you see this?
it’s called a razor
if you’re a girl, USE IT
your hairy legs and armpits aren’t cute okay
you’re not helping out for woman’s rights or anything
YOU’RE JUST MAKING YOURSELF LOOK NASTY
Or!
Women have been socialized to believe that they must remove hair for a number of reasons, primarily the following:
- hair is historically and Biblically associated with power; we as a patriarchal culture are obsessed with keeping hair on men (facial hair, Hair Club for Men, hair plugs, whatever) and keeping it off women. You say hair on women is nasty; why is it only hair on women? Women and men have the same pubic hair. We all grow it out of our follicles for the same reason. Why is it only gross on women?
- women’s bodies have been considered the property of men since the dawn of time, and therefore we have been held to a standard of beauty and attractiveness that is not determined by us but is instead determined by something called the male gaze, which is erases all sexualities and genders other than cisgender heterosexual men and assumes that women are performing for it.
- childlike women are considered less “threatening” and more “feminine” because they are naive, quiet, and rely on ~*adult men*~ to take care of them.
AND ALSO:
- there is a fallacy about pubic hair that it is dirty. It is not dirty. In fact, it’s there to keep your genitals cleaner. Pubic hair and armpit hair are also there to spread your pheromones around and make it easier for you to attract a mate.
- all mammals have hair. We’re mammals.
AND FINALLY:
- No one else’s body is your business. Ever. You want to shave? Go ahead! That’s totally your prerogative and if you’re more comfortable shaving, feel free. But given that pubic hair isn’t innately dirty, there’s no reason for anyone to remove it if they don’t want to.
You’re not sending out some edgy, hardcore message here. You’re just reinforcing what our culture wants you to reinforce. Before you pick up that razor again, think about why you want to shave. Is it just because our culture told you to? Why’d they tell you to? What’s the point?
Do what makes you comfortable and what makes you happy, and let others do the same.
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bah ha ha ha ha bless you
but why
is Zevran
white
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yknow what pertaining to that
why do a lot of women feel the need to point out “BREASTS DON’T WORK LIKE THAT” all the time
w-we know
nothing works “like that” it’s a cartoon
you are not losing potential dates because your tits conform to earth’s gravity please calm down
true, but
in certain situations
i think it can be said
that there is a line
and it has been crossed
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If studying-lgbtq-people inboxes you asking to take part in questions about LGBTQ people “to help her understand” DO NOT DO IT. It is Sophie M Herold, the girl from Germany who attacks LGBTQ people and outs them to others. She is transphobic, homophobic and one of the sickest people I know. And now she’s back with a cunning new plan to get you NAME, ADDRESS, BIRTH DATE, AND PHOTO.
This girl is dangerous, and for some reason is allowed to keep making new tumblr accounts. We’ve raised awareness before and it helped, so lets do it again before she puts another persons life in danger. She collects your information and gives it out to others, she has sent letters to peoples parents outing them, other people have gotten hurt because of her. Yes, hurt.
Even if we can’t stop her again, get this message out and stop others giving her information etc.
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“To me, Ser Loras being gay isn’t a big deal, and it shouldn’t be. It’s just, he’s fallen in love with this person and that’s the way it is… I don’t think it should be an issue whether you’re playing a gay character, a straight character, whatever, you’re just playing the truth of one character’s love for another. I think that’s what me and [Gethin Anthony] both just tried to do. We never really indulged in the fact that we were playing gay characters. We just really tried to play the truth of both of the characters’ love for each other…” —
Finn Jones on Loras Tyrell’s sexuality (x)
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Lololololololol
For Jonathon
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Blinded by your computer screen? -
Turning the brightness down doesn’t alleviate that, does it?
Recently, researchers have found evidence that suggests the colour temperature of one’s monitor can effect on your circadian rhythms, headaches, etc.
Obviously, it’s not a cureall, but it goes a long way to help. I’ve been using it for years, and it helps avoid headaches and other annoyances.
Here’s what f.lux has to say:
Ever notice how people texting at night have that eerie blue glow?
Or wake up ready to write down the Next Great Idea, and get blinded by your computer screen?
During the day, computer screens look good—they’re designed to look like the sun. But, at 9PM, 10PM, or 3AM, you probably shouldn’t be looking at the sun.
F.lux fixes this: it makes the color of your computer’s display adapt to the time of day, warm at night and like sunlight during the day.
It’s even possible that you’re staying up too late because of your computer. You could use f.lux because it makes you sleep better, or you could just use it just because it makes your computer look better.
It’s available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and iPhone/iPad.
GENIUS! maybe this will help my sleeping problems!
I’ve been using Flux since it came out and it really is the best thing. I used to get horrible migraines at night, even with the lights on. And honestly, I don’t even notice it is running anymore. Sometimes I’ll disable it for a moment just to see if it is doing anything and ajksflkajsfnlkjasdfb my eyes melt. So yeah, I can’t speak highly enough of Flux.
Interested in trying this and seeing if it’s adaptive to the fact that I’m nocturnal…
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“Female toplessness is legal in a lot of places in the US (although not where I live), and I’d be meeting the letter of the law with a couple of Band-aids. But I have a gut feeling that if I go anywhere that there are people—and particularly anywhere there are children—nobody’s going to be too happy about my Band-aids. The enforcement is social; women just don’t go around topless in the US.
It bothers me because it’s unequal, but it also bothers me in its implications: that my body is inherently sexual, and a man’s body isn’t. It feels like men are being viewed through the first-person lens of “it’s nice to feel the sun on my skin, and I don’t mean anything by it” and women are being viewed through the distinctly third-person lens of “it’s inappropriate for me, a heterosexual man, to see her sexy parts.” It ignores the experiences of people who are turned on by male chests and somehow manage to contain themselves when they see one.”
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The Pervocracy: My boobs want to be free. (via sexisnottheenemy)
I have no desire to go topless anywhere, but I thought this made good points about perspective, and about how female [identified?] bodies are considered inherently sexual even when nothing sexual is going on or implied.
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sometimes they go the extra mile and even use the clone tool to make it look like it was never there.
I can’t tell if you’re that desperate to say my shitty pic is something you drew or if my signature is just that godawful ugly that you have to remove it?
either way it’s a really annoying thing to find when browsing your tracked tags. I’m pretty damn “eh, whatever” about my artwork being used as wallpapers, icons, whatever so in those cases it is going to get cropped- big deal since that’s being cropped for the sake of personal use (and we’ve all used pictures we didn’t draw as icons and wallpapers) but when you re-post the full piece itself on display as the original artwork and you remove my signature? That’s so tacky and disrespectful and pathetic.
So much uncredited/untagged fanart on my tracked tags lately, too. So very extra tacky. Ganking shit from pixiv and not crediting the artist (who may have “no share” turned on) is so so tacky (of course, ganking it from ANY website is problematic but I’d like to point out that many pixiv artists very specifically find the behavior extremely offensive since there’s a slightly different cultural view on the idea of “sharing” vs” stealing”. of course , as far as I know, all artists feel that way so just be a decent person and LINK BACK TO THE PAGE YOU GOT IT FROM with the artist’s name? it takes like an extra second of your time to be a decent person)
doesn’t happen to me, thankfully, but i see it happen a lot to other people and it’s REALLY SHITTY
Beauceron pup
oh gosh look at his big paws what a cute patoot!!!
RRRWW
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