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“This video of this adorable little girl encouraging her Dad while he tries to do her hair, is just what we needed to brighten up our day.” [X]

startrekrenegades

[Dad: How’m I doing on your hair? Child: Good! Dad: Let’s see, do I need more grease? Child: Yes. You need more grease on there. Dad: More grease? And then what? Child: And then you gonna need to brush it, and then you put a band on there. Dad: A band on it? Child: Yeah! Dad: Aww.. Child: You’re getting it through! You’re almost done! You’re doing a good job! Dad: Aww, thank you, sweetheart, so much! Daddy’s trying, doing the best I can. Thank you so much. Child: You’re welcome! Dad: I’m almost done! Child: You been doing great! Dad: Aw baby, thank you so much, you’re so encouraging to Dad. Thank you. Child: You’re welcome. Dad: I really appreciate you so much. You’re so awesome. Daddy getting your ponytails ready for school.]

gardnerhill

Interrupting all the political ugliness to make you melt with cute.

sangrexderramada

Me as a father

black-to-the-bones-deactivated2

this is so pure

valerie1972

Kids that age are parrots of tone and phrasing. So the whole bit with “You’re getting it through! You’re almost done! You’re doing a good job!” means that there is at least one adult, if not more, in her life that regularly talks to her that way.

Everything about this video makes me happy.

plain-flavoured-english

Masculinity in the Star Trek Reboot: Are you noticing a trend here?

Despite the fact that the Star Trek reboot offends many of my Trekkie sensibilities, I’ll be the first to admit that it was fun. I think the whole cast was superb (even if some of the casting choices made me cringe—it’s a pretty impressive accomplishment to make viewers wish Benedict Cumberbatch wasn’t in your movie). And I think setting it in an alternate reality was absolutely brilliant; it gave the writers a certain amount of artistic freedom while also getting Leonard Nimoy to don a pair of pointy ears again, a stroke of creative and financial genius.

So just to be clear: I don’t mind that the reboot is different from the original. What I mind is how (and, perhaps more importantly, why) it’s different. I appreciate it when creators try to put their own spin on something instead of being slavishly loyal to the source material. However, I also think it’s important to note that many (if not most) of the ways that the Star Trek reboot departed from the original series are about glorifying traditional masculinity at the expense of the feminine. The treatment of women in the reboot has, of course, been extensively discussed, but I’d like to put it in a wider context that includes the characterization of the male characters, as well as the overall themes in the reboot.

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littlemixens

why do people say “don’t be a pussy” when talking about weakness more like “don’t be a man’s ego” because you know there isn’t nothing more fragile than that

nothingnowherenoonearchive

uh

because “pussy” is the shortened form of the word “pusillanimous”, which means “timid, cowardly”

and not the slang word for the female genital region?

follow-puppy-luv96-deactivated2

literally no one else knows this. nobody.

WHAT

Sensational.

Remarkable.

it’s a real word

snarky-gourmet-deactivated20250

you: pussy

me, an intellectual: pusillanimous

temporalus

That isn't really true, though. Pusillanimous is a descriptor, an adjective.

Also! Common use definitions are infinitely more important than denotation. Dictionaries are not useful for words whose meanings have shifted! If everyone thinks "pussy" means "vagina," then "pussy" means "vagina!" Words are arbitrary, language is easily changed, and people are sexist. If nobody knows a definition exists, then it is irrelevant.

vividbywolf

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I hate this

it is a privilege to learn about racism instead of experiencing it your whole life.

daily-garfield

03/18/92

methhomework-deactivated2014032

when i was a kid i thought herpes was a greek god

nishlo-deactivated20151015

is this a macklemore lyric

lagonegirl

this tread

motherofgoditsalltoiletsounds

WHO’S EXCITED FOR AMONKHET STORY NEXT WEEK

dasebeleren

I suppose I deserve having to see this

bace-jeleren

People who are genuinely excited for more planes based off other cultures: yay, Egypt plane!

Gross meme creatures with access to Photoshop who have watched YuGiOh: yay, Egypt plane :)))))))))))))))

prhc309

If you want abortion to be rare, make it safe and legal.

LOL @ ahistorical fuckwits being oppressive as fuck and hiding behind "discourse."

star-wars-discousre

You are LGBT if..

You are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. That’s it. Aces aren’t LGBT.

feminismandmedia

I mean for one your forgetting a bit of that. Like the Q+.

Mod Bethany

star-wars-discousre

The full acronym is LGBT.

smallhorizons

I love me some ahistorical bullshit

The “full” acronym at one point was “GL”, after lesbians fought against male homosexuality being the “face” of the movement (i.e., the Alliance for Gay Artists (AGA), founded in 1982, was renamed the Alliance for Gay and Lesbian Artists shortly thereafter; and the Gay Activists Alliance never included “Lesbian” in their title).

The “full” acronym at another point was “LGB”, only after bisexual activists campaigned fiercely to be included, and is often still not even included in acronyms

The “full” acronym at yet another point was “LGBT”, only after trans activists campaigned fiercely to be included

Queer was added to the acronym after it was reclaimed and re-politicized by ACT UP off-shoot Queer Nation in the early 1990s. LGBTQ has been a thing since the 90s.

ONE Archives, which is the largest repository of LGBTQIA+ materials in the world and was founded by some of the principle members of the early (1950s-60s) homophile movement, which led to the gay rights movement post-Stonewall, uses the full acronym LGBTQ on their website and also freely uses the word “Queer” interchangeably.

As of 2014, NOW (National Organization for Women) agreed to switch to use of the full LGBTQIA acronym, and it likely isn’t the only large social rights organization to have done so

Many LGBTQ+ magazines use LGBTQ, including One (which has existed in some form since the 1950s) and The Advocate, use LGBTQ or LGBTQIA as the full acronym and regularly use “queer” as a phrase (and, in fact, some articles have welcomed asexual people and their narratives as part of the queer experience).

The acronym is constantly evolving. It’s not static. To claim otherwise is blatant ignorance. The modern-day LGBTQ+ community is a result of decades of political activism, social inclusion, and community outreach. It’s not a rigid structure that operates by a strict set of rules about who can and cannot join.

star-wars-discousre

The full acronym is LGBT. Cishets don’t belong in the community. Aces aren’t inherently lgbt. We don’t want our oppressors in our community.

smallhorizons

“we don’t want our oppressors in our community”

as if trans people don’t already have to deal with their oppressors (cis people) being in their community

as if LGBTQIA+ people of color don’t have to deal with LGBTQIA+ white people in the community

as if LBTQIA+ women don’t have to deal with GBTQIA+ men in the community

as if disabled LGBTQIA+ people don’t have to deal with able-bodied LGBTQIA+ people in the community

the LGBTQIA+ community is huge and consists of people with multiply-overlapping identities and privileges. we all (unless you’re a cis, able-bodied, wealthy, white gay man) have to deal with a member of our oppressing class in the LGBTQIA+ community

ETA: “Straightness” is a position of power. Ace people, even if they are in heterosexual relationships, do not necessarily perform “straightness” in ways that are acceptable to the Straight class.

i-am-not-a-hero360

Reblogging because osirisjones is completely hitting the nail on the head.

temporalus

First of all, the queer community is often oppressive as all fuck. Its entire history had been growing into and out of oppression. I, personally, am non-binary demisexual, but I also am Black. And the LGBTQIA+ community has had a nasty history of racism and anti-Blackness in general. Hell, it still exists.

So if we are defining who can be in the community by who is not oppressive to everyone else, all y'all white folks can leave the pool now, please.

In addition to that, Whiteness intersecting with queerness has also created a second class of queer folks, in which White gayness/queerness is accepted and preferred over the politicized expression of Black and brown folks. If I were to say oppressors could not be a part of the “community,” then anyone who isn’t a queer POC would have to get the fuck out. However, saying an ace person isn’t queer is like saying a Black dude from Great Britain isn’t my nigga. That shit just doesn’t fucking work.

But hey, keep doing ciswhite heteropatriarchy’s work. I’m sure you aren’t being oppressive because you add “you are valid” every couple of posts.

star-wars-discousre

Me saying aces aren’t inherently LGBT isn’t oppression. Im ignoring everything you typed because I’ll be honest, you said the “queer community” and the second I see that I know damn well I won’t read the rest of what it typed.

temporalus

“Me erasing queerness unilaterally is not oppression.”

White people ain’t queer. That’s not oppression, either.

star-wars-discousre

The more you say queer the less I read

temporalus

I mean, I don't really care. Your discourse is shit and you deserve to be called out. Though your reading comprehension skills are pretty suspect, anyway, given how other reblogs played out.