[feminist-space]

[feminist-space]

[pissvortex]

Imagine how bad that first post-nut clarity hits for a freshly married mormon

[driftwuud]

Leaving the house is really cool because everything is very expensive and everyone’s very unpleasant to be around.

[naelrose]

[thickness-protection-program]

What is cunt

Baby don't hurt me

[brostateexam]

On Reagan's deathaversary I just want to say:

It rules when homophobes die

It rules when conservative icons drop dead

It Will Happen

[segamascott]

[kuchipachi]

white flag by lucia gallipoli

[innerchildabortionclinic]

your cat was an honor to see in the window

[wizardpotions]

Goodbye white people no more cheeseboard

[agooodpuppydog]

[fjordojustice]

What have white people ever done to deserve this?

[sourcreammachine]

History - Wikipedia

History - Wikipedia

[organicmatter]

Being hairy is so awesome #mammal

[mxnrique]

HAPPY PRIDE

[oneheadtoanother]

[lakemojave]

People are unfazed if you hate women but if you dislike dogs they assume you're a bad person

[lakemojave]

Tumblr users will read a post complaining about normalized misogyny and hyperfocus on your claim that it's ok to dislike dogs

[disgustinggf]

hey can i come over and hang out with ur cat

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[urlocalpyshcopan]

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

[brainsforbabyjesus]

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

[infamousbrad]

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

[kagedtiger]

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

[marithlizard]

Gaahhh this makes so much sense. I immediately thought of the "women are perceived as dominating a conversation if they talk more than a small percentage of the time" study too. And now I'm also thinking about a certain kind of complaint I hear from customers. It's just like @infamousbrad said. If communication problems with one person piss you off that much, then you won't think "oh well I'll ask someone else", you'll extrapolate straight to "there are all these PEOPLE here of different ethnicities from mine and I'm sure NONE of them can speak English, what am I even DOING here" .

(Also Edge City is of course an old book now, but it was a very easy-to-read, clear explanation of SO MUCH about American mall+suburb culture and how we ended up stuck with it. Recommended.)

[kosmogrl]

not a caller not a texter but a secret third thing