1994Gingerkid

Aspiring crazy rabbit lady

[sadunit]

does anyone else constantly get the feeling that you’re running out of time?? and for no reason!! i could be lying in bed in the middle of summer vacation and my mind is like “hurry up!!! before it’s too late!!!” and i’m just like “hurry up and do what?? leave me alone wtf!!!”

[somecutething]

[vanjalen]

This is so fucking funny he did great

[cloudfreed]

he didn’t do anything wrong

[dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou]

That’s a good boy, that’s exactly how you do it, such a smart good boy!

[totallyfubar]

I love saying “of course” instead of “you’re welcome,” like of course I’m helping you that’s what I do, you were foolish to even consider an alternate dimension in which I’m not helping you. you idiot. you absolute buffoon.

[femmefaetale-blog]

100% proof that I am a grandpa

gets tired everyday by 7pm

complains constantly

is almost always disgruntled/angered by loud noises

wears grandpa sweaters (but without pants, so like… drunk grandpa)

[dankassbitchh]

[it-wasnt-that-bad]

When my therapist points out how fucked up something from my childhood was

[ditzymi]

being a csa survivor is all fun and games till you realize it’s actually not all fun and games and someone touching you sends you back to the exact moment THEY touched you and you can still feel them inside of you it’s hot it’s burning please stop touching me

[electracomplexes]

me: after all the abuse I’ve endured, i just want to be treated with compassion and respect. i want my partner to never let me forget i’m safe.

also me, pulling my own hair out: WHY WON’T YOU JUST HIT ME?!?!!!!????

[golbatgender]

It’s important to include kink in sex education to protect children from predators. This is both so kids know how to avoid bad situations and also so parents can recognize when a situation is bad.

For children under 10, this looks like “Don’t do things that people online tell you to do without checking with an adult you trust to make sure it isn’t a predator, even if it just seems silly,” and “Be wary of adults who want to touch you or watch you do weird things for no reason, even if it’s something that seems harmless like letting them touch your feet or squishing up things. Any touch you don’t want is a bad touch.” This fits in well with other basics about bodily autonomy.

For preteens and younger teens, you can be more direct (they’ll understand that sex is a thing beyond just creating babies, whether they’ve been properly educated or not). Something like “Some predators might have requests that don’t seem explicitly sexual at first. If they seem to be getting something sexual out of it, or if it just seems too weird or if it makes you uncomfortable at all, don’t do it, or ask a trusted adult and alert any site mods, if it’s online.”

For older teens and adults, more of the above, plus showing examples of common “challenges” that are actually kinkbait. (i.e. writing stuff on your feet and taking pictures of it, stepping in slime or gross/painful things, questions about theoretically squishing or eating people, tying up yourself or others, “gallon of milk” type challenges that often cause vomiting.) At this point, the object is not just to prevent individual victimization, but to allow them to identify situations where children are being preyed upon.

In addition, knowing what kinks are means that people who have them are less likely to think it’s okay to trick others into doing them. If you emphasize that kinks are sex, people will realize that forcing them on others is not just a prank with a dirty secret, but actually sexual assault. Younger people with kinks (they often do start in childhood; sometimes they’re not explicitly sexual until around puberty) will learn not to put themselves in dangerous situations over things they don’t understand yet, and also that there isn’t anything wrong with them. In all cases, it should be emphasized that the kink is not the problem, but the predatory behavior and coercion of others into sexual acts. If the kink is portrayed as the problem, people won’t make the distinction between doing it with a willing partner and tricking people into it, and the cycle will continue.

Lack of education is why predators can get away with things like this. There probably aren’t very many of these predators out there, but the nature of the internet and meme culture means that just one can easily get a lot of victims through things that seem like ordinary challenges or surveys. IRL, once again people often don’t realize that something could be predatory if it doesn’t involve breast or genital contact. Education is what’s needed; driving kinks underground and acting like consensual kink is predatory just makes these situations more likely.

[not-painted-anymore-blog-deacti]

“There is no question traumatised people have irrational thoughts […] it’s best to treat those as cognitive flashbacks - you don’t argue with them any more than you would argue with someone who keeps having visual flashbacks of a terrible accident. They are residues of traumatic incidents: thoughts they were thinking when, or shortly after the traumas occurred that are reactivated under stressful conditions.”

— Bessel Van Der Kolk, “The Body Keeps The Score”

[dankmemeuniversity]

[onlytwitterpics]

[justcatposts]

“My cat Blackberry has done this before but my friends told me it was really impressive and I should share..” 

(Source)

[saintlaurentproblems]

READ THIS THREAD!

[labrador-entity]

tw transphobia, sexism, abuse, police brutality

Transcription of screenshotted tweets:

Twitter user Julia Dupuis, @juliacdupuis

"I was arrested on June 2nd, 2020 with around 100 other protesters in Los Angeles. While I was ziptied and facing the wall, two male officers joked behind me about my gender presentation: "Do you think it's a female? Are you sure?"

They then proceeded to start patting me down—touching my breasts and my front/back pockets, still laughing. Finally, one of them admitted," We shouldn't be doing this." Then they called over a female officer to search me. Their names are Officer Cho and Codilla of the LAPD.

I was not the only gender non conforming protestor to be called "it." There were trans/non-binary protestors divided into the 'male' and 'female' buses and deliberately misgendered. I was also not the only protestor to be sexually harassed or made uncomfortable.

After being held for over 4 hours—with protestors vomiting, fainting, forced to pee in their seats, losing circulation in their bruised wrists/arms—many began to advocate. We demanded access to bathrooms, water, and medical attention. We held them accountable to the law.

The only response was an officer telling us to "stop acting like high school girls." We were held even longer, watching other buses with prisoners being processed and released. When I got off the bus, an officer said, "Now that you're acting reasonable, we let you off the bus."

We spoke up about LAPD abuse and were punished for it. They heard us begging and screaming for medical attention and chose to keep us there for 5 1/2 hours to silence us.

After the zip ties were cut off, I was threatened by an officer who said: "Stop it with the attitude. This is us being nice—I can make this much worse for you." In response to us advocating for our rights, they told us: "You have no rights here."

This is what protestors are facing. This is the violence and harassment police have been using to silence us, wear us down, and force us off the streets. Even without rubber bullets, tear gas, and batons, they have other means of physical and emotional violence.

This is just a taste of the brutality that black and brown people experience with police. It is a privilege to be shocked by this. It is a privilege to be violated and humiliated for the first time. And I'm sure that my whiteness protected me in custody as it did on the street."

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[maemaeandmoremae-deactivated202]

[generalelectionmusings]

[talistheintrovert]

happy pride. black lives matter. burn it all down. 🌈✊🏿