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[craptitude]

I just wanted to see if I remembered my password and I do which is cool and all but what the heck do people do on Tumblr anymore??????

[craptitude]

A girl at work realized I’m in my final semester and asked what I want to do after I graduate and I thought about that my whole shift and I really just want to go on vacation somewhere anywhere where I can hike for two months straight and come back sore and sunburned and happy instead of this angry shell of a human being that the past five years has made me.

[theoriginalblackbarbie]

I really want my future daughter to grow up with more confidence than I did.

[craptitude]

Think of all the adjectives you’ve ever heard in your life. I know there’s a lot, the list goes on and on. You just thought of tonnes didn’t you? Let’s narrow it down.

Specifically think of adjectives that could be used to describe someone’s appearance. The list should be ever so slightly smaller. Go through all the adjectives you can think of, some spring to mind quicker than others; young, old, tall, short. Others might take a while to think of; dowdy, elfin, slovenly. 

We’d probably be listing adjectives for a while before we ever got to “molestable” right? Surely, no human being would describe another person as molestable. But alas, I spoke to a customer for approximately fifteen seconds before he opened his mouth and what came out was: “You look very molestable.”

[craptitude]

Me: npcs in games should be more upset that I just barge into their house

Skyrim npc: get out of my house

Me: what the fuck

[weloveshortvideos]

[bandtshirt]

communication is the foundation

[dippedgaming]

Where are they going? What are they saying?

[baearth]

I don’t even care they just sound so beautiful

[mediumsizedboy]

they are singing s traveling song

[wtchygf]

@fluxd

[flux-rad]

[heartbreakes]

My phone

[c3rvida3]

Bad News: Our boss locked the keys inside the building.

Good News: We didn’t have to wait around for a locksmith.

Bad News: My boss finds it very concerning that I know how to pick locks, and tried to unlock my Tragic Backstory™. I was too embarrassed to admit that the reason I learned was because, at thirteen, I figured that was the kind of skill that would impress cute girls.

Good News: A cute girl saw me do it.

Bad News: It was Maggie, and since she’s already seen me fall out of several trees, cry because I saw a fawn that was just too damn small, and knows I can ride a unicycle, she’ll never think I’m cool no matter what I do. It’s too late. She knows.

[nvsbl-grl]

Maggie needs to check her priorities.

[bob-belcher]

Video: Kitten Makes Great Escape to Visit Puppy

[silversarcasm]

its so important to have disabled presence in children’s media, disabled kids grow up with really harmful messages about being burdens, ugly and unwanted and that needs to be challenged, we need to be showing disabled kids that they’re valued and amazing

like I remember a few years ago here in the UK, there was a disabled woman, Cerrie Burnell, who’s right arm ends a little past her elbow, who did some presenting on kids tv and parents wrote in and complained about her and said she was scary for children and shouldn’t be there because she was disabled

children are seen as being needed to be sheltered from the ~terrifying~ and ~horrifying~ reality of disabled people and that really hurts disabled kids and also massively contributes to adults hating and fearing disabled people since that’s what they were taught to do as kids

whether it’s disabled presenters or disabled characters, children’s media has to do more to acknowledge and celebrate disabled people

[mabith]

This is so important. We are unlikely to go through life without a single member of our family or a single friend being disabled. Disability is not uncommon. Disabled presence in media in general helps disabled children, helps children who will become disabled in early adulthood, helps children who have disabled classmates and friends, helps children whose parents are or may become disabled, helps parents who will have disabled children, helps teachers who will have disabled students etc etc on and on. When I became disabled at age 20 the one school friend who stayed in touch, who didn’t ghost, had a mother with MS. I am 90% sure that’s what made the difference between her and the friends who just didn’t know how to deal with me.

[andreashettle]

15 percent of the world population are people with disabilities. That’s one in every seven people on the face of the Earth, a total of one billion people. If disabled people were our own country then we would be the third most populous country in the world, behind only China and India.

And yes, some conditions are age related, so the older you are the higher the odds of eventually becoming disabled.

BUT.  Even among children aged 0 to 14, about five percent of the world’s population of children have disabilities. That’s one in every 20, still not that small a number.

The media does not even BEGIN to reflect the real portion of disabled people in the population.

[anarkaras]

it would also be really great if all representations and histories of disability weren’t so heavily whitewashed. it would be great to see more discourse about ableism that isn’t erasive of and participating in the inherent colonialism and racism it’s built upon but I guess you can’t have it all. #disabilitysowhite

[twitterlols]

staples canada I am y e l l i n g

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Angry men stamp their adorable little feet after Marines degender job titles

After allowing women to serve in combat roles, the United States Marines Corps plans to update various specialty titles to be ungendered. Insecure men are angry about this.

Antitank Missilemen, for example, will now be Antitank Gunners instead. Operations Men will henceforth be Operations Chiefs. Most of the changes just replace the word “man” with the world “marine.” Where a literary barbarism is unavoidable, gendered titles will be kept. For example, it’s still going to be Riflemen, not Rifleperson/Riflemarine. And yet, the rage.

“On one hand, the name changes from ‘man’ to ‘person’ or whatever they want to call it doesn’t really matter. They could call mortarmen bakers for all I care,” said Sgt. Geoff Heath, a Marine rifleman with multiple combat deployments. “But on the other, it’s a direct reflection on society’s crybaby political correctness.”

http://boingboing.net/2016/06/29/angry-men-stamp-their-adorable.html

[flawful-ish]

where “crybaby political correctness” actually means “wah i’m actually the crybaby and why can’t things just be how they’ve always been waaaahhhh”

[holmesandwhatson]

[notokayfabe]

Dog ownership.

[darrencalvert]

Canadian Pokémon emerge from the tall grass.

[pettyartist]

@shoelesscosmonaut

[8-bitonionring]

@elizabitchtaylor

[iskariotrising]

PEOPLE ARE SO CONCERNED ABOUT THIS DOGS MASCULINITY

HES A DOG

[jimmyfury]

no you don’t understand. People freak the fuck out if you don’t enforce human gender roles on dogs. They get fucking belligerent. I work in a pet store and the number of times people have gotten LIVID with me for not just automatically assuming their dog not only required but personally wanted the most stringent enforcement of human gender norms is mindblowing.

People demand dog shampoos that smell “masculine” because “He’s a boy he doesn’t want to smell like flowers” even though he’s a dog and if he had his way he would smell like duck poop. And those shampoos exist! That’s the worst part! There’s enough demand for dog shampoo that smells like Axe body spray that they exist and they sell well.

Or the seemingly nice old lady that shouted “PINK! OBVIOUSLY! SHE’S GIRL SHE HATES OTHER COLORS!” at me when i asked what color harness she wanted for her lapdog. Even though her dog can’t actually see the color pink and does not now and will not ever give a single flying dog fart what color her harness is.

[vulpemarshmallow]

Pretty Girls Make (Higher) Grades

In a study of students at a Colorado university, attractiveness in women was linked to better grades. But, the difference disappeared for online classes.

The researchers found that the women judged as least attractive earned significantly lower grades, after controlling for their ACT scores. The best-looking women earned higher grades. And, male professors were more likely than female professors to give better-looking women higher grades.

But here’s what the study’s lead author, Rey Hernández-Julián, calls the “key finding”: When these same exact students took online courses, where appearance is not an issue, the benefits of being pretty all but disappeared.

[radroachmeat2-deactivated202012]

Jesus fucking christ

[angrylatinxsunited]

This is disgusting.

[cesaray]