That’s a completely rational notion

no one remembers abu ghraib except the middle east

There was literally an entire infamous case of a woman, Lynndie England, who took pictures of herself humiliating torture victims at abu ghraib. Bolivia has a cis woman fascist dictator literally right now who is engaging in wholesale massacres of indigenous protestors. vladtheunfollower remains completely deranged and i feel that by 2021 her blog will be melting down about how the penoid males are creating roko’s basilisk in the basement of a D.C. pizzeria.

This reminds me when some TERFs tried to cite fucking horrific anti-Palestinian violence as an example of the “male fandom” and claimed Israeli rightwing women in power and the IDF were theoretical:

https://neuroticpantomime.tumblr.com/post/190075009352/redkrypto-neuroticpantomime-redkrypto

Truly unhinged!

what struck me as particularly unhinged about that whole thing (and like, the whole thing was already horrifying) was this part

like, not only does this shit-for-brains think that cis women are fundamentally incapable of engaging in settler colonialist violence to the point of describing female israeli far-righters as a completely hypothetical population, they also immediately double down with what’s literally bullshit nationalist talking points about how even if these women were to exist (which haha they dont because cis women are pure angels uwu) it would be justified because they believe their way of life is being defended by the most violent arm of settler colonialism. It’s literally like “far-right women don’t exist, and if they exist they have a right to because far-right talking points are worthy of respect if its women following them”.

literally just doubling down and down and down on this fundamental inability to see cis women as anything besides more or less children who cannot be anything but innocent at all times. all these mental gymnastics just boiling down to “i cannot not be a good person because i’m a female“.

Every so often, I remember that like 80% of Tumblr (myself included) was completely enraptured by a show where the big twist was that the main character forgot his childhood friend was murdered by his sister, and for some reason only remembers his childhood friend ever existing as a dog.

And in that same episode it’s revealed that the same sister…..like…..hypnotized (?) the main character’s arch rival into hating him by, like, staring at him for a few minutes.

In our collective defense, this is when we all decided “hey we should probably stop watching Sherlock”

Confession booth

Drew this for an upperclassman’s exhibition on spirituality/religion and LGBT

“i preferred [artist] back in [a time when they were struggling with addiction/ed/mental illness]!! they’re ugly/boring now [that they’re healthy]!”

The flip side of “cleanse diets don’t do anything” is that if you tried a cleanse diet and you did experience a notable reduction in fatigue, joint pain, and general blarginess, you need to talk to an allergy specialist, because there’s nearly a 100% chance that means you have an undiagnosed allergy to some component of your customary diet.

This is an excellent point and I’d imagine there’s a lot of quack diets that continue circulating and getting press based on this exact principle.

Absolutely – a great many diets of the “stop eating everything except these three foods” variety are 100% trading on the fact that they’re practically guaranteed to generate some positive testimonials by virtue of coincidentally cutting somebody’s undiagnosed food allergy out of their diet.

i didn’t take refuge in “not like other girls” thinking as a kid — i was too laser-focused on trying (and failing) to be normal — but i was mercilessly bullied for being different, a wrong kind of girl. and i know that sure, we all agree bullying is wrong. but i virtually never see that behavior identified as misogynist. i don’t see popular internet posts asking women to examine why they mocked and shunned other girls in school for being the wrong kind of girl, and what that might say about how they view women. i very much doubt anyone has ever sat down one of my bullies and said of their bullying, “your internalized misogyny is showing.” i had and have internalized misogyny too; we all do. i just want to see as much attention to the “you’re not like us” form as i see for the “i’m not like you” form.

It’s been a week since Adventure Time ended… and that is exactly how long it took me to finish this…

Coloring Lady Rainicorn in 2 shades of gray is kind of ironic… and painful…

shoutout to people who cant/wont turn in their abusers because

and whatever other reason. people dont have to turn in their abusers for their abuse to be legitimate. so many of us cant prove what happened to us and are only left with the disorders that came with the horror we dealt with growing up.

it makes me sad that im seeing so many trauma survivors feel that they have to justify not taking abusers to court. some of us cant, some of us shouldnt, and some of us wont. please respect all survivors regardless of how they approach legal justice over abuse.

POC IS A NOUN !!! STOP SAYING POC CHARACTERS !!! THAT’S TWO NOUNS AND IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE !!! SAY CHARACTERS OF COLOR BECAUSE THAT IS THE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY !!! POC IS A NOUN NOT AN ADJECTIVE SO STOP THAT SHIT !!! THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TEDTALK !!!

Ah yes. The Great Cotton Candy Desert. The dryest place on Earth. When it does rain, the entire spun-sugar landscape melts into deadly rivers of syrup that can drown unwary travelers, and the ecosystem must slowly rebuild itself over the next decade. Local fauna is adapted to these conditions and will enter a dormant state until geysers blow the groundsugar up through the surface of the Earth to create the fluffy cotton candy peaks so beloved by postcard photographers. This strange and delicate system is threatened by the encroach of industry, and many of the once-powerful geyser fields seem to be shifting and weakening.

Help a trans woman pay for CRUCIAL car repairs!!

Hi everyone, my name’s Christee. I’m a trans woman living in Georgia who recently got a bunch of car repairs— stuff for my engine, brakes, A/C system, etc.

I’ve got a payment plan going right now, and while I’ve been able to pay off about a third of it, I still have $500 owed. I’ve been having to work a little bit less because I recently started back at school and the restaurant is a little overstaffed, so I’m rather strapped for cash at the moment.

I’m asking for any help that anyone can provide to assist me in paying for these repairs.

Venmo: bogmummy

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Thank you in advance for your help! Please donate if you can, and please consider reblogging to help a woman out!

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UPDATE

i’m so appreciative for the support so far!

I wanted to link to my paypal, which I always forget about lmao.

Paypal: paypal.me/bogmummy

Thank you again to everyone donating and reblogging. It means so much to me.

oh BABYYYY if I were the person that had to deal with all the ways y’all found to be ugly and racist over the last four years……there is no publicist, no pr manager, no force ON EARTH and no divine force in heaven or hell that could stop me from popping the fuck off on the star wars fandom every single opportunity I got.  when I tell y’all disney/lucasfilm would have to FORCIBLY remove me from the press tours.  talking bout some goddamn “jOhN bOyEgA iS sO uNpRoFeSsiOnAL”.  it’s actually become increasingly obvious (based on the way y’all jump out the fucking window with the clown town behaviour every other week) that the star wars fandom has no idea just how easily they’ve gotten off with such an easy-going principle actor.  more than anything, some of y’all need to be desperately grateful that John Boyega has as much class and good humour as he does because it’s the only reason your scalp and sense of self-esteem are still intact

i feel like the way all of you care about little women has to be a prank

girl some of the replies are just. Like what are you even—

employees should be allowed to steal, actually

idk. yesterday was a slow day and at the end of it, I still stared into a cash drawer, one of three, that had more than my rent in it, even if you only count the 20s. I spent a lot of that day trying to calculate in my head how many hours of work equal one pair of pants, let alone how many hours of work equals the fun thing I want to do next month.

I feel a cough coming on, because I work in a drug store, and all of my customers are sick. I always feel a little bit sick, now. I can't afford to eat well enough to keep my body healthy. Cough medicine is worth two hours and 20 minutes of work. Our store probably bought a case of cough medicine for they price we're selling one box. If this cough gets worse, I might have to call out, which will cost me more than the medicine in the long run- but that doesn't give me the money to buy the medicine right now. I stock a case onto the shelf. I don't buy any.

A mom wrangling three crying, sick kids enters my line and sets two types of children's medicine down, says they're both on sale and thank god for that. I ring her up, and she gets very quiet, because she misread the sign, and her total is twice as high as she was expecting. Her youngest screams in the cart, because she's burning up with fever. Her mother very quietly asks, please, she's so sorry, if I could please take the more expensive one off her total.

I agree, I move the box below the counter, and when she's not looking, I slip it into her bag. I pray as hard as I can that if she notices the "mistake" she says nothing, because I so desperately want her to have that medicine. The store has lost profit at the cost of a child's health. I don't bat an eye. This is a terminable offense. If I'm presented with the same situation tonight, I'll do it in a heartbeat.

The myth of evil employees stealing from the company falls apart the second you realize the company would shoot you dead to make a profit. This isn't two equal players, one of whom is stealing from the other. This is someone fighting for survival versus someone fighting to make an extra million. It's not equal.

Employees should be able to steal, actually.

this video is the essence of who i am as a man