Mr.Misunderstood Until Now

Male upper 20s he/they

[thenameisgul]

[throwing-roses-into-the-abyss]

someone did write a book about this! It’s called ‘Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men’ by Caroline Criado Perez. It talks about exactly these topics and some more. 

[just-shower-thoughts]

Trying not to fall asleep is hard, trying to fall asleep is difficult.

[ladybluebottle]

You are loved for exactly who you are in this moment.💙

[st-dionysus]

Um, OK cringe boy (flirtatious)

[pearmoved]

oh penis christ

[partycoffin]

Hand mixers and Sewing Machines are Two different Types of horses

[partycoffin]

These are wild animals… Untamed Stallions…

[mctreeleth]

They respond well to a confident handler, but they can smell fear and will act up if they don’t respect you. Other horses include printers and hot glue guns.

[chronicallyironic]

my god this is so gender

[detectivehole]

great lakes kids are like "you wanna go to the lake this summer" as if any of us have a fucking choice

[detectivehole]

if you're from here ↓

you're Going to the Lake

[detectivehole]

[detectivehole]

post is a hit with the great lakes region residents

[0sbrain]

[frogpronouns]

what you need to understand about recommending a show to me is that no matter how much we both know I'll like it, I can't watch it until the Neurodivergence Department in my brain approves it. I don't know when that will be, and I don't have any more control over it than you do.

[lesbiskammerat]

[thetyrannosaur]

OK WAIT SO IF POC GET STRICTER SENTENCES IN COURT… AND IF WOC ARE MORE AT RISK OF MISCARRIAGE AND GENERAL MALPRACTICE… AND IF SEX EDUCATION IS WORSE IN INNER CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS… AND IF RACIAL HOUSING DISCRIMINATION IS PRACTICED BY 85% OF REAL ESTATE AGENTS… AND IF SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE FUNDED VIA PROPERTY TAXES WITHIN EACH DISTRICT… HOLD ON………. WAIT A MINUTE

[vulcanette-deactivated20260506]

[ithelpstodream]

[jonpertwee]

I feel like this would be a slippery slope towards making it illegal for people to choose to not vote.

[hamfistedbunvendor]

that’s already how it is in australia

[jonpertwee]

That’s just so fucked up. :( Do certain medical conditions exempt you?

[sapphicdalliances]

?????? why is it be fucked up to have compulsory voting? that’s the way it is in most democratic countries? it’s a part of being a citizen, like paying taxes and obeying speed limits? the fine for not voting is only like $50 and because of the compulsory voting law, our country bends over backwards to make it accessible: it’s always on a weekend, lasts most of the day, and is set up at schools and community centers so there’s one within easy reach of almost everybody. you can also mail your ballot or vote early if you’ll be out of the country on the day. like, IT’S EASY TO VOTE, and the penalty isn’t even that ridiculous. i don’t understand why the usa doesn’t have this, except obviously it would make it harder to literally stop minorities from voting.

[salparadisewasright-deactivated]

I think we Americans tend to forget that a lot of other countries don’t actively work to make it harder to vote.

[thisdiscontentedwinter]

Adding to this here, in Australia you don’t have to vote. Or, more precisely, there’s no way they can tell if you ruined your ballot. You have to turn up, get your name marked off, but you can put a line through the ballot if you don’t think any of the candidates are worth voting for. Or do this: 

Or this: 

Or this: 

You have get your name crossed off (if you don’t want to wear the fine), but you don’t have to make your vote counted if you’re opposed to it. 

And it is so, so easy to vote. Stuck at work or on holidays? That’s fine. Do a postal vote.  Stuck in hospital? That’s fine. They’ll go to you. Stuck in an old people’s home and can’t get around? Again, they’ll go to you. It’s amazing to me that it’s so hard for so many Americans to actually vote. If you make it compulsory, than at least the government is obligated to provide you with the means to vote. 

And look, I get it. Sometimes I don’t want to vote either. But I suck it up, I walk three minutes down the street, and I hope that this year they’re selling lamingtons again. Oh, and I buy a democracy sausage, which, even if all the candidates suck, makes the effort of turning up pretty worthwhile. 

[julad]

ALSO, you can see even on the fucked up ballots that you NUMBER CANDIDATES IN ORDER OF PREFERENCE. There’s no need to calculate whether I would be throwing away my vote on the candidate that I most agree with if they’re not from a major party. I can say, I want that independent person to get in, but if not them, give me Big Party A, and if not them, that minor party person is still better that Big Party B, and I’m not giving any preference to the Lunatic Fringe Party.

Our system certainly has some issues still, but I can show up to somewhere nearby, line up for a few minutes (if at all), vote exactly in line with my values (on paper, leaving a paper trail that can be recounted), and then buy a sausage and some home made cupcakes on my way out.

A country’s voting system matters a hell of a lot and every citizen deserves one that makes it easy to vote and results in a government that is representational and accountable.

And by the way, one time I had a bad asthma flare-up on Election Day and didn’t make it to my polling station. I got my fine in the mail, I filled out the form explaining why I couldn’t vote, no more fine. I would rather have, you know, expressed my preference for who should run my country, but they were cool with the fact that I couldn’t do it that day.

[batmanisagatewaydrug-deactivate]

“oh no, what if people actually have to participate in picking the government officials who will impact their lives” jesus christ

[christophoronomicon]

For the last time, for everyone who still doesn’t understand: not voting is not a tool of resistance, it’s a tool of surrender.

[the-cimmerians]

LOUDER FOR THE PPL IN THE BACK

For the last time, for everyone who still doesn’t understand: not voting is not a tool of resistance, it’s a tool of surrender.

[jethroq]

sorry Aussies but you are actually also the weird ones here. a lot of countries have automatic voter registration without compulsory voting, and compulsory voting has not saved you from also having some of the worst democratically elected leaders.

[anarkissa]

I love the original slippery slope argument. If automatic voter registration is a slippery slope towards compulsory voting, then so is non-automatic voter registration.

Hell, so is allowing people to vote.

Nothing is a slippery slope. You can choose to put your system where-ever you want to, without danger of it slipping in any direction.

This doesn’t change the fact that non-automatic registration and compulsory voting are both stupid ideas.

[itsoofluffy]

Rare photo of mother Wrench feeding her new hatchlings in the wild. Breathtaking.

[urcadelimabean]

Heartwrenching.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Well that’s just nuts

[thememedaddy]

me_irl

[cum-roll]

this is so stupid *hits reblog*

[noodles-07]

This is the content I signed up for on tumblr

[pinkasketch]

Shut up m'dudes, it's a national holiday

[thoughtkick]

“The strongest people are the ones who are still kind even after the world tore them a part.”

— Raven Emotion

[alienamongsthumans]

He got caught with distributing raw meat content