when my obstetrics professor was like "in an emergency situation we do everything possible to save the baby" and i was like ".....and the mother 🤓" and she was like "well yes but the baby is our priority"
They didn’t burn witches. They murdered women. Independent women. Assertive women. Intelligent women. Women who refused to be quiet. Women who refused to roll over. Women who refused to submit.
finding out the artemis ii astronauts talked with poets and studied poetry so they knew how to properly convey what they were seeing in words and saying that the arts played a huge role in their time in space. oh my god
a father's 'sacrifice' is described as providing money and being decent. a mother's 'sacrifice' is her body, her career, her identity, her free time, her health and her last name. the expectations were never equal.
one of the most annoying things i learned was that coke zero was created & branded a certain way because coca-cola realized men werent buying diet coke because they considered it a “girls drink”. products like these are created largely because men are stupid, fragile, and sexist.
fascinating how quickly he goes from realizing he can’t provoke his desired response from her (to humiliate her), to immediately jumping to sexual harassment (to, again, humiliate her.)
genuinely world record pace fragile masculinity speedrun: hack comic edition.
people say "women are not paid less, they just pick empathy careers." ok.!!! but who decided nursing and teaching are worth less? like we will pay a sales guy 150k to move numbers around, but pay a nurse pennies to literally keep people alive, or give a teacher crumbs and wonder why future generations are failing every test. it is not that empathy based work is less valuable it is that we’ve normalized underpaying it because it’s "women’s work."