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You know what, fuck this post. Maybe women wouldn’t feel the need to other themselves if so many enjoyable, genderless activities weren’t so heavily gendered to begin with. Do you know why a woman would feel the need to say, “Yes, I’m a girl and I play video games”? It’s because she or other women she knows have had their hobbies and interests invalidated based solely upon their gender. So much of this leads to woman internalizing this casual sexism, which is the most insidious part of the whole thing. Girls strive to differenciate themselves from being “girls”. ‘Yes I’m a girl, but I’m not like those OTHER girls. I’m cool, because I like guy things.’ So why do women other themselves this way? Why do they form little groups on Facebook for their interests, explicitly announcing that despite the hurdle of being a woman, they’ve overcome and somehow gotten to enjoy this activity? Because “girl” has become shorthand for “shitty” on such a grand scale that it’s embarrassing. Feminine is embarrassing. Feminine is weak. Feminine doesn’t play Counter Strike or enjoy stupid wrestling or burp loudly in public because it’s funny. Both men and women write off a girl as trying to be a special snowflake for being proud of belching in public, but here is the sad truth: belch in public as a girl and you get flack for it. You get surprise. Distaste. Most likely you get admiration from male friends, because you did something as gross and masculine as release noisy air from your dumb food hole, but are still so adorable! It becomes a badge of honor; you’re one of the cool girls who is like a guy. You internalize it. It becomes identity.

When I worked at a comic book shop from the time I was 16 until I turned 22, due to the fact that I FUCKING LOVE COMICS, I would answer the phone and have customers ask me if there were a man there that could answer his comic book questions. This was not an isolated incident. This happened monthly, sometimes weekly. I had boys sit at my counter and make eyes at my stupid pubescent face while telling me how gosh, I wasn’t like other girls. I liked comics and games and could eat a whole package of jerky myself.

That is a huge steaming pile of turds.

Girls are funny and gross and awful and beautiful and ugly and just as diverse as any group of young men. Also? They’re marginalized, fucking fight me on it.

I love video games and I have a vagina, I don’t feel the need to announce this over the head set, no. But you know what? Fuck the people judging girls trying to feel even slightly empowered doing the things pictured above if they feel like it. I’ll bet half of them are women themselves, trying to ‘outbro’ each other. “Vagina award for doing things everyone else does” Fuck you, girls get so much shit for this kind of stuff it’s not even funny. Alluding to things being equal is bullshit.

re-blogging for this great, and true, rant.  

A post that has both sides. Truthfully, never looked at it the way the rant describes it. It was interesting.

peace-mains:

Bonds across the ocean ..

My submission to Project-X

panoramiccc:

pobody:

reality check in science class

This makes me so sad XD

(via prayingneit)

Since this is more like a colour sketch, I figured I might as well put it here… oxo

Maybe one day I’ll be friends with realism and painting.

Welcome to another sketch dump! I hope you will enjoy, hurr~ I draw very rarely in my sketchbook. Usually it’s my notebooks and random strips of paper that suffer |D;; Aaaah… One of these days I’ll get those scanned and organised too…

Note: You’ll have to click the source link or, uh, here, to see the full size image.

Suddenly got inspired to think back on starbits and finally doodled something on the site’s oekaki. It’ll be a long time before the site’s back… So I’ll focus on other things in the meantime.

Anyway, these are Swirly and Ririn in anthro forms.

A quick (and I mean, very quick) doodle of my first time meeting my “internet twin” in person It was a very interesting and fun experience 8D I was a bit worried about recognising each other and having the courage to speak up to a “stranger” so Pann came up with the GENIOUS idea inspired by One Piece XD whee~ The first few moments were so painful though, lol, but we managed to break the awkwardness. My favourite moment was oooh-ing and aaaaah-ing over each other’s sketchbooks, haha <’D

I don’t know if I’ll do a proper one… so lazy…. But I wanted to do it in case I forget D:

So I noticed my luxray’s nature was “jolly”. I was like “luxrays? JOLLY? U LIE” so I decided I would prove that it can happen by drawing luxrays with various expressions. Next step… a feminine luxray U.U

No wonder I like bright green so much. This seems pretty accurate.

http://www.color-scope.com/scope

I realized that I haven’t submitted these anywhere… Pretty old now, haha~ First four are my main 4 neopets :]

The ixi, the plushie aisha and art for a user for a pet applicaton.

Sorry for the crap quality, and actually the drawing isn’t all that awesome either. I didn’t want to get too attached to it SO I SLACKED OFF xD My first time drawing Ace. Visible here practice doodles to figure out how to draw him.

It’s a gift for a friend of mine who turned 19 this Saturday. I’m hosting One Piece marathons for her and she liked Ace a lot so yeah. The actual gift is the picture frame though…

Watching the Naruto anime. Somehow ended up “into” it again. I must be some little kid, no? Reads b&w comic without stupid fillers - no reaction. Watches all the same with pwetty moving colours and sound - MAGIC.