bonus round: Reaper is the OC that Gabe came up with. Jack told him “I don’t think you’re taking this seriously” and pouted at him because he thinks Gabe’s just poking fun, but Gabe’s OC is probably more thought out and nuanced than Jack’s is (jack thinks liefeld pouches are character development).
doctor: ur acne is being caused by stress
Me: so it’s incurable :/
doctor: no! You just need to find a way to relax and stop being stressed
Me: so it’s incurable :/
So my dad used to teach human evolution at the University of Minnesota, right? And his favorite thing was discussing Native American cultures and bashing misogyny.
So he’d start off class by going “Raise your hand if you think you know why men hunted and women stayed back in the settlements” and most kids would raise their hands. He’d list off a few various reasons and kids would slowly start participating. Then he’d go “How many of you think it’s because men are stronger” and of course most of the males would raise their hands with a few girls. He’d then proceed to rip apart the patriarchal views they had all been taught. “No,” he’d say, “It’s because if five men went out and three or two came back no one would bat an eye. They’d grieve sure, but society would go on. Now if five women went out and three or two came back you know what would happen? Society would collapse.”
And it was true. For many Native American cultures the only reason women did what they did was because the men couldn’t do it. We are (usually) taught a twisted, self-aggrandizing form of history despite evidence suggesting the complete opposite of it.
This was present in a lot of cultures in the past before white colonization (see: imperialism and genocide)
In Australia the Aborigines believed that women were more powerful than men and closer to gods because of their ability to give birth, and men would make themselves bleed just to be like women when they came of age
In the Philippines many people held practices which celebrated a woman’s first menstruation, encouraged free sexual exploration before marriage for young men and women, and believed women to be spiritual leaders, so that the only way a “man” could be one was to become a woman (transwomen were able and even encouraged to marry, and were identified as women within the community)
Also in the Philippines economic structures defined power, so a man who was poorer than his wife would take her name, and daughters would inherit and become heads of the family if they were the eldest
Westerners love to flout how great they are at women empowerment when it comes to other cultures that treat women badly, but actively try to hide the fact that there are thousands of other cultures who treated women better centuries ago than they do even today
headcanon that since the slytherin common room is under the lake there’s a room where the walls and ceiling are glass and you can just see into the lake like an aquarium
headcanon that when this was first done the mermaids got really aggressive and hateful about it and started ramming the glass but since it was magic this just caused them injuries
until a deaf/hoh slytherin started to teach them sign language and it took a long time bit by the time they left hogwarts they and the rest of the house were communicating with the mermaids and on good terms
eventually it becomes a part of slytherin house culture you’re a slytherin you know sign language because if you don’t chat with the mermaids they get grumpy
this helps a lot of deaf/hoh students
this also gives slytherin the best grades of any house on all aquatic magical studies
the mermaids give terrible dating advice do not trust them
The most common mermaid dating advice, of course, being “Drown him”
Nobody gets this and nobody gets how it can lead to a very scary place where you are completely unable to trust your recollection and a lot of people will take advantage of that when they realize it . It’s so hard.
the vast majority of trans men on tumblr: i don’t feel comfortable being a trans man on tumblr due to the vast majority of people who vehemently hate men. this is not to say that systematic misandry is real – it isn’t. i completely understand why women hate/are scared of men, and i want nothing more than to align myself as an ally with these women and support their voices in this patriarchal society. however, it took years of self-hatred and shame before i finally accepted i am not cis, and am actually a trans man. it is a radical declaration of self love to love myself as male, and tumblr is not a healthy environment for that, which is very upsetting as it is one of the few lgbt friendly spaces online where i thought i would feel safe. this is a difficult situation with no easy answer, and i wish one group of people could feel safe without making another group of people feel unsafe.
in superman adventures #19, there’s a villain named multi-face who can convincingly disguise himself as anyone, even tricking dna tests and x-ray vision. Superman initially can’t stop him
and the only reason he gets caught is because multiface decides to disguise himself as, of all people, CLARK KENT i’m screaming
