#basic decency

[animal-emancipation]

"We need to challenge the hierarchy in our own lives, and begin living in a way that promotes mutuality. If we take this point seriously, it only makes sense that we begin systematically examining and extirpating hierarchical thinking and actions from our lives. Only in this way, will we begin to reconceptualize our relations with each other and with the natural world as complementary rather than dominant and conquering."

-Bob Torres in Making a Killing

[evergreen-fangs]

dni if you smell like shit and think it’s okay to bring up a dead relative in online arguments

[atx-is-forever]

Conversation the world isn't ready for: "female" genitalia should not be connected to womanhood whatsoever. It should be acknowledged that people receive mistreatment for possessing "female" genitals, but even that isn't a strictly binary concept.

Trans women are hated and discriminated against for their womanhood. Cis women are discriminated against for their womanhood. "Womanhood" in itself refers to ones own identity as a woman, and people are hated merely for that.

Womanhood should not be considered the concept of "acting feminine". Femininity isn't real. Masculinity isn't real. All of these are made-up patriarchal concepts while "womanhood" and "manhood" are self-proclaimed identities. "womanhood" and "manhood" shouldn't imply anything other than that.

Genitalia doesn't define jack shit about someone or imply anything about one's gender. People should simply be educated about it in the sense that "if this is your body, here is information about it and this is how to take care of it".

Also, "boys and girls" should not be separated for "sex ed". Separating kids when teaching them about the human body a ridiculous concept. It isn't "sex" education it's education on the human fucking body. If you as an educator truly believe that you are teaching something "dirty" or "private" that should be concealed when teaching anatomy, you should not be an educator.

"But Ellis little boys can't handle learning about periods-" False. If you're mature about the way you teach, anyone can handle learning anything. Also, just because amab children don't necessarily experience periods that doesn't mean they shouldn't learn about them. Same goes for afab children and learning about erections and such. And no, these functions aren't inherently sexual. Nothing about the human body is inherently sexual. Nothing.

People need to know about the human body outside of a gender binary. People need to feel secure learning about their own human body without being belittled by terms like "man" and "woman" or "female" and "male" in articles. People need to be educated on intersex genitalia as well because newsflash, that exists.

People also deserve to access information on pleasure and how to achieve it outside of a gender binary. And yes, without feeling guilty for wanting to know. This isn't something that is necessary to be taught in schools, I feel, but seeking information on sexual pleasure from unbiased sources (aka not one's parents) shouldn't be demonized in school settings.

Furthermore, terms like "man" "woman" "female" and "male" should not be included in sources that educate about pleasure. Intersex genitalia should be considered in talk of pleasure and achieving it. People need to know these things and learning shouldn't be discouraged.

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

Dear jogger who thanked me for keeping my dogs on the grass and unable to throw their itty bitty fuzzball bodies in front of her feet and/or chase her,

Who made that necessary? Just point them out in a crowd, I just wanna talk, I just wanna tell them something.

Kind regards,

The middle aged woman walking the two half-blind, geriatric lap dogs

[mexsicalihabibi604]

On Today's Episode of Fuck Me for Being Courteous in Public

I held a door open for someone, as it was swinging shut in their face

- The woman, behind me, then proceeded to stare at me, as I'm alwardly holding the door, in a loud obnoxious voice exclaim "EWW no, I'm not helpless weirdo.."

- I responded with "ok...didn't say you were, just trying to be polite..." before I could even defend myself, she then cuts me off

Rolls her eyes *🙄😒 and says in an even louder voice "You're what's wrong with men"

Now...I don't make a mountain out of non-issues, but as someone who's worked hard to be a good human to others, and has come from a past where I was abused, violated and cheated on...I could have turned out way worse.. I've done a lot of work to understand my place in society, and show respect to others...so you can imagine the heat of the spotlight I felt, being in this scenario

I'm now beet red, which for context is very rare as I'm brown and it means my face was completely flushed from anxiety. Even though I proceeded in to the Cafe, my anxiousness then climbed higher because people who didn't understand the context, and just heard yelling, then started glancing at me, one person glared.

The woman then , about 4 people behind me in line, as I'm looking at the bagels , let's out one my verbal scoff as I now sweatingly try to come out of my disassociative state to order my one thing I was looking forward to this evening....but it came to the point where I felt so uncomfortable , and left to go to a different café location. I felt robbed of my social right to space.

But if I had replied back, who's to say I wouldn't have been seen as aggressive? I felt completely like I had been spat at.

1) I do not have motives, other than manners, if I hold a door open for someone...so if this person had some negative experience with someone else, not my problem.

2) Most people I know, men and women, are courteous people. If you fall outside of this behavior, it makes me think you just aren't fit for a social setting

3) Everywhere left right and center nowadays, all I see on social media is how toxic men are, how men aren't needed, men are this, men are that...but if, as a man who's generally well natured and simply respectful as a human, is going to be publicly LYNCHED over a fuckin door ? Then no wonder why droves of us are now choosing to keep to ourselves.

I grew up under my baba ( my father ) who was a protector, kind, gentle to others and taught respect to women. A man who could have been completely crippled by being a child of the Lebanese conflict, he decided to raise me and my brothers and sisters, to honor our mother first...

I can't imagine a man like that, being in my place during an incident like this. It would break my heart. The idea here being, even though I felt like shit for a while, imagine what that kind of defamatory, vulgar treatment could do to a man who's got a more fragile mental state.

We wonder why male su***de statistics climb?

Absolutely ridiculous behavior and I've never felt so humiliated. Luckily, I was able to recover my evening a bit with headphones and music, but that was a hugely disappointing experience and I think some women, have got some serious fucking issues they are projecting into the world, only to weaponize them and use them to make men feel like they're freaks .

Absolutely vile lack of emotional maturity, and I hope nobody else , has to experience what I did.

[ionfusionpunk]

Because apparently this is the hot topic at the moment:

I know I don't speak for everyone, obviously, but I really don't think that enjoying a live action 'remake' means we prefer the live action form to the original animated form?

Now don't hear what I didn't say. There are terrible... imma call them Reformattings instead of Remakes. Terrible reformattings out there. Lilo and Stitch? Awful. Lady and the Tramp? Awful. But there have been good ones, too. HTTYD. Beauty and the Beast. Maleficent.

And YES, Maleficent counts BECAUSE.

Yall don't understand how fairytales work. The animated versions of the things you love so much? Probably already a story that's been told before. Even HTTYD was originally a book series for kids. And you know what? I remember how absolutely feral people who loved the books were when the animated movie came out. A lot of you sound a lot like them.

Here's why that's BAD.

Yes. Making shitty media just for money is bad. Completely changing key details of a story will fundamentally alter its quality. (See Lilo and Stitch). Imma keep using Lilo and Stitch as an example because it went on to subliminally enforce imperialism and specifically clothes harmful colonialist ideas that USAmericans have been both perpetuating and trying to get away from for the last 250 years.

But. BUT.

Stop being assholes. Just stop it. You don't have to like it. Stop making other people feel like shit just because they do. They are allowed to like a bad movie. Should they maybe be conscientious of what the money they spend supports? Absolutely. As adults we should be critical, to some degree, when we have the energy and space to do so, of the media we consume, too. That's a no brainer.

But no one is remaking the movies you're so staunchly defending. Remake implies erasing the original content. It implies that the fundamental story is being irreversibly changed. Lilo and Stitch and Eragon are great examples of this.

What's happening is reformatting in the case of movies like the live actions The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, the most recent Narnia movies, and HTTYD. The story isn't changing, but the form in which you're consuming it IS.

There have been other live action movies to come out that have been retellings. Beauty and the Beast and Maleficent and The Little Mermaid and Snow White are perfect examples. They are stories that have changed with every telling since they were first told. The details that change have changed because some little kid thought their version sounded cooler, so that's what they told their kids.

HTTYD from books to animated movie was a retelling. The story changed but fundamental details remained the same. HTTYD from animated to live action was a reformatting because most everything stayed the same.

Get your language right. Get off your high horse. Admit that you specifically have an issue with something instead of saying 'If you like this then you're BAD'. Let other adults apply their own critical thinking, decide what they want to spend money on and support, and instead of being assholes actually spread awareness about the people working in animation losing their jobs because of the increased popularity of live action reformatting, about the dangers of imperialist views, about how to vote to make the changes you want to see instead of being bitter and crabby.

Get your head out of your halo and stop treating people like the people YOU claim to despise.

[thebpdcrybaby]

This!!!

[a-lass-with-class]

is it just me or did lando not deserve driver of the day at all? I love him (he's my child, spiritually) but that was just not it 💀