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did you know that in 1953 eisenhower issued an executive order which banned gay people from being employed in government and it was specifically to root out lesbians who enjoyed the job security of government work

lesbianrey

“To protect their careers, lesbian government workers moderated their behavior to avoid suspicion. They refused to socialize with other lesbians in public, attended social functions with gay men as their ‘dates,’ and carefully chose their wardrobes and makeup to project a feminine persona. Male employees who resented reporting to a female boss could trigger an investigation into her sexuality.” - Robert J Corber “Cold War Femme”

palominogold

this era was called the lavender scare and was both a direct result of mccarthyism and the classification of homosexuality as a mental illness during ww2. over 10,000 lesbians and gay men lost their jobs and as a result the daughters of bilitis (the first ever lesbian activist group in the u.s.) formed in order to protect themselves and gay men

saltghosts

I’m just so upset because Leslie obviously had so much fun on the press tour, but then she gets cyberbullied horrifically by a bunch of racists. Then she goes and has the time of her life at the olympics and now she has to deal with being doxxed and having her private photos and even personal info out on the internet. This is more than any fucking human deserves to go through. She’s done literally nothing wrong. All she’s done is be super outspoken and successful and these fuckers hate that. Protect Leslie Jones now more than ever, because now is going to be a fragile time. Who knows if she’ll even be on social media after this.

metapianycist

“It’s only a trigger if it causes horrible flashbacks” is so utterly divorced from how the concept of a trigger is used by actual real therapists

a thing doesn’t have to cause traditional flashbacks to be a trigger. a trigger can be a thing that causes:

- panic attacks - emotional flashbacks* - anxiety episodes - paranoia/delusions - hallucinations - seizures - rage episodes - manic episodes - depression spikes - suicidal thoughts - dissociative episodes - sensory overload - obsessions and compulsions (as in OCD)

and probably more things than that, i don’t know all the possible things. I’m not trained in clinical psychology, but neither are all the assholes who say “It’s not a real trigger unless it gives you flashbacks”

* an emotional flashback is a type of flashback where you feel the emotions associated with the trauma happening to you while still on some level knowing that the trauma isn’t currently happening to you. this is a more common type of flashback than the traditional kind.

tl;dr the word trigger in clinical psychology (the field of therapists) can refer to many things other than traditional flashbacks. stop telling ppl “that’s not a trigger unless it gives you flashbacks,” because you are utterly fucking wrong.

squidsqueen

•Addiction relapse.

theconcealedweapon

From a very young age, people are taught that an oppressed person being impolite is a much worse offense than a privileged person being violent.

nematodes-r-us

i think everyone involved in ~the discourse~ at this point is kind of vaguely aware of the campaign on tumblr a few years ago to kick “”het-partnered”” bi people out of the community (i know there’s still that one post about “”bi people in straight relationships”” at pride circulating)

what a lot of people may not know is how absolutely, incredibly nasty it got in the tags. people started making posts about how most bi women were “faking it,” that “bihets” were invading the community and should kill themselves, that bi women were responsible for lesbians getting raped, that bi people deserved the abuse we got because we’re “liars and cheaters.”

new blogs kept popping up every day dedicated to mocking “bi tumblr” by adding comments about “breeders” or “fakers” onto bi positivity posts or screenshotting bi people’s posts out of context to justify harassment. people started adding “biphobe” to their url or description like it was some kind of joke, mocking the idea that biphobia even existed because “sweetie it’s just misdirected homophobia :))) you’re lucky we even allow you in :)))))”

so when y’all do the exact same thing to a-spec people and then turn around and tell us it’s for our own “”protection””” like… what kind of gall does that take? how fucking gullible do you think we are?

it’s very fucking apparent that you’ve only stopped attacking bi people rn because it’s no longer the ~tumblr cool thing~ to do. y’all aren’t being slick at all

#mogai stuff #i don't like to get into the discourse #but this!!!!!#it's always the same witch hunt guys #apparently nothing ever changes

senatorgana

let us always find each other.

#sw #this is Too Much #i'm too emo for this

weloveshortvideos

zombielovejuice-deactivated2020

WE ALL KNOW THAT EMOTION

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UNMUTE THIS

matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll

I’m the dog

emeraldbriar

My emotion right now is this dog.

#same

friend: are you ok?

me: No I'm not, but confronting hard truths and sharing my emotions is difficult for me and i don’t want to burden you with my problems when you have plenty of your own. However, I will be posting a jarring synopsis of my emotional state online for everyone to see, but feel free to ignore it if it makes you uncomfortable. how are you tho?

#ha ha ha #hiding in plain sight

pure

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

#very relevant #unfortunately sometimes the line is very thin #but the point is that cultural appropriation is the difference between exploiting and #how do i put it #crediting??

mrnecessary-blog

does anyone else just

#this is a Bad Time ®

neurotypical people be like: sweetie :))))))) i understand what you:))re going through :)) but we all have:)those:)days:))u just need to appreciate the good :) in life. some people:)))have it way:)worse than u. just :) be:)) happy:)) sweetie:))) u have evrything:))))darling (:(:

#FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU #I HATE THIS THEY CAN'T POSSIBLY UNDERSTAND #and i feel like i'm getting worse #and how doesn't everyone realize???#but maybe I'm just being selfish #I'm so sorry #so so sorry #rant in the tags #mental illness cw

pearlrebs-deactivated20170202

Look either Elementary exists out of some attempt to prove that Holmes and Watson have only ever been just friends or it exists to have Holmes and Watson get together in a way that won’t make homophobes feel uncomfortable, either way the intent is Bad

junkrattatamoved-deactivated201

no offense but id take a genuine relationship between a clearly mentally ill trauma survivor/addict and a well-developed chinese american female doctor character over Bland White Dudes With Fake Homoerotic Tones any day

#i really need to erase anything sherlock from my blog #and to start elementary

dean-thomas

Privileged, not lucky.

#sense8 #my precious baby #protect her #riley blue

shazampanic-deactivated20190720

i don’t understand people who complain about “sj bullshit”/“political correctness gone wild” in comics?

you’re literally reading a bunch of stories about heroes who fight for the greater good of all humankind? you are reading about literal Warriors for Justice. like, complaining when wonder woman gives a speech about treating women with respect? that’s the point of her character. that’s who she is. the punching is second to the respecting women bit.

how in the hell can you go around saying “yeah, i want my violent bloody fights for justice, with a little less, you know, justice?” you want to see superman punch a nazi in the face, but you don’t want superman to be doing it to protect a jewish character because that would be ‘too preachy’?

how do you not feel like a batman villain when you complain about too much justice motivating the violence. how do you not realize you sound like the joker when you say “i want more graphic, bloody violence, but can you put less justice, compassion, and kindness in the reasoning for it?”

iridescentoracle

#[POINTS AT THIS POST] #i think it’s the dark and gritty pouchful years that made this misconception so popular #the WHOLE POINT of superheroes is extrajudicial justice because the justice system is insufficient #and has been insufficient since the inception of comic book superheroes #so like…the whole point of superheroes #is to deliver justice where the system won’t or can’t (via allerdrake)

#RELEVANT #COMICS