It’s kind of amusing to hear all this talk about humans being an apex predator species – I mean, I love it, but technically, by our own standards of rating predators, we aren’t, because we still have animals around on Earth that will munch us down if push comes to shove. We’re not like bears or wolves or any of the really big members of the big cat family – yes, we can and do hunt, but as often as not we foraged.
Heck, we still do that in many ways, even in the urban environments we have made for ourselves. We are the species that will stare you in the eye as we steal the food off your plate, then add insult to injury by checking to make sure it’s clean enough, get everywhere we’re not supposed to because we are cunning little buggers that are hard to keep out, will hoard shiny things even though we know they aren’t useful because they are shiny, okay, and then we’ll go and do something adorable so that you love us anyway, at least until you notice that we’ve just scuttled off with half your wiring because we needed it for something important.
Humans aren’t the wolves or tigers or bears of the universe.
Boy bands are almost overwhelmingly cultivated around the easiest way to sell shit to young girls, which very heavily leans into societally dominant heterosexual love story narratives, which in themselves tend to focus on specific attitudes towards gender roles, presentation, and styles of attraction.
Bi women are not straight so we do not conceptualize our gender and attraction the same way a straight woman would because we do not function under the same societal pressures and dynamics. Ergo, the marketing around and content within the songs by many boy bands can be incredibly alienating to a bi woman audience even if they still experience attraction to men because we often do not experience that attraction in a way palpable to or even considered by those cultivating the public image of these bands.
Accusing Mara Wilson, a bi woman, of bi erasure, for sharing an amusing anecdote on her own experience, is ridiculous. But it is also an incredible disservice to bi women like myself who are more than acutely aware that we are (and always have been) a far cry from this media’s target audience – and it is, in fact, a demonstration of the effects of bi erasure that people so stalwartly align us with heterosexuality that we’re accused of erasing ourselves when we talk about our alienation from mainstream m/f-focused media.
Keep ace ladies in mind too, because this applies to me like whoa.
ive been seeing a post saying that since tomorrows december weve wasted another year again and while i can completely understand that mindset i just wanna remind u all that you havent wasted anything at all.. i know that theres been some pretty hard stuff this year but none of you are a waste of space or anything else, youre accomplishing something just by being alive and being here. youre doing enough just by making it thru every day and youre growing whether you know it or not, no year that you live is a waste and you should be proud of yourself
it’s a chain of unrequited hate. the sabres and sens both both try to fight the leafs, but the leafs don’t pay them much attention and are instead trying to fight the habs, who, in turn, are too busy locked in bloody battle with the bruins to care
the wings are perched on a ledge, spying on their rivals from the western conference. occasionally they throw rocks at the bolts, who shout at them while wrestling the panthers
just moving along like everyone else 