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residentgoodgirl:

residentgoodgirl:

I think one of my least favorite types of responses to people speaking up on sexual harassment and sexual assault is are articles like “in wake of weinstein, men wonder if hugging women still ok”, and comments like “this is why men don’t pursue women anymore”, “i don’t wanna work with women cause i don’t want a lawsuit”, or “i don’t even look at women anymore cause everything is sexual harassment”. this is a particular brand of rape culture, men acting as if women are overreacting, as if men don’t have the basic social skills to know the difference between wanted and unwanted advances, as if women simply setting boundaries is “cramping their style” and “emasculating” them, as if the rules of respecting women are super confusing, so confusing that they’re supposedly forcing men not to interact with us altogether.

this is an act they’ve been putting on for decades: playing stupid, pretending not to know better and then getting upset when we tell them what “better” is. if that doesn’t show you how emotional and emotionally manipulative they are, i don’t know what does.

tulipfem:

brutereason:

I find it fascinating that people who choose not to have children are generally assumed to feel really strongly about not having children (or even to feel really strongly against children, anyone’s children, in general). I am probably not going to have children, not because I REALLY REALLY HATE the idea of having children, but because I don’t really really love it. Out of all the major decisions I will make in my life, this one is the only irreversible one. I can sell a house, quit a job, divorce a spouse, whatever. I cannot unhave a child. I cannot opt out of being a parent once I become a parent. I can’t even take a step back for the sake of self-care or whatever, or else my child will suffer.

So for me, having children is fuck yes or not at all. The default will be to remain childfree. Having children should be an opt-in decision, not an opt-out one. Until/unless I develop really strong feelings about wanting to have children, I won’t have them, even if that means I never end up having them at all.

This is really, REALLY well put.

Same here, still on the fence on whether im gonna have kids, not because I dont like them, but im not surr I could handle it or have the necessary financial conditions to raise one.

I already struggle having to get my own shit together, now imagine adding a kid to the mix.

thegirlwiththeloontattoo:

People say “phase” like impermanence means insignificance. Show me a permanent state of the self.

urulokid:

jk rowling REALLY is out here saying for 20 years she decided nagini would be a cursed woman suffering from a women only curse that turns you into a fucking animal irreversibly…..and never got a single second opinion….let me tell u what joanne koanne rowanne if I even so much as SUSPECTED that I was pregnant with a girl when my mother grandmother and great grand mother all died of turning into bears, i would be pulling out a fetus deletus so fast it would invent an entirely new and even more stupid magical curse LET’S BE FUCKING REALISTIC HERE IN HARRY POTTER 2.0: CASH COW BOOGALOO