secretly iron man

[evilkaito]

i dont think whites understand how being white makes literally everything easier.

it effects everything.

being trans is easier when youre white.

being gay is easier when youre white.

being disabled is easier when youre white.

being a woman is easier when youre white.

being autistic is easier when youre white.

oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.

you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.

never forget this.

[larainbowmisfiiit-deactivated20]

Imma judge any white person who likes this but doesn’t reblog

[im-vibin]

The thing I don’t think white people understand is. When I came out to my parents as not straight, the first thing my mom said to me was that “I can’t believe you would do this. You’re black and you’re a woman, why would you add another strike.” White people will not have that experience.

[ewanfuckingmcgregor]

someone talking about billy: he’s an asshole

steve:

[vaspider]

My great-grandmother was pregnant for over a decade of her life.

She was pregnant at least fifteen times, had over a dozen children. Raised all of them in a big rambling farmhouse in central Pennsylvania.

And I thought about her this afternoon, lying in bed with my spouse after my lazy weekend nap, snuggling him and burying my nose in his hair, taking deep breaths of the scent of his skin. This man who is the center of my universe, my best friend, one of two reasons why I literally decided I had to live and kept fighting through the pain after surgery when I really wanted to just let go and die: I held him closer and I thought of her.

I thought of how family myth tells us that after a decade of being pregnant pretty much constantly, she kicked my great-grandfather out of their house. How she made him go live in his workshop, and he came to the house for meals and to check in.

But he slept in his workshop.

Not because she didn’t love him, but because she did.

She loved him, and if they slept in the same bed together, these two people who had crossed an ocean together, had built a life together after getting out of Poland together, they’d have sex. And because cheap, reliable, universal birth control wasn’t available then, and she was terribly fecund, apparently, she’d become pregnant again, inevitably.

My great-grandmother was TIRED of being pregnant.

So she kicked her love out of the house, and he went. He lived in his workshop, on their farm, and they stopped sleeping together, in every sense of the word. My father tells me he remembers as a child his grandfather sitting outside his workshop, leaning back on his chair, and looking up at the house in which he couldn’t sleep anymore, just… sad.

They missed each other desperately from across the yard.

I listen to @adhocavenger sleep, to the sound of his breathing, a sound that’s as familiar to me as my own heartbeat, and I can’t imagine having to sleep away from him for long. To have to separate myself from my spouse or to have to completely eschew having the kind of sex they obviously enjoyed having. To not have him close enough at night that I can curl up to him and breathe in the scent of his skin.

And that, I think, is the sort of thing that I think maybe I take for granted. That I know I can be secure in the knowledge that I can have sex with my spouse when I want to, and not have a baby.

The personal is political. I do not want our country to continue to slide backward on reproductive freedom. I do not want us to lose our freedom, threatened and small as it may be.

There are a thousand small tragedies that we talk about from the Olde Days. The unwanted baby of the unmarried lass, of course.

But my heart breaks tonight for the story I was told as a child, of the lovingly married couple who had to sleep apart because she was just damn tired of being pregnant.

Because she’d been pregnant for a DECADE of her life.

[scribbleowl-deactivated20181204]

Thank you for sharing this. I had never considered that aspect of the birth control revolution.

[bkst-tutu1b]

“Personal is pollitical”, agreed, whole heartedly.

[pincie]

Please reblog if you are a girl and have ever been made to feel ashamed of one or more of these things (wanting to prove a point to some asshole):

-your weight

-your clothing choice

-your amount of make up

-having sex

-not having sex

-breast size

-having your period

-saying no

-not appreciating catcalls 

-masturbating

-body hair

[i-want-to--be-wanted]

All of them

[timemachineyeah]

This is a jar full of major characters 

Actually it is a jar full of chocolate covered raisins on top of a dirty TV tray. But pretend the raisins are interesting and well rounded fictional characters with significant roles in their stories. 

We’re sharing these raisins at a party for Western Storytelling, so we get out two bowls. 

Then we start filling the bowls. And at first we only fill the one on the left. 

This doesn’t last forever though. Eventually we do start putting raisins in the bowl on the right. But for every raisin we put in the bowl on the right, we just keep adding to the bowl on the left. 

And the thing about these bowls is, they don’t ever reset. We don’t get to empty them and start over. While we might lose some raisins to lost records or the stories becoming unpopular, but we never get to just restart. So even when we start putting raisins in the bowl on the right, we’re still way behind from the bowl on the left. 

And time goes on and the bowl on the left gets raisins much faster than the bowl on the right. 

Until these are the bowls. 

Now you get to move and distribute more raisins. You can add raisins or take away raisins entirely, or you can move them from one bowl to the other. 

This is the bowl on the left. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?

You can’t tell for certain, can you? Adding or removing a raisin over here doesn’t seem to make much of a change to this bowl. 

This is the bowl on the right. I might have changed the number of raisins from one picture to the next. Can you tell me, did I add or remove raisins? How many? Did I leave the number the same?

When there are so few raisins to start, any change made is really easy to spot, and makes a really significant difference. 

This is why it is bad, even despicable, to take a character who was originally a character of color and make them white. But why it can be positive to take a character who was originally white and make them a character of color.

The white characters bowl is already so full that any change in number is almost meaningless (and is bound to be undone in mere minutes anyway, with the amount of new story creation going on), while the characters of color bowl changes hugely with each addition or subtraction, and any subtraction is a major loss. 

This is also something to take in consideration when creating new characters. When you create a white character you have already, by the context of the larger culture, created a character with at least one feature that is not going to make a difference to the narratives at large. But every time you create a new character of color, you are changing something in our world. 

I mean, imagine your party guests arrive

Oh my god they are adorable!

And they see their bowls

But before you hand them out you look right into the little black girls’s eyes and take two of her seven raisins and put them in the little white girl’s bowl.

I think she’d be totally justified in crying or leaving and yelling at you. Because how could you do that to a little girl? You were already giving the white girl so much more, and her so little, why would you do that? How could you justify yourself?

But on the other hand if you took two raisins from the white girl’s bowl and moved them over to the black girl’s bowl and the white girl looked at her bowl still full to the brim and decided your moving those raisins was unfair and she stomped and cried and yelled, well then she is a spoiled and entitled brat. 

And if you are adding new raisins, it seems more important to add them to the bowl on the right. I mean, even if we added the both bowls at the same speed from now on (and we don’t) it would still take a long time before the numbers got big enough to make the difference we’ve already established insignificant. 

And that’s the difference between whitewashing POC characters and making previously white characters POC. And that’s why every time a character’s race is ambiguous and we make them white, we’ve lost an opportunity.

*goes off to eat her chocolate covered raisins, which are no longer metaphors just snacks*

[spiftynifty]

FUCK YES THIS WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT FOR SO MANY PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND

[lord-seeker]

this is a really great way of explaining representation. Note that it also applies to LGBTQ, disabled, and neuro-atypical characters, as well as any other minority or oppressed group.

[gyeomdiary-deactivated20210430]

this is so fucking funny

[keeper-of-the-flames]

This is so great. @chiribomb @cblgblog @thefingerfuckingfemalefury you all have to watch this.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Omfg XD

I love the judges faces like “What is happpppeeennniiiing”

[garrettauthor]

THE SHEER FUCKING BALLS THIS TOOK

[catnip-cryptidd]

Reblog this if you think Asexuality is a legitimate sexuality

I’m trying to prove a point to my parents, who think that I’m being “prudish” and that I “will eventually find the right person.”

[kermit-the-frogster-deactivated]

[w-bunny-blog]

Lilo, why are you all wet?

[tin-pan-ali-deactivated20191216]

This is actually heartbreaking when you remember Lilo tells Stitch her parents went for a drive, and the bad weather caused them to crash.

[cubesona]

I always thought this scene was adorable

Wow thanks guy

Right in the childhood.

[amonkiras-deactivated20121224]

i never made that connection

[enkelirune]

WOW

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

YOU RUINED MY FAVOURITE PART OF THE MOVIE

[fitziggler]

[crazylogic-deactivated20200705]

I get the feeling the adults knew…

[jaaku-frost]

and now I’m wondering how in the hell Lilo came to the conclusion that there’s a peanut butter loving fish god who demands tribute or else he’ll murder your family. 

[ethereal-business-cabaret]

When massive trauma hits, some people try to find any way to make sense of what seems senseless. Find any semblance of control, of responsibility. Lilo may be blaming herself (unfairly) for her parents’ death. This was the only connection she could make, the only thing she could have had any control over, so to her it must have been her fault. If only she was a good girl. If only she did the right thing. Then maybe… It’s very very hard to lose a mindset like that even when it’s the most irrational thing, even when it hurts you, because then you’re left with nothing.

[bigmouthlass]

And when you’re six your pattern recognition skills are a work in progress. Lilo sees that type of fish one day and as it swims away it starts to rain; connection made.

[dynjay]

“Lilo may be blaming herself (unfairly) for her parents’ death. This was the only connection she could make, the only thing she could have had any control over, so to her it must have been her fault. If only she was a good girl. If only she did the right thing. Then maybe… “

[nihilismpastry-deactivated20230]

This movie had some of the best scenes cut out of it. 

[just-an-anxious-mess]

This is one of my favourite movies yet somehow I never saw this deleted scene…. Excuse me a second…

*The distant sound of full on ugly crying*

[nikoletapantexiii-deactivated20]

So THIS is why i know every line of this scene, my heart knew but my brain didn’t really get why I have memorized it. OMG.

[advanced-procrastination]

Why y’all got me crying about this movie 17 years later wtf

[wahtdahel-blog]

This is so powerful and courageous. Police all over the country are pulling this despicable shit. They’re supposed to be protecting and serving. Monsters. 

[lieutenantkoy]

I’m disgusted at the behavior of these fucking police. How can people still be so racist, hateful and abusive in 2019?? We’ve had years to stop this shit. This is especially abhorrent in the case of cops. Major kudos to the lady who posted all this and defended the kids. I would’ve done the same, despite being afraid.

We need to end racism. We need to end the people who support it. It’s our generation’s turn to mold the world, and we’re gonna turn it into something amazing.

[carolinecrane]

Police departments have been infiltrated for YEARS by white supremacist terror groups. They’ve been emboldened by the current so-called ‘administration’. We need a complete systemic sweep of these nazis and a total overhaul of our law enforcement system. Nothing will get better until we take back power and cut out the infection at its source.

[cricketcat9]

This is SICKENING. How anyone DARES to say “the US is the greatest country in the world”. Next time I hear it from my American acquaintances,  I’ll probably slug the speaker in the mouth. 

[locallovewitch-deactivated20201]

hey so uhhh here’s an important update on what’s apparently happening at the border, especially with the use of the old japanese internment camps

all i can say is i’m sickened by this mess, by the atrocities committed against innocent people. and now there will be no surveillance. no one will be able to see what happens to these people. the UN, the media, and any other human rights organizations cannot get into these facilities, either, in order to stop what’s happening. by the way, coast guard members were apparently aiding in this process as well. so now it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a military movement.

no one gets in. no one gets out.

so when are we going to call this what it is? it’s fascism. it’s genocide. and if we don’t stop it now, it’s going to be disastrous.

contact your senators, your representatives, anyone that’s in office that can get off their lazy ass and do something.

[locallovewitch-deactivated20201]

can y’all please reblog this i’m begging

[feetdavidson]

what I’m about to say is gonna make goyische gays really fucking mad

[feetdavidson]

ok ok ready?

until the goyische members of the LGBT community stops making jokes about gas chambers and hitler like he was their roommate from college, they do not get to give their two cents about victims of the holocaust, period.

LGBT gentiles really think they get a pass on being antisemitic pieces of shit when it comes to the shoah because they’re gay and it’s fucking infuriating.

happy pride month.

(gentiles may rb just don’t add commentary because I don’t want to hear it)

[feetdavidson]

actually you know what gentiles are ENCOURAGED to rb. some of my gay goyische friends got mad at me for calling them out on this exact thing this year and they’ve stopped talking to me.

[vikingnanny]

On the off chance that any of my followers need some explanation: “Goyische” is an adjective meaning “not Jewish”, “gentile” means a person who is not Jewish, and “shoah” is the Hebrew term for the holocaust.

[extramadness]

[grandpadun]

put oil in your hair, use that expensive lipstick you’ve been saving up for special occasions, take a hot shower with a bunch of candles, smother yourself in lovely smelling lotion, play your favorite game, go see a movie with your favorite people, or stay in today and do nothing.  Do whatever it takes for you to feel nice today, okay? You deserve it. 

[comrade-bastard-deactivated2024]

yo why do adults try to tell middle schoolers not to dye their hair or cut it weird or dress strange. Middle school is the most miserable time of anyone’s life, let them have fun and get a mohawk or something. They don’t have colleges to impress or a boss to worry about. They’re 12. Let them be less miserable with their blue hair and bad fashion (so long as it’s weather appropriate! I don’t want anyone wearing only a tshirt and jeans in winter!!!) It won’t kill you to let your kid exercise some control over their appearance that literally will not follow them their whole lives. Who cares if your kid wants to wear unprofessional clothes. They’re a kid, they don’t need to be professional.

[queerspoons]

reblog if ur bi, ur not biphobic, or ur best friend is a beautiful valid bisexual

[longlostwaywardsister]

[deactivated-forever-fuckoff-dea]

If I see someone not rebloogong I shall personally kick your ass.

[i-am-a-fish]

i just made being a terf illegal it’s the law now