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#jkr

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chappell roan, "red wine supernova"

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Cosmetic surgery is not “cosmetic,” and human flesh is not “plastic.” Even the names trivialize what it is. It’s not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons’ language when they speak to women: “a nip,” a “tummy tuck.” Rees writes, describing a second-degree acid burn over the face: “Remember when you were in school and you skinned your knee and a scab formed?” This baby talk falsifies reality. Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body.

— Naomi Wolf (1990) The Beauty Myth

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#the opabiniic method #jkr

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Derry Girls (2018-2022) Season 1 | Episode 6

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2015.

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‘I was never really a girl because I had short hair!!’

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#sticker inspo

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#i first found this via helen lewis' newsletter #and she said something like 'seeing this coming from a leftist voice like this means the vibe seems to be shifting'

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#cass review

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tumblr should let me use LaTeX commands so i can inflict mathematics onto people directly like boo! euler-lagrange equation upon ye

#i used to be on a harry potter forum that introduced LaTeX #to the delight of me and about two other people

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When we see a terf we block and don’t engage. In theory that’s great - leaves them without an audience, saves us from accidentally helping them recruit.

In practice things are less than optimal. You see some feminism 101 take like “bitch is a slur” and your hackles go up. Go on OP’s blog and there’s a bunch of posts about women’s rights. That could be a red flag - I don’t have all day to vet this person. Better not reblog, just to be safe.

What is the effect on the tumblr ecosystem? Feminist posts with any teeth at all can never go viral in this atmosphere! Any discussion of surrogacy more nuanced than “it is an individual choice” will get no engagement; only the most milquetoast sentiments can prevail.

I don’t have a solution. I just want to point out that the atmosphere of (justified) paranoia has set feminism on this website back 20 years.

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Also, on the topic of drag queens - they prance around dressed as women, but the money they earn from it doesn’t actually benefit they women they imitate in any way. Look at the famous drag queens - who do they employ as assistants? Men. Who do they buy their costumes from? Men. Who do they hire as backing dancers? Men. Violet Chachki created a digital show over lockdown with credits a minute long and there wasn’t a single woman involved. He didn’t hire a female choreographer or a female camera person or even a female coffee-getter.

They’re men, they’re male oriented, and they have male class consciousness.

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(From seventeen magazine)

Our youth deserve so much better than this trans cult nonsense. The queer one especially breaks my heart.

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"The infrastructural properties of the Folkhemmet are often taken for granted, and not in need of protection. Yet, the public values of openness, affordability of connection and universal access to infrastructure can make societies susceptible to developments that not only undermine public values, but can create  problems that we are not prepared to handle. While Big Tech leverages existing public infrastructures, the promises of progress might turn out to be limiting of local development. If we do not take this seriously, tomorrow we might not have lost only public values of the welfare state, but also access to much of the basic infrastructures which we rely on – like electricity, local economies and the trust in our own institutions."