She is such a babe and I love her on Game of Thrones.
Gwendoline Christie as Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones
Brienne is my current favourite character, I adore her. And Gwendoline Christie is 6’3”! Wonderful statuesque lady!
MY LOVE FOR HER KNOWS NO BOUNDS. Like, seriously. I would like to be sucked into Westeros just so that she can be my fantasy girlfriend. (And yes, I realize being sucked into Westeros would increase my chances of death by 500%.)
whoa.
this will be my kids one day. no, seriously.
This? This is why I want kids some day. As someone who rewards Halloween costumes on a system of merit, these kids would get ALL the candy.
White History Month was first celebrated at an unknown date in 1492, however it was called “High Holy Celebration of the Western Powers”, and took place over one week in which citizens of Portugal, France, England and Spain plotted their eventual takeover of the entire world and established their ethnic superiority as well. According to historical sources, the first celebration was commenced with the burning of effigies made in the likeness of the “Enemies of Christ”, namely African, Indian and Asian peoples, as well as some “traitors to the Western Powers”, such as European Pagans. Eventually the High Holy Celebration of the Western Powers, also colloquially called Westenfaste, in parts of England, became the Annual Celebration of the Western Powers—and this festive series of events carried on for the next five centuries in various stages. Somewhere in this time, Indigenous and Aboriginal Peoples of the Americas and Oceania began to “mysteriously disappear” as their lands were put on lockdown, many lands in the “Orient” and other parts of Asia were blockaded and its people displaced, and the entire continent of Africa was emptied of a great deal of its people and carved like a birthday serving to appease the Western Powers and their sweet cravings for blood and cake.
As decades wore on and some semblance of “equality” was reached in colonized lands, White History Month was plotted in May 2012, as a response to the growing number of people of European descent who were crying out for representation in cultural celebrations across the world. They desired to “share a place” with the numerous Peoples of Color who’d already fashioned celebratory months to honor their cultural heritages, most of which had been, in some form, stolen, misappropriated, destroyed, discredited and/or misrepresented during the Annual Celebration of the Western Powers (which has yet to come to a halt).
The first White History Month Celebration will begin June 2012—so mark your calendars! The first figures of White History Month we’ll be learning about are: Napoleon Bonaparte, Queen Elizabeth I, George Washington, Marie Antoinette, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare—and others!
srsly one of my favourite moments in this show.
Does no one else find this really problematic? Are we really pretending feminism means supporting every choice a woman makes, because we’re super liberated now? This is so uncritical.
Yeah, this image is such liberal bullshit.
1. Abortion should not be on it.
2. Women don’t need “support” to wear heels. Patriarchy “supports” (read: mandates) women having heels.
3. Implied in the diagram is that most feminists attack or are somehow otherwise hostile towards women who wear heels, and this is suggested as the opposite of “support”. That’s not true. We attack the oppressive structures which compel femininity.
4. If a woman feels oppressed because feminists haven’t formed a support group to help her wear heels, that sucks for her, but at least she can fall back on her entire society to support her. But really this isn’t about women. It’s about men getting angry that women are criticising beauty work and compulsory femininity, and trying to use the language of feminism to support their bigotry.
5. When you take away compulsion, women are free. Feminists oppose systems of compulsion. This image ignores it.
It annoyed me enough that I’ve created an alternative version. Feel free to share.
Um, wow.
I don’t consider telling a woman - or any person, for that matter - that by presenting her body in a certain way, she is buying into “oppressive structures which compel femininity” to be feminist.Saying that any woman who wears makeup or heels or chooses to get cosmetic surgery is a cultural dupe, and only doing these things because she’s buying into patriarchy denies these women agency, belittles femininity, and dismisses a form of self-expression which is extremely personal to many women.
I’m a queer femme, but for a few years after I came out and around the time I got into feminist politics, I didn’t wear makeup, jewelry, or nail polish, style my hair, or shave my body. I did these things because I believed in the reasons you outlined above, and because I thought that if I bought into conventional beauty standards, I wasn’t being a good feminist or a good queer.
But a few years later, I realized that wasn’t me. I started shaving again, because for the three years I didn’t, I didn’t really enjoy having body hair, and it felt uncomfortable against my clothes. That was my decision, and one I made after years of exploring another possible choice. I also, a little bit later, realized that I, as a person and as a queer, am pretty goddamn femme. I love makeup and nail polish and styling my hair and skirts and dresses and all that jazz, and I feel most myself when I’ve put time into my appearance. For me, it’s taking control of my body, and control of how I present myself to the world. And it was MY choice to do this.
I still don’t believe that femininity should be compulsory, or that it’s essential to being a woman. I also believe that body hair removal shouldn’t be compulsory. I completely respect the choice of women who don’t shave, or who don’t use makeup - and curiously enough, as a queer femme, I’m most attracted to people who aren’t feminine.
Please read the Venn diagram carefully. Because it’s all about it being a right, not an obligation. Please do not assume or imply that women who use makeup, wear heels, etc. are cultural dupes, that they’re buying into the patriarchy, that they’re not feminist, and that they’re only doing these things because advertising/the patriarchy are telling them to. That denies agency, and completely disregards the fact that some women, myself included, find femininity empowering. I’m a hell of a lot happier expressing myself the way I choose to than when I told myself that doing X/Y/Z would make me a better feminist when it didn’t make me comfortable. And many feminine women, myself included, are completely aware that the way that they choose to groom and present themselves fits in with a version of femininity that is heavily marketed to women and presented as compulsory. But at the end of the day, I’m feminine because I goddamn well want to be. I take immense joy in putting on makeup and wearing cute shoes and not always being practical. I like not having hair on my legs.
So as a feminist and a femme, I find what you’re articulating to be rather offensive and degrading, particularly this part:
4. If a woman feels oppressed because feminists haven’t formed a support group to help her wear heels, that sucks for her, but at least she can fall back on her entire society to support her. But really this isn’t about women. It’s about men getting angry that women are criticising beauty work and compulsory femininity, and trying to use the language of feminism to support their bigotry.
Because here’s the thing: my values and politics don’t fit into “my entire society.” My sexuality certainly fucking doesn’t, and neither does my fatness, or my mood disorder. I don’t see myself in mainstream fashion magazines, and that world doesn’t see me. Liking makeup and fashion doesn’t mean that I fit in with a dominant culture that is racist, heterosexist, cissexist, just-plain-sexist, classist, ableist, fatphobic, generally intolerant, etc. I don’t want to fall back on the dominant culture, because that’s not where I fit. And even if I were thin, straight, conventionally attractive, and neurotypical (as well as still being cis, white, able-bodied, and from middle-class roots), it’s still possible that I would and could consciously choose femininity because it fits me, and not just because that’s what the patriarchy’s telling me to do.
Playing a game of more-feminist-than-thou is pretentious, annoying, and just plain rude. At the end of the day, you’re disrespecting someone’s choice, robbing them of their agency, and discounting their identity. I don’t see how telling another woman that what she’s doing is wrong is feminist. Policing feminism isn’t feminist.
I’m incredibly bothered that women are being told that femininity is compulsory, and I completely respect the women who choose not to do “beauty work.” Hell, I get turned on specifically by women who don’t do “beauty work.” Just please respect my choice and desire to present my body however I fucking want, even if my grooming habits fit into what is culturally dominant.
How to Power-Pack
I saw the bunny, and my immediate reaction was “Krista Burton totally wrote this.” And BINGO. SRSLY, Effing Dykes is my guide to life, except my sexcapades are mostly theoretical.
And, tbh, I’m taking these tips far more seriously because they’re coming from another femme. Even though I’m still rebelling against the practicality and thinking but I NEED all my makeup.
