[yorkscoffee]

happy birthday nanako!!! happy deathday shinjiro!!!

[thevoyaging]

River House, Donzy, Burgundy, France

photo via nanne

[pauladoodles-deactivated2024063]

Purification

[ampervadasz]

[recklesslyinfatuated]

Some days. Not gonna lie.

[tiktoks-we-like]

[daftpostpunk]

did Jesus pay for our sins with cash or credit

[bones-and-bricks]

he used praypal

[moody-nature]

Untitled // By Taylor Beach

[blue--folder]

Patron saint of women who don’t want to talk to you on public transit

[everythingfox]

“My neighbour’s dog peaking through the fence to say hello”

(Source)

[eggplont]

[qtt-art]

Reverend daughter, Harrowhark Nonagesimus!

[revretch]

A lot of younger people don't seem to understand that politically incorrect humor and progressive humor were once largely the same thing--and if they do, don't seem to understand why.

It used to be that if you were LGBT, you died in silence. That was how AIDS took so many lives: people simply would not talk about it. By being so loud that people couldn't help but notice you, you forced them to look at you, and to look at the problems that affected you. It was a similar idea with issues affecting other oppressed groups: Just make them notice that something is wrong, whatever it takes. (You think Holocaust deniers are bad now? Think how bad it must have been that comedy *from* Jewish comedians back then looks anti-Semitic now!)

There was also the idea of reclamation. If you took a slur, and made it something that you were proud of, the idea was that it couldn't be used to hurt you. That's *why* we started using the terms "gay" and "queer" for ourselves (and for a while, "d*ke" and "f*g" were in vogue too). After all, how could it be an insult if you were proud of it?

Of course, now the cultural dynamic has changed dramatically. Conservatives aren't prudes, so being loud and bold has no effect on them, and they've been louder and bolder about using the terms we tried to reclaim. LGBT people and women's rights are visible, and the nature of the Internet makes any problem immediately more visible, so now the issue is addressing them respectfully.

I don't want there to be this continued gulf between younger and older liberals, this question of who is right and who is wrong. The different approaches are right for different times, and different situations. Older people need to adapt, but younger people need to understand why this dynamic evolved to begin with.

Sorry for the ramble. I saw this change happen in my lifetime, and I still can't believe that George Carlin's sense of humor would be associated with conservatives now. Please look back and recognize the people who would have been your allies, and don't let your enemies claim them now.

[revretch]

I want to add that this is what you should keep in mind when viewing something as a product of its time. Pink Flamingos was pro-LGBT for the period. Lovecraft was a racist fuck for any period.

[orpheusilver]

absolutely fascinating when someone likes a post you reblogged in 2017 and nothing else like king how did you even find that

[popokko-deactivated20210315]

did anyone else grow up near a tourist attraction or historical site or something and feel completely blindsided when you eventually realized it was like. a bucket list item for hundreds if not thousands of people

[olliums]

[fieldcore]

the earth right before sunrise is filled with an implacable energy i want to be surrounded by constantly

[shensis]

jenny slate, little weirds.

[getoffmybloghoe-deactivated2018]

wtf is a gotye 

[maliciousmelons]

somebody that i used to know

[mstrchu]

i dont think zagreus knows what college is