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If you hate Iggy because of supposedly ~feminist~ reasons regarding cultural appropriation but accept Eminem because he’s “actually a good rapper” despite his terribly violent misogynist lyrics then I’m sorry to say that your feminism is shit and needs some work.
If only ya’ll hated misogynist Black men as much as you do a white girl maybe feminism would get somewhere.
Annoying heterosexual women who froth at the mouth about how much they hate men but are silently jerking off some dude on Instagram iMessage ect
I should have bought this dress tbh T_T
You really, really should have bought that dress it looks gorgeous on you!
I went hiking on Monday and I found this yumminess… Berries are a real superfood, especially wild berries, which are not treated or sprayed like cultivated ones. They are anti-aging both inside and out, and great for your general well being. Natural berry powders are the best because they have the nutritious seeds ground in them, and contain the same amount of vitamins as fresh ones do. 🍇🌱🍇🌱🍇🌱🍇
Article: Male and Female brains don't exist! Here's some science!
Ya'll: Yeah!! Binary gender isn't real haha take that there's no such thing as being born a woman no one is born a woman haha
Me: You realize this means that womanhood is not a feeling and that there is no such thing as being born with 'the wrong brain in the wrong body' right?
Ya'll: ...
Ya'll: Wait
Milk-making is murder.
No one likes to admit to doing something bad and instead of stopping the bad behaviour, we cover it up or lie about doing it. Similarly, some brands claim that they do not test their products on animals but some of these claims are a blatant lie.
These companies can easily stop testing on animals but instead they’ve found loopholes in the labelling system and choose to mislead consumers into believe that they don’t test on animals.
Loopholes in Products Labelled as “Cruelty-Free”
Be careful of companies claiming that their products are “cruelty-free” with broad statements, vague claims, and convincing logos. When you see a company using any of these claims, be sure to email them and ask for more information. If they don’t address your concerns and respond with a vague statement like “we take animal testing very seriously and do not test on animals” then they might be covering something up.
These claims are allowed and legal as there is no organization that monitors or regulates these statements. We’ve taken the guess work out of trying to understand the loopholes in these “cruelty-free” claims for you.
Claim: “Cruelty-Free“
What it means: ‘Cruelty-free’ can mean whatever we want it to mean! Customers like to hear that our products are “cruelty-free” so we tell them what they want to hear. Since no one regulates the use of the label “cruelty-free”, we can get away with it!
Claim: “We do not test on animals”
What it means: We don’t. But we ask and hire a third party to test on animals on our behalf. It’s like hiring a hitman -Technically, I didn’t kill anyone.
Claim: “This product was not tested on animals.”
What it means: What you are holding in your hands, the final product, was not tested on animals. But some of the raw ingredients that make up the end product was tested on animals. This technically isn’t a lie, we just choose not to disclose all the details.
Claim: “We do not test on animals, except when required by law.”
What it means: It’s not up to us. Even though it was our choice to use ingredients or sell in countries that require us to test on animals. We don’t have to use those ingredients or sell in those countries but in doing so, we are well aware that we have to pay to have our products tested on animals.
Claim: An unauthorized bunny logo
What it means: Bunnies are cute and we tend to sell more products when there’s a bunny logo on our packaging.
Unauthorized bunny logos do not hold any credibility or validity whereas certified cruelty-free bunny logos have some degree of legitimacy. In order for a company to be certified cruelty-free, they must meet a set of criteria and commit to a strict no animal testing policy by signing a pledge and showing proof of documents.
Don’t get sweet talked into believing a brand is cruelty-free. You can help end animal testing by voting with your consumer money and avoid purchasing products that have been tested on animals.
Source
—->Only buy products from companies that are certified and labeled as VEGAN AND CRUELTY-FREE – no animal testing.
—->Only donate to charities that do not conduct or pay others to conduct experiments on animals.
“Behind the Scenes With Serena Williams”
Photos by Tiziano Lugli.
Male and female brains aren’t wired differently
New research, published in October in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that despite size discrepancy, there’s no functional difference between men’s and women’s brains. “Male” brains and “female” brains simply don’t exist. In fact, there’s significant overlap.
and the myth of binary biological sex and gender essentialism continues to come crumbling down
@white-folk-is-the-devil lol do they even know what it is that they’re applauding
It’s so depressing to know that if I ever did a genealogy test and discovered where my ancestral homeland was I’d have to Google ‘how does _____ treat gay people’ to know whether or not my very existence was illegal or punishable by death.
It is nice to be asked to come home
Why did that feel so good?
This was…really nice
^^^…that really felt good❤
WE ARE GHANAIANS. we want our brothers/sisters to come home. ❤️❤️❤️
Every time is see this video son ❤️❤️❤️❤️
This was so genuine, it made me happy
I wanna go home 😩
It did feel really good.
Let’s go by the millions
By best friend/sister is Ghanaian and I’m going with her soon hopefully!
“and we love you! bye bye!” 😢😢 we love you too.
One of my best friends found out her bloodline is from Cameroon and I told her when she has money to, go there and enjoy herself. It’s a beautiful experience going to Africa in general, so to know exactly where you come from is just the icing on the cake!!
Please make this go viral. This is what I been saying and people out here don’t believe me, My friends in Ivory Coast and other African countries I’ve been to welcome the Black people overseas, I don’t know what africans you ran into that tell you we don’t like you, they mustve been raised with self hatred, and some might think they’re superior. A LOT of us love you, and wish you could come back. You are African. View Africa differently. They’ve divided us. Let’s come together and build again. You don’t have a nationality from Africa, but you are African, and that’s it. Ask yourself if your Black people in the country your’re in ever had a chance at a say of what they’re to be called, if not, who named you? You are African, robbed of your nationality, if anything a Stateless African, to work for a country who murdered people and stole it from someone else. I don’t believe in the word “African American”. come back home, you have ancestry here
Well…I know what my 2020 goal is..
@organically-indigo
I reblog this all the time… It’s the goal :)
goals, all the way.
Wait but how do they feel about gay people
This is such a good article though
The argument Pinto makes is that the story and the doll normalize 24-hour surveillance in the mind of a child, which makes them susceptible to more passively accept police-state surveillance as adults.
“I don’t think the elf is a conspiracy and I realize we’re talking about a toy,” Pinto told The Post. “It sounds humorous, but we argue that if a kid is okay with this bureaucratic elf spying on them in their home, it normalizes the idea of surveillance and in the future restrictions on our privacy might be more easily accepted.”
It’s based in a theory that was developed by Jeremy Bentham and popularized by Michel Foucault in which students, prisoners, factory workers and others were thought to function better (for whatever value of better) in a system called a panopticon, in which an individual is potentially under surveillance 24-hours a day, but never actually KNOWS whether or not he or she is being surveilled.
Pinto said she’s not the first person to be troubled by Elf on the Shelf’s surveilling. She’s said parents routinely contact her to say they changed the rules of the game after it made their families uneasy. And many kids, she said, often intuitively feel like spying and being a tattletale is wrong.
“A mom e-mailed me and told me that the first day they read the elf book and put the elf out, her daughter woke up crying because she was being watched by the elf,” Pinto recounted. “They changed the game so it wouldn’t scare the child.”
In addition to the problem of normalizing surveillance in the mind of a child, this also forces the child into a situation where they never feel like they are free to simply be themselves; they are forced to be “on their best behavior” at all times, unable to relax and make mistakes and do the job of growing up and being a child, because they never know if the elf is spying on them, ready and waiting to report back to Santa Claus that they’ve been bad.
Here is a link to the paper that the article is talking about
My co-worker got Elf on the Shelf for her four-year-old daughter last year, and was so freaked out by her daughter’s sudden and complete change in behaviour (uncharacteristically worried and anxious, while trying to be on her ‘best’ behaviour that she never kept up for family or at school) that she stuffed Elf in the garbage after a week, telling the daughter that the Elf had to go back to the North Pole to help Santa with Christmas.
Also read the paper linked above, it’s a good one.
I hate this entire concept so much.
Maybe we should just stop lying to our children for no good reason.
this is how i felt as a girl growing up in hell, and that feeling never completely goes away. growing up in a gaslighting home embeds the abuser’s gaze in the developing mind. i am alive now because of my shamatha meditation practice that has helped me integrate my abuser’s gaze into my own sense of self so i no longer live in fear of him “hearing” my thoughts.
^^^ This! Growing up in a home with an abusive father who often read my text messages and emails (for no other purpose than to maintain control and dominance over me) made me constantly scared and anxious. I was always afraid he was watching and waiting for me to do something ‘bad’ so that he could blow up and get furious with me.
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THIS IS AMAZING
Yet another business in my city that I didn’t know about. How amazing.
I thought of this exact idea in like 2010 for a project at school and I’m so glad this is a thing wow
i really need to know how children will be safe with male drivers. this is so fucking scary. it’s like a pedophile’s dream come true.
Study: 60 Percent of Black Females Are Sexually Abused Before They Turn 18
if you have the choice to do less harm, but you choose to cause harm anyway, it’s your job to ask yourself why, and it’s your job to come up with an answer. no amount of changing the subject will make that question go away.
Kys ta Shiu? Postcard, Isle of Man.
