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Love these!!!! 💕♀️💞

i tag @averagecheese101 @rad-claid-plaid @angrrrl

I always knew something was fucked up with that artificial sugar shit. Never liked it, I was genuinely confounded by the number of people who claimed it tasted identical.

White moms are going to go apeshit

NO.

this is about the IARC not the FDA. the IARC (international agency for research on cancer) is part of the WHO (world health organization) and not a food safety agency. they classify "agents" (chemical, physical, or biological entities or exposure circumstances) based on how likely they are to cause cancer:

Group 1: Carcinogenic to humans (126 agents)

Group 2A: Probably carcinogenic to humans (94 agents)

Group 2B: Possibly carcinogenic to humans (322 agents)

Group 3: Not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans

this new classification of aspartame as 2B "possibly carcinogenic to humans" is the result of a review of available studies, and mostly intended to encourage additional research. it is not aimed at consumers/the public and it does not take dosage or frequency into account.

for context: apart from aspartame, group 2B includes things like "aloe vera, whole leaf extract", "carpentry", "magnetic fields", and "traditional asian pickled vegetables"

"occupation as a hairdresser or barber", "very hot beverages at above 65°C" (149°F), and "consumption of red meat" are all classified as 2A

and Group 1 includes "alcoholic beverages", "epstein-barr virus", "salted fish", "processed meat", and being a painter.

anyway. this is fearmongering and disinformation. stop using memes for news and dont reblog "news" posts without sources.

original reuters report:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/whos-cancer-research-agency-say-aspartame-sweetener-possible-carcinogen-sources-2023-06-29/

where is that net zero information quote

These people walk free and are among us.

What the fuck is this

What she doesn't realize is that this is all going to make her look older not younger. What a distopiaj nightmare when 14 year olds are afraid of aging

god when i was 14 years old i was singing songs with friends, laughing, acting fucking stupid, STILL PLAYING WITH DOLLS, and the only thing i might've maybe done for skin care was using that stupid apricot scrub or those peel off masks brought from cvs or limited too and just. call it a day.

i weep for this generation of girls and women

The thing is, why her parents endorse this? If I had told my mother when I was 14 to buy me anti aging stuff, she would have laugh in my face 💀 What happens when you let your daughter's brain rot while watching 31 step skincare routine videos on her phone 24/7

How much of her life is she missing out on because of this? I’m serious. She doesn’t say how long she spends on this process daily, but I’m going to lowball estimate at least 45 minutes between multiple daily face masks, creams, and applying makeup. Being *incredibly generous* and saying she only does this 330 days a year, that is OVER TEN DAYS of time spent per year. Over 247 straight hours.

What could she have done with ten more days of her life? How much more sleep could she have gotten? Has she ever rushed a school assignment that could’ve been completed more carefully, if she had 10 more days? Has she ever said no to some activity with her friends, either because she spent her extra money on these products or because it would take her into the sun for too long or potentially leave her with a scratch or a scar?

What is the mental/emotional toll of this? Constantly thinking about if what she’s doing could “age” her. Can she relax outside on a sunny day, or is she thinking about uv rays vs vitamin d vs tanning? Can she drink from a straw or rub her eyes absentmindedly, or is she thinking about wrinkles? Can she enjoy a sugary treat with a friend, or is she thinking about inflammatory ingredients with every bite? Fuck, she doesn’t even let herself look out a goddam window when she’s on a long drive. The simple pleasure of watching the scenery go by is lost to her because at 14 years old she’s terrified of her own body. All of this stress and fear and money and time, all while her male peers rest and go out and play, unbothered by the natural process of aging.

I hate this. I hate every single person and product and thing that has made this poor girl feel like she should be more concerned with whether or not it *looks* like she’s lived a full life than if she actually *has* lived a full life. I hope she realizes she doesn’t need to do this to be happy and healthy. I hope she learns there’s another way.

I lost it when she said she doesn’t even allow herself to look out the window while in the car

My best friend in high school refused to ever rub her face or eyes because her mother told her it would give her wrinkles. She saw me rub my face one time because I had an itch and told me I really shouldn’t do that, I should just pat my skin instead. And yes I did clown on her so hard that she never mentioned it again. Like what the fuck. Girls and women aren’t even allowed to be alive and scratch an itch in fear of ruining their appearance. The neuroticism is off the fucking charts.

why the shit is a 14yr old on tiktok posting her face. why is she allowed to wear acrylics??! she's a CHILD

Because @staff is too cowardly…

But @staff specifically said that self-curated dashes serve only a small portion of their users and @staff would never lie to us!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;__;

Staff likes numbers, so let's give them some! Please share this for the purpose of sample size, I don't have blaze money

"bitch and cunt can't be slurs because everyone uses them!" i have bad news for you about the history of slurs

How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second

The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em

1969.........

Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.

Tumblr is truly one of the webbed sites ever

Adult Swim making an unholy amount of sense.

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

Today's post of men are vile

Warnings of sexual assault and harassment in second post.

The 28 M guy is horrid. "Nothing actually bad" dude, you were fucking sexually harassing her!!!! The whole time!!!

@ihatemenandtherearereasons

The 28m post is one of the worst things I’ve ever read :( Jesus Christ

She's 'ridiculous' and 'dramatic' for crying and worrying about her safety after her male colleagues forced her out of her clothes, touched her without her consent, took photos of her without her consent, and shared them with other men??? For having to deal with her juniors putting pens (?) down her shirt and taunting her with objectifying comments about her body???

She's the crazy one in this scenario?????

The way he's justifying himself throughout this entire post and ends it by making it about his job security

He's not sorry, he's afraid of the consequences

NONE of these men should be allowed to be doctors!

How men can admit to intentionally sexually harassing women in order to "put them in their place" and then blame WOMEN for mistrust between the sexes I have no idea

It’s so disgusting how he ended it with “she’s probably going to kill someone” because she’s so nervous around them.. sir you’re a doctor in residence too and you & your little buddies are prone to PROUDLY sexually harassing women . YOU’RE a danger and you should report it so you can get fired

i dont think genuine confidence can stem from altering oneself to adhere more closely to conventional beauty standards no matter how many times somebody says theyre doing it "for themselves"

@antiporn-activist @ihatemenandtherearereasons

Force, fraud, and coercion is the legal definition of sex trafficking in the US, a federal crime.

If something like this ever happened to you then you may be a victim of trafficking too.

I spent most of my life thinking Link was a girl and that's not going to change now

females who hold radical feminist beliefs, unhinge yourself from identity politics. Do not swap out gender identity for “radfem identity” it’s a capitalist scam!!!!!

I’m seeing so many young girls come right out of the trans right activist pipeline into radical feminism (understandable!!!) treating it like it’s another “identity”. babes it’s an ideology - you can believe in it (parts of it) but it’s not who you are. You’ll burn out treating like an identity, just take a step back from treating online communities like a defining feature of the self.

i've said it before but i'll say it again, people coming out of religious indoctrination typically deconstruct the CONENT of their belief systems before they deconstruct the STRUCTURE of their belief systems

Friendly reminder that whether you can reclaim a slur or not, if you are using it in a derogatory way, you are not reclaiming it. You are using it as a slur.

I used to joke that being he/she/they meant that I couldnt be misgendered but ooh boy turns out I can.

It's the TONE, okay?

Theres a difference in tone between:

- I do not know you have multiple pronouns, you have not told me, I dont know how to identify a nonbinary person. (Acceptable)

- I know you have multiple pronouns and I mess up sometimes, but it's a force of habit, or I have been conditioned a way, or the differences are subtle and I dont notice and I mean nothing but respect. (Acceptable.)

- you are she. You are always she. You will never be anything other than she. If you tell me anything otherwise, I will pointedly still call you she. You are she. (There it is.)

genuinely: how do you live like this

youre all insane, youre all women, deeply deeply disturbed and unhealthy women who deal with experiencing misogyny in the worst way possible. also narcissists.

Found this in the tags. I'm not gonna tag the person who added them but this is exactly where the brain rot is. (And the internalized misogyny, but other people are discussing that.)

You have no control over how other people perceive you. None. Attempting to control it is a recipe for misery. And that's exactly what the OP is describing here! Attempting to control how other people see her, failing to do so, and then being upset about it!

It's really kind of sad. You can't not be seen as female, because you are female. Most of the time, that's identifiable at a glance. If your happiness and sense of self is based on other people pretending they don't notice, you are guaranteed to be miserable. Because not everyone is going to play along with your game - and they shouldn't have to. You are welcome to live in whatever version of reality you want to, but nobody else is required to join you there.

Like, I want to ask people like this if they've really thought about how this kind of thing is supposed to work IRL. Everybody has their own little rules about how they're "supposed" to be perceived. These rules follow no obvious logic, are often contradictory between different people, and can change on a dime. Everyone who interacts with you is supposed to just know these rules and follow them exactly how each individual person wants them followed. And if they don't, it's upsetting/traumatizing/literal violence? It's like trying to play a make-believe game with a 5-year-old. The rules make no sense and they're made up on the spot, but god help you if you don't follow them.

Like, that line "I don't know how to identify a nonbinary person." How exactly are you supposed to be identified? Is it gender non-conformity? Because it's kind of offensive to say "a woman who is incorrectly performing femininity should be assumed to not be a woman." That implies that femininity = womanhood, which is deeply misogynistic. And it goes back to those inconsistent, illogical, contradictory rules. Because plenty of other nonbinary people would say that they can be nonbinary and conform to their sex-based gender role. Is everyone who looks at you supposed to immediately intuit your personal, individual rules about what a nonbinary person is "supposed" to look like?

And it is narcissistic, because assuming everyone who interacts with you cares that much about your internal experience of yourself is narcissistic. I'm sorry to tell you, OP, but they don't. And this goes back to my consistent issue with the "pronoun question" - who is using your pronouns to your face that often anyway? Most of the time, it's considered kind of rude to talk about someone in the third person if they're standing right there. The whole issue with pronouns is about controlling how people talk about you when you're not even there. That's both narcissistic and futile.

@protect-remuslupin and since that tag is giving me trouble I'll tag your other blog, @protect-remuslupinarchived

I am gonna tag the person who added these tags because you are 28 years old. If nobody has told you this yet, you need to hear it, very badly:

You do not "allow" anyone to do anything. You do not "allow" people to refer to you. People are going to refer to you however they like. At most, they will humor you because they don't want to upset you. This is not you "allowing" anyone to do anything. At best, it's people being kind. At worst, it's that people don't want to deal with whatever childish fit you're likely to throw if they don't humor you.

This whole thing is an exercise in entitlement and narcissism. You are not entitled to control how someone perceives you. You are not entitled to demand that people ignore their eyes and the conventions of their native language to humor you. I know you understand that you're expecting people to put in rather a lot of cognitive effort to abide by your pronoun rules. You know that it's difficult to "override" your automatic use of sex-based pronouns if you speak a language that uses them (like English). And you certainly know that it's even harder to vary them. You know that you're making huge demands of people. And if nobody has told you this before, let me be the first:

Those people owe you nothing. You are not entitled to that much space - or any space - in someone's head. You do not "allow" them the "privilege" of speaking their native language in accordance with typical rules of that language. You have a very disorted perspective of what human interaction is, and I strongly encourage you to fix that perspective. For your own good, and for the good of the poor people who have to deal with you.

Mood. -V

This reminds me of a party I went to last year. I was standing with some friends, chatting, and someone said something that indirectly implied that sexism exists. Some trivial recounting of the basic facts of daily life for most women. Something so mild, so uncontroversial, so mundane that I don’t even remember what it was. 

Suddenly, this man standing on the outskirts of our conversational circle piped up with “actually, I think men are more discriminated against than women these days.”

 All conversation died.

I turned to look at him and he had this smug, insufferable grin on his face, relishing this moment, expecting us to waste our time and energy refuting this ridiculous thing he had just said.

The Devil’s Advocate was among us.

And, in my mind, I saw the next 15+ minutes playing out. The parade of facts and statistics in a vain attempt to defend ourselves, our gender, and to prove that misogyny is real. The glib, snide denials from some shithead who is getting off on our pain and frustration. The Gish Gallop of bullshit that would take a whole evening to properly dismantle. It was depressing and overwhelming. I hated it. I had to kill it before it began.

So I looked him dead in the eye and I said “OK,“ shrugged, and just walked away. 

Nothing I have ever said to another human being has ever been so crushing. As I walked away, I watched the smug grin vanish and confusion and anxiety set in. The rest of the group turned their backs to him and carried on as if he had never spoken - as if he was invisible. He was still staring at me when I walked over to another friend and told her what he had said. I pointed him out for her and made direct eye contact with him while we both laughed.

tl;dr: Don’t feed the troll. Let it perish, cold and hungry, in the wasteland of your indifference. It is weak and you are strong. Live your best life.