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Got something you need to do at a certain time every day (e.g., take meds)?  Start giving your cat a treat right before you do it.  You may have trouble remembering, but your cat absolutely will not.  

get to know me >> 3/10 female characters >> Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)

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I want men to try and imagine going about your day–working, running, hiking, whatever–and not being allowed to wear pants under threats of violence or total social and economic exclusion.

That’s the kind of irrationally violent and controlling behaviour women have been up against.

Also for anyone who thinks it’s easy for women to be gender non conforming because we can wear pants.

The only reason we can is because we fought tooth and nail for the right to! Any rights we take for granted today we’re the result of a prolonged, bitter battle fought by our predecessors for every inch of territory gained. Never forget that.

Title IX (1972) declared that girls could not be required to wear skirts to school.

Women who were United States senators were not allowed to wear trousers on the Senate floor until 1993, after senators Barbara Mikulski and Carol Moseley Braun wore them in protest, which encouraged female staff members to do likewise.

This was never given to us. Women have had to fight just to be able to wear pants. Women who are still alive remember having to wear skirts to school, even in the dead of winter, when it was so cold that just having a layer of tights between them and the elements was downright dangerous. Women who remember not even being allowed to wear pants under their skirts, for no other reason than they were female.

So don’t talk about women wearing pants being gender nonconforming like it’s easy. It’s only less difficult now because your foremothers refused to comply.

My mother spent her entire school career up until high school having to wear skirts, no matter how horrible the New England winters got, because she was forbidden to do otherwise. There were times when the weather was bad where my grandmother kept her home rather than make her walk to and from the bus in a skirt. 

They rebroadcast a few old interviews with Mary Tyler Moore, and in them she addressed the pants issue. There was a strict limit on what kind of pants she could wear (hence, always Capri pants, nothing masculine), and to use her words, how much cupping the pants could show. A censor would look at every outfit when she came out on stage, and if the pants cupped her buttocks too much, defining them rather than hiding them, then she had to get another pair.

There are stories of WASPs (Women’s Army Service Pilots) during World War II who weren’t allowed to eat on bases they flew war planes into because they didn’t have a skirt (and others who had to “pack” skirts into ammunition boxes on the fighters they were ferrying because of course fighter planes don’t have luggage areas).  

There was at least one incident when a WASP was arrested for wearing pants that were part of her uniform.

It has been suggested to me multiple times that I must wear a skirt instead of a pantsuit for part of my job, surprise and alarm have repeatedly been expressed (by both men and another woman) that I don't, and I've had to defend not doing so. And I regularly get asked by other women with a similar job whether they have to wear a skirt. I always say no but, of course, multiple people are telling them they have to.

Death comes for Minerva McGonagall.

It comes for her, as it came for her husband, so many years ago. It comes for her, as it came for her Headmaster, the price of his ambition. It comes for her, as it came for far too many of her friends and students, in one war then another.

Death comes for her.

Minerva McGonagall Looks at Death, and raises an eyebrow.

Death pauses, then nods and backs away. “We’ll call this number three then, shall we?”

She smiles as she turns back to her paperwork. There is a reason her animagus form is a cat.

Justice League (2017) dir. Zack Snyder.

Justice League (2017), dir. Zack Snyder

Face the fire.

My latest painting, pretty proud of this one! It’s an officially licensed Wonder Woman artwork. Also available as a print at Bottleneck Gallery ONLY until this Sunday (March 11th at 11:59PM EST!)

Today the Department of Unexpected Interspecies Friendship is going hiking gorgeous Colorado landscapes with Henry the dog and Baloo the cat. Both adopted from animals shelters, they live with humans, Cynthia Bennett and her boyfriend, who are avid hikers. Even as a 14-week-old puppy, Henry immediately wanted to join in on their hikes.

Baloo joined the family just a few months ago and immediately bonded with Henry.

Since Baloo was so eager to go outside with Henry, Bennett set about harness training him, but Baloo immediately took to being outdoors and on a leash and now he goes anywhere Henry goes. All their adventures are shared.

Follow Henry and Baloo on Instagram to keep up with their latest outdoor adventures together.

[via dyt. and the dodo]

Viola Davis in Porter Magazine

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