thepeacockangel:

Where women especially have to be born to something in order to be valid.  Like female heroes in media rarely become special through their own agency, they were born special, to special parents.  Women are supposed to be born beautiful, beauty that isn’t *~*~*~*natural

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is despised as unnatural and immoral.  I think one of the ways women are dehumanized is that we’re not supposed to grow or change or become.  We’re just supposed to be.  Women are sort of supposed to be like angels, purer and more moral than men, ethereal ideal beings without free will.  If we show signs of free will then we’re the devil. Men are allowed to be complex, flawed, growing, changing beings.  We’re supposed to be static.

The popularity of princess fantasies speaks to this to me.  Boys’ fantasy characters often become special.  Girls’ fantasy characters have to be born special.

IDK my point is that for women specialness or value isn’t something we’re supposed to be able to acquire for ourselves, but must be inherent to us or possibly bestowed by a man (through parentage or marriage)

Addendum: Also this probably relates to a lot of experiences I don’t have, and like someone confirmed my thought that this whole line of societal reasoning plays heavily into transmisogyny

Additionally when a woman who’s been out of the public eye for awhile resurfaces and has, quite naturally, aged the media’s always like” WHAT HAPPENED?!?!”

alyesque:

Any good poetry or fiction which reimagines eve as a liberator of humanity?

I wrote a fake nag hammadi text about this if you wanna read it

veryfemmeandantifascist:

me: 

also me:

there’s nothing wrong about liking sparkly shit, it only becomes a problem when you want to be the only one with sparkly shit