ive basically abandoned tumblr as of late, but im coming back to say hi and to say im dead inside, and forever will be
thank you to all of you who have made such beautiful edits of this picture, and HAVE IT AS YOUR ICONS?!?! please oh please keep at it, all i ask is credit (i have my twitter handle watermarked above)
wanna hear the story behind my shock evident in this pic?
Jackie Mitchell…a bad ass lady I had never heard of.
From her Wikipedia page: “Seventeen-year-old Jackie Mitchell, brought in to pitch in the first inning after the starting pitcher had given up a double and a single, faced Babe Ruth. After taking a ball, Ruth swung and missed at the next two pitches. Mitchell’s fourth pitch to Ruth was a called third strike. Babe Ruth glared and verbally abused the umpire before being led away by his teammates to sit to wait for another batting turn. The crowd roared for Jackie. Babe Ruth was quoted in a Chattanooga newspaper as having said:
“I don’t know what’s going to happen if they begin to let women in baseball. Of course, they will never make good. Why? Because they are too delicate. It would kill them to play ball every day.”
Next up was the Iron Horse Lou Gehrig, who swung through the first three pitches to strike out. Jackie Mitchell became famous for striking out two of the greatest baseball players in history.
A few days after Mitchell struck out Ruth and Gehrig, baseball commissionerKenesaw Mountain Landis voided her contract and declared women unfit to play baseball as the game was “too strenuous.”[5][10] Mitchell continued to play professionally,barnstorming with the House of David, a men’s team famous for their very long hair and long beards.[11] While travelling with the House of David team, she would sometimes wear a fake beard for publicity.”
TL;DR: teenage girl strikes out two of the greatest baseball players ever, teenage girl gets her contract voided, teenage girl plays baseball wearing fake beard
These guys were so fucking injured by a teenage girl’s awesomeness that they literally threw a hissyfit and hung up a sign that said “NO GIRLS.”
They gave up.
They couldn’t handle it.
Losers.
Teenage girls are amazing.
Here’s a friendly reminder of why the big leagues of sports aren’t co-ed.
It’s not to “make it fair” on women. It’s because men are scared of being beaten by women.
She’s from my home town! And after all the baseball games I’ve been to here, no one ever mentioned her at all. I only recently looked her up online.
Why is it always the woman who has to see past the beast in the man? Why does she always have to clean his wounds, even after he has damaged her beyond repair? Why is it always the man who is worthy of forgiveness for being a monster?
I want to see the beast in the beauty.
The half smile, half snarl. The unapologetic anger. I would like to see the man forgive the monster. To see her, blood and all, and love her anyway. — beauty and the beast | Caitlyn S. (via karlurbanana)
Every time I post something about Norman Reedus and it gets reblogged you fangirls just gotta swoon and add your own cutesy caption. Nothing against fangirls but here’s a challenge. Swoon over this! Good luck.
That’s fucking hot as hell.
LOL. That’s not the one to pick for no swooning.
YOU DON’T KNOW US AND OUR LIVES. WE HAVE FANGIRLED OVER ROADKILL FOR HIM.
SOMEONE JUST NEEDS TO HITCH THAT SKIRT UP AND BITE HIS INNER THIGHS AND THEN SUCK HIM UNTIL HE’S SOBBING, UNTIL HIS PRETTY EYESHADOW RUNS DOWN HIS FACE.
OP, it is clear that you have a fundamental misunderstanding of one or more of the following:
‘fangirls’
‘swooning’
‘challenge’
I mean we could probably use this as a really interesting launching point for the fundamental disconnect between ‘what people actually find hot’ and ‘what society/patriarchy presumes is hot’ and how the assignations of gender roles and sexuality fuck with that. Like the presumption that the female gaze doesn’t even exist, or if it does that women-intersted-in-men find the same things about men sexy that men-interested-in-women presume they do/should.
I mean, how many ‘porn for straight women’ magazines have tried to launch and asked a bunch of straight women what they wanted in porn -and gotten answers of ‘smiling dudes’ ‘dudes giving bedroom eyes’ and ‘cock’ - only to then said ‘yeah no, we’re giving you tough,aloof-looking shirtless guys with power muscles and weapons instead (because regardless of what any of you say you want we know that the majority of you want tough looking guys with power muscles and weapons because that’s what masculinity is because sexiness is feminine-coded. I mean obviously the only reason a man would display in a sexually-inviting way (as opposed to an aggressive way or a disinterested way) is if he’s trying to attract a man! Ergo anything in which a man is display in a sexually inviting or (gasp) submissive way is gay gay gay gay gay and thus the anti-masculine and no woman would ever want it. We know better than you what you like and want and find sexy) and then failed and blamed the failure on the totally legit and well known phenomenon that women just don’t get off on visual stimuli they’d rather read erotica.
But I’m too busy getting off on images like the above.
Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur. — Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (via falloutgirlongirl)
do actors get boners while making sex scenes this is one of the things i’ve wondered my whole life
Idk if you actually care for the answer, but they have to put their dicks in little sleeves that attach to the leg so if they get a boner it just get held down.
that sounds like a garment that should be sold everywhere and considered polite if not mandatory to wear, like bras
Omg I can’t
As a guy I second this.
If I have to wear a titty sling because there might be an event where it becomes chilly and my nip noops become visible through my shirt, people who have a peenor should be expected to wear a peenor sling in case there is an event where a gentle breeze occurs and their peenor becomes erect.
I kind of feel like if we’re gonna do that we should go all-out and they should be IMPOSSIBLE to size, VERY expensive, flimsy, and made of uncomfortable, itchy materials.
And the little ones should have cute designs but the big ones only come in white,black, and tan
and there should be a company that sells them called Victor’s Secret, that has uncomfortably large, close-up photos of enormously-endowed male “angels” stuffed into their gorgeous little pouches spread all over every mall and TV channel, which changes societal expectations on penis size as a whole, so that men who don’t have incredibly large penises feel impossibly inadequate and feel compelled to make up for it by spending a fortune on overpriced penis pouches as a way of compensating.
Then Victor’s Secret should be sure not to actually carry any of these garments in the sizes that they advertise, so that only modestly-endowed men have the privilege of being seen in the shop, which is the type of place that simultaneously clamors for huge dicks, but refuses to cater to them in any way, leaving everyone involved vaguely uncomfortable and slightly ashamed.
This is legit one of the best posts I’ve ever found on tumblr.
happy christmas adam to all men’s rights activists
Please stop pestering us with things like this. This has nothing to do with men fighting for their rights. Eve is short for ‘evening’. Please don’t turn activism into a joke. Thanks.
Someone isn’t having a good christmas adam
Christmas Adam: December 23rd. Comes before Christmas Eve and is generally unsatisfying.
This disconnect doesn’t just have to do with female characters,
either. I’m reminded of that Tumblr post that compares two magazine
covers featuring Hugh Jackman: a men’s magazine on which he appears
bulging-veined, huge-muscled, and sort of terrifying and weird, and a
women’s magazine on which he appears as a slim, athletic guy smiling and
wearing a sweater. Anyone who reads comics is familiar with this
weirdness: comics heroes are often depicted as nightmarishly
hyper-muscled, enormous man-mountains. (Interestingly, this trend grew
more and more exaggerated as women became more and more nominally
liberated– that is, as they should have been more and more able to
communicate what they wanted, including what they wanted from men.)
Hyper-masculinity is almost always framed in terms of being attractive–
to women or, for gay men, to other men– and sometimes even talked about
in the same breath as “the female gaze.” Yet, as that Tumblr post points
out, while “the female gaze” is attracted by things like a naked,
sweaty Chris Evans or Idris Elba, it’s also attracted by things like:
men smiling in sweaters, men crying (DON’T LIE TUMBLR), barefoot fragile
Sebastian Stan in the rain on Political Animals, men holding
babies, men speaking foreign languages, Mark Ruffalo, and a whole bunch
of weird stuff on Ao3 that I don’t even wanna get into. And that’s just
“the female gaze as it pertains to men.“
But think about whether men would agree that this is what women find
attractive in men. Imagine a men’s magazine that offers tips on being
attractive to women that include: looking fragile, being a bumbling
scientist, acting like a helpless meatball, expressing affection to tiny
children, blushing, being intensely interested in gorgeous clothes,
etc, etc. This is hard to imagine. In fact, these are characteristics
that are typically characterized as not ideal for men, because they are coded as feminine. Yet they’re also not only traits that are commonly attractive to women, but are generally accepted
as commonly attractive to women, if one looks at “women’s”
entertainment (romantic comedies, chick lit, anything in which Hugh
Grant appears).
What I’m getting at is that there is a division between what attracts
women and what men accept/permit as attracting women. Men are engaged
in a constant enforcement of heteronormativity, a policing of women’s
desire and their own accession to it. What women want is subordinate to
what men decide that women want, and the latter is then culturally
broadcast as the ideological “what women want” that becomes accepted.
This is true also in the case of female characters. What do women want in female characters? Well, I mean, a lot of us just want female characters for the love of God. But
specifically: some of the most popular current female characters in
comics/MCU fandom are: Natasha Romanoff, in a movie (Cap 2) where she
only briefly appeared in a sexy bodysuit and instead spent most of her
time wearing jeans and a hoodie, wisecracking, having a complex
narrative about salvation, and hacking computers, not to mention the
down-to-earth Phil Noto comics depiction, who even (GASP) sometimes
wears a ponytail; Peggy Carter, a 1940s secret agent with little
patience for men; Kamala Khan, a teenage Pakistani-American girl who
writes fan fiction and wears a modest homemade costume; Darcy Lewis,
who’s full-figured, socially awkward, and not a superhero; the lady
scientists of the MCU (Jane Foster, Maya Hansen, Betty Ross)… I could go
on.
But what do men apparently believe that women want in female
characters? Well, going by Joss Whedon: superheroines who wear catsuits,
beat up men, are secretly very vulnerable, and are sexually threatened,
fragile and unstable girl-women with superpowers beyond their control…
oh, wait. That’s it. Expanding beyond Whedon, the most common
characteristics tend to be: aggressively sexy, sexually threatened,
beats up bad men but is secretly vulnerable. I discussed already one
potential reason this is attractive to men (see my previous post); my
issue here is: this is not what women want, but it is what men believe
that women want, because it is what they have been told by other men
that women want.
Once again, what women want is ignored (or, more accurately, invisibilized– in that men deny or are oblivious to its existence)
in favor of the ideological construct of “what women want,” which is
determined and enforced by men. Men genuinely believe that they know
what women want, and are earnest in their attempts to explain “what
women want” to women. They are deeply confused, because of course
they know what women want! Right? They are unable to see that they are
selling a version of “what women want” is essentially “what it would be
attractive to men for women to want.”
Okay, but Dean picked up his bloodied machete. The tool of his trade. The manly hunter weapon. … And put it down. And picked up the ultimate symbol of femininity, the pink purse, and in it found the currency he needed to use.
Okay then.
Robbie, let me love you!
hehehehe.
Adding yet another example this season of the masculine being either transformed by or exchanged in favor of the feminine
so far it’s been at least one example per episode, most of them connecting in some way to Dean
i fucking hate dating nerds one single time i wore a star wars shirt to see a dude and he was like, “wow are u wearing that to impress me” and i said, “star wars episode 4 was seen by approximately 110 million people during its initial theatrical run in 1977”
Congratulations. You’re dating people who for the longest time have been putting up with bullying, mocking, and scorn for most of their lives. That kind of shit stays with people. So imagine their surprise when they see a member of the opposite sex, who I’m assuming is really attractive in comparison to most people, wear attire that reps nerd culture. Which even though is accepted by the masses (if you’re reasonably attractive) is still rare. Now I’m not saying that you’re not allowed to be scornful I’m just saying expect it and don’t be surprised when you hear it. Ok? OK.
why i dont date fucking nerds: exhibit B
Bolded emphasis mine. Gross.
Stands on nearest chair: ATTENTION MALE NERDS. YOU ARE NOT SUFFERING FROM A SHORTAGE OF FEMALE NERDS. THERE ARE VAST NUMBERS OF US, AND WE RARELY HAVE A HARD TIME FINDING EACH OTHER. YOU ARE WITHOUT FEMALE COMPANY BECAUSE YOU ARE WHINEY ASSBABIES WHO THINK YOU OWN THINGS BECAUSE YOU LIKE THEM, AND BECAUSE YOU SOMEHOW THINK YOU SUFFER BULLYING WHEREAS GIRL NERDS SOMEHOW NEVER DO. STOP PRETENDING YOU GET TO BE ASSHOLES BECAUSE YOU HAVE A “TRAGIC PAST” OR YOU WILL DIE ALONE. IF YOU THINK GIRL NERDS DON’T GET BULLIED IT’S LIKELY BECAUSE THOSE GIRLS DON’T WANT TO TALK TO YOU, BECAUSE OF THIS SORT OF ATTITUDE.
also: fucking no one mocks nerds anymore. Game of thrones is the most watched show on tv, everyone and their mom is playing video games, dungeons and dragons is more popular than it’s ever been.
