syriuslyharry:

lady-patra:

shiraglassman:

purpleshimapan:

fireandwonder:

shiraglassman:

shiraglassman:

We just bought a cute sofa from an antique shop, while being very obviously a couple and looking like a butch/femme salt and pepper shaker set, and the shop owner wanted to know how long we’d been, and I quote, “hanging out.”

I’ll still laughing at this the next morning.

*gets down on one knee in front of gal pal* *takes out ring* Will you hang out with me?

There was one time I was out shoe shopping with my partner and I was debating buying these cute pastel green shoes. The saleswoman was like “well why don’t we ask your friend here?” I said “oh actually this is my partner.” The woman stared at us blank faced for a few awkward seconds before forcibly smiling and saying, “partner in crime?”

JAW….DROP…. 

In a store once with a girl I used to date, browsing through all these different mattresses. One of the sales ladies came over and talked about all the beds with us for quite some time while we told her what we were looking for. It was painfully obvious we were a couple, like literally holding hands and calling each cute pet names out loud. Finally the sales lady laughs nervously and says “sooo.. wow, what kind of roommate setup is that that forces you two to have to share a bed!?”
I just sort of stared at her for second at a complete loss and said “… the dating kind…”

#this is ridiculous  #sometimes i think two women would have to fuck each other in public  #and some people would stil be like ‘wow what a great friendship’

Have done that (fucked in public, at a play party) and guess what? SOMEONE LITERALLY DID THAT.

patas-de-perro:

thepeacockangel:

Is like thinking day care workers are trying to steal your kid.

Bad analogy considering that that shit does happen

But the vast VAST majority have no interest in or intention of doing so and generally people don’t go stomping down to daycare to confront the person watching their dribbling, shitting infant about spending time with their kid

In charge of a large company, I would make the dresscode gender neutral: Everyone has to wear an ant costume.

thepeacockangel:

Also sometimes “choice feminist” rhetoric bothers me, because like, do your makeup, don’t do your makeup, that’s all fine and good, humans have been painting our faces since we got slightly less hairy then our predecessors, but the whole “I want to choose to stay home and be supported” thing (when done by straight women) rubs me the wrong way a bit because like A: the position of dependence that puts you in makes me uncomfortable and is actually historically aberrant (most people were subsistence farmers, both partners in a married couple were necessary for survival, whereas now the partner who works outside the home would be fine without due to technology and so on, for most of history the vast majority couples were interdependent rather than one depending upon the other) B: The fact that this is overwhelmingly something women choose and are expected to choose is suspicious as fuck C: Without the radical demand for wages for housework it enforces the idea of domestic labor as not being “real” labor D: I’m just saying the fetishization of economic dependence upon someone else (someone you’re presumably in a relationship with) makes me feel icky. E: Being economically dependent on another person creates really fucked up power dynamics that are really hard to overcome and with the gendered power dynamics on top of that it’s just like… really easy for such a situation to turn deeply unhealthy

I’m probably wrong and an asshole for feeling this way… but like stay home with your BBys/cats/whatever by all means, that’s awesome, but demand to be paid for it and shit.

That said it’s incredibly interesting that economic dependence has been the norm for wealthy women in many (if not most) cultures for the majority of recorded history and dependence has been treated as something inspirational, something to be longed for…