Madelyn, 24, she/her, trans lesbian, rest in peace to my formerly app-crashingly long bio, I think it's been breaking my blog appearance so I had to change it.
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chimpanzeedotcom:

The peaceful one: I think killing people is bad actyally

The gleeful slaughterer: :3c

welovethesedogs:

welovethesedogs:

cats are NOT making biscuits you DO NOT knead biscuit dough or else it will be TOUGH they are making BAGELS or perhaps a SANDWICH LOAF

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Anonymous asked:

What’s your favorite food

were–ralph:

were–ralph:

were–ralph:

were--ralph:

Lasagna

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something is severely wrong with this website

this is one of those times where tumblr genuinely caught me off guard and i don’t have a witty response

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I have had enough!!!

kintatsujo:

thejanestofdoes:

evolution-incarnate:

deafmic:

deafmic:

SOMEONE STOLE A FUCKING SHARK FROM MY CITY’S AQUARIUM

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you better sit down for this

they caught it with a net and wheeled it out of the aquarium in a baby carriage

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i see the resemblance 

https://www.ksat.com/news/trio-steals-shark-from-san-antonio-aquarium-by-disguising-it-as-a-baby_

It seems the shark was returned, so yay there.

“The individual obviously had some knowledge on how to deal with these types of animals, we said that from the very beginning, otherwise why take it? And when we got into the garage and into the house, it looked like almost a mockup of (the aquarium),” Salvaggio said. “He had a lot of different marine animals in the home. (He) very much knew what he was doing – kept that animal alive and was able to continue to see that animal thrive which was pretty shocking to all of us.”

this is

is this what Team Rocket would look like in real life

genderkoolaid:

genderkoolaid:

So I read this interesting post from the MensLib subreddit, about how men’s issues are always blamed on men themselves and never on society. The post itself as well as the comments are a very good read in digging in to antimasculism & the ways in which feminism has failed to critically examine men’s suffering under the patriarchy. For example (all bolding by me):

Here again, the problems predominantly affecting women are addressed by changing society, while those predominantly affecting men are addressed by changing men (or by telling men to change themselves). The difference is not that one approach is right and the other wrong; they are both ‘right’ in the sense that they highlight genuine issues, but the approach to men’s problems is more superficial. When dealing with men’s problems, we focus on the immediate cause, which is usually the men’s failure to cope with mental strain (“he should have gone to therapy”, “he should have learned to open up more”); in contrast, when dealing with women’s problems, we focus on “the cause of the cause”, and try to remove the systemic social issues causing the mental strain, rather than telling the victims what they should have done to better cope with it.

I think this is a great point, and something we really need to tackle. OP also goes on to talk about self-repression, comparing girls avoiding sexual harassment and boys avoiding bullying:

Boys (and men) are notorious for repressing their emotions. They have a good reason: in boys’ peer groups, a failure to control your emotions is almost as shameful as a failure to control your bladder; it is a sign of weakness, and any sign of weakness makes you a target for bullying and ridicule. So boys learn to wear a permanent mask of aloof toughness to avoid inadvertently revealing any sign of weakness or uncontrolled emotion, and many keep this habit into adulthood. It is generally well recognized that suppressing emotions is unhealthy in the long run, but it seems to me that the commonly proposed antidote is misguided: boys (or men) are told to “just open up more and be vulnerable” or to “learn how to cry”, as if their reluctance to show emotions were some kind of irrational emotion-phobia, rather than a perfectly reasonable, perhaps even necessary, defense against the ridicule, contempt and loss of respect that society inflicts upon those who can’t keep their emotions in check in the proper “manly” way.

It’s something we don’t really question in mainstream feminism. Women’s issues have a societal root, and men’s issues are issues that men put on themselves, and therefore men just need to fix it themselves and change.

And while yes, we all have a responsibility to unlearn harmful societal teachings, just saying “men need to fix their shit” doesn’t help anyone. I’ve been annoyed for a while at how people will react to men suffering under the patriarchy with “UGH they need to go to therapy”, as if

  1. Needing therapy is a sign of failure or a bad thing, and someone not going to therapy when they need to is them being an asshole on purpose and not potentially a sign of them not feeling safe enough to go to therapy, feeling too ashamed, not having enough money or time, etc.
  2. Individual men getting individual therapy will solve the societal problems of forcing boys and men to repress their emotions and view themselves as only valuable if they can perform manual labor and have a lot of sex with women. It’s a problem that is only perpetuated by men themselves and if they just stopped doing that, then the problem would disappear.

No self-respecting feminist would ever react to a woman obviously suffering from the patriarchy with “ugh, she needs to go to therapy and fix herself.” Yes, therapy would be helpful most likely, but that’s not going to actually fix the underlying cause of her issues. So why do we, as feminists, think that “men just need to fix themselves” is an okay response to societal suffering under the patriarchy?

Who does this help? Who benefits from us ignoring these issues? Why do we assume that men’s experiences under the patriarchy are so one-dimensional and that we have no responsibility for unlearning our societal biases around men and masculinity?

Someone in the comments also added this quote from the “perpetually relevant” I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out essay by Jen Coates:

Have you noticed, when a product is marketed in an unnecessarily gendered way, that the blame shifts depending on the gender? That a pink pen made “for women” is (and this is, of course, true) the work of idiotic cynical marketing people trying insultingly to pander to what they imagine women want? But when they make yogurt “for men” it is suddenly about how hilarious and fragile masculinity is — how men can’t eat yogurt unless their poor widdle bwains can be sure it doesn’t make them gay? #MasculinitySoFragile is aimed, with smug malice, at men—not marketers.

And then another commenter left this (and referenced bell hooks’ work on men!!):

“Do you agree that we tend to approach women’s problems as systemic issues, and men’s problems as personal issues?”

Yes, and there’s even a name for this: Hyperagency. Individual men are assumed to be immune to systemic pressures because the people at the top of the hierarchies generating those pressures are also men.

“And if you do agree with that, do you think this difference in approach is justified, or do you rather think it is a case of an unfair bias?”

It’s pretty clearly not rooted in reality. The idea that billions of ordinary men aren’t beholden to the social constructs under which they were raised is just plain silly. I’d blame the empathy gap, but honestly I feel like it’s more than that.

Patriarchy hyper-individualizes every struggle a man faces as a way to shield itself from critique and gaslight ordinary men. The motivations there are readily apparent. However, we see the same blind spot appear even in more academic Feminist spaces (taking for granted that “Feminist” spaces on social media are hardly representative of the cutting edge of Feminist thought). bell hooks once postulated that some Feminist women are deeply afraid of acknowledging how little they understand about men, let alone taking the steps to broach that gap.

Another person explained hyperagency by saying “Every single individual man is a hyper agent who is just expected to bootstrap his way out of the patriarchy through sheer force of will.”

If you are interested in antimasculism as a concept I think this is a necessary concept to learn about. You can see in a lot of little ways how we expect hyperagency of men & look down on men who “fail”, and how men’s issues are often either attributed to their own failings, or individual men are treated as though they have far more influence over the patriarchal system than is reasonable (i.e “well the patriarchy benefits men, therefore if men are suffering because of it they should simply make the patriarchy go away, it’s their own fault” rather than seeking solidarity with them)

sergeant-angels-trashcan:

404-son-of-a-shepherd-not-found:

keyhollow:

lirisa:

vampiregirl2345:

Vegans of tumblr, listen up. Harvesting agave in the quantities required so you dont have to eat honey is killing mexican long-nosed bats. They feed off the nectar and pollinate the plants. They need the agave. You want to help the environment? Go back to honey. Your liver and thyroid will thank you, as well. Agave is 90% fructose, which can cause a host of issues. Bye.

So let me get this straight ,vegans should stop eating the food of the Mexcian long-nosed bats, because the bats need it, and instead vegans should instead eat honey, the food of bees, that their larvae need, even though the bee populations are facing ecological issues as it stands. 

10/10 post, dude.

Did you forget the whole part where only excess is taken and all their needs are met and then some orrrr?

Like, did you read it orrrrr?

Anyway, BUY HONEY SAVE BEES

It is a 10/10 post. Because OP is right.

Bees do not suffer when beekeepers take their honey, because experienced beekeepers do not take all of their honey, in fact, they leave plenty of honey left for the bees to consume over the winter. If we do not collect their honey, 1 of two things will happen.

1. they will leave for a bigger home. Which at first seems fine until you remember that bees are dying very quickly out in the wild.

or

2. They will start using the areas that they reserve for their young as a place to make more honey. This is bad because if no more young are being produced, then the hive will start to die out because no new workers are coming into the world, and the average live only 150 days, so it would also mean the loss of more bees.

So yeah, eating honey isn’t inhumane at all. In fact, you’re helping the bees by eating what they produce and giving money to the bee keepers who are the ones making sure that the hive will keep being healthy.

LOUDER FOR THE VEGANS IN THE BACK: use honey, not agave! Bees need your support and other animals need agave! Using honey means more bees!!

odinsblog:

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So George Soros dumped all of his Tesla stock, and the first thing Elon Musk does is start whining and boosting the posts of other white nationalists.

👉🏿 https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/george-soros-fund-dumps-entire-stake-tesla-elon-musk-2023-5

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Weird how Elon Musk, the white South African billionaire who got his start from exploitative emerald mines, keeps amplifying the tweets of antisemites and anti-Black racists, huh?

Anyway, one thing that enduring Donald Trump for four years has taught me: whenever Elon starts making waves on Twitter, we should always start looking for whatever it is that he’s really trying to distract us from.

For example:

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The U.S. territory asked Manhattan federal court Judge Jed Rakoff in the filing to allow it to serve Musk with the subpoena with Tesla’s registered agent.

That subpoena demands Musk turn over any documents showing communication involving him, JPMorgan and Epstein, as well as “all Documents reflecting or regarding Epstein’s involvement in human trafficking and/or his procurement of girls or women for consensual sex.”

👉🏿 https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/15/us-virgin-islands-issued-subpoena-to-elon-musk-in-jeffrey-epstein-case.html

fpider:

of-f-course:

beingcuteismything:

metalheadsforblacklivesmatter:

“But only 2% of the population is intersex. It’s not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?”

Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?

2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that’s so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.

0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That’s an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!

1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that’s considered a common condition.

0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that’s considered common.

1.2% of people have epilepsy and that’s considered common.

Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.

I don’t think you realize how big 2% is. That’s 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn’t even know it.

So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.

-fae

Good tags for conceptualizing how much 2% is

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Doesn’t matter if it was 2 or 0.2 or0.02 or 0.002. If even 1 person is present, we make comfortable room for them.

this last reblog! but I also just wanna like. talk about how much 1% of the world population actually is.

we’re 8 billion, roughly. 8,000,000,000, written out. 1% of that is 80 million. You know what’s also pretty exactly 1% of the population? the population of Germany. 2% is roughly the population of Bangladesh, which on the wikipedia list of sovereign countries and dependencies by population is number 8 of 195. Germany is number 19 with 1%. (link)

you could fill most countries with 1% of the population, let alone 2%. The US has around 4%, and on that wikipedia list it’s the 3rd most populous country.

1% of the population is not just medically common, it’s also generally a lot because the sample size is fucking massive. even 0.5% of the population is still 40 million people. 0.25% is 20 million. and so on.

a whole lot of articles and people talk in percentages like “only 2% of the population”, with no mention of the 8 billion sample size, purposefully to make people like intersex people, trans people and others seem like a neglectable amount.

(ETA: ofc no amount of person is neglectable, but you get my point)

anarcho-skamunist:

anarcho-skamunist:

You would think that the biggest risk of trying out something new is that you won’t like it, but it’s when it’s so good it raises your standards where the real problems start

“out of provolone? How am I supposed to eat a sandwich without provolone?” - girl who put provolone on her sandwich for the first time this week

bethdehart:

Mousegirl May Day 15: Hide

Turn into a mouse girl to avoid your problems.

[ID: A sketch of a mousegirl peeking out from under a brown wizard’s hat. She has brown fur with dark orange hair. Her paws and tail are pink, and she’s wearing a white button up shirt and red skirt.]

miiilowo:

fullmetalfisting:

abandonedambition:

you know what? I WILL play with jpgs like dolls. what if life could be dream

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…. For now

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theyare friends. :)

rainy-deer:

tuesday again 🐗🐗🐗

wigreveal:

t3sticles:

123472oodkkxkxkx-deactivated202:

m310drama:

123472oodkkxkxkx-deactivated202:

me telling a lie

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Jarec Wentworth, a straight man well-known for not wrecking men’s walls

wait didn’t he go to jail?

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Nothing bad, he extorted a republican donor out of a fuck ton of money lol

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beetlebrownleaf:

spaceshipsandpurpledrank:

Yes! The whole point was they were just kids. They were kids behaving like kids. So Juliet is easily swayed and Romeo is a fickle teenager who falls in “love” at the drop of a hat. The point is that if their families weren’t sworn enemies, this probably would have played out very melodramatically with tears and teenage heartbreak. But no one would have died. The point was that this family feud took your average teenage love affair and made it into a big tragic mess. What would have been just a bad breakup for the both of them to get over in a couple weeks became a secret marriage and tragic deaths instead.