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sweatpants are chic

[english-idylls]

From the 1880 Census: 

Occupation of 15-year-old Catharine Cudney: “Does as she pleases.”

[justasmallfluff-deactivated2018]

fuck it up Catharine

[deadpossumbrigade-deactivated20]

Damn right I do

[poyzn]

NSFW because you’re not allowed to cry at work.

[beardset]

[dailycrest]

[kalmyovagina-deactivated2018052]

[meangirlnurse]

one of my friends is a very pregnant dog and like 3 times a day i say to her “hello! you are full of several other smaller dogs!” and she wags her entire body at me like “it’s true!!! i contain multitudes”

[sparkytheandroid]

when i was a baby i thought big words and oxford commas and kcup coffee machines make u smart. you know what makes you smart? loving ur friends.

[unclefather]

[binkbinkbonk]

Thomas Sanders singing 6/10 (aka what actually killed me)

@thatsthat24

[thoodleoo]

i hate when people in movies/tv are reading ancient languages and they translate everything really smoothly and poetically, as if when people who study ancient languages aren’t consulting three different commentaries and sobbing profusely when we read

[quousque]

ok so like…. it says

“come you all into the deepest cavern, or maybe that’s fireplace, depends on usage, and having come may you give your…. treasures? Skin? Pants? I don’t know, something…. to the….. about-to-be-adored guy, that one who…. okay, he either causes earthquakes or sleeps a lot, I think this might be an idiom….”

[thoodleoo]

“ok, sorry that took so long and i hate to disappoint but i’m still not entirely sure what it means, like, it could be something about a religious ceremony or it could be a dick joke. leaning towards dick joke, might be both. knowing the ancients, probably both. this could very well be an ancient dick temple and we should probably leave.”

[kamalaharris2020]

[unicornempire]

A truer true has never been trued, ever.

[paprika]

[weavemama]

Malala really is a class act for standing up against the horrors many women and girls face around the world. She needs to be protected at all costs, bc the world needs more people like her.

[twinkest12]

A Hero.

[zackisontumblr]

TRANS PEOPLE ARE NOT A BURDEN

[destroytransphobes]

💛👀 What’s this? ✊💓🎀 it’s the 👍🚌☝Up With Trans☝🚌👍 bus! 💓💝 Here to give all 💪💖trans people💖💪 all the 💛Love and Support💛! ✊🚌 doot doot 💛

[whoarei]

she guessed my favorite color first try..

but between me and u……. i didnt even have a favorite color until she yelled out yellow!! she was hella excited n smiling like a little kid. so i told her she was right and i havent seen yellow the same since, its in everything. i could probably live in it now. 

[infinittywar]

daddy kink

me: oh my god i’m so close

them: hi so close, i’m dad

[skygenders]

get this trash off my dash

[tortillas-deactivated20170612]

[deleteme-adub-deactivated201811]

no more discourse everybody shut the fuck up and eat some bread

[biweatherman-deactivated2024012]

-Jesus at the last supper

[pure]

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

[notcayleb]

this is a good post.

[maskedriderbiocore]

Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.

[habibialkaysani]

#free exchange of culture is great - taking that culture without invite and pretending yours is an original take#(worse still profiting off it)#is cultural appropriation (by @gnimaerd)

[honeysucklepink]

This. When I was a kid, there would be roadside tourist traps that sold “Indian” jewelry and clothes that were Made in Taiwan (good LORD shows how old I am) and even my family knew to not buy that crap. But when vendors from the area Choctaws would have booths at the folklife festivals selling authentic wares, they WANTED us to. It was a sharing of their culture and the money went back to native families. The same when my dad visited Oklahoma; he brought back art made and sold by Cherokee artists.

[bzangy]

I would add: 

Cultural exchange is a two-way street. For years, Western musicians have been dipping into Asian, African every kind of music. This is GREAT. However, what isn’t so great is when Asian musicians like me get told we should only be making bhangra or asked why we make “white” music. 

Do you see? The road only flows one way. White musicians can go anywhere, take anything. Non-white musicians ~ nope. That isn’t exchange, that is colonialism. 

What I want is freedom for everyone!

[samael]

Cultural Appropriation occurs when one culture is denied the right to freely practice and observe their culture without judgement whilst it is often celebrated when majority culture engages in that action. Its an aspect of marginalization and discrimination. People are denied their culture or shamed for it and then have to watch people more supported by society get rewarded for it.