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please do not accuse 15 yr olds of being pedophilia apologists. theyre misguided children. if an adult is spouting pedophilia apologism they are a danger and should be attacked, but if a child is then they are IN danger of becoming a victim, and need to be informed for their own safety.

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word… a lot of teens get groomed to think illegal age gaps are normal and if you make the kid feel like they’re the bad guy it just cements the idea further :(

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not to mention that most kids literally and physically CAN’T understand how young they seem to older people. Kids don’t can’t grasp their young-ness until they’re old enough to look back and really see.

So for a young person to imagine a young character in a relationship with an older one, they don’t see the problem. As adults it’s important we take the time to educate kids about this, but don’t condemn them if they don’t immediately understand because they’re not able to see the big picture yet.

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US CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY & GLOBAL TERRORISM

US Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction The indiscriminate use of bombs by the US, usually outside a declared war situation, for wanton destruction, for no military objectives, whose targets and victims are civilian populations, or what we now call “collateral damage.”

Japan (1945)

China (1945-46)

Korea & China (1950-53)

Guatemala (1954, 1960, 1967-69)

Indonesia (1958)

Cuba (1959-61)

Congo (1964)

Peru (1965)

Laos (1964-70)

Vietnam (1961-1973)

Cambodia (1969-70)

Grenada (1983)

Lebanon (1983-84)

Libya (1986)

El Salvador (1980s)

Nicaragua (1980s)

Iran (1987)

Panama (1989)

Iraq (1991-2000)

Kuwait (1991)

Somalia (1993)

Bosnia (1994-95)

Sudan (1998)

Afghanistan (1998)

Pakistan (1998)

Yugoslavia (1999)

Bulgaria (1999)

Macedonia (1999)

US Use of Chemical & Biological Weapons The US has refused to sign Conventions against the development and use of chemical and biological weapons, and has either used or tested (without informing the civilian populations) these weapons in the following locations abroad:

Bahamas (late 1940s-mid-1950s)

Canada (1953)

China and Korea (1950-53)

Korea (1967-69)

Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (1961-1970)

Panama (1940s-1990s)

Cuba (1962, 69, 70, 71, 81, 96)

And the US has tested such weapons on US civilian populations, without their knowledge, in the following locations:

Watertown, NY and US Virgin Islands (1950)

SF Bay Area (1950, 1957-67)

Minneapolis (1953)

St. Louis (1953)

Washington, DC Area (1953, 1967)

Florida (1955)

Savannah GA/Avon Park, FL (1956-58)

New York City (1956, 1966)

Chicago (1960)

And the US has encouraged the use of such weapons, and provided the technology to develop such weapons in various nations abroad, including:

Egypt

South Africa

Iraq

US Political and Military Interventions since 1945 The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since 1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests), undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth. It has done so in nations such as

China (1945-51)

South Africa (1960s-1980s)

France (1947)

Bolivia (1964-75)

Marshall Islands (1946-58)

Australia (1972-75)

Italy (1947-1975)

Iraq (1972-75)

Greece (1947-49)

Portugal (1974-76)

Philippines (1945-53)

East Timor (1975-99)

Korea (1945-53)

Ecuador (1975)

Albania (1949-53)

Argentina (1976)

Eastern Europe (1948-56)

Pakistan (1977)

Germany (1950s)

Angola (1975-1980s)

Iran (1953)

Jamaica (1976)

Guatemala (1953-1990s)

Honduras (1980s)

Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71)

Nicaragua (1980s)

Middle East (1956-58)

Philippines (1970s-90s)

Indonesia (1957-58)

Seychelles (1979-81)

Haiti (1959)

South Yemen (1979-84)

Western Europe (1950s-1960s)

South Korea (1980)

Guyana (1953-64)

Chad (1981-82)

Iraq (1958-63)

Grenada (1979-83)

Vietnam (1945-53)

Suriname (1982-84)

Cambodia (1955-73)

Libya (1981-89)

Laos (1957-73)

Fiji (1987)

Thailand (1965-73)

Panama (1989)

Ecuador (1960-63)

Afghanistan (1979-92)

Congo (1960-65, 1977-78)

El Salvador (1980-92)

Algeria (1960s)

Haiti (1987-94)

Brazil (1961-64)

Bulgaria (1990-91)

Peru (1965)

Albania (1991-92)

Dominican Republic (1963-65)

Somalia (1993)

Cuba (1959-present)

Iraq (1990s)

Indonesia (1965)

Peru (1990-present)

Ghana (1966)

Mexico (1990-present)

Uruguay (1969-72)

Colombia (1990-present)

Chile (1964-73)

Yugoslavia (1995-99)

Greece (1967-74)

US Perversions of Foreign Elections The US has specifically intervened to rig or distort the outcome of foreign elections, and sometimes engineered sham “demonstration” elections to ward off accusations of government repression in allied nations in the US sphere of influence. These sham elections have often installed or maintained in power repressive dictators who have victimized their populations. Such practices have occurred in nations such as:

Philippines (1950s)

Italy (1948-1970s)

Lebanon (1950s)

Indonesia (1955)

Vietnam (1955)

Guyana (1953-64)

Japan (1958-1970s)

Nepal (1959)

Laos (1960)

Brazil (1962)

Dominican Republic (1962)

Guatemala (1963)

Bolivia (1966)

Chile (1964-70)

Portugal (1974-75)

Australia (1974-75)

Jamaica (1976)

El Salvador (1984)

Panama (1984, 89)

Nicaragua (1984, 90)

Haiti (1987, 88)

Bulgaria (1990-91)

Albania (1991-92)

Russia (1996)

Mongolia (1996)

Bosnia (1998)

US Versus World at the United Nations The US has repeatedly acted to undermine peace and human rights initiatives at the United Nations, routinely voting against hundreds of UN resolutions and treaties. The US easily has the worst record of any nation on not supporting UN treaties. In almost all of its hundreds of “no” votes, the US was the “sole” nation to vote no (among the 100-130 nations that usually vote), and among only 1 or 2 other nations voting no the rest of the time. Here’s a representative sample of US votes from 1978-1987:

US Is the Sole “No” Vote on Resolutions or Treaties

For aid to underdeveloped nations

For the promotion of developing nation exports

For UN promotion of human rights

For protecting developing nations in trade agreements

For New International Economic Order for underdeveloped nations

For development as a human right

Versus multinational corporate operations in South Africa

For cooperative models in developing nations

For right of nations to economic system of their choice

Versus chemical and biological weapons (at least 3 times)

Versus Namibian apartheid

For economic/standard of living rights as human rights

Versus apartheid South African aggression vs. neighboring states (2 times)

Versus foreign investments in apartheid South Africa

For world charter to protect ecology

For anti-apartheid convention

For anti-apartheid convention in international sports

For nuclear test ban treaty (at least 2 times)

For prevention of arms race in outer space

For UNESCO-sponsored new world information order (at least 2 times)

For international law to protect economic rights

For Transport & Communications Decade in Africa

Versus manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction

Versus naval arms race

For Independent Commission on Disarmament & Security Issues

For UN response mechanism for natural disasters

For the Right to Food

For Report of Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination

For UN study on military development

For Commemoration of 25th anniversary of Independence for Colonial Countries

For Industrial Development Decade in Africa

For interdependence of economic and political rights

For improved UN response to human rights abuses

For protection of rights of migrant workers

For protection against products harmful to health and the environment

For a Convention on the Rights of the Child

For training journalists in the developing world

For international cooperation on third world debt

For a UN Conference on Trade & Development

US Is 1 of Only 2 “No” Votes on Resolutions or Treaties

For Palestinian living conditions/rights (at least 8 times)

Versus foreign intervention into other nations

For a UN Conference on Women

Versus nuclear test explosions (at least 2 times)

For the non-use of nuclear weapons vs. non-nuclear states

For a Middle East nuclear free zone

Versus Israeli nuclear weapons (at least 2 times)

For a new world international economic order

For a trade union conference on sanctions vs. South Africa

For the Law of the Sea Treaty

For economic assistance to Palestinians

For UN measures against fascist activities and groups

For international cooperation on money/finance/debt/trade/development

For a Zone of Peace in the South Atlantic

For compliance with Intl Court of Justice decision for Nicaragua vs. US.

**For a conference and measures to prevent international terrorism (including its underlying causes)

For ending the trade embargo vs. Nicaragua

US Is 1 of Only 3 “No” Votes on Resolutions and Treaties

Versus Israeli human rights abuses (at least 6 times)

Versus South African apartheid (at least 4 times)

Versus return of refugees to Israel

For ending nuclear arms race (at least 2 times)

For an embargo on apartheid South Africa

For South African liberation from apartheid (at least 3 times)

For the independence of colonial nations

For the UN Decade for Women

Versus harmful foreign economic practices in colonial territories

For a Middle East Peace Conference

For ending the embargo of Cuba (at least 10 times)

In addition, the US has:

Repeatedly withheld its dues from the UN

Twice left UNESCO because of its human rights initiatives

Twice left the International Labor Organization for its workers rights initiatives

Refused to renew the Antiballistic Missile Treaty

Refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty on global warming

Refused to back the World Health Organization’s ban on infant formula abuses

Refused to sign the Anti-Biological Weapons Convention

Refused to sign the Convention against the use of land mines

Refused to participate in the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban

Been one of the last nations in the world to sign the UN Covenant on

Political & Civil Rights (30 years after its creation)

Refused to sign the UN Covenant on Economic & Social Rights

Opposed the emerging new UN Covenant on the Rights to Peace, Development & Environmental Protection

Sampling of Deaths >From US Military Interventions & Propping Up Corrupt Dictators (using the most conservative estimates)

Nicaragua – 30,000 dead

Brazil – 100,000 dead

Korea – 4 million dead

Guatemala – 200,000 dead

Honduras – 20,000 dead

El Salvador – 63,000 dead

Argentina – 40,000 dead

Bolivia – 10,000 dead

Uruguay – 10,000 dead

Ecuador – 10,000 dead

Peru – 10,000 dead

Iraq – 1.3 million dead

Iran – 30,000 dead

Sudan – 8-10,000 dead

Colombia – 50,000 dead

Panama – 5,000 dead

Japan – 140,000 dead

Afghanistan – 10,000 dead

Somalia – 5000 dead

Philippines – 150,000 dead

Haiti – 100,000 dead

Dominican Republic – 10,000 dead

Libya – 500 dead

Macedonia – 1000 dead

South Africa – 10,000 dead

Pakistan – 10,000 dead

Palestine – 40,000 dead

Indonesia – 1 million dead

East Timor – 1/3-½ of total population

Greece – 10,000 dead

Laos – 600,000 dead

Cambodia – 1 million dead

Angola – 300,000 dead

Grenada – 500 dead

Congo – 2 million dead

Egypt – 10,000 dead

Vietnam – 1.5 million dead

Chile – 50,000 dead

Other Lethal US Interventions CIA Terror Training Manuals Development and distribution of training manuals for foreign military personnel or foreign nationals, including instructions on assassination, subversion, sabotage, population control, torture, repression, psychological torture, death squads, etc.

Specific Torture Campaigns Creation and launching of direct US campaigns to support torture as an instrument of terror and social control for governments in Greece, Iran, Vietnam, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama

Supporting and Harboring Terrorists The promotion, protection, arming or equipping of terrorists such as:

Klaus Barbie and other German Nazis, and Italian and Japanese fascists, after WW II

Manual Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Osama bin Laden (Afghanistan), and others whose terrorism has come back to haunt us

Running the Higher War College (Brazil) and first School of the Americas (Panama), which gave US training to repressors, death squad members, and torturers (the second School of the Americas is still running at Ft. Benning GA)

Providing asylum for Cuban, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Haitian, Chilean, Argentinian, Iranian, South Vietnamese and other terrorists, dictators, and torturers

Assassinating World Leaders Using assassination as a tool of foreign policy, wherein the CIA has initiated assassination attempts against at least 40 foreign heads of state (some several times) in the last 50 years, a number of which have been successful, such as: Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Ngo Dihn Diem (Vietnam) Salvador Allende (Chile)

Arms Trade & US Military Presence

The US is the world’s largest seller of weapons abroad, arming dictators, militaries, and terrorists that repress or victimize their populations, and fueling scores of violent conflicts around the globe

The US is the world’s largest provider of live land mines which, even in peacetime, kill or injure at least several people around the world each day

The US has military bases in at least 50 nations around the world, which have led to frequent victimization of local populations.

The US military has been bombing one Middle Eastern or Muslim nation or another almost continuously since 1983, including Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Iran, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq (almost daily bombings since 1991)

This, then, is a sampling of American foreign policies over the last 50 years. The FBI uses the following definition for Terrorism: “The unlawful use of force or violence committed by a group or individual, who has some connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national boundaries, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.” This sounds like the terrorism we just experienced. It also sounds a lot like the US policies and actions since 1945 that I’ve just described.

This is a version of an an original page atributed to Robert Elias, a US Professor of Political Science , a list which, like so many others, has otherwise ‘disappered’

via https://web.archive.org/web/20161125052245/http://www.the-philosopher.co.uk/whocares/popups/warcrimes.htm

redchrominance

“US Perversions of Foreign Elections” should also include 2018 Brazil, now that it is confirmed that the FBI directly intervened to have the frontrunner jailed, resulting in the election of Jair Messias Bolsonaro

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Always found it hilarious that the phrase “he died” in irish is “fuair sé bás” which literally translates to “he got death” as if it was on sale and he decided to treat himself.

ravenlesslangblr

Let’s bust a myth.

Irish is NOT hard. It is NOT hard to learn. It is NOT impossible to learn. Irish is actually quite an easy language. The keyword here is that it’s different. It’s a different kind of language. Not your Standard European Average language like German or French. There is a lot of influence from Semitic languages, which is attributed to either substratum, language contact and…coincidence? Here’s a list of reasons why Irish is not hard to learn. 1. It’s phonetic. Once you learn the rules of reading it, you can read almost any word, no matter how confusing and long it is. It’s phonetic. So each letter or group of letters correspond to one sound. There may be slight alterations in the various dialects, but you can’t go horribly wrong like you can in English.

2. It’s regular. There are only 11 irregular verbs and out of those, only 6 are pretty crazy and have to be looked out for, other than that, there are very few exceptions.

3. Look out for mutations Lenitions and eclipses. They mark grammatical meaning (like inflections do in other languages, for example) and they make a huge difference. Sometimes, there are disputes between dialects (ar an bhus and ar an mbus, i’m looking at you Ulster and Munster), but you’re not going to make a huge faux-pas when you say mo teaglach instead of mo theaglach. You’re going to be understood, you’ve just made a mistake. 4. The few resources there are are actually very good. I’m going to be posting about these in the crash courses I’m planning to do. 5. Look out for genitive Genitive is tricky and sneaky. But it can be looked up if you’re having trouble since again, it is very regular. 6. The Irish speakers are the most welcoming and supporting language community I’ve met No shade towards other communities (honestly, still scared of French people), but if you show just a little bit of knowledge of Irish, you will be praised and everybody is going to be so happy. If you make a mistake, no problem, everybody makes mistakes, you learn from mistakes. That’s the kind of approach I’ve experienced so far anyway. If fears of difficulty are keeping you from learning Irish, don’t let them. Irish is NOT hard and it’s not worth being scared of.

motherbychoice

Care to debate abortion?

Nah

reproductivejusticeandliberty

Mood. -V

kiwianaroha

This reminds me of a party I went to last year. I was standing with some friends, chatting, and someone said something that indirectly implied that sexism exists. Some trivial recounting of the basic facts of daily life for most women. Something so mild, so uncontroversial, so mundane that I don’t even remember what it was.

Suddenly, this man standing on the outskirts of our conversational circle piped up with “actually, I think men are more discriminated against than women these days.”

All conversation died.

I turned to look at him and he had this smug, insufferable grin on his face, relishing this moment, expecting us to waste our time and energy refuting this ridiculous thing he had just said.

The Devil’s Advocate was among us.

And, in my mind, I saw the next 15+ minutes playing out. The parade of facts and statistics in a vain attempt to defend ourselves, our gender, and to prove that misogyny is real. The glib, snide denials from some shithead who is getting off on our pain and frustration. The Gish Gallop of bullshit that would take a whole evening to properly dismantle. It was depressing and overwhelming. I hated it. I had to kill it before it began.

So I looked him dead in the eye and I said “OK,“ shrugged, and just walked away.

Nothing I have ever said to another human being has ever been so crushing. As I walked away, I watched the smug grin vanish and confusion and anxiety set in. The rest of the group turned their backs to him and carried on as if he had never spoken - as if he was invisible. He was still staring at me when I walked over to another friend and told her what he had said. I pointed him out for her and made direct eye contact with him while we both laughed.

tl;dr: Don’t feed the troll. Let it perish, cold and hungry, in the wasteland of your indifference. It is weak and you are strong. Live your best life.

meshkol

This is the most hilarious thing and the best advice I’ve ever read on this damned hellsite.

notjustamumj

As someone I respect very much has written on more than one occasion, you don’t have to engage in every argument you are invited to.

rocker-by-heart

Okay let’s talk about THAT episode of Doctor Who!

So these are my theories and ramblings, and tidbits about the things that happened in Fugitive of the Judoon. Let’s talk under the cut!

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tinybookgirl

Ruth has to come between two and three. That’s the only time we have unaccounted for where she might be working for the time lords

thirteensgayscarf

Hello, I’m the Doctor.

pfletcher

I’m a traveller in space and time… and that thing buried down there is called a T.A.R.D.I.S.

hexblooded

And who are you, really? Truly. I told you, love. I’m The Doctor.

thirteenstardisfam

I’ve never been anything like you. Trust me I’d remember, especially that shirt.

artbymoga-deactivated20200516

Throwback to all these Jesus comics I drew in 2012…

nejire-vs-villains

Good post OP

prismatic-bell

Good post, OP, and if you ever decide to do another may I please suggest “NOT IN HEBREW IT DOESN’T” as a punchline? So much of the Old Testament is HORRIFICALLY translated from the Tanakh, it drives me batty.

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WAIT WAIT WHAT DOES IT SAY?????? I NEED TO LIKE,, DESTROY MI MUM FOR BEING REALLY HOMOPHOBIC

prismatic-bell

Okay, so, strictly speaking, the infamous Leviticus 18:22 does say “forbidden.” Here’s the thing:

1) The word translated as “forbidden” is “toevah.” While that translation isn’t … wrong, it’s sort of like saying “McMansion” means “really big house.” There are a lot of connotations in that word. The specific issue with toevah is that we … sort of … don’t know anymore exactly what it meant. Based on context, it seems likely that the word referred to something ritually forbidden. This part of Torah was written not only as a guide for future generations, but also to say “so, look around, see your neighbors? DON’T DO THAT.“ Thus, if we interpret “toevah” to mean something that’s forbidden to do as a ritual before G-d, then the verse says nothing whatsoever about Adam and Steve and their two kids and their dog–it’s saying you shouldn’t have sex with another man in the Temple as a sacrifice.

2) Following the same “this is ritually forbidden” logic of toevah, this verse may also be interpreted as “don’t do sex magic,” which was a thing in. Like. A lot of fucking cultures at the time.

3) Hebrew is a highly gendered language, and the grammatical gender in this verse is really really weird. One of the “men” in this verse is given female grammar. Why? Who fucking knows, man, this isn’t the only grammatical oddity in Torah. (There are also places where G-d is referred to as plural, and also as female.) One suggestion is that this is a way of creating a diminutive–that is, that the verse should be read as “a man should not lie with a boy.” Now, it’s worth noting that modern secular scholarship has concluded the written Torah was written down around the 6th century BCE, and most non-Orthodox Jewish scholars are like “yeah, all things considered, that sounds pretty legit.”

Do you know what else was happening around the 6th century BCE? What laypeople tend to mean when they say “ancient Greece” was happening.

Do you know what happened a lot in that time period in Greece? Dudes forming relationships with younger boys, like ages 10-15, and using them for sex in exchange for financial gifts, mentorship, etc. While we don’t know just how young some of these younger boys may have been, we do know some were prepubescent. In light of this, and also something I mentioned under the first point–”see your neighbors? DON’T DO THAT,” if this verse is interpreted to say “a man should not lie with a boy,” then it’s pretty clearly “my dudes, my fellows, my lads, don’t be fucking pedophiles.”

4) Because of the grammar I mentioned in #3, it’s also possible that “should not lie with a man as with a woman” is actually referring to a place, not an abstract personhood: a man shouldn’t have sex with another man in a woman’s bed. In the time period, a woman’s bed was sort of like–that was her place, her safe sanctuary. It was also a ritually holy place where babies were made. By having sex in her bed, you’re violating her safe space (and also introducing a man who may not be a male relative, thus forcing her into breaking the laws of modesty). If this verse is read this way, then it should be taken to mean “don’t sexually violate a woman’s safety and modesty.” 5) And as an offshoot of #4, this may be a second verse relating to infidelity. Which woman’s bed is any random dude in 600 BCE most likely to have access to? His wife’s. But laws were administered differently based on whether the person they pertained to was slave or free, male or female, and so on–thus, a man committing adultery with a woman would be treated differently than man committing adultery with a man (especially because the latter would carry no chance of an illegitimate pregnancy).

So you’ll note, there are a lot of ways to read this verse, and only a one-to-one translation with no cultural awareness produces “being gay is wrong, all of the time”. (You’ll also notice the word “abomination” is nowhere to be found. That’s like … a straight-up fiction created for who only knows what reason.)

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Apparently tumblr mobile doesn’t want to show @prismatic-bell ’s long and in-depth essay, so here’s the screenshots, because it still shows up on mobile browsers:

prismatic-bell

Much appreciated.

kuriquinn

I love when scholarship and history debunks bullshit

mandalorianreynolds

…I sadly have more bullshit to report.

“removed for violating guidelines”, EVERY screenshot.

dzamie

Here they are again, then.

mandalorianreynolds

Thank you!

otherwindow

Iconic seafarer beards became a trend to scare away pesky mermaids.

Mermaid, seeing a bald pirate: Zero threat…! Mermaid, seeing a hairy, bearded pirate: If I get too close their face tentacles will eat me…!

otherwindow

Most mermaids only grow short beards as not to scare baby mermaids (longer beards look like the tentacled mouths of hungry squids and octopuses).

Pirates use this innate fear to their advantage to protect themselves from mermaids, hence the iconic beards and hat:

ninjanaomi

I like how this is presented as factual information

water-of-the-bong-deactivated20

because it is

#mermaids

curseworm

literally where would we be without alliums. in hell, probably

curseworm

thank you alliums for making food taste good

somechick-somewhere

prettywilds-deactivated20190802

GOD LITERALLY in the early 2000s ppl were so self conscious about their fat asses literally everyone just wanted to have no butt and literally 10 yrs later if u have a flat ass you might as well wear a paper bag over your whole fucking body and it well & truly sucks that womens bodies go in and out of fashion like this like tf are we supposed to do? spend all our time obsessing over the minutiae of our physiques? get plastic surgery every 5-10 yrs to make sure our bodies can keep up & b warped with the trends of objectification? like what the fuck do you want from women ?

edwardbottoms

It’s cuz white women with fake asses made it fashionable. In a few years we’ll be back to fat shaming and ridiculing thick women (woc and black women in particular) once again. Not like there isn’t still rampant fat phobia.

It’s the same with eyebrows. Girls with thick eyebrows grew up self conscious and teased for the way their hair naturally grew (most of those girls were girls of color, Latinas in particular). I HATED my eyebrows I still don’t particularly like them. Myself and other latinas of the same age group grew up hating our brows but one white woman decides not to pluck her eyebrows and suddenly every white woman wants our brows. I never received complements on my brows until after cara delevigne became famous. But guess what! I still have to pluck my brows! If I didn’t pluck my brows I’d resemble frida kahlo and her brows certainly aren’t considered acceptable.

It’s atrocious that women of color have to bow to the whim of white women’s trends. The moment a white woman decides to embrace a feature of hers that’s associated with woc it’s trendy and revolutionary, but it’s still a trend and it won’t last and woc will still be ridiculed for their features.

And if you have physical features that resemble features associated with woc you are taught to hate those features (brown eyes, thick brows, thick booty, curly hair). Why do you think white girls with unmanageable hair buy “frizz control” shampoo and conditioner when they should probably be looking for something that will allow their natural curl to breathe?

This is a problem with misogyny and racism. Natural features of women shouldn’t become trends and woc shouldn’t be ridiculed for features they can’t control. Perhaps if women weren’t objectified white women and the beauty industry wouldn’t be able to commodify features of woc.

Terfs stay away! Intersectional feminism isn’t for you!

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imageinsanity

My current employer once said to me, “I get the impression you work to live, not live to work.” Uh, yeah motherfucker.

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me after reading this:

failure-to-adult

A boss once sat me down and said, I swear to fuck, that it was a bad thing that I was interested in leaving work on time. Like he said something like “I’m told that you like going home at the end of the day.”

I asked him what I meant. Like I point blank said “Are you saying I don’t work enough overtime?”

“…no,” he said, since we got in trouble if we worked OT. It was treated as a moral failing on our parts.

“So are you saying I should be working for free?” I asked. This is a trap question. It was a corporate job. Which meant he actually was limited in the shit he could pull.

“….no,” he grudgingly replied.

“So what is the problem?” I asked. And he had to admit that, technically, I had done nothing wrong.

But he tried to guilt me over LIKING TO GO HOME AT THE END OF THE DAY. After each 8-10 hour shift where I was allowed ZERO breaks, despite the law requiring I get a minimum of 15 minutes every 4 hours.

He also got pissed off that I was very open with telling people I had given my notice. I didn’t bad mouth the place. I wasn’t negative. I was just open that, yes, I was moving and had therefor quit.

GEE I FUCKING WONDER WHY I WAS SO EXCITED TO BE LEAVING.

onewholesleepyboi

Anyone who’s foolish enough to tell me that working is a privilege I should “live” for ought to be drawn and quartered.

I’m dead serious; people are dropping dead like flies because of overwork.

This is why we NEED labor laws, people.

s-leary

“We’re more like a family than a business here” in an interview translates not as, “This is a warm, nurturing place to work,” but as, “We will guilt-trip you into doing things specifically prohibited by labor laws,” and you should factor your ability to say “no” into your decision whether to take that job.

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