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[headspace-hotel]

You can identify a fake redneck by their passionate support of “blue lives matter.” Real rednecks have been in at least one physical fight and/or high-speed chase with police officers and would do it again

[action--cats]

[serialreblogger]

“redneck” is a valid culture, not a euphemism for “bigot”

[castironjackelope]

So this has probably already been said on this post but I dont wanna scroll through 66k notes to find it.

The term Redneck gain prominence with striking coal miners in Appalachia. They wore red bandanas around their necks to express union solidarity.

And they fucking FOUGHT police and Pinkerton strike breaker forces. It was a period called The Coal Wars.

The poor and working classes have a long history of community support and rejecting police authority.

If you’re pro-cop, you’re not a redneck, you’re a bootlicker who based your personality on a played out Jeff Foxworthy caricature. Get bent. Your ancestors are ashamed of you.

[antonio-redgrave]

[blobdylan]

sometimes we are childish. sometimes we do something our 16 year old self would have done, think something our 11 year old self would have thought, cry like our 7 year old self would have cried. why is this so embarrassing? why does it make us feel such shame? when you’re 20, 30, 40, are you not also every age you’ve been before? do all of your previous incarnations not still live inside of you?

[seravph]

eleven, Sandra Cisneros

[knifekris]

my cats name is шарик (SHA-reek, roll the r) but his legal name is soap just to make it easier on americans and also its a cute name. anyways the vet called him "mr. soap" which i really appreciated

[knifekris]

baby boy!

[phcking-detective]

me, escorting this beautiful boy onto my blog: Right this way, Mr. Soap.

[kallistoi]

[image description: a photo of a fluffy grey cat sitting on the floor and looking up at the camera]

[gray-warden]

i am indifferent towards your shoelaces

[butchscientist]

thanks. i obtained them through entirely legal means wholly unrelated to any country's head of state

[iguanodonwildman]

protect the children

[gayshitanddadjokes]

...do they not know? Do they not understand the ancient texts?

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

The old ways are not taught to the younger generations, they are left to be forgotten along with the tragedies of the past.

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

my mom: it’s really not good to eat past sunset me, whose circadian rhythms have aligned with a nearby raccoon’s: your rules don’t apply here

[whatsdifferentincanada]

[freezingbeach]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x 🙃

[sunfortune]

delete muslim pro

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

How many horsepower is 1 horse?

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

Okay logically it follows that a horse is 1 horse power but what’s the standard? Because horses aren’t the same

[fullmetalwindbreaker]

the average horse can produce almost 15 horsepower

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

[dabwax-deactivated20250410]

can you talk about being intersex and cis? how do you know if you're cis or trans when you're intersex? i promise this isn't meant to be rude i'm just a little confused as to how gender works when you're intersex. thank you so much. <3

I’m cis because I’m afab and still identify as a woman. If I was afab and identified any other way, I’d be trans. I’m intersex because my body itself has a mixed bag of secondary sex characteristics and hormones.

The label “intersex” itself isn’t a gender identity as much as it’s a way for people with mixed or ambiguous sex characteristics to define that experience. There are cis men and women who are intersex, trans people of every kind as well. I’m sure there are intersex people who just identify as intersex entirely but most intersex people I’ve met still identify as male, female, or nonbinary. Because your body doesn’t determine your gender identity.

Also, the opposite of intersex is perisex. You can be cis or trans, while being intersex or perisex. If you’re not intersex, you are perisex.

[dabwax-deactivated20250410]

Y’all can reblog this actually

Nobody knows anything about intersex ppl so like. Learn things and educate others so people like me can feel less isolated and alienated by other queer ppl lol

[arrghigiveup]

[source: https://twitter.com/nasacertified/status/1273798595314167814]

[bisexuhowl]

#watching this monkey peel of the stringy bits#drop them on the baby’s head#meticulously remove them#and clean off the stump#then wolf down that banana#is just really great#like a fussy little person

[sabertoothwalrus]

seeing how familiar monkeys’ mannerisms are makes me desperately wish I’d been around when there were other species of humans

[gayavatarstyle]

how the fuck did the fire nation beat fucking anyone their element can't do shit to any of the others

[gayavatarstyle]

shoot fire at an airbender? they blow fire back in your face now you got burn face

[gayavatarstyle]

a waterbender sends a wave at you and you defend with fire? congrats dipshit now you've turned that attack into steam in your eyes at best or boiling water on your skin at worst

[gayavatarstyle]

you throw fire they throw rock you get hit with hot rock war over

[saltytocrusade]

Literally the only way the fire nation fought enemies was with slow technological veachiles (drills and air boats) and fucking AMBUSHING PEOPLE. AND IT WAS MAINLY AMBUSHING CIVILIANS (against the Geneva Convention). The fire nations army is full of war criminals

[princecharmingtobe]

You think they have the Geneva Convention in ATLA? They don’t even have Geneva. 

[gayavatarstyle]

[princesstigerbelle]

One question

Who will stop him

[j1mjamss]

nobody 

let the boy dance

[problematicparrot]

Finally, a sane celebrity who doesn’t bend the knee to feminist bullshit.

Source

[ren-of-rationality]

My god I love her.

[mango-thot-deactivated20190520]

I know people are gonna get salty af about this but by God she’s RIGHT.

When Brad Pitt did Fight Club, he was cutting weight for every single scene to maintain his physique at 155. I’ve you’ve ever cut weight, you know how horrible that must have been. He did it because they needed a “look”.

Changing Tatum said his Magic Mike body doesn’t last for more than five days. He starved down and dehydrated his already fit physique for a “look”.

The male soldiers on Spartacus: Blood and Sand were eating pretty much chicken and veggies for every meal to maintain a “look”.

Why is this such a big deal? Because all these characters are considered physical goals for men. These are actual unobtainable physical standards for men. Male body image issues get swept under the rug so often that some people don’t even think they exist.

[da-boy-o-kultur]

You want proof? Just check out that scene in Captain America: First Avenger where Cap just transformed into that beautiful beefcake of a man. Agent Carter’s actress just HAD to touch them muscles, it was completely unscripted.

[eric-coldfire]

Chris Evans had to wear shirts so small they physically hurt, and he dislocated a shoulder during the helicopter scene in Civil War. But who cares, girls got to wet their panties watching Captain America flex.

[guyveranimefan87-blog]

If we are talking about unrealistic physical standards of male fitness given to us by movies, I would like to mention Hugh “Wolverine” Jackman here.

Yeah, he is ripped, isn’t he?

Well, it is true, but to get that kind of definition, he went through 36 hour period of dehydration, which caused him to temporarily lose 10 pounds of “water weight”. 

Thus during the fight scene he was filming, he was a hair breadth from blacking out whole time, just to look unrealistically muscular.

As he said during interview with Steven Colbert, “If You go three days without water, You will die. Then, when You are halfway there they shout ‘Roll it!”

It’s the same with professional bodybuilders who get into periods of extreme fasting and dehydration to lower their fat-to-muscle ratio to inhuman levels, all in hopes of making their muscle definition a bit better.

According to experts, healthy body fat percentage for a healthy male ranges from 8% to 20%, depending on height, lifestyle and numerous other variables. 

Fitness model and professional bodybuilder Helmut Strebl also known as “World’s Most Shredded Man” as he supposedly managed to get his body fat percentage below 5%…

… But only when he partakes in competitions, since it is not humanly possible to live with such low fat percentage of one’s body for longer periods of time.

I mean, yeah, he keeps a draconian training regime, as well as a very strict diet even off-season, but looks much more human then…

There are documented cases of incredibly fit and muscular bodybuilders fainting on the stage in the middle of their flexing routines, as well as several who outright died, because of cardiac arrest caused by their blood becoming too thick, due to long dehydration…

And let’s not forget about Muscle Dysmorphia, colloquially known as “Megarexia” or “Bigarexia”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_dysmorphia

Yeah, it’s a thing, but it’s barely talked about, since it’s apparently not manly to admit to having problems like that, which also creates problems with researching this particular disorder…

So… Thanks Hollywood?

[fierceawakening]

I had no idea that most people who looked like this are dehydrated until I read posts like this.

[brunhiddensmusings]

dehydrated to the point theyre about a day away from actual organ failure okay so chris hemsworth is a absolute god of a man, but hollywood says ‘thats not good enough’ and for the thor movie he has to spend several days having the juice squeezed from his body untill he looses about a gallon of whats supposed to be him so that he can do 2 days of shooting scenes without his shirt, after which he has to have recovery time before he is hospitalized because i am not joking about ‘one day away from organ failure’ thats the benchmark- look at chris hemsworth and process that he is told he isnt suitable for a shirtless scene without prepping for three days and nearly fainting

[shipperwolf1]

real feminism acknowledges the unhealthy standards that men are held to. radfems brush them off as non-existent

guys, feminism is for you, too. it’s for all of us.

[archivistofnerddom]

Unrealistic body images helps no one and actively hurts men too!!

[iamcon-fu-sion]

since the discussion of that they put henry cavill through for the witcher is floating around my blog, i want to add this too,.

one of the reasons producers get away with this in men and no one criticizes it is because we are fed the lie that this body type is 1) attainable and 2) healthy.

We know starving women down to skinniness is unhealthy, but you see an overmuscled man and you don’t immediately think dehydration. 

[pr1deandprejud1ce]

i love this whole thread but uh

this IS feminism. being able to speak out about that? that’s the most feminist thing she could have done. don’t call it bullshit, because this is IMPORTANT. these men are being starved and dehydrated and basically just hurt over and over again so that people can drool over their muscles and no one (by which i mean the audience) realizes something is wrong. so don’t say that this isn’t feminism, because it is. it really, really is.

[starkcontrasts]

^^^

[ghost-of-bambi]

Remember when Zac Efron ate pasta in his Netflix show and cried afterwards?

Also that Natalie Dormer headline is 100% feminist thank you @crying-at-ikea for your service.

[kuma-la-la]

this comparison of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in X-men (2000) vs. what I think is Days of Future Past (2014) always make me so sad, he looked like an actual human, and strong, in the first movie and then they turned him into…that.

[madlori]

All of this is good, but the most important thing to note is that THIS PRESSURE ON MEN ISN’T FUELED BY WOMEN’S DESIRES OR WHAT WE FIND ATTRACTIVE.

These super-shredded body images aren’t based on what women like. They’re based on what MEN like. They’re male power fantasies, not female sex fantasies. So this is just another hellish tab in the browser window of the patriarchy.

[0hcicero]

And YET, it is still incredibly important that women and people who aren’t men speak up and say that they don’t want to see men put in such terribly unhealthy states for aesthetics, that they find men who aren’t about to be hospitalized for dehydration MUCH more attractive to look at than someone close to death for a “lewk” because a lot of people think it’s a thing women are into. It’s important to feminism that we acknowledge it, that we don’t brush it off, and that we make it clear that it’s NOT OKAY that men are forced to do this for roles, that it’s wildly unrealistic and incredibly unhealthy and that should never be something expected of anyone, ever, at any point. It is the patriarchy, but it isn’t just the job of the patriarchy to deal with. The male gaze affects men, too. It’s just that women have more experience being able to identify it and to fight back against it. Men, in many cases, lack that sort of experience, and it’s hard to know what to do or to stand your ground if people won’t stand with you. So for me, as much as this is a product of the patriarchy and male power fantasies, when real people, men included, are getting hurt by those patriarchal fantasies, that’s where feminism needs to step in, needs to take a stand with them, and help give them the tools to critically understand what they’re experiencing and how to combat it.  It also means we need to stop this false dichotomy of slimness/body-builder muscle= healthy, and anyone who isn’t in that state isn’t healthy. That means promoting diverse body types, and being vocal about how much you like seeing diverse body types, even in superhero movies, even in action movies. Why isn’t Jack Black out here kicking ass and taking names? Why is Tyler Labine *NOT* starring in a million rom-coms? Greg Davies could be a sci-fi imperator and I would very much bend the knee. The point is, that insane body-builder muscle mass has been normalized and then pushed past it’s limits, and then normalized at that level and pushed back again, and if we can do that with one look, we can do it with other, healthier, more diverse appearances. 

[just-trynabevalid]

With all this Bert+Ernie debating, now seems like a very good time for me to point out the REAL iconic gay couple of the Muppetverse we’ve all been ignoring for YEARS

[probablyacerealkiller-blog]

Shit guys I always thought Statler and Waldorf were brothers but I just went online and no they aren’t but Waldorf is married to this muppet Astoria and guys you’ll never believe this

Astoria is Statler in a fucking dress…

I think we’ve stumbled onto a real conspiracy here folks.

[glamourweaver]

As this just came back up on my dash, I just want to remind everyone there “older gentlemen who have reserved seats at the theatre they go to every week just to be catty bitches” doesn’t have a heterosexual explanation.

[anxietyproblem]

[red-gyarados]

I’ve had to reread my emails up to a dozen times to take out unneeded words and apologies, because being to wordy and apologetic can make you look less professional or confident. Fake it till you make it!

[vampirecatprince]

Also, keep in mind that if you grew up around a single parent who did this and has this kind of history, you may have picked it up as a quirk.

[garbage-empress]

Me needing to prepare an airtight case for minor bullshit like I’m my own defense attorney: what do you mean this is a trauma response?

[kul5ara-blog]

why do people say innocent animal do guilty animals even exist 

[dysonairbladefan1992]

[brigwife-deactivated20240426]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Republican lawmaker who dared AOC to come visit coal miners in his constituency gets scared, withdraws offer

Late last month, Rep. Andy Barr [R-KY] “invited” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to visit the coal miners in his Appalachian district, by way of rebuttal to her brilliant response to the charge that the Green New Deal was a rich, city-person’s luxury, taking no account of working, poor and rural people.

AOC took him up on the invitation, saying “It’s a complete injustice the cancer levels that a lot of these communities are confronting. We have to plan a future for all of our communities, no matter what. Failure to plan is planning to fail and I feel like we’ve been failing Appalachian communities for a very long time and it’s time to turn that ship around.”

Now, Barr has rescinded the invitation, blaming it on her defense of Rep Ilhan Omar, who has been smeared by Republicans and establishment Democrats with the racist slur that she supports Islamic terror. Barr said he was dismayed by her “lack of civility.”

In response, AOC tweeted: “GOP’s getting scared that up close, their constituents will realize I’m fighting harder for their healthcare than their own Reps .”

https://boingboing.net/2019/04/17/andy-barr-coward.html

[noandpickles]

The one detail that seems to be left out of all these headlines, which is perhaps the most important in understanding Barr’s decision, is that there are no coal miners in his district. He made up complaints from people that don’t exist, then panicked when AOC agreed to meet them.