Shrieking Shethinker

You're probably not ready

[kingjaffejoffer]

[coffeespoon-life]

Dear DC,

I don’t want “Property of Joker” Harley Quinn.

I want abuse survivor PhD Harley Quinn who is in lesbians with Poison Ivy.

[bannock-and-biopolitics-deactiv]

The Grand Chief of Treaty 8 in Alberta says he was “horrified” to find out Alberta has a policy allowing for the harvesting of organs from children who die in the care of the province.

Treaty 8 Grand Chief Steve Courtoreille said he is upset that First Nations were not made aware of the practice until now.

“Having just learned of this policy, I am horrified, appalled and, quite frankly, mad as hell that this is happening and that it has been working quietly in the background for so long,” said Courtoreille in a statement.

With an already high number of Aboriginal children in care, a 2013 investigation conducted by the Edmonton Journal and Calgary Herald revealed a startling trend in the deaths of children in care in Alberta. The investigation uncovered that while only nine per cent of Alberta children are Indigenous they accounted for 78 per cent of children who have died in foster care since 1999.

“We have children in care that are dying, and now, we find out that they may be harvesting their organs?” said Courtorielle. “It is disgusting, they are dying under provincial care, in a provincial system. Last year, we had 20 Aboriginal children die in care, does this policy mean all these kids had their organs removed? What is going on in this province?”

Treaty 8 officials are demanding that First Nations be consulted on the organ donation policy and that it be amended.

Courtoreille said that removing dead children’s organs shouldn’t be a decision for the province to make. He said the practice needs to stop immediately.

“Part of our culture is that a body must be whole when it goes back to the Creator, not dissected as the government sees fit,” said Courtoreille. “The problem is that we are not a part of these conversations, instead, the Province just did it. In the 8 years this policy has been in place how many of our children have been sent back missing parts? Honestly, if people aren’t shocked by this, then they just aren’t listening.

[genderkills-deactivated20150717]

When you make the “how would people be motivated under communism” argument, what you are functionally saying “people should be coerced into labor by the threat of starvation.”

Isn’t capitalist ideology fun?

[monetizeyourcat-blog]

[sizvideos]

Video

[passive-bussy]

Note taken

[chokesngags]

Is that a fucking bear??? I never really believed bears could run fast. Jesus Christmas.

[crazycritterlife]

Holy shit, its like terminator bear

[zooophagous]

Fun fact, a sprinting bear can run as fast as a galloping horse. Now if they replaced all the horses in the Kentucky Derby with bears, things would get a lot more interesting.

[real-faker]

BEAR IS APPROACHING AT ALARMING SPEEDS

[shethinker]

*screams*

[brutereason]

Even if women did uptalk more than men, we’ve all heard enough uptalk to know that its rising intonation doesn’t indicate a question. No one’s actually confused. So why should anyone have a problem with it? The thing is, this pastime of critiquing women’s speech is not limited to American English speakers. It’s easy to find these attitudes in any culture that devalues femininity and women. In Belfast English, stereotypical women’s speech falls at the end of a sentence, while men’s speech rises before it plateaus—basically, the men are uptalking. And yet Belfast women’s speech is still perceived as more expressive or emotional, showing that it’s not about their actual intonation at all: It’s about whose mouth the speech is coming from. (In fact, vocal fry leads to a lower-pitched voice, essentially the opposite of uptalk, and yet somehow that’s bad when young women do it too.) And that’s definitely not the only study, and it’s not just gender. It’s race, it’s class, it’s sexuality, it’s geographic location, it’s many other factors. But linguists have never been able to show anything intrinsically good or bad, authoritative or unconfident, desirable or grating about any kind of pitch, inflection, or vocal quality. Instead, we ascribe those qualities to speech based on who’s articulating it. Think Black English sounds uneducated? That’s probably because you have some racist notions about black people. Does a Southern accent sound unintelligent to you? Their vowels aren’t to blame—it’s our stereotypes about people from the South. Think that uptalk makes women sound less authoritative? Maybe that’s because women are constantly robbed of agency and authority, and we view anything they do or say as less powerful.

Uptalk is OK: Young women shouldn’t have to talk like men to be taken seriously. (via brutereason)

YESSS

[lurknomoar-deactivated20151109]

Double Character Assassination

Book!Hermione has an almost pathological fear of failure. She wants to accomplish everything perfectly and by herself, and remain in control all the time. Movie!Hermione is the perfection she wishes she could be.

Book!Ron has a huge inferiority complex. He worries that he has no real accomplishments or valuable skills, and that his friends don’t really like or need him. Movie!Ron is the failure he fears he could be.

[beowvlf]

White feminism is “Miley can dress however she wants, don’t slut shame her”

Actual feminism is “Miley can dress however she wants but she crossed a line when she started using another culture as a means to rebel and utilized black women and little people as shocking accessories in her music videos and live performances”

[thegoodqueertheywarnyouabout]

When I explain a queer term to a queer person:

Oh.

Oh. oh.

So I’m—I’m not—it’s a thing. I’m not broken.

When I explain a queer term to a non-queer person:

Aren’t you just making the problem worse by making up all these words?

Why do you even need labels!

[rejectedprincesses]

This is Neerja Bhanot. On September 5, 1986, mere hours before her 23rd birthday, Neerja turned to see 4 heavily-armed terrorists boarding Pan Am flight 73, where she was a flight attendant. She dashed to the cockpit to warn the pilots, but was caught by one of the hijackers, who’d grabbed her ponytail. Nevertheless, she managed to shout a secret “hijack code” to the cockpit crew – who, according to regulations, quickly evacuated, leaving the 400 passengers and 13-man flight crew at the mercy of the 4 enraged terrorists.

With the cockpit crew gone, and Neerja now the most senior crew member on the plane, she took charge. At the orders of the terrorists – who were part of the Libya-backed Abu Nidal Organization – she collected the passports of all the passengers, taking care to hide or destroy the American ones, so the terrorists could not target those passengers.

After 17 hours on board, the terrorists opened fire, at which point Neerja threw open the emergency exit. Instead of saving herself by sliding down the emergency chute, she used her body to shield three escaping children, and died in the process.

Afterwards, she was awarded India’s highest peacetime honor, the Ashok Chakra Award, becoming the youngest recipient in the nation’s history. She was also commemorated on a stamp in 2004. 

[jenniferbarkley-deactivated2015]

[aatombomb]

That’s right.

[shethinker]

Actual pic of me

[mgay-ultra]

keep your kink outside of nonkink spaces this esp means if you’re a man don’t put your gf on a leash and walk her around like a fucking dog dear god think about the meaning behind that and how skeezy doing that in a public space is don’t make your kink my business

[towniebymitski]

When a privileged person asks an oppressed person to “teach” them they are asking a huge favour. You are often asking them to put aside their emotions and experiences in order to adhere to your respectability politics, reiterate something they have said many times, and prioritize you over their own free time. There are so many resources at your fingertips. Please use them if you do not understand something.

[zanesmom-deactivated20150301]

Found out today that my ex husband is dating a prostitute. Life is great.

[emilydwarfield]

I love how mad non-sex working women get when they realize that sex workers are people capable of feeling and being felt for, who might not actually be entirely inferior to them in the...

[steviemcfly]

I hate how many designers and houses that I can’t fuck with have been putting out solid collections, because I keep almost reblogging things and then noping my way out of it when I realize what it is. I don’t fuck with Chanel because no matter who’s in charge there now,...

[jockoppressor]

speaking of disability

"i wish i wasn’t disabled" isn’t always a case of internalized ableism. i’d like to be able to take a long hike without wondering if my heart was going to explode & winding up exhausted for several days. how will that happen if i’m...