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This guy would survive a horror movie.
This guy would survive a horror movie.
Every single time this comes up on my dash it gets funnier. Like I just fell of of my bed from laughing so hard
He hit him with a lamp.
I love his freedom pants.
im crying omg
Just because they’re family doesn’t mean they’re right.
This was family as well
I do t usually post colour but this is a problem I have definitely.
This is goddamn adorable
My heart like
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when your child comes to you and says “this is something that makes me uncomfortable and unhappy and makes me not want to spend time with you” and you respond with a 20 minute speech that boils down to “deal with it because life sucks” you have no respect for your child and you need to change your parenting tactics
YES! This is why we parent with respect for our child. Doesn’t like tickling? we are a tickle free house. Doesn’t like it when I call him my baby boy? Ok, sucks for me, but I get it, he’s a big boy now and so I don’t call him my little baby boy. At the end of the day, we are teaching him NOT to ignore his own intuition and autonomy. If I kept on tickling him, even after he told me he doesn’t like it, I’m teaching him that he doesn’t have the right to say who can and cannot touch him, that he should ignore that voice inside of himself, and that because I’m bigger he has to do what I say. I ABSOLUTELY do not want a child who:
1. is afraid to tell people (especially grownups) to stop touching him/stop talking to him in a certain way
2. thinks that he has no right to ask an adult to stop touching him/saying things to him
3. thinks that his parents won’t listen to him when he expresses himself, especially if someone has done something his intuition says isn’t right.
white actors: dropped out of school to pursue acting, told a joke once, got discovered and starred in a blockbuster actors of colour: attended tisch julliard rada, studied acting for years, did othello, joined a theatre “for people of their ethnicity”, did hamlet, auditioned for everything, did macbeth, won prestigious theatre award that no one cares about, got their big break delivering one line in a blockbuster
Actors of color: still got to change their names to get good roles
Actors of color: have to accept stereotypical roles or bastardise their own cultures
Actors of color: have to wait while white actors tell them to “wait for their turn” because there’s always something more important to do before hiring them
Actors of color: get their careers destroyed over the smallest things while white actors get 2 million second chances
White actors: “yeah I was standing near a truck and some guy told me ‘you look hot, hired’ and now im a millionaire”.
Actors of color: have roles meant for them get taken by white people and get told “why does race matter? the actor with the most talent should get it” Actors of Color: have roles that SHOULD be for them but have casting descriptions looking for only white people and are turned away when they audition for them Actors of Color: struggle to find a role not looking for specifically white people White Actors: “oh yeah, i just got offered this role for a character with a japanese name for this adaptation of an anime and i couldnt pass it up, you know? Lol”
So in world history we're going over Spanish and American imperialism in the Philippines, and a bunch of kids keep saying how it 'helped' us. They say things like 'without Europeans, they'd still be living in the jungle' and other things of that nature.. As a filipinx, how can I address how wrong that is with them?
Good lord I’d like to recite my debate speech about how colonization fucked everything up.
1) Colonization is the direct cause of colorism in the Philippines.
It’s all rooted back to how the Spaniards differentiated us by putting us into categories according to skin tone. Lighter Filipinxs got better *house* jobs and darker Filipinxs got the hard outside labor.
2) It was the genocide of our culture and writing system.
Baybayin was the lost pre-colonial writing system before Spain. By the time Spain came, they were surprised at how we could read and write. Men and women.
Know what that means? It was more of an egalitarian society.
But oh no. We are just savages who lived in the jungle before the white saviors came.
3) The Philippines has been constantly exploited for over 500 years.
We’ve been colonized over and over and over again. Taken for our location and our resources. They made us hate our skin, hate our culture, and embrace everything that is white.
I need to make a longer post about this cause arguments like this really piss me the fuck off cause the more I read up on this topic, the more I realize how much the root cause of racism and colorism stems from colonization.
And the self-hate is passed down from generation to generation. You will get treated better if you’re light-skinned. Pale is beautiful. Brown is ugly.
This is something we’re told and grow up seeing and it’s all because some fucking white assholes imposed that on us.
We barely know any of our history cause it was all wiped out and forgotten. They didn’t do shit to help us.
They exploited us.
-Leah
4) The Philippines already had a strong and varied culture, economy, trade, writing system, and political setup. Though we weren’t a united country, the people of the Philippine islands had their own governments and systems of trade. Barangays (villages, named after the balangay, the first known form of transportation and settlement of the Filipin@ people) were lead by leaders, known as datu or rajah or etc., depending on where they were from. Barter trade was already popular in the country; we traded with the Malays and the Chinese long before the Spaniards came. We had baybayin, only one of the hundreds of writing systems created by pre-colonial Filipin@s. In the Filipino culture, men and women were fighters, leaders, and spirit-people (aka babaylan or katalonan). We were rich with gold – that was one of the main reasons why other countries traded with us. We could make jewelry, pottery, clothes even, out of all the gold we had in our country. The Philippines was already going strong before the Spaniards came and literally messed shit up and burned it all to the ground.
When they came, we weren’t allowed to worship our own deities. Anyone found guilty of paganism had their whole villages burned down. The Spanish threw away and burned down anything to do with our animistic religion and previous culture. That’s why we know so little about our pre-colonial history – because it was buried by our colonizers.
5) Colonialism set up poverty in the Philippines. Firstly, Spain and America exploited us for our resources (coffee, sugar, wood, etc.) in their “free trade,” which allowed them to do trade and business without any form of tax; on the other hand, Filipinos were heavily taxed for their trade with their colonists. Secondly, the Philippines was forced into the wars America was involved with because of its status as an American colony – America used us (and still uses us) as a military base, mooched off our natural resources such as wood and rock, and turned us into a battle ground for its wars in Asia. Also, because of our status as a colony, Japan attacked us, burned down entire cities, raped women, tortured and beheaded millions of Filipin@s, threw babies into the air and caught them with bayonets, and tortured us into submission, among others.
Of course, Spain did a lot of stuff like that in its 333 years of colonization, but the American and Japanese occupations were more recent and, in turn, had a greater effect on our economy. After the wars, the Philippines was left bereft of resources, security, and protection; we were forced to rely on America for our rebuilding. Though we were supposedly given independence, America still controlled the government and used us as puppets.
6) Long story short, colonialism set up the “colonial mentality” of my country, which has been passed down from generation to generation of Filipin@. We've been forced to love our colonizers, or else risk torture and death.
1946 — the commonwealth congress adds an amendment to the Bell Trade Act that pegs the US dollar to the PH peso, grants US corporations rights to openly exploit PH natural resources “free of customs duty,” and prohibits PH from manufacturing/selling/exporting products that may compete with US imports/exports. This went on until the 1970s, with US congress threatening to withhold post-war rebuilding funds unless the act is ratified.
Here are some examples of the things our colonizers stole/did to us. I’m not an expert mind you but holy shit does colonialism in the Philippines irk me so much. I’mma put this in points so it’ll be easier. I’ll try not to keep this long (but let’s face it my rage is long)
Most of these are what I remember from my Philippines & Foreign Relations class
Do you know how good it feels to finally see this on this social networking platform. If you need super hardcore evidence on the negative effects of imperialism, you look at our country because god, I don’t see them leaving any time soon.
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Additionally, to this day!! Filipin@ war veterans are STILL fighting for lump sum and compensation for being stripped of their rights and being forced to fight in WWll.
Sources (pardon for lack of hyperlinks!! I’m on my phone!!) •
i trust them all
please unmute this
I’ve never seen high school musical and now I never need to
Basketball basketball we love basketball
okay but does anyone else check people out artistically? like instead of thinking “wow I’d tap that” you just intensely appreciate their appearance and sit there and “holy shit look at the curve of their spine and that POSTURE but then there’s the shape of their eyes and THEIR HANDS AND -” *snaps pencil in half*
What a $400 knife can do
i find this distressingly attractive tbh
why can i hear this gif
disney skylines
for a sweet anon
lazy is such an ugly word I prefer the term selective participation
If Uber has ever made you feel uncomfortable or if you heard of or personally experienced sexual assault while using Uber, consider Chariot for Women.
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Also 2% of each fare is donated to women-focused charities.
The app is being released on April 19. I strongly consider everyone to check it out.
The article: http://www.dose.com/style/28133/Here-s-Why-Women-Everywhere-Will-Delete-Uber-On-April-19
Their Website: http://www.chariotforwomen.com/about-us.html
Please share for everyone to see!
ok but is it for trans women too or
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