fandomsandfeminism:

lotrconfessions:

The reason Eowyn is so inspiring is because she is willing to defy tradition to fight for those she loves; the creation of Tauriel downplays that.

No it doesn’t. The customs and gender politics of the Mirkwood elves has no impact at on the culture of Rohan. 

Tauriel existing does not make Eowyn a less impressive character. It simply adds another badass lady to the world of Tolkien, which, let’s be real here, NEEDS more women in it. 

One big reason Eowyn is so inspiring is indeed that she defies the idea that women can’t be warriors. I fail to see how an increase in the number of warrior women in her franchise subsequent to her appearance in it is an affront to rather than the definition of her being inspiring.

unfollower:

no see lesbians are not more accepted than gay men they’re more sexualized please do not get those 2 things confused

leupagus:

many-lives:

(TW: slut-shaming, rape culture)

This is why it’s so funny/tragic when people degrade Kim Kardashian for the fact that she made a sex tape, calling her a worthless slut, gold-digging whore etc (literally everyone ever’s reaction when someone mentions Kim Kardashian. Congratuations, you’re so original! And such a charming person!)

Like.. she doesn’t care. She was horny and she felt like it. What other reason does someone need to make a sex tape with their boyfriend? The fact that he was then evil enough to completely violate her privacy and release the tape without her permission is his bad. That’s on him. He’s a cunt, as is any man who publicizes naked photos and video footage of women against their will. Also a criminal.

And it was one of the most shattering things that can happen to a woman. If someone released a video of me then god, I’d be heartbroken. I’d have crawled under a rock and never come out again. But she recovered and then made a hugely successful career for herself, her mother and all four of her sisters, and… people portray that as a bad thing? “Her whole family is only famous for her sex tape!!!” Yep, and? Go on, keep calling her a pointless whore. She can’t hear you over her multiple successful businesses, tv shows, endorsement deals and the guaranteed-safe futures of herself and her entire family.

Yep - this is also why, if you call Kardashian stupid or an attention whore or just a whore, you are a sexist.

No, please don’t try to add a caveat. If you don’t like what the Kardashians represent, you are a sexist. You are. Just deal with that and move on with your life. Because you’ve decided that a woman taking credit for a sex tape and building an entire reality-show empire around herself and her family - a woman who’s decided “people want to watch me, so I’ll let them watch me” - is doing womanhood wrong. You’ve decided that wanting attention, courting the media, having a sex life in the spotlight makes a woman less than you. You’ve decided that the biggest crime a woman can commit is “ugh, being everywhere, on all those magazine covers” when what she should have done is slink away back into obscurity, like she deserved.

Don’t pretend that you didn’t want her punished for releasing a sex tape. Don’t pretend that you don’t still want her punished. Because every time I hear you complain about the Kardashians of the world, that’s what I hear. And I’m way more sick of listening to you complain than you are of seeing Kim Kardashian’s face.

alexandraerin:

stepsofmadness:

Well you shouldn’t have a problem solving these.

The cake is a ______

Who is zelda?

Desert E_____

Gordon _____ , black _____

Would you kindly. ?

War, war ne___ ______

Fucking ca______

Fpsmmorpg?

W,a,s,d.?

Who tried to take the sweet roll?

Good luck

So, how old were you when you got your first NES? I was 5. We had a Vic 20 and an Atari 2600 before that, though. Hey, do you remember the actual full titles of Ultima: Exodus and Ultima: Avatar, before they were ported to the NES? You know that war never changes, but did you ever actually play the original Fallout games?

Do you remember how awesome and world-changing Wolfenstein 3D was? How about 3Demon? Did you ever go searching for the amulet of Yendor? Or test yourself in the proving grounds of the Mad Overlord?

Hey, do you remember the first time you heard the famous Zelda title music in glorious 16 bit sound after only hearing it in 8? It was like there was a tiny orchestra hiding in your TV… oh, and remember when Mario Paint came out and it had the song composer, and Nintendo Power printed a little insert that told you how to write the  video game theme songs and you couldn’t wait to do the Zelda song, but then it only had enough bars to do the opening and then it just stopped abruptly?

Do you remember when Warcraft wasn’t a world?

Do you remember inserting discs 2 through 13 to install a game, and having to stop and switch them in the middle of play?

Do you remember being excited to get a hard drive that could hold 20 megabytes because you could finally load your new game?

Did you ever work out how to kill Lord British?

Oh, you don’t remember any of that?

I’m sorry…

I thought you said you were a gamer.

Anyway, what’s the point of this exercise? Isn’t your blog a bunch of moody poetry about how you’re a nice guy who can’t meet girls? Well, what part of this macho nerd posturing do you think is nice and part of it do you think is going to endear you to women?

grumpyfemme:

stelmarias:

(x)

Rachel Rostad of Macalester College, performing on finals stage at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.

Rachel was awesome, so lucky to be in the room to hear her perform this :)

thebeggarandtheking:

queennubian:

She was once the a beautiful virgin shadow maiden of Athean. After Poseidon rapes Medusa in Athena’s temple, Athena punishes Medusa….making her the embodiement of death and damning her to a life of solitude.

What does this say about society then, and now?

Well, the myth that tells Medusa’s metamorphosis into a monster as a punishment by Athena is the patriarchal Roman version. The ancient Greek myth, which has closer ties to its progenitor, the Egyptian tale of Wadjet, tells us that Athena gifted Medusa with ugliness and the power to turn men to stone as a way of protecting her from further violations of her person. Even so, her ugliness was emphasized in the Roman retelling as a way to further demonize and disenfranchise Medusa (i.e. she only lashed out on men because she was too ugly to be loved by them, her ugliness forced her into seclusion from men, ugly women are bad, etc. ((I am ironically using abbreviations for Latin words here yes)).). As the original myth tells it, she lived in solitude because she did not wish to be around men after what Poseidon had done. And Athena gave her the power to never be at the mercy of a male again. So originally, Athena was pissed at Poseidon, not Medusa. And then, of course, the Romans took it one step further and had Perseus behead her (yay the vindictive old hag is dead) and give it to Athena for her shield.

But yeah, renderings of Medusa’s head appeared in the doorways of many women’s shelters in ancient Greece because she was a symbol of female empowerment, not a monster feared by men and women alike.

This brings me to my awkward segue into a cool essay on the subject: The Laugh of the Medusa by Helene Cixous actually touches on the system of misogynistic fear behind the Romanized version, but most importantly why women need to write their stories because this is the shit that happens when dudebros get ahold of them. It’s also an awesome overture to queer theories of writing. If you can read French, I highly suggest getting your hands on the essay as it was originally written, because Cixous’ voice is just incredibly inspiring when you read it as she intended it to be read. Also, the essay itself is worthy of criticism as it is not as intersectional as it absolutely needs to be. I feel I should add that before someone thinks I advocate the problematic things she says.

But now that I’ve totally digressed from my original point: It’s important that we’re always mindful to question the credibility of those telling us not only history, but also legend.

(I became absolutely exhausted halfway through this so forgive me if the connection I’m making between the original post and this essay is more arbitrary than I think it is at the moment)