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listen to yourself and watch your language. instead of saying “sorry for ranting”, say “thank you for listening to me”. instead of saying “sorry that i am overemotional”, say “thank you for trying to understand something difficult”. instead of saying “sorry if i am a burden”, say “thank you for the time and energy you invest in our friendship”. good things will come when you realize you are not an apology.
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Remember, Debbie Reynolds was so much more than just Carrie’s mom. She was a beautiful, amazing, wickedly funny woman in her own right. She loved her daughter and she made her daughter who she was, but it is a disservice to her memory to shrink her down to just being Carrie’s mom.
Also, because it needs to be said, Debbie was a huge supporter of the mentally ill. She helped found The Thalians, a mental health charity in 1955 and served as chairwoman for the organization for fifty-six years. She was an amazing woman and will be missed.
The spectrum of the rainbow is typically categorized into 7 colors (initially 5). Even just working with the basic 7 colors of the rainbow you can mix hundreds of colors. However, it's been determined that the human eye can see at least 100 individual colors within that spectrum. With more information scientists acknowledged these differentiations and also admit it is the individual's limitations to not be able to differentiate separate shades of colors, not a fact that those colors don't exist.
Just because there are 2 commonly represented categories of sexuality does not mean there are not many more on the spectrum. It just means we haven't learned to perceive or understand all the variations. Or maybe some people do not have the capacity, but that is their individual failing.
The Ardennes Draft Horse is considered one of the oldest breeds of draft horse, and is believed to be a direct descendent of the prehistoric Solutre Horse.
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Weaver, knitter, potter, and some shoddy sewing skills. I'm ready to contribute, yay.
Made a sweet Hobbes for one of my buddies 🐯
this was for a school project but also a power move and my favorite pic of me
listen i don’t know if this was the original point of the piece but this is literally one of the most powerful images I’ve seen in relation to female artists and sexuality
it is a HUGE issue to get modern art historians to recognize historical lgbtq+ artists, especially women. A female artist could have never married, spent time with other publicly lgbt figures, and been living with a female partner for most of their lives, and yet you still get art historians who will jokingly be like “I guess that makes them a lesbian right? haha!” um yeah, professor janet, it does, and it’s not a joke
with that context, this piece gains an incredible amount of depth. I could write a full ten page paper on this piece alone. This is a self portrait (which beautifully and ironically emulates classic Renaissance formula) says “I am an artist, and I’m gay” in a way that by definition cannot be removed or questioned. Power move indeed, holy shit
what a nice and wholesome comment on this!!
Ok, art student losing shit over this, time for interjections
This is quite possibly the best modernist take on Renaissance art I’ve seen in years. Not only is everything is this picture perfect (posture, lighting, those cat eyes) but it emulates this beauty:
Judith Fucking Leyster’s Self-Portrait 1630, Netherlands
Now you may ask, who the fuck is fucking Judith Leyster?
She is one of 2 famous female Renaissance artists ie. women who were never covered up as being active artists because of their sex (second is Artemesia Gentileshi, she was a badass from Italy who was a favourite of the Medici family and did a series of self-portraits where she beheads her rapist, seriously Google this woman she’s amazing) and is one of a trio of women who reigned artist supreme in the Dutch Golden Age. Judith was from Haarlem and was part of a brewer family, so had no artistic background, yet somehow managed to gain the attention of painter Franz Pietersz de Grebber (who was a pretty big deal at the time) and entered his workshop. She was so good she was written into a book and ran her own workshop, the second woman to ever be accepted into the Guild in Haarlem. Within 2 years she had 3 apprentices and only punched out between 12-35 works in 6 years, yet went on to be one of the most popular painters of the time. After her death in 1660 most people forgot about her until one of her pieces was rediscovered in the late 1800′s after a serious of mistaken authorship.
She was so badass in establishing herself as an independent female artist, she helped pave the way for other female artists from then on to get a foothold in the field. After her rediscovery, her works influenced women from the Impressionist, Expressionist and Modernist age (which is really when women were finally being acknowledged as artists globally) and her pieces are still being hunted down.
So, not only is this photo Post-Modern and LGBTQ+ (brava babe :) ) but it’s also feminist as fuck and deserves a double thumbs up!
homophobes are not allowed to use computers because the inventor of the computer was gay
People think this is just a joke but Alan Turing was the inventor of the computer and his sexuality was illegal in his time (which was not even 100 years ago) and he was arrested. They put him on drugs that destroyed his genius brain and committed suicide a year after being covicted. He was gay and a war hero as well. He helped to break enigma which was a German code that they put all their messages through. He shorted WWII by two years and saved so many lives in the process.
Friendly reminder that if not for Alan Turing you wouldn’t be reading this post and we might be ruled by the nazis
The Alan Turing statue on my campus
He should not be forgotten…
Fun fact: the anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews having lots of money/being greedy/cheap began in the Middle Ages thanks to Christian laws.
The Christian church began forbidding Christians from having professions that involved lending money, banking, or pawn work. It was because the church believed that money was ultimately unclean so although it was considered a necessity, Christians were instructed to deal with it as little as possible.
But someone still needed to run all of those money-based businesses. So these societies which were already run by Christian leadership basically made it a rule that these businesses had to be run by Jews since they were already “unclean”. Furthermore, due to other restrictions on Jewish people in these areas, these money-based positions were pretty much some of the only jobs Jews could legally hold.
This eventually led to numerous stereotypes involving Jews and money. And the acidity of these stereotypes grew when Christian people and leaders became resentful of the livelihood Jews were able to achieve for themselves with these jobs.
So to sum up: Christian society forces Jews to hold down money-centered jobs since, according to the church, Jews were already going to Hell. Then, once they made lives with these roles they were forced into, Jews were mocked and hated for being successful.
History major here, just want to add details to emphasize how damaging these stereotypes are, even to a modern audience. To do so, I need to quote the introduction to “The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous” by Asa Simon Mittman.
In his class, Mittman was teaching his students about the negative portrayals of Jewish people in medieval works, specifically “Demons, Saracens and Jews” which depicts them as literal monsters. Hooked noses, fangs, grimaces, the whole she-bang. He then recounts this anecdote.
“One of my students raised her hand after this discussion, with a look of confusion and anger on her face. She said that she did not understand what I was ‘trying to get at.’ She said, with a quaver of emotion in her voice, that I was making too much out of nothing, since this is what Jews look like, more or less. And anyway, she continued, the Jews are Christ-killers. She then screamed out the text of John 19:15, saying “the Jews shouted, ‘Kill him! Kill him! Crucify him!’
She was quoting, interestingly, from the “God’s Word Translation,” the most violent English translation i have been able to find, since most read ‘take him’ or ‘away with him,’ where this one reads ‘kill him.’ […] The resulting impression, conveyed by my student, was that the Jewish monster was real. The impact of these imagined monsters has all been too real, form the middle ages onward.
I was struck temporarily speechless, but as I soundlessly worked my jaw to formulate a reply, I saw in the eyes of all the other students a shocked recognition that, in essence, answers the question posed at the outset: all of this matters. All of this is relevant. I was trying to show how medieval images were designed to allow medievals to confuse one group of Jews from the first century with all Jews in their own day, and here, in twenty-first-century America, my students saw this same notion quite alive. “
All of this matters.
All of this is relevant.
I wish people didn’t think silence was awkward, just enjoy it. Not every space has to be filled with words.
#THEY DON’T WRITE EM LIKE THIS ANYMORE
[echoes of eleven blowing up cybermen to get information in the distance]
People who don’t love Nine are the dumbest.
People think that Nine is dark sullen and a killer. They’re wrong. Nine not dark. He’s light and happy and in love. He wear a leather jacket and is the closest Doctor the the Time War but he is not dark. He is a light person who is fighting his dark past. He knows what he’s done and is fighting to write his wrongs. He just wants everyone to live.
Eleven on the other hand is the exact opposite. People think he’s a puppy in a fez. They’re wrong. He is not happy and joyful. He’s careless. He is having adventures while ruining lives and killing people. He is the man who forgets. He has forgotten the pain he felt after what he did and now is so comfortable killing.
He doesn’t remember Nine. Nine, the Doctor with depression. Nine, the Doctor who fell in love with an nineteen year old shop girl who didn’t need a magic back story to be special. Nine, the Doctor who went and saved his friends without killing. Nine, the Doctor who chose to lose instead of causing loss.
Nine chooses to give up being a god. Eleven pretends he is a god. Nine would make a merciful god. Eleven acts like a vengeful god. Nine is a puppy in a leather jacket. Eleven is a a killer in a fez.
Wow, that just summed up my feelings on where Doctor Who has gone better than anything else I’ve read.
Nine is so underappreciated.
Unfriendly fucking reminder that the best predictor of mass shootings is not mental illness, but being an angry young white man who has recently experienced rejection and has easy access to guns.
Bringing this back because it makes terrible people angry. And I’ll add a note to all the people saying “But you’d have to be mentally ill to do that!”: Mental illness is, by definition, abnormal. Does “mediocre white boy is so entitled that he resorts to violence when told no” really sound particularly unusual to you?
I devoted my entire graduate studies and thesis on mass school shootings, multiple murderers, and criminal psychology and I can tell you that this is in fact completely true and is suported by an unbelievable amount of emperical, quantifiable data that I slaved over for years. 💯
whereas I believe there is a mental illness aspect to being capable of mass murder (be it Antisocial Personality Disorder or something else), the fact is still that people of all genders, ages and nationalities suffer from mental illness. yet a certain gender, age and nationality is overrepresented in school shootings……..
You’re fucking wrong, and exactly counter to the point of this post. Go demonize mentally ill people because you’re too lazy to do some research somewhere else.
Sincerely, One Of Those Spooky Mentally Ills You’ve Heard About
An even more unfriendly reminder that
the best predictor of mass shootings is not an angry young man OF ANY COLOR (you fucking racist) who has recently experienced anything but a country that TREATS ITS YOUNG MEN LIKE SHIT.
Give them more career, education, and life opportunies
More easy and cheap sex, so they won’t go crazy…
Dude dude dude dude dude. There are so fucking many levels of wrong in this. A non-comprehensive list in minimal order:
I’m white.
So are the overwhelming majority of mass shooters.
People who are not white men are actually absurdly rare.
For all that this country treats its young men like shit (and it does, unless they’re also rich), it treats every single step you take away from that way worse.
And yet none of those groups are committing mass shootings in notable numbers.
That’s, uh, some reeeeeeeal rapey talk, and also literally every word of it is wrong.
See my icon? Yeah, it means something. I survived testosterone poisoning for over thirty years, dude, and so did everyone around me. The overwhelming majority of those years, I had literally no access to sex. I also had an impoverished, abusive household, was bullied by both students and aministration so hard in school that eventually they just threw me out, and I’m essentially unemployable and have been for years - including years of testosterone poisoning. I have been repeatedly denied basic survival necessities by a government that claims to provide them, despite extensive documentation of all of the above. And yes, I am crazy.
In short, I have been profoundly denied literally every single thing on your list, and for most of that I was in fact part of the demographic we’re talking about.
And nobody died.
This is a white male entitlement problem, not a “poor white boys don’t get handed everything” problem.
Here’s an idea: instead of insisting that people owe you sex if they don’t want to die, how about working on being the sort of not-terrible person someone might want to have sex with, you rapey fuck?
Now get the fuck off my post and away from human contact until you can manage to see people as people, not objects for your amusement.
EDIT: TW for pedophilia,CSA, rape, suicide baiting, and I couldn’t even read to see what else: HOLY FUCKING SHIT people this guy just went from “rapist cheerleader” to “probably active threat that something should be done about.” Unfortunately there’s not likely enough information to do much here, but… fuck.
“More easy and cheap sex”. Fuck this guy. People aren’t obligated to be easy for you to hang sex with and sex workers shouldn’t have to give you a discount so you don’t kill people you sick fucking pervert. That dude is rapey as fuck.
*slow clap it the fuck out*
becoming an adult is essentially having all your friends in different cities and permanently missing someone
-When I told the army doctor that sometimes my period pains make me unable to function for days, he didn’t even write that down. -When I told my dad “don’t touch me, I’m in pain” he backed down for a moment until my mom told him “she’s on her period”. Then he just laughed. -When I told my teacher before a big test that I was unable to do it because I was in extreme pain and could barely move at all, she said I was making up excuses and that it wasn’t a real reason not to do the test. -Wenever I tell someone about how different I feel during my period emotionally they say I’m just “making up drama”. We need to start treating people on their periods like actual human beings in pain.
-The fact that it occurs monthly doesn’t make the pain less real. It should be treated seriously and with respect. -The fact that the hormones effect the emotions doesn’t make your sadness less painful or the anger less valid or that terrible feeling of being lost less terrifying. Guess what? Hormones affect everyone. Feelings aren’t always rational. It should be also treated seriously and with respect.
Please stop mocking people with periods. Please stop dismissing us. Please stop violating our boundries. Please respect people with periods.
Period pain is real pain.
The Garcia family in Los Angeles shows the mission creep of supposedly rounding up gang members and insidiousness of blanket immigration raids.
If you wanted an example of the (intentional) mission creep of supposedly rounding up and deporting MS-13 gang members, the story of the Garcia family in Los Angeles shows the insidiousness of blanket immigration raids. The Mercury News has the story of 62-year-old Luis Garcia, who, according to his daughter, was having his morning coffee and watering his lawn around 7 a.m. on Sunday when approximately eight Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents showed up at Garcia’s home, handcuffed him, and detained him. Now, they’re trying to deport him.
Luis Garcia’s 32-year-old daughter Natalie Garcia was in the house, which her father owns, at the time of the arrest. Natalie said her father had come to the U.S. nearly fifty years ago from Mexico, when he was just 13, and had been a longtime legal permanent resident, who had gone to high school in the area where he later bought a home and raised a family. Luis Garcia never became a citizen, she said, but paid taxes as all other Americans. When the ICE agents arrived, Natalie said she didn’t know what to do. “[Natalie] tried to get more information and asked to see the arrest warrant and if they had read him his rights,” the Mercury News reports. “She said the agents responded rudely, did not answer most of her questions, and told her they did not have to show her the warrant. They told her that it was not a criminal warrant, but an administrative one.”
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