gender liberation literally has to include cis people im so fucking serious. we’re never going to be able to get rid of the chains utterly and for good if we don’t unshackle absolutely fucking everybody

russian fairy tales (1970)

who wants to see the worst thing ive seen this week

too bad, im showing you anyway

a non-photoshopped picture of someone actually wearing them, for your viewing pleasure

Did you guys know the “Sickos” artist made a Sicko thats a WGA screenwriter on strike (said comic artist is a The Onion satirist comic artist and his name is Stan Kelly)

ALT

And honestly? What a mood. Haha YES indeed.

Konstantin Spassky - Bathing Nude (1917)

“Girl dinner” should be eating a man alive like saturn devouring his son

Thinking about Agamemnon sacrificing his teenage daughter in order to go to war. Thinking about Odysseus trying to avoid going to war but when the choice was to kill his infant son or to go to war he chose the war. Thinking about how upon the death of Achilles, Odysseus recruited Achilles's teenage son Neoptolemus to join the war. About Odysseus or sometimes it's Neoptolemus throwing Hector's infant son off the battlements to his death. About Achilles's ghost demanding the sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter Polyxena before the Greeks can sail home from Troy and when Hecuba begged Odysseus to spare Polyxena he said no, I want to go home, we're going to kill her. Thinking about how the only one of the Greek generals opposing Polyxena's sacrifice was Agamemnon. How Odysseus never wanted to be here but he will inflict the pain he wanted to avoid on others out of his duty to the other Greek soldiers. How Agamemnon, leader of the Greek soldiers, is so, so tired of sacrificing children to this war. How it happens anyway.

...You all realize that constantly worrying about being a good person and always trying to avoid being a bad one is a mark of being in an abusive situation, right?

I'm actually not being flippant in any way. This is a conditioned mental trauma response that comes with routine exposure to coercion.

Burn this into your frontal lobes: People want to be kind to one another because kindness is a human instinct. We don't need to be threatened with social rejection and character assassination in order to do this.

The truth of the matter is that human beings are such profoundly social and loving creatures that we will do ANYTHING to belong with one another, even if what we do is at the expense of our own livelihood.

We will give up our time, our freedom, our natural personalities, our resources, our money, our values, and even our lives if that's what it takes to belong amongst those we care about.

Imposing conditions on people's sense of belonging in the most effective way of controlling people simply because of how biologically essential love and belonging is for us.

If your peers are doing this to you, if your family is doing this to you, if random strangers on the internet are doing this to you, if your spiritual or religious community is doing this to you...

You are, in fact, being abused.

Narrowmouth Frog, Synapturanus zombie, family MIcrohylidae, French Guinana

photograph by Vincent Prémel

mushroom chat just dropped

I want to log on to the mushroom chat so bad

What would you even say?

"Had a cute frog sit on me today. Win."

Very offended

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