just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog
oh hey!! I’m not a janky radfem I can do it myself!
makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a “lazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. you’re supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and that’s uuuuuuh what’s the word? bullshit.
Official graveyard post
stop telling people I’m dead
That “cringe” nonbinary xenogender genderfuck therian who uses neopronouns and may or may not go on HRT while being loudly, proudly themselves will always be more revolutionary and subversive than a binary trans person who aggressively reproduces the cis status quo and shames anyone who doesn’t do the same.
By the way, I threw “therian” in here as a bit of a litmus test for those responding to it as something widely regarded as “cringe” but ultimately completely harmless and benign that’s often maligned by people with conservative beliefs. And well. It did its job quite amazingly given how many of the negative responses I’ve seen have focused on that rather than the overall message of shaming people for their identities is bad and counterproductive. It’s almost like these people view all of those stated identities this way but used the silly furry one as a “weak point” they’d get minimal pushback on to dismiss the very clear point of the post. Literally hilarious honestly
(getting a taste of my own medicine) actually this is okay. Is this what you guys have bene whining about? Jesus christ
One more for the collection. Book is Stars at Last by Jessica Jocelyn
Anonymous asked:
We need weight loss ads now more than ever. Trump has reinvigorated the Fat Liberation group. The obesity epidemic is at its highest point ever. We need weight loss ads now more than ever.
teaboot answered:
Seriously bruh, if you wanna make a case about nutritional defecits and the declining vitamin and mineral content in agricultural produce, the overall failure of public school physical education to provide any productive and meaningful instruction on personal health and correct methods of exercise, the ever-increasing cost of healthy foods, and the frankly shameful rate of child hunger and food waste all collectively contributing to poorer health in persons of ALL body types, I’m happy to play ball, but if the beginning and end of your platform is “there are more fat people than there used to be and being fat is bad so promoting eating disorders and drug abuse is good actually” then you are straight up wasting everyone’s time
“Uhhh but everyone was skinny in 1920 look at this "fat lady” who was in a freak show at the circus lol and look how average she would be now" do you have any idea how many vitamins and other supplements we have had to insert into the food and water supply to combat widespread malnutrition in the last several decades
You realize how many people had teeth rotting out of their heads before we put fluoride in drinking water
Jesus fucking christ, google “B12 defecit”
The population was skinnier because we were constantly on the precipice of dying from shit like low zinc, you absolute dingbat
People being ‘fatter’ than we used to be is a GOOD thing, combating genuine weight-related health issues with a constant barrage of image-critical ads and the promotion of eating disorders in scientifically proven to be harmful and ineffective bullshit, and the fact that thinness as a beauty standard has been pushed to such extremes as intentionally infecting oneself with viruses and parasites amd chemically and surgically-enforced starvation over the past several hundred years only proves that this is not a natural default but a heavily-reinforced and artificial standard
Hey also just from a biologic perspective “humans are naturally skinny” is incorrect. “There weren’t fat people in the past” is an absurd idea cultivated by modern beauty standards that focus on returning us to a “natural” but completely false ideal. If you want proof, there are groups of people alive right now who live the same way that our ancestors did. There are hunter-gather tribes in the Amazon, Africa, Australia, New Guinea, and probably lots of other places around the world, and if you look up pictures of them, they are not skinny toned supermodels. They look like regular people and encompass the same array of body types you’d see at a local supermarket.
Humans having variable metabolisms within the same population is not just normal, it’s fucking awesome. It’s one of the things that made us so adaptable and able to spread across the world. It is quite literally integral to our success as a species. If a drought hits in your small hunter-gatherer community and kills off all your prey, you know who’s going to survive? The people who metabolize fat slower and thus can survive longer without food. That’s why humans are fat sometimes. It’s insurance against uncertain futures.
(And, in fact, people who have immediate ancestors who went through periods of starvation are more like to hold onto fat. If you starve yourself to be skinny, your grandchildren are more likely to be overweight. Diet culture is directly linked to more people being fat. So. There. Source:)
some of yall online seem to think people who are pro sex work support it because we think sex work is Empowerment and Feminist Praxis or something. bitch nobody thinks sex work is empowering it's a goddamn job I just want the people doing it to be safe
what we're actually saying: "banning sex work is only going to make the abuse more rampant and punish any victims who try to get help. we need decriminalization, unions, and serious regulations"
what people are somehow hearing: "umm actually hot titties women is praxis for my dick"
so happy for anyone who finds the 'eat your vegetables' shit funny but oh my god its kind of unreal we live in a world where people act like caring about female characters is a burden and a chore. like oh my god...! and then people will laugh in your face when you say fandom has a misogyny problem
i've stated this previously but: ENOUGH WITH THE SKINNY SELKIES. NO!!!
LOOK AT THIS CREATURE!!!
YOU THINK ANYTHING COMING OUT OF THIS CREATURE IS GOING TO HAVE THE COMPOSITION OF A BALANCHINE BALLERINA???
NO
PUT ROLLS AND DOUBLE CHINS AND LOVEHANDLES ON SELKIE WOMEN OR SO HELP ME GOD
it took me over a month after getting them to finally frame and put them up, but BasilLingardStudio
🗣️UNDERSTANDS THE ASSIGNMENT🗣️
A cat is a machine that turns proteins into violence.
#Helios was declawed by his former owners so he doesn't just slap things he dislikes like most cats#he really only feels confident in hissing at them#Especially because a lot of the thing he doesn't like are bugs and those are sharp sometimes :(#Selene has figured this out and now when she hears him hiss she sprints over the kill the fuck out of the bug#Helios has learned she will do this so he'll hiss at stuff louder and louder until she hears him#A nervous old man and his emotional support homicidal maniac
tags by @gallusrostromegalus
I couldn't reblog without the tags because the context is hilarious
A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)
Yes, he is more than twice her size.
Yes, he is five times her age.
Yes, he cries like a big baby until she kills Unacceptable Scary Things (earwigs) for him.
I couldn't get these two and their dynamic out of my head, @gallusrostromegalus I doodled them (guessed on their collars)
OH MY GOD MY CATS HAVE FANART