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Curryalley

@curryalley / curryalley.tumblr.com

TV. Movies. Fandoms. Pretty things. Probably also baseball. She/her. My tongue's the only muscle in my body that works harder than my heart. Follow me on twitter as @curryalley
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sandrayln
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babyspacebatclone

This is wonderful.

For people who can’t see the image for some reason:

It’s a “Dear Abby” column, published in 1995. The letter writer, “Not Looking for a Girlfriend in New Jersey,” identifies as a 53 year old male virgin with no interest in either women or men, despite coworkers having assumptions that his lack of a family means he must be gay.

This man expresses no concern about his situation (other than the presumed exhaustion at being continually misidentified), and suggests he was writing simply so other people could see that “a man who had no interest in sex” exists.

Abby blows it out of the ballpark with her response:

People who have no sexual feelings are called “asexual.” Since it doesn’t appear to bother you, it should present no problem. You are accountable to no one except yourself [emphasis mine].

Here we have the bastion of middle American, the “nice White lady with all the answers”, normalizing this man’s experience and literally telling him to ignore the haters. Pre Millennium. She even calmly supplies this man with the language to identify himself, since he seems not to have encountered it before; that must have been so empowering for him, to have a word for his experience and identity, and to hear that others shared it.

Everyone, you are valid, and your identity is accountable to no one except yourself.

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notkatniss

I love baseball

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notkatniss

they let the pest control man throw out the first pitch 😭

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curryalley

There were so many bee puns last night.

So so many.

So many bee puns.

Also the Diamondbacks won on a 10th inning homerun! You don't have to know baseball to know that if your team is involved in something that is immediately known as the Bee Game, it is VITALLY IMPORTANT that they win the Bee Game.

#winning the Bee Game MATTERS#sorry i don't make the rules#the Bee Guy was in a town called SURPRISE wstching bis kid play T-ball when he got the call#baseball#diamondbacks#dbacks#arizona diamondbacks
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theamphibianmen

"low support needs disabled people are often not believed to have a disability at all and therefore struggle to get accommodations."

"high support needs disabled people's accommodations are often seen as 'too much' and therefore are not met."

"neurodivergent people's needs are often dismissed because nothing is physically wrong with them."

"physically disabled people people often cannot physically access buildings and people refuse to do anything about it."

"invisibly disabled people are seen as lazy by society."

"visibly disabled people are ostracized from society."

IT'S ALMOST LIKE THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE DISABILITY

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downthetubes

“Strip it down to essentials and draw the hell out of what’s left” - Zorro by Alex Toth

#Zorro
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