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Nerd dudes: Why don’t women like the things we do
Woman: *likes the same things nerd dudes do*
Nerd dudes: Are you a real fan? Better know this hyperspecific piece of trivia. Oh thank god you do. I’m going to sexually harass you now.
Ready Player One (2011)
What Maris the Maid, the legendary ancestor of House Hightower, would have worn, Paolo Sebastian
“Warrior women, like Furiosa and Britomart and many others…offer one model (among many possible ones) for a form of womanhood that’s not dictated by courting expectations of femininity, or conspicuously flouting them, but simply by setting them aside. The message of the martial maid is not that women have to fight. It’s that fighting does not belong to men. Heroism does not belong to men. Being central to the story, acting instead of being acted upon, being something other than “beautiful enough” or “insufficiently beautiful”: these are not privileges accorded to men alone. A sword in the hands of a woman doesn’t transform into a symbol of love.”—
things I’m still not over in 2017: Mad Max: Fury Road, this essay
(via glintglimmergleam)
We are finally, haltingly starting to accept the idea that gender is not necessarily handed to you at birth. More people are publicly identifying as transgender, genderless, genderqueer—rejecting the idea that there are only two options and you’re stuck with one from the get-go. It’s still hard, but it’s so much further from impossible than it used to be. Eventually, I hope it becomes effortless for everyone to live as the gender, or genders, or lack of gender that they know they are. But at the same time, I also hope we gradually demolish our old understandings of what gender even means.
The problem isn’t just that we’re shuttled into one of two locked rooms at birth, left to find our own way out if we don’t belong. The problem is also that the rooms have been stocked arbitrarily with clothes and books and props and posters of unattainable ideals. The fixtures have changed a bit over the centuries, but inhabiting your assigned gender can mean accepting a host of assumptions and stereotypes about what qualifies as “masculine” and “feminine.”
“Sucker Punch is literally designed to be a sucker punch. If you look back at when the film was getting ready to come out, the media and build-up around it were trawling for nerd dudes hard. Various magazines and media coverage were going bonkers over it because “holy shit look at these hot girls in sexy outfits and katanas its like my anime come to life. But don’t worry its totally feminist because they’re Strong Female Characters!” Snyder was banking on that. Everything about the films marketing was designed to convince you that it was a Whedon-esque action film about hot girls doing flips. Then the film comes out and aggressively compares that Whedon brand of post-feminism with lobotomy, rape, and the destruction of agency. That’s one of the reasons why the reaction to it was so visceral.
While I think it could’ve been executed a bit better, I am still in awe at the sheer audacity of spending $80 million to yell at nerds for two hours.”
Types of Girls: Summer edition
Ice cream girls: a hopeless romantic, likes mini skirts & off-shoulder tops, blushes a lot, nice handwriting, good with words, a bit of a nerd, bubbly and smiley
Mermaid girls: wears glossy makeup, loves the way the sun reflects on water, comfortable with silences, pretty hair, can be moody, needs a lot of alone time
Picnic girls: loves skincare and books, up for an adventure, optimistic, can make anyone laugh, gorgeous fashion sense, a sweet scent in their hair
Sunflower girls: loves indie music, dreams about decorating their future apartment, likes concerts, coffee and astrology, puts succulents in their room
Strawberry girls: likes pastels and video games, introverted, wants a hug, good at studying and aesthetics, tries their best to make their friends smile
Bumblebee girls: keeps a bullet journal, draws a lot, wants to go to Southern France, messy hair, takes a lot of candids of their friends, likes blowing bubbles
PRETTY LITTLE PSYCHO- Porcelain Black
“Tip the glass, now light it up,
Rebel rebel, can’t get enough..”
5 Weeks. 5 Songs. Get ready for the takeover.
There’s nothing poetic nor beautiful about being insecure and not liking yourself. You know what is beautiful, though? When you love yourself so much that you inspire other people to want to love themselves too. Stop romanticizing self hatred and start letting people know that it’s not conceited to love yourself. It’s okay to like who you are. It’s okay. I hope that one day you look in the mirror and get butterflies from seeing your own reflection.