medieval dramas that dress the men’s top halves like it’s 1400 but their lower halves are wearing modern trousers because accurate hose are a little too… uh…
that
Because they are cowards!
Men now: lol women are so stupid leggings aren’t pants
Murder on the Rockport Limited exists in this weird liminal space because it’s better constructed than Gerblins but they still haven’t QUITE figured out how seriously they want to take this whole podcast. So on the one hand you have this cool murder mystery and the introduction of a major NPC and Tres Horny Boys are marginally more coordinated than they have been thus far, even if the overarching plot doesn’t advance very far, but like on the other hand it also includes
—An entire town of Tom Bodetts
—Hand stank
—Everything about Jenkins’ introduction
—The Brief but Horrible Scottish Accent of Merle Highchurch
—“Sorry guys I had a really bad initiative roll”
—Graham the Juicy Wizard
—That moment where Magnus actually very nearly died because no one cared yet if one of them had to roll a new character so he just threw himself off a train
—Jenkins fucked up his roll to attack THB so badly and Griffin didn’t have a backup plan so instead of a boss fight Jenkins just got punched off the train and died
I want men to try and imagine going about your day–working, running, hiking, whatever–and not being allowed to wear pants under threats of violence or total social and economic exclusion.
That’s the kind of irrationally violent and controlling behaviour women have been up against.
Also for anyone who thinks it’s easy for women to be gender non conforming because we can wear pants.
The only reason we can is because we fought tooth and nail for the right to! Any rights we take for granted today we’re the result of a prolonged, bitter battle fought by our predecessors for every inch of territory gained. Never forget that.
Title IX (1972) declared that girls could not be required to wear skirts to school.
Women who were United States senators were not allowed to wear trousers on the Senate floor until 1993, after senators Barbara Mikulski and Carol Moseley Braun wore them in protest, which encouraged female staff members to do likewise.
This was never given to us. Women have had to fight just to be able to wear pants. Women who are still alive remember having to wear skirts to school, even in the dead of winter, when it was so cold that just having a layer of tights between them and the elements was downright dangerous. Women who remember not even being allowed to wear pants under their skirts, for no other reason than they were female.
So don’t talk about women wearing pants being gender nonconforming like it’s easy. It’s only less difficult now because your foremothers refused to comply.
My mother spent her entire school career up until high school having to wear skirts, no matter how horrible the New England winters got, because she was forbidden to do otherwise. There were times when the weather was bad where my grandmother kept her home rather than make her walk to and from the bus in a skirt.
They rebroadcast a few old interviews with Mary Tyler Moore, and in them she addressed the pants issue. There was a strict limit on what kind of pants she could wear (hence, always Capri pants, nothing masculine), and to use her words, how much cupping the pants could show. A censor would look at every outfit when she came out on stage, and if the pants cupped her buttocks too much, defining them rather than hiding them, then she had to get another pair.
My mom got sent home from school when she was 8 years old for wearing a pair of shorts under her skirt. She wore them because she didn’t want to show her underwear when she was playing on the jungle gym.
The principle explained to my grandmother that if she was old enough to worry about showing her panties then she was too old to be playing on the jungle gym and had to start acting more like a lady.
My GNC aunt had to be forced to wear skirts right up until the second she was old enough to join the navy and then spent the rest of her life wearing the baggiest pants she could find. The reason she thought the military was her only viable option was because she had terrible grades through high school because she kept getting sent home for wearing shorts under her skirts.
My mum both fought to wear trousers and to wear the miniskirt. Ironically, of the two, trousers were the bigger fight.
Many of the women in this generation now sneer at feminism. I don’t understand how you can see such a huge positive change in your own lifetime and think social justice is a joke.
If you wanted to see how many people don’t know what taxes are or how they work, read the notes
I think my only problem with continued joke— tech bros just invented busses tech bros just invented renting etc— is that it assumes these guys are just clueless idiots who don’t know how the world works. The reality is these guys know exactly what they’re doing and what they’re doing is creating a lifestyle that deliberately excludes the poor. Re-invent the bus system so you don’t have to sit next to the poor. Re-invent renting to be even more exclusive.
Re-invent taxes so you be sure your money is only helping “your community” ie other wealthy people and then vote to lower actual taxes so that none of that money goes to help anybody else.
This is absolutely a purposeful plan. Nobody wants to drive on roads with potholes or walk on broken sidewalks but why should our tax money go to *those people* I know let’s create a “community startup” so we can cut taxes without personal inconvenience.
“Babies only cry if they are hungry, need changing, or need to be picked up”
Lies
Babies (and small children) also cry for reasons such as:
1. “I am tired and that makes me angry”
2. “I scared myself with a fart”
3. “You are the wrong parent”
4. “I ran into something with my face”
5. “I’m facing the opposite direction then the one I want to”
6. “I fell asleep in one place and woke up somewhere completely different”
7. “I am a very small person in a very big world”
8. “I got scared because YOU farted”
Babies have more then 3 states of being and sometimes you just have to hold them and bounce them gently while saying solemnly “yes it is very hard to be a baby” because frankly it is
you have to remember that when you’re that tiny… pretty much any bad thing that happens to you is LITERALLY the WORST thing that has ever happened in your life. they have no perspective. everything is awful. help them
You step out onto the street and the distraction that is the weightlessness of your body evaporates. You see her there, 30 feet up on the side of a building across the way. You see her, and despite the motionless poise of her form as it defies gravity, you know she hasn’t seen you. You will the distance between yourselves to close. You’re going to annihilate her.
Sometimes in D&D, you’re just a tired, angry druid man who has to nip off to the ethereal plane to absolutely obliterate the murdering succubus who stole your face in order to beat your war-time comfort lover within an inch of his life and then stuff his body into his own wardrobe for you to find.
Big thanks to DM @adiostoreadumb for setting such a rad scene i love ya buddy. ❤
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