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i hate the end of the semester so much! every day im like “ok honey u need to do x y and z or u will nearly fail all ur classes” and then when it comes down to it i’m watching 5 hours of youtube makeup tutorials
Bff’s from the beginning.
that baby is making biscuits on that cat. what a role reversal.
Omg!!!!
“top-top“ (she stands with her front paws on my shoes and walk with me), view from above :D
photo: Irina Mazaeva
At Target this lady told her son he couldn’t have a Wonder Woman doll because “that’s for girls” and then bought her daughter the same one. It got me thinking about how often I see people bar young boys from appreciating girls/women as protagonists and heroes, and my own experience with it as a kid.
All. Of. This.
Men’s incapability to admire women as people is a learned behavior.
Girls are also taught that girls = bad. My eight year old niece is constantly sneering about dresses and girls who wear them, and it’s more than just she herself doesn’t like dresses, it’s that she has been taught that femininity is degrading, that dolls are for idiots, that dresses are stupid and so on.
People believe they are rallying against the patriarchy when they scoff at women who enjoy make up and beautiful clothes, that these women have been brainwashed by the patriarchy into enjoying putting time and effort into their appearance, which is a patronising and dismissive attitude that is ingrained in children from a young age. Like a woman couldn’t possible know what is best for herself or what sparks the most joy in her. Nope. She’s brainwashed.
People force dolls and dresses and traditionally feminine pastimes and hobbies onto little girls while also telling little girls that dolls and dresses and traditionally feminine pastimes are degrading and ridiculous. There is still a prevalent attitude that femininity = bad, brainwashed, stupid while masculinity = good, smart, not a waste of time.
We are all conditioned from an early age that femininity is a trap, a trick pulled over on us by the patriarchy, or that femininity is something not to aspire too, like in the case of young boys liking girl characters. We’ve been tricked into thinking that feminism is to deny our femininity, and that’s not feminism. Feminism is not about shaming women into not being feminine because apparently if they engage in traditionally feminine practices it’s the patriarchy brainwashing them; it’s about letting women and all people explore with their femininity and their masculinity and come to decisions about which one or what mixture of the two brings them the most joy.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. I also notice that with female heros who wear skirts instead of pants are automatically deemed less respectable and more sexist. Like skirts don’t automatically mean sexism. I like wearing clothes that show off my figure. It’s okay not to like dresses but what isn’t okay is to put down girls that do love them. It’s okay to take pride in your appearance.
