Apparently, Thinx’s (a company that makes reusable, washable period panties, an alternative to pads and tampons) ads are waaaaaaay to risque and sexual for the New York Subways. Since Thinx’s ads show skin, say the word ‘period,’ and include…fruit..? the MTA is denying Thinx the ad space. So with ads like these:

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So with all this skin and breasts, the Thinx ad has got to be super sexy, right!? More offensive than the anti-Islam ads that ran on the sides of buses not too long ago, right? Totally! Here are the super risque ads Thinx proposed:

Yeah, an egg, a grapefruit and three ladies in tanks, a sweater and undies and some really decent gender-neutral language. Soooo risque. Oh, and the reason the MTA doesn’t want the word ‘period’ on the ad? For the children of course! They don’t want the kids to ask their parents what a ‘period’ is, because, god fucking forbid! we teach our children about normal bodily functions!

This is the most blatant form of sexism I’ve seen. Can we cut off women’s heads just to show off their tits as products? Sure! Can we use their sexed up bodies to sell diet pills? Of course! Can we talk about them as humans with natural bodily functions? Nope!

Like, Jesus people, this is some bullshit.

EDIT: You can’t really read the thinx ads in full, but they even acknowledge that people of any gender can menstruate, like these are quality ads that are being censored.

~Mod S

I love that age when little girls get really  weird and mystical and savage

Like nine through eleven years old, those are some weird years for us

When I was 9-10 I read The Egypt Game and The Headless Cupid, taught myself hieroglyphics, and decided to practice witchcraft

The past three years, my son has come home telling me about the girls he knows, who are: 1. possessed by a demon controlled by a button at the back of her neck, 2. haunted by a dead aunt, and 3. converse regularly with the dead.

hi i’m tolkien here are my ocs. i call them Elves (not elfs!!! if you call them elfs i will block you) they look like humans but they’re tall, live forever, and have pointy ears. that’s it bye

cs lewis: are you alright with constructive criticism? i dont want to sound mean

tolkien: no go ahead i want to hear it

cs lewis: they fucking suck

tolkien: thats not constructive criticism

cs lewis: here’s my OC, it’s jesus but he’s a lion tolkien: Furry cs lewis: blocked

Tolkien: lamp posts don’t exist in fantasy worlds Cs Lewis: ok you know what fuck you

CS Lewis: I could beta for you if you want. help you trim the fat on your stories

Tolkien: what do you mean

CS Lewis: I just. you describe a lot of trees.  are trees that important

Tolkien: just you fucking wait. trees are SO important.

~and that day, Tolkien invented ents~

@urulokid

CS Lewis: Not more trees.

Tolkien: This one’s based on you.

casual reminder that Lewis and Tolkein almost completely ended their friendship over Lewis having Santa make an appearance in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe because Tolkein hated it so fucking much.

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement. 

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

Things I didn’t know

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

Reblog to save a life

I love how easy it can be to learn stuff like this through tumblr and not through school.

REBLOG

If you have 3 of these min :

-are under 18

-still live with family

-had a super fucked up childhood

-started out at 130+

-GW of under 100lbs

-wants mutuals/friends etc

-IS FRIENDLY !!

Need mutuals desperately, will try to follow everyone that reblogs xx

Ok so today I was on the bus with another trans guy and we were talking about how hard it is to get testosterone. The waiting lists, the price, all the doctors you have to go to, that kind of stuff. Except, we were calling it ’T’, like you do when you’re both closeted and in public.

Then suddenly the elderly lady sitting behind us was like ‘young men, either I’m going crazy or you both have never heard of supermarkets, they have shelves full of tea there! Do you need directions to one?’

To which my buddy starts to explain, because why not. ‘Well you see, we’re both trans, and… ’

The lady didn’t wait for him to finish his sentence. ‘Oh no, I don’t mind that at all! Now do you want to know how to get to a place that sells tea? I’m actually heading there right now!’

We let her take us to the supermarket. We let her show us, excitedly, where the tea was. We both bought loads.

dean + disney

bonus:

I think that people forget that condoms protect you from more than just pregnancy.

And there is no morning after pill for HIV.

ACTUALLY THERE IS.

It’s called post exposure prophylaxis.

http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/prophylaxis/en/

If you’ve had unprotected sex and are afraid of possibly being at risk for HIV, please go to the emergency room and ask about POST EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS.

Works for up to 48 - 72 hours after exposure to HIV.

BOOST!

I cut out the million “SAVE A LIFE”s on this because I wanted to bring attention to the fact that PEP is not a treatment that is taken lightly. The doctor / nurse in the emergency room will run you through the many, many potential side-effects and make absolutely sure that you are sure you need it and tell you that it is a last resort treatment and if you were planning to be sexually active you SHOULD have used protection or talked to your doctor about the preventive version of the medicine, PREP.

PEP is ~80% effective and it is a very involved process of taking the medicine for 28 straight days and watching out for destructive side effects. Don’t take PEP if you can help it. It’s a great last resort for preventing HIV from non-consensual sexual encounters, but if you know you want to be sexually active Ask your doctor about PREP and use protection

Wow… the shit school never tells us!

Welcome one and all, to my April Giveaway! Prizes and details under the cut!

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Welcome one and all, to my April Giveaway! Prizes and details under the cut!

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Welcome one and all, to my April Giveaway! Prizes and details under the cut!

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“In the end, the most interesting people always leave.” - Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

via @the-book-diaries

when i figure out how to die without hurting my mom’s feelings it’s over for me, bitches

— Maya Angelou

Easter Sunday for churches is like New Years for gyms.

Okay but how can anyone hate snakes??

Like…

Excuse me?? These creatures are adorable ??

They’re made into creatures of violence but they’re just noodles with googly eyes.

Ain’t nothin “gross” or “scary” about em. Love my lil forked tongued noodles. We must protec the snek.

So important.

So important.

Reblog if you are a kitten or Princess.

I want to see all the kittens, princesses, baby girls and littles of Tumblr. 

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