Listen I’ll stop trashing Snape as soon as someone can give me a good reason for Neville Longbottom, the boy whose parents were tortured to insanity by someone who is still alive, to be more afraid of Snape than anything in the world.
This is the main reason for my general annoyance with lack of size regulation in the fashion industry…
men’s pants are labeled by waist and inseam measurement. women’s pants are labeled by voodoo. even though i do not buy women’s pants, i can recognize this as objectively dumb.
THE NOTES ON THIS
because i can’t stress this enough. this is why i don’t let the numbers get to me. as jumpingjacktrash so eloquently said “women’s pants are labeled by voodoo.”
BUT THISTHISTHISTHISTHIS
so when boys make fun of girls taking forever to shop and trying everything on
WE FUCKING HAVE TO OR NOTHING WILL FIT
Forever grateful for this post for removing the shame of going into a different store and finding that the pants do not fit me even though I am WEARING the “same size” pants right that moment.
This bears repeating: “women’s pants are labeled by voodoo.”
I mean we could probably say something less offensive than ‘women’s pants are labeled by [name of someone’s religion that we don’t understand]’
It sounds really silly if you say ‘women’s pants are labeled by Christianity’
How about ‘women’s pants are labeled in a directed effort to mess with women mentally’ which is true and also not offensive as fuck
ok cool thanks for coming to my TED talk
women’s pants are labeled by misogyny
That’s more like it! Women’s pants are labeled by misogyny. They serve to make women constantly feel bad about themselves, which is 100% beneficial to the fashion industry and industries related to it.
And it’s not just a problem of difference between brands. I tend to wear only one brand of jeans. In their shorts I take an 18. Their actual full-length jeans? I’m a size 22. And every fall when I go in to buy a new pair of jeans I always forget this, try on a size 18, and think so much less of myself because I don’t fit into the size I used to. Until I remember this shitty inconsistency.
It’s not just inconsistency between brands. There’s inconsistency even within brands. The number on women’s pants literally means nothing but the misogyny behind the labeling.
i spent christmas alone while my family got together and fought, and honestly i feel so good about this
i bought myself presents, cooked a big meal, drank wine and watched Home Alone 3 w/ my dog. I don’t feel sorry for myself at all.
meanwhile my sister threatened to disown my dad so he threatened to disown her, while my mom enabled and my other sister downed a bottle of wine to deal.
on the other side of the country, i was busy discovering, to my delight, that the that the 3rd installment of the Home Alone franchise not only stood up to the test of time, but contains some of the best oneliners and comedic timing I have ever seen.
honestly, keep toxic people out of your life. family isn’t everything, and bad family is often worse than no family. don’t be afraid to put in some distance, especially during high stress times like the holidays. you don’t actually owe them anything.
being alone for the holidays is so much better than being with people who make you unhappy.
Gay Hell 