Tyrannosaurus was not the most dangerous animal in the park. Having imprinted on its handler since infancy, the creature maintained a docile temperament all the way to adulthood, and indeed seemed to prefer feeding from its designated trough to pursuing prey. Its interactions with staff and guests showed at most a mild curiosity, and the only real terror the beast inspired was when it snuck up on trainers to sniff their hats.
The raptors were not the most dangerous animals in the park. Hollywood had greatly exaggerated their size, first of all, and while they had a mischievous streak (one individual in particular was fond of stealin zookeepers’ wallets), they were far from the hyper-intelligent murder lizards everyone expected. Their intelligence was less of the predatory sort and more the comical intelligence of a corvid, devoted mostly to play and caring for their fellow flock members.
The mosasaur was not the most dangerous animal in the park. Though it held no loyalty to the zookeepers, it had taken to training well enough, and would dutifully move to a specific section of the tank when signaled, giving the keepers space to carry out any business they needed to accomplish in its tank without fear of harm.
No, by far the most dangerous animal in the park was the Struthiomimus. Everyone expected it to be easy – what were these animals in pop culture beyond being fodder for the carnivores? Surely the bird-mimics couldn’t be much of a hassle. Sadly, they weren’t just any bird mimics.
No, in temperament, the Struthiomimus mimicked a swan.
Highly territorial and vicious to the bone, more keepers had suffering brutal beatings by the struthis than had been hurt by the rest of the park’s fauna combined. And when they learned to chew through the fences…
Well, let’s just say the Tyrannosaurus never experienced a more terrifying day in her life.
one time I had this dream that I logged on to amazon and my account had like negative four trillion dollars because i accidentally bought the city of Paris
twitter feminist: it’s so important to love your body! never forget that you are beautiful and that you look amazing!! 🙂
twitter feminist 2 seconds later @ someone who disagreed with her: smh look at those sloppy wings and cheap lipstick go wash your nasty pussy ugly bitch your just jealous you don’t look #flawless like me
I wanna talk about this, because this is a huge issue I see not just on twitter but on Tumblr and just in general in real physical feminist and progressive spaces. When a woman says or does something problematic, most people’s reaction even in feminist/liberal/lgbt/progressive spaces is to go after her appearance, calling her ugly and picking apart her physical appearance. This is a huge issue I see even on feminist blogs that are reblogging “body positivity” posts.
Everyone tries to justify it by saying it’s okay because she’s privileged, she has cis privilege so it’s okay to insult her makeup, it’s okay she has white privilege so it’s okay to insult her eyebrows, it’s okay she has straight privilege so it’s okay to insult her hair, she’s able bodied so it’s okay to insult her ass, she’s neurotypical so it’s okay to insult her outfit, ect. ect.
How come no one ever stops to think about a) why is this your first reaction when a woman says or does something problematic but you don’t have the same reaction when a man says or does something problematic and b) how this ends up affecting women as a whole including less privileged women. When men see even “feminists” attacking the appearance of a woman they disagree with, it sends the message it’s okay to insult the physical appearance of a woman just because you don’t agree with her as if that’s not already a serial issue. It sends the message to less privileged women who share those same physical traits that there’s something wrong and bad about those physical traits. It also sends the message to women as a whole that their virtue and morality in entwined with their physical appearance, a message that patriarchy has been sending to women since birth that we should be working to dismantle instead of weaponizing against “problematic” women, because again enforcing that shit is going to come back around to hurt all women including (actually I’d like to say ESPECIALLY) less privileged ones.
