mossghoul:

mossghoul:

I mean it’s true that some employers see you as less professional if you don’t wear makeup, but it’s not all employers in all industries and I think it’s unhelpful to scare young women into believing that makeup is 100% mandatory to get ahead in the workplace. There’s a fair chance your boss won’t give a shit, or will be afraid of you kicking up a legal fuss. None of my female colleagues wear makeup. Nobody cares. Everyone still asks us for our advice. We’re not getting fired or denied promotions for getting old or not being hot.

I think a good approach is to stop wearing makeup at your job and see what happens. If it’s a problem, someone will let you know (and you can consider if that’s something you’re willing to put up with in a workplace, no judgment either way). If it’s not an issue and nobody says anything, then good. Just keep being yourself.

To clarify, I work in a professional environment. I represent the government. I don’t wear makeup when I’m making submissions before a judge/commissioner/magistrate, I don’t wear makeup when I’m meeting clients (external or internal stakeholders), I don’t wear it when new staff are joining the team.

When I worked in private practice, some of the women lawyers wore makeup, some didn’t. Some of the women in admin wore makeup, some didn’t. It has never been essential or even part of the norm in any workplace in which I’ve been employed.

I’m stoked to hear all the women reblogging this and talking about how it isn’t the norm for their workplaces, either ☺️

glitter-soda:

glitter-soda:

It’s honestly pathetic af that most normie straight people are better allies than a lot self proclaimed queer people.

Most straight people who aren’t conservative or terminally online tend to have a “live and let live” attitude and it’s great. They don’t think lesbians are bigots for not wanting to suck dick because they understand what a homosexual is. Like that bullshit doesn’t even cross their minds. They may misspeak or make stupid assumptions sometimes, but that’s infinitely more tolerable than getting talked down to or threatened or sexually harassed by some honey nut queerio who thinks my sexuality isn’t “inclusive” enough.

Some middle aged lady with a “Coexist” bumper sticker who does nothing for gays but offhandedly mentioning she supports marriage equality is a better ally than you’ll ever be, Mr. “lesbian means non-men attracted to non-men”. Now find a hobby that doesn’t involve sending women death threats

radfemgayman:

timbsperdu:

The notion that straight people who approach sex unconventionally are comparable to gay people is predicated on a conception of gayness as sexual deviance. It’s homophobic.

i will reblog this each time i see it.

wtffundiefamilies:

darkacademialesbian:

darkacademialesbian:

darkacademialesbian:

if i heard that a woman aborted a fetus because prenatal screening had revealed a disability that i shared, i would simply not shame her

RIP to people who think bodily autonomy is conditional but im different

i’ve been getting a lot of comments/questions about this post. some is good, some is bad. i’ve decided not to respond individually and instead say:

• i said what i said. i wasn’t confused about saying it.
• if i found out a woman had aborted a fetus because she found out that fetus had a disability that i have—disabilities that i have firsthand knowledge of being painful, difficult to live with, and often resource-intensive—i would not be angry with her. i would not feel like she doesn’t think people like me should not be alive (unless she actually said so).
• fetuses are not little potential “you”s. projecting your own anxieties onto a woman’s abortion (”i wouldn’t have wanted to be aborted” is common reasoning in plenty of pro-life circles; it’s not better here) is invasive and nonsensical.
• bodily autonomy isn’t conditional. you don’t know a woman’s exact reason for abortion and you don’t need to. women’s rights to abortion need to be protected, even if you feel icky about some potential reasoning behind an abortion, which you aren’t even fully privy to in the first place.
• disabled people should always be in the care of people who have the resources and desire to take care of them. insisting that disabled children be born simply to ease your own moral qualms with abortion is frankly unethical in my opinion, resources are often very slim for disabled people. not to mention our quality of life is often just lower in general. you can argue all you want in the notes about “mild” disabilities but you aren’t the arbiter of what constitutes a mild enough disability to make an abortion terrible and immoral and shame-worthy. 
• women aren’t vessels. regardless of how morally pure you feel your crusade is, they simply aren’t.
• speaking as a disabled person, energy is literally always better spent on changing society—by increasing resources for caretakers and disabled people alike, speaking frankly about quality of life, correcting notions about what disabled people’s lives are like, punishing mistreatment of actual disabled people [not potential ones], and putting research into easing the pain/suffering of people as much as possible—than it is on getting mad about women getting abortions. and it isn’t just better spent that way, it’s just immoral to do the latter.
• in conclusion: RIP to people who think bodily autonomy is conditional but im different.

Always relevant.

jasperjv:

choppers-pink-hat:

awgeezitsthetoiletnator:

ankle-beez:

ALT

ALT

an interesting take on this from matt braly, creator of amphibia

Imagine being a business that has managed to get THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF CUSTOMERS IT IS POSSIBLE TO HAVE, and you’ve managed to make it so this is a bad thing.

You did it. That’s late stage capitalism in one sentence.

there-are-4-lights:

female-eren:

The argument that we should no longer have sports leagues for men and women, instead sort everyhing by height/weight/muscle mass is crazy because do you know what categories would be the most effective sorting system with the least amount of random outliers? Male and female sports

emma hilton’s laurel hubbard graph is great at showing this. is hubbard one of the greatest female weightlifters of all time??? or just a male

there-are-4-lights:

female-eren:

The argument that we should no longer have sports leagues for men and women, instead sort everyhing by height/weight/muscle mass is crazy because do you know what categories would be the most effective sorting system with the least amount of random outliers? Male and female sports

emma hilton’s laurel hubbard graph is great at showing this. is hubbard one of the greatest female weightlifters of all time??? or just a male

bitterbad-fem-harpy:

kaijuno:

kaijuno:

kaijuno:

Don’t talk to me about equality until they start testing female crash dummies

Look this sounds like some bullshit but it’s not. Because I am a female, I am too short for the seatbelts in any car that I’ve ever driven. If I were to get into an accident, my windpipe would be crushed by the seatbelt and I would die. Because I’m under 5’8. Step one. Obviously this is not okay.

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Women are more likely to die from internal bleeding after a car accident because the lap belt slides up to our torso and the momentum that throws our body forward (into the lap belt in this case) is enough to crush our organs against the belt until they rupture.

unsentimentaltranslator:

hexagon-club:

girlschasinggirls:

greenwire:

bitterbad-fem-harpy:

back-not-broken:

heterorealism:

“I deserved to be knocked down a peg.”

Not just her, but their daughter apparently deserved it too, as all her things went missing as well.

I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around this for almost an hour now and cannot fathom why anyone would steal from their child then berate them for losing the stolen item

I don’t understand the point of secretly destroying his wife’s plants also I guess it makes everyone else more unhappy, do you think that’s all it is?

this is the beginning of/mild sociopathic and narcissistic abuse it’s often so hard to notice because it’s the most random stuff that a normal person would never even think of doing

I think the point is that it is something so esoteric that you look like the crazy one if you call it out. Because why would you accuse someone of doing something so odd? It’s not like anyone would actually do that…

This hurts my heart. It’s the kind of gratuitously nasty thing bullies do to make their victim’s life miserable only it’s coming from someone she’s supposed to be able to trust. Men are fucking trash.

pollutionofthepolls:

What would you rather do?

5 years of college (engineering)

Sit inside a bathroom stall for 4 hours (no entertainment)

Babysit 5 children for a week (2-7 years old)

Present a self-written speech to 25 000 people

Skip 30 years forward (you disappear, then reappear at your current age in 2054)

Are you guys joking? I’m getting an engineering degree right now and it is fantastic!! 🤖 🔧 🧍‍♀️

saul-tortellini:

mortimermcmirestinks:

mostly-funnytwittertweets:

hey good news

there’s a specifically designated role in the naked mole rat ecology for “guy who runs off into the wilderness and fucks their way into a stranger’s house”

Y'all have no idea how absurdly strange naked mole rats are as creatures
They’re cold-blooded mammals that live in a eusocial structure with a queen and drones, similar to ants, bees, termites and no other mammal on the planet.
They barely need to breathe, with a respiration rate low enough to let them thrive in burrows with 2% oxygen, and survive with 0 oxygen whatsoever for about 20 minutes with zero lasting effects.

They live for over 30 years, which is absurdly long for a rodent, don’t grow frail with age, and are basically immune to cancer because their telomeres just never shorten.

Naked Mole Rats are rodents that attempted to evolve into bugs, failed, and unlocked the secret to immortality in the process.

kiradical:

retroactivebakeries:

friendlyfrankenstein:

the scariest thing about old tv isnt really the racism or the sexisim because you kinda go in braced for that it’s all the scenes where suddenly an actress is holding a lion cub or a chimpanzee is in the same room as a toddler, or suddenly theres a lion, or there’s a chimpanzee again but it’s driving a car, or holding a lighter, or holding fireworks. You just kind of watch in horror as over and over an actress performs with only 1960s tv film shootings best animal handling between her and the opening to Nope.

This is how I learn that the famous chimp my dad got my nickname from tried to kill Reagan. Fuck yeah.

radiofreederry:

oliviawebsite:

all rommates are born with an innate ability to go in the kitchen and start cooking something that takes 2 hours to make mere moments before you were about to go out there to make your 12pm depression breakfast