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That Ben Affleck was Adele all this time has left me amazed. Truly his greatest role.

I think Neil Gaiman is one of the only celebrities that truly understands what Tumblr users want.

amused-snorted at the post first, wondered what the hell previous commenter meant, backtracked to check op username and took it like missing a step down the stairs

“Black lives matter” does not mean “fuck anyone who’s not black,” it means “support black people.”

“Gay rights” doesn’t mean “fuck anyone who’s not gay,” it means “support gay people.”

“Trans rights” doesn’t mean “fuck all cis people,” it means “support trans people.”

“Respect women” doesn’t mean “fuck all men,” it means “support women.”

It’s not about you.

I want everyone to know that there are queers in the hollers of Appalachia, in the bayous and marshland of the Deep South, in Southwestern deserts, through the Ozark mountains and up to the Rockies. There are queers in the Great Plains, there are queers in rural America, in trailer parks of the Osage foothills. In the places you least expect us to live, we are here, carving out community and fighting for liberation with pride despite it all. Stop forgetting about us. Stop overlooking our experiences and our impact just because we don’t live in a Big Gay City. And for the love of God, stop looking at us with pity.

I think one thing a lot of those “women, examine whether you really do [thing conventionally associated with femininity] For Yourself” posts would benefit from is the addition of:

“and if the answer is ‘yes,’ that’s okay”

examining why you do something voluntary re: your presentation, especially something as bogged down in societal expectations for women as wearing makeup, shaving body hair, etc., is important and can be very healing. I stopped wearing makeup after college because I have no real interest in it. I stopped shaving my legs, for the most part, because I realized that I actually hate doing it and don’t care if they’re hairy

…and I also realized I vastly prefer skirts to pants, I like my hair as long as it’ll grow, and I would dress like a Victorian vampire countess every day if I could

I reject some aspects of societally-approved femininity. I embrace others. I did the soul-searching and came out the other side with something that made me feel happiest and most comfortable in my skin- which should be the end goal for everyone, not coming up with the Correct Presentation by some online gatekeeper’s metric

sometimes you ARE Doing Femininity for yourself. and that’s okay

The spectacle around the Depp trial is being called a large-scale backlash to the MeToo movement, and I don’t disagree — but this is uniquely terrifying because I don’t think the mainstream MeToo movement was ever actually materially effective in the first place. In Walter Benjamin’s essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, he writes that an oppressive structure “sees its salvation” in allowing the masses to express themselves freely in lieu of granting them their rights. Similarly, the mainstream MeToo movement offered temporary catharsis in place of systemic change; Hollywood play-acted a revolution so that its men could keep up their abuse unscathed. There is something phenomenally painful in watching a material backlash erupt in response to a movement that was never allowed to be anything more than aesthetic. Now that the state of discourse has moved forward without bringing women’s material conditions with it, men like Johnny Depp are able to benefit from violent systemic misogyny while posturing themselves as radical, anti-establishment activists. Recent events are not so much a pendulum swing as they are a pendulum being repeatedly beaten in one direction for fear it might one day gain a centimetre of ground.
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there’s literally a part in breaking bad where jesse says “mr white do you want to race go-karts with me” & of course walter turns him down but thats real. it really happens.

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Aya was recently a victim of a transphobic attack and needs help raising funds to leave her unsafe environment. If you have the means, please donate to her gfm!

You can also donate directly to her cashapp: $discoursedoll & venmo: hoodoojawn

for all the ppl who think the worst think trans men and mascs go through is like “getting misgendered or something”, consider this:

T is a schedule 3 controlled substance, and being caught with it without a prescription can result in a felony. people with felonies can lose their right to vote and will face a lot of employment discrimination. there are multiple states currently trying to ban HRT. there will be trans people who take T who will have to choose between risking their right to vote as well as their career and staying on a treatment plan that is keeping them alive. and considering a third of all trans people live in poverty, would they even be able to afford getting it on the black market? what happens when they scrounge up the money to get black market T, get caught, catch a felony, and lose their job and housing? do you think a state trying to ban HRT and transition is going to be sympathetic to a trans person with a felony for trying to illegally transition? if that trans person is also a person of color, especially a black person, do you think that will be an easy experience for them? what if that trans person is also disabled? do you really think the government who took away their right to transition is going to let them keep their disability benefits?

but yeah “14 year old rich white trans masc who’s mad her— i mean his mommy made him wear a dress to church” or whatever

a mosquito lands on my arm but instead of smacking it and killing it instantly I use the “TEST OF PATIENCE” technique upon it forcing it to feel the next second as if it were a full year, causing it immense mental anguish. Then I smack and kill it

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i don’t like getting hatecrimed over the phone so when i’m at work and old men ask if i have a husband i just say yes and make up a new guy. today someone said “i bet you keep your husband in line with an attitude like that” and i just said “yes he’s so scared of me”

who even are you. like what did you write

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I have no idea. Let me see if anyone else in this ask place knows.

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he was in arthur.

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you’re thinking of Jill Eikenberry; I think this guy was an astronaut of some kind

that’s Neil Armstrong, I thought this guy was in How I Met Your Mother

That’s Neil Patrick Harris. I think this might have been the playwright who wrote The Odd Couple.

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That’s Neil Simon. I think this is the musician who wrote Sweet Caroline.

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That’s Neil Diamond. I think this is an astrophysicist

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That’s Neil deGrasse Tyson. I think this is a river in Egypt.

That’s the Nile; I think this is the Irish guy who made the movies “The Crying Game” and “Interview with the Vampire”.

No no no, that’s Neil Jordan. I think this is the English author who helped write Good Omens.

You’re right! This is Terry Prachet’s tumblr. Good job everyone

ok I love this meme but like

Neil Gaiman actually was in Arthur.

This is true.

what were you doing in a falafel

Let a man live

who even are you. like what did you write

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I have no idea. Let me see if anyone else in this ask place knows.

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he was in arthur.

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you’re thinking of Jill Eikenberry; I think this guy was an astronaut of some kind

that’s Neil Armstrong, I thought this guy was in How I Met Your Mother

That’s Neil Patrick Harris. I think this might have been the playwright who wrote The Odd Couple.

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That’s Neil Simon. I think this is the musician who wrote Sweet Caroline.

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That’s Neil Diamond. I think this is an astrophysicist

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That’s Neil deGrasse Tyson. I think this is a river in Egypt.

That’s the Nile; I think this is the Irish guy who made the movies “The Crying Game” and “Interview with the Vampire”.

No no no, that’s Neil Jordan. I think this is the English author who helped write Good Omens.

You’re right! This is Terry Prachet’s tumblr. Good job everyone

ok I love this meme but like

Neil Gaiman actually was in Arthur.

This is true.

what were you doing in a falafel

Let a man live