[depp-could-get-it]

Tumblr deleted my long ass rant while I was in the middle of writing it so you’re spared and will only get a summed up version

Long story short; your abs are supposed to be covered with a healthy, protective layer of fat. The shape Jason Momoa is in during his movies is achieved by a diet designed to lower his body fat to unhealthy numbers, dehydrating him and enhancing his abs with make up. This is what ripped, muscular, healthy person looks like on their off time. If you think this is a dad bod, for the love of everything that is holy, shut up and absolutely never comment on a man’s body ever again. I mean hell, you can still see his damn v-line, what fucking dad bod has that?!

Don’t believe me? Google some bodybuilders who are off their contest diet. The men who literally make a living for having defined muscles. For 360 days a year, they do not look like the way you think they do. During a bodybuilding contest, these men’s body fat is under 7%, they’re dehydeated and covered in fake tan that helps the muscles show up. And it’s literally only for that day, because it’s extremely unhealthy. Same goes for actors who are known for being ripped - they’re at their worst when they’re filming. This exact same shit happened with Vin Diesel few years ago with people getting a paparazzi shot of his “beer belly” and I’m genuinely worried of the young men who grow up in this society thinking being muscular means having defined abs 24/7.

Jason Momoa looks ripped and healthy, yall are just blind with unrealistic standards.

[profeminist]

“This is what actors (& models & bodybuilders) do. If you see them with razor cut abs, they have been on a low carb, water-reducing diet to get there. You cannot retain that and be healthy. When we shot WOLVES, Jason asked me, “Do I have to have abs n’ shit for this?” I said no.”

-  David Hayter, director, Wolves

“The wood chopping scene in The Wolverine was all the footage they could get before Hugh Jackman passed out from dehydration. Dehydration and steroids are the big secret behind Hollywood muscle definition.”

-  My name is Grant‏

“Yeah there was a huge piece a few years ago about the prevalence of doping in the aftermath of Dark Knight (roughly), it became an arms race of every male actor going on roids for definition. Compare Jackman in XMen 1 from 2000 to him in Logan, for example.”

-  Kuff ‘n’ Klout

“The Hollywood roid phenomenon in one picture”

-  Kuff 'n’ Klout‏

“The Guest” movie - 

[michaelmilkers]

trying to strike down inclusionist/exclusionist arguments by pointing out some shitty people who are on one side or the other was literally never a good counter-argument and never will be

there are exclusionist and inclusionist truscum. there are exclusionist and inclusionist terfs. for every shitty exclusionist youve seen i can whip out an inclusionist whos just as shitty (the inclus who said aromantic people are compassionless and the inclus who detailed their trauma to me, a csa survivor, without prompting bc that helped their argument somehow immediately come to mind) and vise versa.

it is important to acknowledge the bad eggs who are in the same group as you or follow an idea that you agree with. it is important to evaluate yourself and what you believe knowing these people exist.

however, the whole “aha! heres a post with a bunch of truscum who believe the same thing as you! this makes everything that you, completely unrelated person, are saying invalid!” accomplishes absolutely nothing bc it can be done on both ends til the fucking cows come home and doesnt actually address any points being made.

discourse is communication or debate. theres no discourse if theres not any fucking communication or debating happening.

[party-slug]

nooo dont unionize, youre so profitable aha

[wrongxdog]

went on a 5 am walk and picked up a flower friend

[dyscomancer]

Stoners are fucking annoying but weed should still be legal

[dyscomancer]

I would rather deal with some idiot who thinks that posting greyscale videos of them taking rips from their bong while mouthing dashboard confessional lyrics on snapchat is high art than live in a world where illegal weed is the primary source of labor for the prison industrial system

[richardmadens-archive]

[tenaciousdcepticon24]

This joke was beyond ahead of its time

[georebel-blog]

Marianne Williamson.

[realsadjewishhours]

Comparing Latinos in detention centers to Jews in death camps?☕

I’m OK with calling them concentration camps.

I’m OK with saying on a post “what happened to never again” or “Never Again Means Never Again” because that slogan was meant to specifically stop the shit that’s happening today.

I’m not OK with putting side by side photos of literal Holocaust victims inside the camps with those inside the concentration camps in the US for many reasons:

1. It implies that if it doesn’t hold up to the horrific standards of the Holocaust it’s not worth noting

2. This has happened before in America with Japanese people and I think Native Americans with the “”””boarding schools””” those happened in US soil, many just a few decades ago. Consistently using Holocaust comparisons a tragedy that happens overseas, when something so incredibly traumatic of the same scale happened right here shows that America really doesn’t understand its own history and barbarity concerning minorities

3. It’s fucking triggering for the entirety of the Roma and Jewish community but mainly those of us with intergenerational trauma. Whose family could LITERALLY be in those photos.

4. It’s been shown that literally two-thirds of American millienals don’t even know where fucking Auschwitz is. So maybe the American population shouldn’t be making comparisons on something they are clearly starting to know less and less about?

That’s my opinion on it.

[owlmylove]

can we like…. talk about what a healthy relationship with technology looks like? not just for us, but for future generations: its super easy for us to accept tech unquestioningly bc many millennials and gen-Zers grew up alongside the growth of tech, and had a naturally evolving level of exposure to it. but what about the 5 year olds with tablets? the 8 year olds with perfectly curated instagrams?? i’m as obsessed with my phone as the rest of us, but can we please stop simply bemoaning how none of us read as much as we were kids and start exploring how all these screens might be affecting the kids growing up right now?

[owlmylove]

i work in customer service and please know that i am not baby-boomer aggrandizing when i say i have seen so many children, literally toddlers, dead-silent and completely, utterly absorbed in tablets bigger than their heads. i’ve seen a shitton of pre-pubescent girls posing for pictures together, planning their angles and backgrounds, and checking what shots their mom took bc they’re worried “they might look fat.” like. i’m talking 7 year olds. this isn’t meant to be some holier than thou bullshit, this is me being legitimately terrified about a problem i really haven’t seen any of us discuss or even acknowledge

[natura-non-facit-saltuss]

In one of my psychology classes the teacher told us about a study that showed that toddlers nowadays have a hard time learning how to write and do fine motor things because of the skip the stage of learning with their hands and all they do is swipe and click.

[owlmylove]

oh!! my god!!! that is an incredibly literal/physical symptom of these newfound techno-reliances we’ve formed. a professor of mine referred to it as our “tech fetishization,” this expectation that all updated forms of tech are innately and unquestionably good things. we see technology as an amorphous, abstract concept vs. a substantive influence in our mental, emotional, and physical states but holy shit it really, really is

[mixingpumpkins]

@ y’all in the notes completely missing the point and thinking this is about millennials turning into the ‘Thomas Edison was a witch!’ or ‘kids these days!’ crowd…

Look, I fucking love technology. I love what the advancements in my lifetime have been able to make possible. The sheer amount of information and communication and creative tools available is incredible, and I often wonder how different my life would be now if I’d grown up with all these things available and accessible. (How many more things would I know how to do? How much more music could I have written? How much more art could I have produced? Could I have started my own businesses sooner? How many more people from how many more places would I know?)

But the things in the above posts are problems. I see plenty of bitching now about the effects that ‘TV / video game babysitting’ had on you - you think handing a 2-year-old a tablet to shut them up isn’t just another incarnation of the same thing? 

We bitch about how fucked up algorithms are all over the internet, and you don’t think kids having nearly unmonitored access is a problem? You don’t see a potential for how this could be fucking someone up? Open a YouTube page as a new user (with zero history, cookies, etc.), click on an innocuous video, and let autoplay run for a bit. It gets weird real fast. (Even with filters.)

As difficult as ‘don’t worry about looking like the people in the magazines, they don’t look like that either’ was for us, you don’t think there’s a potential for more damage with social media etc. now? Everybody has access to filters and photoshop etc. The whole ‘influencer’ thing is that ‘anybody can be a star, you can make yourself, you don’t have to wait for a studio etc. to discover you.’ Seven-year-olds obsessing whether they look fat or if their instagrams can compete with some random person who’s edited the shit out of their photos (and they’re not a movie star, just a random person, so it must be real!) is messed up. 

Kids coming into schools with lower vocabulary levels because they haven’t heard as many words from people by a certain age - because it’s easier to sit them in front of a pretty, addicting game to keep them occupied and behaving than spend the time interacting with them person-to-person - is messed up.

There are so many amazing tools we have now that are awesome for helping kids learn and grow. (I would have killed to be able to have ‘how to’ videos on YouTube when I was a kid - there were so many things I wanted to learn that if my parents didn’t know or the school / library didn’t have resources on, I was SOL.) But I’d love to see actual conversations about the problems growing up with tech is causing - without it devolving into the usual thinkpieces and comments that do just break it down as ‘tech is bad!’ or ‘tech is fine, ya loser dinosaurs!’ There’s absolutely a healthy balance here somewhere. I just don’t think people are all that invested in finding it. 

[georebel-blog]

Just remade my Tumblr. Follow me for cool points.

[profeminist]

“Are you excited about going to the White House?” 

Megan Rapinoe: “I’m not going to the fucking White House.”

Watch the video here

Also: 

US lesbian soccer star refuses to sing national anthem to protest Trump

‘I’ll probably never put my hand over my heart. I’ll probably never sing the national anthem again,’ she said.

‘It’s kind of a good “Fuck you” to any sort of inequality or bad sentiments that the [Trump] administration might have towards people who don’t look exactly like him,’ she also explained.”

Megan Rapinoe takes a knee in support of Colin Kaepernick: “It’s the least I can do. Keep the converation going.”

[abitchistireddddd]

lmao @ all of the butthurt conservatives. GO, MEGAN! you do you, girl! we support you 1000000%

[smoochuu-deactivated20181228]

nonblack lesbians arent studs

[ororomunroedontpullout]

Look at this. Read it. Then read it again.

[studfem-arc-deactivated20180801]

Ok actually I’mma add something, as there are people confused in the tags about what this means. “Stud” (in the context of lesbianism) is a black identity identity akin to what butch would be considered. It’s a unique role and identity that originated from black lesbian communities (same as AG/aggressive(s) girls/stem/boi). There has been a problem with white lesbians in particular putting themselves in the stud tag and plastering their faces all other spaces/media made for STUDS (a specific group of GNC black lesbians). It’s really annoying and tiring because most of these white self pro claimed “studs” end up emulating masculine coded behaviour that is found in black (Specifically African American) culture, which literally makes y’all look like fools. Black identities and cultural mannerisms are not for your consumption or appropriation.

[mothman-noises]

Me, five minutes into any conversation:

[mysharona1987]

[hellokittyretard]

i want afab lesbians to like realize all the ways that society and people view you because of who you are (predatory, sex obsessed, etc) goes absolutely double for trans lesbians.

like i really want you guys to know that for sure because i get the sense some of you view us as secondary or just include us to be Nice.

all those things you go through because you are a lesbian, we also go through. except we dont only get our womanhood stripped away from straight women and men, we get it stripped away from even some transmisognistic lesbians .. like our own community

it really makes me sad to say that but like i dont ever see it talked about!!

like, we exist. there are weird medical theories and bigotted transmisognistic beliefs about us being predatory straight men trying to get to into womens spaces and pants, as if we dont already feel hyperaware of that because of being trans, we get it for loving women too, all because we arent available to men

trans lesbians have your experience, and worse. we arent some secondary bistander

i guarantee im going to get some fucked up notes on this that will further prove my point but i really wanted it to be said clearly!!

[saviourfinn]

BEYONCÉ???? BEYONCÉ ???????????????????

[spacebeyonce]

[niggazinmoscow]

I will never get tired of this

[gothhabiba]

you can point out to people clear as fucking day over and over that using the “they’re poor and needed to go to college and let’s just say they’re brown and Muslim to boot because why not” excuse implicitly values the college education & upward mobility of some American over the literal lives of non-Americans and they’d still just be like well……. they’re poor and needed to go to college :/ and it’s not even that they’re stupid it’s just that they literally do think that the upward mobility of some Americans is worth more than other people’s lives