shipping characters who are just friends in canon is more than okay but what’s annoying is when people take screenshots of them touching and say “friends don’t do that!”. i hate to break it to you but friends do hug and hold hands and cuddle. saying ‘friends don’t do that’ is reenforcing the idea that physical touch is reserved for lovers
The domination of male-coded language.
Especially in the 2010’s, everyone called each other “bro” and “dude”. I’m sure it even happened before this timeframe. Doesn’t matter who is who, what is what. You called everyone and everything “Bro” “Bruh” “Dude” “Man”.
Not many complained. Actually, the expression was shared back. Another way of saying homie. Everyone said it. Everyone accepted it.
Even till this day, for the most part, it is a part of our daily language. It’s become common language, usually to specify friendliness and common ground.
But why doesn’t this happen with female-coded language?
“Girl” “Girlypop” “Bestie”. While I’ll admit, Bestie is not technically female coded, a lot of women do use this word.
I think about how so many people, especially men, get annoyed or upset when called “Girl”. Even “Bestie”. I see men talk about it on Social Media, about how much they hate getting called that. They get annoyed. It’s even come to a point, it is seen as transphobic, we cannot call people Girly Pop or Girl because it can offend someone who is trans identifying.
People come to the defense “well not everyone feels comfortable with that” “not everyone identifies as female”. But only when people are offended by the female-coded terms.
Where is the same energy with women getting offended by being called Bro and Dude? During the 2010’s Giant SJW Bash, I’ve seen women come out that they hated being called Bro and Dude. And nobody had that same logic. They told these women, get over it. Everyone gets called Dude & Bro. It’s normal. It’s a good thing.
The normalization that being male is gender neutrality.
Being called Dude, Bro, Man— it’s ok. Even if you don’t like it. Even if you’re not a man. You should be lucky to be seen as a fellow…man…
#Rambling Thoughts
board af | are you bored yet - wallows ft. clairo
there is something about adults taking games very seriously that's very hopeful. it's very uncynical. - sam reich, adventuring academy (season 5, episode 1)
Dude some things cannot be satirized, and the sexy bimbo woman is one of them. You literally cannot draw or create a woman sexy enough or stupid enough that it will make men not want to fuck her or realize how crazy cum brained male attraction to women is. Men will fuck anyone and anything, I wish women would stop trying to make commentary on it when it's only getting men off. Think of Karen from Mean Girls or Jessica Rabbit. I'm certain y'all can think of a few animes that would fit this category.
You also cannot make a proper satire out of women simping for male approval when women literally shave off their own bones to appear more petite and appealing to men and literally defend rapists like their lives depend on it. Our reality is beyond satire or parody.
tbh adopting body neutrality has been life-changing for me like I no longer feel tied to my appearance. It took away the pressure to be always “pretty”. Letting go of beauty standards and rejecting anything that fuels insecurity has been incredibly liberating. Honestly, I’ve stopped shaving and wearing makeup altogether, and it made me realize how men behind big corporations have brainwashed us into believing there's something wrong with us. Young girls obsession with shaving their legs and arms or else they’ll be seen as “disgusting” is just sad also so many influencers are also promoting it not realising little girls are learning from them:/
Gen Z and are so funny to me (another gen z) because they're like "we are against CAPITALISM ! we are the rebel generation !" but they'll defend porn (a capitalist industry based on the exploitation of women), prostitution (a capitalist industry based on the exploitation of women), makeup (a capitalist industry based on women's insecurities and sexist beauty standards), cosmetic surgery (a capitalist industry based on women's insecurities and sexist beauty standards), transition surgery (a capitalist industry based on using the issues of dysphoric and gender non conforming people to make money), fashion industry (a capitalist industry based on the exploitation of thousands of people and that's harmful for the planet) and like thousands of other capitalist shits. it isn't an anti capitalism generation. it's a very pro capitalism generation. they just use all these capitalist things (porn, prostitution, makeup, surgeries, fashion) to paint an anti capitalism aesthetic, an illusion, a look (based on their appearance, their content on social medias) to look anti capitalists, but they are not. if they were, they wouldn't think it's okay to traffick, exploit and sell women as objects, they wouldn't think it's okay to maintain and spread sexist beauty standards to push women to buy your products/surgeries because now they feel insecure about their face and body, they wouldn't keep supporting and industry that exploits other people and hurts their planet, they wouldn't support an ideology that tells you to alter your body by selling you lies about how you are born in the wRoNg one and need to pay to be your true self.
it's an aesthetic for them, they want to look cool and rebel and revolutionnary, but they support capitalism. and misogyny. (but but but it's EMPOWERING)
libfems to blame tbh. words don’t have meanings for them anymore.
Why on Earth did we normalise the word ‘whore’ and added it to our every day lexicon? Since when did it become normal to address random women on the internet in such manner? And why do women accept this?
Arasha looking smashing in The Smosh and the Furious | Dread
Almost 7 years ago three girls in Moscow named Krestina, Angelina, and Maria Khachaturyan (19, 18 and 17 years old back then) agreed to kill their father. Only now in 2025 the court agreed they had the reason to: the deceased was tried posthumously and finally had been found guilty of abusing them.
He was a violent drug-addicted person with police connections, who beat his wife Aurelia for 20 years, kicked out his son when he was about 14 then Aurelia herself, and forbad her to contact the girls. He raped and tortured his daughters, threatening them with weapons and controlling their every move. Nobody helped even after he pulled them out from school.
In one of the interviews, Krestina told about the order their father established at home:
He demanded that we always be there and come at his first call. He had a special bell, which he rang, and one of us should immediately run up to him, day and night. And do whatever he says — to bring water, food and miscellaneous other… He could not make an effort even to open the window himself, and we had to serve him as slaves.
One night when he got angry with them again he tortured them with pepper spray, causing Krestina, the oldest, asthma attack. Later that night the younger sisters attacked him with knife and hummer and with the help of Krestina who woke up because of sounds of fighting they killed him.
I remember the initial news, the details about abuse that came later, the arrest of three girls. The BIL of the deceased was called a victim of the crime and was doing everything he could to influence the prosecution and the court so they would punish his nieces in full. He denied the abuse, accused them of lying, girls’ messages were leaked and used to paint them as spoiled brats. Our ‘Incels movement’ joined him in this.
At the same time there were a lot of feminist protests going on, and I think it was the last huge joint feminist activity before the war began and feminism was called destructive movement close to terrorism (they haven’t banned us yet, but it could happen any time). And it worked, it helped, and I think the decision to charge the deceased father with abuse was one of the last good news we had here.
In the year 2025 when feminism is a dirty word in our country, when domestic abuse is no more a criminal offence, when people get twice longer sentences for antiwar graffiti than for rape or murder, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the news today. I hope that sister will be found not guilty or at least will be considered righteously defending themselves and will get suspended sentences. Didn’t they suffered enough? They are still forbidden to meet each other.