lafememeistnoire:

cheesyradfem:

lettherebedragons:

vassraptor:

transcoranic:

how the fuck did all of those renaissance dilettantes learn so much crap? Like they spoke 3 languages and were foremost in several branches of science, plus they wrote poetry, played the violin, and were master artists? And they still had time to be gay? 

none of them ever did any laundry at all

The emotional and physical labor necessary to maintain the lifestyles of Renaissance and Enlightenment polymaths was shunted almost entirely to their uncredited servants, slaves, wives, and daughters. 

Whenever we compare ourselves to the ‘genius men’ of the past, and wonder why we fall so short, remember this: their intellectual capacity, energy, and freedom was because there was someone else washing the damn dishes.

Rosalind Miles’ “Who Cooked the Last Supper?” is about how women throughout history provided critical services so men could have leisure time.

Fuck

(Source: dps-winston, via rzbrrii)

velvetvetiver:

This new “sensitive” masculinity, where a softer voice and body, creativity and sensitivity, and sophisticated sensibilities replace alpha male imagery, is dangerous. A man aware of the phrases “toxic masculinity”, “intersectionality”, and “socialization” more often than not will use them as disguised weapons for his soft misogyny, rather than use them to interrogate his own position. Switching from one category of masculinity to another is not a solution. When given the chance, the sensitive artist will enact the same violence as the muscular frat boy, to pretend otherwise is foolish. 

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toritheestallion:

me at Olive Garden at 11:02 am staring down the elderly people impatiently waiting outside knowing we should’ve opened 2 minutes ago but my boss is in the back cheating on his wife with the girl who makes the salads and he has the key to unlock the doors

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funny story

funnystories:

In my junior year of high school, this guy asked me on a date. He rented a redbox movie and made a pizza. We were watching the movie and the oven beeped so the pizza was done. He looked me dead in the eye and said, “This is the worst part.” I then watched this boy open the oven and pull the pizza out with his bare hands, rack and all, screaming at the top of his lungs. We never had a second date.

(via outofthepines)

why-animals-do-the-thing:

One of the interesting things I learned about zoo history is that the reason so many exhibits used to be barren or floored with concrete was because keeping the animals clean kept them alive.

It wasn’t that people wanted to keep them in horrible conditions - it was that before we knew much about exotic animal medicine, all we knew is that the more thoroughly we could clean, the less they’d die. Then the tendency towards tradition that’s prevalent in animal care fields kicked in, and it took forever to shift away from that type of construction even as knowledge was gained.

(Source: why-animals-do-the-thing, via fl0werdoll)


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