Treating women with respect should not be contingent on whether or not it ‘gets you somewhere.’ Women have value even if we are too fat or too ugly or too loud or too standoffish or too homosexual to serve a ‘purpose’ for men. Women are people.
I have compassion for your social difficulties, but only to the point where they begin to impede my humanity. It isn’t women’s responsibility to bear the brunt of your loneliness, or be the means to your self-improvement. Women deal with loneliness and social anxiety and private pains too. Women deserve compassion too. If it genuinely goes without saying — as the men who write to me always claim — that you think of women as your equals, then find a solution that doesn’t hinge on exploiting women’s socialization to be passive, pliant, receptive, and kind.
There are no ‘buts’ when it comes to women’s humanity. Not ‘but’ you’re lonely, not ‘but’ you’re horny, not ‘but’ you’re nice, not ‘but’ that’s how your grandparents met, not ‘but’ she was naked in your bed. Women are people, and women just get to exist and set boundaries and say no. Always. Any time. Just like you.
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President Obama just made history by mentioning one single word: transgender
Although this is long overdue, it’s an important — albeit symbolic — historic first. No other living President of the United States has ever made mention of those who are transgender in a State of the Union speech. He also referenced bisexual Americans, something that has also never been done in a State of the Union. Social media was quick to applaud the President’s choice of words.
For everyone who’s making the damn civil war memes.
*at the end of the whole thing*Tony: “Yeah.. you were right. I’m sorry.”
I get asked this all the time.
Yes, Diana thinks trans women are women.
OBVIOUSLY.
Disney/Marvel: Despite every single one of our superhero movies making a gazillion dollars, including the one stolen by the CGI raccoon and talking tree, we are afraid to make a female-led superhero movie. Even though that superhero would be played by superstar Scarlett Johansson, who is already a fan-approved portrayer of the character.
Warner Bros./DC: Despite every single one of our superhero movies not made by Christopher Nolan turning out to be utter box office bombs, we are making a female-led superhero movie. Featuring an unknown non-American actress nobody has seen essay this iconic role except as a photograph.
… funny how the spotlight shifts, yeah?
David Aja you gem.
James ‘Bucky’ Barnes, aka The Winter Soldier
Has been tortured, brainwashed, mutilated, cryogenically frozen a few dozen times and manipulated into being everything he sacrificed his life to fight. Doesn’t know who ‘Bucky’ is.
Steven G. Rogers aka Captain America
Has undergone…
This post is me acknowelging that some people go onto tumblr to escape the real world and to soothe themselves after stressful experiences, so if they block or ignore social justice and news stories so that their decompression isn’t interrupted with yet more stress, it is not only no one’s business but it makes perfect sense.
Never judge people for not reblogging something.
Last time, kids.
Ward is NOT A VICTIM.
WARD IS NOT A VICTIM.
WARD IS NOT A VICTIM.
WARD IS NOT A VICTIM.
WARD IS FUCKING HYDRA/NAZI SCUM AND DOES NOT GET TO REDEEM HIMSELF.
NO REDEMPTION FOR NAZIS, REGARDLESS OF “BUT HYDRA” OR NOT.
Ward was a victim of abuse as a child, and that made him vulnerable to manipulation as an adult. It’s a tragic turn of circumstances, yes.
That does not excuse joining a Nazi organization hell-bent on world domination and mass-murder.
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