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mynameislyddy

December 2010

62 posts

Think your breasts look weird? Think again. →

chelseabee: blackenedbutterfly: This is what non-edited breasts look like. There’s an extensive gallery of user-submitted pictures of what the normal range of breasts actually look like (as opposed to the images of perfect breasts we see in the media). Empower yourself! LOOK AT SOME BOOBIES! Best idea in the world. You would never know what normal means, because these images are so...

Just realised how long it's been since I even...

…let alone made a video. I’m sorry, anyone who cares. Even if you don’t. Right, I have Christmas, which means family and Church and relaxing, and I have some University deadlines, but I will make a promise to noone in particular, and note to myself to do these things: Tune guitar Practise “You Love Me” some more Make a video for “You Love Me” Find...

Day Seventeen: Favourite warrior female character

Fa Mulan (voiced by Ming-Na and Lea Salonga) in the film Mulan I know it’s a Disney film, and I know it’s based on a legend that therefore could have started with a true story, with magic dragons added in after, but Mulan is epic. Gender bending, strong female characters, all that jazz, and this is Disney we’re talking about. No weak princesses waiting for a man to rescue them in sight! Not even...

jenerally asked: I noticed your vegetarians against peta things.
And as much as I hate peta's advertising they seem to get stuff done - so i continue to follow them on facebook and have emails sent to me. I was wondering what animal rights organizations you contribute to or are a part of.
Thanks :)

Or maybe Auntie… which looks better? I think Auntie… because Aunty Lyddy has too many y’s. My adoptive sister, Caroline, had a baby! (we are both only children and ‘adopted’ each other when we were small. I regard her 100% my sister. Blood is only so important, you know? It’s thicker than water, but not thicker than glue. Whatever that means.) This morning at...

Happy Solstace, everyone!

Especially if you are pagan, and celebrate the Solstace. I hear it’s also a full moon, and a total lunar esclipe today, which hasn’t happened since either 1702 or 1802! I think it already happened, and it turned the moon red-orange. I don’t know, I was asleep.

Day Sixteen: Favourite mother character

Morticia Addams (played by Anjelica Huston) in The Addams Family films I’m pretty sure Morticia chose to be a stay at home mum, and chose to be a glamorous woman. I don’t think her husband, Gomez, works either. I don’t remember him doing anything except play golf and have parties, and I don’t remember her doing anything except gliding around being gothic and having parties. As you can tell, the...

fuckyeahfeminists: defeatdepression: Reblog if you suffer/suffered from one or more of the following: depression, anxiety, panic attacks, anxiety attacks, bipolar disorder, eating disorder, dermatillomania, trich, or any other mental illness. I think one of the greatest barriers to defeating the stigma related to these conditions is the air of silence. This is why I am sharing this with you...

howardmooncolonexplorer asked: Thank you. <3

urge facebook to change "sex" to gender

projectqueer: http://apps.facebook.com/petitions/1/urge-facebook-to-change-sex-to-gender/ hey, i dont have a tumblr but i follow your page. i just thought maybe this could get posted up on your tumblr or something && perhaps this will get a lot more needed signatures [= <3Rose ————————————————————————————— No problem! Petition shared and signed!! Thank YOU for sharing!! Sofia...

What's the point in saying "No homo"? No one's...

ancestryinprogress asked: Awwwww, you're too sweet. It's an afro babe. KISSES to your face!

Day Fifteen: Favourite female character growth arc

Cordelia Chase (played by Charisma Carpenter) in Buffy the Vampire Slayer At first, Cordy is the archetypal cheerleader – all pretty and nice, expensive clothes, nothing but air in between her ears. All she cares about is popularity. But when the reality of life in Sunnydale confronts her, and what Buffy does is revealed to her, she begins her journey into reasonable human being. She dates...

Gender Benders Wage War on Sports →

stfuconservatives: L. Brent Bozell III, founder of the ever so venerable Media Research Center, accused transgender activists of taking their “crusade for gender denial and self-mutilation to the world of school sports” last month. Kye Allums, a shooting guard on the George Washington University women’s basketball team, has decided that she is a he. Changing her name from “Kay-Kay,” Allums is...

Fuck yeah, feminists!: As far as I'm concerned... →

thefeministhub: We’ve been getting a lot of messages about anti-feminist blogs and Tumblrs up in here, and though I think the group has been doing a good job of addressing them all, I just wanted to put this here in the event that you encounter other, anti-woman, anti-feminist sentiments in…

Day Fourteen: Favourite older female character

Marsha Klein (played by Julia Deakin) in Spaced I love Spaced. I love Marsha because she is permanently drunk, and while being like the mum of the show, she is almost predatory to Brian, in a permanent attempt at seduction. They all love her, and when she leaves, they realise that isn’t just some older woman, she’s their friend. I love the friendship she has with Mike, it’s such an unlikely...

Because apparently some of my followers don't know...

dangerouslycoldtea: A link spam: This Is What Rape Culture Looks Like [Yes Means Yes] On “Hey Baby” And The Invisibility Of Managing Sexual Harassment (Invisible To Men, I Mean) [Alas A Blog] Sexual Force And Reader Consent In Romance [Dear Author] The Rise Of The Rape Joke [The Guardian] Race And Assault Collide: The Adrianne Curry Incident [Racialicious] Rape Culture 101 [Shakesville]

pluralisms asked: http://www.amazon.com/Fasting-Girls-History-Anorexia-Nervosa/dp/0375724486

starvation disorders (anorexia as a diagnosis didn't enter the language until the late 1800s) have existed since before thinness became an ideal. they were not rare, they just went undiagnosed because they were seen as just another part of young women's flighty, histrionic behaviors.

mynameislyddy: Thinspo, Tumblr and Me. →

pluralisms: mynameislyddy: pluralisms: mynameislyddy: […] I believe EDs like Anorexia Nervosa, Bullimia Nervosa and EDNOS stem 100% from society’s current fixation on thin as the only way to be beautiful. But if we hate on thin, and say the only way to be beautiful is curves, that leads to those kind of EDs too. How? There seems to me to be three causes of EDs like those: The classic one...

Day Thirteen: Favourite female character in a book

Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter books In the books, Hermione is an awesome character. She is best friends with and equal to the famed Harry Potter, the boy who lived, even though she is a muggle-born female. She is a great character, and I think she shows girls that you can be clever and nerdy, and that can be your main attribute. She shows everybody that you don’t have to take crap; you...

mynameislyddy: Thinspo, Tumblr and Me. →

pluralisms: mynameislyddy: […] I believe EDs like Anorexia Nervosa, Bullimia Nervosa and EDNOS stem 100% from society’s current fixation on thin as the only way to be beautiful. But if we hate on thin, and say the only way to be beautiful is curves, that leads to those kind of EDs too. How? There seems to me to be three causes of EDs like those: The classic one where you say “I’m so fat, I...

Just for the record

I believe society’s portrayal of the one way to be attractive is 100% to blame for my BDD as well.

swaggerdistrict asked: thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou. i am really sorry that i flipped out on you but it's such a touchy subject for me, and after i sent it i was like AH MAYBE I SHOULDNT HAVE SENT THAT D: because i felt bad. it's not like youve actually experienced having an ED so you wouldnt be able to totally understand it, and i forget that a lot of the time. i know so many people with disordered...

swaggerdistrict asked: i just want you to know that your opinion on eating disorders is highly offensive AND i think you should actually learn a little bit about anorexia nervosa and bulimia before you go and make a "rant" about it where you glorify yourself as being the ~ideal weight~. being anorexic and having an eating disorder are not exactly the same thing, look up EDNOS. just because someone has a goal...

mynameislyddy: Thinspo, Tumblr and Me. →

swaggerdistrict: pluralisms: mynameislyddy: […] I believe EDs like Anorexia Nervosa, Bullimia Nervosa and EDNOS stem 100% from society’s current fixation on thin as the only way to be beautiful. But if we hate on thin, and say the only way to be beautiful is curves, that leads to those kind of EDs too. How? There seems to me to be three causes of EDs like those: The classic one where you...

Lost Grrrls: rabblevolunteer: The Worst Things... →

rabblevolunteer: The Worst Things Beautiful: Real Talk: Self-righteous stay-at-home-moms the-madame-hatter: I know several really awesome SAHMs. I also know several really shitty ones. You know the ones that give the sad, pitying look when I tell them I’m a working mother. “Oh,… My mum stayed at home while I was little because she could afford to (her and my dad are married) and if...

everything in immoderation: Everytime you say... →

nicolettemason: Real women are tall. Real women are short. They’re wide. Gaunt. Their bones can stick out of their collarbones, or be disguised by curves or fat. There are real women with breasts and real women with flat chests. There are real women who have had to have their breasts or… Click through to read this. There are people who think they are so body positive and they are...

Thinspo, Tumblr and Me.

Possible trigger warnings for EDs and SH/SI. I ain’t gonna be one of the people hating and attacking thinspo blogs. I’ve spoken to people suffering from Anorexia Nervosa in various forms. I know them and their reasoning and their experiences well. Attacking them for thinspo is attacking them for having an illness. I believe EDs like Anorexia Nervosa, Bullimia Nervosa and EDNOS stem...

So let me get this straight - Larry King is...

cherry-blossom-lanterns: <3 Auto reblog.

Day Twelve: Favourite female character in a movie

Lara Croft (played by Angelina Jolie) in Tomb Raider Okay, so it’s more about the game character; I realise now that Lara Croft was my first crush – I used to go to the arcade and play Tomb Raider, even though I’ve always been appalling at the hand-eye coordination type of games, due to my terrible hand-eye coordination. I later found out that Lara Croft was actually based on Angelina Jolie, and...

Day Eleven: Favourite female character in a...

Harmony Parker (played by Victoria Shalet) in The Queen’s Nose I loved this programme so much… I used to keep every 50p I had, and make wishes like Harmony did. Like most children in a TV programme where they have some secret magic thing, Harmony is the only character in the show who can be trusted to not make stupid wishes, although she does make mistakes, and after a while they began...

Day Ten: Favourite female character in a...

Amy Pond (played by Karen Gillan) in Doctor Who This is mostly because of her relationship with the Doctor; she isn’t like Donna in that it’s platonic, but she isn’t like Rose in that she is devoted and in love with him. I found Rose creepy, because she fancied an alien that she just met, but the weirdness of the attraction is more acknowledged with Amy. Amy remembers him from her childhood, and...

A Lesson In Sparkling:

howardmooncolonexplorer: mamazoom: NO: YES: That’s all. This is a must reblog. I want a glitterball suit…

Day Nine: Favourite female character in a drama...

Toshiko Sato (played by Naoko Mori) in Torchwood Ah, I love Torchwood! It’s so LGBTQ-positive; every character is bisexual or even pansexual (yeah!) I do love Tosh, she’s awesome. So, why did I choose her? I love her interaction with other characters, I love the role that she plays in the team, and I loved the storyline where she fell in love with Mary. I think Naoki Mori is beautiful and Toshiko...

Day Eight: Favourite female character in a comedy...

Miranda Hart (played by herself) in Miranda This programme may be a bit of a guilty pleasure, but I like the way Miranda can take the piss out of herself and her life; she points out every awkwardness, every flaw and every failing in herself, despite the pressure on women to be perfect. She is funny. I find a trueness and a realism in this show, and I would say it was mostly down to Miranda the...

Why did Nick Clegg cross the road.

lildudefromacrossthastreet: Because he promised he wouldn’t.

Day Seven: A female character that needs more...

Luna Lovegood (played by Evanna Lynch) in the Harry Potter films A side note: I was going to audition for the role of Luna, but I wussed out at the last minute. Luna is an awesome character, and although she isn’t a massive part of the three main characters lives, they are a massive part of hers, and they are her friends. I think she is possibly my favourite character, and she isn’t even in some...

The Great Perhaps.: Why is there no simple term... →

sugaredvenom: thehumorlessfeminist: 4si4: attackshipsonfire: I usually just say “cum”, but that can refer to semen too. I think we should all invent a slang term (or a scientific term, as far as I can tell “vaginal lubrication” is it) that refers JUST to this body fluid, and… I would say juice. And to a later part of the conversation, the cunnilingus equivalent to blowjob is...

Day Six: Favourite female-driven show

Buffy the Vampire Slayer I mean, the fact that they took the template of small blonde teenage girl, the one who normally runs and screams and dies in horror/sci-fi, and made her the warrior protagonist, the fact that the slayers are all female, and the fact that all the female characters are strong and powerful, especially the ones that don’t seem to be. There’s Buffy, the ultimate Vampire Slayer,...

Your car is Japanese. Your pizza is Italian. Your...

Day Five: Favourite female character on a...

Queenie (played by Miranda Richardson) on Blackadder II Blackadder is definitely a male-driven show – all the male actors appear in every series / era, but the female actors only appear when needed, like in this era, when the monarch was female. She’s so silly, what with all the “marry me Edmund” followed by “I’m bored, I will have you executed!” Okay, so she’s hardly a strong female character...

Day Four: A female character you relate to

Elliot Reid (played by Sarah Chalke) in Scrubs Ah, Elliot. She’s awkward, nerdy and fighting to prove herself as a female in a male-dominated world. She also has the pretty/plain thing going on, and the neurotic thing going on, and she’s blonde, and she crushes on JD… Yeah, there’s a lot about her that I relate to. Maybe I should have put her for tomorrow’s entry, as Scrubs is quite...