straight boys are weak and pathetic, queer girls walk into the ladies changing room and see ten women naked, do they stare? do they say something inappropriate? do they make them uncomfortable? no because they have the common fucking sense to recognise when a situation is sexual and that people deserve the most basic level of respect to not be harassed, yet here we are banning shorts and low cut tops in school because straight boys are weak and pathetic
okay i made this post this morning and it has since had eighty two thousand notes, it’s been featured on reddit, facebook, twitter i’ve been sent multiple death threats and messages that i don’t even want to describe
and i have to apologise
i’ve seen the error of my ways
straight boys are not ’weak and pathetic’
straight boys are weak, pathetic and fucking annoying
Society: Capitalism and the free market is great because it lets customers CHOOSE who’s the best company and then that company makes all the money while lesser companies have to improve or die.
Millenials: *boycott companies that benefit off exploitation of people and natural resources*
If Faith Goldy is at the debate shut it down. Crowd the stage until it collapses, pull a fire alarm, whatever. Shut it down. No platforms for fascists; not now and not ever.
What sexist Heathen men think Freyja is: a glamorous woman and ultimate sexual fantasy who would totally be DTF them and their unkempt beards. Also all women should strive to be her because see above
Freyja according to the lore: a single mother, a sex worker, was shamed for having lots of sex, practitioner of gross women’s magic which makes people gay, really, REALLY doesn’t like it when you try and get with her without her consent. still glamorous though
I mean, she might be DTF folks with unkempt beards depending if Odr is Odin at his crazy frothing stage, but since there are records of the fact the Anglo Saxons used to whine about personal grooming obsessed Norsemen (read bathing and regularly combing hair etc) nicking their women? I’d call it a massive exception to lore/history. Not that I would ever presume to tell Her who she could and couldn’t do, however she liked. Because I’m not bloody stupid and she taught the Old Man something he didn’t know. Because when she’s pissed, the whole of Asgard shakes.
You want to try screwing with the person even Thor gets nervous around? You want to turn her into your wank-fantasy, your eugenics prototype?
Wheat fields are more mystical than fields of other crops. You are 7,000 times more likely to meet an old god or see a portent of doom in a wheat field than in a field of like… soybeans.
For your consideration: cornfields
Cornfields are less mystical than wheat fields but more mystical than soybean fields. Two-bit monsters congregate in corn fields to eat people, but their power is nothing compared to the things that manifest in wheat fields.
Have been in both wheat and cornfields; can confirm. Cornfields host monsters who eat people. Wheat fields attract old gods.
I have a theory that this is because the notions most of us have of “old gods” are pretty intrinsically European, and wheat was (and is) the staple crop of European life. It is quite literally tied to the ancestral rituals and beliefs of most white people. Odin, the Morrigan, and even Zeus are actually linked to a set of peoples who cultivated wheat.
Meanwhile, corn (maize) is a crop native to the Americas. It features in the white cultural imagination in a very different way. Corn is a motif seen not in our ancestral myths, but in a much newer genre: the American Gothic. With its focus on the tensions between man and nature and—perhaps more importantly—the United States’s history of genocide against its indigenous population and trade in enslaved Africans, the American Gothic is VERY preoccupied with agriculture. Our monsters come out of corn fields because corn is a symbol for not only what we did to the Native Americans (who were the first to grow the crop), but of what we are doing to the very land itself. Corn is a monument to our cultural sins.
Meanwhile, I suspect that corn features very differently in the imaginations of people of color. If you asked a Native American person or a Latinx person what sort of mysticism they associate with corn fields, I imagine their answer would be very different than ours.
TLDR: White people associate wheat with our ancestors’ gods because our ancestors grew wheat. We associate corn with terrible monsters because it is a literal sign of our own monstrosity.
alternative take:
They’re ALL old gods. Some of them just aren’t ours.
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