U can tell that skincare culture is makeup culture disguised bc not a single syllable of it is directed at men, the crustiest people on this earth
the fucked up thing is, when 12 yr old girls with perfect child skin but maybe a puberty zit or two see those commercials telling them that even slightly flawed skin is a problem to be aggressively fixed and start scrubbing the shit out of their face with high pH drugstore cleansers and astringent toners, they destroy their skins natural moisture barrier and make their skin more permeable to bacteria which can actually CAUSE acne, when creates an endless cycle of spending where they spend the rest of their lives desperately trying to fix the problems that the products caused in the first place
i think we need to stop focusing on telling little girls they need to be “empowered” & instead teach them about chaotic mirth, hijinks, & becoming complete rascals
I never make posts like this but this got me so heated this morning? Do you think any of the RPF I write are realistic? RPF isn’t even meant to be an accurate portrayal of the people they’re based on–at this point they might as well just be OCs, which is fine! Don’t tell people what they should or shouldn’t write–they are producing fics because they enjoy writing/consuming the personalities they resonate the most with, and isn’t that the entire point of fic? We’re lucky they’re sharing it with us.
RPF is the Taco Bell of Mexican food. We know it isn’t real, that isn’t why we go there.
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.
i get heated when people feel the need to go out of their way to tell me astrology/tarot etc are fake. yes i know. here’s a concept though.. literally everything in the world is fake. Everything. Things only work because you believe in them. Money? fake. The government? Fake. businesses? fake! your name? fake! nothing is real except life and death so let me have fun with my Magic Cards™
