thinking about that post about how, to conservatives, gender is something you can fail at and that is a punishment that opens you up to abuse, and i think the same is true of being a child.

the Innocent Child (to be protected!) is a class of people that does not include all children, and like gender, it is something you can fail at. Failed Children are not longer Innocent and To Be Protected, but instead a class of people who need to be abused back into compliance.

Really it's like this with any category of vulnerable people, or just people in general, and I don't think it's delineated to conservatives or even that all conservatives fall under this umbrella socially. There's a pattern, for sure, but I see a lot of people who claim to be progressive falling for this sort of viewpoint too.

Prime example is how "Innocent Victim" is something you can fail at socially. People are only "legitimate" victims if they had no way to resist, if they were never violent in response, if they were a good person who lived a good life prior to having something terrible happen to them.

Being disabled is something you can fail at if you aren't exerting every ounce of your energy to live life "normally." Being poor is something you can fail at if you don't save every cent and skip the morning coffee and never go to the movies.

These are all punished by neglect (witholding of aid) or even further abuse.

The root of the problem is the idea that someone's moral standing determines whether or not you have to treat them like a person, and everyone should be careful not to fall into that.

"You are only a real X if you consistently behave like Y and if you fail, you should be punished back into compliance"

(also notice how all of these are impossible not to fail at. No one is a perfect man or woman, innocent child, victim, disabled person, poor person etc. There's always a way to find fault, so there's always an excuse for the abusive behavior.)

Don't forget the wedding invite his in-laws put out for his wedding.

a lot of people especially youtube drama channels will act like certain fan bases are bad because of something inherent to them that somehow makes them worse than other fans of anything else when pretty much the whole time it's because said thing is just very popular not because it has some magical property of generating shitty behavior. there have been multiple instances where something i like started out as fairly niche and then explodes in popularity and every single time that happens the experience of being in the fan community gets significantly worse

though to this day i still have no idea what the fuck happened with voltron so i think it was actually hexed or something

no DNIs we just post content specifically catered to ourselves that will coincidentally alienate anyone with whom we would not want to interact

I think I've found my favorite [citation needed] on Wikipedia.

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be a stressed adult male protagonist splashing water on his face in the bathroom

mentally i’m a slut physically i’m scared of intimacy 

Life must be rough for you

life is rough for everyone kimberly

did you think they forgot to teach her about plagiarism at the miami school of law?

I MESSAGED HER ON INSTAGRAM AND SHE BLOCKED ME LMFAOOOO

stop lmfaoo

honestly christianity really hit the jackpot with "jesus christ" rolling off the tongue as an expletive so well. the number one problem with fantasy settings is that whatever names you come up with to take in vain will never hit as well as "jesus christ"

this guy gets it!!!!! this is the kind of rock solid phonetic structural integrity you have to compete with!!!! and no amount of marika's tits or thal's balls or odin's beards will ever get close because with ol jeezy boy his name alone has all the features you need

official linguistics post

absolutely stellar

A girl at my school tried to seduce one of our (super straight-laced) math professors. She ACTUALLY sat on his desk and had a super low-cut shirt on and everything and actually leaned over to him and according to eye-witnesses:

Girl: “Oh professor, I’m really struggling but I would do ANYTHING to pass this class.”

The professor leans in until his face is just inches from hers and whispers in the same seductive tone:

Before promptly getting up and walking away just leaving her on the desk.

“Then study”

you're required to participate in this poll btw. i need data

tumblr what is wrong with you first the walrus vs fairy thing and now this? are you saying it's less fucked up to find out you're not a biological organism than find out you're a human created from one parent-twin who is genetically identical to you?

Clone: horror at the lie of your body (for what purpose? how many are there? are they like you?)

vs.

Robot: horror at the lie of your mind and your humanity itself (have you ever actually had a thought of your own, or is everything you are/you think/you understand just created by another person’s brain? whose mind/brain are you?? whose thoughts are in your head?? What does it mean to “think” when you’re only a manmade echo of humanity constructed from Boolean logic loops? Do you even have a soul?)

There’s a CLEAR ANSWER HERE.

clone: you are the theft of another being, inextricably tied by the blood running through your veins they may not have even given to you. you aren't you, you're them, you were made to be them, you're not different, there shpuld not be a you, you are them,

robot: ok well im a robot so show me my blueprints so i can install a sword in my arm to beat up ppl that i dont like. what the fuck ever. can i run doom

Self discovery is all about finding new perspectives

worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

sorry i said something dickish. a few mildly frustrating things happened to me in succession and it turned me evil

being a hater is good and fun and comes free with being a lover but it's also good to practice being an idgafer. sometimes things are just meant to bait you and/or not worth blowing up your whole day over. don't forget that.

never lose sight of these words of wisdom

There's a bunch of adhd advice out there that's like "people with adhd tend to work better under deadlines due to the anxiety so here are ways to artificially induce a stress response in order to get you to get work done" and it's like well what if I don't want to be stressed out all the time in order to function

this gold shouldn't stay in the comments

TIL the first known case of “dying from laughing” involved the greek man called Chrysippus, who, after giving figs to his donkey, cried out “Now give the donkey a drink of pure wine to wash down the figs”, had a fit of laughter afterwards and died.

via reddit.com

pretty funny i guess

had to be there

Translation is always tricky, but I remember this slightly different:

Figs were an imported delicacy at the time, and the donkey just managed to eat them (without being given any on purpose). Seeing a donkey eating several times their own value in figs, the philosopher looked to his servant who might have been standing there either in shock, despair, or both, and said something along the lines of “Oh don’t just stand there. Get him some (undiluted) wine to wash the figs down with”. With (undiluted) wine also being an expensive drink.

I feel like that context makes it funnier. Basically like standing in front of your burning mansion with a butler, meeting their eyes, and telling them that you still feel a little chilly and ask them if they could put on an extra log or two.

idk what’s funnier, the burning house situation, or being the butler as you watch your master laugh so hard at his own joke that he fully fucking dies.

-St Augustine, on Alexander the Great

-This girl

They are both right