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"He - well, I thought he was a bit of an idiot."
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MYTHOLOGY MEME - [2/3] Places → Athens

Athens is the capital city of Greece and has been continuously inhabited for over 7000 years. In ancient times, it was one of the main city-states that competed for power against Sparta, Corinth and Thebes. It also provided the backdrop for various myths and legends for ancient Greeks. Its name derives from the goddess of wisdom, Athena, who became the city’s patron goddess after a contest with Poseidon. The two gods competed for who would get the honour of becoming the patron god of the city, and offered gifts to the Athenians. Poseidon hit the ground with his trident and created a spring, showing that he would offer significant naval power. Athena, on the other hand, offered the olive tree, a symbol of prosperity and peace. The Athenians, led by King Cecrops I, decided to take Athena’s gift, thus making her the patron goddess. [x]
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unoppressedactivities

white girls are having a crisis, y’all.

I’m so embarrassed oh my god why

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gamegrrl

okay but like. girls being made fun of for liking things that are either marketed toward them or popular (or both) is REALLY prevalent?? and like?? sexist?? like blatantly sexist??? and if you actually read the article its like?? talking about destroying the idea that a girl is “less than” just bc she likes popular stuff? like man that’s important please stop

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queenhippolyta

The bolded excerpt from the article captures it really well.

"Liking something popular doesn’t make you lame. Discounting someone for having some of those same interests does."

And this is something that happens pretty exclusively to women. The article even points it out. When men enjoy things that are popular among men, no one comments on in, certainly not in a negative way. No one laughs at men for liking CrossFit, or beer, or watching football. It’s okay for men to like things that lots of men like because mens’ interests are good and valuable from a societal perspective. Because men are good and valuable. But when women like things, those things become the subject of shitty, sexist jokes that further the belittlement of the interests of women and women in general.

This is just another way for men to shit on women and to further brainwash women and girls with internalized misogyny. This becomes another case of “I’m not like other girls.”

"Oh she likes pumpkin spice lattes and Sex in the City? That’s so gross and lame. I like Guinness and WWE. I’m just not like other girls."

As though being like others girls is so bad. But thanks to the idea that liking what other girls like makes you a “basic bitch” and thus lame and to be laughed at, another generation of girls is growing up thinking that women and the things they enjoy are detestable and to be laughed at while the interests of men are somehow superior and preferable. That girls doing things that make them happy is some sort of sad joke.

And that’s complete bullshit.

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hoggywarttie

"She started going out with him in seventh year," said Lupin. “Once James had deflated his head a bit,” said Sirius. “And stopped hexing people just for the fun of it,” said Lupin.

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The story of Cinderella has always struck me as the most incomprehensible of all the moral fables known as fairy tales. Here is a plain, depressed slave of a girl, beaten and maltreated y her family (her stepfamily, actually—as is usual with these matriarch-oriented narratives, the father is absent), whose miserable life consists of cleaning pots, waiting on tables and sleeping on straw, who suddenly finds herself magically transformed into a radiant, opulently dressed beauty, sought after by the Prince of the Kingdom, and who three times flees the palace where she is the belle of the ball to return to the hole in a corner of the house where she is a virtual prisoner. And she can’t decide which place to choose? (In the anodyne Perrault version, she is forced to be back by the stroke of midnight, or be exposed as the fraud she is, but in the Grimm version it is her choice.) It takes an accidental circumstance to solve her problem: she loses a slipper, leading the prince to find her and take matters in his own hands. But what exactly is her problem? No one in five hundred—plus years has given a plausible explanation of her indecisiveness until Lapine came along with a startling solution: Cinderella doesn’t lose her slipper, she deliberately leaves it behind. She knows she’s an impostor and doesn’t want willingly to mislead the Prince (and the world). She figures that if the Prince really cares to see her again, he’ll follow the clue she has left. She doesn’t want an accident of fate to fix her life, she wants to be loved for herself. Viewed in this light, the story makes more sense; not only that, it explains the universality of its appeal and why, more than any other fable, it exists in every culture.

Stephen Sondheim —Look, I Made a Hat (via claudiablacks)

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                    psa — if we’re mutuals, this gives you unsaid permission to attack my inbox whenever you want, as much as you want, with whatever you want.  want to spam me with memes?  break your ask limit.  want to send me random messages?  break your ask limit.  want to leave me love?  break your ask limit.  anything.  everything.  it doesn’t matter what time of day or night, even if i’m not around, you are always welcome.  you always have permission.  i mean it.
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areyoudonebro

The fact that most guys’ first response to a woman wanting equality is “SO CAN I HIT U NOW” is sort of terrifying Like that’s the first thing you’re concerned about? I just want equal pay and you want to punch me in the face? Cool cool

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REBLOG IF YOU DON'T THINK LEGGINGS ARE TOO SEXUAL TO BE WORN TO SCHOOL.

I’m conducting a survey. If you disagree with this statement, and believe that leggings are too sexual to be worn to (high) school, reblog this post instead.

(Also, feel free to leave me an ask explaining why you chose the one you did.)

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