God I Hate Having OCD, Because Why Tf Am I Literally Sick With Guilt Over Something That I Never Even

Me

*helps a bug outside so people don't kill it*

*flash forward and I'm convicted of a crime I didn't commit*

*no lawyer touches the case for me*

*everyone hears a buzz and turns around*

*the bug is wearing a tiny suit with a tiny suitcase and becomes my defense attorney*

im a simple gal, u as someone not on the schizophrenic spectrum say schizo, i avoid the hell out of you

i bring a "they shouldnt have that wild animal in their house" sort of vibe to the conversation that enjoyers of cute animal videos dont really like

it’s hard to be a saint in the city!

Was compelled to make this during a conversation about commonly disliked bugs

a phrase that kinda bothers me when talking about women's historical roles in europe is "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear it so often, those exact words in the same order even. and once you learn a little more you realize that the massive gaping hole in that list is fiberwork. im not an expert and have no hard numbers, but i wouldnt be surprised if fiberwork took up nearly as much time as the other three tasks combined, so it's not a trivial omission.

it's not a hot take to say that the mass amnesia about fiberwork is linked to the belittlement of women's work in geneal, but i do think there's a special kind of illusion that is cast by "cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children." you hear that and think "well i cook and clean and take care of children (or i know someone who does) and i have a sense of how much work that is" and you know of course that cooking and cleaning were more laborious before modern technology, but still, you have a ballpark estimate you think, when in fact you are drastically underestimating the work load.

i also think that this just micharacterizes the role of women's work in livelihoods? cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children are all sisyphean tasks that have to be repeated the next day. these are important, but not the whole picture. when we include all kinds of fiberwork—and other things, such as making candles or soap—women's work looks much more like manufacturing, a sphere we now associate more with men's work. i feel like women's connection to making and craftsmanship is often elided.

12/8/22: decomposing vertebrae harboring algal growth.

"I'm going to teach my sons to respect women."

A lot of women say this in response to all the sexism they see and experience. But it only works if you teach him to question all sources of power. If you're a single issue feminist and you want your son to question his privilege as a male but uphold your privilege as an adult, you'll fail miserably and it will be your own fault.

If you spend his entire childhood demanding that he obey all adults no matter how abusive and you call that "respect", then when he's a teenager and you teach him to "respect" women, he'll think women are just one more group of people who he has to submit to, and he'll easily fall for propaganda that feminism is a female supremacist movement. If you call him "disrespectful" when he says or does something sexist and you've also called him "disrespectful" for backtalk, eye rolling, muttering, or breathing loudly, he'll think you're just being an unreasonable authority figure once again. If you spank him and try to teach him that domestic violence is wrong, he'll see you as a blatantly obvious hypocrite.

Single issue activism is useless, and your child will see right through it. You can't just add "women" to the list of people your child must respect on command. If you want to prevent your child from becoming a bigot, you have to teach him to recognize bigotry in all forms, including when it's coming from you. You have to teach him to recognize that the way children are treated is bigotry. You also have to teach him to recognize ableism, racism, classism, and other ways that you may be privileged.

Noooo stop rebloging my posts hehe haha 🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

Sasha Hartslief