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@wintersoldierspoem

Anna|any pronouns, prefer she|21| Muse-6/15/17

Gotta love Party Poison. He is a trans man. She is a trans woman. They are nonbinary. They are pangender. They are agender. He is a GNC man. She is a GNC woman. He is a lesbian. She is a gay man. They are genderfluid. They use all pronouns. Xe uses neopronouns. Party Poison uses no pronouns. They are pan. They are ace. They are all and none of the above.

Can all the lesbians on my dash just hand the pretty girl a shiny rock or something already? I’m worried about you guys.

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You go out there and claim your happy ending right now young lady. Grab it by the horns.

Pretty girls with horns???

Nope, no, it’s… it’s an expression.

I want a pretty girl with horns…

I’ve decided to not make motivational posts directed at lesbians anymore.

That’s fair.

Wait but is there a pretty girl with horns?

This post is over, lesbians. Go home.

Anonymous asked:

Ever since that Steven universe smut blog turned out to be a republican senator I knew I’d never leave this hell site. You just don’t get drama like that anywhere else

the way they just dropped this bomb and did not follow up. king

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so i dug into this…

although they did send this ask to multiple people, someone in the comments suggested it was senator mike folmer (resigned in 2019)

the email address that senator mike folmer used to sign up for tumblr was jaymichael143@yahoo.com

did you know you can look users up by email if you go to your following page? i didn’t lol but if you enter his address

you get a snarky message from tumblr staff about your choice to follow the account they closed for child pornography run by a US senator, which was hoser44… of course, all the posts are gone

however, if you enter hoser44.tumblr.com into the wayback machine, there are results

verdict:

inconclusive. mike folmer did not run a steven universe blog. he ran a MILF blog, which was shut down for posting child pornography. perhaps the anon is referring to a different republican senator…?

HELLO?????

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can you imagine if coronavirus happened in like 2013. this site would be like "ALRIGHT LISTEN UP MOTHERFUCKERS TODAY YOU ARE GOING TO DO A LEARN ABOUT ~SOCIAL DISTANCING~"

LUCKILY FOR *YOU* HANDSOME BASTARDS, OUR LORD AND SAVIOR BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH IS E X A C T L Y SIX FEET TALL.

SO NEXT TIME YOU’RE CHILLING WITH YOUR MOIRAILS, IMAGINE A BEAUTIFUL BENDYPOO LYING ARSE NEKKID ON THE FLOOR BETWEEN YOU. CAN’T FIT A WHOLE SHERLOCK?

THEN YOU’RE T O O  F U C K I N G C L O S E GOD DAMN IT. 

The argument Pinto makes is that the story and the doll normalize 24-hour surveillance in the mind of a child, which makes them susceptible to more passively accept police-state surveillance as adults.

“I don’t think the elf is a conspiracy and I realize we’re talking about a toy,” Pinto told The Post. “It sounds humorous, but we argue that if a kid is okay with this bureaucratic elf spying on them in their home, it normalizes the idea of surveillance and in the future restrictions on our privacy might be more easily accepted.”

It’s based in a theory that was developed by Jeremy Bentham and popularized by Michel Foucault in which students, prisoners, factory workers and others were thought to function better (for whatever value of better) in a system called a panopticon, in which an individual is potentially under surveillance 24-hours a day, but never actually KNOWS whether or not he or she is being surveilled. 

Pinto said she’s not the first person to be troubled by Elf on the Shelf’s surveilling. She’s said parents routinely contact her to say they changed the rules of the game after it made their families uneasy. And many kids, she said, often intuitively feel like spying and being a tattletale is wrong.
“A mom e-mailed me and told me that the first day they read the elf book and put the elf out, her daughter woke up crying because she was being watched by the elf,” Pinto recounted. “They changed the game so it wouldn’t scare the child.”

In addition to the problem of normalizing surveillance in the mind of a child, this also forces the child into a situation where they never feel like they are free to simply be themselves; they are forced to be “on their best behavior” at all times, unable to relax and make mistakes and do the job of growing up and being a child, because they never know if the elf is spying on them, ready and waiting to report back to Santa Claus that they’ve been bad.

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My co-worker got Elf on the Shelf for her four-year-old daughter last year, and was so freaked out by her daughter’s sudden and complete change in behaviour (uncharacteristically worried and anxious, while trying to be on her ‘best’ behaviour that she never kept up for family or at school) that she stuffed Elf in the garbage after a week, telling the daughter that the Elf had to go back to the North Pole to help Santa with Christmas. 

Also read the paper linked above, it’s a good one.

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I hate this entire concept so much.

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the creators of this monstrosity are exactly what you would expect

the weirdest part for me is that the Elf on the Shelf clearly started as a cheap, popular type of 1950s Christmas decoration

these little suckers are called “knee-hugger elves.” they were mass-manufactured in Japan in the ‘50s and ‘60s, and you can get them at most antique malls for like 50 cents apiece around the holidays

(if you want one, which is a desire I can’t remotely comprehend. but to each their own)

or you can spend $29.95 for the official Elf On the Shelf book, figure, and childhood trauma

As I’ve already said on Twitter: Elf on the Shelf is bad. Encouraging the surveillance state is bad. If you want to do Santa, make sure to decouple Santa bringing gifts from “being good” so that you aren’t raising your kids to think that consumerism is great and poor kids who didn’t get shit are provably bad. Then, when you tell them the secret about Santa, you make sure to do it earlier than you expect to have to, and you bring them in on the secret - it is the responsibility of everyone who knows the truth to BE Santa. No bullshit qualifiers, no manipulating behavior.

No naughty list. No nice list. Just kindness and treating people with dignity. Where is Santa all the other days of the year? Supporting direct goddamn action to improve the lives of others.