An Exotic Dancer Demonstrates That Her Underwear Was Too Large To Have Exposed Herself, After Undercover Police Officers Arrested Her In Florida
Dorothy Counts – The First Black Girl To Attend An All-White School In The United States – Being Teased And Taunted By Her White Male Peers At Charlotte’s Harry Harding High School, 1957
Austrian Boy Receives New Shoes During WWII
Jewish Prisoners After Being Liberated From A Death Train, 1945
The Graves Of A Catholic Woman And Her Protestant Husband, Holland, 1888
A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute, 1936
Job Hunting In 1930’s
German Soldiers React To Footage Of Concentration Camps, 1945
Residents Of West Berlin Show Children To Their Grandparents Who Reside On The Eastern Side, 1961
Acrobats Balance On Top Of The Empire State Building, 1934
Mafia Boss Joe Masseria Lays Dead On A Brooklyn Restaurant Floor Holding The Ace Of Spades, 1931
Lesbian Couple At Le Monocle, Paris, 1932
The Most Beautiful Suicide – Evelyn Mchale Leapt To Her Death From The Empire State Building, 1947
The Remains Of The Astronaut Vladimir Komarov, A Man Who Fell From Space, 1967
Race Organizers Attempt To Stop Kathrine Switzer From Competing In The Boston Marathon. She Became The First Woman To Finish The Race, 1967
Harold Whittles Hearing Sound For The First Time, 1974
Nikola Tesla Sitting In His Laboratory With His “Magnifying Transmitter”
im really proud of the people who are like “school’s getting busy so im taking a hiatus see u guys later :)” i could have 14 hours of homework with 6 tests tomorrow and still be sweatin it out on tumblr dot com
I always find it kind of weird that matriarchal cultures in fiction are always “women fight and hunt, men stay home and care for the babies” because world-building-wise, it makes no sense
think about it. like, assuming that gender even works the same in this fantasy culture as it does in ours, with gender conflated with sex (because let’s be real, all of these stories assume that), men wouldn’t be the ones to make the babies, so why would they be the ones to care for the babies? why is fighting and hunting necessary for leadership?
writing a matriarchy this way is just lazy, because you’re just taking the patriarchy and just swapping the people in it, rather than actually swapping the culture. especially when there are so many other cool things you could explore. like, what if it’s not a swap of roles but of what society deems important?
maybe a matriarchy would have hunting and fighting be part of the man’s job, but undervalued. like taking the trash out or cleaning toilets: necessary, but gross, and not noble or interesting. maybe farming is now the most important thing, and is given a lot of spiritual and cultural weight.
how would law work? what crimes would exist, and what things would be considered too trivial to make illegal? who gets what property? why?
how would religion work? how would you mark time or the passage into adulthood? what would marriage look like? if bloodlines are through the mother, bastardy wouldn’t even be a concept – how does that work?
what qualities would be most important in a person? how would you define strength or leadership? what knowledge would be the most coveted and protected? what acts or roles are considered useless or degrading?
like, you can’t just take our current society and say you’re turning it on its head when you’re just regurgitating it wholesale. you have to really think about why things are the way they are and change that.
oh god relisten to it with this in mind and good god, you will cry.
Mummified my teenage dreams
No it’s nothing wrong with me
The kids are all wrong,
The story’s all off
Heavy metal broke my heart
or how about
We’ve been here forever
And here’s the frozen proof
I could scream forever
We are the poisoned youth
And the fact that this song was used as an NFL anthem and was probably ingrained in the heads of a bunch of transphobic assholes without them knowing has me LIVING!!!!
a take too hot for tumblr: people in prison are still entitled to basic human rights. they’re still entitled to being properly fed and given access to clean water, given access to healthcare, being in an environment where they are not at risk of being abused either by fellow prisoners or by prison staff, and otherwise being treated humanely—this includes ALL prisoners: ones who are innocent of what they’re in prison for, ones who are in prison for very minor victimless crimes, and ones who are genuinely guilty of the worst crimes imaginable.
and if you’re like “they don’t deserve that”, it isn’t about what they ‘deserve’ – it’s about how we as a society choose to treat people, making the decision that no one deserves to be treated as less than human no matter who they are or what they’ve done, and standing up against abusive justice systems and the abusive prison industrial complex in their entirety.
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