CEOs and large corporations are the real welfare queens 👑.
Working off of the labor of others, only there because of being born into capital and pre-existing familial or business relations? Yep
She’s not wrong
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I love the front lady’s “try me” face. She will run her bobsled over you. Repeatedly.
reblogging the superheroes everywhere. @neutrinotempest and I are gonna stowaway on their spaceship.
Why hasn’t someone drawn this yet? They look awesome.
Australia was named before it was discovered. Ancient geographers had supposed that land in the north must be balanced by land in the south — Aristotle had written, “there must be a region bearing the same relation to the southern pole as the place we live in bears to our pole” — and Romans told legends of a Terra Australis Incognita, an “unknown land of the South.” While humans had been living there for millennia, no Roman or Indian or Chinese had actually known there was land there!
In 1814 the British explorer Matthew Flinders suggested applying the speculative name, Terra Australis, to the actual continent which was relatively recently “discovered.” And in a footnote he wrote, “Had I permitted myself any innovation on the original term, it would have been to convert it to AUSTRALIA; as being more agreeable to the ear, and an assimilation to the names of the other great portions of the earth.”
A gay man who happens to look eerily similar to anti-LGBT extremist and Vice President-elect Mike Pence is putting his looks to good use ― by wandering the streets of NYC in short shorts and collecting money to benefit important organizations.
HELL YEAH!
I love him
YYYUUUSSS GET IT!!!
these are colorblind glasses. im about to take a walk around the neighborhood and experience colors like normal people. wish me luck, updates to come.
the trees. holy shit the trees. theyre different colors. like, a million different colors
grass….. it looks so soft… so green…
after laying in the grass for about an hour staring at the autumn leaves and laughing at how blue the sky is, i have some insight to share:
why the fuck do you people buy red cars like i had no idea how bright and obnoxious they looked
there are BERRIES on the trees. like bright red. id never noticed them because they blended in. a new problem has arisen now: how the fuck do you people keep yourselves from trying to eat them they’re so tempting looking
the fallen leaves are so beautiful and colorful and you all are heathens for stepping on them just to hear the crunchy sound they make
rainbows. let me tell you about rainbows. i see rainbows as various shades of brown and yellow, plus some blue. vaguely purple.
a few days ago, i saw a rainbow in these glasses. it had just finished raining and then the sun came out, and my friend and i scrambled out the door.
i saw green. red. orange. real, actual violet.
i cried. i cried so hard. i saw every color - something i never thought would happen in my life. imagine living your life without knowing something so beautiful exists, and all of a sudden it appears before your eyes. theres no way to prepare for it. the rainbow only lasted for five minutes before it disappeared, but every with second i stood there i became more amazed at how beautiful this world actually is, i just had no idea.
This is so pure
I know ive discussed it before but. blind sex positivity is counter productive. telling girls to have sex can be equally as harmful as telling girls to be ashamed of sex. especially 20+ year old women talking about “sex positivity” to 15, 16 year old girls. even if you mean well, it can be harmful
this sounds anti-feminist so let me rephrase. the normalization of female sexuality is so so so important and a huge step in the right direction when done correctly. in a perfect world nobody would be ashamed of their sexual history or their sex lives. but that’s not how it is, and when i was fourteen or fifteen, even sixteen, i was force fed this idea that sex was empowering, and it got me into sexual situations that were consensual but still traumatizing because i was too young and too unprepared to handle them. i am ashamed of it. i live with that shame still. sex positivity is important. it is vital. but putting “be a slut, do what you want” over pastel backgrounds and encouraging girls to be a Ho or whatever isn’t doing shit. we need to teach girls how to know when they’re ready and have knowledge of how to handle situations. we need to give girls a safe way to own their sexuality. we need to teach and guide girls to make safe and educated decisions about sex. we need to teach girls that while there is nothing wrong with having sex, there are repercussions. we need to fucking protect girls
It also doesn’t leave any space for analysis of sex as self harm, or sex that you regret. If your entire conception of sex is that it’s always liberating and amazing if you’ve chosen it, how do you understand sex that, whilst consensual, makes you feel upset or empty or that you realise is a way of hurting yourself?
How do you talk to your friends if they refuse to critically analyse sex in case it comes off as negative or ‘slut-shaming’?
Sex positivity as it currently stands is profoundly harmful for young girls, because it doesn’t teach them anything beyond ‘sex is awesome, go for it!’
I’m tired of ~diversity~ meaning the core white people are safe while the poc get cycled in and out and tortured and sidelined, the lgbt characters can’t have happy relationships and the women can’t interact for more than five minutes. I’m tired of white people and straight people and men patting themselves on the back for regurgitating the same bullshit tropes and calling it art.
Meet Tajamul Islam, the 9-year-old girl from Kashmir who won the sub-junior World Kickboxing Championship in Italy in November.
After winning scores of tournaments and practicing up to 25 hours a week, she’s aiming her sights on the olympics. A couple choice quotes from the article:
“She has a fighting spirit even though she looks soft-spoken and cute. Do not be fooled by her innocent looks, they are deceptive.”
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Tajamul says she wants to become a doctor. “It will have its own benefits. I will first break my opponents bones and then treat them,” she says with a laugh.
Full article here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38143228
(thanks to Jennifer for sending this in!)
can we talk about how this fucking pbs show aimed at little kids easily talked about how anxiety is stressful but normal
Ok no but can we talk about this entire episode?
It was called April 9th, and it was actually a response to the 9/11 attacks. It didn’t talk about the attacks themselves, but rather focused on teaching kids to deal with the all of the emotions that they might be feeling as a result. They set up a situation that might evoke similar emotions in children: a massive fire at the school.
Arthur’s dad was in the fire, so (as you can see above), Arthur is constantly worried about his dad’s safety.
Sue Ellen is grieving because her journal, which contained a huge amount of precious memories, was destroyed in the fire. Muffy is confused why she can’t just cheer Sue Ellen up by giving her a new journal.
Buster wasn’t at school that day, and feels confused and guilty that he isn’t sad about the fire like the other kids. He then befriends the school janitor, who has to retire due to an injury that, at his age, is pretty serious.
Binky actually saw the flames, and is constantly traumatized by the event. He doesn’t tell anyone because he feels like he would lose his tough-guy reputation if he admitted that he was scared.
The episode teaches kids that all of these emotions are perfectly normal and natural, that there’s not one right way to feel, and that even if it takes a while, things are going to be okay.
The thing that makes this show so great, in my opinion, is that it knows that kids are intellegent and strong enough to deal with these things if you present them in the right way. It doesn’t hide them, it doesn’t sugar coat them, it just presents them in a way that children can understand and shows them how to deal with them.
A “book curse” is an actual curse printed in a book to discourage any potential thief from stealing it. They were common in medieval European manuscripts, but date back much earlier. The first known book curse is from about 600 BCE! The King of Assyria had a curse inscribed on the back of his collected tablets.
Why does PP have to have a liberal agenda? Why not just provide reproductive services with a neutral message? Trans make up less than .05% of the population, yet you're marketing as if they're the majority. It makes PP seem less credible.
Planned Parenthood is committed to helping all people live their healthiest lives and control their reproductive destinies. It’s important to let trans folks know that PPFA respects their identities and wants them to feel safe, so that they may feel comfortable coming to us as patients, volunteers, and employees.
If that bothers you then we can live with that.
