I Am An Emotional Creature Too

Feminism didn’t teach me to hate men, but it did teach me to stop prioritising them over women.

And it turns out a lot of men think that’s the same thing as hatred.

I said it once and I’ll say it again. Instead of claiming to not hate men, think about why so many people think you do.

This is literally an explanation of why.

Men grow up in a world where men are always more important than everyone else. Refusing to go along with this and actively prioritising women feels like hatred to men who conflate their unearned position of power with their identity.

Maybe instead of obediently supporting the status quo, you should put some critical thought into why so many men get irrationally angry when women want to be treated fairly.

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner talks about why he doesn’t the like saying “All Lives Matter.”

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If hair braiding isn’t taught in many beauty schools, why does the government force black women to go (and pay thousands) to get a cosmetology license? What’s worse is not doing so could result in a $10,000 fine and a year in prison. Since the 1990s, the Institute for Justice has been fighting for hair braiders — and a new legal showdown in Iowa could be their biggest yet.

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“Of Iowa’s 27 cosmetology schools, not one school offers specific coursework on natural hair care for black women or braiding in particular.”

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Inktober day 18, A wizard cat

On a quest to find the magical catnip.

This is so pure. This is the American Dream. This is what dreams are made of.

This is so cute.

I will totally try to get a future offspring to do a wavy arm man costume…

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

BY TA-NEHISI COATES

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Some people seem to be confused about Bernie Sanders and the label “democratic socialist.” Luckily for them, Sanders is going to explain the term and its principles in a big way.

someone: I think donald trump actually isn’t that bad

me: 

basically

it really irritates me that to be a good employee we can’t just perform the function we’re hired to do correctly and appropriately but have to do all this extra “above and beyond” bullshit we’re not compensated for

like the capitalist corporate culture than encourages us to work harder and harder and do more and more essentially for free? nope, i do my job and i do it exceptionally well but if i am ask to perform more services then i need to be paid for them

i find this is a v gendered phenomenon too like my supervisors have always expected me to put in more effort and be more accommodating and do more “just a quick favor” stuff than my coworkers/colleagues who are men, who are either not expected to contribute as much or are compensated more for making said contributions

Last week, a group of legal experts ruled the November 2014 police shooting of 12-year old Tamir Rice “objectively reasonable.” Tamir was shot by police as he sat in a local park where he frequently played, holding a pellet gun. The ruling came despite the fact that there were less than two seconds between the time the police first make contact with Tamir and the time he fell to the ground shot. Almost no time for the officers to communicate any set of instructions to the boy about what they wanted or what they needed him to do. They simply drove up and started shooting. That’s  “objectively reasonable.” .. (more here)

Two simple rules.

‘Go Back To Mexico’ Sentiment Is Most Prevalent In States That Used To Be Mexico

Finally someone bringing this up

FYI, for future planning

Whoa!!

Blanche Calloway (1902-1978) was one of the first - and only - women bandleaders in the 1930s. She began her career as a chorus girl on the black vaudeville circuit and toured as a castmember of the touring company of Shuffle Along before forming “Blanche Calloway and her Joy Boys - one of whom was Louis Armstrong, making some of his earliest recordings. As she became more successful, she helped her younger brother, Cab Calloway, break into show business. She appealed to Earl "Fatha” Hines, the great bandleader and Mr. Armstong and convinced them to hire her brother. Cab was hired at the same place Blanche was working at the time - the Sunset Cafe “Chicago’s Classiest Cabaret” at $35 a week (compared to his sister’s $200 weekly salary). After her music career ended, Ms. Calloway had a significant career in real estate and was the programming director for a Florida radio station for many years. In 1968, she founded AFRAM House, a mail-order company that made cosmetics and toiletries for black consumers. AFRAM was an acronym for African-American and was a big success in major US stores like JC Penney, Sears and Montgomery Ward. “Quite frankly,” she told the New York Times in 1969, “we got tired of buying white products and trying to adapt them to our needs.”