the WORST thing is when a marginalized person says something insulting about non-marginalized people and then everyone goes “but if u REVERSED IT (if a guy did that to a girl/etc) everyone would be SO MAD”
when like. actually it DOES happen and people say terrible things all the time, and actually no one gets mad and no one cares, because that’s how oppression works.
More people are concerned with why women stay in abusive relationships than why men are abusing women
SAY IT AGAIN
It is clear, the Academy didn’t hear Eddie in 1988.
but how?
#DAD YOU ARE SO COOL (follow up to this)
Pretend you’re at home and you’re cooking dinner. The recipe, passed down for multiple generations, calls for you to cook the food on high heat, so you happily follow the directions. A few minutes into it, you notice that you’re starting to burn the meal. Your stove in 2015 is apparently a bit more powerful than your great-great-grandmother’s was, and the meal isn’t turning out the way it’s supposed to. You don’t want to serve a charred, nasty dinner, so what do you do? You turn down the heat. You change the instructions. Clearly, that wasn’t the desired outcome, so you do what you need to do to make it better.
You don’t follow the recipe word for word—trusting it’s going to turn out—while you knowingly destroy it. You pay attention and you make the necessary adjustments. Would your great-great grandmother be upset with you for changing her recipe? No, probably not. If she had been around to see what was happening, it’s likely she would have done the same thing. Now, I’m not trying to act like I know what your great-great grandmother was like, but I’m sure she wouldn’t have said, “But this is the way we’ve always done it! This is how it’s done here. It doesn’t matter what happens—this is the way we have always done things and we’re not about to change it now.” “But we’ve always done it this way,” is not a good enough reason to keep doing something. We’re not idiots. There’s a massive problem in this country with gun violence. Words don’t do it justice. It’s depressing, devastating, and horrifying enough to see these events unfold on the news, and it’s all made worse by logging on and seeing people practically defending it. Sure, people are dying all over the country, but that’s okay. It’s all okay because dammit, they’re Americans, and they get to have guns. I’m entirely fed up. I don’t know how it makes anybody else feel, but knowing that I could be involved in one of these attacks absolutely terrifies me. These people were at a company party last night. Guess where I was?
At a company party. It can happen thousands of miles away, but it hits close to home every single time. If we don’t do something to try to fix it, we are monsters. That is evil. You don’t look at a problem like this and say, “Well, do whatever you want, but don’t take away our guns. That’s un-American.” It’s only going to get worse if we don’t do something about it. How moronic are we to sit back and do NOTHING while people are being killed on a daily basis? I know that guns make some people feel safer. I am not one of these people. Seeing a gun makes me feel actively less safe, and that’s probably because every damn time I turn on the news, another person has been shot and killed. That being said, I know plenty of people who own guns and keep them in their homes. I am not against this. I’m not suggesting we “take guns away” from people who feel they need them. I definitely don’t think that everybody who owns a gun is about to go wreak havoc. I do, however, know that something needs to be done. I’m not suggesting anything radical—just the same thing that anybody on my “side” has been saying: please, PLEASE, make it harder to get a gun. Perform intense background checks. Make sure people know how to use them properly. Test them. Don’t be easy on them because they’re “protected” under something that was written in the late 1700s. I don’t know what it feels like to be shot. I don’t know what it feels like to learn that a loved one has died at the hands of some lunatic with a gun. I don’t know what it’s like to receive a call from my sister, cousin, friend, mother, father, uncle, telling me that they’re trapped in a place and they might die any minute. I don’t know what it’s like to have a coworker whose child died simply because they went to school that day. I will, though—and you will, too—if we continue to do nothing. If something isn’t working, you fix it. Change is hard and it is scary, but you do it. You don’t sit back and watch as the world burns. Turn down the damn heat.
”and, you know, as mad as that made me as a little kid, in retrospect that is the funniest thing i have ever seen in my entire life”
HANDS DOWN THE BEST SCENE OF ANY TV SHOW EVER
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A little perspective is a good thing.
(Sorry for all the posts about this topic lately. I hope it’s not too annoying. I promise I’ll make a gif before I go to sleep tonight.)
Not a texting snapshot but I thought you might enjoy this funny little coincidence that happened on my dash. Even poor little seals are victimized by straight white boys smh (lol)
so it’s like the first really hot day of the season today and I was walking down the street to the bus station. I’m wearing a crop top and honestly look fine as ever.
I pass these two guys and they whistle and one made cat noises and one asked “hey missy, where are you going dressed like that?”
and I was trying to walk past but it looked like they were about to follow me so I tried to say “back off” or “go to hell” but I was flustered because I’ve never been catcalled before and I said loudly “BACK TO HELL”
and they were just like “shit alright” and let me be.
I legitimately laughed, out loud, involuntarily. I love this post so much.
