Fight or Flight

suzie Q. transneutral. genderqueer/nonbinary. they/them. just trying to keep my head above water. probably failing tbh.

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what state are you from & what state do you think has the worst drivers

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Martin Creed

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Paper Flowers and Succulents, by Jennifer Tatroe on Etsy

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New School Shooter Drill Includes Practicing Pleas To Lawmakers To Do Something About This

WASHINGTON—Explaining that the updated procedure could prevent needless tragedies and save countless lives, officials from the National School Boards Association announced Thursday that new active-shooter drills would include practicing pleas to lawmakers to do something about this. “This new training exercise instructs students to lock classroom doors, barricade entry points, and then quietly use phones or other electronic devices to log into social media accounts and beg their elected representatives to take some sort of action,” said NSBA executive director Thomas J. Gentzel, adding that the new armed-assailant protocol trained students to practice using clear, direct, and plain language while imploring legislators to do their jobs and make this stop. “In a situation like this, every second counts, so it’s absolutely crucial for students to know where they should go online to frantically plead with lawmakers to act like compassionate human beings and do the right fucking thing for once in their lives.” At press time, Gentzel confirmed that the safest procedure would be for students to evacuate the country.

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[profeminist]

“General periodic reminder: The term “toxic masculinity” does not mean “all men are toxic.” It refers to cultural norms that equate masculinity with control, aggression, and violence and that label emotion, compassion, and empathy “unmanly.“ 

Read the full thread here

More posts on toxic masculinity

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[mairauders]

kids are not supposed to die at school. parents are not supposed to drop their children off at school and then get texts like, “mom if i dont make it out of this, know that i love you and appreciate everything youve done for me”. being in high school is not supposed to be a death sentence. yes, america, you fought for your independance. yes, you won. you’re a free country. but you’re not a safe country. power is not supposed to be more valuable than a human life.

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kinda feel like I need to go outside and be absorbed by fog or somethin. become one with the creatures in the mist. become the physical manifestation of the sound the highway makes in the distance. be my own liminal space. self care, yknow

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“they’re burning all the witches” 

ARTIST CREDIT

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And there it is

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Wow

[fozmeadows]

And meanwhile, assholes with no sense of irony or history refer to the naming of sexual predators as a witch hunt. 

[simchiller]

they outlawed this move just because she was the only woman who could do it. 

Surya Bonaly was infamous for (among other things) doing aone blade backflip in the 1998 Olympics, and is the ONLY figure skater who’s ever pulled that off. Not just the only woman, the only figure skater PERIOD. There’s like all ofthree Olympic-class male skaters who did backflips in their routines, and NONE of them could do it one blade.

But wait, there’s more.

Backflips were banned from the 1976 Olympics onward on the official justification that skating jumps are supposed to be landed on one blade, whereas backflips are landed on both blades. The unofficial justification was it was too dangerous, both to the athlete and to the rink — if you didn’t land it perfectly, you could not only break your ankle, but also punch THROUGH the ice surface.

Surya Bonaly was openly contemptuous of the figure skating judges, because they were a bunch of openly racist white men who always screwed her over by giving her lower scores than she deserved. That one-blade backflip was her ultimate FUCK YOU! to the Olympics judges, because she took an “illegal” backflip and made it legal by landing it on one blade. Pretty much DARING them to mark her down for being epic awesome and pulling a move that their precious coddled white girls didn’t have the guts to even think about.

They did, of course. White racism knows no bounds. But she utterly owned them with that move.

not only did she do a fucking backflip and land, she landed then went right into a triple loop. like holy fuck

[weavemama]

bringing this back for this year’s winter Olympics!!!!

[maggiemerc]

So this is one of my absolute favorite stories, but it is, in fact, kind of wrong.

The move was not banned because of Surya Bonaly. The move HAD been performed at the Olympics before (though not on one foot).

What was incredibly about Bonaly was her moment was entirely a moment of defiance in her final Olympics when it became clear that despite her extraordinary talent she would not be getting a metal because the judges are racist fucknuts. So she went out there and she did a totally illegal move as the biggest fuck you the skating community has seen in decades because she knew she would get roasted for it and she was already out of the running so why not go out with a bang and call attention to how rigid, racist, and dumb the skating community can be.

Deadspin just did a really great piece on the move here.  

https://deadspin.com/no-the-backflip-was-not-banned-in-figure-skating-becau-1822904068

And Bonaly herself speaks about the moment on Radiolab here. 

http://www.radiolab.org/story/edge/

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Reblog to make racists mad