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clementines&cathedrals: 1) quitting mcdonalds tomorrow 2) got a different job (hellz yeah i’m... →

clementinesandcathedrals:

1) quitting mcdonalds tomorrow

2) got a different job (hellz yeah i’m just a glorified babysitter but WHATEVS)

3) some really gross stuff came out of my ear it was awesome and kind of sort of feels slightly maybe a little tiny bit better but still i want to tear it off

4) my mother made…

glitterlighter:

truebluemeandyou:

DIY Galaxy and Constellations’ Nail Art Tutorial from Small Good Things here.

things i am grateful for: suddenly overflowing space nail tutorials on the internets

(trigger warning: rape, rape jokes) Here is why I refuse to take rape jokes sitting down…

Because 6% of college-aged men, slightly over 1 in 20, will admit to raping someone in anonymous surveys, as long as the word “rape” isn’t used in the description of the act—and that’s the conservative estimate. Other sources double that number (pdf).

A lot of people accuse feminists of thinking that all men are rapists. That’s not true. But do you know who think all men are rapists?

Rapists do.

They really do. In psychological study, the profiling, the studies, it comes out again and again.

Virtually all rapists genuinely believe that all men rape, and other men just keep it hushed up better. And more, these people who really are rapists are constantly reaffirmed in their belief about the rest of mankind being rapists like them by things like rape jokes, that dismiss and normalize the idea of rape.

If one in twenty guys (or more) is a real and true rapist, and you have any amount of social activity with other guys like yourself, then it is almost a statistical certainty that one time hanging out with friends and their friends, playing Halo with a bunch of guys online, in a WoW guild, in a pick-up game of basketball, at a bar, or elsewhere, you were talking to a rapist. Not your fault. You can’t tell a rapist apart any better than anyone else can. It’s not like they announce themselves.

But, here’s the thing. It’s very likely that in some of these interactions with these guys, at some point or another, someone told a rape joke. You, decent guy that you are, understood that they didn’t mean it, and it was just a joke. And so you laughed.

Or maybe you didn’t laugh. Maybe it just wasn’t a very funny joke. So maybe you just didn’t say anything at all.

And, decent guy who would never condone rape, who would step in and stop rape if he saw it, who understands that rape is awful and wrong and bad, when you laughed? When you were silent?

That rapist who was in the group with you, that rapist thought that you were on his side. That rapist knew that you were a rapist like him. And he felt validated, and he felt he was among his comrades.

You. The rapist’s comrade.

And if that doesn’t make you feel sick to your stomach, if that doesn’t make you want to throw up, if that doesn’t disturb you or bother you or make you feel like maybe you should at least consider not participating in that kind of humor anymore, not abiding it in your presence, not greeting it with silence…

Well, maybe you aren’t as opposed to rapists as you claim.

— Why Rape Jokes Are Never “Ok” (via twofish)

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lookingfornebraska:

Comic Relief - Catherine Tate & David Tennant [x]

Do you fancy Billy Piper, sir?

#death

(Source: bartowski, via syllablesongs)

chimalxochitl:

ollin-atl:

kemetically-ankhtified:

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This is one of the major factors as to why I could NEVER support the “occupy” movement. Our people know what occupation looks like, we’ve been experiencing it for 519 years.

This is why I could never fully support the occupy movement. ^^^^ DECOLONIZE!

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When a man is homophobic or effemiphobic he is reminding us, in no uncertain terms, where he places women on the spectrum of power.

— Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)

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accioharo:

firehouselight:

lezbedirty:

hannahlimpy:

A group of Christians showed up at a Chicago gay pride parade in July.

They were holding up signs saying “I’m sorry that Christians judge you”

“I’m sorry for how the churches treated you” and “I used to be a bible-banging homophobe, I’m sorry” 

This isn’t what I normally post, but it’s too beautiful to pass up.

I wish so much that I could have been a part of this. Bravo.

Quality moment is quality.

always reblog

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tw: rape - BUT REALLY THOUGH

tinydragongina:

If you laugh at jokes about raping people I will laugh at my fist punching your throat because sure it’s violent and demeaning but I think it’s funny so why aren’t you laughing get off the floor and stop whining I am trying to assert that my desire to make a joke out of your traumatic experience is more important than your pain it’s called Freedom of Speech read a book.

(Source: eowyning, via glitterlighter)

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We’ve been hearing a lot about the war on women, which is real enough. But there’s also a war on the young, which is just as real even if it’s better disguised. And it’s doing immense harm, not just to the young, but to the nation’s future.

Let’s start with some advice Mitt Romney gave to college students during an appearance last week. After denouncing President Obama’s “divisiveness,” the candidate told his audience, “Take a shot, go for it, take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.”

The first thing you notice here is, of course, the Romney touch — the distinctive lack of empathy for those who weren’t born into affluent families, who can’t rely on the Bank of Mom and Dad to finance their ambitions. But the rest of the remark is just as bad in its own way.

I mean, “get the education”? And pay for it how? Tuition at public colleges and universities has soared, in part thanks to sharp reductions in state aid. Mr. Romney isn’t proposing anything that would fix that; he is, however, a strong supporter of the Ryan budget plan, which would drastically cut federal student aid, causing roughly a million students to lose their Pell grants.

So how, exactly, are young people from cash-strapped families supposed to “get the education”? Back in March Mr. Romney had the answer: Find the college “that has a little lower price where you can get a good education.” Good luck with that. But I guess it’s divisive to point out that Mr. Romney’s prescriptions are useless for Americans who weren’t born with his advantages.

… What should we do to help America’s young? Basically, the opposite of what Mr. Romney and his friends want. We should be expanding student aid, not slashing it. And we should reverse the de facto austerity policies that are holding back the U.S. economy — the unprecedented cutbacks at the state and local level, which have been hitting education especially hard.

Yes, such a policy reversal would cost money. But refusing to spend that money is foolish and shortsighted even in purely fiscal terms. Remember, the young aren’t just America’s future; they’re the future of the tax base, too.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste; wasting the minds of a whole generation is even more terrible. Let’s stop doing it.

— 

Paul Krugman, The New York Times, “Wasting Our Minds.”

Go read the whole damned thing.

(via inothernews)

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