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[thecalliecocat]

WHERE’S THE LIE THO

[octo-sad]

so basically… To be a good man you should only be with one woman for your entire life? And if you’ve been with someone that’s disgusting? Ok.

[thecalliecocat]

dude. it’s a play-off of how people treat women by slut shaming them. see how ridiculous it sounds when they switch genders? then why is it that way for women. 

[themoonisfree]

👆🏾

[iamdarthvader]

That individual actually helped this post become better by showing how men perceive women in today’s society and their reactions towards oppression. Double standards are wild.

[virgo-man]

Make it Simple, But Significant.

[dustrial-inc]

This is beautiful.

[sunflowerdope]

❤️

[hushhushahush]

Favorite couple

[savage-affinity]

Context to the story:

The girl cut her hair once so that she could have bangs. The mother disapproved and decided to cut off 15" of her hair as punishment. The girl later again decided to change her hair style and the above was the result; she shaved her daughters head.

Having a few personal experiences with this kind of invasive behaviour it really hurts to see someone go through these kinds of things, where the parent tries to live vicariously through their childs life, to attempt to shape them and make their decisions for them depending on what THEY would do and give their child NO independence or self expression.

Thankfully, this mother thought her actions were 100% justifiable and posted it to Facebook as a bit of a “haha, teach my kid a lesson” and has been hit with brutal recrimination from her community and has had visits from Child Protective Services.

For so many young (and older) girls their hair is their self expression, and in several months I hope this girl will have hers back.

[jackpowerx]

Children are not their parent’s possessions.

Children are NOT their parents’ possessions.

CHILDREN ARE NOT THEIR PARENTS’ POSSESSIONS!!!

[darksilenceinsuburbia]

Alan Powdrill: Covered

1&2.  “I was 17. I hid the first few from my parents for many years and by the time they found out they knew this was going to be my life.” Philip, 27, Southend-on-Sea.

 3&4. “I was 51 when I started and my father was already dead and my mum didn’t say anything as she was in the early stages of dementia” Graham, 58, Cleethorpes

5&6..  “I love being different and everyday I’m asked about them. Good tattoos aren’t cheap, cheap tattoos are not good.” Izzy, 48, Maidstone

.7&8  “My tattoos are part of who I am and I’ll always love my bodysuit now and when I’m 80. The love I get for what I look like is what it’s all about.” Victoria, 37, Coventry

9&10.  “They have given me confidence in life since my Crohn’s illness, I will love them in the future like I do now.” Peter, 38, Colchester

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[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

I think what bothers me so much about the “feminists are ugly” or “feminists are hairy” or “feminists are lesbian” stereotypes is— So fucking what? Some of us ARE ugly. Some of us ARE hairy. Some of us ARE lesbians. And it shouldn’t fucking invalidate anything we’re fucking saying to you. But you know, if you believed that, if you actually believed that our sexual usefulness to men is irrelevant to the conversation about our basic human rights, you wouldn’t be a fucking misogynist, would you?

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

If you’re reblogging this and adding conventionally beautiful heterosexual feminists, you’re missing my point entirely.

Our attractiveness to men and/or our willingness to fuck them should not determine the validity of our movement.

Stop fighting the “Feminists are ugly lesbians” stereotype by shouting, “No, we’re not!” Fight it by acknowledging that that’s a shitty critique of a movement for people who want our human rights. The fact that this is even a problem - that our cause is so often critiqued not by discussions about our ideas but about whether or not we are sexually attractive to men or willing to fuck them - is proof that we’re being viewed not as human beings who deserve rights but as sexual objects.

When someone dismisses your cause because they can’t/don’t want to fuck the people in it, your response should not be, “LOOK, SOME OF US ARE FUCKABLE!” It should be, “What a shitty person you are for believing that’s a requirement for us to be worth listening to.”

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[thechargrey]

A little tip for parents with children in school (or for children in school to show their parents)

My mom gave me and my sister two days every semester that she called “mental health days.”

Those were days, that for ANY reason, and without having to tell my mom the reason, we could skip the day of school. We’d just tell her we were taking a mental health day and she’d call the school and let them know we were not coming in. 

#1 This helped keep our grades up by lowering our stress levels. I never got a C in any grade school class. The majority of my classes I received A’s. I also took 4 AP classes and they were not weighted. Trust me, it made a difference.

#2 I never felt the need to skip school. I knew if I ever wanted to or needed to my mom would help me. 

Your kids are young and need time to recover. They need some days where they can do nothing but stay in bed for no reason. They need their own space where their privacy is respected. It will make a huge difference.

[buckwildbarrelracer-deactivated]

Will do this when I have kids

[mossman-making-stars]

I would like to add something to this for the teachers too! (I may have already told this story on tumblr but OH WELL I’m telling it again)

One of my math teachers in high school had a policy called The Red Beanbags of Don’t Bother Me. He kept a pile of red beanbags on his desk, and at any time of the day you could go over and take one. From that point on, as long as you were in his classroom with a beanbag on your desk, no one could bother you. He wouldn’t call on you to answer problems, no students were allowed to talk to you, and perhaps most importantly, no one could ask why you took a bean bag that day. The only caveat was that if you used the beanbag more than three times in a semester you had to go talk to the school counselor about it.

I only used the beanbag a handful of times during those 4 years, but it was a godsend when I needed it. I knew people who would camp in his classroom during lunch (or even skip class and stay there all day) under the protection of the beanbag. As a teacher there’s not always a lot you can do for a student suffering mental illness/emotional abuse/ other struggles, but giving them some space and privacy in your class can make a HUGE difference.

[learnsohard]

My mom gave me mental health days in high school too and they were so important! I love the beanbags idea - what an awesome teacher!

[cosmic-noir]

Gonna do this!

[g-l-i-t-t-e-r]

So ya know how anti-choice trashcans say "what if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of a fetus that gets aborted?"

But since fetuses already knowing advanced medical sciences aren’t a thing, I figured I’d provide some more valid alternatives:

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of someone who has a “black sounding” name and gets their school application thrown out?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of someone who accidentally becomes pregnant where abortion is illegal or very difficult to access and they are forced to quit the sciences to raise the child?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of a fat person whose credibility in the medical field is destroyed because they are assumed to be “unhealthy” and a hypocrite?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of a person who starves to death?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of someone who is murdered by drones or police?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of someone who is raped and cannot continue their research due to trauma?

What if the cure for cancer lives in the mind of someone who is killed in a shooting because some below average teen boy couldn’t get laid?

I mean if you wanna talk about real life actual things that prevent scientific advancement look no further than capitalism, misogyny, ableism, racism, violence, oppression. But I guess that doesn’t allow you to control people’s bodies and push your gross agenda.

[bijah-tuu]

Say it again.

[sam-winchester-cries-during-sex]

For the white middle aged men in the back

[homoschedule]

just a heads up

if you are cisgender and  arguing with a transgender person about what is or isnt transphobic then you have already lost

if you are white and arguing with a poc about what is or isnt racist then you have already lost

if you are straight and arguing with a queer person about what is or isnt homophobic then you have already lost

if you are part of a majority and arguing with an oppressed group about what is or isnt offensive to the oppressed group then you have already lost and your arguing is only helping to perpetuate oppressive ideals and commentary

[the-glitter-clit]

[puddles-of-moonlight]

WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND

[chelsea-eve69-deactivated201509]

So for all you feminists out their who think that all men should die, remember, you are not a feminist.

[basilsilos]

reblogging for the last comment

[republicangarbage-blog]

Yes

[xtheycallmeslimshadyx]

Legit question, I’m not trying to hate on feminists or anything. Why is it called feminist if they’re for equality?

[rockymightartsometimes]

castiel-knight-of-hell:

That’s a very good question and thank you for asking so politely. 

The word feminism was coined by Charles Fourier in 1837, a French philosopher who advocated for the emancipation of women because he believed society treated women as slaves. We weren’t allowed to vote, own anything, or work a real job. Women were ruled by their fathers/household patriarch until they married at which time they’d be under the rule of their husband. If a woman did not belong to male household she was shunned by society and had very little means to make money, most of them unsavory. You know the idiom “rule of thumb”? That comes from a running joke that started in the 1600s, and was still around in Fourier’s time, that said it was okay for a man to beat a woman with a stick as long as it wasn’t any thicker than his thumb. 

The point of the word feminist, and the feminist movement, has never been to say that women are better than men. The point is that women and things associated with women have been given a lesser place in society and we want to bring those things up to a place of equality. The focus is on the feminine because that’s what’s being pushed down. However, focusing on the feminine does not mean we’re focusing only women. Men are belittled and called “less of a man” anytime they portray a trait that is associated with femininity. If women and the feminine were equal to men and masculinity then that wouldn’t happen. Feminism is about raising up things associated with females to have an equal place in society as the things associated with males. It’s called feminism, not equalism, because the focus is on raising up not tearing down. Equalism would suggest that male things need to come down to a lower level so that female things can meet it in the middle. That’s not the point. The point is to raise up the feminine so that it’s on the same playing field that the masculine is already on. We don’t want men to lower themselves, we just want them to make room for us.

[glenn-griffon]

This needs to be spread far and wide to everyone on tumblr. 

[ambris]

ALL OF THIS.

THANK YOU

[mai-magi]

This is very thorough explanation, thank you!

[cdeine-crzy]

[i-hate-the-beach]

girls this is important as fuck

[did-you-know]

Source

[ximune-blog]

I saw a news report about this on T.V., she was a straight A Student who had perfect attendance and everything. Everyone loved and respected her for her skills, but when she started this experiment and people thought she was pregnant, they started treating her like garbage. Even her teachers started looking down on her like she was scum of the earth. The only people who knew she was doing this as an experiment were her school principal, her health care teacher, her boyfriend, and her mother. Her own siblings thought she was pregnant! I mean even her friends turned on her, it was horrid. Very very sad, and as soon as she revealed during an assembly that the pregnancy was false, a lot of people were in shock as she brought up all the horrible things they said and did to her because they thought she was pregnant. The reason for the experiment was to see how people would react and treat her if they thought she was pregnant, as opposed as to treating her as the straight A “Perfect” student they usually did. And it proved that people were horrible scumbags to her as soon as they thought she was.

[inqueering]

holy shit. this is fucking awesome

[bolinator]

I read this chick’s book! It was so cool.

[kinkyconcepts]

Her book is The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez

[boxlunches]

Pretty sure I reblogged something about this in the past, but now someone’s posted a book title and I want to read this book

[bitchesitscanon-deactivated2024]

I believe there’s a documentary of this on Netflix.

[lookatallthosereblogs-deactivat]

THE BOOK IS SO GOOD GO READ IT GO READ IT NOW

[theinturnetexplorer]

Healthcare in the US

[the-perks-of-being-black]

[deanandsam-sexchester]

DOES THIS NOT SOUND FAMILIAR NOW?

[tinyheartsinmycupcakes]

Holy shit.

[didyouknowmagic]

YALL STAY SLEEPING ON THIS FILM. HUNCHBACK WAS ALL ABOUT HOW POWER CAN CORRUPT AND THAT THOSE WHO SERVE THE “PEOPLE” CAN BE THE CRUELLEST TO THEM, ESPECIALLY MINORITIES.

[vulture-jack]

Theres a reason I refuse to shut up about how important and good this movie is and the fact that Frollo is the best villain in Disney History because he represents several very real threats that people face today. It deals with a lot of issues. If you havent seen it in a while, take a look. Its amazing.

[witchoncampus]

HOW TO VOTE 2016

SO INSTEAD OF TELLING YOU WHO TO VOTE FOR, I’M GOING TO TELL YOU HOW TO VOTE BECAUSE NOBODY EVER SEEMS TO DO THAT.

Remember that the 2016 presidential election does not just take place in 2016. The primaries are just as important because they decide who gets to run for president in the national election in November. 

Tentative primary & caucuses dates

2016 candidates I

2016 candidates II

How to register to vote

How to file for an absentee ballot

How to file for early voting

PLEASE VOTE. IT IS YOUR RIGHT. IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO HOLD POLITICAL FIGURES RESPONSIBLE. IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO SEE THE CHANGE YOU WANT. 

[fruitynutsandgoodgrains-deactiv]

#outvoteourparents

[binah-lance]

man, teenaged girls aren’t allowed to have a genuine interest in anything without being ridiculed for it. if a girl likes ugg boots and starbucks she’s stupid and stereotypical, but if she likes combat boots and obscure coffee houses she’s a hipster wannabe and is trying too hard. if a girl listens to boy bands and other popular artists she’s a dumb follower, if she reads comics or plays video games she’s a poser/fake geek girl, if she likes sex she’s a slut but if she doesn’t like sex she’s a prude, if she wears makeup she’s fake but if she doesn’t wear makeup she’s a slob, if she has low self-esteem she needs to learn to love herself but if she has high self-esteem she’s overconfident and vain, if she’s interested in politics she’s a crazy social justice warrior but if she prefers to stay out of social matters she’s a dumb airhead. girls are literally mocked for every single thing they like or do, no matter what those things are, and i’m really really sick of it.