One of the biggest power moves I have here in the midwest when someone is being racist, sexist, homophobic is that I tell them that I’ll pray for them so that god can grace them with empathy, or that “I feel sorry the devil has made his home in your heart” cause you have not felt joy until you’ve flipped the script on a suburban house mom or an old racist white man.  The joy of watching their face in shock and confusion while they’re called out in Christian Standards the same way they try to cover for their homophobia is amazing.  100% suggest it, at the very least it gets them to shut the fuck up.

Good Christian Hacks, an open-ended series

Works wonders in the South, too.

And if they start to stutter and quote some cherry-picked Bible verse at you, come back at them with “yes, even the Devil can quote scripture, but that doesn’t mean he understands it. I’ll pray for God to grant you understanding in the fullness of His word.”

CLIP ‘N SAVE!

I wonder if Vader ever found out that the droid who carried the Death Star plans was Artoo.

I can just imagine him thinking: “This explains everything. My men didn’t stand a chance.”

The most accurate thing ever

Please reblog this.

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT

i really like stickers but at the same time i don’t because once you stick them somewhere that’s it, it’s finished, and i’m just not emotionally stable enough for that responsibility

I have been waiting for this post my whole life.

I was trying to explain this to someone one day and they basically told me I was crazy.

This is my good side profile

When are you going full e-girl

I am not gonna sell my bath water, sorry

Never really thought of that, but an interesting idea, thank you! I sort of already use my personal Instagram for that, if you'd like to check it out:

Wait. One time I dreamt, is a teenage girl with awesome hair?

Actually, I am 25, almost 26!

Wait. Adults are allowed cool hair?

Don't let anyone else convince you otherwise!

Hey OP any tips for putting on eyeliner? I like the little wing you gave it but I can never do that...😫

I overline it with black eyeshadow using a tiiiiiinyyyyyyyy brush so it looks better!

Tbh, I usually do my makeup like this nowadays! Been trying something different with the eyeliner in the past week or so, but I always go back to glitter eyeshadow somehow 🙈😳

Had a little oopsie

@one-time-i-dreamt Which Danganronpa character did you kill?????

Im still amazed by the fact that your index finger looks longer than your middle finger in pictures but you are one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen

I don't even know

Are those real life yaoi hands

Also you're hella fabulous

Hehehe remember

Remember the HAND discourse????

This is my favorite advertisement. Also, a short story about sexist parenting with LEGOS. I work at a toy store that sells thousands of dollars of legos and I’ve seen time and time again parents refusing to buy blue box legos for girls and refusing to buy pink box legos for boys even when they ask for them. One girl came in with her parents and she wanted LEGO CITY because it was her birthday and they wanted to buy her gift with her at the store. [LEGO CITY is a LEGO series that lets a child build train stations, firetrucks, passenger ships, space exploration vehicles, drawbridges, garbage disposal trucks, basically anything related to the running of a city and it is not a gender based toy.] I showed them the LEGO CITY, but the mom told the child over and over “No, this is for boys you can’t get that” and eventually, she made the little girl choose a LEGO Disney Cinderella Castle instead because it was “more appropriate”. Even after I pointed out that every box has female and male LEGO people because the toy is meant for both boys and girls, she refused because it looked like a “boy” toy. I’ve had many occasions where a girl will be drawn to the LEGO CITY series only for the parents to come to me and ask  “Where are the GIRLS Legos, you know, princesses and stuff. I’m not buying her this sort of thing” and it makes me so, so, so, so, sad every time because I can already imagine the types of values in education and career choices the parents will be scolding child for wanting in the future when they aren’t even allowed to play with anything blue.  Let girls be kids without all the forced gender stereotyping, dammit. 

You know what little girls could grow up to be? Architects, engineers, builders.

You know what little girls cannot ever be, no matter what they do in life? A princess.

We sell real life careers to little boys, but to girls we sell lies and fantasy. Then we have the gall to say that girls ‘choose’ careers that earn them less, that girls just aren’t interested in STEM fields, that girls are stupid for pursuing frivolous nonsense, etc. etc.  

This is gender in action. Not nature, but socialization.

That last comment especially 👏🏻👏🏻

As a female architect I approve this message.

I loved LEGO when I was little, and it was an activity I enjoyed with both my sister and my two brothers. It galls me how the brand was marketed so heavily to boys in the 80s and 90s, because now those kids are adults and remember it as ‘something for boys’ and keep it away from their girls. Marketing can do damage for *generations*, not just in the immediate short term.

GENDER IN ACTION what a great fucking way of putting it

I was just thinking about this post/ad the other day. I’ve reblogged it before, and there’s a version that links to an interview with the little girl in the picture about her memories of the photo shoot. It’s all very girl-positive and how gendering toys is terrible, and for the most part, I agree. There’s no such thing as boys’ toys and girls’ toys. Or there shouldn’t be.

The thing that occurred to me about this ad, though - it’s not really breaking any gender barriers. The little girl in the picture? She’s dressed like a boy. She’s not wearing pink. Her hair’s not in ringlets. She hasn’t built what could obviously be called a princess castle. If you looked fast, you’d probably think she was a boy (until you noticed the braids).

So yeah, maybe this ad is saying, “Hey, girls can play with Lego too!” Except, not really. Because what it’s actually saying is, “Hey, girls who are actually tomboys can play with Lego too!”

I’m just saying - I think it would have been way more powerful if you’d had a girl in pink and ruffles and ringlets building space ships and skyscrapers and King Arthur’s castle. That it’s possible to be both girly - and want to do those things. This ad? Ain’t showing that.

Okay, so the thing i’m having a problem with here is that this little girl is NOT dressed like a boy, she’s dressed like a little girl at play in 1981.

Girls’ clothes in 1981 were not limited to various shades of pink and purple but ran the full spectrum of colors. They were also expected to stand up to the wear and tear of regular play (which in 1981 meant running around outdoors). Ruffles and the like existed but those clothes were fancy, meant for occasions or events like church and holidays, not everyday wear.

For example, here is a photo of my brother and i in 1983 wearing our everyday clothes

I am five years old here. At this time, my room was painted pink, i had what i called my princess dress, and my Barbie was the one that came with an all-pink wardrobe. At that time in my life i was absolutely NOT considered a tomboy; i was a typical little girl.

To your modern eyes, inundated with the sharply gendered clothing of today, the girl in the ad didn’t even read as a girl whereas in 1981, she did. And i’m wondering who is in the more constrictive box, girls then or girls now?

Also i saw these from the same campaign and they are adorable!

How terrible is it to know that as a society we’ve probably gotten worse with pushing gender norms on kids instead of better.

 When I was in uni in one of my soc classes we read an excerpt from The Beauty Myth which talked about this, how when women started gaining more political/social/financial power in society the patriarchal started lashing back by buckling down on beauty standards and enforcing femininity. Beauty standards and the expectation for girls and women to be feminine has definitely gotten worse the past few decades as direct retaliation against women and girls for gaining more power, it’s a way to keep women and girls in “their place” in one way while they’re reaching for progress in other areas. If you’re interested in learning more about this phenomenon, I suggest giving The Beauty Myth a read

Keira Knightley 20 January 2018

Amsterdam is turning rainbow for a visit of the Russian president Putin. The council of the city of Amsterdam has decided to hang out the gay pride flag on all council owned buildings and offices, in protest to Russia’s new anti-gay law.

there’s several of these as well;

pretty sure Amsterdam is now the sass capital of the world

ragingdarcy:

Really though it was great 

It’s one of those moments in which I do love my country

IM SO PROUD 

Meirl

Person recording: “Say frog!”

Child: “Fuck.”

Person recording: “Say frog!”

Child: “Fuck!”

Person recording: “Frog!”

[Person offscreen giggles]

Child: “Fuck!”

[Person offscreen bursts into laughter]

do people actually put thought into zodiac posts or do people just randomly write down what soap the signs are

sounds like something an exfoliating citrus soap would say

meirl

someone used their course evaluation from last semester to lay out why they think my roman history professor is a vampire and i have to say it IS very convincing. points made

the more i think about it the better it is because half of the stuff she says about roman figures is making fun of stupid moves they made. imagine being immortal and spending your time making fun of an old guy you met over 2,000 years ago. 

Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

They do actually!

I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.

Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.” 

She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”

And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”

She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea!  The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn.  I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did.  So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”

Wow

Okay so at lunch today with my mum, the restaurant had some tv’s on the wall- one of which was a “news” channel covering that kobe Bryant guy (read: monster)

And I pointed it out, and made a comment akin to “why are they treating him like some saint? he literally assaulted a teenage girl and admitted it! he doesn’t deserve sympathy!”

And my mom is like “well, you can’t know that for sure. only they know what really happened!”

Like, sis, he admitted to it- not before lying multiple times, though. Only when he saw that the girl had physical evidence (bruising, vaginal tears, his semen in and on her, and her blood found on his clothing) did he admit. 

Sure, the lines of consent regarding sex were cloudy, i won’t deny that. But she sure as hell did not consent to getting beaten and raped like that. She consented to making out and probably some fondling- but he raped her, he hit and beat and choked her, and then he admitted he did it. But not before calling her a liar, and denying it ever happened. 

And yet people brush over this, women ignore this, everyone praises this PoS man. But when I say he got what he deserved after he hurt that girl so badly, apparently I’m a terrible person. Not the guy who violently beat and assaulted a 19 year old girl when he was 25. 

My mum said that he just ‘made a mistake’. A mistake is taking a wrong turn on the road, misplacing your keys, or forgetting to return a library book. 

Assault is no mistake.

Not ever.

Hold men accountable. Even when they’re drunk, or high, or angry, they are still aware. And they know what they do hurts us.

Stop. Letting. Them. Get. Away. With. It.

These men don’t deserve our protection, our defense, and they sure as HELL do NOT deserve any amount of PRAISE!

NO AMOUNT of TALENT or SKILL will EVER make up for their VILE actions, their evil and their violence that they take out on WOMEN!

LADIES, I BEG you, stop defending these men that don’t give a mosquitoes ass about you.

I would say rat, but a rat is too good for those mongrels. They get stuck with the diseased bloodsuckers. 

y he scream

Because he is babey

That’s not a cat

That’s a powdered donut