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tumblr leftists being surprised to see middle aged white women with signs or hats saying "deny defend depose" really reinforces for me that tumblr leftists don't actually talk to people lmao. like I did a lot of canvassing as a teenager and you know who the best most reliable political organizers are? middle aged women. you know who's bloodthirsty after watching rachel maddow every night and sharing HuffPo articles on facebook? middle aged women. maybe sheryl from iowa who's been voting religiously for democrats for the past thirty years IS more hardcore than you, tumblr user who did a write-in "protest vote." what are you going to do about that.

i know that people treat female staff worse over the phone than men, but i feel like, perhaps depending on the job, there's a sex difference too. bizarrely, i get more rage and insults from female customers than males. men will get upset or have a rude tone, but they will barely ever yell at insult me and even apologise during and say 'i know you don't control it, i'm just frustrated at the situation' and become calmer when i'm calm towards them. they're obviously more threatening when they do get angry, and are more likely to throw out physical threats, though those are VERY rare in general, and they virtually always aim them at my male coworkers, not the women.

but with women, especially women 30+, my friendly, polite tone seems to enrage them more? i'll use deescalation tactics, but end up being called a bitch or useless or generally get yelled at in a completely unwarranted way. and then the second i hand the phone to my male coworkers to deal with, or they answer when the woman calls again, she'll be completely chill and understanding with them.

what in the internalised misogyny...

That stuffed animal looks suspiciously familiar

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*Entering kindergarten classroom* Tell me five hobbies everyone has that AREN’T consuming media. Exactly, no idea how to engage with the real world *sees blues clues playing* you know that’s all pre-recorded slop right? Steve can’t hear you. and dogs aren’t even blue. This is the death of media literacy…

No more “girly pop” no more “demure” I’m so serious

Genuinely bizarre to me that "I don't want to have sex/be physically intimate with someone unless I have a deep emotional connection with them" is considered by some to be a whole sexuality instead of like. Normal.

Afghan girls, Sudanese girls, Congolese girls, Palestinian girls and all the women of colour whose pain is justified away because "it's the region/the religion/the culture and those things never change", we remember you on Women's day. How I feel is until all women everywhere can live life totally free, we're all a few fascist moves from losing the little autonomy we have in our countries.

May we all one day experience total woman victory where all our sisters live fully autonomous lives free from violence, harm, control and subterfuge.