If you guys cosplay, please watch this :)
this woman’s work is so fantastic and so inspirational. also, this makes me want a tv show centering around the art and culture of cosplay even more. wouldn’t that be awesome?!!
this video made me happy =D
If you are a cosplayer, please watch this. Even if you aren’t still watch it. It gives some nice insight in what attracts people to this hobby. :)
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Honey, you’ve been watching too much Supernatural.
Hypothetically, I suppose so, yes. You didn’t give consent.
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HEY U GUYS WANNA KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE ME/A GIRL & DO THINGS LIKE TAKE PUBLIC TRANSIT??? well watch this and see what happened to me on the bus today (movie thrills await!!)
UghhhhhHHHHHHHhhhhh the worst kind of bus ride
This practically gave me a panic attack just watching. I don’t take transit for this reason, and I still get shit like this just walking down the street. Thank you for recording this. I can’t even move in situations like this.
THIS IS WHY I DON’T RIDE THE BUS ALONE. it’s terrifying to me. i hate talking to strangers it’s so awful. and i feel bad not being able to go anywhere by myself, but i’d rather annoy a couple of my friends than brave this alone.
THIS. fuck it is so goddamn terrifying especially when you’re being outnumbered. sometimes you just have to take transportation alone and when it happens, this is pretty much the gist of it. so don’t EVER tell us we’re overreacting.
This happens to me all the time, and it’s terrifying because you never know how far a guy’s gonna go - I’ve been yelled at and poked, thankfully never hit or grabbed, but you just never know and it’s just the scariest of things…
If you don’t think this happens every damn day, you’re dead wrong. Watching this nearly gave me a panic attack.
And it doesn’t really matter what you look like or what you’re wearing either. I find it happens less if I’m wearing headphones. But I shouldn’t have to try to make myself unapproachable. I should be able to ride in peace. :\
Demisexuality is someone who is sexually attracted to people based upon their emotional connection with a person. It does not refer to the gender(s)/sex(es) of the people they are attracted to, although some people use demisexuality assd subset of pansexuality/bisexuality in saying that demisexuals are attracted to people solely based upon their emotional connection to them, thus they have the capacity to be attracted to anyone.
For the most part, this is not the case, though, and demisexuality exists somewhere between sexual and romantic orientation, as an add-on to an orientation to specify that they are not attracted to this kind of person until they are emotionally intimate (i.e. someone could be homosexual and demisexual, or pansexual and demisexual).
My, isn’t it awkward that you just fuckin recycled a nearly 40 year old article to shit on this latest generation?
Recession. Student debt. Etc. Lots of people smarter than me have already had some excellent commentary on this (here and here and here not to mention all the great Tumblr commentary).
But I do want to say:
Of all the images you could have picked, you chose one of a teenage girl taking a selfie.
Because of course, girls who have been taught nothing else by their elders except that their appearance is what matters are the reason we are all lazy and narcissistic.
Fuck off. You fucking made us. You raised me and my sister and my female cousin and millions and millions of girls to be self-conscious and obsessed with making ourselves look pleasing to men. You taught us that that was our only worth. And now you shit on us for it.
FUCK OFF, TIME.
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Last month, a New Jersey middle school banned girls from wearing strapless dresses to prom. Administrators claimed that the dresses were “distracting” — though they refused to specify exactly how or why. Parents reacted strongly to the rule; some supported the dress code while others deemed it “slut-shaming.” On Friday, the school compromised by allowing girls to wear single-strap or see-through-strap dresses.
This is no isolated incident in the United States. Across the country, young girls are being told what not to wear because it might be a “distraction” for boys, or because adults decide it makes them look “inappropriate.” At its core, every incident has a common thread: Putting the onus on young women to prevent from being ogled or objectified, instead of teaching those responsible to learn to respect a woman’s body. Here are five other recent examples:
1. A middle school in California banned tight pants. At the beginning of last month, a middle school in Northern California began telling girls to avoid wearing pants that are “too tight” because it “distracts the boys.” At a mandatory assembly for just the female students, the middle school girls were told that they’re no longer allowed to wear leggings or yoga pants. “We didn’t think it was fair how we have all these restrictions on our clothing while boys didn’t have to sit through [the assembly] at all,” one student told local press. Some parents also complained, leading the school’s assistant principal to record a voicemail explaining the new policy. “The guiding principle in all dress codes is that the manner in which students dress does not become a distraction in the learning environment,” the message said.
2. A high school principal in Minnesota emailed parents to ask them to cover up their daughters. A principal in Minnetonka, MN recently wrote an email telling parents to stop letting their daughters wear leggings or yoga pants to school. He says the tight-fitting pants are fine with longer shirts but, when worn with a shorter top, a girl’s “backside” can be “too closely defined.” The big risk of having a defined backside, he thinks, is that it can “be highly distracting for other students.”
3. Two girls in Ohio were turned away from their prom for being “improperly dressed.” Laneisha Williams and Nyasia Mitchell were barred from prom this spring for wearing dresses that administrators considered “too revealing.” The girls say that they didn’t believe they were violating a dress code that said dresses couldn’t be too short or show too much cleavage. But one administrator told local news that the high school girls were only allowed to wear dresses that had “no curvature of their breasts showing.”
4. A kindergarten student in Georgia was forced to change her “short” skirt because it was a “distraction to other students.” It’s hard to imagine that a kindergartener’s outfit could be “a distraction to other students,” but a mother in Georgia told locals news there that her daughter had been outfitted in someone else’s pants — without parental permission — after the principal deemed the skirt the young girl was wearing too short.” The girl had apparently wore the skirt, and accompanying leggings, just one week before without incident.
5. Forty high school girls were sent home from a winter dance in California after “degrading” clothing inspections “bordering on sexual harassment.” A school board member’s daughter was among the 40 girls turned away from Capistrano Valley High’s February dance for wearing dresses that either exposed their midriffs or were cut too low. Before the dance, girls were apparently required to flap their arms up and down and turn around for male administrators’ inspection. The school issues image guidelines for appropriate dress on its website — though the images were nearly all of women, and the only male image depicted proper attire. One girl alleges that the principal told her, “Not all dresses look good on certain body shapes.” A grandmother of one of the girls who was turned away from the dance also said that a teacher remarked about her granddaughter, “What mother would allow her daughter to wear a dress like that?” Apparently the school did receive some praise, though, from the parents of two male students.
When most Americans think about “rape culture,” they may think about the Steubenville boys’ defense arguing that an unconscious girl consented to her sexual assault because she “didn’t say no,” the school administrators who choose to protect their star athletes over those boys’ rape victims, or the bullying that led multiple victims of sexual assault to take their own lives. While those incidences of victim-blaming are certainly symptoms of a deeply-rooted rape culture in this country, they’re not the only examples of this dynamic at play. Rape culture is also evident in the attitudes that lead school administrators to treat young girls’ bodies as inherently “distracting” to the boys who simply can’t control themselves. That approach to gender roles simply encourages our youth to assume that sexual crimes must have something to do with women’s “suggestive” clothes or behavior, rather than teaching them that every individual is responsible for respecting others’ bodily autonomy.
reasons I’m glad I’m not in high school anymore: this shit right here
THIS IS LITERALLY THE MOST ANNOYING SHIT EVER
DO NOT FUCKING TELL ME THAT BEING PROUD OF MY BODY OR ANOTHER GIRL BEING PROUD OF HER BODY AND WANTING TO FLAUNT IT IS A BAD THING
DO NOT TELL ME I AM DISRESPECTING MYSELF BY BEING PROUD OF ME
IT IS NOT MY JOB TO KEEP OTHERS FROM BEING DISTRACTED BECAUSE OF MY FUCKING SHOULDERS OR SOME SHIT
HOW ABOUT WE JUST TEACH EVERYONE TO RESPECT OTHERS’ BODIES AND BE DONE WITH IT
And honestly, you know what I do because of school dress codes? I wear tshirts and/or flannel shirts and jeans. Every day. Why? Because if you want me to be so ashamed of the female body and my femininity, I will dress and act very ungirlishly in the learning environment to the point it will make you uncomfortable.
So dear adults in the school system who find it necessary to shame girls for their femininity through your dress codes:
Up yours.
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