misaimed-archer:

Question: Do boys and girls even mature at difffered rates?

Only when it’s convenient for the people saying it, like when they’re trying to justify being attracted to teenage girls or not holding boys accountable for being creeps.

anitas:

This isnt a hot take but feminism which centers around periods/vaginas/boobs as Things Which Unite All Women is an untrustworthy brand of feminism

slogans like “no pussy no power” “viva la vulva” “not an ovary-action” etc as stand-ins for “i support women” are more damaging than yall think bc centering ur feminism around things which only cis women experience a) alienates trans women who dont experience them, b) is harmful to ppl who DO experience them but arent women, & c) furthers the mentality that gender = genitals/trans women dont really have a place fighting for womens rights. none of that is as progressive as yall think holding up a sign with a vagina on it is, same goes 4 writing that shit on pads. not every woman has a vagina & not everyone with a vagina is a woman, and feminism which marginalizes entire subsets of us for the sake of a catchy slogan isnt good feminism

Yo i saw that “cissexism” comment on that post. And im not mad or offended. Its just putting human gender theory onto an animal is pretty fucked up. Its pure observation of genitalia to confirm the sex of the animal. I don’t mean that in a cruel way, and its fine if you don’t agree. i just wanted to say that.

sari-y-fawr:

So very true

because of course, raising a child the other way is somehow exempt.

grafitisonny:

yall: we love the genders: male… female…. male-aligned…. and female-aligned!

xelethaine:

Every time someone says “Jaal’s romance was written with women in mind” I just can’t help but feel they think a relationship between two men is this aggressive, sex filled, intense exchange and there’s no gentle romance of any kind and all gay men are just plain barbaric in their romantic lives or something.
Literally nothing that happens in Jaal’s romance is exclusive to straight relationships and I really don’t understand how that notion even makes sense.

hustleinatrap:

please, be kind

so i definitely believe that sexual orientations are based on sex and not identity, but someone made an interesting point to me in an argument recently – does this apply to asexuals too? i think it does but i didn’t know what to say to this, if someone can experience romantic but not sexual attraction would there still be a reason to have this for only one sex? do you have any thoughts on this?

lowkey-radical:

yeah? i don’t really see why it wouldn’t tbh. like just because they aren’t interested in sex doesn’t mean they aren’t biologically programmed to be attracted to a certain sex. like this kinda seems to be coming from the whole mindset that same sex attraction is all about sexual intercourse and not just, like, who we are able to be attracted to in any way. i’m sorry if this is a bad explanation but i just don’t really understand why ANYONE could experience “gender based attraction” since gender is a social construct and means literally nothing, especially in the trans community.