i don’t want to achieve equality by sinking to men’s level, i want them to get on ours! why should i have to unlearn the conversational art of waiting my turn, unlearn sexual self-restraint, unlearn trust in others’ good intentions, unlearn the impulse to cater to others’ needs, just to have a chance at success among savages? why can’t the men learn some fucking manners so we can all conduct our affairs in a civilized manner? i shouldn’t have to stop saying sorry, you say sorry!
In the 80s when I was in my freshman year in college, they still had entirely separate mens and women’s dorms. I was in class waiting for a final to start and one of the guys was telling someone about how he had had to go into a women’s dorm to drop something off, and he was startled to see posters on the walls, flowers, curtains, etc. He said his men’s dorm had holes in the walls, things on fire, fights, guys walking around with open wounds and he just didn’t understand why they had to live like this. He said, “I want to live with the women, in civilization.”
Am reading Sisterhood of Spies, about women working for the OSS during WWII. One of the stories mentions that the women in London had a male visitor who would eat in their mess hall once a month. He was married and wasn’t interested in hitting on any of the women; he just wanted to eat in an atmosphere where people said “Please pass the butter,” instead of “PASS THE GODDAMNED GREASE”
I dated a guy who brought me along on group activities (movies, video game night, etc.) with four or five other male friends. Once I mentioned to one of the other guys that I hoped I wasn’t intruding on their “guy time” or some such. He got this sort of rueful look and said, “The truth is, I really like it when you’re here because it gives us a reason to act better. When it’s just guys, we all have to try to outdo each other with how vile we are.”
So the moral of these stories are men don’t even treat each other like human beings.
Me to my 6-year-old son: “You seem to like playing with the girls at school more than the boys. Why do you think that is?”
6-year-old son: “Sometimes I just don’t want to be pushed. It hurts and is mean. And the girls always pretend to be princesses or fun animals and stuff when they have tea parties. The boys just dump the tea all over the place. That’s just stupid and I don’t like wasting all that tea. It takes forever to make.”
Me: “Wow, I can understand why you’d rather play with the girls. The boys seem like they’re kind of rough.”
6-year-old son: “And when I play with the girls they make me the king because none of the other boys want to play tea party.”
Me: “Do you like being the king?”
6-year-old son: “Not really – I’d rather be a wizard, but it makes Georgia and Vivian happy.”
literally none of my posts are flagged oh my god tumblr cant catch me
what ive gathered from checking through my nsfw blog too is if you filter the nsfw through literally any color thats not flesh toned it is helpless. It’s never heard of green porn before. I’m not saying y’all should skirt the law but I can’t control how you use this info
i’m not saying i want nsfw content on this website, but do whatever you want
catra would have left with adora to join the rebellion if they’d stuck together until that point (albeit with more resistance than adora showed). why? because she was willing to risk being trapped in that forest forever, never having a way “home” to the horde, as long as she was with adora. sure, she wouldn’t have actively tried to find a way to “escape”, but finding a perfect excuse to get lost? she could humor herself with the possibility.
as adora herself said, catra isn’t a bad person. so much of catra’s refusal to join the rebellion is based in her feelings of betrayal, specifically that adora left her and adora chose someone over her.adora, who promised that they would be okay as long as they had each other, and then left catra to deal with the fallout–the punishment that adora always avoided somehow. adora, the one part of catra’s life that wasn’t pure oppressive misery and pain and fear. adora, who, for all that she was oppressed and abused as well, never suffered the same verbal and physical abuse that catra did.
Kassandraaaaa 