Check your violent impulses when reacting to black people. It should not be so typical to watch people approach black people with “critique” very aggressively and then relax & have respectful conversation with a nonblack person on the same subject. ALWAYS take a moment before sparking up an argument with a black person to ask yourself if you’re responding in an appropriate manner, or if it’s possible that your subconscious biases have you approaching with undue hostility. Some of you will post a million sheepish apologies before you just do the work to fix your learned instincts to bash black people when given the opportunity.

a lot of people are dismissing the "violent" rap music rushing and scrambling to say well not ALL rap is violent here's some rappers who don't rap about violence but like. idk. I think the "violent" rap is important to listen to as well. do you know why gangs exist? do you know why Compton is the way that it is? can you listen to the experiences of black men when you can't personally relate on any level? or will you dismiss an entire genre of music because certain sub genres make you feel a bit uncomfortable as a non-black person?

fans of rock and punk: i dont like rap on account of the misogyny and violence

in 2012 we had an anti-abortion demonstrator on campus. I was in a ballet intensive and I walked by him—30 yards away & in total silence—wearing leggings and a sweater over my leotard, and he yelled, “nice cameltoe, dyke!”

I got to class and told my instructor about it and we complained to campus security, who told us that the campus was open to the public and that it was “his legal right to assembly and protest.”

so I guess the NYPD just showed up this time because these protestors forgot to sexually harass students and call them homophobic slurs. Easy mistake to make

People who have anon asks enabled, I gotta ask, why? What good comes of it?

I'm not like Mad at anyone who does this and I'm obviously not in charge of how anyone else tags shit on their own blogs, whatever, but it's always bummed me out when my sex Ed posts get reblogged and tagged with 18+, minors dni, etc. personally I actually very much want teenagers to learn about their bodies and safer sex but I guess I'm just the guy who wrote the thing.

by and large I am not an angry man but once I watched a fellow sex educator present to a room full of college students and, upon being gently challenged by one of the students who objected to them describing sex as something that happens between adults, said with very palpable disdain "I don't want to talk about kids fucking." and I was so angry about it that I made myself nauseous.

not just teens, either. every couple years I give up my Sundays for a few months to teach sex ed to 4th-6th graders, unpaid. and I don't do it because it's always fun or easy or great for my health, I do it because those are human people with changing bodies and feelings who deserve to have someone who gives a shit take the time to talk honestly with them so that they might make less painful mistakes later.

ah, this has gotten notes. now we begin a game of Is Someone Going To Call Me A Pedophile For This.

and the ironic thing is that teaching comprehensive sex ed as young as possible (to an age appropriate extent of course) is like literally the best way to keep kids safe bc it allows them to know if what’s happening to them is wrong. especially since the most likely abuser is a parent. who’s obviously not going to teach them that they deserve bodily autonomy. it sounds icky but teaching kids about sex is what lets them know if they’re being raped, and unfortunately a scarily high amount of kids are preyed upon.

the depths

June 2021

used to be you could get yourself a porkpie hat, some checkered braces and a trumpet and get yourself an honest job in the ska mines, a man could feed his family by skanking a solid eight hours and come home and drop his coat knowing his wife would pick it up pick it up pick it up, but not no more. not since woke.

this is insane

Massachusetts state law requires that cashiers have a chair or a stool to use if they want to

which is something I had to bring up when not only did First Retail Boss want to take our stool away, but ONE OF MY COWORKERS (weird Machiavellian narc) THOUGHT THAT WAS A GRAND IDEA

and huffed when it didn't go through- because I dropped a "Hey Boss :) :) that's literally illegal :) :)" -that "there's no reason anyone should be sitting! it looks less welcoming!"

Calm The Fuck Down, Diane

Biden Administration’s report on Israel’s wartime conduct will be suspended indefinitely

This far more damning than just releasing the report, to me.

It's basically confirmation they found uncontrovertable evidence of Israeli war crimes and are going to sit on it to try to cover it up, full stop.

If there was even a gray area they would have released it, but do it quietly and then formulate a plan for excusing the crimes.

If the IOF's record in this war was clean they would have leaked it at least a week ahead of time and would be screaming about from roof of the White House and on every major cable news channel 24/7.

They did this shit with War on Terror "accountability" reports that we get 5-10+ years after the fact when people forgot and moved on to the next thing to be outraged at them about.