I just woke up from a dream in which I lived in an enormous house with a number of deer roaming around in it, and one of them was just Eric Trump’s body with a deer’s mind implanted in it.
Deeric Trump had solid black eyes, walked around naked hunched over to the ground and he was intrusively affectionate. If you ran into him he’d forcefully mash his head and face into you like a big cat, demanding to be petted while emitting gasps and whimpers because the deer brain didn’t know what to do with human vocal chords
I know you didn’t choose to read this but I didn’t choose to dream it so tough shit
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“A new trend has emerged in the [Western] fashion world. Or so they say. Fashion bloggers, stylists, and prominent members of the fashion industry are all talking about the ‘dress over pants’ trend, which Pakistanis have been sporting for as long as we can remember.”
I saw this Kendall Jenner tweet awhile ago on the internet and I remember thinking, “Hey that’s what us Pakistani and other South Asian women wear all the time; we’ve been wearing these for years. What’s so special about this?” and then I remembered that if you’re white, everything suddenly becomes sooooo chic and stylish!!! And when the rest of us wear it, we’re insulted or stereotyped, get nasty looks, racist remarks etc etc. I mean, I’ve seen a lot of other celebs in the West wearing clothes like this too and of course they all get praised by the media and fashion bloggers for starting some new and creative trends, but the rest of us get crap for wearing our original cultural clothes.
This dress is pretty common in Pakistan, and other South Asian countries. Pakistani women rock this look pretty well:
Why do they take our fashions and create some bland and boring version of them?
Here’s another article with historical and modern examples of South Asian (Pakistani and Indian) fashion of which these gorees stole, i mean….were “inspired” by lmao
Pakistanis and Indians do it so much better. Wtf is “dress over pants”
Bangladeshis, too!
There’s also the áo dài, which is the traditional Vietnamese dress.
I’ve never worn one, but they’re sold nearly everywhere in any Vietnamese community you’d encounter, especially where I live. “Dress over pants”, lmao
As a white woman, all those white women outfits were stupid looking honestly.
But MAN is the shalwar kameez one of my favorite outfits to wear. Those types of outfits are amazing and we need more clothing like that and less “pants that cut off all blood flow to your leg”
feminism didn’t make me hate men but men kind of did
elaboration:
feminism didn’t teach me that men are out to get me. it didn’t persuade me mansplaining existed a là wormtongue or tell me to set fire to my bra. it said ‘hey, has this ever happened to you?’, and it had.
it said ‘this happens to most women, and it kind of sucks, right?’, and i agreed that it did
and it encouraged me to question and to think: to not assume i had to be quiet and subsurvient, to question why i had to shave and my male friends did not, to use my voice when i was uncomfortable or unhappy
and i was shocked to realise all the garbage around me, but excited to do what i could to change it
and then i started to talk to men about it
and i was told women are sluts and bitches, and that we have it better than men, and that fat women are always unloveable, and that feminism is a hate group, that because the 77 cents figure was disproved no wage gap could possibly exist, that affirmative action is unfair, that women are just not as smart or capable as men, that i should get back in the kitchen, that i was too sensitive, that hot women will always be reduced to their bodies and ugly women will always be mocked for theirs, that mansplaining didn’t exist (this was, of course, mansplained to me), that women just aren’t cut out for STEM, that women these days are uppity, that i was a whore if i had sex and a prude if i didn’t, that i deserved what was coming to me if i took nudes but could i send them some anyway?
i will always fight to protect and support men and their rights. i care deeply about male suicide rates, male addiction rates and the attitude that prevents men from getting help, paternity leave, racial discrimination against black men, toxic masculinity, domestic abuse against men not being taken seriously…
but goddamn, when i talk to men and have them consistently refuse to acknowledge my experiences are valid, when they laugh and ask if i’m on my period or tell me to ‘smile!’, when they brush me off as a SJW or get angry at me for being a ‘bitch’, it makes me want to say ‘you know what? fuck men. i give up.’
feminism taught me to value myself. nothing more, and nothing less. that’s not what’s making me bitter here.
like, one possible reason for why so many trans people, especially young trans people, get fancy haircuts or haircolors, piercings or tattoos, or all of the above or a mixture of some of it…
is that that’s a way we can take control over our bodies. change them in a way we want to. get a feeling that they actually belong to us.
honestly, the feeling i had after having got a tattoo was such a relief - i was overjoyed! and looking back, it did actually reduce my dysphoria. not necessarily in a way i really noticed right away at the time, but definitely in a way i can notice when i look back at it.
when hormones and surgeries are constantly gatekept from us, making small changes like these to our bodies can be a really empowering thing.
so it’s really disheartening to see it constantly being made fun of.
I relate to this post so much! Being able to get a tattoo that was large and fairly feminine and meant a lot to me was a huge lift off my dysphoria before I even knew how to articulate what that meant. Not to mention being made fun of by friends, family and strangers for the way I wore my hair for years to help with dysphoria. Leave Queer Kids A L O N E