M. B. Glass

forged from glass

[crushsuggestions]

fuck it!! life is short! tell people you love them!!! confess to your crush!!!!! take a nap!!!!!!! throw yourself into the abyss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fnhdgsja-deactivated20221223]

I have anxiety!!!!!!!!

[crushsuggestions]

me too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[brinnanza]

google search: how to take a break from the linear flow of time

[photosbygy-deactivated20200605]

no more toxic friendships in 2018, no more toxic relationships in 2018 and no more toxic thoughts in 2018 

[quarkbees]

only toxic by Britney Spears in 2018

[vaguereply]

[catboywoosung]

[ladreaminn]

[build-me-a-home]

[pathrochilles]

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

— Stephen King,  The Body. (via wordsnquotes)

[rosewater1997]

u know when u peel a mandarin to eat for urself and then someone u love is there and like without even asking u feed them every other piece from ur hand…..why is love so sweet and intimate 

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[official-north-korea-blog]

Minimum wage: $7.25

$7.25 x 40 hour full time work week: $290

$290 x 4 weeks per month: $1,160

In every Southern state (didn’t have time to look at the rest of the country) you can find some sort of studio apartment for around $500 per month, sometimes less than that. Why bother lying about something so easily disproven? 

[father-of-hope-and-fury]

Because Bernie Sanders supporters aren’t going to fact check him, and they’ll ignore any contrary evidence that’s presented to them anyways.

[fartsandprayers]

Things like this really tick me off and It’s not political or anything but it’s the fact that you think all that money is there. Here’s what I mean;

That weekly check comes to, according to you, 290. Most places DO NOT pay for your half hour lunch that is required by law. So your beginning number was wrong. $7.25 x 7.5 hours a day x 5 days a week only gets you $271.88.  Most people in America get paid bi-weekly, so let’s double it to get the budget. $543.75. That’s GROSS, not NET. Out of that comes anywhere between 10% and 15% taxes depending on state so we’ll low ball it at 10%. Automatically down to $489.38 a pay check. Now health insurance. Usually anywhere from 70-100 a pay check for the cheapest plans. Again, we’ll low ball and go $70. So now we have $419.39 a paycheck. x 2  = $839. 

Eight hundred thirty nine dollars. A MONTH.

But again, you seem to think that’s fair. So let’s proceed. You say rent is $500? Okay. This person now has $339 left to buy groceries for the whole month, pay utilities, car payment, car insurance, and gas money to get to work. 

Those are the bare needs. You have to eat. You have to pay for heat, water, garbage removal, gas and or electricity because apartments do not always include things and rarely all of the above. Most cities in America do not have public transportation. Mine doesn’t despite the fact that our population is over 15,000 people, not counting a taxi. If you have a car, you have to pay that. If you have a car, legally you have to have car insurance. You have to pay that. You have to have gas in that car to get to work to make that money.

Now if you can tell me you can get all of that out of $339 you’re lying.

You are so focused on rent that you aren’t thinking about everything else people have to pay for. Rent was an example. This is a breakdown of the budget you gave me and it’s not possible to live off that in 2017 America. 

And BECAUSE this person makes over $800 a month, they probably won’t qualify for financial aid or food stamps. $800 is the line in my state where they won’t help you. No food stamps, financial aid, or government housing if you make more than $800 a month. 

Why does it bother you that people deserve to live above the poverty line?

[misanthrpologie]

Saving Face (2012), acid attacks on women in Pakistan

[catsagainstfeminism]

Meanwhile, in America, feminists are complaining about how dress codes are oppressive.

You idiots have never experienced oppression, and pray you never do, because this is what it looks like.

[earthlydreams-deactivated201709]

As a South Asian American feminist, let me remind everyone that oppression is not a competition.

Just because we fight one type of sexism doesn’t mean we don’t care about other instances of sexism that don’t affect us directly in our day to day lives.

My heart goes out to this woman and the hundreds of other victims like her. I want to educate people about these kinds of incidents. I support organizations that help women like this.

You may think that dress code issues are trivial, but they are related to a larger issue of women’s bodily autonomy, which affects women’s health and safety.

So please, let’s try to bring awareness and bring about change instead of insulting entire groups of people because they are facing issues that are less scary than the one presented.

[thecuckoohaslanded]

“oppression is not a competition”

thank you so much for this wording

[dontwastemyt1me-deactivated2020]

Wow.

[pandor4-deactivated20120302]

[gusty]

[stimman3000]

hot take… “let men show platonic affection towards each other without saying they’re gay” is useless and bad discourse and we should instead focus on gay men not being seen as gross and wrong

[stimman3000]

the stigma towards men showing affection towards each other…is caused by homophobia

[closet-keys]

I’ve been thinking about this and tbh the overwhelming majority of things men are shamed for doing are things associated with gay men. The societal pressure for men to not show emotions outside of anger, to not dress in bright colors, to not have fulfilling platonic friendships with women, to not be physically affectionate with men, etc is homophobia. In all those thinkpieces about how patriarchy limits men— I mean you can argue homophobia is part of patriarchy more broadly, but— it’s really specifically homophobia that is restricting men.

[rachiemonster]

“There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[cultergeist]

[d4ytim3-deactivated20170908]

i seriously regret telling anyone, anything, ever lmao