"Probably no man has ever troubled to imagine how strange his life would appear to himself if it were unrelentingly assessed in terms of his maleness … If he gave an interview to a reporter, or performed any unusual exploit, he would find it recorded in such terms as these: “Professor Bract, although a distinguished botanist, is not in any way an unmanly man. He has, in fact, a wife and seven children. Tall and burly, the hands with which he handles his delicate specimens are as gnarled and powerful as those of a Canadian lumberjack, and when I swilled beer with him in his laboratory, he bawled his conclusions at me in a strong, gruff voice that implemented the promise of his swaggering moustache.” […]"

From seanan_mcguire’s posting on Sexism, the current SFWA kerfuffle, and “lady authors:” in the comments, via jenk, a long lovely passage from Dorothy L. Sayers’ 1947 essay, “The Human-Not-Quite-Human”. Read the whole thing. The perception of this problem is nothing new… (via dduane)

I love me some Dorothy L. Sayers. 

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snailchimera:

sinvraal:

persian-slipper:

anathemarmotqueen:

Hello tumblr allow me to present you the swedish vallhund

i´m VERY confused as you guys are not freaking out about these little guys yet since they´re basically WOLF CORGIS.

I swear to god, I thought it was a photoshop at first.

Oh my Glob, it’s “the little cattle dog of the Vikings”. Not only is it a wolf corgi, but it’s a Viking wolf corgi.

VIKING WOLF CORGI

I approve.

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p-unkin:

uwu thank you, handsome!

I used to live with two pitbulls. They were 70-pound lapdogs. So many doggycuddles!

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molly-ren:

boyqueen:

deviantfemme:

I’ll just be here, reblogging this over and over, during pride season.

And also liberation does not = glitter

I honestly can’t figure out if glitter is what you’re supposed to use to assimilate or resist it

It’s weird, until a couple years ago I’d only heard “assimilation” in cultural/ethnic contexts.  (Particularly Jewish ones, where it largely refers to a failure to marry a Nice Jewish Boy/Girl.)  Where it makes some sense; you grow up with the culture of your family, but for various reasons ranging from “viewing your elders and their heritage as inferior” to “livelihood and safety at risk if you don’t,” you start acting more and more mainstream American.  You assimilate into the mainstream.

There’s also a factor of legitimate personal choice here; preserving a culture is valuable, but no individual is obligated to live by The Old Ways just for preservation’s sake.  It’s one of those choices you can ask people to question, but not to totally disdain.

But all this gets kind of weird when you apply it to queerness, because queer people are most often born into nonqueer families.  They don’t assimilate; they’re born “assimilated,” and have to discover over time the parts of them that don’t fit into their families’ culture.  And to complicate it even further, not all of these nonqueer families are mainstream American, and leaving their cultures to pursue queer culture is also a kind of assimilation.

So I’m not really saying the image is wrong or right, or that assimilation is always good or bad, just that… it’s hella more complicated than pink glitter.

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saola:

wow um dream home yes.

I love the idea of living in a space that doesn’t conform to all the conventions of “house.”  Like, I don’t want a dining room and a foyer and a den.  I want a doing-things-space.

Also, that big ceiling beam just screams “hard point.”

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Okay, a whole bunch of people are asking me what happened with Ozy Frantz/Ozyreads/@_Ozymandias42, so here’s my best summation of events:

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alwaysblind:

MAYBE if u didn’t want ur son to EAT poeple u shouldnt have named him something that rhymes with cannibal u should have name him hegetarian or something

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Anonymous asked: Advice time. I am female, and kind of bothered by femininity. The "sexy" kind (performing seductiveness squicks me) and the "domestic" kind (I'm not much of a hausfrau.) What do you do with this? Like, "I'm female, I'm fine with being female, but femininity feels creepy and dehumanizing. I want to be a person." Half the world seems to think "duh, of course you're a person" and the other half thinks I'm "disconnected from my feminine essence" or whatever.

I think it’s important to separate “dehumanizing” from “not for me.”  Femininity is not for you and that’s cool, but it is for some people and that’s also cool.  Compulsory femininity is bullshit, but femininity itself is not.

(I freely admit to fucking this up for a loooong time.  Saying “I don’t want to be girly!” without appending or implying “because girly girls are yucky!” doesn’t come naturally in a society that’s all about doing gender and sex The One Correct Way; it felt easier to define a new Correct Way than to accept genuine diversity.)

There’s a lot of pressure on women to be sexy and domestic, but there’s also people for whom those things and/or other parts of “femininity” are genuine things they are/want.  So I think you need to say “femininity/seductiveness/domesticity feels wrong for me” and leave it at that.

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dorkly:

The 9 Gamers You Play Online

Not to make this about feminism or anything, but on the subject of “The Girl”, I was playing Halo 4 online once (one of the rare times with a mic) and into the match came two players,a guy and a girl. The guy was a total dick but the girl was really nice and sounded cute…so every guy on the team, including me, told her so. And for about two minutes there was a bunch of guys telling a girl she was pretty and then a guy saying we were all desperate loser virgins and then what was probably the most cohesive team effort to destroy the other team I’ve ever been apart of in a halo match.
Yes, we all thought she was cool for playing halo but after we got that out we just played like she was another spartan. Moral of the story yes some guys are dicks (I’ll even give you most guys are dicks) but some just want to tell you you’re pretty. Not because they want to get in your pants but because they want to give you a genuine compliment.

-“Other Co-owner of this blog”

Wait how did that comment turn from “those guys are dicks” to “we just want to give you a compliment”

And how is it a genuine compliment if he’s calling her pretty but he can’t see her?

fuckyeahcosplayhelp:

Chest Armour Tutorial by *EnjiNight 

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