I AM AN EEL. WITH A GUN.

Early D&D Ad, circa 1980. Girls definitely allowed.

80’s ads were better ads.

And indeed, looking at the ad, one of the girls would appear to be the DM

I am of an age with these models.

I’ve been swearing up and down for YEARS that geekdom and marketing are just a million times more sexist than I had to deal with when I was young.

I got an electronics kit when I was a kid. No-one thought it had to be pink to interest me.  I just got it from Santa when I was ten because Santa thought I WOULD LIKE IT. (FWIW, I think the background was orange. 70s, after all)

Woop there it is

the sheer number of meme formats that are just *random dig at women to establish joke structure* *joke that could've stood up fine on its own*

girls sleepovers: omg do you think brad likes me?

boys sleepovers: *people doing some random meme shit*

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her: i bet he's thinking about other women rn

him: *r/showerthoughts post*

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girls with a time machine: i'm your granddaughter

boys with time machine: *normal fucking time travel joke*

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girl dinner: snacks or whatever

boy dinner: *picture that would've been funny on it's own*

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her: he's probably out cheating right now

him: *doing some silly funny activity that didn't need a random dig about women*

this is my fav bc an actual major cause for the fall of rome was the resistance of the wealthy to paying taxes which led to a crumbling of infrastructure but who cares about thaaaaat

“Feminism killed Rome” is my new favorite sentence of all time.

Also ballooning military spending, a widening gap between rich and poor, religious intolerance following the Emperor’s embrace of Christianity, and lead poisoning of the water supply.

*looks at camera*

Yes.. who were all these Roman feminists with the power to do anything substantial enough to make an empire fall?

The most famous woman in Roman history was Egyptian. That’s how much power Roman women had.

Abusive men pave the way for lazy men to get wives and girlfirends.

Lemme clarify, how many times have you heard your overworked female friends and relatives say “Yeah, Jerry drinks beer every evening after work while I cook dinner and clean up after everyone and does the bare minimum to help me raise the kids but he’s such a nice guy. He’s never beat me in my life. I couldn’t ask for a better guy in my life.”

Like no, Sally, your husband is a common stone among turds and you know it.

I try to explain this conceptually to people as a thing that happens not saying that this is good but it’s a thing that happens.

This is what male privilege is and how all men benefit from it.

This is why you are not exempt from statements about “all men” even if you are overall good.

You benefit from the bar constantly being lowered by systemic issues within the gender.

The expectations on you are always lower than they should because “at least you’re not X”.

That…is the best response I’ve seen to the “not all men” thing. Thank you.

Yeah, this post reminded me of this bit from a talk by Lundy Bancroft

do you all remember in the early 2010s where people were talking about freeing the nipple and that mixed-gender sports should become a thing and the removal of period tax and all of that and then some people realised that would mean trans people too ans they instantly decided to revert to bioessentialism 101 and now i have to see grating sentences like Well maybe jeopardy should be gender-segregated because males have a biological advantage in pressing a button

if two men have sex with each other, is that feminist because no women are being sexualized, or anti-feminist because it doesn't pass the bechdel test

REACTION SPEED [Easy: Success] - Anti-feminist because no women are getting laid.

RHETORIC [Medium: Success] - Anti-feminist. It's only feminist if a woman is present and not being sexualized. Otherwise it's just another male-driven narraative.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Easy: Success] - Feminist. Women love yaoi.

EMPATHY [Medium: Success] - It's deeply misogynistic because they're speaking over women.

INLAND EMPIRE [Formidable: Success] - Actually it's fine because two fully clothed women are standing in the OR operating view room, commenting like Statler and Waldorf.

SAVOIR FAIRE [Medium: Success] - It's only feminist if it was written by a straight woman.

CONCEPTUALIZATION [Impossible : Success] - Depends on whether the men are lesbians. Hope this helps.

DRAMA [Easy: Success] - Whatever makes straight people who have to listen to this argument most uncomfortable.

LOGIC [Legendary: Success] - Two men are only allowed to have sex with each other if they're in the same room as at least two women, and those women need to introduce themselves and have a conversation that's not about the men having sex in the room.

PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Easy: Success] - That's a lot of work to be putting on women.

SUGGESTION [Heroic: Success] - In a way, it could be yuri. That's sex two women could be having... but they aren't. Why? That's the yuri itself... the longing.

KLAASJE - "It's feminist if I can watch."

i know you're not suppose to say "male characters tend to be more popular because female characters tend to be underwritten/given more boring safe personalities/be the "girl" character" because people who say they are usually the one's who are able to be interested in extremely bland male characters. but i think there is something to be say about how character designers have absolutely no limits with what they can do with male characters but the second you add "also they're a woman" suddenly they aren't allowed to make them too fat or too funny or too creepy or given any personally traits that might make than not sexy/unthreatening in a very narrow way and it's extremely tiring lol.

this image is evergreen

283,000 likes………giant meteor strike the earth rn holy shit. oh my god.

"maybe it's not your pussy" is such a funny phrase and also correct. People wonder why chores are so hard and it's like, friends we used to have a whole intergenerational team on this and now Grandma is locked in a beige box. Cooking is hard.

Reblog the problem is capitalism and not your pussy

I know this has been said before, and y'all aren't gonna listen to me when I say it, but you can't be bigoted to bad people. Like you don't get to call Marjorie Taylor Green an NRA whore, or misgender Caitlyn Jenner, or be antisemitic to Ben Shapiro. It doesn't work like that. Not being called slurs is not something people earn by being a good person, it's something you do because YOU are a good person. And if I'm being honest, it shouldn't be that hard for you to do. You shouldn't want to say these things to ANYBODY, even if they are the devil incarnate.

When people use slurs against people they don't like, that tells me that marginalized people are only conditionally acceptable to them, and the second they don't like them they'll use their identity against them.

op turned off reblogs but i thought this was a good point

queer identity simply does not function the same way as racial identity, and neither function the same way as disability and mental illness, and none of these function similarly to antisemitism and islamophobia (which have differences and nuance from each other as well)

everyone will help each other far far far more if we stop conflating these things as working in the same way

’Girls should only have hair on their heads; it’s not natural to have hair any where else!’