Author: peasantchick

If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in
sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. (…) 

There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments.

Ruth Hubbard, The Political Nature of “Human Nature” (via philosophy-lesbian)
Source: philo-sophi-a

Cars Fanfic Author Problems:

dubvictor:

musicalhell:

havahnagilah:

pixelthenerdcat:

  • “Wait a minute can they even do this they’re freaking cars”
  • You start to write something about ears or hands and then you remember like “…oh wait-”
  • getting anxious about putting human food in a scene so you just say oil to make it less conflicting
  • C A R  H U G S …
  • “THEY’VE GESTURED WITH THEIR TIRES LIKE TEN TIMES ALREADY DO SOMETHING ELSE YOU STUPID VEHICLES LIKE I LOVE YOU BUT PLEASE MAKE IT EASIER FOR ME”
  • unsure about how to make a scene more dynamic cause the characters can really only just sit there talking to each other
  • “IS. LIGHTNING. MCQUEEN. OOC. I SWEAR HE’S OOC IN THIS SCENE”
  • Or, alternatively: “IS ANYONE IN-CHARACTER IN THIS SCENE OH GOD I DON’T KNOW THIS SERIES AT ALL DO I I’M HORRIBLE”
  • “wait do they even have windshield wipers”
  • “how far can they stretch their axles out like arms omg this must read so awkward”
  • when you have to write Mater’s dialogue and you start  to say it out loud in the Larry the Cable Guy voice cause good God how do you write that voice properly (i.e. occasional horrid grammar and/or catchphrases)
  • *incoherent screaming about car anatomy*
  • “Okay would McQueen really cry here no he’d hold it in- but wait a second wouldn’t it be more powerful if he broke down here- alright listen up here-”
  • “OKAY IS IT THE ENGINE OR THE BATTERY THAT’S THE HEART I’M SO CONFUSED AND I’M THE ONE WRITING IT”

i’ve never been more baffled by any single post on this website and i’ve been here for four years

Cars fanfic is a thing which I both somehow knew must exist and at the same time was perfectly happy never acknowledging the existence of.

content-wise, this is the least relatable post i’ve seen in weeks

and yet somehow i feel like i ghostwrote it because op’s frustration at writing is universal

thewickedandthehufflepuff:

listen either finn is gonna get w/ rey (interracial couple in a prominent film franchise, still relatively uncommon in modern media) or finn is gonna get w/ rose (interracial couple consisting of two people of color in a prominent film franchise, even LESS common in modern media) or finn is gonna get w/ poe (interracial QUEER couple consisting of two men of color in a prominent film franchise, unquestionably groundbreaking) so like, no matter who finn winds up with romantically, it’s all good, it’s all important from a representation standpoint, u can all have ur ship wars but i am excited to see who our lord and savior finn chooses and will support him no matter what

f1rstperson:

letsmoveourbootybutts:

letsmoveourbootybutts:

Wouldn’t it be cool if lgbp aces & aros were acknowledged by the community we’re ostensibly supposed to be a part of as more than rhetorical devices/weapons to bring out against the Her Ace/Aro invasion

Like remember when lgbp aces were talking about how over sexualized and therefore inaccessible a lot of safe spaces were and were told they were homophobic and disrespecting their own history

Remember when aro lgbp people were told that their very existence is the cause of nonstraight people being oversexualized

I’m exhausted and tired

I made exactly this post months ago and I can’t tell you how mad I’m getting that lgbp aces and aros are still having to point this out. All these people were nowhere to be found when people were saying bi aro women are responsible for the hypersexualization of bi women. That argument has shown up again with plenty of ace/aro groups, and no one says a word. Non-ace/non-aro people just fucking disperse when it comes to actually defending us, but want points for taking ten seconds out of ignoring our existence to shit on a specific group of ace/aro people. 

Fake “Radical Feminist” group actually paid political front for anti-LGBT James Dobson organization

golbatgender:

“The anti-LGBT Religious Right has been actively synchronizing their message with and adopting the terminology of anti-transgender feminist academics for a few years now. The goal is to divorce their position from the stodgy backwards-seeming prudish views that they believe lost them the culture war on gay marriage and adopt a language and message that will more easily infiltrate and divide progressive circles.”

Fake “Radical Feminist” group actually paid political front for anti-LGBT James Dobson organization

golbatgender:

Seriously though when aphobes say cake jokes are cringy or that we “stole” dragons, they’re trying to make it so a-specs feel like we can’t or shouldn’t have light-hearted representations of ourselves. And then they say that more serious positivity is “discourse.” If we play by their rules, we don’t get anything positive at all. If we play by their rules, the only context we or anyone else sees us in is “debates” about whether we have any right to exist.

We’re people, dammit. We’re not invaders or boogeymen or evil “apologists” or whatever the propaganda of the day says. We get to make jokes and be nice to each other and eat desserts and do fun things. We get to be happy or cute and present ourselves as such, if we want, because we are, we’re allowed to be that, we’re not bad, we’re not some horrific danger that has to agree to a muzzle to be let into anything and we should resist attempts to portray us as such.

We exist. We are people. We are allowed to be people. I’m going to take my cake and ice cream and dragons and words and I’m going to be happy and queer and you can’t stop me.

when i google “same gender attraction” i get a fuckton of conversion therapy and mormons, when i google “lgbt” i get wikipedia followed immediately by local community and legal resources. ~*~wonder which one i’d prefer a questioning teen to google hmmm i just dont know~*~

and even if we got rid of all the mormon sites, there’s just not that many resources that use the term because it still barely exists outside of Discourse.

and it’s infinitely less helpful than every other words you could use. like MLM and WLW which are completely full of positivity and resources! it’s not as if we ran out of words and conversion therapy terms are all we have left!

and on tumblr SGA is still a Stargate Atlantis tag? they haven’t been able to crowd out a 10 year old fandom but we still have to keep whipping this dead horse

myragewillendworlds:

transguyconservative:

a-gay-angry-transman:

If you think 12 year olds are too young for tattoos but can decide on hormone therapy, there is something wrong with you.

^^^^^

If you think a picture on your body for cosmetic reasons and life-saving medication for a serious medical condition are in any way comparable, there is something wrong with you.

Furthermore, no 12 year old goes on hormone therapy. They go on puberty blockers once puberty kicks in, which does nothing more than delay puberty and has been found by studies to be safe, extremely helpful to transgender children, and completely reversible should the child not go through with transition. It buys them time so they can make the decision once they’re older.

When you advocate against transgender teenagers going on puberty blockers, you advocate for more transgender teen suicides.

These are necessary and often live-saving treatments for very distressing medical conditions. Stop comparing them to something as unnecessary as fucking tattoos.