WHY IS FEMINISM A THING

I just remembered you were kind of cute. Do you still have a boyfriend or should I avert my drunk anons elsewhere?

Anonymous

?!?fdsdgh

yes haha i still have a boyfriend but thank u for the sweet compliment

I think that recent feminist work on prison reform, the recent ruling of allowing women in combat, and the push to get more women in male-dominated career fields would help equalize the state of things.

Anonymous

i’m feeling terribly out of the loop because i haven’t heard anything about that!! it sounds positive though which is good

just fyi you could try using mobile sites, see if that will help load things faster. Not sure tumblr has one but twitter does, facebook does, etc.

Anonymous

yeah twitter loads pretty well on my laptop because it’s cached the backgrounds and stuff mostly and its just text which loads easily and it loads well on my phone too and facebook is a bit crappier but tumblr is a lot of pictures and idk it just takes forever to load and it drives me INSANE but i have the twitter, tumblr and facebook apps on my phone but tumblr on my phone still takes ages to load :3

If it was *REALLY* big it could have been a tarantula hawk. But that's like, leg span is bigger than your hand.

Anonymous

YEAH HOLY SHIT

THATS IT OMG

it looked exactly like that and it was enormous, but do they even exist in australia? and then one i saw today probably wasn’t as big as my hand but it was flying around and it was a bit far away so who knows

it was definitely considerably bigger than other wasps though and it was all black with orange wings exactly like that

http://tucsoncitizen.com/wryheat/2010/07/16/tarantula-hawks-deliver-the-big-sting/

Did it happen to look like this? (wasp and spider warning) i(.)imgur(.)com/weomkmN(.)jpg

Anonymous

holy heck

no it didn’t look quite like that.. it was about 3 times the size of a european wasp which is the regular sort of wasp that we get here but it was jet black and it’s wings were orange i’ll try to see if i can find a picture!!

(Also, I got here from thisisthinprivilege's block list, lol)

Anonymous

im on their block list?? wow hahha

Yep, a victim is suing the police department now. Officers opened fire on a suspect, shooting nine innocents. None killed, but holy shit. They recently passed strict gun laws on magazine size but it seems to me that the cops need policing more than the people, if that's how they react.

Anonymous

ah yeah that’s definitely scary :c i hear a lot of people saying australia is dangerous but i never really understand why. i almost always feel safe, i mean there are a few towns in melbourne where i really don’t but overall i do and i can’t imagine what it’s like to live in a country where the police are that scary

except for the gigantic wasps and spiders right

Anonymous

ahaha its funny you mention that actually. i was walking out my driveway w/ my boyfriend earlier today and we saw this huge fucking wasp with a black body and orange wings and he’d never seen one before because they are kind of rare and he used me as a shield hahaha

but yes have you even SEEN some of the spiders we have here?? terrifying.

and like 80% of the most deadly snakes in the world, crocodiles, sharks, actually most of the deadliest animals in the world live here \m/

In regards to that New York post from a week or so ago, New York is all kinds of fucked up, from all different angles. I'd suggest people get out and let the state rot in its own filth, but it's kinda difficult to pick up your life and go elsewhere. And that sucks. The cops can shoot a dozen innocents at the Empire State building, but you can't be trusted to carry condoms or buy large soda (thankfully a judge struck that down). New York needs to get with it, man.

Anonymous

ah thats really terrible :c i’m forever grateful that i live in australia it just seems to be so much safer here than other countries

Hmm, I gotta say I don't quite agree with all your points here but I think its a refreshing look at the topic. Think I'll follow you a bit and see what different opinions I can come across. The one thing I will disagree with completely is that without Feminism I don't think we would have women be as privileged as they are today, heck, having you be able to voice your opinion so openly :) Keep the posts coming, cuz I'll be reading ^^

Anonymous

thats fair!

i always appreciate feminist followers / followers with different perspectives.

like i’ve said before, i think it’s really great that women are so privileged today, i love being a woman in the modern world but i just don’t think a strictly woman based movement is necessary when women haven’t always been the ones with no rights. men have always suffered certain inequalities but they have never had a movement.

i think a humanist or egalitarian movement would have been better, someone to fight for EVERYONE’S rights. but at the same time i really don’t think that would have taken off properly like feminism did, which says a lot about the world we live in.