“When the handle has snapped off the basket that held all your eggs…” gone girl tier monologue
wow she read them down
Here’s what I find so tragic about these young, pretty, conservative women. You’re such a gaslighted demographic because one of the pillars of this ideology that you’re bought into is that some people are just inherently superior, and inferior deserve to be exploited. And sure, y'know, women are technically property.
But you- you don’t have to worry about that because you are hot property. Exceptions will be made for you. So you’re more than willing to play into this needlessly cruel game because you’ve been assured that you’ll win.
And soon the young, winning man of your dreams will look at you and say “Yes, that is what I’m supposed to want, and acquiring her will make me look like a superior man.” And on your way to your superior life together you will become his obedient, righteous, lonely domestic servant. Congratulations.
Until one day, you get a scary mammogram. And you’ll discover that he never signed up to be a nurse maid. And unlike you, the young, 24 year-old bleach blonde at the office understands that he’s the most important person in any room. And she’ll have no qualms about poaching your mate because he’s her ticket to a superior life.
And at that moment, when the handle has snapped off of the basket that held all of your eggs, you might realize that you were flattered into giving your entire life away in service of a man who only ever saw you as a commodity because I assure you: that is how these men see you. And being hot property won’t have protected you from a life of being used-up and discarded.
But here’s the kicker: you’ll have sunk so much of your life into proving your own politics right that you won’t be able to direct that rage in the appropriate direction because that will mean admitting that you were had.
So there you’ll be, a middle-aged woman with a pert haircut and great botox, standing in line at a Kroger making the fact that your life didn’t turn out as promised into an assistant manager’s problem because don’t they know that exceptions are supposed to be made for you?! Good luck babe.
Reblogging this because my entire life, all of my bows have looked like my shoelaces. Wrapping presents is going to be so much more aesthetically pleasing now
yeah declawing is ABSOLUTELY unethical from a medical standpoint, and I’ll tell you why!
so this is what a cat’s paw looks like on the inside:
take a quick second to look it over, and note which parts of it are actually touching the ground and bearing the cat’s weight.
it’s the “palm” and the ends of the toes, right?
well, that’s the problem. so you probably ALSO noticed that the cat’s claws are actually attached to those last toe bones, which is why when a cat is declawed, they remove that entire last toe joint like this:
so the issue is, the bone that was bearing the cat’s weight is gone. it no longer exists. this forces the weight of the cat’s body onto the end of the second bone, here:
and that’s a HUGE fucking problem. that bone was never meant to touch earth, the ends of it are covered in nerves and connective tissue instead of padding! putting weight on it WILL cause the cat pain, chronic-for-the-rest-of-your-life pain!
cats are terrible about actually expressing pain, but if you pay attention to how declawed and non-declawed cats walk, you’ll notice that declawed cats put their feet down much more gingerly and are more hesitant with their first steps.
and this is because it hurts.
please don’t declaw your cat. just use claw caps or keep their nails trimmed.
Reblogging even though it’s way past Halloween bc this is an important reminder!
Stay away from anything with charcoal during this season if you are on ANY medication!!!
This applies to oral medications. The charcoal can’t get into your bloodstream. If you’re on gel or needles, you’re safe. If you’re taking it orally, don’t take charcoal while your medication is in your stomach.
Reblog because birth control and HRT is so so important
activated charcoal in food is not likely to be a large enough dose to interfere with medications. large doses of charcoal can absorb oral medications if taken within about two hours, and that’s worth keeping in mind, but outside of that you’re safe to indulge 🖤
@betterbemeta are you able to translate this? Is it true horses can see netherbeings?? Will we ever know the extent of their powers???
I think I have reblogged this before but I’ll answer it again bc its a fascinating answer I feel and i was more funny than informational last time.
The truth is that horses see what they think are nether beings, I guess. They have a perfect storm of sensory perception that, useful for prey beings, marks false positives on mortal danger all the time. Which is advantageous to a flight-based prey species: running from danger when you’re super fast is much ‘cheaper’ than fighting, so you waste almost nothing from running from a threat that’s not there. Versus, you blow everything if you don’t see a threat that is there.
Horses also have their eyes positioned on the sides of their heads, which gives them an incredible range of peripheral vision almost around their entire body with only a few blind spots you can sneak up on them in. But this comes at the cost of binocular vision; they can only judge distance for things straight ahead of them. Super useful for preventing predators sneaking up from the sides or behind, but useless for recognizing familiar shapes with the precision we can.
Basically we now have a walking couch with anxiety its going to get attacked at any second, that can see almost everything, but mostly only out of the corner of its eye. It has a few blind spots and anything that suddenly appears out of them is terrifying to it. Combine that with that it actually has far superior low-light vision than us, and that its ears can swivel in any directions like radar dishes, and you’ve basically given a nervous wreck a highly accurate but imprecise danger-dar.
To be concise: all horses, even the most chill horses, on some level believe they are living in a survival horror.
This means that you could approach it in a flapping poncho and if it can’t recognize your shape as human, they mistake you for SATAN… or you could pass this one broken down tractor you’ve passed 100 times on a trail ride, but today is the day it will ATTACK… or your horse could feel a horsefly bite from its blind spot and MAMA, I’VE BEEN HIT!!!… or you could both approach a fallen log in the woods but in the low light your horse is going to see the tree rings as THE EYE OF MORDOR.
However, they actually have kind of a cool compensation for this– they are social animals, and instinctively look towards leadership. In the wild or out at pasture, this is their most willful, pushy, decisive leader horse who decides where to go and where it’s safe. But humans often take this role both as riders and on the ground. They are always watching and feeling for human reactions to things. This is why moving in a calm, decisive way and always giving clear commands is key to working with this kind of animal. Confusing commands, screaming, panic, visible distress, and chaos will signal to a horse that you, brave leader are freaked out… so it should freak out too!
On one hand, you’ll get horses that will decide that they are the leader and you are not, so getting them to listen to you can be tough– requiring patience and skill more than force. On the other hand, a good enough rider and a well-trained horse (or a horse with specialized training) can venture into dangerous situations, loud and scary environments, etc. calmly and confidently.
The joke in OP though is that many horses that are bred to be very fast, like thoroughbreds, are also bred and encouraged to be high-energy and highstrung. Making them more anxious and prone to seeing those ‘demons.’ All horses in a sense are going to be your anxious friend, but racehorses and polo ponies and other sport horses can sometimes be your anxious friend that thinks they live in Silent Hill.
Reblogging some horse knowledge for certain people who write fantasy books but know nothing about horses *cough cough*
reblogging for the line “Basically we now have a walking couch with anxiety”.
Also: horses have very limited depth perception. You know that thing where you out your finger on the bridge of your nose and it disappears because it’s behind your field of vision? Now imagine your nose is as long as a horse’s. The blind spot in front of a horse’s nose is huge, four to six feet or so. When a horse jumps, it can’t see the fence, it has to be trained / remember to look for it and remember where it is and how high. They cannot tell if that is a spot of oil or a black hole in the road. It’s probably a black hole. Better avoid it.
Horses can’t see your hand, they smell the treat (and use very sensitive skin/whiskers to feel.) Some horses are garbage at doing this gently, just absolutely awful, but remember - they can’t see what they’re doing.
Horses also have partial color vision - they see horse relevant colors. Blue, yellow and therefore green. No red derived colors. If you want to see an anxious couch have a bad trip, ride it in an arena with alternating sections of purple and yellow seating. Grey grey YELLOW YELLOW HOLY SHIIIIIIIT. Every single horse would walk past the purple seats and go OH MY FUCK at the yellow ones. This is why the bright red (grey) bucket isn’t a problem, but oH my FfffffffffSHIttTTTT do they notice a stray yellow plastic grocery bag.
Last statement here is, instinct tells a horse that anything clinging to your back is going to eat you. That we spend so much effort convincing them otherwise is amazing and in general a testament to the human race’s commitment to Bad Ideas.
Thank u horse science side of tumblr
I just assumed the horse was the monster all along
