Horrible news, Roe v. Wade was overruled in the states.
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what scares me is how we’ve developed new ways as a society to disempower queer people and make them nonthreatening while acting like we support them
the ass-backwards progressiveness of portraying gay people on tv as white, affluent suburbanites when 40% of homeless youth are queer and poverty rates are exponentially greater for queer people (particularly queer poc) who can also be fired in 29 states
portraying queer people as carefree and “sexually liberated”, equating our entire lives and identities to who we sleep with (no to mention excluding asexuals and aromantics)
making our pride parades into big, loud, corporate-sponsored circuses where all the complex issues that plague our communities are boiled down to rainbows and marriage equality so straight, cis people don’t need to question themselves or how they contribute to our suffering
“I can’t be homophobic, I support gay marriage!” (and so on and so forth in a million different iterations)
giant corporations exploiting our symbols and struggles to win brownie points with peak liberal americans (apparently monsanto is a great lgbt-friendly workplace, go figure) selling t-shirts with rainbows on them and profiting off of people’s inabilities to separate obvious pr from sincerity
queer people are dying and starving every day from this bullshit and you think the sassy gay friend on your favorite show or your rainbow face paint is gonna solve any of this?
this is my spiderverse spidersona “stupid thick peter” who was bit by a radioactive thot and killed venom by clapping his asscheeks so hard that the soundwave dematerialized him
Ali was kind but he wasn’t a push-over. He confronted his boss about the money, first verbally and then physically. He talks back at Han Mi-nyeo when she said racist things.
He wasn’t stupid for trusting Sang-Woo. Sang-Woo had shown kindness with the ramen and bus ticket, teaching Korean games, outsmarting tug-o-war and letting Ali call him hyung (which is not a small matter). No matter Sang-Woo’s true intention behind all those actions, it would be difficult for many people to not feel a sense of trust towards him.
Many immigrants have a disadvantage in the system because of not being fluent in the language, not knowing the culture, and in Ali’s case, not having the legal backup. So if you wanna see it from a more practical viewpoint, it was in Ali’s favor to become friends with Sang-Woo. It did help him get along in the game.
Ali wasn’t dumb for being kind and trustful. It’s because of that he got to join the group. It was logical and human of him to be that.
It’s that capitalism punishes the human nature of kindness. But Ali’s kindness does have a lasting impact, Gi-Hun is alive because of him. Your kindness does matter, even if the system actively punishes you for it.
i can’t talk shit about the pirates of the caribbean films as if elizabeth swann becoming pirate king didn’t hand my entire ass to me and make me the gay i am today
generalgrievousdatingsim
these 2 looks basically defined my sexuality and i’m not afraid to admit it
generalgrievousdatingsim
things pirates of the caribbean got right:
1. will and elizabeth’s love story
2. elizabeth becoming pirate king
3. avoiding sexualizing elizabeth or the other female pirate characters in the first 3 films by allowing them to wear period-accurate pirate outfits that aren’t tailored to be revealing and impractical for ‘sex appeal’ just because they’re women
4. hans zimmer’s entire score but especially the iconic ‘he’s a pirate’ main theme
5. When the movie came out, morally-gray characters like Jack were actually not really a thing yet in pop culture, and it’s not Pirates’ fault that there are a ton of stupid shitty copycats out there.
6. I run a corseting panel at cons and literally use Elizabeth’s lace-up scene as a video clip of what historical corseting was actually like, because the only thing they got wrong in this scene is that tightlacing wouldn’t be a thing for about another 200 years (and you couldn’t tightlace with the corset style Elizabeth is wearing anyway). It’s one of the most accurate corseting scenes I’ve ever seen.
7. Will’s hat.
8. That scene with all the pirates on the gallows where that little boy starts singing Hoist the Colours? Yeah, that’s fucking legendary. The rest of AWE was kind of a trash fire, but that scene gave me goosebumps.
9. There’s this great shot in the first one where they really drive home the class differences inherent in this time period by having the governor talking about progress and civilization to Elizabeth in their carriage, and then they cut to a shot outside the carriage where a beggar gets splashed by mud from the wheel. It’s a perfect way to underline that everything is not, in fact, a nice little upper-class fairytale, and to give some weight to Will’s storyline, because he has a lot more in common with that beggar than with the governor.
10. For its time, the CGI was fucking amazing.
11. And let’s not forget the work of the makeup department, which had to actually invent new ways of putting on makeup for this movie.
12. The governor’s death scene. Holy shit.
13. They could have gone with a Jack/Will/Elizabeth love triangle, but they didn’t. There are some hints Jack is in love (or at least in lust) with Elizabeth, but he recognizes that she loves Will, and that’s that.
14. You’ve got to admit that wedding was unique.
15. The introduction of fantasy elements to historical fiction outside of Tolkein-esque fantasy, and how it contributed to and expanded the Fantasy Media boom we’re still enjoying today.
1. They had a woman of colour play a goddess.
2. They had a woman pirate right in the first film, when the tradition is to only show male ones (hell, the PotC ride at Disney had a wench auction scene until recently). And it was a female pirate of colour at that!
3. Elizabeth may not have known how to fight in the first film, but she wasn’t helpless either. Her first instinct was to fight, but she also had the brains to recognize when it was best to hide instead. Plus when given the chance she stabbed Barbosa that one time.
4. Elizabeth’s lack of fighting ability was not simply because she was a woman, it was clear it was due to her societal circumstances, since we saw other women of different socioeconomic backgrounds being able to fight (and when given the opportunity to learn Elizabeth took to fighting like a duck on water).
5. The Hoist the Colours scene where we see pirates of multiple ethnicities and their varying flags, reminding us that pirates came in all shapes and sizes and weren’t just white men.
6. One of the Pirate Lords being yet ANOTHER woman of colour. She may not have had much of a speaking role if memory serves, but even her presence is already a big deal.
7. The pirates accepting their King is a woman without much fuss.
Pirates is amazing I will not here a bad word
Davy Jones CGI is legendary and a ton better than some of the stuff done today 😄
I’m pretty sure that female Chinese pirate was a nod to a real, documented female pirate king who was Chinese and had a whole fleet of ships at her disposal but I can’t remember her name rn
My favorite part about the Bretheren Court voting wasn’t that they were against Elizabeth for becoming King as a woman and newcomer. They were pissed at Jack for being a chaotic neutral who broke the decades long tradition of an egotistical stalemate by voting for someone besides himself.
Also, the deleted scenes from Black Pearl and At World’s End that divulge more of Jack’s troubled past, like how he was branded as a pirate by the East Indian Trading Company because he stole a ship full of slaves and freed them.
“People aren’t cargo, mate.”
Love these movies.
ginasholtsoundboard
OH OH OH AND ALSO : INDIAN PIRATE LORD SAMBHAJI ANGRIA
Indians almost never get any representation - it’s either poor savages or audaciously rich royalty. And even though the accent was ridiculous, I love the fact that the creators knew and showed Indian pirates (given we’ve had a historically rich history of piracy)
searchforanotherway
Anonymous asked:
I really want to reblog your save Afghanistan post. How do I defend it properly?
Because for some instead of being upset about the women's rights violations, people say oh but when talking about the US gets involved again brown people get hurt so it bad no matter what. I'm tempted just to get mad at them because these are human beings being harmed but I want them to realize what is happening is horrible. I hate that damn trend of but insert *horrible thing* is part of x group's culture so we will be doing more harm then help by intervening. Especially when it comes to women's rights. Some are treating that as a don't be a white savior they'll sort it out themselves.
Please is there an way to tell them that behavior that horrible group is doing there is not normal and not part of the culture?
I posted this picture in another post, but I will post it with some others.
I’m the 1970’s, Afghanistan was well on its way to becoming a developed country with a progressive socialist government. From the pictures themselves, you wouldn’t guess that this would be Afghanistan. But I can tell you for a fact this is how my grandmother used to dress. ^^
Afghanistan has been well known for its geographical advantage, bordering six other countries including China, India, and Iran. Along with that, Afghanistan also has massive reserves of oil, minerals, and gems.
The Soviet Invasion within Afghanistan caused massive devastation to the country. And in an effort to fight off the soviets, the U.S. and Pakistan trained Afghan fighters (some of these fighters later becoming the Taliban) to fight the war.
During 9/11, the Taliban made the claims that they were harboring the leaders responsible for the tradgey (even though Bin Laden was caught in Pakistan). 2001 followed the U.S. Invasion into Afghanistan, where they spent 20 years, and billions in taxpayer money, fighting the Taliban until Biden withdrew the troops.
There is no doubt that Russia, the U.S., U.K., Pakistan, other affiliated countries, and even Afghanistan’s corrupt government contributed to the harm and deaths of Afghan people along with the destruction of their country and their culture. But even in the time that the U.S.A. was in Afghanistan, my cousins felt safe enough to never wear a burqa or even think about leaving their country in favor of a developed nation. Right now they are scrambling to apply for a Special Immigrant Visa, and currently outside of Kabul hiding for when the Taliban take control of it.
What the Taliban are doing right now represents no part of Afghan culture, and above else DOES NOT REPRESENT ISLAM.
The Taliban is able to influence so many people because they actively restrict education. They will specifically take young boys from their homes and to Pakistan or other areas where they will warp the teachings of Islam to fit their agenda until all that is left is a radical interpretation where women are turned into objects of possession within a violent patriarchy.
And know that the Taliban will keep girls and even some boys illiterate to avoid reading the Quran. To realize that what they are doing IS NOT ISLAM!!
If the Taliban really represented the culture of Afghanistan, why are 400,000 Afghan families displaced? Why are they wearing burqas and not the skirts and hairstyles they wore 50 years before? And why are they crying about their dead brothers and kidnapped sisters?
Afghanistan’s culture was taken away long ago, but the people do have remnants of what was left of it. But the Taliban will do what they can to destroy any remaining trace of Afghanistan’s recorded history and arts until they create a religious, “Islamic” state.
TL:DR — The Taliban do not represent Afghan culture and they do not represent Islam.
shout out to the patient I called to remind to pick up their medication, whose voicemail message was “HEWWO? HEWWO?? WHO IS THIS??? WEAVE A MESSAGE” that rang out throughout the whole pharmacy, killing me instantly
legends only
Why the fuck are you lying.
the way the article they linked literally just says that bong joon ho's girlfriend got him a tutoring job for a rich male student and he got fired in less than 2 months for being bad at math
Why did this happen?
Police Chief Marcus Jones said police got a call around 9:15 p.m. Friday about a man who wouldn’t pay for his food or leave the drive-thru at the McDonald’s on 18273 Flower Hill Way.
What happened?
Police say Leroux had a gun next to him. They have not yet stated explicitly what made them open fire, though. However they did tell his family they believed he was brandishing the gun. However, his family was given 25 minutes of footage to look at and his father had this to say:
Paul Leroux said he reviewed some of the police video and didn’t see a gun in his son’s hand.
“They all unload on him and he supposedly raised a handgun. If you want to know my perspective, he raised his hands. He just raised his hands up. There’s nothing they’ve been able to show or prove that he raised his handgun. Nothing. And then they just went crazy,” Paul said.
The gun was legally purchased and legally owned. Even if he had a gun, he committed no crime simply by carrying in the state of Maryland. According to OP, he had it as a means of protecting himself because he was living out of his car.
Although... 24 shots? That's excessive regardless of whatever their shitty excuse is.
I'm not posting every article I looked at (and encourage you to do your own fact-checking), but several state that while he wasn't cooperative, he was calm. Calm. His ex said he wasn't doing great mentally or emotionally, but she couldn't see him brandishing a gun at police. The OP in the video says themselves that they didn't see anything in the footage either and that the gun stayed in the passenger seat.
And the police? Their only justification thus far is that damn gun they can't even prove was in his hands when they opened fire.
As of now (Jul 20th) I'm unaware of any GoFundMe or other aid requested by family.
Update: Here is the GoFundMe
PLEASE REBLOG THE VERSION WITH THE GFM.
Nas has been spitting nothing but facts this week
five year olds having a discussion is literally that philosophers painting
5yo a: I found yellow pelican feather
5yo b: no thats from the craft box
5yo a: but it Comes from some where first, the teachers hunted the yellow pelican and put it in the craft box
yesterday’s philosiphical conversation was:
•monsters dont exist
•i have never seen a monster and thats how i know theyre not real
•ive never seen a frog
•frogs arent real
wroughtornot
i fucking hate jk rowling so much because years and years after this franchise has ended she is still continuing trying to make it bad to the point where she said that every character in harry potter canonically shits themselves and then casts a shit vanishing spell
zahnegott
fuck this is b a d
mutant-aesthetic
This reminds me of the hufflepuff group masturbation tweets
liquored-up-rifleman
The what?
mutant-aesthetic
unpicasso
brookeawooka
Just imagine you’re taking a test for potions with Snape and the guy sitting next to you just fucking shits himself the nastiest, slimiest shit of his life out of stress. And you literally have to sit there with a straight face while fuckin Todd JingleJangles cleans himself up in the dead quiet room with some stupid ass line like “vanish me poopum” and you just gotta live with the knowledge that some kid just shit himself beside you during a fucking test.
wroughtornot
i fucking hate jk rowling so much because years and years after this franchise has ended she is still continuing trying to make it bad to the point where she said that every character in harry potter canonically shits themselves and then casts a shit vanishing spell
zahnegott
fuck this is b a d
mutant-aesthetic
This reminds me of the hufflepuff group masturbation tweets
liquored-up-rifleman
The what?
mutant-aesthetic
unpicasso
brookeawooka
Just imagine you’re taking a test for potions with Snape and the guy sitting next to you just fucking shits himself the nastiest, slimiest shit of his life out of stress. And you literally have to sit there with a straight face while fuckin Todd JingleJangles cleans himself up in the dead quiet room with some stupid ass line like “vanish me poopum” and you just gotta live with the knowledge that some kid just shit himself beside you during a fucking test.