This image is the perfect representation of the current zeitgeist
It's not "a few bad apples" when being a threat to marginalized communities is in their job description.
It's not "a few bad apples" when other cops defend the bad cops instead of disowning them.
It's not "a few bad apples" when racist hate groups support the police.
It's not "a few bad apples" when bad people become cops so they can have a greater chance to get away with being bad.
It's not "a few bad apples" when good cops who whistleblow face retaliation.
It's not "a few bad apples" when cops as a whole oppose being filmed.
It's not "a few bad apples" when bad cops can be bad in clear view of other cops and be confident that there will be no consequences.
POV: mister Devon Price, PhD, telling me that I am right about everything
Source: Unmasking Autism, discovering the new faces of neurodiversity
The French president Macron is trying to raise their retirement age from 62 to 64 (and 67 for some?). French people have protested peacefully for 2 months but yesterday his government went ahead and invoked an article in their constitution that allows them to force the bill past the National Assembly without letting its deputies vote on it. Now Paris is burning ☺️
The trash collectors have gone on strike and so 7000+ tons of garbage has been piling up in the streets, then they get set on fire by protestors at night ☺️
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If you’re wondering - “Retirement age at just 64 and they’re burning shit down? In my country I can’t retire until 65/67/70+!!”
French people have kept it low BECAUSE they burn shit down if it’s threatened ☺️
"your teens are about" "your 20s are about" there's no schedule babes
Your 30s are about being older than your 20s but not in your 40s yet.
[Video and image descriptions: A series of clips from PinkNews of Owen Jones, a thin white British man, standing at a podium and saying: We remember the songs sung about gay and bisexual people, that we were sexual predators, that we were threats to children, that we would brainwash children. “They can’t reproduces, so they have to recruit.” Those same songs are now being sung, every single one, about trans people in this country, screamed up by the bully pulpit of the British media and the British political elite. The nature of prejudice is to seek out the extreme and the hypothetical and use it to tar an entire minority in order to lay the foundations for discrimination. And that’s what they did to us, and they’re doing the same thing all over again. It’s enough on its own terms to defend trans people. That’s enough. What trans people are going through in this country is hell, but let’s not pretend they want to stop at trans people. This is ricocheting across the whole LGBTQ rainbow. This is a cult which has got completely and utterly out of control. And unless we stand up against them, this will only descend into an even darker place. We’ve got so much to fight for, trans rights, the crisis facing trans people. But this is still a country where LGBTQ people are deported to homophobic countries by a home office which cynically puts the pride flag up for cynical political ends during Pride Month. It’s still a country in which people are tortured through conversion therapy. It’s still a country where LGBTQ services are slashed. And you know what? With austeriy, they’re gonna do the same thing all over again to our services. Don’t let them divide us. [Audience begins to cheer loudly.] Don’t let them divide the LGBTQ movement in this country, because if they put one of us off, they’ll put all of us off one-by-one. So stand together. Have the same courage, the same courage as our ancestors did. [Audience cheering swells] And if we stand together and fight togethe, we’ll win together. The image underneath the video is a Tweet from Jones’ Twitter @OwenJones84 which quotes part of the segment: “The nature of prejudice is to seek out the extreme and the hypothetical and use it to tar an entire minority in order to lay the foundations for discrimination.” \End descriptions]
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“When the handle has snapped off the basket that held all your eggs…” gone girl tier monologue
Anonymous asked:
hey that last tiktok was good and all but i feel like the comment underneath was kind of weird, because the video was talking directly about white women buying into & upholding white supremacy despite it harming them Also, but the commenter makes 0 mention of this and talks about marriage exclusively, when that wasnt the point of the tiktok at all
Good point
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“When the handle has snapped off the basket that held all your eggs…” gone girl tier monologue
Reblogging this again because so many people seem to miss the point: the point isn’t “don’t get married” or “Prince Charming doesn’t exist.” The point is that 50%+ of marriages end in divorce and it’s naive to think “oh, that’ll never be me.” That’s what this video is about. It’s about thinking that you’re the exception because you’re special. You’re not.
“But I am! Everyone tells me that I’m special. I’m beautiful and smart and funny and I’ve done everything right. These bad things would never happen to me!”
Watch the video again.
True, you might be lucky and you might live a fairy tale life. But what if you didn’t?
I’m a woman turning 40 this year, and I’ve lived a fairy tale life so far. I met my future husband in high school and we’ve been inseparable ever since. We supported each other through all-nighters and final exams in college, celebrated each other’s first jobs, traveled the world together, kissed under the Eiffel Tower and snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef. We got married and had two beautiful children who get compliments and free candy everywhere they go. We have jobs that give us personal satisfaction. We have a little place to call home that we own free and clear. We still hold hands after 20+ years together.
Despite all this, I still have a backup plan in case anything ever goes wrong.
Why? Because I just need to look at my mom and her generation to see what could easily happen to me, and what happens to many women. My mom did everything right too. She was young, beautiful, smart, hardworking, and kind. She went to college, got a job, got married, and had kids. She cooked, she cleaned, she drove us to piano lessons and art lessons. She showed up at our recitals and she was there on graduation day.
And she was miserable. (Still is.) Because the happiness that was promised to her if she did all this, if she sacrificed her life for her husband and her family, if she was a good wife, did not materialize. Instead she was left an old, lonely woman in a loveless, debt-ridden marriage.
My father was not a bad man. He never beat or abused my mother, he didn’t do drugs or drink excessively, he had no gambling or other vices, he was present in our lives, and he brought home a paycheck. But he was also stuck in a marriage where the love had fizzled under the never-ending burden of dishes and laundry and mortgage bills. Under arguments of whose turn it is to clean up the kids’ vomit and why did you spend money on this and how are we going to pay for the new transmission now. So when a younger woman started giving him attention and didn’t care why he forgot to take out the trash yet again, he started buying gifts for her. Expensive makeup, Louis Vuitton handbags, and the like. He was sad and lonely, and the woman was sweet to him. Meanwhile, my mom who was trying to get us to all of our dentist appointments and parent-teacher conferences, got nothing for Christmas. (She didn’t get him anything either.)
My father was not a bad man. He looked like a good man when they got married. I see their old photos from when they were young, before they had kids and a mortgage, and they looked happy. It hurts to look at their hopeful faces and know how things turned out in the end.
My mom’s story is not unique. All of my aunts are either depressed, divorced, or stuck in loveless marriages. Same with my friends’ parents. My mom recently reconnected with some friends whom she had not seen since college, and these five women were shocked to discover that they all had the same story: graduated from school, got jobs, got married, had kids, and became good wives, only to be bitterly disappointed by their husbands’ lack of partnership. They did what they were supposed to do, they carried their families on their backs, and they ended up with very little to show for it.
This video is about how common this scenario is, especially for idealistic young women who believe that this would never happen to them because they’re special. My mom was special too. So were my aunts. Everybody thinks they are special. Everybody thinks they’ll be the one to beat the odds.
And maybe you’re right. Maybe you’re one of the lucky ones. My mother looks at me, and she’s told me point blank, “You have a better fate than me, and for that I’m grateful.” When I look at my mother and the women of her generation, I see the lessons they learned the hard way and paid for dearly so that I can learn from their experience and avoid a similar fate. That’s why I cringe when I hear young women dreaming of a traditional life where they put their whole lives into their husband’s hands. I want to shake them and say, “Did you learn nothing from your mother’s sacrifice?!?!”
I still dream of living a fairy tale life, of growing old with my husband and being surrounded by our children, but I don’t forget the lessons of the women in my family who came before me. I have my own career, I have my own savings, I have no debt, I have maintained my health, I have maintained my own interests, and I have maintained my own social relationships. I can walk on my own two feet if I have to.
The point isn’t to not believe in fairy tales. The point is, don’t be so arrogant and naive to think that you are owed a fairy tale life. You aren’t. Work hard to build the life you want to live, but do it with your own two hands. Don’t blindly put your entire life into someone else’s basket, because it’s easy for someone else to let you down. Carry your own fucking basket, because you never know when you’ll need to be able to walk on your own.
"in nearly every measure, girls are faring dramatically worse than boys. Girls are experiencing higher rates of depression and hopelessness: a staggering 57% of girls report depression symptoms, compared with 29% of boys. Girls are more likely to drink alcohol and use opioids, along with other recreational drugs. And girls are more than twice as likely to report having seriously considered ending their lives: 30% of girls report serious suicidal ideation, compared with 14% of boys. For girls, the rate of suicidal thoughts has ballooned by 60% over the past decade.
Most disturbingly, girls are reporting an often dramatic increase in the rate of violence they are experiencing. “When we’re looking at experiences of violence, girls are experiencing almost every type of violence more than boys,” Dr Ethier told the New York Times. This includes kinds of threats and bullying that need not be gender-specific. But the teen girls surveyed also report being targeted for sexual violence at an alarmingly increased rate. Eighteen per cent said that they had experienced sexual violence within the past year, up by 20% since 2017. And 14% of teen girls reported having been raped – a figure that has increased by a horrifying 27% since the survey was last conducted in 2019.
The trend extends across all racial groups, but some girls are faring worse than others: the data indicates that American Indian and Alaska Native girls experience the highest rates of both suicidality and sexual violence. LGBQ+ teens, too – of all genders – are experiencing alarmingly high levels of violence and mental health problems (the survey uses LGBQ+ because it did not ask about gender identity). But unlike the rise in emotional distress and experiences of abuse among teen girls, this problem is not new – queer teens have been treated this way for a long time."
“Let us put it generally: if a regime is immoral, its citizens are free from all obligations to it.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago.
[Pictured: Captain Pia Klemp sitting in a chair beside her controls.
@VivianAngrisani on Twitter wrote on 6/8/2019: “Pia Klemp, a German biologist & boat captain faces 20 yrs in prison for rescuing 1,000+ migrants at risk of drowning whilst crossing the Mediterranean. Seeking asylum is a human right. Only 1 in 100 sea captains are female. This woman is a humanitarian, not a criminal. #FreePia”
@Galactic_Rabbit quote-tweeted on 6/10/2019 and wrote: “Thinking about all those videos of people honored in their old age for hiding/protecting Jewish people.”]
To all the people commenting that she’s an accessory to “illegal immigration,” note that seeking asylum is a human right. Countries which refuse asylum are in violation of the Geneva Convention. They get away with this and propagandize complacency towards the victims by using bureaucracy to complicate immigration proceedings. During times of genocide, this is tantamount to hearing a would-be murder victim knocking on your door and locking the deadbolt.
People who risk dying getting smuggled across borders do so out of sheer desperation because the situation they’re leaving is worse. Finally, you are missing the entire point: violation of the law is warranted when the laws violate human rights and criminalize existence. Laws which call immigrants “illegal” are tools of a systemic negligence designed to condemn those who need legal protection the most.
Hiding Jewish people or smuggling them out of Germany was illegal too.
as of 10 february 2023, the petition is still just short of its goal of 500k signatures.
We really gotta realize on a large scale that the “brain is finished developing at 25″ is not just a misconception, it’s a deliberate lie that is being spread to attack young people, take their rights away and justify the abuse they are constantly targeted by as a feature of our society, not a bug. And to see queer people parrot this bullshit to win internet arguments with 16y/os while it’s being used to make hrt illegal for people under 25 is, and I don’t say this lightly, nazbols trying to pass as leftists levels of intellectual dishonesty.
"But the police have never abused me. They've always made me feel safe."
Yeah. Of course they have. If everyone sees the police as evil monsters, then everyone would demand their abolition. The police would easily lose their power to continue being evil monsters.
Abusive people never abuse everyone. They always carefully select their victims to make sure they can be abusive while still maintaining their support from society. They're not like cartoon villains who everyone recognizes as evil.
If the police make you feel safe, it's only because you're not the target of their abuse. But you would be if they were able to get away with it.
i've started looking at weight and health the way i look at class and income and it really puts a lot of things into a new perspective.
let me explain: in america at least, the lower class have significantly worse health outcomes, even when accounting for other factors. just being poor is enough to make your overall health worse. we don't know that being fat makes your health directly worse, like the data just isn't there, but for a moment, pretend it does.
imagine going to the doctor with a health problem and the doctor looking at your chart and saying well, this problem will be less severe if you go up an income bracket. have you thought about becoming rich? it would really help. start by saving a little money every month.
ridiculous, right?? very few people successfully go from working class to rich, it just doesn't happen on a large scale in society. maybe for a time you pick up some overtime hours, spend a little beyond your means, and appear rich. but eventually you burn out, your car needs to be repaired, and you return to being working class.
we do have this data: only some people can successfully lose large amounts of weight, and only a tiny fraction of people who lose that weight actually keep it off for more than a year. telling people to lose weight for their health is just absurd because they almost certainly can't do it any more than they can double their income for their health.
and yet i see it everywhere. a little poster in my work breakroom tells me to improve my blood pressure by losing weight! a psa on the radio says you need to take care of your heart by losing weight! we can't even conclusively prove that weight is the cause rather than just correlated with a lot of these problems but here it is offered anyway: have you tried being rich?
You hit the nail on the head. A lot of people tend to try and invalidate fatphobia as a form of oppression by saying its not an immutible quality like race or sexuality or gender. The old "you can lose weight, i can't become white/straight/cis" argument.
That's because fatphobia is a lot more like classism; i.e. it's a form of bigotry that is only TECHNICALLY changeable. They're both seen as a lot more changeable than they actually are, for all the reasons you've listed.
"isnt bullying recognized as a form of abuse" the thing is, like, not broadly, societally speaking... i mean think of all the posts u see regularly that are like, "bring back bullying" etc. "everyone needs to get bullied a little it builds character." can u imagine people making these statements broadly about abuse? bring back abuse? abuse builds character? nah and that is because people do not think of bullying as abuse, they do not think of it as traumatic and i actually think this is in large part because it is seen as an issue that only affects children (not even true) and people still broadly feel that children's feelings and experiences do not matter
