smile, it confuses people.
The Bechdel test asks if a fictional work, most often a film, features two or more women who talk to one another about something other than a man.
ONE. When the first man tells you he loves you, you will
use this as an excuse for not continuing to work on loving yourself.
You are wet cement and he is the body you are looking for
whose outline will last long after the contents have faded.
And you will forgive over and over again because giving is a concept
you are less familiar with than taking- how every man save those
on your mother’s side took your voice, your skin, until nothing was left
but a ghost occupying a ghost town that everyone but the most prideful
have learned to leave.
Several of the men you slept with even left you for dead
because leaving you for dead was easier than leaving you
alive with a voice to tell the story of how they demolished you
like a wrecking ball attached to a construction crane.
You, hiding inside yourself, a mess of short-circuited wires
that fell in love with water.
And every movie will teach you it is your fault.
TWO. The first honest conversation you will have with your mother
will involve her teaching you how to be invisible.
To never walk home alone at night, to dull the stardust
you were born from, as if the fact that some men will turn you
into a shattered window is your responsibility to prevent.
This is the first Bechdel test you will not pass.
Know that you are not to blame.
Know that for most of your life, you will be treated as a bird
with broken wings that men will either want to rescue,
or serve for dinner after checking for any remaining nest eggs.
Know that you are the only one
who can build the splint, that there is nothing safer
than being yourself.
THREE. During the Salem witch trials, the so-called witches were witnessed
throwing items across the room,
contorting themselves into odd positions,
crawling across the floor.
Sometimes the witnesses would even claim to have seen
the apparition or shape of the accused
hovering over them,
drifting softly through the windows and across balconies.
They were guilty until proven innocent- with the swimming test,
even if their bound bodies sank like stones to the bottom of the well,
they were dead non-witches.
If they floated, they were witches hanged or burned at the stake.
Either way, they still ended up dead.
And during the Salem witch trials, almost all twenty
of the accused persons were women, as well as the accusers.
When women aren’t failing the Bechdel test,
they’re being pitted against each other.
(via writingsforwinter)
women are literally raised to be subordinate and malnourished and live in fear of murder and rape so no i am not going to feel bad for men having to live up to masculinity which were set in place by men to, again, keep women subordinate
you are literally complaining about having the better end of the stick and it makes me sick to my stomach you can choke on your spoon
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in-dissolúvel on We Heart It. http://weheartit.com/entry/38576839/via/codeplay
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