Author: asaucerfullofsin

we-work-hard:

toosweetme:

Im not gonna lie I hate this idea that Becky has to be “The Man”  Like I get it. I get what they are trying to say. But to me just wrong but it still has a lot of underlying misogynist tones implying she cant be good at be a woman she HAS to be “The Man” Why cant she just be “The Woman”. Which damn right she is.

This sums up feelings I cldn’t find words for ☝️

It makes me… incredibly uncomfortable tbh 😕. I think it’s been very poorly thought out.

1) If Becky genuinely wants to identify that way? Or if Becky’s non-binary? Great – full support, 100%, hell yes. But… I’m pretty sure she’s a cis woman/identifies as a woman… so… this points to something else…

2) Her history of referring to other women as ‘lads’ ties into this – it’s… erasure.

3) It’s placing ‘man’ as more powerful than ‘woman’, like something to aim for/ascend to? A new power she’s earned? Like, sorry, what?

3) It comes across as ~pick-me/I’m-not-like-other-girls~ bullshit and no thanks

taylortut:

you know what’s wild is that all these crazy standards we hold ourselves to are things that we don’t even value in another person? like i’ve never been like “wow I love that this friend of mine is too proud to ask for help and never complains about their feelings” or “my favorite quality about this friend is that they get straight A’s and never get overwhelmed and has never told me about a problem” or “i love that this friend has never been wrong about anything or slipped up and said something embarrassing once in their life” and yet here we are, pushing ourselves past our limits for and beating ourselves up over slipups of things that our friends probably wouldn’t even rank in the top 50 reasons they like us