[jumex]

You kinda have to just be insane. And keep doing that forever

[frogmp3]

ladies don’t forget to fill up your water bottle and put it in the fridge before you go to bed tonight so you can have a drink as soon as you wake up tomorrow. men you can die i guess

[joshpeck]

i do this really cute and quirky thing where i continuously ruin my own life

[catchymemes]

A drink or two

[strangegirlsclub-deactivated202]

The awareness ..

[turnipfritters]

banksy is shaking

[salt-pepper-shakers]

Every mother with trans children should take Cher as an example.

[lesbianhaircut]

ok i love her but lets not give brownie points because she called him her son. thats like. minimum requirement for a decent human being.

[twunkmccree]

Ok, you know what? No. Brownie points to Cher. She publicly announced her love and acceptance of her SON and yeah some people would call that “the minimum requirement” of decency, but as someone whose mother gushes about her acceptance in private and sometimes uses gender neutral terms for me (not the male ones I prefer) but aggressively misgenders me in public to keep things from being “awkward”, cher’s public acknowledgement and expression of her love and acceptance for her son is a big deal. Yes this SHOULD BE the bare minimum of parental decency, but right now it’s not and I’m glad to see Chaz and Cher showing the world that this is the way things are supposed to be.

[rocknlobster]

What is up with the idea that we shouldn’t acknowledge when people do something good/nice/etc. because “everyone should be doing that anyway”? It is BY acknowledging the things we see as good that we tell others how we see the world and enforce what we consider proper behavior. There is literally never a time when it doesn’t make sense to acknowledge something positive. And acknowledging something positive does NOT make some sort of blanket statement about the person like they can do no wrong either. We can acknowledge a positive, and also criticize a negative; there is no zero-sum game here.

[sonneillonv-deactivated20220218]

Reinforcing good behavior is just as important, in fact more important, than criticizing bad behavior when it comes to making a change.  This is true of training pets, children, and cis people.

[prismatic-bell]

Also of note: a little history on Chaz Bono and his mom.

Back when Chaz was still presenting as his AGAB, he came out as a lesbian. This was in….I’m gonna say 1990? 1991? I don’t remember exactly. A point in time where that was Really A Terrible Fucking Thing, is the point here.

Cher freaked right the fuck out.

And her fan base basically went “you’re a gay icon and you’re out here doing this? For fucking shame, Cher.”

And it kind of took her aback, and she shut up, and when we heard her talk about it again it was “yeah it was hard to accept but…” which is considered gross now but was pretty astonishing in a world where Ellen DeGeneres couldn’t yet come out of the closet.

Skip ahead to the early 2010s, when Chaz went “so, um. Actually? Not a lesbian. I’m a straight man.” Again: at this point, mainstream trans activism wasn’t a thing. This was as wild a thing to do as when he came out as a lesbian.

AND CHER SHUT RIGHT THE FUCK UP.

The first time she said anything about it at all was like six months later, and it was something along the lines of “well I’ve been using ‘she’ for over 40 years so sometimes I forget but I’ve really been working on it because it makes my son happy to know he’s my son.” And to the best of my knowledge, she’s only ever had a single public slip-up, and it was at a point where she was using Chaz’s deadname in a story about his childhood. Someone told her that’s not a good thing to do AND SHE NEVER DID IT AGAIN.

Cher isn’t just out here doing the right thing. Cher is out here LEARNING the right thing. You think she spent those six months sulking? You don’t know Cher very well. I’d bet a nickel she spent those six months finding accessible options (yes, Cher is disabled, surprise) for every GLAAD publication she could get her hands on.

She is a gold standard of activism. “I fucked up once, it was a learning experience, I’m going to not do that again and show how to not do that.”

Give credit where it’s due.

[hotvampireadjacent]

[berylliumoxide]

if you're reading this, it's a sign that everything is going to be alright.

[books-read-in-nooks]

When the author describes a character’s appearance way too late and you have to quickly redesign the image you already have for them in your head:

[divorceddadrock]

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

best job I ever had was manually removing aquatic plants from like, golf course ponds. I started out wearing waders, but the plants would be in too deep, so I just started wearing a bathing suit and water shoes and diving down under and just pulling cattails and stuff out by the roots. The thing was, when I’d first get started, the vegetation might be so thick it took up most of the pond, and I’d start in the deepest section so as I got tired I could move toward shore and start standing instead of swimming.

So I’d dive in and virtually disappear into the reeds

and it wasn’t until recently I thought about how many random tourists just saw some girl walk into an aesthetics pond in a swimsuit and dive under water and then just……….Not come back out

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

job description: golf course alligator

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

imagine this site during the OJ trial

[thatadult]

a lot of men say they want women to embrace their natural beauty but they really just want women who are already “pretty enough” without makeup to not wear makeup… like, you don’t want someone to show their natural acne and scars and natural hyper pigmentation, you don’t let women have their natural mustaches, chin hair, beards, and unibrows without shitting on them, which is exactly how they grow for a lot of people, etc. you want women to wax and shape their natural brows, remove their natural facial hair and body hair, and do a strict skincare regimen to manipulate the chemistry and physiological processes of their skin to maintain clear unblemished skin and adhere to already existing beauty standards. you just don’t want them to wear the style of makeup you don’t like lol

[wrestlingboobily]

annoying ass nerd guys after Suicide Squad came out: ugh every girl is gonna be harley quinn for halloween now how basic 🙄

annoying ass nerd guys after seeing joker:

[midnightcowg1rl-deactivated2020]

We are all on the internet to lie and some of u think ur serving god but ur still on the internet lying like the rest of us

[cosed]

eating bread dipped in soup unlocks new emotions

[heavensghost]

Susan Orlean, The orchid thief