All I Want to do is Fly

Anyway, listen to POC when we say something is harmful, thanks. 

evanbucxley:

buck’s betrayed expression when eddie leaves him for marjan during the wildfire vs. eddie’s gaze keeping steady on buck while buck’s full attention is on taylor during the treasure hunt

from-nova:

WOMEN 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 SUITS 👏🏻

I just want to be at home instead of in the office so I can post the first chapter of this WiP and also avoid interacting with my boss or having to answer the phone, is that so much to ask

larkandkatydid:

miniwrecks29245:

woman: acknowledges misogyny for one single second

the world: why are you talking about misogyny instead of literally every other problem on earth also why do you want everyone who isnt a woman to drop dead

This might feel like a reach, but in Susan Douglas book that’s a history of baby boomer feminist pop culture, she talks a lot about both 1960s news shows and sitcomes disparaged the women’s movement in exactly this way.

On the nightly news it was serious reporters and commentators who suddenly cared A LOT about the Civil Rights movement when they could use it as a serious counterpoint to the selfish and silly whims of white American housewives.  They also, for some reason, elevated “the scourge of highway billboards” as slightly below civil rights but much, much more important than feminism and something that it would behoove white housewives to focus on instead.

In sitcoms (she especially references Green Acres), the joke is that, again, a spoiled housewife discovers feminism and has the narcissistic gall to act like SHE is oppressed. Fortunately, her comical insistence that she and her husband flip chores proves to her that men work much, much harder than women and she was only able to complete the Men’s Work by secretly hiring a man. The biggest running gag on this show and others was the foolishness of women comparing their “sexism” to the real oppression felt by black Americans in the south, to those suffering under Communism, to the starvation in the developing world.

So, I guess  plus ça change, etc

evanbucxley:

-We’re way past that, Buck.
-I’m not.

softpng:

pride and prejudice is about the romance but it’s also about jane austen making fun of men

jethroq:

rnorningstars:

I really believe there’s some sort of “emperor’s new clothes” phenomenon happening with Gen Z discoursers where they’re too afraid to question the logic of some of the discourse being thrown at them for fear of appearing to be unwoke so they just blindly parrot it not to be excluded by their peers

not just a Gen Z thing, like that’s a valid criticism of tumblr few years back, and I’m not ashamed to admit it sucked me in too. people can say whatever shit they want as long as they use the right vocabulary and an agressive tone that just implies that disagreement is out of the question. it sinks in because you will get similar messages about legitimate issues and sometimes from the same people.