Fairy Lit Pines & Yankee Whines

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[unflatteringcatselfies]

My friends cat is every meme rolled into one. Just wanted to share this goofball. 😂

[lukeimyourpapi]

[slavery]

Why

[nightvalemeteorologist]

She had a dream and she realized it.

[brain-confetti]

Hey wait but sit down

This is Megumi Igarashi

She’s a Japanese artist

Japan, the country with some of the most fucked up pornography and the penis festival

Where the vagina is basically illegal to talk about 

So she did a bunch of art featuring 3D sculptures of her vagina, including this kayak, and was put in jail for it

She was indicted again in December on obscenity charges for selling vagina art to crowdfund for the kayak and could spend two years in prison

In Japan, women’s vaginas are treated as though they are men’s property. The trains here usually display pornographic advertisements. As a woman, I find that blatant objectification to be humiliating. I’m disgusted by it. My body belongs to me. So, with this project I wanted to release the vagina from the standard Japanese paradigm. Japan is lenient towards expressions of male sexuality and arousal, but not so for women. When a woman uses her body in artistic expression, her work gets ignored, and people treat her as if she’s some sex-crazed idiot. It all comes back to misogyny. And the vagina is at the heart of it. The vagina is ridiculed. It’s lusted after. Men don’t see women as equals—to them, women are just vaginas. Then they call my vagina-themed work “obscene,” and judge me according to laws written by and for men. [x]

She plans to turn her trial in to a manga comic. She seems pretty sure she’s not going to do any jail time but if you’d like to help her pay for her inevitable fine and court fees, you can check out her online store. There are little glow in the dark vagina characters.

[princesseblade]

Wow I’ve seen this reblogged a ton of times without seeing the whole going to jail part.

[charcoalandcowpies]

if I recall correctly - shes had a few skirmishes with the law over censorship.

[fionagoddess]

[queendaenerys]

7x06 | 1x09

[mmarkle]

welp.

[adamsmasher]

omg look at that font size

[laughingfish]

they literally gave that fucking child 5 lines in font size 24pt to fucking read out “nazis are bad” and this colossal failure of a human went on an honest to gods rant about how nazis arent all to blame because they’re just defending the statue and its a slipperly slope! george washingtong could be next!!!!!

[lierdumoa]

I like how this simultaneously confirms that Trump is a raging nazi/klan sympathizer and adds more supporting evidence to Samantha Bee’s Totally Real 100% Valid Theory.

[bellygangstaboo]

city is woke af

[thorffour-deactivated20190920]

[the-future-now-deactivated20170]

this is a massive step forward for renewable energy (x) | follow @the-future-now

[saysomethinghuman-deactivated20]

[ethonydawn]

Yup

[kitsn0w]

#grumpy and adorable

[pastelparrotlet]

Reblog this and tell me what you ALMOST named your pet

Jack was either going to be Kermit or Gilligan.

[patrioticpedroias]

Juneau was going to be Waffle. Or Chai.

Larry Bird was always going to be Larry Bird.

[subtubitles]

[bellygangstaboo]

Reblog if you agree.

[stability]

why do little kids always tantrum scream like they’re reenacting jurassic park

[mylovemymadness]

Their emotions are too big for their little bodies y'all

They feel just as intensely as we do

[stability]

Well maybe they should get bigger bodies

[peanut-caravan]

They do. It takes several years.

[stability]

Several years??? Typical millennial laziness

[throwoveryourman-deactivated201]

how universal of an experience is having the giving tree read to you as a small child and being distraught even tho the teacher seemed to think it was a nice story. also is this a gendered phenomenon. do girlchildren know on some level that they’re the tree not the little boy

[star-anise]

Children designated as “gifted and talented” frequently melt down because of this story.  Boys and girls both. I’ve heard many G&T educators say they don’t bring The Giving Tree or The Rainbow Fish into their classrooms at all because of it.

[septmilleneurones]

Wow, what is it about gifted and talented kids that makes those stories hit them so hard?

[star-anise]

Because those stories are innately about what to do with gifts and talents, and in the case of those particular books, children often interpret them as “give up all sense of self and bodily autonomy, and carve yourself to pieces to make other people like you.”

Here’s my friend unpacking The Rainbow Fish on the topic.

[curlicuecal]

The Rainbow Fish pisses me right the fuck off and I refuse to read it to children.

[madamehardy]

I loathe both those books so much.  Why should the Rainbow Fish give away its scales to show humility?  Why doesn’t the Giving Tree drop a limb on that obnoxious boy?

My adult children tease me about how much I hate those books.  Give me “Where The Sidewalk Ends” any day.

[useless-germanyfacts]

🌈 German MPs voted by clear majority to legalise same-sex marriage 🌈

[patrioticpedroias]

Someone: how are you coping so well with chronic illness?

Me: first of all, I'm not coping and I'm filled with existential dread, so jot that down

[mabylc]

me: not today, satan 

satan: you’ve been canceling our plans for weeks now. if it’s something i said, please just tell me

[celebrityho]