Millennial confessions

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[orchidvioletindigo]

Idk why I’m surprised that people are already calling “PYNK” a lesbian song by a lesbian artist. Janelle’s last video showed her flirting with both a lady and a dude and she’s said in the past that she wants both women and men to be attracted to her. Like maybe consider the fact that bisexuality exists and bi women are just as capable of loving other women as lesbians are, so songs about women loving women aren’t necessarily exclusively lesbian. Bi women are allowed to express attraction to women, too.

[headphoneszombie]

Idk who Janelle is, but she sounds pretty damn Bi to me based off this post so

[tamhonksss]

Female Character: *Everybody is immediately drawn to her for no discernible reason*

Female Character: *Extremely powerful compared to all of the other characters within the story; there’s no reason as to how she became so powerful*

Female Character: *For some reason is able to quickly pick up new skills in a period of time comparable to a genius; no explanation for this too.*

Female Character:  *has virtually no weaknesses except she’s clumsy teehee :)*

Person: Isn’t this kind of a mary-sue?

Tumblr: why do misogynists like to invalidate strong female characters???????????

[edgemarquess]

If we’re going to be fair here, the reason so many people get upset when a female character is called a Mary Sue is because that label is thrown around so haphazardly and so very often handed to characters who really don’t deserve to be labeled as such. The controversy of the term comes from its overuse and misuse.

The term can be used correctly, but it is too often misused by people who see a capable strong female character and have a gut instinct to burn the witch and return to their male hero power fantasy.

[cameoamalthea]

To quote @ladyloveandjustice

“So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone on the planet. Every guy she meets falls in love with her, but in between torrid romances she rejects them all because she dedicated to what is Pure and Good. She has genius level intellect, Olympic-athelete level athletic ability and incredible good looks. She is consumed by terrible angst, but this only makes guys want her more. She has no superhuman abilities, yet she is more competent than her superhuman friends and defeats superhumans with ease. She has unshakably loyal friends and allies, despite the fact she treats them pretty badly. They fear and respect her, and defer to her orders. Everyone is obsessed with her, even her enemies are attracted to her. She can plan ahead for anything and she’s generally right with any conclusion she makes. People who defy her are inevitably wrong.

God, what a Mary Sue.

I just described Batman.”

(Source: http://ladyloveandjustice.tumblr.com/post/13913540194/mary-sue-what-are-you-or-why-the-concept-of-sue/amp)

The problem isn’t that characters are unrealistic. Heroes often are unrealistic and it’s ok to criticize media.

However, female characters are criticized where male characters aren’t.

Everything in OP’s post could apply to Luke Skywalker (and definitely applies to Anakin) but those characters won’t be criticized the way Rey has been (even though everything Rey does in The Force Awakens is believable). We are more willingly to believe in a male chosen one who can just do amazing things because he’s the hero.

Boys can have wishfulment stories but girls can only have realistic stories.

[stillthewordgirl]

^^^^

[headphoneszombie]

Idk what to say about this, because I somewhat agree with both lmao. I think there shouldn't be rules to story telling, and art is really subjective. But that doesn't mean I like everything.

I guess it's fine to have female wish fulfilment stories, but I personally don't like them for the same reasons I don't like Batman.

So have your powerful, flawless, female stories, but don't expect me to read it.

[truscumpositivity]

I may not believe in demigender, but I hope all transmeds who identify as such have a nice day <3 How you identify doesn’t mean you deserve hate.

[dysphoricprivilege]

No, no and NO

Transmedicalists who “identify” as demigender aren’t transmedicalists. I’m sorry but you either believe in science or you can’t call yourself someone who believes in science.

Also “identify as”? Oh my god NO

[truscumpositivity]

The only thing required to be a transmedicalist is to believe you need dysphoria to be trans, and that transgenderism needs to stay medicalized.

While there is research showing that nonbinary genders are highly unlikely to exist, it still can’t be 100% proven at the moment.

Identity is a choice. A trans person chooses to identify as demigender, but they don’t choose to identify as trans. They just are trans. There’s a difference.

[headphoneszombie]

Disagreeing with someone on one tiny thing shouldn't make you not able to respect them anyway.

[stone-hard-truth-deactivated201]

You wouldn’t fake a physical illness to get medicine for it

You wouldn’t fake a mental illness to get medicine for it

So why the fuck is it okay for people to fake being trans, lie about having dysphoria (WHICH IS A MEDICAL CONDITION!!!) to doctors to get treatment for something they don’t have? Fucking riddle me that eh

[launch-me-into-the-void-deactiv]

Tbh I know people that have faked scizophrenia to get anti pyschotics so she could brag about being mentally ill

[bi-kisses]

the lengths people go to for attention

[posting-disliker]

you actually think people are getting hrt without being trans

[bi-kisses]

Do you think they aren’t??

[loud-alien-kid]

people fake physical illnesses all the time sadly. for stuff like xanax, a medical weed card, etc. however, now for the people who actually need those, it’s hard as fuck to be prescribed that.

[assigned-cryptid-at-birth]

Autistic people are not:

In need of a cure

r*tarded/dumb/stupid

All children

All male or AMAB

All nonverbal

Vaccine-Injured

Brain damaged

Your “missing” normal child

Behaving poorly or being “defiant” simply by stimming or being themselves

Diseased or sick

In need of ABA therapy

Unable to have a voice and speak for themeslves

Cold, callous, unempathetic robots/monsters

Like Sheldon Cooper

What Autism $peaks and TACA tells you they are!

Autistic people are:

Awesome, creative, interesting people

Diverse

Allowed to stim and act autistic in public without being judged

Good enough as they are

Able to have a voice and speak out against their oppression, whether that be with actual speech or sign language or AAC or the Internet

Able to be adults

Simply people with a different structured brain, that’s it

Human beings with thoughts and feelings

Living breating people who can SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES

Hella cute

Super brave for surviving in such an ableist world

Autistic People Don’t:

Want your pity

Need a cure

Need ABA therapy

Have to speak in order to be considered valid

Deserve the ableist way they are treated

Like Autism $peaks or TACA

Want to be all treated like children

Want to be invalidated and told they’re “not autistic enough”

Want to be called or treated like burdens by their own families

Need “rescuing” from their own neurotype

Autistic people do:

Need acceptance, not awareness

Want ableism to be recognised in society as a legitimate method of oppression

Need support and accessibility

Want to be respected and treated like people

Want to be heard

Autistic people are not silent monsters.

Listen to us.

[autspoon]

I get what this post is about, and I agree with like most of what it’s saying. But I think that “male or amab” is a pretty unnecessary and inappropriate way to word things.

[assigned-cryptid-at-birth]

I meant that people think that people who were assigned female at birth or are cis girls can’t be autistic. My mum actually thinks that. That’s what I meant.

[peaceshine3]

[bobbsayshi]

I looked it up just to be sure and this shit is Fr y'all The Tasmanian people had a dialect and way of life that was different from other Aborigines. The British killed the men and women of the tribes and took away their food supply when they first arrived. Later they tried to “civilize” the Tasmanians and subject them to foreign diseases to kill off the last of them. The last full-blood Tasmanian woman was said to have lived until the year1888.

[eternalfratboy]

Wow!

[norest4thaweary]

at this point, what isnt racist in this country??!!

[jjsinterlude]

WHAT THE FUCK

[prettyboyshyflizzy]

Wow 😳😥

[marauders4evr]

As a History Concentration with a rather unsettling love for Looney Tunes and other classic cartoons, I never thought that I’d see the day where my two completely unrelated passions merged up so wonderfully.

And yet, here we are.

So let’s talk about Tasmania, shall we?

Actually, pretty much everything that the OP said about Tasmania is correct.

By the way, her name was Truganini (Nickname: Lallah Rookh.) If you’re going to use her legacy to try to criticize an old cartoon character you should at least give her the common courtesy of a name.

Now then, let’s talk about Looney Tunes.

Or more specifically, let us talk about the Tasmanian Devil.

Taz for short.

Great character.

Fun, energetic, hungry, and not a racist portrayal in any way, shape, or form.

The statement that Taz is a racist portrayal of the Tasmanian people is completely and one hundred percent wrong.

Now I know what you’re thinking…

“Alright marauders4evr, what is the Tasmanian Devil based off of?”

Well, Im glad that you asked.

Gather ‘round and listen closely now because this is going to be one of the greatest revelations that you will ever hear in your mortal lives.

The Tasmanian Devil…

…is based off of the Tasmanian Devil!

Yeah!

It’s a real animal!

An energetic animal who eats everything in its sight.

And Robert McKimson based a character off of it.

Speaking of one of the great men behind Looney Tunes…

Let’s talk about Mel Blanc!

I love him!

I wish that I could have met him!

He’s one of my late heroes.

Phenomenal voice actor.

The best that has ever existed.

The Man of 1000 Voices he’s called.

(And that’s an underestimate!)

The point is that he took a lot of pride in his work.

So what did he base Taz’s dialect off of?

I can tell you right now that it wasn’t the Tasmanian people.

Mel Blanc based the sound of the Tasmanian Devil…

…off of the Tasmanian Devil!

Here’s a clip of Taz’s dialect:

And here’s a clip of the Tasmanian Devil’s scream:

(Chilling, ain’t it?)

(On a side note, I just love to imagine Mel in the recording booth, screaming and growling before calmly doing Bugs’ voice!)

In conclusion…

What happened to the Tasmanian people truly is saddening and I wish that it hadn’t happened.

THE TASMANIAN DEVIL (TAZ) IS NOT A RACIST PORTRAYAL IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM

THE TASMANIAN DEVIL IS A REAL ANIMAL!

MEL BLANC WAS AWESOME AND DESERVES YOUR UTMOST RESPECT!

T-T-T-T-T-T-THAT’S ALL FOLKS!

[spider-hands-mannos-deactivated]

Fabulous

[thatjedirey]

There’s enough actual, legitimate racism in this world. Speak out against that instead of making shit up.

[tranny-levi-deactivated20180721]

I thought it was common knowledge that all the animals in Looney Tunes were based on actual animals, and aren’t meant to represent people.

[headphoneszombie]

You couldn't just Google Tasmanian devil before trying to start a witch hunt?

[sixpenceee]

Visual Representation of Mental Disorders

Christian Sampson, a 21-year-old photographer from Peru, Indiana started taking photos around the theme of mental illness in 2014 for an advanced photography class.

“It actually started out as physical illnesses like cancer, but I wanted to create something that people struggled with every day but couldn’t see,” he tells The Huffington Post Canada. “I wanted the majority of people to relate to them.”

With limited resources, Sampson asked his friends to be his models and researched some of the most common mental disorders around the world. His work brought him down to 12 smaller topics, ranging from depression to schizophrenia to insomnia. In eight weeks, Sampson designed and photographed each shot, making sure his version of each disorder was accurate. (Source)

Panic

Click read more for the rest of the pictures:

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[worldofatlas]

Seriously love these

[nillyandthefunkybunch]

HOLY SHIT THESE ARE….WOW! No words here.

[bunnyislonely-deactivated201707]

So accurate though.

[u-s-amairwrecka-deactivated2016]

these are incredible

[bricstr2]

I went in excepting them to be off, but as people in my family suffer from a lot of these, they are scarily accurate

[angryhalfling]

The pictures of depression and autism are spot on.

[xmimiluvsjesseo]

Amazing.

[headphoneszombie]

Some of these make sense to me, like the insomnia one and panic look accurate to me. But some of them I don't get. I don't know what the autism one us supposed to be implying, that makes it look more like multiple personality disorder to me. :/

[nekobakaz]

Instead of Light It Up Blue for Autism Awareness, Red Instead for Autism Acceptance Month. 

[headphoneszombie]

I saw this on Pinterest. Good point tbh.

[cllynchauthor]

Head’s up everyone! Autism Speaks has begun reaching out to Autistic bloggers asking them to participate in their campaign on the 2nd. They are calling it “Autism Is” and are including a link to this set of “guidelines” on how to promote their campaign.

Key points from this document that Autism Speaks is distributing:

- It instructs the “influencers” (and keep in mind they are sending this to AUTISTIC influencers) that autism should be lower case and says that autism should be referred to as a disorder not a disease. - Later in the document it refers to autism as a disease. - It instructs people to only use blue gradient fonts - it says they will be using the hashtag #autismis - It orders participants to send Autism Speaks their analytics after the campaign. - The blogger who received this media kit asked if it was intended for paid influencers, because of the bossy tone of the document. She was assured no, they are not paying the influencers. They’re just bossing them around for no reason. - I went to the site autismis.org which they are using for this campaign - presumably to try to distance it from their much-maligned name - and it encourages autistic people to upload their stories to this campaign via Facebook and Instagram.

…anyone up for a hashtag/website take over?

Please reblog to spread the word!

[assigned-cryptid-at-birth]

fucking take over it! Taking over Autism Speaks’ initiative that uses autistic people as tools would be a GREAT THING TO DO FOR THE AUTISTIC REVOLUTION I AM SO DOING THAT

[sass-is-my-x]

Cool, but what do we say?

[assigned-cryptid-at-birth]

Say your true feelings about Autism Speaks. Talk about how how your autism shapes who you are. Talk about the ableism in society. Discuss how unfairly autistics are treated in society just for being autistic.

[hadrean69]

Iceland to become first European country to ban circumcision

Religious leaders have reacted with outrage to a bill proposed by MPs in Iceland that would criminalise male circumcision. The bill proposes a six-year prison term for anyone found guilty of “removing sexual organs in whole or in part”. Salmann Tamimi, president of the Muslim Association of Iceland, described the proposal as an “attack on religion”.

Yes!!!! ICELAND is the last bastion!

[sonilfj-deactivated20180912]

Nice

[pennsylvanian-patriot-deactivat]

Power move

[such-justice-wow]

Dude its a dick not a floral arrangement, it has functions in that. Dicks look gross either way its just uncircumcised dicks have the benefits of not being mutilated to remove sensation and make sex worse.

[cisnowflake]

Thinking that we should mutilate baby boys without their consent because you prefer the aesthetics of a circumcised cock is peak entitlement.

[mint-corset]

Let me chime in here… excuse my thotness.

All dicks are valid as they naturally are.

Adults who were circumcised are also valid, you didn’t ask for it and I’m sure your dick is nice.

[cisnowflake]

Saved forever.

[bettafrien]

I do see a religious freedom argument to be made here though…

[cisnowflake]

I don’t. Your rights end where someone else’s begin. You can practice whatever crazy religious nonsense you want but you shouldn’t be able to cut off another humans body parts because your God said so, even if that human is your child. Sorry.

[headphoneszombie]

I agree with cisnowflake.

[headphoneszombie]

Tbh I'm kinda tired of feminists whining about how bad periods are, like yes they suck, but you're gonna have a lot of those. So get used to it.

Half the population has them.

[spongebob-autisticquestions]

If the first or only thing you think when you see an autistic person is “I feel sorry for the people who live with them”, you need to rethink your attitude towards autism!

[headphoneszombie]

Wtf do people think this?

[atomjameses-deactivated20200602]

is anybody else unsettled by how a lot of protests have turned into a “who can make the most clever sign” contest

[gnetophyte]

right and i feel like that distracts from and decontextualizes the original intent of the protest. protest slogans become another thing to consume, another commodity to produce and to enjoy

[juxtapoesition]

Is there any way to petition to apa to change how they state something

Because the quite literally lump gnc in woth transgender and thats ugly.

[adhdidas-deactivated20190120]

i REALLY wish there is a way to change it, my brother is in nursing school and the school uses the apa’s definition for “transgender” and we once got into an argument on how he thinks you dont need dysphoria and being gnc is now trans, at the end of the argument he said i was being discriminatory for believing you do need dysphoria and people who are comfortable in their sex arent trans.

[juxtapoesition]

Lumping them with us hurts both groups

[tamhonksss]

what the absolute fuck is going on

TIL that if you’re naturally small your existence is inherently ‘irresponsible and dangerous’

[headphoneszombie]

Do you want me to not have clothes that fit

Because fuck

[colon-backslash]

TRANSTRENDERS AREN’T FUCKING REAL!

If someone sees a trans person on tv talking about how they don’t ID with their assigned gender and go “Wait you can do that? I want to do that!”

it’s probably

because

they’re fucking trans!

If you see something on tumblr or youtube or the news or whatever that makes something click and you realize you’re trans that’s fucking great and don’t let anyone tell you different!

ANYWAY FUCK TRUSCUM AND EVERYTHING THEY STAND FOR. 

[wtf-fishbones]

Omfg “I want to do that!”

As if being trans is some fun dressup game. Being transgender is not about gender roles. I don’t fit gender roles. Things such as dresses, babyshowers, etc make me extremely uncomfortable. But guess what..that doesn’t make me transgender because (thank godddd) I don’t have gender dysphoria.

Its great to see society’s gender roles and say “Fuck that, that doesn’t define me” but it doesn’t make you trans. It makes you a normal human being because no one acts exactly like society dictates their gender should.

[headphoneszombie]

According to op, being trans is no different than the Hannah Montana phase I had when I was nine.