GO OFF SIS 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Read it and then read it again.

“The Most Disrespected Person in America is the Black woman.“👊🏾✊🏿

I…… I hate people. I really do.

This cartoon is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen. Michelle Obama is the most relatable, most beautiful, most graceful, smartest First Lady we have ever had. It breaks my fucking heart every time I see bullshit denigrating her. I don't feel bad for her, she is clearly tough as nails. My heart breaks for myself and all the other people who finally have this incredibly intelligent, well educated, successful woman they can relate to.

“The general belief that men get fleeced by their divorces while women get richer and live off the proceeds has long been due for exposure as a pernicious myth,” said Ruth Smallacombe, a family consultant at Flip. “In reality, women often suffer economic hardship when they divorce. In addition, the resentment caused by unfair financial settlements has many knock-on effects, damaging ongoing relationships with former spouses and a woman’s ability to move on with her life.”

Jenkins’s research found that the incomes of “separating husbands” rise “immediately and continuously” in the years following a marital split. “The differences between the sexes are stark,” he said. “But this is not so much a gender thing as a parent thing. The key differences are not between men and women, but between fathers and mothers.”

He found that, when a man leaves a childless marriage, his income immediately rises by 25%. Women, however, suffer a sharp fall in income. Their financial position rarely reaches pre-split levels.

Separated women have a poverty rate of 27% - almost three times that of their former husbands.

Maintenance paid by former partners also has little impact, said Jenkins, as just 31% of separated mothers receive payment from the father of their children.”

More ways in which MRAs are wrong!

As a graduate from a tough major at a tough school and a professor in a tough major, I promise you these hacks only work for super easy classes.

If you want that high GPA and the skills for your next goals in life, you gotta put in the work, there's no way around it (except being born rich).

Sand in herpetoculture: perspectives from a herpetologist

Let me preface this post that I would never claim to know as much about keeping animals as many of the members of the herp community here on tumblr. That being said, I do professionally study reptiles and amphibians, and have been studying them in a scientific sense for almost a decade. I may therefore be qualified to offer some opinions on the contentious issue of having sand in terraria based on intimate knowledge of reptiles and their habits, but I urge also against taking my word for gospel. I am just as liable to being wrong on these issues as anyone else; I am not, after all, totally objective (though I like to think I have the best interests of the animals at heart).

I reckon the majority of tumblr’s herp community will have seen the debate that has flared up over using sand as an appropriate substrate for particular species of reptile, specifically Pogona vitticeps, the bearded dragon. Before I talk about bearded dragons in particular, I want to talk generally about sand.

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This is long but so great. Reading herp tumblr convinced me to get slate tiles for my bearded dragon. He loves them - they stay warm but don't get hot and they file down his horrible nails. They aren't super pretty but we put in plenty of toys for him and they don't look too stark.

Finally!

Casual Reminder: When Caterina Sforza’s children were captured and held hostage by the enemy they tried to force her surrender by threatening to kill them, Caterina flashed the enemy her gentials from the ramparts of her fortified stronghold and shouted:

‘E non vi pare egli, stolti, ch'io abbia le forme da farne degl altri?“” (roughly translated, “And do you not think, fools, that I have the molds to make more?”)

Nomination for Mother of the Year : 1499

See that state in the red there? The one in Mexico? That is Puebla. The state where a great victory was won on May 5, 1862. You see, the French thought they had it made, that a swift takeover was imminent based on their army of 6000 soldiers. They were wrong. An army of INDIGENOUS folks gathered to fight back. On May 5, (yes that means Cinco de Mayo) the French sent troops in to attack the city of Puebla de Los Angeles, but were met from the North by the indigenos who would not be intimidated or taken down. When the fight was over and the French retreated, they had lost over 500 men. Puebla lost less than 100. Cinco de Mayo isn’t a day to get wasted and dress up as a racist stereotype. This day is a celebration to remember the Indigenous Resistance that took place, and the victory that seemed impossible. Indigenous resistance continues to this day, from the top of turtle island to the tip of South America. We fight imperialism and colonialism with pride. Please do not trivialize the important celebration of La Batalla De Puebla by reinforcing racist tropes. And don’t you dare tell Mexicans “Happy Mexican Independence Day!” you’ll look like an ignorant jackass. #cincodecultura

It’s back! Please read this non- Mexicans, and apologists.

It’s 2016 can cis people please stop offering their unwanted opinions on trans issues

What if my opinion meant to support trans

If you support trans people then shut up and listen to us. There’s no need to open your mouth.

There is, actually. There is because I am trying to help you gain equal rights. Because, honestly, not many important people will want to talk to you if you’re rude to them, and just one comment, if that’s the only comment they saw, might just change their mind about wanting to help.

This is so manipulative dude fuck off

@sparrow-mavis why are you such a violent transphobic sack of shit

Looooolll! Respectability politics! Do people only deserve to have basic rights if they are nice?