"The distance is nothing when one has a motive"

Feminist. Pan. She/her. Politically Left. UK. "Nothing will waste your life more than fighting for male acceptance".

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hope your pets stay healthy in 2017

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I almost didn’t blog this and felt guilty

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Not risking it

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omg: oh my god

omfg: oh my fucking god

odmtrwwniitbwbrftstwwtwb: one day more to revolution we will nip it in the bud we’ll be ready for these schoolboys they will wet themselves with blood

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Official Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald

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Way back

The existence of women goes way back, obviously and we are kinda important if you ask me.

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for wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning — Vincent van Gogh

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socks on Christmas

8 year old me: what the fuck I said I wanted toys

me now: *crying* thank you.. thank you sweet christ my feet are always so cold.. so very very cold

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do you ever wish you could just stop time for like a couple weeks so you could just sleep and do whatever you want and just get your shit together and then after that time would just start back up again and you wouldn’t have missed anything because you would just pick up where you left off

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my roommate’s on jstor and she just whispered “oh fuck yeah” so that’s the mood

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When you find The Paper™

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your 20's be like

me: nvm I'm totally nailing this adult thing

*new problem appears*

me: W H A T IN T H E F U C K

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Me: “How can I help you today, ma'am?” Client: “Is e-mail internet”? Me: “I beg your pardon?” Client: “Is e-mail on the internet? I have no internet, can I still read my e-mail?” Me: “Well yes, you must be able to get online to view your e-mail.” Client: “Oh, dear. I can’t see my e-mail.” Me: “Well, let’s see. Can you open up Internet Explorer for me and tell me what you see?” Client: “Open what?” Me: “Your browser, can you open up your browser?” Client: “My…my…?” Me: “What you click on when you want to browse the internet?” Client: “I don’t use anything, I just turn my computer on, and it’s there.” Me: “Okay. Do you see the little blue ‘e’ icon on your desktop?” Client: “You mean I have to start writing letters again?” Me: “I’m…what, I’m sorry?” Client: “I don’t have any pens at my desk. I just want my e-mail again.” Me: “No, ma'am, your desktop, on your computer screen. Can you click on the little blue ‘e’ on your computer screen for me?” Client: “Oh, this is too much work. I’m too upset. Just send me my e-mail. Can’t you send me my e-mail?” Me: “We…okay, ma'am. Can you tell me what color the lights are on your router right now?” Client: “My what?” Me: “The little box with green or possibly a couple of red lights on it right now - it’s most likely near your computer?”

Client: “Lights and boxes, boxes and lights, just get my e-mail for me.

Me: “My test is showing that you should be able to get online right now. Can you tell me what you’re seeing on your computer screen?” Client: “It’s been the same thing for the last two hours.” Me: “An error message?” Client: “No, just stars. It’s black and moving stars.” Me: “…Do you see your mouse next to your keyboard?” Client: “Yes.”

Me: “Move it for me.” Client: “Move it?” Me: “Yes. Move it.” Client: “My e-mail!”

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This post gave me a fucking ulcer.

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God I just aged 50 years from this and almost had a stroke

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[takes a single step out of bed after 8 hours of sleep]

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My husband is a good man, and a good feminist ally. I could tell, as I walked him through it, that he was trying to grasp what I was getting at. But he didn’t. He said he’d try to do more cleaning around the house to help me out. He restated that all I ever needed to do was ask him for help, but therein lies the problem. I don’t want to micromanage housework. I want a partner with equal initiative. However, it’s not as easy as telling him that. My husband, despite his good nature and admirable intentions, still responds to criticism in a very patriarchal way. Forcing him to see emotional labor for the work it is feels like a personal attack on his character. If I were to point out random emotional labor duties I carry out—reminding him of his family’s birthdays, carrying in my head the entire school handbook and dietary guidelines for lunches, updating the calendar to include everyone’s schedules, asking his mother to babysit the kids when we go out, keeping track of what food and household items we are running low on, tidying everyone’s strewn about belongings, the unending hell that is laundry—he would take it as me saying, “Look at everything I’m doing that you’re not. You’re a bad person for ignoring me and not pulling your weight.” Bearing the brunt of all this emotional labor in a household is frustrating. It’s the word I hear most commonly when talking to friends about the subject of all the behind-the-scenes work they do. It’s frustrating to be saddled with all of these responsibilities, no one to acknowledge the work you are doing, and no way to change it without a major confrontation. “What bothers me the most about having any conversation around emotional labor is being seen as a nag,” says Kelly Burch, a freelance journalist who works primarily from home. “My partner feels irritated and defensive by the fact that I’m always pointing out what he’s not doing. It shuts him down. I understand why it would be frustrating from his perspective, but I haven’t figured out another way to make him aware of all the emotional and mental energy I’m spending to keep the house running.”

Stop Calling Women Nags — How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality (via brutereason)

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We do have a responsibility to be up to date and to know what’s going on in our world, but you are not fulfilling your civic duty by reading everything and feeling helpless. We have huge societal issues that need to be solved, from the environment to economic disparity to racial divisions. It’s great if you’re reading up on everything, but we need people to find solutions. The gift of boredom is that it can show people that you have permission to not read. You have permission to try to just do nothing. Because that is the way that we do our best problem solving and come up with original ideas. You are not doing that by refreshing your Twitter feed or the headlines again. The outrage, the anger, and the frustration are real. But then, okay—what are we going to do?

Manoush Zomorodi Wants You to Put Down Your Phone | WIRED (via brutereason)

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