Gaga opening with “this land is your land, this land is my land” and then singing “born this way” was a huge fuck you to trump and pence and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
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Alycia and I loved to talk about flowers behind the scenes, like we would google flowers. She was my flower buddy, I miss her.
Bob Morley about Alycia Debnam Carey (via newaustraliana)
If you’re ever feeling down just remember that you could have been born in any year, at any time. The 1600′s during The Great Fire of London, the 1700′s during the American Revolution, the 1800′s when Joseph-Nicéphore Niepce took the first photograph, the 1900′s when Picasso introduced the idea of cubism and so on and so forth, but no, you my friend were in for something far more special than that, you are alive during something so momentous and so profound that people shall cry in awe of what you witnessed.
Two words my friend, two words.
Clexa sex.
SCREAMING.
Pokémon Vs. Pokémon Go
- Pokémon: Buy repellent to ward off wild Pokémon
- Pokémon Go: Buy incense to attract wild Pokémon
- Pokémon: Don't go into tall grasses, water, sand, etc.
- Pokémon Go: RUN INTO THE FREAKING OCEAN BECAUSE YOU GOTTA CATCH 'EM ALL
No, I’m serious, if women all got together and went into electrical engineering or automotive repair en masse, then ten years later people would be talking about how it was a “soft field” and it would pay proportionately less than other fields.
Likewise, if men moved en masse to bedeck themselves in sparkles and make-up, then suddenly you’d get a bunch of editorials talking about how classy they look.
None of these things are inherently masculine or feminine; none of these things inherently elevate you or drag you down. But whatever women are seen to do is automatically seen as being inherently more frivolous than anything men do. And shaming women for not pigeonholing themselves into a narrow range of acceptable “masculine” behaviours is just going to result in the goalposts getting moved once again.
This is literally what happened to basically every field women have entered. The opposite happens when men enter. Computers used to be a “woman thing” until the guys who did it got really mad about how badly their job was viewed and realized they could fix it by forcing out women.
Also happened/ is happening with the fields of biology and psychology….
I honestly wonder how much of the backlash against public education in the last generation has been due to teaching becoming a woman-dominated profession.
Fashion used to be a men’s thing. Then women got involved in the late 17/1800’s, so men went the other way because it came to be seen as “frivolous” and “anti-intellectual” to care about how you looked. Add in the homophobia that arose around that time, bam, staid bland dress. Ditto leggings/tights, that are now called attention-whoring when on men they were required to show you cared about your figure and had the money to pay for such a fitted item.
People want to say misogyny doesn’t exist, that male privilege doesn’t exist. Look beyond “living memory” and you’ll find that’s what drives the “inexplicable reversals” society seems to make on many things. Hell, just look beyond your own society, and you’ll find out that what’s considered “for men” elsewhere is held in high esteem while here it’s scoffed at purely because it’s “for women”:
- Skinny jeans are the height of masculinity in several east Asian societies, rather than being seen as “gay” in the USA because of their association with femininity.
- Medical fields in Russia are valued like kindergarten teachers are here, because it’s women who are the doctors instead of men.
- Love and romance are highly valued in eastern countries, because men are interested in it too—of course they would be, surely you want to share your life with someone? Here, it’s strictly a women’s subject.
The field of anthropology as a whole illustrates this.
Significantly higher proportions of females compared to males are currently entering the fields of archaeology and biological anthropology, and as this occurs, the prestige, funding, acceptance as valid kinds of science, etc, are fading quickly.
This has already occurred with linguistic anthropology and cultural anthropology. Cultural anthropology in particular went VERY quickly from being seen as a manly, scientific discipline (e.g., Franz Boas, Bronisław Malinowski) to being seen as a touchy-feely female thing.
Let’s examine a traditionally male-dominated role that is very well-respected, and well-paid, in many parts of the world — that of a doctor. In the UK, it is listed as one of the top ten lucrative careers, and the average annual income of a family doctor in the US is well into six figures. It also confers on you significant social status, and a common stereotype in Asian communities is of parents encouraging their children to become doctors.
One of my lecturers at university once presented us with this thought exercise: why are doctors so highly paid, and so well-respected? Our answers were predictable. Because they save lives, their skills are extremely important, and it takes years and years of education to become one. All sound, logical reasons. But these traits that doctors possess are universal. So why is it, she asked, that doctors in Russia are so lowly paid? Making less than £7,500 a year, it is one of the lowest paid professions in Russia, and poorly respected at that. Why is this?
The answer is crushingly, breathtakingly simple. In Russia, the majority of doctors are women. Here’s a quote from Carol Schmidt, a geriatric nurse practitioner who toured medical facilities in Moscow: “Their status and pay are more like our blue-collar workers, even though they require about the same amount of training as the American doctor… medical practice is stereotyped as a caring vocation ‘naturally suited‘ to women, [which puts it at] a second-class level in the Soviet psyche.”
What this illustrates perfectly is this — women are not devalued in the job market because women’s work is seen to have little value. It is the other way round. Women’s work is devalued in the job market because women are seen to have little value. This means that anything a woman does, be it childcare, teaching, or doctoring, or rocket science, will be seen to be of less value simply because it is done mainly by women. It isn’t that women choose jobs that are in lower-paid industries, it is that any industry that women dominate automatically becomes less respected and less well-paid.
even in supposedly women-dominated fields men have the highest paid positions (i.e. fashion, librarians..)
Lexa: [loses Clarke in an sea of warriors] shit
Lexa, yelling into the crowd: Clarke Griffin and I had sex
Clarke: [from across the field] OK BUT IT WAS FOR MY PEOPLE
Lexa: There she is
lexa: *smiles once*
the entire world: not so fast sweetie :) look at the field in front of u :) it’s filled with ur warriors :) ded :)
can you imagine if we ever got to see our ladies training together?? picture it.
- a steady green glow emanating from the walls to put kara at a level playing field with the others.
-alex and sara sparring, both in sports bras and dripping with sweat because neither of them is willing to bow out.
-maggie cheering alex on and telling her to kick sara’s ass.
-sara showing alex some new moves because yeah alex is a total badass, but sara is still a literal assassin.
-and oh jesus. can you imagine the salmon ladder?? alex doing the salmon ladder?! and poor maggie. just drowning in a puddle of her own drool while she watches.
-and then lena walks in because she was helping winn with some science thing and wanted to say hey to kara before she left.
-so she walks in the training room only to be slapped in the face with kara’s shoulders and back muscles flexing while she jumps up the salmon ladder.
-lena literally can’t even form words until she hears maggie walk by and snicker, “breathe, luthor.”
-and kara must’ve heard her come in cuz she jumps down and runs over still panting from the exertion and doesn’t seem to notice the red in lena’s face.
-so she acts cool and says “hi” and “bye” and is almost out the door when she remembers kara can hear her heartbeat and that she wasn’t actually fooling anyone.
-kara blushing as she goes back to training because she knows how hot lena is for her.
-sara coming over like, “so you tap that yet, supergirl?” and kara bumbling like an idiot because how did she know that’s literally all she ever thinks about??
-okay and maggie and alex at the shooting range? competing against each other and alex is furious because, unlike pool, maggie is a total dead shot and keeps. beating. her.
-maggie coming up behind alex all like, “here let me help” and adjusts alex’s arms but when she moves her hands to her waist alex completely loses her focus and misses the target so they just makeout instead.
-sara attempting to show kara how to throw knives but kara would rather just watch her do it so she starts showing off.
-someone having to resuscitate me because i would die.
okay i’ve already gotten more requests for “more gay work outs please” and I’m so glad you asked because…
-lena starts hanging out more at the deo after she and kara start dating fucking.
-she originally starts going to watch kara *do things* but the more she’s there the more she wishes she could join in.
-i mean who doesn’t want to be surrounded by sexy, sweaty women for a few hours a week??
-so she starts taking classes. not those trendy kickboxing classes. please. she may be a beginner, but she’s still a luthor.
-she hires a personal trainer who specializes in krav maga, and she gets to work.
-a few months later she comes in and asks to spar with alex, and alex is like sure i can show you a few things if you want
-but lena has the look™ and kara’s like wtf is about to happen
-so alex steps close to show her something easy and lena fucking takes her down and the entire room is silent before kara practically picks lena up and is like bye guys, we got *stuff* to do
-it’s gay stuff
-meanwhile, we have the obligatory, unmentioned sexual tension between sara and, well, everyone.
-which gets even thicker once our old pal lucy lane pays a little visit.
-kara and sara are sparring this time, with maggie rooting for kara (because she’s seen sara openly check out her girlfriend’s ass and will not root for her ever…although deep down she doesn’t blame her) but with kara brought down to human strength sara is taking it easy on her
-alex is doing everyone a favor and spending lots of time on the salmon ladder today, when lucy walks in, full uniform.
-now, sara prides herself on never losing her focus in a fight, but takes kara’s right hook at full force when she turns to gape at the new army hottie that just walked in
-lucy surveys the room immediately sniffing out the gays and feels overwhelmed when she realizes it’s literally everyone
-alex and kara rush over to say hey while sara recovers her jaw from the floor and maggie groans at yet another hot lesbean near her wife girlfriend.
-after they catch up lucy decides to jump in and changes into her black wife beater she just *happened* to have with her and says she wants to spar with sara
-kara’s like um look friend, she’s scary, like scary maybe you should warm up first
-but lucy gives sara bedroom eyes and is like no we’re gonna fight
-sara is shook
-sara starts functioning again and she and lucy start circling each other while maggie, alex, and kara all watch like holy shit this is going to be so good??
-they go at. it.
-like obvi sara is the motherfucking white canary but damn??? lucy got moves too???
-about halfway through alex snorts cuz she knows they’re both doing the most™ and showing off so much basically just for each other
-so by the end no one is even watching anymore, it’s just the two of them panting and wet slick with sweat while they stare each other down trying to catch their breath
-kara is arm wrestling maggie and loving how even it is and smiling like a dork because this is so much fun
-alex is grabbing water when lena walks in and immediately notices the new hottie locked in an epic eyefuck with sara
-she looks at alex like wtf kind of gay shit…
-i look into the abyss as my soul departs my body and ascends to heaven.
*angels sing in a heavenly gay chorus*
Please for the love of all that is gay in the world, please make this into a full length fanfic and don’t spare on the details!
Anonymous asked:
hi! i wanted to pick your brain about something i saw on twitter. im not a blarke btw but someone made the point that when clexa came across the field of dead soldiers and clarke wanted to go to arkadia lexa yelled at her guards to stop clarke then the guards pointed their spears at clarke but we (as clexa fans) sometimes bring up bellamy handcuffing clarke against her will as reasons why he would be bad for her...just wondering about your thoughts on why these two things are different :)
lenarise answered:
sure, i can help you out here. let’s compare the two scenes, shall we?
clarke + lexa
- so here’s what happens first: lexa finds a field full of her slaughtered people, all murdered by the skaikru. clarke’s people. at this point, i honestly thought clarke was about to be a prisoner of war. but hey, maybe i’m just thinking a little too much like the kind of person who would string up lincoln and torture him for information after he non-fatally stabbed someone.
- anyways
- so lexa’s like. four shades of furious right about now. which is justified, her army was slaughtered, indra’s hurt, clarke’s being a stubborn little space ball, and she has to 1) make her next political move and 2) keep her word to clarke
- BONUS ROUND, indra delivers pike and bellamy’s message: skaikru rejects the coalition, this land (trikru land) is theirs now, trikru can leave or they can die.
- now she’s five shades of furious
- so she goes for her next political move: call everyone and their mom, we boutta fuck up arkadia so bad theyre gonna start calling it “the hundred, season 3″
- our friendly neighborhood space ball is like Y I K E S !
- “wait……..give me time to fix this!” clarke honey… no.
- lexa’s guards are closer to clarke than she is, and she says “stop her”. not restrain her. not tie her up. not hurt her. just stop her, so she doesnt run off to arkadia.
- IMMEDIATELY she explains. immediately. “i cant let you leave, clarke”
- so they have their little exchange “please try this new plan of mine lexa” she said. “no” lexa said. “tryyyyy iiiiiiit” clarke said. “no” lexa said again, quieter this time.
- and then she let clarke go anyways
- bonus round part two: later in the ep its explained even further why lexa wouldnt let her go. “you cant just walk through the gates clarke, you’ve been living with their enemy. if it were me, i’d kill you on the spot”
bellamy and clarke
- so here’s what happens here: clarke goes through something traumatic and loses a part of herself in the process, cant deal with facing it, leaves so that she doesnt have to be crushed under the guilt of it, and bellamy as her friend completely understands that everyone deals with trauma differently and that if he can forgive jasper for turning into a useless heartbroken drunk for 3 months he can forgive clarke for taking the time she needs for herself
- JUST KIDDING HE THROWS A BITCH FIT
- so he whines for 8 days until finally we’ve got what for some god forsaken reason is every blarke’s wet dream: clarke crying, so emotional she cant stand, apologizing for the way she handles her grief and pain, begging bellamy to not be a murderous tool for one god damn second
- bellamy deadass manipulates her. like there’s no way around this. he takes her emotions, her need for comfort, her need for literally any scrap of emotional support and uses it as a way to get close to her. he offers it to her, makes her feel validated and hopeful for a moment before he says “im sorry” whips out the handcuffs and restrains her
if you still cant see the difference between stopping someone from doing something that’s gonna be counterproductive / extremely dangerous and tricking someone in order to handcuff them because He Knows What’s Really Good For Her, well, then you probably ship clarke with bellamy.
I love girl/girl relationships where one is just constantly grumpy and the other is this cheerful happy go lucky person who is always amused by their gruffy mcgruff gruff girlfriend
I love the girl/girl relationships where the one is alive and the other one is this alive girl and they both breathe and their heart pumps and blood flows through their veins