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“How do we account for the fact that many women view their relationships with their male partners as egalitarian? In fact, within intimate heterosexual relationships, both women and men generate the fantasy of the egalitarian relationship. Studies by Elizabeth Grauerholz (1987) help us to understand this phenomenon. Grauerholz asked “if men possess greater power than women, why is there a tendency for both men and women in heterosexual dating and marital relationships to report an equal distribution of power in their relationships?” She found that, for both sexes, perceived egalitarianism within the relationship increased as perceived likelihood of finding another partner who was as good or better than their present partner decreased! This finding suggests that, when people feel they lack relational alternatives, they improve their evaluations of their current relationship. As women’s perceptions of getting a partner who is any better decrease, women’s perceptions of being in an egalitarian relationship with a male partner are prone to distortion in the direction of misperceiving the relation as more egalitarian than it is.”

- Loving To Survive by Dee L. R. Graham

Poll time because I'm curious how biased I am

Just out of curiosity or whatever 😶

I think people often underestimate the potential educational value of senseless memes. For example, thanks to Spiders Georg, literally every teenager on Tumblr has a reasonable grasp of what a statistical outlier is and the sorts of problems that outliers can introduce into a naïve analysis. There are grown adults who don’t get that - I deal with them on a daily basis.

everything is a learnable skill

That character goes on to time travel and break the timeline into like 10 terrible dystopias (including one in which the future is completely barren- implying she kinda killed the entire planet) Is then forgiven because she had a friend move away when she was 10 and that made her sad. So she gets to live in the castle and learn friendship from Princess Twilight She then gets frustrated with her friendship homework and literally mind controls twilight’s 5 friends to get her homework done. She gets to continue living in the castle

Everyone in the village, with the exception of Starlight herself, lives "cutie unmarked" and talentless under the imposed banner of equality. To reflect this, all of the houses in Our Town are arranged into two parallel rows that form an equal sign.

When Twilight Sparkle and her friends visit the town, Starlight and her followers show how content their lives are there. As they explain through the song In Our Town, they "do not separate [themselves] by more than name," they "dare not compete," "no one is superior," and "you can't have a nightmare if you never dream."

MY LITTLE PONY WHAT

By Phoebe Wahl

Jenny Nicholson might be the closest I've ever seen. Her content is much more niche, but her content has that jokey carefree vibe. She's probably more low energy than a male in her same genre, but that doesn't get in the way of the comedy usually. She'll also just pick topics that are very silly in nature. (like for instance a chronicles of a road trip to acquire a giant spider plush)

Another component of, a lot for adult women are boring. Women aren't allowed to do silly shit without it being sexualised and you see this play out during puberty where more and more girls self censor, shrink and give up the whimsy of prepubescent girlhood. And I think it's getting a lot worse with how far reaching porn has become.

We know we're being monitored and watched and I think it makes teens girls insane. There are very few socially accepted outlets for female silliness that's not sexualised or physically neutered.

it's God. The yearning you feel is for God plain and simple. Research Orthodoxy

actually i was yearning for gay sex but i appreciate you trying

Annual reblog of the liminal spacemas from instachaz

We have agreed as a society that those under 25 are too reckless and stupid to rent a fucking car. But yeah go ahead and permanently change your entire endocrine system. A single state putting legal protections on that age group is *checks notes* genocide.

Literal motherfucking genocide!