Saving Face (2012), acid attacks on women in Pakistan
Meanwhile, in America, feminists are complaining about how dress codes are oppressive.
You idiots have never experienced oppression, and pray you never do, because this is what it looks like.
December 11: Eric Garner’s daughter, Erica, lies on sidewalk where her dad died.
Progress
What
Imma just let this sit here
MOTHA FUCKIN SCIENCE
They turned RNA into an anti-virus program. That is amazing.
Let me restate this in case it didn’t sink in the first time
Researchers physically DELETED ALL TRACES of the HIV virus from a human cell.
ALL OF IT.
IF YOU ARE NOT EXCITED ABOUT THAT I DON’T THINK YOU KNOW WHAT HIV IS
Hero.
Most of you have probably already read this, but this is so, so important. I think it’s a damn shame that the name of the Aurora shooter or the marathon bombers is common knowledge but not the name of this brave young man.
His father said that, “He made his mother cry, but he saved hundreds of mothers from crying for their children.”
I can’t imagine such pure selflessness. I remember when I was 15, and I couldn’t have done something like this. I don’t think I’m even this selfless now.
Young heroes like Aitzaz and Malala give me hope for Pakistan, and the world. They’re the change that we need. They’re the people who you should judge Islam by, not the extremists. I know I don’t have that many followers, but please, for anyone who reads this today, spare a moment to think about this young hero and his grieving family.
This commentary is so offensive and I am so tired of seeing offensive commentary attached to this news story. Idiots who are not Pakistani need to shut their ignorant mouths about Malala and Aitazaz. they are not exceptional minorities in ~ barbaric and hostile Pakistan ~ they are representative of the majority of Pakistan’s children who are more brave, strong and educated than your media cares to show beyond the yelling dark skinned gunmen burning american flags. Don’t talk about “these people give me hope for Pakistan” as though Pakistan is a hopeless terrorist wasteland. You know nothing about Pakistan. You need to erase your commentary and sit the fuck down.
^
I was waiting for someone to destroy that bullshit commentary.
TW: EXTREME RACISM AND SLURS
Alright you guys listen up. This is really REALLY important so just do me a solid here and take a minute to read this okay.
A few years ago, a good friend of mine named Whitney Mitchell became extremely sick and had to have both arms and legs amputated. She was given a 12% chance to live but she fought through it and she’s one of the bravest and most beautiful people I’ve ever met in my life.
Today, her mother sent me a message on Facebook saying that Whitney had been targeted by a website called Chimp Mania. I’d never heard of it, so I did some research, and at just a glance I was immediately disgusted. Just the RULES for the website are awful beyond words.
The forum thread for Whitney is mocking enough, calling her a “shefreak” and saying she “plans to knuckle drag again.” The comments say some pretty stomach-churning things, but I decided to leave a lot of them out. A lot of them were photoshopped pictures of Whitney from when she was in physical rehab, replacing her legs with things like fried chicken legs and a map of Niger. This is the only thread I even bothered looking at and I could barely stomach it.
There is a petition to get this website permanently deleted. I don’t know how much good it will do but it NEEDS signatures. It’s got barely any right now and I don’t want this blatant vomiting on human beings to continue.
Here’s a link to the petition: http://chn.ge/1dectHH
This bullshit has gone on long enough. The fact that it exists in the first place makes me sick to my stomach. Please take a moment to sign this petition.
NOT
ENOUGH
NOTES
WHY ISN’T THIS AT OVER A MILLION NOTES??!
This website has been up and running for a long time. Much like stormfront it is a hate website, but this website targets individuals, and crosses any line of what should be considered “free speech” and is obviously hate speech. Please. This is too much. This person has gone through so much already.
This is why when people complain on this site about black even TALKING about racism, and when they complain about white girl Starbucks jokes, I seethe.
This is what WE have to deal with, people creating entire websites dedicated to calling us animals. This is why I laugh at those Starbucks jokes, and literally give negative shits about people who say “well no one should make jokes about ANYONE” because clearly y’all never seem to find the people that run sites like the one mentioned above to call them out, otherwise they wouldn’t exist.
Do you know how this feels? Do you know how this fucking feels? Being viewed as subhuman? That sites like this exist? That they target disabled women of color for no other purpose than having the audacity to be born black in this world AND suffer from terminal illness?
I really don’t know what else to say. I feel sick to my stomach. I feel this shit in my bones.
Every single one of you that can had better sign this fucking petition, or unfollow me.
fucking this
Reblogging this to explain why there are people of color upset about this hideous, hideous display:
I am a man of color who wears locs. My hair has been loc’d since 2005. It is clean, I maintain it monthly, moisturize it weekly and wash it as needed (this can be multiple times a month if I’m feeling athletic and trying to get my fitness on). It is loc’d to the root. I went through the early loc’ing phase when I was in college but AT NO POINT did it look dirty, unclean or unwashed.
DAILY I have people who try to connect the dots between my hair and my race and use that against me. I have people (COWORKERS) who’ve thought I was a drug dealer (I barely drink) and have people who classify me as a thug because of the way I wear the hair God gave me.
People (white) who come up to me and tell me how they”dreaded their hair for a few months but cut it out because it was so dirty, you know what I mean?” I wear my hair pulled back in a neat ponytail 97% of the time because I know all this hair makes white people nervous. Imagine if everytime someone saw you they assumed you were dirty, simply because they tried to do something you did (locs) and failed because their hair texture wasn’t correct, and instead of realizing that maybe it was just their situation, they’ve decided to apply that to everyone they meet.
And this nasty, unwashed young woman who feels the need to rebel against something (probably a shower) is sitting up proclaiming to the world that she has locs?
White privilege at work. Not only would I be unemployed if I had the audacity to traipse into my job looking like the inside of a drain, but I would immediately be classified as more of a thug than people already THINK I AM.
That’s why we’re upset. Black women can’t even wear their hair the way it grows out of their heads without it being a national scandal, yet this unwashed, unclean, clearly disturbed individual whose friends obviously have not informed her of the error of her ways will walk out in public and people will not only accept her, they will applaud her for being so different and unique.
Women like this are DIRECTLY affecting my life in that almost everyone I encounter has a friend or a cousin who is her and has given an entire LEGION of people a bad rap.
This is why cultural appropriation is harmful: when we do something and excel at it, are professional about it, look good doing it, it’s worthless. But throw it on a white body doing it the most lazy, bastardized, mediocre way ever and suddenly not only is it OK, it’s amazing! And so much better!
*PS It really does look horrible.
I WANT TO PRINT THIS OUT AND HAND THIS OUT TO EVERY WHITE KID IN ALL OF CALIFORNIA
"Wouldn’t have killed her to say yes? If a man is willing to shoot someone for saying no, what happens to the poor soul who says yes? What happens the first time they disagree? What happens the first time she says she doesn’t want to have sex? That she isn’t in the mood? When they break up?" -vampmissedith.tumblr.com
Honestly though, when a city is on fire and under lock down, when the whole country is in a state of complete outrage, when the entire fucking world knows what happened to Mike Brown in the small city of Ferguson, Missouri, doesn’t that say that maybe something is wrong here?
everything good makes you fat an addict or broke
the american flag means nothing, wipe your ass with it.
like ok sure “not all cops are bad” but where are all these “good cops” when their buddies are executing children?
Do they speak up? Do they condemn their coworkers? Do they do a god damn thing except sit back and give their tacit approval to their murderous coworkers?
No. They don’t say a fucking word.
honestly this shit better be in history books
like yknow how when you start learning about american history and you think “wow, america sure was racist”
its not “was”. it still is. this shit is absolutely 100% still happening and its disgusting and inexcusable
pretending that racism ended in the 50s or 60s or whatever doesnt cut it anymore because you can literally see it alive and well in the year 2014
when you see a pretty anime boy from a show you don’t watch on your dash like
*cries*
Someone could tell me I’m the most important person to them a thousand times and I’d still be terrified of annoying them.
