Blue Line

Privilege is poisonous

[dylanmarron]

[vaguelyangelic]

Now I’m not normally into poetry but I love this so much

[drunkvanity-deactivated20161113]

this is by far my favorite thing.

[tea-orchid-deactivated20180710]

L

[mysharona1987]

[mtvnews]

Sexism at the Olympics

We need to stop giving men credit for female athletes’ accomplishments.

[maaarine]

[motherbychoice]

I am a survivor of the anti choice movement. By this, what I mean is, my mother was given no choice. She got pregnant with me at the ripe old age of fourteen. And she was told, verbatim, ‘you made your bed, now lie in it.’

Did anyone consider what sort of life they were setting her up for? Not for a second. Did anyone wonder what sort of childhood a kid born to a fourteen year old child might have? Nope.

No one cared about her. No one cared about the child they were forcing her to bring into the world. All that mattered was that she be forced to ‘pay for her mistakes.’

And that she did. And so did I. I was the mistake and I had to pay for it as well.

A little girl who needed help for the rape she had been enduring since she was nine years old, a little girl who thought sex was how you show love, a little girl who had no understanding of birth control or her own body past the fact that it could be sexually pleasing to a man, a girl who didn’t know that ‘no’ was an option was forced to birth and ‘raise’ a child.

She was abusive. She was and is an alcoholic. She suffered immensely and so did I (that precious unborn child - except I was born and thus no longer precious or important). My childhood sucked. My siblings’ childhoods sucked. All because paying for her mistakes was more important than her having a choice for once in her life.

I don’t know what she might have chosen. Her feelings on that changes based on the day of the week and how many empty bottles are in the trash can. But she should have been able to choose.

I hate when abortion survivors’ opinions on abortion are treated as if they are so much more important than anyone else’s. If their stories count for so fucking much, then mine should too.

So here it is. I am the child of a woman who should have had a choice.

You want to be a voice for the unborn? How about you shut the fuck up and listen to the people who actually have voices rather than just assuming you know what’s best? Don’t stifle real voices with imaginary ones.

[livebloggingmydescentintomadness]

I don’t care if Hillary Clinton is corrupt. I don’t care if she lies, if she cheats, if she eats bowls of newborn chipmunks for breakfast.

She is literally the only thing standing in the way of a fascist dictator becoming President of the United States with a Republican majority congress that guarantees he can do anything he wants and nothing will be able to stop him.

I was and still am a Bernie supporter, and I hate a lot of things about Clinton, but none of that matters anymore. If Trump is elected, people are going to die. Women are going to die when Roe v Wade is overturned and Planned Parenthood is defunded. LGBTQ people are going to die when conversion therapy is further legalized and more bathroom bills are passed. POC are going to die as Trump rounds up Mexican immigrants, gives more power to the police, and fuels the fires of Islamaphobia. Poor people are going to die as Obamacare gets overturned and further cuts are made to welfare programs. And that’s just in this country. That’s not even taking account the all-too-likely outcomes of Trump starting new wars in the Middle East and having control of nuclear bombs that he’s said he ‘would not rule out’ using.

This is no longer even about ‘the lesser of two evils’. This is not ‘scare tactics’. This is literally life and death. Don’t fuck around and tell me you’re voting third-party or not voting at all, because you don’t have that luxury. 

[septemberwildflowers]

here’s a thought

let’s tell young boys that they are brimming with kindness and imagination and nobility. point out their gentleness, their fierce joy and limitless capacity to love everyone and everything. tell them they are princes in a kingdom of wonders and beauty and thoughtfulness and the warmth of their own hearts. take them to museums and symphonies and forests to make tree forts in. raise them to empathize, innovate and do good things. with confidence and humility.

[bogleech]

You can be an imaginary cartoon fish and people will still debate over whether your mental illness is legit, the internet is incredible

[rbbsbbofficial-deactivated20200]

also, if it weren’t for one direction i would never have joined tumblr. tumblr taught me so many things like feminism, about the lgbt+, racism, classism, ableism, mental illnesses, islam, etc. i would’ve been a complete asshole if it wasn’t for them.

[sunflowercocoa]

okay so in psychology years ago we learnt that it’s common for companies to put women in charge when there’s a predicted downfall so that they could be all ha see women suck at being in charge. and I just find it interesting how the UK is gonna have a female PM right after Brexit so like years from now people are gonna be like “the country saw some of its worst years under a woman” when it was men that fucked it up and then ran

[peanutbutta]

it pisses me off so much when people say age is just a number in terms of relationships. i don’t care if “a 20 year old dating a 25 year old would be fine”. it’s not the same if you’re 15 and dating a 20 year old. for one it’s illegal. and i also don’t trust people in their twenties wanting to date minors. it’s creepy and just not right

[mangolily0]

SAME.  Like the older the people in the relationship (like 30 y/o and 37 y/o) it’s less of a concern because they’re much more equal when it comes to life experience and whatnot.  But yeah.  People can defend themselves all they want, if you’re like 27 and wanna date someone fresh out of high school then there’s a problem.  Not even illegal, but there’s a reason people prey on the less experienced and it’s never a good one.  

My favourite is when older people are like “I’m 30 and my 19 year old partner is acting like a teenager!! they’re so immature!” like NO DUH.  THEY’RE 19. They’re may be mature for a 19 year old kid, but they’re still 19.  I see it ALL OF THE TIME.  Or I see “I’m 20 and my 35 y/o partner didn’t talk to me for a week because I didn’t cook them dinner.” like GET OUTTA THERE.  THEY’RE A GIANT CHILD AND GROSS.   

But yeah.  I’m not about creeps in college trying to date someone in the fricken 10th grade.  Age is a number my butt.  Chances are, they’re a creep or nobody their own age will put up with their garbage because they’re old enough and experienced enough to know better.

This turned into a rambly rant lol sorry!!!  

[feminismandhappiness]

take it from grown up tumblr

[tdivicenzo]

That look is everything.

[clairertemple-deactivated202210]

I talk a lot, I babble until I find something the person I’m with is interested in and I’ll say anything I can to get them to like me. But I really really like you, the real you. You don’t know the real me. But I want to.

[thugilly]

[andrewsadrian-deactivated201403]

“stop forcing your sexuality onto characters!!!!!!!”

……. u do know that immediately assuming that a character is straight is also forcing your sexuality onto a character…….. 

[femininefreak]

What does a rapist look like? Your son. Your brother. Your pastor. Your best friend. Your husband. But you won’t believe us when we tell you because rapists are monsters and the people you love could never be monsters. So we must be lying.

What a Rapist Looks Like (via femininefreak)