YES.

Same here. My parents encouraged my siblings and I to play pretend with the dolls,and beyond the stereotypical "playing house." I remember several murder mysteries, for instance.

I'm about the same age as you and your childhood sounds exactly like mine. Ivplayed with dolls and did ballet and then all of a sudden sixteen years later I was a martial artist and one of three women my belt level in my studio. If you teach a child to be strong and to seek her own interests regardless of societal…

As a former ballerina, ballet is far more than "posing prettily." It's absolutely a sport, as well as an art form, and it's incredibly physically demanding. Being en pointe is incredibly difficult; learning lifts, positions, and how to control your movement takes decades. However, people choose to ignore these things…

Jesus Christ, this is a shitshow of an article. And it could've been done so well, too.

What about salaried pay? What about after all the Millennial women (as part of this generation is still young yet, hello) have children and at least some are expected to be the primary caretaker? What about women who aren't white or middle class? What about trans* women or visibly queer women?

Reread. I never said that society was exclusively responsible for the desire to reproduce; I said that there is a societal pressure on women to have children regardless of their own actual desires and a societal message that women have no intrinsic worth of their own except as babymakers and child-raisers.

I love the shoes. I won't lie. He could've just named the damn things after the women and not written the horribly plotted, likely-faked-or-exaggerated stories.

To be fair, we're societally programmed to think our only worth and only shot at real accomplishment is to birth a kid and take care of it.

Yeah, that skeezes me out as well. And yet! People write these ridiculous crack!ships like, I don't know, Harley Quinn and that small child from the Wreck-It Ralph movie, and yet! Logical ships? I could see a Red/Belle, for sure. Can I find any of it? No. Sigh. I think that the canon fuels it, actually - maybe it's my…

Oh, god. Aurora and Mulan. My heart aches for Mulan and I spend far too much time on An Archive of Our Own wishing there was more slash of them that didn't... suck.

Yes.

It may not be the whole story, but I feel that mental illness is a definite factor here.

God, a good portion of us aren't even interested in dating men.

Y E S .

I thoroughly enjoy the gif and have put it in my "celebratory gifs" folder. Thank you.

... no.

Very carefully, one would assume. Though it looks like the ropes are wrapped all the way around the thing? That's kind of impractical. I'd like to see how you'd get someone, zombie or no, to sit still for that.

Whoah, there. Holy Uncanny Valley, Batman.

Mean people might need Jesus, but if I'd have been remaking The Sound of Music (and following in Julie Andrew's footsteps, which, admittedly, can't be easy), I'd have at least made a deal with the devil for some... I don't know, standard acting skills?