if you run a social media account about your disabled child called something like mighty[CHILD’S NAME]thewarrior and just post videos of them in distressing or potentially embarrassing situations, there is a special extra hot place in hell for you.
I’m not even sure I believe in hell but they’re definitely going there
donna summer, 1977 📷
Buf, casi le gana a la prensa hidráulica
this one gets a rating of:
"Yeah, right. You cut us down, you ship us to your factories, you pulp us, print on us, fold us into little airplanes, wax us and drink coffee out of us, roll us into little balls to throw at each other in school, slap a strip of adhesive on a stack of us and use us to remind you to add paper clips to your shopping list ... and you think you've tamed us."
You know, I'm not surprised that something exploding with such force it breaks the camera has happened on a hydraulic press channel. I'm a little surprised at the fact it was post-it notes.
“For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong”
— H.L. Mencken
1930s “i’m the guy that” pinbacks, part 2
most important thing to remember about being a woman is if youre married you have to go under the covers with your husband and laugh cutely and play wrestle so when you die to progress the narrative he can remember it in slow motion montages
in this world we all have our roles
can i be honest im 100% for the fact that like the tradwife stay at home mom thing is really fucked culturally but also like i think we as a society have to figure this shit out because a child needs the equivalent (if not more) of a full time job's worth of work from an adult who (for the health of the child and for the ethics of the situation honestly) needs to be able to function in a way that isn't making the adult miserable because being raised by miserable adults has really tangible negative impacts on children. whether its community childcare so that simply more adults can be involved in the situation or much more robust social aid towards young families. like this might he stupidly idealistic but i think really the root of a lot of issues in society come from the fact that people refuse to understand the gravity of like. parenthood. its an insane responsibility. i think it should be treated as such
raising a kid is a full time job. it can be a part time job for about three people. keeping a household clean and cooking 2-3 meals a day is another full time job. so like, no shit women want to have ONE job at a time. right now they're expected to have about three.
So the problem of the tradwife thing is that since it’s not an organic movement, but a propaganda effort by white/Christian nationalists trying to return women to subaltern status legally as well as socially, it jumped ahead of the creation of structures and institutions that will properly support someone, wife, husband, third partner of a polycule, whomever, in staying at home to care for the home and the children while being properly financially supported (UBI) and given strong legal protections against financial abuse, isolation and loss of ability to meaningfully re-enter the job force if and when they choose.
The proponents of the subjugation of women will point to families who have successfully adopted the tradwife model as proof that UBI and those protections are unnecessary.
They are taking advantage of the “someone should be able to stay at home” and UBI conversations happening on the left to further right wing goals. It’s all very cunning and very dangerous and needs as much pushback as we can muster. 
One thing that helps me calm down about intra-left-wing sniping and the reality that the big center-left coalition inevitably includes a lot of ridiculous nonsense, is to remember how ubiquitous seances were to progressive politics in the 19th century. Like, e.g., Frederick Douglas had to go to so many seances. Many, many political strategy sessions around the country had to include feedback from the ghost of Moses who spoke to us via morse code.
Was thinking again today about Frederick Douglas, intellectual giant, having to sit through so many seances without complaint because he believed in coalition building.
In all seriousness, a lot of people on the left need to cultivate the patience to sit through bullshit and work with people who have different priorities.
Because, yes, environmentalism/reproductive rights/labor rights/disability access are all THE MOST IMPORTANT THING… to you. But there aren’t enough people who hold that one thing as top priority to get it done. And insisting everyone else prioritize your one thing before you’ll engage (and then buggering off if you get your win) means nothing gets done.
We also honestly need to be able to distinguish between harmless and harmful bullshit. Because sitting in a dimly-lit room with a few dozen people staring at a copper cone is definitely bullshit, but it’s not hurting anyone. Whereas “I want to preserve the environment and also there are only men and women and we all need to have traditional gender roles to be true to ourselves” is hurting people. So one can be tolerated, and the other… not so much.
We need bullshit. We need room for bullshit. We need to understand what bullshit we can and cannot handle.
Unfortunately, a lot of people on the left have no problem saying “Because my thing isn’t the most important thing to you, fuck you.” And then they refuse to work with anyone else (and sometimes just quit).
It seems to me the narrative that “nothing can be done” often plays into that. The majority of activists are, well, extremists. We don’t have enough people who can be normal and chill about their cause, who can and will show up for someone else even if it’s not their One Cause. But then, they don’t want to because they can’t reasonably expect reciprocation. So you just get extremists sitting alone seething that no one else wants to work with them while they are unable to work with anyone else.
And that all ties into Frederick Douglas sitting and staring at a copper cone. Because he knew that by showing up, he could get other people to show up for the things he cared about. And an hour sitting with people staring at a copper cone is a small price to pay to get a few dozen people to actually come to a protest.
the only bad part about going to the zoo is hearing adult men confidently tell their kids or gfs objectively incorrect information about the animals we’re looking at and having to remain silent. do u know the restraint it takes to say nothing when a grown adult man tells someone “falcons are in the same family as eagles” next to me? no babygirl. no.
fyi falcons are not closely related to other birds of prey (hawks/eagles/buzzards). falcons are actually parrots that minmaxed for a glass cannon dps build.
assault parrots, if you will
I do like how in greek mythology babies can gestate anywhere inside the body. stomach? check. sewed under the skin of ur thigh? check. inside skull? check. no uterus required.
psychoanalyzing the gender/identity dichotomy between ice skating and ice hockey and coming to the more objectively correct conclusion that ice hockey is rooted in motherly feminine behavior of protecting the nest and that ice skating is about masculine peacocking of one's own physical prowess in seeking a mate
it’s actually so funny how challenging it is to write bona fide graphic, horny smut. like people don’t give smut writers enough credit. you are constantly running out of words to describe the same 2-4 body parts and same 4-6 motions. you are constantly attempting to do interesting and dynamic things in the prose with this extremely limited set of words. you are looking at your prose for the nastier bits and wondering if it actually sounds hot or if it just sounds goofy. you are then toning down your prose and then wondering if it now sounds tasteful or if it’s just boring. you do ctrl+F for the word “cock” and there are 37 instances of it in the doc but you hate the 1-2 acceptable synonyms so there’s nothing much you can do about it
from “For the Love of Spock” (George Takei talking about the time when they wanted to cut him and Nichols/Uhura out of Star Trek and Nimoy was having none of it)
He also used his clout to fight for equal pay for Nichelle Nichols. Gene Roddenberry called him “the conscience of Star Trek.”
Reason #1701 why I love Leonard
A genuinely wonderful human being <3
"Voting is not enough. We need to take further action on top of voting."
Fair and true.
"Voting is not enough. You should not vote and instead do something else. Like maybe [thing that is 100% not going to happen.]"
Well, if you are not willing to do something as simple, free, and low-risk as voting then I have some doubts about your willingness or ability to do anything more complex or costly than that. You're probably going to just post about things and do nothing to change them. You sound like a paper tiger on panel 1 of an instant loss comic.
in 1978, sanrio made a crocodile called big challenges. he was never used for anything.
he believes that you can overcome your own big challenges !
