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a-spoon-is-born:

one of the ways i know this culture has a massive issue with consent

is the sheer amount of people I’ve known that just lie & tell people they’re deathly allergic to foods they dislike

because otherwise people will hound them, mock them, coax them, harass them, try to force them to eat it, or even trick them into eating it, and they will never hear the end of it

your coworkers will bake it into a fucking pie, call it something else, and wait til your birthday, gather everyone and their first cousins to sit around in a circle waiting for you to put a forkful into your mouth and then point rhythmically at you in a chanting, glaring, sweating, unholy circle like SWISS CHARD SWISS CHARD YOU JUST ATE SWISS CHARD HA HA HA SWISS CHARD NOW YOU LIKE SWISS CHARD

Because forcing someone into a situation where they don’t feel safe declining putting something into their body they’d rather not be there is totes 100% wholesome American fun

And this is something so known that it’s infinitely easier to just lie and tell people that you’ll die if you eat that food…which actually doesn’t always stop it from happening

It’s not just the USA, it happens in other places.

I love cooking. It’s something I’ve found I really like learning, especially when I can find recipes with things I like. But I also like cooking for other people! Problem is, when I cook for other people the three or so dishes I make for me don’t cut it, and they expect me to eat everything I make, even when it’s things that will make me sick, so I don’t do it too much.  People make fun of me or get mad at me for being a ‘picky eater’, including my own family.

I had a mild oat allergy as a child, I don’t have any that I know of now (though i tend to avoid things with oats in them anyway, so I don’t know), but there are plenty of things I can’t eat for various reasons. Even as a child I was forced to eat oatmeal. There was this one cooking class I went to in middle school. Mostly it was very simple, and I was completely willing to try some of the food. One of the three things they taught us involved chick peas. I voiced that I didn’t want to eat them, and had a teacher (my school’s teacher as it was a field trip, not the food instructor) actually try and shove them down my throat. And that wasn’t even the end of the chick pea thing. See, a year or so later, I was at my cousin’s house for dinner, and they made chick peas. I mentioned I felt sick at the thought of eating them, and explained why, and was promptly accused of making it up and lying for whatever reason. The details on this may be off, but that’s the gist of what happened. I was still forced to eat them, and I felt sick for a while.

I have a lot of problems when it comes to food, and like a lot of people I was forced to eat plenty of things I didn’t want to for whatever reason as a kid and refuse to eat them out of an aversion. Being autistic doesn’t help, either, because trying to explain why the taste and texture of certain things makes me want to eat a shoelace instead gets the same reaction of ‘you’re so dramatic, eat it anyway, you’re not five’.  I’ve been trying new things a lot lately, and people express absolute shock every time because I’m supposedly so picky, and honestly? Fuck the culture surrounding food.

leoqueen082:

oak23:

No offense but the Barbie movies had to have shitty cgi and compulsory heterosexuality otherwise they would have been far too powerful

Princess and the Pauper was totally a watered down version of a poly relationship. They literally had a wedding together and then went on a honeymoon together. The wedding song implies that Anneliese and Erica are going to be with each other for their whole lives.

Even if you don’t believe in that or think it’s not obvious enough, Barbie movies are nowhere near as “complusively heterosexual” as Disney movies. Barbie, more often than not, saves herself.

Examples: Barbie as Repunzel, she is clever enough to trap Gothel using her art. A Pearl Princess, Lumina restrains her uncle with her pearl magic.

Further, there are often no typical “compulsive heterosexual” happy endings. That song I have linked for Princess and the Pauper shows Erica coming back after she decided she wanted to travel the world and sing instead of marry. Diamond Castle shows Liana (Barbie) and her friend Alexa (Theresa) living happily together in their home at the end of the movie, despite both having a love interest.

Finally, there are several Barbie movies with no love interests in them whatsoever.

Examples: A Mermaid Tale 1 & 2, Barbie Fairytopia and Barbie Mermaidia, Barbie and her sisters movies (Puppy Chase, Puppy Adventure, Perfect Christmas, In a Pony Tale), etc.

chromolume:

wandasykesvevo:

chromolume:

I don’t agree with tumblr’s whole “you can’t enjoy this thing because it’s problematic” vibe, but watching Friends is weird now knowing that the actor who played Chandler led an invasion of Japan in 1863, which led to the forceful Westernisation of the isolated country.

1853.

I’m sorry, yes, the actor who played Chandler in Friends invaded Japan in 1853, not 1863.

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

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sergle:

another weird thing about beer is that it has weird masculinity connections to it. “ya i’ll get a beer, i don’t want none of them girly drinks” Jimothy, you’re drinking wheat juice with a 5% alcohol content and my mixed, fruity, “girly” drink is 40% alcohol and tastes great

O.KAY *CRACKS KNUCKLES* I AM ABOUT TO GIVE YOU AN EDUCATION

BEER IS TRADITIONALLY A WOMAN’S DRINK, IT IS THE MOST FEMALE OF ALL OF THE DRINKS. FOR THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF YEARS, BEER WAS MADE AT HOME BY WOMEN, TO BE CONSUMED BY WOMEN AND CHILDREN–IT WAS ACTUALLY A SOURCE OF NUTRIENTS FOR MANY HOUSEHOLDS. WOMEN CREATED THE CRAFT OF BEER, AND FOR MOST OF HUMAN HISTORY THAT IS WHO YOU’D BUY IT FROM: MANY WOMEN MADE ADDITIONAL INCOME BY BREWING AND SELLING BEER FROM HOME. IT WASN’T UNTIL THE ERA OF INDUSTRIALIZATION THAT BEER BEGAN TO BE BREWED IN FACTORIES. AND ONCE BEER WAS BEING BREWED ON A LARGE SCALE, IT MADE TO START MARKETING IT TO ALL THE MALE FACTORY WORKERS WHO SUDDENLY HAD EXTRA INCOME. HENCE AN AGGRESSIVE MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO RE-BRAND BEER, A DRINK INTRINSICALLY TIED WITH WOMEN’S HISTORY, AS A ‘MASCULINE’ BEVERAGE. 

EVEN BETTER, FEMALE BREWSTERS WERE THE ORIGINAL WICKED OLD WITCH. THE TROPES WE COMMONLY ASSOCIATE WITH STEREOTYPICAL WITCHES ARE ACTUALLY BASED ON THE TRADITIONAL BREWSTER. CAULDRONS & HOT STEAMING POTIONS = BEER BREWING. THE WITCH’S HAT: BELIEVE IT OR NOT POINTY HATS WERE ACTUALLY WORN BY BREWSTERS WHEN SELLING THEIR PRODUCT AT MARKETS: THE ENORMOUS HEADGEAR HELPED THEM STAND OUT, AND CLEARLY TOLD EVERYONE ‘YO MOTHERFUCKA GET YOUR BEER HERE’. 

CATS AS FAMILIARS: CATS WERE COMMONLY USED TO PREVENT RODENTS FROM GETTING INTO THE WHEAT. EVEN THE BROOMSTICK IS RELATED TO BEER: A BUNDLE OF TWIGS RESEMBLING A BROOM WAS USED AS AD FOR ALEHOUSES

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so basically, beer is the ultimate woman’s and witch’s drink

REBLOG ME

fuck u guys, i didn’t spend 20 min fact checking for 3 notes

killbenedictcumberbatch:

optimysticals:

fizzy-dog:

“artists dont work for the love of art anymore, they just rely on commissions and patrons”

this is how art has literally always been the fucking sistine chapel is commissioned fanart of the bible 

Not only was the Sistine Chapel Bible fanart, but the Vatican looked at Michaelangelo’Cathedral commission listing and saw that it said:
Will do:
Marble sculpture
Would prefer not to do:
Painting

And commissioned him for a giant ass painting.
Like yeah, we think of Michaelangelo as a painter, but it’s because the church kept paying him to paint. He thought he wasn’t that great at it. He preferred to sculpt. Like that was his jam. But noooooo the church wanted more paintings.

wow how Wacky is it that artists demand payment for labor given via a desirable skill, it’s almost like it’s a fucking job

lennythereviewer:

This years E3 is going to be an interesting one, because the landscape of gaming has shifted so dramatically in such a short timespan

Nintendo has pulled themselves out of the hole they dug with the Wii U and are currently making a KILLING with the Switch, and after all that they showed off with the Direct they stand to walk into E3 with potentially a new Yoshi game, No More Heroes 3, Bayonetta 3, More content for Odyssey, and of course Super Smash Bros. 

Nintendo is back in the running and there’s no denying it

Sony meanwhile is chugging along pretty well with the PS4. No doubt they’ll have a solid lineup at E3 (Spiderman, God of War, Medievil Remake, Last of Us 2…) and of course there’s the rumors that they’re taking another shot at handhelds to possibly throwdown with the Switch.

Microsoft meanwhile is the one facing an uphill battle. They have a powerhouse of a system, but there is a MASSIVE drought of exclusive titles to justify buying it. Halo ain’t what it used to be, Scalebound is gone, Fable Legends is gone, Crackdown is in development hell (But is thankfully coming this year). What’s worse is that any other game on the Xbox we could either get on PS4 or PC… Microsoft really needs to sell people on the Xbone this year

On the developer end… The Loot Box bubble has burst and everyone’s feeling it. EA has driven their public image into the grave and Konami isn’t far behind them. Square has all of TWO games (FF7 Remake and Kingdom Hearts 3) people actually care about but they’ve been blue-balling their fanbase for literal years, and this is the year they’re supposed to deliver on one of those.

Ubisoft is… still Ubisoft

And to top it all off, in the past few years Indie Games have been chipping away and making a legit name for themselves: Shovel Knight, Hat in Time, Bendy and the Ink Machine, Five Nights at Freddy’s, Hello Neighbor, Yooka-Laylee (for better or worse), Brawlhalla, Undertale….

Indies are a force to be reckoned with now, and the big guys are taking notice.

E3 is gonna be really interesting to see and I can’t wait

marauders70s:

Honestly during the battle of Hogwarts I feel immensely cheated at not having more Peeves v. Voldemort time because Peeves can’t die and is a complete asshole and I just really want that interaction in my soul of how furious Voldemort would be with Peeves for just existing. Voldemort can’t banish or kill Peeves so he would be trying to direct his Death Eater troops with Peeves floating three feet to the left repeating everything Voldemort says in a mocking high-pitched voice.