Here's one for the men: your silence is compliance.

You're the first to shout "not all men" but what are YOU doing to stop predatory men?

What are you doing to keep the women in your life safe?

Just because you're not the one hurting women doesn't mean you're helping them by default.

Your silence is compliance.

If you've really done nothing wrong, there's no reason to endlessly shout "not all men" as if women don't know that.

That phrase just makes you look guilty. It makes it look like you're trying to shift the blame, shift the focus away from YOU and onto Other Men.

"But I'm a good guy, I'd never hurt a woman!" But you do. You hurt them every time you and your friends make/laugh at a rape joke. Every time you mock or demonise a survivor's story. Every time you imply that a woman was "asking for it". Every time you show your bros your girlfriend's nudes. Every time you talk about "wearing her down" when a woman doesn't want to have sex with you. Every time you treat the denial of sex as some violent act against you ("you gave me blue balls!").

"I've never done any of that!" So do you stop your male friends or family members when they do it? Or do you laugh along and agree with them to "keep the peace"?

Men, you NEED to be more aware of your place in the world. You need to be more aware of how your presence, your actions, and your words affect others, especially women.

You need to be having these uncomfortable conversations with the other men in your lives too. Women can't keep doing it for you, especially when women know that men will always listen to other men first.

So. You want people to believe that you're a good guy? Start acting like one.

Men should reblog this too.

(Oh and if this post makes you uncomfortable? Good. Reblog it anyway. This is important.)

i hate when girls feel dumb for trying to see the best in people and then end up hurt or disappointed like no!! it’s those people that were dumb for misleading you. they took advantage of your kindness and generosity, and they’ll rot for it 

White allies and white leftists and liberals need to read this.

In regards to posts about racism or intersectionality with race involved you MUST listen. Not respond. LISTEN

What I have seen so many white “allies” do is add onto posts (my own included) to put their own thoughts and opinions. In some cases take the words of the original poster and try to “translate” what is being said to other white people.

You are ACTIVELY taking away the voices of poc and speaking over them when you do this. When you tack on your own personal anecdotes or try to to give a definition of what a person or color is saying you are in the simplest of ways insulting their intelligence

I have multiple posts on this site talking about racism and there is ALWAYS a white person ready to reblog it with their own commentary. You are NOT helping. And you are being micro aggressive

Your job as an ally is to uplift our voices. Not add your own.

Please sit down with yourself and ask yourself why you feel the need to insert yourself into a conversation that does not need your opinion. No matter if you agree or not.

Please save your thoughts and opinions for the tags. This isn’t a blackboard discussion class

This won’t get as many notes as my other posts and I know this but I still must say it because it’s so very aggravating and honestly very rude

Notes that make you fucking insane

France is just the brother of britain ? We shame britain. We shame france. No one gets left.

God give me the strength not to look in the notes

Also more kids in cages! Biden has opened another detention center to hold immigrant children who have conmited no crimes

if your first thought when you hear me say “i hate leeches” is ‘vampires’ and not ‘landlords’ unfollow me. this is a pro-vampire, anti-landlord only zone.

It’s important to know that hijab is banned in schools in most of the european countries, such as france, belgium, switzerland etc. Millions of girls have to take their hijab off everyday in order to have access to education, and I am one of them. Please spread this as much as possible, it has become so normal here that I feel like a fool for even mentioning it, but I’m pretty sure it goes against the human rights. This senseless law has been on since 2004 and pretends that all the students have to be “equal” and it is prohibited to show that you belong to any religion, any religious sign must be set aside. However, most of us have to take our hijab off in schools where you can clearly see a christmas tree or a christian cross. “Yeah but it’s not the same”, they say. Tell me about double standards. I pray for days when we don’t have to chose between religion and education.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/france-burqa-ban-islamic-face-coverings-masks-mandatory/

water is wet etc but as usual it's nice to have a study to point to when ppl want to be stupid about it

They didn't do nothing.

They knocked on his door, he didn't answer so they determined she needed psychiatric evaluation and had her forcibly committed.

I hate the police so much.

*family guy peter voice* YA KNOW WHAT REALLY GRINDS MY GEARS? the media barely acknowledging that the US and UK are still aiding a genocide and general humanitarian crisis in yemen.

seriously, the hypocrisy the imperial core has on concern for human rights abuse is astounding. where are the calls for boycotts? where are the government leaders speaking out and forming coalitions? for fuck's sake!

Australia should be included in posts like this because it pulls the same shit through weapons sales to Saudi Arabia which directly go to murdering children.

here’s the petition!! https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/justice-saraya-rees-1

Minnesota is breaking treaties with Anishinaabe bands and building a pipeline

Are there going to be protests thus bail funds etc or something else that will help like calling offices etc?

Here you can donate to honor the earth (indigenous org) or directly to the front lines for bail etc. They’ve also got a letter you can sign on that page, as well as the option to sign up to participate (hosting events, protesting, etc).

Or you can call Tim Walz and tell him this is unacceptable.

HELLO!!! I cant say much about this personally online for safety reasons (FBI loves us) but please check out https://line3action.carrd.co/ for some info and links i put together. You can directly donate to water protectors up north who are everyday getting arrested. They are cutting down trees faster than you can imagine….. fuck enbridge fuck gov walz….fuck Tar sands!!!! 

Not to mention there has already been a death due to construction. Every pipeline has a death toll. 

man i don't wanna derail a post but i just saw a post that was showing different megafauna of different areas, like moose in colder climates like canada and russia, camels in the middle east area/deserts, kangaroos in australia. and someone commented "all we have in america is squirrels!!! 🤣"

but like. bison. bison were america's megafauna. i don't want people forgetting about bison and what happened to them.

I don’t know how to tell you this - but Moose are native to upper Midwestern states like MN, WI and MI as well as mountainous areas as far south as CO. Also Alaska.

this post was about american colonizers trying to kill off bison to starve native americans of one of their primary food sources.

I wanted to share this photo that my biogeography professor showed us. It's the most chilling image I've ever seen because he explained to us as the picture was on the screen that the ONLY reason these bison were killed was that they were necessary for life for Native Americans, and then men in the picture were there to brag.

That-there’s a big ol’ pile o’ Weapons-Grade Stupid right there.  Ah’m a-tellin’ ya…

I always thought parks and rec was being hyperbolic about how these kinds of meetings with the public go…

capitalists one minute: no, see, inequality of outcome is good because different effort should get different reward, and socialists want to equalize and ruin that beautiful setup!

capitalists the next minute: socialism is bad because it results in a rich political class and a poor working class!

Meanwhile capitalism literally has ten billionaires hoarding more wealth than half the world's people.

you people didn’t even see the worst part

i hate how "usa provokes dictatorships in latin america" became "so usa did it all, latin americans dont think for themselves and dont have complicated relationships with their goverment and they are all victims. yes even the ones that benefit from the dictatorships."

This!!! Latin America too has always had

And they all contributed to the dictatorships and got benefited from them in some way or another. That USA had the means and tools, and some major interests to provoke them? Yeah of course, but latines weren't all mindless sheep, be careful when you think like this bc then you forget the ones who committed crimes and got away with them

This is all true, but we definitely don’t want to downplay the terrible role the U.S. has played in fueling the flames and exploiting tensions and backing certain regimes they knew were criminals.

ITS BOTH! but when usamericans accept this, they have this tendency of thinking that third world country civilians are....just puppets. no brain, no thoughts, no politics!! as a latin american who was ignored when i tried to talk about these complex relationships by "woke" usamericans, its fucking annoying.

Why are we even trying to enlighten usamericans? why do we care what they think of us? Why do we have to teach them anything? Fuck their rhetoric anyway. We know our history, we know those who betrayed us, and those who keep betraying us to this day like it was pointed out above.

because...... its knowledge? that we have to share? and correct? like, information is important. their role and our role (because even if they betrayed us -the good people- they are still...our people) cant be a secret or ignored.

✨It’s the infantilization of Latin America by US leftists who have a yanquisaviour complex✨

I remember when I fought over the Venezuelan dictatorial regime on FB with some gringos and when they ran out of comebacks they had the gall to snidely tell me that I was CLEARLY an imperialist puppet anyways because my English was "too good" and I was too, and I quote, eloquent and that Venezuelans probably didnt have internet to get on FB. *stares into the camera like The Office*

We should talk about this not because we are teaching anybody anything but most of the discussions that are being talked in today have roots on the discussions that surrounded dictatorships.

Race problems? 80s were filled with ethnic movements that touched that topic

Feminism? BUDDY DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON COMMUNITARIAN FEMINISM

Sexual diversity? Bitch we had an armed movement before stonewall happened.

The dictatorships happened due to the discussions about land property that latinoamerica was having. It was a reaction out of a very different process that was lived on each one of the countries