May 2013
tw abuse
you-do-not-do:
hoelita:
people seriously think that you can just leave an abusive relationship, like walk out and it’s over
let’s talk about how one-third of women murdered every year are by an intimate partner. let’s talk about how a woman leaving her batterer is seventy-five percent more likely to be killed.
babyshibe:
Things worth noting in the middle of being happy about the same-sex marriage bill: it contains a clause which allows spouses of trans people to veto their obtaining a Gender Recognition Certificate (i.e. legal recognition of gender on birth certificate), even if that spouse is abusive. The only way around this is divorce. So if you want to transition and your spouse doesn’t want you...
sourcedumal:
reverseracism:
When people claim that willfully ignorant opinions that support systems of oppression and discrimination are the other side of the argument and should be given the same respect in order to have a balanced exchanged.
Exactly.
There is no other fucking side to racism
There is no other side to cishetero supremacy
There is no other side.
That side is always...
“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes...”
– Mary Dickson
[CW: discussion of rape culture and violence]
This reminds me of an article about online (heterosexual) dating that I read a while ago. It listed men’s and women’s worst fears about meeting someone from online. The highest ranked fear that men had was that their date would be fat,...
infinitylooper:
Something to think about:
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old. Let’s scale that to 46 years. We have been here for 4 hours. Our industrial revolution began 1 minute ago. In that time, we have destroyed more than 50% of the world’s forests.
This isn’t sustainable.
“Why is it that when we try teach men to respect women we always say imagine if...”
– pervasive thoughts on my mind. (via megannesbeth)
“While teaching a unit on harassment and prevention to a health class of...”
– How Librarians and Teachers Could End Rape Culture (via mimitakestheleftturn)
This really isn't that difficult to grasp.
tzikeh:
1) Benedict Cumberbatch gave a phenomenal performance as Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek: Into Darkness.
2) The casting of a white man as Khan Noonien Singh in 2013 is HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC.
3) Both of these things can be true at the same time.
4) No, really; they can.
“To this end, we are calling on Facebook users to contact advertisers whose ads...”
–
Soraya Chemaly: An Open Letter to Facebook (via brute-reason)
Most advertisers are stunned to hear that their ads are on these pages. We have been at this for a year now with the Flush Rush effort and it is working. It can work on FB too.
(via tehbewilderness)
Nipples are more offensive than...
socially constructed doesn't mean imaginary
pervocracy:
josiahd:
Socially constructed stuff is still there and people still have to deal with it.
See also: psychological, emotional, “in your head.” My head is real, and things that happen in it may be personal and subjective, but they’re not nonexistent.
dionthesocialist:
No respect for racists. No sympathy. No patience. No understanding. Nothing. They don’t get to deny entire groups of people their humanity and still expect to have their humanity respected.
chekhov:
In health class we were given sheets of paper and told to write a message we would want someone of the opposite sex to know
She read some examples
The girls were like: “Hey can you please not treat me like shit”
The boys were like: “Spray tans look ugly I hate when girls wear too much makeup and don’t lead me on.”
Things Yahoo/Staff should change
rainbownova:
make a chat system
give alerts when someone answers your ask
REMOVE THE FUCKING ‘REBLOG AS A LINK’ THING
FIX THAT FUCKING TUMBLR VIDEO PLAYER GOD DAMNIT
search multiple tags at once
MAYBE HAVE A ‘LIVE VIDEO’ BUTTON OR SOMETHING
FUCKING REMOVE BLOGS THAT HAVE BEEN INACTIVE FOR 18 MONTHS
REMOVE BLOGS OF PEOPLE WHO SEND HATE OR VIOLATE THE RULES OF TUMBLR (YEA IM LOOKING AT YOU,...
Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can...
sheresists:
Language is never neutral.
ohanameansfandom:
Whenever anyone argues against marriage equality because of their religious views as a Christian I just want to hit them over the head repeatedly with a Bible whilst yelling
ADULTERY ISN’T ILLEGAL!!
LYING ISN’T ILLEGAL!!
DIVORCE ISN’T ILLEGAL!!
DISRESPECTING YOUR PARENTS ISN’T ILLEGAL!!
WORKING ON THE SABBATH ISN’T ILLEGAL!!
WORSHIPPING OTHER GODS ISN’T ILLEGAL!!
...
“We must be very careful to avoid the use of the term “tribe” to describe these...”
– Ethnicity in Nigeria
Why people should not even think of using the word “tribe”.
(via cosmicyoruba)
I’ve always hated this word.
(via zorascreation)
ya the word tribe is a no
(via l-angston)
try “nation” or “people” instead (via callingoutbigotry)
“The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you...”
– The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps)
Truth bomb if I ever saw one.
(via ikenbot)
tokomon:
youcanlevitateme:
Patriarchy =
menstrual blood is gross, ew- keep it 13918321 miles away from me YUCK
Cum? You swallow that shit. I’ll rub that shit all over your face and tits.
hinoneko:
thecorruptedquietone:
prongsmydeer:
Plot twist: The next companion is a normal girl/boy who only dies once in their lifetime and has no remarkable back story but he thinks they’re wonderful because they are human and the Doctor needs reminding that you don’t need to be a mystery to be remarkable.
#and the doctor never has to kiss them or sexualize them at all #in fact they are...
ambassador-of-anguish:
shouldertappingghosts:
If I was a famous author I would publish a book with ten different endings which all went to print with varying degrees of rarity, but not tell the fans about it so that I could watch their confusion as they disagree over how the story ended. Then when they figured it out I would ‘come clean’, telling them that I had released eleven alternate...