[jennekak]

To Flower

You can defame me all you want. I'm still gonna live my best life while you fucking fester in your lies. I have no love for you anymore after you fucking put my name and picture out there, breaching my fucking privacy. I have never done that to you and I still won't. I'm not gonna fall to your dirt level. I cannot believe you. Next time you even think of harassing me or my family I am going to get the police involved so help me fucking God Flower.

And your goodbye messages were shit. I didn't receive them because I blocked you. Using your suicidal tendencies to blame me is a low move. Your shit is your shit and you know damn fucking well you abused my trust and friendship. You were the one who lied to me. Who tried to fucking isolate me from others, intentionally driving wedges, when you were jealous that I was becoming friends with other people. It took me a long time to realize that you were emotionally abusive to me. You fucking lied to me and gaslit me and I will never forgive you. And I'm the one who has the evidence, testimony, and support for this.

These are my last words to you. If you ever see them. Be warned. Next time you attempt to breach my privacy again or doxx me or harass me, I will be going to the police.

[jennekak]

I’m going to be moving to a new account soon, more to be posted. I will not post the username publicly, as I don’t want certain people to find it. When I set up my new account, I’ll make an update, and if what few of you actually still read my reblogs want to follow my new account, please message me.

[jennekak]

Ive got it set up! No posts tho lol I'm not even gonna attempt to reblog anything from this account.

[jennekak]

I’m going to be moving to a new account soon, more to be posted. I will not post the username publicly, as I don’t want certain people to find it. When I set up my new account, I’ll make an update, and if what few of you actually still read my reblogs want to follow my new account, please message me.

[thisclockworkheart]

Because why not? ;-) 

Source

[swood-dude]

I don’t think this counts as dancing.  Or even skipping really.  It’s more of an exagerated waddle

[thisclockworkheart]

So. Let me tell you about the day I took this video. It was the 1 year anniversary of my open heart surgery. It’s about a year old, and I’d say it’s pretty safe to say I’ve improved since then. In case you don’t agree, let’s take a look at some more at my exaggerated waddling.

Waddle.

Waddle waddle.

*rolls across the floor*

Clearly I am immobilized by my own mass.

Oh wait… that’s not it, is it? It sort of seems like the opposite. Almost as though the ability to dance is based on strength, effort and passion and not on being skinny. Strange concept I know, let’s see if you can wrap your tiny little mind around it. 

[yayamartin]

not to mention she wasnt waddling at all.. That was clearly a jete, chasse, and assemble.. not waddling. ballet…

[kuklarusskaya-deactivated202003]

Yo. Professional ballerina speaking here.

Clearly she is performing a saute arabesque, chasse, step-step, assemble devant with arms in fifth. 

And as a teacher too, I can’t find much technically wrong with it at all. 

Which means not only is she a gifted dancer, she has a wonderful technical foundation that she is executing properly and with lovely mannerism.

Being a ballerina isn’t about how much you weigh. Give me this girl ANY day for a student or dancer to work with. Clearly she has the knowledge and the passion, which means she will be a joy to work with. 

Also, for those of you criticizing, you clearly have NO idea how difficult it is to execute a develope ecarte derriere the way she is at the barre in one of her later photos. This takes YEARS of dedicated training, as well as extensive natural facility, such as turnout, which she clearly demonstrates here. 

So maybe before you peons thinking you’re masters of ballet judge dancers based on weight, you should actually learn about ballet and technique. Because if you had, you’d recognize that this girl clearly has technique—unlike your basic asses.

[kristina-meister-deactivated202]

“Why ableism can fucking suck it” an interpretive modern ballet performed by OP Ballerina.

[phroyd]

John Cleese Is Correct!

Phroyd

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

A really common strike tactic in the pre-internet days was form a picket line. Basically, the striking workers would hold up signs explaining their strike and surround their place of work with a line of people all chanting and marching. This not only got the public interested in the strike, but it also physically blocked people from entering the business they were striking against.

When workers strike, businesses sometimes hire “scabs”, or workers willing to step in and replace the strikers to make the strike meaningless. A picket line would mean that even if the business got a full complement of scabs, they would still take a huge hit financially during the strike.

“Never cross a picket line” is something union and other pro-labour parents used to teach their children, and it meant both “never be a scab” and also “never patronize a business currently under strike.”

Amazon will likely hire scabs during a widespread strike to pick up at least some of the slack. But this time, workers can’t use a physical picket line to block access, because Amazon is an online business. But it’s still important to make sure the company isn’t able to bring in a lot of profits during the strike – hence the calls for boycott online.

Amazon knows they need their employees. They just think they can get away with abusing them. The boycott and the strike are not to convince them to think anything, it’s to make it so unprofitable to continue that they have no choice but to concede to the strikers’ demands.

[luntfontanne]

The GOP tax bill—the amount of money that was given to corporations and the rich would have paid for Medicare for all and healthcare for every man, woman, and child in this country for the next five years. So it’s there. And additionally, we added several hundred billion dollars additionally to our military spending, when the military didn’t even ask for it. They didn’t even want that additional spending, but we lopped it on there—and that could have financed public college tuition for years as well. So we actually have the money for these things.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Interview with NowThis

[odinsblog]

We actually have the money for these things.

It’s not “ponies and unicorns”

It’s not “pie in the sky”

It’s not “unrealistic”

It’s not “too expensive”

It’s all about who has the courage to change the status quo and realign our priorities

We actually have the money for these things.

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

also “if amazon is so bad why do people work for them” is another non argument like why does ANYONE work a shitty job ? it was what they could find. all these people who act like it’s easy to just change jobs all the time if you experience abuse common in all companies are either stupid or sheltered or both

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

time to bring this back for the strike, stop blaming people for working at amazon and start blaming amazon for mistreating them

[thelittledrunkapple]

How women prepare for first dates

Bonus: How men prepare for first dates:

[sarcasticbabywhispererjess]

Accurate.

[pokemonprofessor]

Okay but the first set of gifs is not a joke like that’s literally how it goes.

[onemuseleft]

One of the girls at work won’t get in the guy’s car unless he agrees to let her take photos of him and his license plate to text to her mother. If he gets mad or makes a fuss she cancels the date and goes back inside.

[a-high-ass-ginger]

Reblogging for that 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

[whatistimeeven]

I’ve had someone take pics of me and my license plate on a first date before & I was okay with it. I’ve also had a friend allow me to view the tracking on her phone when she went to meet up with a guy the first time. This isn’t a joke at all & women have good reason to worry.

[legolokiismighty]

i have only ever met 2 people online, and made sure that we met up somewhere that was 1) public 2) close to my home. 

After, I walked to the dollar store that was a couple shops down until I knew they were gone, before walking home.

[breelandwalker]

Louis C.K. kind of nailed it. Men worry that their date won’t measure up to their aesthetic preferences. Women worry that they’re going wind up dead.

The disparity is RIDICULOUS, and the fact that dudes get offended when women try to protect themselves is hard proof that way too many guys Do Not Understand how dangerous it is to be a woman. (Not to mention it’s fucking insulting. “How dare you not trust your life and safety to a complete stranger whose intentions you have no way of knowing”?)

[breelandwalker]

Lookin’ at the notes on this post following my earlier reblog and just going….

Wow. WOW. Look at all these sheltered people and their internalized misogyny.

The point isn’t, “NOT ALL MEN ARE OUT TO GET YOU.”

The point is, “WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING A NICE GUY FROM A SERIAL KILLER.”

It’s not like they fucking wear nametags, okay? Moreover, the most awful people with the worst intentions often put on the nicest face or deliberately make themselves seem harmless and likeable, to lull potential victims into a false sense of security. (Read up on Ted Bundy sometime. It’s horrifying shit. Or read any thread on the “Let’s Not Meet” subreddit.)

In order to protect ourselves, we are forced to assume the worst of every man we meet, because statistically speaking, the biggest danger to women…IS MEN. Saying “not all men are out to get you, you’re just being paranoid” is like saying “not every car you ride in is going to crash, so buckling your seatbealt is stupid.”

When dealing with an unknown situation, in the absence of absolute proof of safety, exercising a little extra caution can be the difference between life and death. Shaming women for being what you may view as overly cautious is every bit as horrid as blaming them if something goes wrong later on.

And refusing to go to a secluded location with a complete stranger without letting someone know where you’re going, who you’re with, and how to find you is just common street sense, whether you’re on a date or just going out for business or social purposes.

If your life has been so sheltered (or your coping skills so incredible) that you see no need to distrust strangers or worry about the potential for violence, you should thank your lucky stars.

And you should also be aware that just because it hasn’t happened to you or anyone you know does not mean that it doesn’t happen.

Lemme say that louder for the people in the back.

Just because it hasn’t happened to you or anyone you know does not mean that it doesn’t happen.

[bilt2tumble]

Re-Reblog for relevant commentary.

[zafirozorro-deactivated20160501]

And if you won’t take a woman’s word for it because you are some kind of asshat, men who sleep with men also mirror these rituals because even men are afraid of other men based on men’s behavior and inability to understand “no” or take rejection well.

[ladytemeraire]

I’ll stop reblogging this when it stops being relevant

[nitrozz]

Alllll of this.  Being paranoid will often save your life.  Assholes who say otherwise need to shut their noise holes and stop acting like they know better. 

[the-perks-of-eating-pussy]

PSA

[forevrdreamingofbetterthings]

If I ever get in a new guy’s car I ALWAYS take a pic of him, the vehicle, the plate #, and send it to numerous ppl. 

Also, it’s story time! I’m pretty certain I saved my mom’s fucking LIFE by convincing her do this on a date with a fucking COP (which she thought was safer than going out with other men, but let me tell you, cops are the WORST partner abusers around, so pls be safe!!!!). 

She had only talked with him online and they were gonna go for a drive somewhere remote for some reason and she wasn’t going to take any precautions at all. I, being a well seasoned internet dater, was terrified by this prospect and warned her about how cops are actually much more dangerous than civilians and that getting in his car and going somewhere remote was even more dangerous. SO, I told her the best thing to do is to take a pic of him, his plates, then send it to me, and make sure you do it all right in front of him SO HE SEES IT. I warned her too that as a cop he should KNOW how dangerous this date would be for her, so if he kicks up a fuss about it AT ALL I told her to run like the fucking wind. 

So when she gets there, he is already in his fucking truck, doesn’t get out to greet her, so she takes the pics of his car, plates, and him and sends it to me and I thank her profusely. Then apparently she gets in his car, sees there’s a fucking BAT in the back, and doesn’t this fucker just kick up a damn fuss about her doing this. AND MY MOM DOESN’T GET OUT OF THE CAR!!!!!! OMFGWLJELWNLWEJFANMDS

So he starts the car and they drive away and she can already tell he’s a fucking creeper. At one point, he even tells her a truly sad story of his life and she reacts sadly and doesn’t this dickhead say “why aren’t you smiling?” as if that’s what women are FOR. She responds “You had just told me a very sad, personal story, smiling didn’t seem appropriate”, as if she’s just there for smile back at him and look pretty!!!! 

She texts me throughout all of this, telling me she’s increasingly getting uncomfortable and scared. He’s becoming increasingly hostile and unpleasant. She eventually texts me to ask me to call her and pretend to be my younger sister that lives with her saying that I’m sick (my mom’s a nurse). But my younger sis is 26, has a baby, is a personal support worker with some medical knowledge; and that didn’t seem like something strong enough to me that would make this dangerous fucker give up my mom. 

So what do I do?

I called her and pretended I was my little sister crying and freaking out because her baby is super sick and she needs her nurse mom at her side bc this is WAY beyond her knowledge or comfort level. Thankfully that worked and he turned around. But he wasn’t happy and that bat was still in the back, staring mom in the goddamn face. 

Later she called me and thanked me profusely and she STILL talks about it and how scary it was and how she is CERTAIN the real reason he turned around was bc I had insisted she send me those pictures.

Everyone, please be safe, definitely definitely take precautions! But also know that if something bad ever has or does happen to you, it’s NEVER your fault, even if you “didn’t take the right precautions”. That victim blaming rape culture nonsense is bullshit.

[your-local-god]

Psa

[iesika]

There’s a principal in evolution - false positives cost less than false negatives. If the bushes rustle and there’s no tiger there but you ran away because there might have been a tiger, you had to stop what you were doing and you lost a few calories running away.

If, even once, the bushes rustle and you don’t run away because it might not be a tiger, you’re lunch.

[la-laborista-republiko]

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

10 July 2018

Reminder: Do not buy from Amazon or even open the website on 10 July 2018, in solidarity with the transnational strike.

Amazon workers in Spain have called for a transnational strike because Amazon has been avoiding accountability for its labour rights violations by merely shifting the work (and the human rights abuses Amazon inflicts on their workers) to non-striking countries, each time a strike occurs. If there is widespread striking transnationally, Amazon will have no choice but to recognize the strikers’ demands in order to keep their facilities functioning.

Our job as allies is to support the strike by avoiding using the Amazon website or purchasing anything from Amazon for as long as the strike continues. A mass boycott of the site, coinciding with the strike, will strengthen the workers’ bargaining position and could be crucial to Amazon workers gaining back basic rights in a variety of countries.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Explain this to your friends and family who might not have heard about the boycott or the strike or why it’s necessary.

Amazon workers are literally collapsing and sometimes dying in warehouses that do not all have climate control. A few years ago Amazon stationed ambulances outside their warehouses rather than just install AC to prevent mass heatstroke for their workers, but after media picked up the story they added AC to some – only some – of their warehouses.

These workers are forced into 10+ hour shifts during which they walk 10+ miles. They’re subject to a grueling pace and fired for minor mistakes. They are not allowed to sit down and are discouraged from using the bathroom, which is often so far away in the massive warehouse that there isn’t time to use it even during their breaks. They can be fired for being ill, even with proof they were in hospital.

They are being paid so little and working such long hours – and sometimes, being charged so much by Amazon-arranged transport shuttles to take them to warehouses far from any housing – that some are forced to sleep under bridges or in the woods near their workplace. Longtime warehouse workers are saying they’ve never seen the kinds of exploitation and abuse that occurs in an Amazon warehouse.

This strike and the accompanying boycott are to pressure Amazon into giving their workers basic rights that every worker should have.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

This strike is timed to last until Prime Day, when working conditions will become even more intolerable and hours even longer.

You are encouraged to boycott the entire period between 10-17 July!

[mexicanheaux]

If you live in the socal area and are/ know someone undocumented please be careful when going to Walmart or to be safe just don’t go in general ICE has been known to go in there

[mexicanheaux]

This isn’t information that can sit in your likes guys I’m not trying to guilt trip but this is life or death please reblog and spread

[feministism]

[heartmindalignedspirit]

Shoutout to the apoliticals

[your-aspd-dad]

there is absolutely nothing - no personality disorder or mental illness or disability or fucking anything - that excuses being an abuser.

there are reasons but there are no excuses.

[nokiabae]

The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp

Previewing the highly efficient, incredibly disposable workforce of the future.

As Amazon employees prepare for a strike during their busiest month, here’s a reminder that Amazon’s relentless quest for growth and relevance has led to multiple deaths in their warehouses

[uacboo]

From Twitter.

[mightbeunknown]

is it weird that as i got through the tweet my understanding of it lessens?

[balkanbruiser]

If you had a recent ancestor who went through starvation it actually altered their genetics and may have passed down genes to you that make you hold on to fat. So this tweet is more accurate than you’d think.

[lolotehe]

More on that.

[sea-dilemma]

Seriously, my body is expecting the next ice age.

[jezi-belle]

OH MY FUCKING GOD.

MY FUCKING GREAT GRANDFATHER LITERALLY FLED LEBANON DUE TO A FUCKING FAMINE AND MY GRANDMOTHER AND DAD AND I ARE ALL FAT AS FUCKING HELL.

FUCK ME RUNNING I DID NOT KNOW THIS.

[golbatgender]

…That’s going to apply also to anyone whose recent ancestors voluntarily dieted a lot, isn’t it. Diet culture long-term causes more obesity. Sure, it takes decades to show up, but anything you’d hear today about childhood obesity would reflect that. Exercising is still very good for most people, but trying to lose weight shouldn’t be the goal for most people, because a) it usually doesn’t work very well or it comes back and b) your kids or grandkids could end up with extra wonky metabolisms. (And while fat itself is actually not that much of a problem if you keep your fitness up, it can be hard on your joints. That’s actually the biggest health risk if you’re “small end of fat,” under 40, and active–joint problems.)

[greenekangaroo]

THAT MOTHERFUCKING ARTIFICIAL FAMINE THAT’S IT I’M GONNA FIGHT THE ENGLISH 

[explorerrowan]

Honestly, “I’m gonna fight the English” is a good reaction to a lot of things.

[jumpingjacktrash]

the ‘obesity epidemic’ in america is probably due to a combo of our grandparents living through the great depression and our parents being teens and young adults during the days of twiggy and heroin chic and the rise of diet culture.

combine that with the fact that gen x was the last generation allowed to play outside, pretty much, and the fact that everybody nowdays is working service jobs that exhaust them without working their muscles, and there is basically no way on earth you’re going to get a fit and healthy population without changing the basic structure of our society.

don’t fall for the hype. don’t focus on weight. it’s actually far more dangerous to be underweight than overweight. even with what is clinically defined as ‘morbid obesity’ it’s possible to be healthy as a horse, if your bone structure and metabolism are set up for it and you’ve got lots of muscle to support it.

on top of that, the charts for ideal weight are at least a generation out of date. they were compiled based on a population that didn’t regularly get enough dairy and fresh produce, at a time when girls didn’t do athletics in school. young women in the 1960′s were measurably smaller than young women today. their bones were thinner, they had less muscle mass, their shoulders were more sloped, they had a smaller lung capacity – society discouraged them from being physically active past the age of ten or twelve, and they finished their physical development in a sedentary setting.

boys were plenty active, but just like the girls, they were eating just about nothing but red meat and starch and some mushy greens with the vitamins boiled out. the thing where the poor get fat because sugar and fat are cheap wasn’t really happening yet, especially in rural areas; a farm kid’s diet was beef and wheat in the north, pork and corn in the south. “eat your vegetables” was such a hard sell because everything else was expensive and bland and overcooked. you’ve seen the godawful cookbook excerpts from that time. mushy green beans and fried spam on a bed of mashed potatoes, seasoned with nothing but a pinch of white pepper.

sorry, that was kind of a tangent. i guess my point is, even the people who ate well by the standards of the time were malnourished compared to the standard of today. your lunch of a matcha cucumber smoothie and a cobb salad with one ounce of ham, one ounce of turkey, and 15 kinds of fresh vegetable, would give them the explosive shits because they’ve never had that much fiber in one place before. there’s more vitamins and antioxidants in your black bean fajita dinner than they saw in a week.

so first of all, the idea of trying to be the same size and shape they were is absurd.

and second, if malnourishment in one generation primes the next two for protective fat retention, the combination of that and the incredible wealth of nutrition we have available to us today is obviously going to make us HYUGE.

instead of fighting it, we should embrace it. we could all be HUMAN BOULDERS OF MIGHT.

[valarhalla]

Another point I never see brought up in relation to obesity in America:

Pretty much all uniquely American cuisines were designed by and for people doing OBSCENE amounts of labour, far more than anyone was doing in Europe at the time. Much of New England cuisine was developed in logging camps for lumberjacks. Southern cuisine was developed by slaves. The pioneers, whatever your views on them, worked like dogs. These were people who were doing all the same farmwork and pre-electricity domestic labour people in Europe were doing, while at the same time transforming the entire landscape into arable farmland by hand. Just look at this example from a pioneer woman’s diary, which pretty aptly summarises the work ethic of that time and place:

“Rose about five… got my housework done…  Baked six more loaves of bread… Made a kettle of mush… Put my clothes away and set the house in order… Nine o clock, was delivered of another son.” (x)

It;s not just that Americans used to do more physical labour; they were as a whole doing more physical labour than almost anyone only a couple of generations ago, and there hasn’t been enough time for the cuisine to evolve to reflect that. American notions of food are still very much influenced by what would essentially amount to cooking for competitive Olympic body-builders by today’s standards. Think of the archetypical American breakfast with immense stacks of plate-sized pancakes, bacon, baked beans with bacon, and cinnamon rolls the size of your head. It originated for feeding lumberjacks. Huge spreads of very calorie rich food was the right thing to feed teams of threshers, loggers, and farmhands, and we still cook and enjoy this sort of food today because there simply hasn’t been enough time for the cuisine to shift. Depending on where you’re from, people who grew up cooking and eating in this way are still very much around. Anyone with a farming background in the USA or Canada probably has family anecdotes about the vast spreads of food laid out for farm workers, and you may well still cook family recipes created for them. And even if you just pick one old recipe from grandma’s original breakfast spread, it’s likely to be higher in fat and calories because of who it was originally made for. If you were to compare European and American recipes from the 1880s, sure, the European ones wouldn’t be considered healthy by today’s standards, but they’d probably be far leaner and lighter than the American ones, even then.

I’m not sure there’s an obvious solution to this other than time changeing people’s habits, but the point is this is a MASSIVE cultural historical difference in the approach to food and to recipes in the USA vs Europe I’ve only ever seen brought up by a few food historians.

TLDR It’s not just that Americans are doing less physical labour than they used to, it’s that BEFORE they were doing more physical labour than pretty much anyone else and American food was designed around that.

[jennekak]

That last comment holy shit.

My grandmother and mom have so many stories to that degree, and my mom talks about how her own grandmother did backbreaking work all day and cooked everything from scratch every single day.

It makes a lot of sense actually - those kinda of food are best burnt off fast.

I remember my mom telling me that it’s absolutely impossible for her to eat 3 meals a day in this day and age. I typically only eat one or two - I’d get a stomach ache otherwise, but I try to eat a lot of fiber-heavy veggies and lean meat. Probably without fully realizing it, I planned my current “diet” around my lifestyle, as opposed to what’s culturally common.

I think, as I do for a lot of things, that we’ll get out of this funk and get in a much better state as our society continues in this vein.

[nostalgiaunicorn]

[typette-deactivated20150825]

I remember posting somewhere once in a thread about why girls aren’t exploited in animation anymore where some guy said, “all the disney girls are drawn to be generally attractive, but I don’t think there are any eye-candy men… or are there? Are there any Disney men that lots of girls like?” and I mentioned Roger. Tons of girls replied agreeing with me and the original guy was like “wait, Roger? from 101 Dalmatians? What’s attractive about him, he’s tall and lanky and has a big nose, he isn’t muscley at all! Wouldn’t you all prefer Gaston or something? Or do you girls think his big nose is indicative of something else?” and I was like “no, you idiot, he’s a silly, goofy guy who likes animals and can play a bunch of instruments, that’s why he’s attractive. What’s the matter with you? Gaston, seriously?”

This is why we need more girls in animation. And more guys like Roger apparently. 

[fandomsandfeminism]

This is why I laugh my ass of whenever dudes talk about how men are “objectified” by the media too. Because 9 times out of 10, what men think is “women objectifying men” are characters like Gaston.

And Gaston is NOT a woman-driven fantasy. Gaston is a male wish fulfillment fantasy. Gaston is not what women want, he is what men want to be. He is hyper-masculinity to an extreme degree, dripping with sexism and testosterone. The fact that men think that Gaston is what women want says an awful lot about those men. 

While I don’t want to generalize, female fans tend to prefer a very different kind of male hero. We like the Rogers, the Milos, the Hercules. Genuinely kind, often awkward men who are sometimes vulnerable and respectful to women. 

Yes, this is a generalization. I own up to that. But I think it’s important to remember that there is often VERY big difference between what MEN want to be and what women WANT in our media. 

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Reblogging this again because fucking this. And hell, even the muscley dudes (see: Khal Drogo, Hercules, Thor, Captain America) are loved, not because they are muscley, but because they are sweet and loving and adorable. We love Thor because his mispronounces “Hubble” as “Hooble,” not because of what he can do with a hammer.

[bubblyskootch]

Reblogging for the awesome comments.

[lumiereswig]

I’m just here to say I love the animation of Roger so fucking much.  look how fucking smooth and graceful and agile he is. 2d animation is amazing and i just want to hug it

[tinydooms]

All of this.