for people in my life who are taking me seriously and who are helping me to understand i'm worth taking seriously. #wow these tags are long but anyway #guys you don't have to prove anything girls you should never have to dumb yourselves down live long and prosper

[camgirlkaminari]

scum villain makes me SO INSANE like it's the funniest book I've ever read and also if I think too hard about one character in particular my brain shorts out shies away from the thoughts like a slug might shy away from salt I will POSITIVELY DIE if I think too long about tlj JUST trying to understand people being betrayed by someone who he thought loved him losing everyone who was ever close to him BECAUSE of him I think too hard about yqy and how he will never get closure there will be no happiness for him zzl my little boy my big cheese my funtime guy who JUST wanted to be liked he was trying so hard to do good he's like that poem from the point of view of a cat that can't figure out what he did wrong why do his family keep leaving the house why can he never grow big like his brothers sqq never seeing his family again never acknowledging he had a family except in passing never being able to tell his husband about his first life having to keep that secret for the rest of his life to always have this weird terrible pain between them forever the sacrifices he made for luo binghe how he'll never be able to truly know og sqq's motivations how he just woke up and immediately took up the mantel of sqq despite knowing his fate WHAT was his life as shen yuan like to make him so quick to alter his whole identity WHY is he so good at acting and lying to everyone including himself just refers to himself as a listless pretty boy like he doesn't have the cleverest mind in the whole book!!!!! og sqq in the cave what must he have felt when he realized he wasn't strong enough to save lqg and knowing what people were going to say and being too proud and miserable to clear his own name binghe's "I hate! I hate myself!" scene I am SCREAMING binghe being unhealthily manipulative from DAY ONE up to the point where sqq realizes what he's done with xin mo the CAVE SEX SCENE??????????? don't get me STARTED on shang qinghua!!!!!!!! liu qingge!!!!!! BINGGE?????? it's like a wormhole in my head if I think too hard past sqq being the funniest mother fucker in two different universes and the premise of haha big demon hot for teacher mommy kink :))) I will DIE I will PERISH i am rabid I am biting and tearing and rending and howling!!!!!!

#do NOT get me started on how sqq is likely the most powerful man on the planet like YEAH hes not as magically strong as lqg and yqy #but hes insanely capable he took over for 6 HUNDRED WIVES like yeah my man is a battery pack i dont CARE how powerful the mushroom body was #this is how i sleep at night: i imagine that shen qingqiu is genuinely the au version of shen yuan #like sqh modeled him on this mean ass commenter #and i like to think this IF ONLY for the sake of sqq's sect brothers & sisters #hes BASICALLY the same guy with all the same quirks and annoying behaviors except without all the fucking trauma #hes still nitpicky and nasty in his way and he still thinks hes managing to hide his emotions but actually he NEVER could fully #what a relief for them!!! #and in the same vein that shen yuan. who MUST be an INSANELY clever guy in his life #had he endured the same torment as og sqq he would be just as bad!!! #do you think sy was lacking in enrichment in his enclosure & thats why he took to sqq so well. hes so clever and good at absorbing new info #like actually becoming sqq was good for his brain like a tiger born in captivity being released into the wild #svsss #svsss spoilers #wall of text #SORRY!!!! I NEEDED TO GET IT OUT!!!! #the good thing about svsss: all the women have way better endings than in pidw. the bad thing: all the trauma catching up w repressed men. #ugh

[arctic-hands]

Anyone remember when the talking Barbie was criticized for saying "Math is hard!" because girls and adult women were and still are already stereotyped as being bad at math/spending?

I'm not even a girl anymore and this whole "girl math" thing is infuriating me for its condescending "girls are so stupid" cutesiness that is somehow being disguised as a positive?

#on that note I remember when feminism was all about how girls/women are just as good and strong and capable as boys/men #now thanks to terfs feminism has completely shifted to 'girls/women are too inherently weak to compete against boys/men!' #and like we're supposed to applaud this bullshit? #girl math #like fuckshit I'm dyscalculic and still insulted

[omarfor-orchestra]

Sometimes the author does the worst possible thing they could to some character and sometimes the fanbase interpretation makes the whole thing even worse and you're there looking at the character like they massacred my boy(gn)

#listen #I'm terribly behind in op so idk if someting else happened but I don't think so #I'm mad about what he did with t4shigi #she is my favourite character and she had a whole personality he just destroyed after the time skip and yes this is also about her physical #appearance #but people saying she 'changed her appearance because z0ro said she looks like his old friend' makes me 🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪 #like what the fuck #she was this tenacious and incredibile warrior who faught in a men centered world and reality #the perfect metaphor for this world and reality #and the point wasn't that her appearance was 'more masculine' before so that she could merge better #but that she was different from how the other women were portraied because she lived in a different reality and condition #and i guess the change after the timeskip could be read as an awareness she could be as free as the others bc she is capable etcetc idk #but he did her so dirty with the change in personality the whole punkhazard arc was like 'idk what to do with her just make her stupid and #useless' like????????????? #no she wasn't #it was as if she were weaker than before the timeskip which doesn't make sense #anyway #she would NOT change her appearance bc of what a man said to her like do you even understand a glimpse of the character?? #and i say this as someone who ships them and i ship them BECAUSE THEY ARE BOTH STRONG AF AND HAVE THE SAME ENERGY #jesus christ #i need to softblock someone before i post this hold on

[kibblemaniac]

tried to draw beowulf again but i kept messing up his face 🙃

#beowulf skullgirls #can you tell i like my men strong and capable #skullgirls fanart #doodles #yui94

[freifraufischer]

So I followed the Russian coup for most of the time it was active, I think I have a good handle on what happened. The end feels like the last season of a television show where they've been unexpectedly cancelled and the writers decided to make an ending that makes no sense to the actors or the people watching the show.

#serious stuff in the tags #i think the most sensible takes i've seen #is that his forces were moving faster than he expected #he wasn't at all prepared for an actual battle in Moscow #he had no capacity to actually hold Moscow even if he had the capability to take it #they reached a deal that I'd call a face saving deal but I think neither man actually saved actual face #putin is weaker just by virtue of strong men who have military coups that don't end in crushing the coup don't look strong #the wagner pmc is basically dead as a functional military unit #which has probably even wider implications for Russian foreign policy in Africa than Ukraine #no one seems to think pringles war criminal will live to see a natural death #the merc's are pissed #but i bet the Russian troops and national guard soldiers who switched sides are even more pissed #ukrainians had fun with their popcorn were happy to keep up their summer offensive #with an enemy that now is likely even more distrustful of each other than before

[jewishbarbies]

no because why is it always people who identify as feminists that are the first to reduce a female character down to her love interest if she has one? like by virtue of having a relationship, typically with a man, she MUST be a weak woman who needs a man and that’s all her story is, and therefore she’s some misogynistic trope. when in reality, it’s quite misogynistic to believe women can’t be anything other than a girlfriend/wife if they have a male partner.

#g talks #this is about buzzfeed style disney interpretations #like yes a love story exists #but if it didn’t the female character wouldn’t change #she wouldn’t be any different #like how do you listen to part of your world #and come away going ‘yep she’s clearly only doing this for a man’??? #read the fucking lyrics! #it makes me so mad #and then you’re like anti feminist if you don’t agree with these people #like no I just believe women are capable of being strong AND dating men #maybe it’s the bisexuality idk #mine #/mobile #/okay to reblog

[mrfoox]

Ok I've touched on this before but like.... Ive noticed since losing weight... Ive gotten more positive attention from men especially and im like 🙃

#miranda talking shit #At one hand yay attention but also.... No one likes me if im fat lmao #Ive had randoms call me cheesy shit like... When i bought a drink the guy at the counter came to my table #And bowed and said 'heres your drink m'lady' i was speechless like wtf uh thanks?! #Im so used being seen as.... Less feminine and more 'capable' i guess? #Since started my weight-loss journey men will hold doors for me more and just ... Yeah . #Not that im getting ton of attention but i went from zero to like 2 which is wild... #Guys are doing things for me now and jm like... Um yoi sure?🥺 #Like a huge guy at work will take care of big boxes for me or hold doors and shit and im like are you sure? #And he just says 'yes im strong' i know but goddamn.... #I dont see myself as skinny or pretty i still have like 10 extra kg and overall dont have a pretty face or anything #But.... Its so wild.... Men have never looked at me or done things for me unless they were old men who's just polite....

[purgatorily]

the jokey fanon portrayal of hannibal as this cunty slay serve effeminate guy is so tired i’ll say it. a male character likes a nice suit and cooking and you guys don’t know how to handle it fr

#as if he doesn’t play with gender in BOTH directions #as if men who care about their appearances are also always catty and feminine #like YEAH hannibal has good taste and he loves to be that bitch #but hes also like. extremely intelligent and STRONG and domineering and capable #he thinks of himself as GOD #u guys need to learn how to balance your perspective on him #hes not one thing or the other alone #and i’m sick of him being reduced to a few of his petty moments and his fashion sense

[zhuhongs]

no but does this resonate with anyone else. like. yea..

#like. for me i did explore maybe am i trans but came to the conclusion that personally no. i just wanted to be seen as capable and strong #and in a patriarchal society. men are seen as that. and thats why i wanted to become like a man. personally and yea #i feel like i dont see that be talked abt and like seeing this expressed in anf is like... oh im gonna cry. yea #futaba i do love u so

[daydreamerdrew]

All-Select Comics (1943) #11

#notable difference between this character and the Black Cat #is that the Black Cat is super capable and Rick is impressed and really into that #whereas this Blonde Phantom pretends faint so that Mark Mason will catch her in his big strong arms #also the fact that she gets kidnapped and then rescued by Mark at the end #which honestly reminds me of the Spicy Tales stories I’ve read as that’s where I’ve seen lady protagonists get rescued by men the most #but I’m not actually well-versed enough in the lady superheroes of the Golden Age to know which approach is more common #though in the Black Cat stories I’ve read so far she hasn’t had to have Rick save her like that #marvel #timely comics #louise grant #my posts #comic panels

[sailoms]

what i hate fr watching bl is sometimes not the plot or the storyline or the character. its the audience who wont stfu abt positions holy shit they are in love but these people dont think they're able of that if the position is not up to their expectation, your honor. yes they're not the screenwriter, your honor. arrest them.

#.txt #just fucking watch the series wont you damn it #if the screenwriter established that just follow #dl;dr culture must reign #if both are strong very capable men just let them do shit #BE HONEST YOU WANT A PARTNER THATS CAPABLE AT LEAST IN THE SAME LEVEL AS YOU RIGHT??????? #SO IF BOTH MEN ARE VERY CAPBLE OF DEFENDING EACH OTHER JUST LET THEM WTF #I NEED BEACH I NEED A VACATION WITH MY HOES JOBBAS

[orcelito]

Me dropping in the last discussion questions that I am Not Straight (for the sake of talking about "muted groups", something that i think there is validity in, tho from my brief study of Kramerae's take she seemed to support a very bioessentialist view of it in that women are fundamentally more emotions-driven than men, etc etc, smth I straight up called hogwash in one of my posts lol)

Honestly, the professor is probably not going to be surprised, considering I've consistently been anti-military, anti-patriotic, & just in general very uhh. You Know. Challenging in my ideas.

I kinda enjoy being able to just express all this lmao

#speculation nation #on the surface i agreed with Kramerae bc women are definitely silenced by men in many contexts #but the way she insisted that women using men's language (as men are the ones who established language) limits them #due to the fundamental differences in biology or whatever that lead to women being emotionally driven unlike men #(that 'unlike men' straight up being a part of what i read) #it just rubbed me wrong. a very terf-y take. i would not be surprised if it turned out she was a transphobe lol #listen you can support feminism & acknowledge the ways society lifts men up and stamps women down #Without resorting to the bullshit idea of men and women being fundamentally separate creatures or whatever #that kind of idea honestly infected my mind when i was young. i remember being honestly surprised when i found out men cried #which that's a societal thing. the pressures on men to be Strong and the cultural assumption that theyre unemotional #to the point where men are neglecting their own emotional needs & thus in large part becoming emotionally disjointed #& that's where a lot of those 'men arent emotionally driven like women' things come from #bc theyre literally taught from a young age to stifle their own emotions #growing up and getting to know all sorts of people. of course i know it's bullshit. #men can be frustrating on the best of days. and i certainly am still terrified of men i dont know. #but for all that society stifles them. theyre people. just as capable of love and goodness as anyone else. #i hate what terfs have done to the name of feminism. the fact that i have to always be critical when i see a 'feminist' take #for fear that it's one of those bioessentialist fuckheads spewing their bullcrap in the name of feminism #idk i have a lot of thoughts about this. i wish i'd had more time to expand on these thoughts in my discussion posts #but i was doing them in the last hour lol so i had to be quick. oh well.

[anauwhere]

I was thinking that good, interesting and layered male characters are as rare as female characters in media even if there are more male characters in percentage. Stupid me i looked up on reddit to see if people agreed lol. I stumbled into the ask men subreddit and my God they sure hate women writers and female characters who are not perfect while lamenting the same for male characters. Women write men who are too good, too perfect and irl they never look twice at Bella Swan or Rory Gilmore, they will walk past ur 50 you milf, they would pity ur depressed fucked up loser female character. Maybe that's why fanfic usually elevates male characters, maybe that's why silly ya movies and books exist. Bc the perfect(albeit not often 2d, I admit it)man can thrive in there. Because most women are "in the same league" of ur Mrs perfect or desire to be. Because not all women are the embodiment of a golden prize themselves. Oh em gee these men written by women are not completely dumb and terrible and they make them feel safe? Rubbish!!! Well fantasies are just fantasies but sometimes they are the signal that there's something missing irl and you can make it up in fiction and play with it by your rules. Instead of crying I'd look at the mirror.

#misogyny is typical of any men cis trans hella liberal even here when confronted with feminism #the middle ground is rare. i myself hate radfems and hate all men and strong women in heels etc but often times the opponent just hates #women period. god isn't anyone capable of some moderation nowadays #anyways thank fanfiction and stupid ass cliches even more now that i know how much negativity there's out there