[56blogsstillcrazy]

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

this is bothering the hell out of me, what would a “violent” marijuana charge be?

[monkeysky]

blunt force trauma

[e-seal-deactivated20210319]

[brittany]

Oscar Isaac  |  Star Wars Episode IX Panel (4/12/19)

[odinsblog]

[artbitchwithlove]

so cute, and so pure wow

[sleepybiflinge]

Now THAT’s a tweet I can get behind, hell yeah!

[diversehighfantasy]

It’s funny (but not at all surprising) that the original tweet went over like 90% of the commenters heads.

Paul Krueger, if anyone wants to know, is a Filipino-American urban fantasy author who writes books that upset Amazon reviewers with their “forced diversity.”

[obstinatecondolement]

I wonder when exactly it was that Star Trek stopped being perceived as light, fluffy, not-really-legitimate sci fi that ~housewives~ liked and started being seen as serious nerd business that girls had to keep their gross cooties off. 

[keeveet-talks-deactivated201612]

Also when did the Beatles start to be remembered as rock legends rather than a silly boy band teenaged girls liked?

[schumie]

When men decided they liked them.

[startrektrashface]

this is seriously exactly how it happened. Women were actually the first rock and roll ‘critics’ because they would write in to women’s papers and magazines to share and discuss what their kids were listening to when men still thought it was trashy teeny bopper music. once it became a lucrative, mainstream genre men shoved women out of the space. Men also tend to be gatekeepers once they move into formerly female spaces - early trek fandom was incredibly open and inclusive; women would set up fan get togethers in their own houses to discuss the show or invite the actors to visit before conventions became a thing, and then were huge in organizing the first conventions - but now the stereotype of a trekkie is a nerdy white dude who scoffs derisively at casual fans and newbies with his encyclopedic and pedantic knowledge of trek

[changelinglili]

I propose we call this “mentrification”

[shiralipkin]

YES

[rosalarian]

MENTRIFICATION that’s genius

[roachpatrol]

by the way every single man i’ve ever explained this to is completely boggled to hear about it. they genuinely don’t fucking know. they’re always like ‘okay name a field this happened in’ and you’re like ‘beer. writing novels. gynecology. computers.’ and they’re completely fucking distraught. men didn’t invent beer???? men didn’t invent everything? 

[electricloveinc-deactivated2020]

We can also witness the reverse happening, where women move into a space and suddenly it is deemed weak or unimportant. Some examples are teaching, nursing, and psychology.

[hubblegleeflower]

…and any kind of clerical work.

[gryphye]

Men didn’t even invent farming.  Women did so they could get the ingredients for their beer and bread.

[daloy-politsey-deactivated20171]

Some facts:

1) Black Americans created jazz. 2) Jewish Americans created comic books. 3) These things are said to be the only original American art forms.

[thelordfool]

4) black Americans invented rock and roll.

[swanboulet]

5) Black AND Jewish Americans created musical theatre. 

[iwonthepageant]

[under-the-arch]

[kiyokospeaks]

[hotdogpeasant]

What I’m saying is Twitter has become 2012 Tumblr with the “we’re all Twitter gremlins!” And “Twitter has the weirdest people. Like if you’re stuck in hell.” It’s just not supernatural gifs, it’s kpop gifs for everything now. Anyway what I’m asking is when is the Twitter dashcon

[hotdogpeasant]

[enchantingwlw]

[blackqueerblog]

YAAASSS!!!! Sometimes it starts as just staring…. but then you get the creeps who will follow you. Be aware of your surroundings and if you see something happening/happen, don’t be afraid to “get in the line of sight” or saying something!

[wistful-pigeon]

THIS THIS THIS

Guys- if you see a guy being creepy towards a woman, interfere.

Everywhere is dangerous for women, but a guy simply distracting a creep can help. If you see a creep, do what you can to stop him, because when women try to stop creeps, we’re often harmed by them or worse.

Block the creep’s line of sight. Prevent the creep from approaching the woman or getting close enough to touch her. Prevent him from following her.

Don’t go to the woman to protect her, because she will be terrified that you’re also a creep. But as a man, you are able to get in the creep’s way so that the woman is protected.

[idinink]

Men like to fantasize about ~~saving women~~ in extreme situations like war or shootouts or fuckin superhero bullshit. I.e. situations that are about winning glory for themselves and slavish gratitude from women.

what women really need is for men – ALL men – to put thought and effort into the everyday “little” things. Saying “not ok” when their friend makes a sexist comment. Educating themselves on rape culture. Stop using the feminine descriptors as pejorative. Help with the dishes at dinner parties.

Note that these “little things” do not include fucking opening doors. We can open our own goddamn doors. What we cant do is leverage male privilege to fight sexism. THAT is what we need you Good Guys™ to do.

[pro-butch]

Sitcoms are a nice (horrifying) window into the disappointments of heterosexuality

[cecaeliawitch]

this post never got the attention it deserved

[bigforeheadgaaal]

Juat a very normal scene of police erecting barricades so the rich can eat peacefully under a highway surrounded by the poor.

[catchymemes]

[ivan-fyodorovich-deactivated201]

I always thought that Google’s informal motto being “don’t be evil” was about as comforting as a coworker having a sign at his cubicle reminding him not to snap and murder everyone in the building. 

As it turns out, watching the coworker remove the sign is even more ominous.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[blackreigen-deactivated20190402]

see i think terry crews has the tendency to be a lil stupid but i mainly think hes just an older blk man like none of the stuff he says ever comes off as that crazy to me when conntextualized as him just…. being an older black man. even the “you need both paternal and maternal love” doesnt seem super wild to me bc its easy to trace that reasoning back to activism abt disruptions of black households with jailing black fathers and how a lot of black activism keeps going back to needing strong blk men in your life. which can be unpacked and discussed and i dnt think its the….. best ideology. 

idk how to phrase this exactly it just…. ya know its not a wild enough statement to me to have a bunch of white gays come and talk abt how hes cancelled. i thinnk he should be criticized tho. i really do. but also i think  its just true that ppl are a lil hyper vigilant with “cancelling” him instead of correcting or disagreeing when it feels like the same old same old 

[blackreigen-deactivated20190402]

and again: i think he should be criticized for it i just… think its a lil obvious that hes coming from a place of belonging in a community that faces an epidemic of black men being jailed and taken away from their families. a lot of blk ppl talk abt lacking a father figure and how this impacts them growing up. i think its easy to throw a queer theory lens on it that nobody needs men in their life, but i really cant in good faith say that its wrong for blk ppl to identify the need for blk men in their life. i just think we should contextualize things a lil more if were gonna give earnest criticism and feedback

[blackreigen-deactivated20190402]

this isnt a defense of terry crews or nothing. i just think white gays are a lil disingenuous in their critiques and i find the criticisms offered by black folks more insightful

[spaghetti-doodle413]

Pretty convenient that a lot of American students never learn that Einstein was a Jew who came to America and started the nuclear research after fleeing from the Nazis and having most of his research lost in the book burnings. 

Or how much of his life and work was shaped by his autism, like how it was his biggest asset because it allowed him to think differently, but also his biggest hurtle because of all the abuse he received in school from teachers who labeled him as a dunce and told him he was stupid because of his disability. Which he proved wrong by discovering the theory of relativity because of his autism instead of in spite of it.

EVEN THOUGH THOSE ARE THE TWO MOST RELEVANT DETAILS OF HIS LIFE THAT EXPLAIN HOW AND WHY HE DID ALMOST EVERYTHING HE DID. But nah, Im sure diversity wasn’t relevant enough to be important in this situation.

Its almost like we have a biased school system that censors the accomplishments of marginalized groups to stop them from realizing that people like them have accomplished things.

[nursemz87]

He taught at Lincoln University after he was told black students couldn’t attend his lectures at other colleges and universities.

Article quote: “In 1946, Einstein, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist traveled to Lincoln University where he gave a speech in which he called racism “a disease of white people,” and added, “I do not intend to be quiet about it.” Lincoln was the first school in the United States to grant college degrees to blacks.”

[star-studyings]

Remembering someone who cared about education

[spcrash]