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me going on an airplane for the first time: âwow just like airplane(1980, dir. jim abrahams, david and jerry zucker)â *immediately I cough up several whole eggs*
Just saw a leather jacket that says âmy other ride is your dadâ on the back and I donât think Iâll ever be the same
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âSir, I can has fish?? Thank you, kind Sir!â
Translation:
[weasel? comes up to a fisherman]
Fisherman: Friend, what do you want? [weasel sniffs at a closed bucket with fish] Hungry for some fish, arenât you? Maybe I should give you a fishing pole? Eager beaver. Let me open it. [weasel is busy digging under the bucket. fisherman gently pokes it] Hey, there is a lid up here. Come on, pick any you want. [weasel grabs a fish and runs away] Hey, no âthank youâ? Well, youâre welcome.Â
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hold up this is the only picture ever
Person: Why do you hate centerist?
Centerist:
Me:âŠI have my reasons.
â⊠Sorry for saying BJ at the Oxfam Gala.â â Mae Martin on biphobia
Every time this post hits my dash thereâs more salty landlords in the comments, die mad leeches lol
itâs funny that the âfriendship group of all boys with only one token girl who has no female friendsâ trope is so prevalent in media given that i have never in my life witnessed that phenomenon in reality
friendship groups with all girls and one boy without many male friends is something Iâve observed much more frequently in real life (even within my own friend group) so that should really be a more common trope than the other way around
look at rahulâs comment. iâm crying in the club rn
i canât believe i had to see this with my eyes
Hetero relationships are so tragic. Imagine having to bribe your s/o into doing Basic Human Thingsâą
Portrayal of Aunt May really tells you a lot about whether or not the writers drink their respecting women juice like everybody was all âAunt May should be a fun and engaging characterâ and the most recent live-actions went âWeâll make her YOUNG and HOT BOOM DONEâ and meanwhile Into the Spiderverse went âoh okay yes so she should be intelligent and competent and bad-ass!! sheâll play a role in the story and help our hero on his way!! sheâll be kind and welcoming even though sheâs grieving!! sheâll keep her wrinkles and grey hair and sharp nose and have a cocky smile and love her nephew very much and also kick villains out of her house!!!!!!!â and like. who respected her character more let me ask you
While I am always down for dunking on the Marvel movies in favor of Spiderverse, nah. Marisa Tomei was 53 in Homecoming, which is far from young, but is perfectly normal for a woman with a 16 year old nephew. In fact, sheâs probably one of the older parents at PTA meetings. BUT she was portrayed as sexually active and relevant, which is rare for women over 30. She was also 1 year older than RDJ, which is a nice change from the actresses being 20 years younger than the actors they kiss. Her age was perfectly reasonable for that film.
The real problem is that most female chars are either under 30 and therefore sex objects or over 80 and therefore basically ambulatory stuffed animals. Movies donât have a shorthand to communicate with us for a woman between those ranges, so our brains try to slot any woman into one of those two boxes. Aunt May is sexually active and desireable to a hero, therefore she must be young and hot. The actual fact that sheâs in her 50s doesnât matter, what matters is what our lying brains have been trained to expect.Â
(none of this should be taken as a complaint about Spiderverse May, who was like 15 years older and therefore had grey hair, couldnât use the internet, was 200% done with everyoneâs shit, and was absolutely awesome)
no bro
you really donât
not at fucking
all
It appears absolutely no one realizes this character (assuming this story takes places during the time in which it was filmed) grew up during The Troubles of Northern Ireland.
You donât if heâs Northern Irish. You donât know if heâs Catholic. You donât know if he grew up watching his people get murdered by Loyalist Protestants and British soldiers who carried heavy racial prejudice against Irish Catholics (hellooo, Bloody Sunday anyone?), who had for centuries been characterized as barbaric, racially inferior, lowly people who needed to be wiped out or converted. Attacks by the IRA, and therefore retaliation by the British, didnât completely cease until 1998, I believe? This film came out in 2002.
You donât know if he was an Irishman who grew up in England. Bomb attacks carried out by the IRA in England kindled misplaced aggression toward innocent Irish civilians living among the English population and Irish people were verbally and physically attacked and their businesses targeted. Perhaps similar to how ordinary Muslims bear the brunt of aggression after attacks by Muslim extremistsâŠ
You can still find yourself threatened and demeaned if youâre a Catholic in Northern Ireland or if youâre a Protestant in Ireland and some older dude in a pub in a smaller town straight up asks you if youâre Catholic or not and youâre afraid whatâll happen if you donât lie about who you are.
You can still hear casual racism toward Irish people in everyday life and in publicly broadcast media in the UK.
You can still see and hear âKill All Irishâ and other pretty heavy anti-Irish sentiment among Loyalists in Northern Ireland who donât consider themselves Irish at all.
Just because it now appears that the island of Ireland has been allowed to move on from war and their appearance and culture generally allows them to blend into and reap the benefits of the White European demographic doesnât mean that this character does not have the background suitable to fully empathize with her. Maybe he does, maybe he doesnât, we just donât know his story.
But I guess youâve never been demeaned as a Paddy or a Taig so you wouldnât understand what it feels like, would you?
donât worry dude itâs tumblr the mentality here is basically âif youâre lighter than a coconut youâre not allowed to have any feelings and your life is automatically perfect but thatâs not racist at all bc your skin is lighter than someone elseâs and that means itâs okâ
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plot twist: being Irish actually sucks, seriously
I normally donât comment on posts like these but the ignorance of this makes me so fucking angry because absolutely no one in the world seems to give a shit about the Irish because we all just seem to be so happy and drunk all the time. Because theyâre white, right? So obviously they have no idea what hardship means.
*bursts in* *breathes heavily* Did someone mention the Northern Irish Troubles
First of all, pretty much yes to everything about Ireland up there. Growing up in Northern Ireland, I saw the violence from all sides - my father is a British Protestant and my mother is a Catholic, so I basically couldnât win because according to one side I was a dirty taig and according to the other I was a filthy hun. Luckily I managed to make friends with a mix of both Catholics and Protestants who all thought this attitude was just as stupid as I did, but between all of us, we saw our fair share of sectarian violence, and the Catholics, without a doubt, got it worse.
Irish Catholics were robbed of their country by Protestant invaders centuries ago. They fought and fought and eventually got the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland), however, thanks to the deliberate plantation of Protestants to eradicate the Catholic majority in the North, it was left under British rule. Since then, Catholics have been murdered, arrested, terrorised, tortured and driven out of their houses just for being Irish Catholics.Â
I moved from Northern Ireland in 2010 and to the day I left, the violence was not over. I couldnât wear certain colours in certain areas because I would be beaten. I had fake names depending on where I was stopped, as attackers can determine what religion you are from your name alone (and this is a trick I learned, too, for defence). I can recite my rights if Iâm arrested because if I was stopped in certain areas I could be, on the assumption I could be Catholic. I know the subtle sectarian geography of the city of Belfast because if I cross the road in the wrong place Iâm in enemy territory. I have been chased by a group of forty people, throwing fireworks at me, because they assumed I was a Catholic. Police were parked on nearby streets and didnât acknowledge the commotion. My friends and I walk past graffiti screamed âKill All Taigsâ. A fifteen year old boy who lived half an hour from me was beaten to death by a group of adults for being Catholic. For fifty years, people have been detained without trial, tortured, beaten and wrongly imprisoned just for being Catholic, because apparently, being Catholic means you must be in the IRA.Â
Even now, I canât escape it. I have a noticeable Northern Irish accent, which is stronger when Iâm around people from there and is noticeable as a strong accent whenever Iâm not in the country. At airports, Iâm always the one stopped and frisked if they hear my accent. At ferry ports, itâs alway my car (which has Northern Irish registration plates) thatâs ârandomly selectedâ for a search. All of this just happened to me, a person who got off lightly.
If you think that Irish people havenât faced oppression and abuse, youâre wrong. If you think that Northern Ireland is past its troubles, youâre wrong. It sickens me that this happens only a few hundred miles away from England and no one acknowledges it exists, because hey, theyâre just some terrorist Catholics, right?
Contrary to popular belief, racism isnât America centric. Just ask the Serbians and Croatians.
REBLOGGING FOR THE LAST ONE JFC THANK YOU.
Hell, ask Rwanda. Plot twist: ethnic genocide involving no white people at all!
Ask China about Japan. Ask Tibet about China. Ask Kuwait about Iraq. Ask Ukraine about Russia.
Xenophobia is not just the purview of white people. Any other can be an enemy. They can be the same colour. They can share a religion. They can live right next door right up until the moment the blade or gun or bomb is in your hand.
By the way, the woman who wrote and directed Bend it like Beckham? Sheâs a Brit of Indian descent. Iâm fairly sure she knows what itâs like to be from an oppressed ethnic group in the UK, so when she writes a line about Asian and Irish people being treated similarly in British society, you better believe she knows what sheâs talking about first hand.
Because newsflash, American forms of racism and ethnic prejudice are not universal.
full offense but if my college professor can look me in my eyes while im wearing a "baby slut" crop top and mini skirt and explain the homework, high school teachers should be able to fucking handle a literal child wearing shorts smh
Walk into a job interview wearing the same thing, OP. See how far you get.
Hate to break it to you but a college lecture isnât a job interview. You can and should wear whatever you want in college. And high schoolers should be able to wear fucking shorts. Itâs hot sometimes.
the thing about being someone whoâs never catcalled is that you start to wonder why like is it because im ugly???
and then you realize that youre judging your worth by whether or not you are objectifiable to a man and thats so fucked up like honestly its so fucked upÂ
but the worst part about the patriarchy is that it still sits at the back of your mind regardless like ânobody thinks youre pretty because they dont see you as a sex objectâ like somehow thats a desirable thing and it fucks me up
Youâre either public property or completely invisible.
Girls donât want boys. Girls want to glide down ladders in their own private library while their red cloak flutters behind them, owning swords and many chocolates, with fast WiFi at all times.
i cannot stress this enough