#when women ruled the world

[christabelq]

A few shots of Theda Bara playing the title role in the 1917 silent movie CLEOPATRA. I'm reading about Cleopatra at the moment in Kara Cooney's WHEN WOMEN RULED THE WORLD: 6 QUEENS OF EGYPT, so she's very much on my mind. If you're interested in the female rulers of ancient Egypt, I'd definitely recommend this book. It goes into detail about how they rose to power, the challenges they faced because of their gender and how the patriarchy usually tried to take credit for their achievements and wipe out all trace of them after they were gone. Like a lot of what you read about the ancient world, some of it's guesswork, but the arguments are convincing and seem to fit the evidence. I ❤️ this subject, so might get around to writing a proper review when I'm done. As for the movie pics, I get that Elizabeth Taylor's take on the character is better known, but I think Theda looks more iconic.

#ancient egyptians #egypt #ancient egypt #cleopatra #queen cleopatra #like for like #follow for follow #follow back #when women ruled the world #1917 movie #1910s fashion #theda bara #silent cinema #silent movies #silent movie stars #kara cooney #h rider haggard #women in history

[booksandwords]

When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt by Kara Cooney

Read time: 6 Days Rating: 3.5/5 Stars

The Quote: Once upon a time, there were women who ruled the world. Six of them—Merneith, Nerferusobek, Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Tawosret and Cleopatra—climbed the highest the wielded the most significant power: not as manipulators of their menfolk but as heads of state. Each started as a queen—a mere sexual vessel of their king—but each became chief decision-maker, five of them served as king outright. — Kara Cooney

When Women Ruled the World is perhaps unsurprisingly divided into six sections, one for each of the six queens, an introduction and a conclusion (both of which are on a theme). The six queens are Merneith, Nerferusobek, Hatshepsut, Nefertiti, Tawosret and Cleopatra. There are other women of power noted some are queens others are just women in positions of power in the Egyptian system. These include Neithotep, Tetisheri and Ahmes-Nefertari. The Queen/ King's Horus names are included and explained, all of them are interesting. Nefertiti and Hatshepsut's particularly so. A suggestion for those new to academic non-fiction, if you have an interest in the added detail provided by the notes, try using a second bookmark. But the narrative style used by Kara Cooney means you can skip them with ease. Same are added commentary, some are simply sources and some are where to look for more information.

🤎 Merneith — Queen of Blood (ca 3000-2890 B.C.) Merneith is the first of the six queens ruling as a regent for her son, Den during the 1st dynasty. Her entry acts as an overview of the kingship in ancient Egypt and the role of the Queen in it. Merneith provides something of a fascinating study in brutal strength and the things one must do to survive. Little is truly known of her really but I like the way this is written. The style empowers her and allows her ferocity to shine. As much as this is about the women Den himself is interesting, The First King of Upper and Lower Egypt. Den must have greatly respected Merneith burying her in a tomb fit for a king though with fewer human sacrifices (nothing to do with gender everything to do with afterlife necessity).

💚 Nerferusobek — The Last Woman Standing (1777-1773 B.C.) Nerferusobek has one of the best name meanings, beauty of Sobek. "Named for the fierce god of the Nile inundation, a deity of aggressive sexuality and violent fecundity." (p.77). Her crowned names are Beloved of Re; Daughter of the Powerful One; Mistress of the Two Lands; Stable of Appearances. This entry continues the discussion on succession discussing royal reproduction practices, including harems and a quite interesting section on incest (all neat logic no ick factor). There is an insightful and logical comment on harems that I quite appreciated. Her subtitle comes from why she was even sitting on the Horus Throne, Nerferusobek was the last royal of the 12th Dynasty, a product of incest (probably) causing sterility. She perhaps willingly but perhaps reluctantly took the throne to steady the ship. She had little to gain and was little threat to the status quo, with no chance of a male heir. Her short reign allows the board to be reset and allowed all the major power players to get their viable sons into position for the start of the next dynasty. Nerferusobek is almost the exact opposite of her female predecessor, it is easy to admire her patience and intelligence.

💛 Hatshepsut — Queen of Public Relations (1473-1458 B.C.) "Hatshepsut broke all the rules."(p.99) is the first line of this section and it is the perfect summation of her rule. Let's start with the pronunciation of her name as included by Kara Cooney Hat-shep-suit. One of the cutest moments in this section is what the young princes were called... nestlings look it made me smile okay. There was an interesting moment for me. The extremely young pharaoh, the two-year-old on the throne, could only happen in ancient Egypt with its focus on mythos and god-kings. Anywhere else would be civil war. Cooney has a great reading on Hatshepsut's potential romantic attachments. They weren't needed for her to maintain power, there was little place in the historical record for them. I did like the section on Hatshepsut and one day I will get around to reading Cooney's Hatshepsut work but not today. This is the longest section of the six, unsurprising really, Cooney wrote The Woman Who Would Be King dedicated entirely to Hatshepsut. As that book does exist there is less discussion and commentary in the notes they are nearly entirely sources. In some ways, I would consider her the opposite side of the coin to Merneith. Where Merneith held her position with strategic blood and violence Hatshepsut used ideology and human relations. Especially ideology.

For her countrymen there was no longer any point referring to her as "queen." That title was only used for women subservient to their sovereign. — Kara Cooney (p.84)

🧡 Nefertiti — More Than Just a Pretty Face (1338-1336 B.C.) Ideology was also important in Nefertiti's reign. Nefertiti was actually treated as an equal to her husband during his reign. An equal female to his male god. (Because yes he was a 🤡) What is clear is that in any other time, any other place, her husband, the completely bonkers Akhenaten would likely have faced regicide. There isn't a consensus that she even ruled alone, if she did she ruled with her daughter taking the role of Queen, the feminine role to her masculine. So much of everything around her is dependent on which school of Egyptology you belong to. It can be difficult. Was she ever a King in her own right? 🤷🏼‍♀️ Nefertiti is... complicated. It had to make many comments on her. So much of Nefertiti's reign in her own right is a matter of superposition. But I'm not even sure I knew that I ever knew the potential connection between King Tut and Nefertiti.

💙 Tawosret — The Survivor (1188-1186 B.C) Tawosret comes from a very different period of Egyptian history. She was needed by Egypt but not welcome. Women were greatly distrusted in any position of power. She is a mixture of all the previous queens except maybe Nefertiti. It all starts with a discussion of how times had changed in Egypt and the Ramesside period. Her crowned names are Daughter of Re, Beloved of Amun; Mighty Lady, Chosen of Mut; Strong Bull, Beloved of Ma'at; Founder of Egypt, who vanquishes foreign countries. Using the title Chosen of Mut is a brilliant ideological move, ditto Beloved of Ma'at. Mut was a mother goddess, her name means mother, she's a primordial deity. Ma'at was a deity tied to balance and justice, a key to the processes of entering the afterlife. All these women knew how to manipulate the greek pantheon for their own power. There is a lovely quote in here about human society and feminine rule. "Many of history's women could rise to power only within extraordinary crisis and, when the immediate predicament had abated, were unceremoniously pushed aside. Indeed, the catastrophe itself was usually blamed on the woman's rue, a Catch-22 if there ever was one." (p.240). Tawosret feels like something akin to one of the British succession crises (there have been three), but one, in particular, ended with a queen on a throne decided from a piece of genetics.

💜Cleopatra — Drama Queen (51-0 B.C.) If you are going to know any of the Queens it will definitely be Cleopatra. Cleopatra was a true power player, a power player that would likely succeed even in the modern-day, maybe more so in the modern-day. Sex is power and she was totally unafraid to use it but that is far, far from all she was. Cleopatra was also strategic, intelligent and openly ambitious. Even if you know Cleopatra you will likely find information in here you don't know. For example, Cleopatra was in Rome when Ceaser was assassinated or the import of Ceaserion. There was an amusing moment for me when I realised Cleopatra essentially bought Mark Antony, she wanted his power for some form of legitimacy, he needed money to pursue his military campaigning. Cleopatra's section ends with a quick section on what happened to her children. While her sons were killed her daughter, Kleopatra Selene was married to a Roman ally and well. She went on to become a queen and clearly inherited her mother's intelligence. What I didn't know was that Kleopatra Selene and Juba II's son was killed by Caligula just for being descended from Marc Antony and Cleopatra.

I did enjoy this. I enjoyed learning about new powerful women. Women who used power in different ways to maintain the stability of their Egypt and their position. There is some well-written background included too, like the way an heir was chosen and reproductive practices. I had completely missed in all my time reading about ancient Egypt the connection between Nefertiti and Tut. I do appreciate the use of the modern to help readers understand, Trump, Clinton, the Saudi Royal family and just general or universal expectations moments experienced by women.

Let me justify the rating. While I was reading this wasn't a 3-star book. But it feels more like a 3.5-star book upon reflection, I'm rounding down. Cleopatra's section let me down a little. I was confused for quite a bit of it, to be honest, it was a bit of a slog to get through. In the previous paragraph, I mentioned the moments experienced by women, that is also a bit of a flaw. This feels like it is squarely aimed at women. And perhaps relying too much on female experience and contemporary references.

#when women ruled the world #six queens of egypt #kara cooney #nonfiction #book review #ktreviews #read 2022 #merneith #hatshepsut #nefertiti #cleopatra #tawoset #nerferusobek #booklr

[uncanny-tranny]

Trans solidarity is being a trans man whose vocal range is finally under a trans woman's low range 🩷

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #my range will never be at laura jane grace's though </3 #(mostly because her style is so fucking cool and i don't have the confidence to do that and keep my voice safe) #love when a trans person embraces their voice however that looks (voice training/no voice training ect) #women with low voices rule the world and i hope all women with lower ranges are happy and love themselves <<3 #your voice is lovable and beautiful and your voice deserves to be heard in whatever capacity you deem fit <3 #i never voice trained which is why i waited for testosterone to do that #but voice training is an art y'all and i think people who do that are wizards and artisans

[uwmspeccoll]

A Winter Pinecone Wood Engraving Wednesday

This winter, I received two hand-printed holiday cards with original wood-engraved pinecones from a couple of engraving friends of UWM Special Collections: Wisconsin artist Tony Drehfal and Kentucky printer Joanne Price. The top pinecone is by Drehfal, and in his card he writes:

I created this pine cone “study” engraving for the special WEN [Wood Engravers Network] calendar, and it was printing so easily on my finally restored Albion Press, that I kept on printing winter cards, which I have not made for years. The image is closely based on a inked sketch by a U.S. Forest Service field worker -- C. L. Taylor, in 1907. The Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Carnegie Mellon University) has a bunch of these drawings in their collection. I loved this one and worked to see if I could translate it into a wood engraving. I learned much --

Price’s pinecone, entitled “Pinecone Breeze,” is one of nine wood-engraved illustrations by Price for When Children Ruled the World: A Christmas Story written by Sena Jeter Naslund and published by Larkspur Press in 2021 (which we did a post on back in March 2022). 

It is always exciting to get original wood engravings in the mail!

View more work by Joanne Price.

View more posts with wood engravings!

-- MAX, Head, Special Collections

#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #wood engravers #women wood engravers #Joanne Price #Tony Drehfal #pinecones #pine cones #holiday cards #winter holidays #When Children Ruled the World: A Christmas Story #Sena Jeter Naslund #Larkspur Press

[ophelia-thinks]

Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars

#like why was farscape able to pull off homages like this with such fucking aplomb #when other SF shows do it and look like pandering cgi zombie vultures #it's because the homages were /part of it/! #when we get these visualizations of john's decaying brain they're set on stages like this one #because the scifi heroes that came before him are his guides #and the dark cosmic joke that premises the whole series is that #he's in a scifi universe that doesn't adhere to scifi logic #consequences carry over from one episode to the next #no federation comes to save you; alien women want to have sex with you in nightmares #no one speaks your language or follows your rules #there's no God no singularity no monolith #no true vision of the future #just some poor bastard hallucinating the 2001 louis xiv bedroom #'this is my world meat. you're just walking through it for a very long time.' #mankind's greatest contribution to the absurd

[supercool-here]

Watching the episode (94th) where the cuartel prompts Berta to get the surgical procedure to have a hot bod and it's Betty and Inesita the only ones having reasonable and smart takes as to why she shouldn't do it (and get the car her husband told her to get instead) but in the end she does get the procedure because insecurities and ego and vanity and coaxing and whatnot. And then they tell Betty how she's ingenuous for believing a man can love you no matter your looks. And then it's BETTY who ends up looking prettier without having undergone any surgeries, but most importantly, Armando, the womanizer who was always surrounded by models and who only chased the most beautiful women, falls in love with her, out of all the ordinary and even undeniably unattractive women he must have met in his lifetime.

#It's giving fairy tale and I love it #Cause you have this marginalized women who for one reason or another don't fit the beauty standards feeling resentment #But not going against the canon belief that to be valuable and loved you gotta be pretty and to win in life you need beauty #The same damning rule they are accepting of! #And then there is other women who do fit the beauty standards like Marcela or Patricia but they're mean and proud and rude and etc #And they are alone (at the end of the telenovela but I do love redemption) #And then there's Betty #The most marginalized and the most hurt of all the “ugly” women and men shown in the soap #And she is not perfect yes #But she is the one that never relied on her beauty or Social stratum for love or self accomplishment #Yes she believed herself ugly and yes she marginalized herself too and yes she believed that those with beauty and money belonged #To a totally different world she could never live in #But she never played by those rules #And she never believed it fair #And for as hard as it was she always believed love should not depend on the looks of people #And when she had the beauty (and the money or at least the social recognition) she did not rely on them #She didn't become proud and didn't start despising her friends #Goodness #Ysblf #yo soy betty la fea

[dramarants]

binged 14 eps of my dearest in one sitting. jang hyun the man that you are, the love you've grown to be capable of. gil chae the love that you are capable of, the woman you've grown to become.

#my dearest #stunned wrecked spellbound et cetera #and i mean love in all its forms #god the way every time janghyun confesses/asks her to stay he speaks calm and cooly #yet you can see it in his eyes and his words of humble but deep sincerity #every time he's offering her his bleeding broken heart with a plea to please be gentle please bring me to life please choose us #and she's so willful has been from the start; shunning society's rules but governed by her own strong values #in comes this misogamist (?) who shakes up her world to its core and watching her battle her pride her dignity her desires her livelihood #and god did she step up to the plate when it was do or die; choosing more and more selflessly trying to figure out what's right #all while living through unimaginable horrors #this show man... #also the women!!! the fucking women!!!! ❤️😩❤️😩❤️

[they-call-me-hippie]

Yeah I can tell people have lost their grasp on basic ongoing forms of oppression when they say things like "hatred of men and masculinity is one of the reasons trans women, BIPOC and Jewish men are persecuted" like what a non-sequiteur. Imagine being so ignorant of power structures in your attempt to """progressively""" defend men that you become transphobic

#Truly astounding. Your brain is empty read a book on transphobia instead. Acclimate yourself to that concept #Try moving on to misogyny next. You might learn things there! Like actual feminism! #Now for a real challenge: try out this wholly new intersection of oppressions called transmisogyny #And then Look Out To The World. See What It Has To Say About Men And The Preferred Gender To Rule #You know it would be funny how bad people have become in writing an argumentative text on here if it wasn't so sad to see #how they think writing assertively is all they need to make your point #People online will posit any observation as an immutable fact of reality when it’s just their misconceptions contributing to a flawed view #of the world #Even if it would be quickly deconstructed by actual theoretical frameworks like feminism 101 and intersectionalism and privilege theory #They don't even know they don't know. What a Dunning-Kruger effect. It's become Plato's cave in here #Anyways you might see that post out in the wild. Exciting! #Also how would that first point even apply. Literally the only ones who might fit in are transphobic women but then you might notice #It's not the man-hate that's directly responsible for the transphobia! #Now I'm not a fan of negative feminism posting more than anyone else but if I have to keep seeing that garbage you'll have to keep hearing #me insult this. The least it deserves after making me mad Online

[tonyglowheart]

reading thru old meta posts on qian qiu and there's like, some stuff I agree with sure but there's also a lot I don't lol. w like yan wushi especially. there's a lot of. I think too much conventional-mindedness in approaching yws even from the ppl who did like him as a character. saying he's a difficult character, and is meant to be a difficult character, but then still framing him along more conventional moral frameworks. yet another apartment 'complex'? strange, I find it quite simple moments.

#qian qiu #yan wushi #sorry so many of you are still hung up over the *chapter 45* '''''betrayal''''' rip but i'm different #(though I wonder if I'd feel this way if ppl hadn't made such a big deal of it and so I was expecting The Betrayal to be like. worse lol) #like for me since I was expecting *a* betrayal when I hit it in chap 45 I was like. this is it? lmao I thought it was sth actually serious #and then ppl like I can't let it go or I can't get over him saying he doesn't regret it - like god forbid women do anything forreal #the thing about yan wushi is he is not just master-less he's also in many ways *peer*-less #and that's why to him he was so much on the 'what a shame you're like the one guy who maybe could have been my rival but you're not' #I think ppl see rival as like. could be my enemy. but it's like. someone has to be your peer to be your rival #and it's very much established that yan wushi even before his power level is like maxed up has this wild potential #there's that chap where sq reflects on what qfg said abt yws having the potential to be better than him #but also I think it's a huge mistake to see/think of yws as amoral #he HAS morals. they're just not the same as yours #he doesn't care about the greater good as a rule but he's also not completely indifferent to it #and like. I think it's also a simplification to say that 'sq breaks the rules of yws's world of human nature being inherently corrupt etc' #I think that's a belief that yws holds about human nature but I think he's also like. smarter than to believe in absolutes? #and besides. to say it that way I think frames it as if yws is in denial about sq's existence and nature #I just don't get that sense from him - imo he sees sq as more of a curiosity than a like aberration #he's testing sq's bottom line not necessarily bc he's convinced sq is secretly evil but he because he wants to see what sq's bottom line is #and he wants to know that because sq's nature is so different than his own or those he generally encounters and understands from people #he's squishing sq like a dog with a chew toy not because he wants to destroy it but because he wants to see exactly what kind of noises #he can get out of it and exactly how far he can squish it before it starts being too much #(but also I think bc he sees sq's potential to be on his level and wants to see if that can get teased out) #in a like... bonsai shaping kind of way #yes he's pruning the tree back and sometimes pruning & shaping quite hard #but as with the art of bonsai - it's an interactive dance and like only the tree can add material #and for all that you can prune & shape the tree you will never know exactly what the tree will do #SQ is also like a tree in the sense that like you have to prune to get read of dead growth & also encourage new growth #and SQ goes from that like houseplant side of the meme that's like i'm allergic to tapwater #to flourishing under the adversity and the 'i can eat thru concrete'

[neroraven]

just finished Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#god he's such a MALE writer #can't believe people actually like this book #like I enjoyed some sideplots and characters but the overall thesis of the novel is just... #fyodor be like #dimitri is a hedonist like his father and a piece of shit but the poor babyboy gets sent to jail when innocent boo hoo #ivan is an atheist and a western influence of liberalism so fvck him he's the murderer and the devil actually #and ofc alyosha the orthodox christian who is THE MOST PASSIVE CHARACTER WHO DOESN'T KNOW SHIT AND DOESN'T DO SHIT IS THE BEST BOY EVER #it's almost like a celebration of nativity and ignorance and a condemnation of knowledge #god #fvck this book #and I can't even start to talk about the way he write women #he really was like all the women are insufferable femme fatals and all the mothers are dead and also women have to cure men of their demons #at least we can read it as a perfect portrait of the horrendous world men create #suffer under its rules and terrors #and then cry about their suffering whose sole authors are men themselves #the only character who interested me was ivan but fyodor thinks of him as the devil of the novel so there is that #and i suffer #brothers karamazov #fyodor dostoyevsky #m

[love-and-ejoy]

“He’s a 10, but...”: Pharmacy Edition!

-He’s a 10 but he asks why it takes you so long to pour some pills in a bottle and slap a label on it

-He’s a 10 but when you tell him that you’ve sent a request already and that he should call his doctor, he says, “Isn’t that your job?”

-He’s a 10 but he insists that you don’t know what you’re talking about, the doctor prescribed it, of course he needs this medication, remove the prior auth immediately!

-He’s a 10 but it’s your fault, personally, that his doctor didn’t give him more refills.

-He’s a 10 but “The doctor said it would be ready when I got here!”

-He’s a 10 but the computer is lying and he’s never ever had a copay in his life and he’s calling corporate when he gets home. No don’t put the Xanax back he needs it.

-He’s a 10 but can you ring his entire cart up with 29 coupons and a complaint already formed for the front end manager

-He's a 10 but if you whisper the word tadalafil behind a paper while nobody else is in a 25 mile radius, the entire country will know he's taking Viagra, how could you be so insensitive

-He’s a 10 but [excruciatingly loud truck noises in the drive thru but refuses to pick up the phone to talk]

-He’s a 10 but “How do you spell that?” “J-O-H-N Szierbajeck”

-He’s a 10 but he swears a coupon card is cheaper than his insurance.

-He’s a 10 but “fill my entire profile”

-He’s a 10 but “no no don’t run through the errors just get me whatever’s ready” “Where is med, med, med, and med? How was I supposed to know there were errors?!”

-He’s a 10 but the concept of offering vaccines to consenting adults who make their own decisions is obviously a crime against humanity

-He’s a 10 but obviously the pharmacist is absolutely overjoyed to not be able to fill his prescription and, despite pharmacist trying for over 2 hours to get authorization, pharmacist must be withholding his medications.

-He’s a 10 but the concept of time is a social construct and therefore he needs a refill of her controlled medications

~~~

#this is not gender specific though #literally all of these have happened with both men and women #besides the Viagra of course! #Some of the more tame ones aren't the end of the world for us #We don't hate you for asking about a coupon card for example #But please trust us when we say [generic coupon card] will not beat your insurance's $1.30 copay #Also we don't mind trying to help you get your controlleds! Sometimes I hear people super apologetic for asking #If you're polite and understanding of when we can't do something you're just fine #this trend has always been super funny to me #feel free to add more lol #pharmacy #pharmacy tech #retail pharmacy #tales from retail pharamacy #he's a 10 but #work #work stories #tw vaccine discourse? #only thing i can think of #honestly i know some people are opinionated but i really dont mind people not wanting to get a certain vaccine if they adhere to the rules #like okay you're an adult that makes their own decisions #if you make the decision not to get your flu shot or booster shot that's on you #but the minute you try and make ME feel a certain way or endanger MY customers #nope. you're out #you make decisions for yourself fully knowing that mask rules or travel restrictions or whatever else will apply to you #you dont want it? ok. say no #unless you're looking for input or advice don't tell us your life story please #rant #vent #after work vent

[minglana]

what in the. LMAO

#went (torrented) the b*rbie movie. girl what was that even lol. #makes a world where barbies aka women 'rule'. which then gets translated into the misogyny of the real world -> #'lets take things back to how they were' when patriarchy gets established in barbieland. meaning you think the system was good. #the system that you equated to patriarchy...... lichrally what👁👁 #also the allan doll just kinda....... it gave me vibes of 'they tried to include nb rep' but like...... they just didnt adress it at all id #bc he didnt fit into either barbies or kens yknow. idk i just wanted to see how bad it was gonna be in comparison to how much its been hype #and as expected it didnt live up to the standards. such a shame i have to put it in my 'movies watched' spreadsheet honestly #it wasnt worth it. thank god i didnt go to the cinema for it or pay for it lmao #xarraire

[bubonicpain]

Bad news lads.... i didn't like the Barbie movie.

I'm gonna rant about my take in the tags please don't send me messages for why I'm wrong this was my personal take away if you don't like it and it makes you mad please just block me.

#my heart is broken #i was so excited so hype i thought i was gonna love it #i thought all the reports being like ''they says they hate men'' were anti feminist reactions #but no this movie is misandrist as fuck #the moral really is ''oh well men rule the real world so women deserve to rule this world and the kens can fuck off and get over it'' #when the kens were literally never oppressors #even when they got patriarchy its presented as a disease they caught not as genuinely having power and using it against a vulnerable group #the kens don't get a happy ending the barbies dont have Anything change except one of them is gone now cause she decided she wanted a pussy #barbie spoilers #weird barbie was fun #we didn't get enough of the discontinued barbies #they tried to half ass a conclusion for ken by setting him free of his romantic pining and giving him permission to just be ken but like #he's still homeless #he's still unskilled #he still lives in a world where he isn't accepted anywhere and is hated everywhere just because he's a ken #''actually inequality is good when we do it but we should be kinda nice to them too so they don't try to revolt again i guess'' #i really liked the aesthetic i really liked the acting i really really love the inclusion of the real stuff #as in the Barbie things like the outfits by name and the specific barbies from specific lines #this movie was fine if you want to turn your brain off and watch someting pink its great #i did enjoy myself #i will be getting it and watching it again #again please don't send me anything explaining why you disagree #this is only so i could get my thoughts out there so i can hopefully think about them less #but i dont want a discussion people are allowed to disagree

[casgirldykery4ever]

to add on to that earlier post please know us movie theater employees are suffering even at the hands of our coworkers who didn't understand the barbie movie and are now saying that empowering girls is the woke agenda and they're trying to make kens into incels? to my face I genuinely feel like my brain is melting attempting to get this guy to stop talking to me

#he told my friend that men are needed more than women and the only part of the movie he paid attention to was when men ruled the world #AND WE HAVE A BIRTHDAY PARTY and they want 8 pizzas I can't get a break

[aerithisms]

people constantly lament all the cut and altered plot lines from game of thrones the show and they're right but i think one of its worst sins was omitting cersei's gender swag

#blahs #asoiaf lb #when she's delighted that there's a ship named after her father bc now he'll be demeaned by being referred to with she/her pronouns #there's a lot of women in this series with fraught relationships to womanhood but cersei is so uniquely resentful of it #she hates being a woman because she is a misogynist #she mentally copes with the gendered violence she faces by saying well this is actually unjust because i am Not The Same as other women #i am lord tywin's true firstborn son i am his heir i deserve to rule but all other women are whores #her hatred for sansa and margaery... her hatred for herself in the mirror bc she refuses to acknowledge that she is like them at all.... #she is doing olympic level mental gymnastics 24/7 to justify the world and her place in it to herself her pov is so delicious

[trustherkindheart]

I'm sorry TWENTY-TWO minutes of added time???? In a world cup qualifier??? With a player stretchered off the field in the twenty second added minute???

AND a red card to a goalie resulting in the dreaded field player stepping in to keep scenario???

#woso #cameroon v thailand #wwc #womens world cup qualifiers #intercontinental playoff #im all for following the rules ref #but sometimes you gotta know when to call a game