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depressed ben affleck vs depressed keanu reeves: fight

why would they fight ? theyre in love

1: Hey Macklemore, Macklemore! 2: What? 1: Can I get a photo? 2: Not unless you gay, man 1: What? 2: (distinctly) Not unless you gay, man.

the good boys™ are in bloom this time of year !!

A Bountiful Harvest

Your professor will not be happy with you if he says the Stanford Prison Experiment shows human nature and you say it shows the nature of white middle class college-aged boys.

Like he will not be happy at all.

For real though. That experiment. Scary shit.

This reminds me of a discussion that I read once which said Lord of the Flies would have turned out a hell of a lot differently if it was a private school of young girls (who are expected to be responsible and selfless instead), or a public school where the children weren’t all from an inherently entitled, emotionally stunted social class (studies have shown that people in lower socioeconomic classes show more compassion for others). Or that the same premise with children raised in a different culture than the toxic and opressive British Empire and it’s emphasis on social hierarchy and personal wealth and status. And that what we perceive as the unchangable truth deep inside humanity because of things like Lord of the Flies and the Stanford Prison Experiment, is just the base truths about what happens when you remove any accountabilty controlling one social group with an overwhelming sense of entitlement and an inability to feel compassion.

I will always reblog this.

I just wanna say that the Lord of the Flies was explicitly written about high-class private school boys to make this exact point. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies partially to refute an earlier novel about this same subject: The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne. Golding thought it was absolutely absurd that a bunch of privileged little shits would set up some sort of utopia, so his book shows them NOT doing that.

This is also generally true about most psychological experiments.

There’s an experiment called “The Ultimatum Game”. It goes something like this.

The most common result was believed to be that people favored 50/50 splits. Anything too low was rejected; people wanted fairness. This was believed to be universal.

And then a researcher went to Peru to do the experiment with members of the indigenous Machiguenga population, and was baffled to find that the results were totally different.

Because, to the Machiguenga, refusing any amount of free money (even an unfair amount) was considered crazy.

So the researcher took his work on the road (to 14 other ‘small scale’ societies and tribes) , and to his shock found the results varied wildly depending on where the test was done. 

In fact, the “universal” result? Was an outlier. 

And that’s the problem. 96% percent of test subjects for psychological research come from 12% of the population. Stuff that we consider to be universal facts of human nature… even things like optical illusions, just… aren’t.

 You can read an article about it here.  But the crux of it is that psychology is plagued with confirmation bias, and people are shaped more by their environment than we realize. 

Happy freedom season for America

We got:

just popping in at four am to say being gay is one of the most healing things ive ever encountered??? aside from external bigotry, focusing on internal and interpersonal growth, it has been such a cleansing and enriching process  – to be in gay love and have gay friendships and to just slowly drift farther and farther away from the toxic waste sludge that is straightness has been eye opening and rewarding on a level i didnt think possible. being gay is good 4 the mind, good 4 the soul, good night

do not let white academia fool you into thinking that

I think this might be the first editorial I’ve seen from a non-Canadian publication that’s openly critical of Trudeau.

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Me @ Teen Vogue:

why are these kids just out here in their prom pics looking like the personified embodiment of capitalism and america that youd see in an old soviet propaganda poster

i can tell you right now that these are rich people. it’s not the hot tub in the background. it’s not even the money suit. it’s the fact that both girls are dressed and styled like women in their 40s. seriously, i have two cousins who are rich as hell and this is how they dress. ive seen pictures of groups of them flocked together, usually somewhere with a golf course in the background, every last one of them dressed exactly like their mothers. i dont know why. but i can tell you right now with absolute certainty these girls went to a debutante ball and have had their own horse since they were 10. they named it trudy or something. i know all this because those girls are about to leave the house looking like the desperate housewives and nobody sees anything wrong with that 

Damn, chill^ I purchased my first horse as a child with birthday funds, lets save all that salt for fries honey.

“i purchased my first horse as a child with birthday funds”

“my first horse”

jewish + rromani lgbt solidarity!

ok to reblog and use!

@sensitiviity

het dating articles are just: how to hack men into treating you like a person