Vogue Dissent

This attic's got a lot of shit in it.

[deathcarpets-deactivated2019042]

*republicans flip gender switch on and off* welcome to hell! welcome to hell!

[nursemchurt]

[holdnarrytight]

thanks

[would-you-b-so-k-ind-deactivate]

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day

[sliceosunshine]

This was Ms. Roem’s response:

(x)

[enjolras-in-valinor]

gods bless Danica Roem honestly

[elfwreck]

“Conservative lawmakers hailed the change as a way to avoid what they said could be a potentially awkward situation.”

I think that’s code for, “Conservatives would feel awkward putting their bigotry on display by constantly tripping over addressing Miss Roem as a Gentlewoman.”

Which is indeed a snub aimed at her, but… omg, we have been fighting for SO LONG to remove gendered language from places where it’s not necessary. It was hell establishing things like “mail carrier” instead of “mailman,” “firefighter” instead of “fireman,” and “server” instead of “waitress.”

I would’ve expected Formal Legislature Titles to be the last line of conservative gender absolutism… but apparently they’re going to fall apart at the first gender labeling that makes them personally uncomfortable.

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

Needless to say, I am HORRIFIED.

[thecottageinthedark]

‘All that you need to know about boars can be summed up in the fact that if you wish to hunt them, you must have a specially made boar spear. This spear has a crosspiece on it to prevent the boar from charging the length of the spear, driving it all the way through his own body, to savage the human holding the other end.’

-Boar and Apples, T. Kingfisher

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

fuck OFF

[palindromordnilap-deactivated20]

Note that pigs are also HUGE. So, yes, they ARE slightly larger pigs.

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

So I grew up in the city and have never seen a pig in real life and I just googled it and WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS

I thought they were like labrador sized, like, fat labradors, not mini-cows.

[tokensouthernbelle]

every time I see this post there are more people discovering how fuck off huge pigs actually are and I love it I thought this was a thing everyone knew but clearly not and I’m laughing 

[stillwaterseas]

This is me with our Tamworth boar, a heritage breed closer to their wild cousins than the Yorkshire above. I am a fully grown, average sized human. He was a gentle sweetie who, sadly, is no longer with us. His name was Mr. Big. 

[dracofidus-deactivated20200523]

FUCK OFF

[coelasquid]

Forever laffin’ at people who don’t understand how enormous, terrifying, and tenacious wild boar are. 

They’re like if bears had knives protruding from their closed mouths and Didn’t Know When To Quit. Their survival instincts when they’re wounded aren’t “run away and minimize injury” it’s “take the thing that hurt you down with you” They also make sounds like someone crossed a pig with an alligator.

Their head and neck alone can be like the size of an entire human torso.

Also forever laffin’ at people who think pigs are tiny, ‘cause we designed those things can get in the neighbourhood of a thousand pounds in ideal circumstances. 

It’s like when people assume Tuna must be small because they’ve only ever experienced them in hockey puck form.

[obstinate-nocturna]

Like seriously why the fuck y'all think everyone FREAKED THE HELL OUT when Dorothy fell into the pig pen in Wizard of Oz? It’s because pigs are HUGE and weigh a shitton and would crush her in an instant.

[proserpine-in-phases]

also dont they eat like, basically anything?

[justabrowncoatedwench]

YUP. Pigs will eat people, if given the chance. They dgaf.

[wolverinequeen]

That’s why boar hunters use a team of very tenacious dogs to hold the boar so they can be speared without fucking you up. The dogs wear body armour. 

I’ve heard stories of people shooting boars, and if it didn’t kill them, it just pissed them off. 

[andthentheywilleatthestars]

how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?

[petermorwood]

…“how the hell did we ever domesticate these things?”

Very carefully, I would imagine.

WIld boar babies are rather cute, like living humbugs…

…but the adults and their ferocity have been associated with warriors for thousands of years, from Mycenaean Greece (a helmet made from sections of boar tusk)…

…through Celtic Europe (reconstructed carnyx war-horns and standards)…

…Ancient Rome (the crest of Legion 20 “Valeria Victrix”). A couple more legions also used a boar as their crest - I wonder did they squabble over which was the “right” one the way a couple of Swiss cantons had a little war over whose bear was best…?

…then Anglo-Saxon and pre-Viking helmet crests…

…right up to the late Middle Ages (here the white boar badge of Richard Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III of England)…

…and the blue boar badge of the Earl of Oxford, more usually represented by the De Vere arms, quarterly gules and or, in the first a molet argent.

After Richard was defeated at Bosworth in 1485, there was a run on blue paint as inn-signs were changed to reflect new loyalties since Oxford was on the winning side…

And pigs will definitely eat people.

It gets mentioned in the movie “Snatch”, the book/movie “Hannibal” and the webcomic “Lackadaisy Cats”, among numerous other fictional sources, and IRL it’s suspected to be the reason why numerous missing persons have stayed missing.

More here (another comment to this same OP) and here (slightly different).

Here’s some boar-hunting armour for dogs, ancient…

…and modern…

…and the modern one looks very like a simple style of ancient…

[dduane]

So when Odysseus’s old nurse recognizes him by the scar he got from the boar-tusk slash that almost killed him… now you get the resonance.

[bookoisseur]

This post…it just really went places on me.

[wilwheaton]

I hope you read this entire post, and that it made your entire day so much better, even if just for a few moments, like it did mine.

[ethereal-business-cabaret]

I have been to many state fairs and farms and yet I always seem to forget how massive pigs are.

[prokopetz]

It’s definitely a positive thing that all these sexual predators in Hollywood are getting outed, but I hope we’re also prepared to make the connection between these allegations and exactly why so many former child stars end up dead or institutionalised before they turn 30. These are not unconnected phenomena. Like, I realise the whole “former child star meltdown” meme is a comedy goldmine, but maybe some awareness of what we’re really laughing at?

[winterinthetardis]

SO APPARENTLY MY ENTIRE LIFE IS A LIE HOW HAS YOUR GUYS’ NIGHT BEEN

[winterinthetardis]

UPDATE: SO LATER THAT NIGHT WHEN MY BROTHER GOT HOME FROM WORK (HE IS 6+ YEARS OLDER, MORE PROFICIENT IN FARSI THAN I AM, AND ALSO OFTEN RETURNS TO IRAN), I ASKED HIM WHAT HE THOUGHT THE PERSIAN WORD FOR “REMOTE CONTROL WAS” AND HE ALSO SAID THE WORD!!!!!! AND WHEN I TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS A FAKE FILLER WORD, HIS FIRST RESPONSE WAS “WOW, WHAT????? SO THEY LIED TO US?????? WHAT ELSE IS FAKE??????? ARE THEY EVEN OUR REAL PARENTS?????”

SO GOOD TO KNOW THAT I AM NOT ALONE IN THIS BETRAYAL.

[just-shower-thoughts]

When people talk about traveling to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small, but barely anyone in the present really thinks that they can radically change the future by doing something small.

[zephyrzeitgeist]

…dude.

[nehirose]

well.

[runawaymarbles]

Seattle’s new mayor is a lesbian who is getting sworn in in November instead of January because the old mayor has to resign because it turns out he has sexually abused at least 4 underage boys

Currently winning the race for sheriff is a woman married to another woman. Currently losing the race is the incumbent sheriff accused of raping and then intimidating into silence at least one woman.

Queer women taking the jobs of abusive men is a trend I am really behind and hope we can carry on to 2020

[decadent-trans-girl]

The new mayor is a former DA beholden to corporate interests who admitted to using pædophiles in sting operations–the new sheriff is opposed to police reform

[darkseid-deactivated20190806]

this is why i super dont trust applying identity politics to elected representatives

people are not immediately revolutionary just bc they’re gay or trans

[hersheyhipster]

Do Your Fucking Research *Nicki Minaj Voice*

[bcpk-deactivated20210131]

Wow… Lmao.

[paulwalkersdogwalker]

Some people threw white paint on it a few years back.

[knowledgeequalsblackpower]

They want to be a victim so bad.

[softjunebreeze]

Fun Fact: That’s a statue of the fist which Joe Louis used to knock out Max Schmeling, Hitler’s favored heavyweight boxer in 1938. Schmeling won the 1st bout by knockout in round twelve, but Joe Louis came back in the follow-up match and laid him the fuck out in the 1st round.

[strixobscuro]

Fun Fact: Schmeling was hated by the Nazis for losing to a black man and for having a Jewish manager, and he hated them right back, stating in 1975 that he was glad he’d lost the fight because the thought of  the Nazis using him for propaganda purposes sickened him. He also personally saved the lives of two Jewish children and later became lifelong friends with Joe Louis.

So maybe don’t refer to him as “Hitler’s favored heavyweight boxer”…

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Thank you for this additional info!

Reblogging this for the added facts and so people know that Schmeling wasn’t a Nazi or Nazi collaborator and was in fact a good man

[d0cpr0fess0r]

Imagine hating Nazis so much that when you get beaten up your response is “Good, now they can’t use me as a role model.”

[killushawn]

If you're not scared right now about losing net neutrality; You should be. Study up folks, or 2018 is going to fucking suck.

[bitchasskillua-blog]

This isn’t my type of post but Net Neutrality is so important.

Forget your page’s aesthetic, share this with everyone you know. Without Net Neutrality, the internet itself would change.

Companies would be able to charge websites if they want them to load faster than others on your computer. This means that they would purposefully bottleneck speeds on every website that doesn’t have the funding to pay for it faster speed. There’s NO reason for this. Are you a small business with a website and can’t afford to pay enough to get faster speeds? Too bad. Are you someone with a personal blog? Slow page loading. Do you want to view a website written by a nonprofit organization for your school project? You’ll have to wait until the page loads because, since they’re nonprofit, they can’t afford to pay enough to cable companies so that their page loads faster.

An alternative to this would be having to pay for faster internet. Internet service should be priced by usage, not speed. For home internet, unlimited use isn’t all that expensive so it’s really common. You wouldn’t want to pay extra for more speed.

This would possibly affect the way that the internet works on other devices such as your phone, gaming system, laptop, tablet, etc.

We NEED Net Neutrality.

If a company doesn’t agree with a specific website, they could purposefully limit traffic to their site. This would be censorship, something that nobody likes.

There are many other reason as to why you should protect Net Neutrality.

This is an issue whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, Left-wing, Right-wing, young, old, male, female, rich, poor, etc.

EVERYONE SHOULD ADVOCATE FOR NET NEUTRALITY.

[killushawn]

^

[dinovia-grant]

Guys, also think about he wider costs. Every business, school, hospital, pharmacy, first responder, government service—every single one uses the Internet. So, yes, the individual user will pay more for access, but so will the institutional users. The thing is, the institutional users aren’t just going to eat the increase in costs. They will pass them on to the consumer. They always do.

Education, healthcare, every single product and service, plus your local, state, and Federal taxes, will all GO UP.

Losing net neutrality will affect the cost of every single product and service offered in this country. Every. Single. One.

[e-cryptid-deactivated20180601]

The funniest homophobic notion out there is the whole, “you’re just a lesbian because you can’t get a man” thing. Like, do you have any idea how easy it is to get a man? It takes a smartphone and ten minutes of time while trying to get a girlfriend is like trying to win the lottery with a single ticket you found on the sidewalk. 

[e-cryptid-deactivated20180601]

And you and the lottery ticket are both too scared to make the first move so actually you just walk past it wistfully.

[korracrat]

Are you even native American

Hello nosey nonnie.

Yes I am Native American, but I don’t look it. And no it’s not one of those my great grandmother was Cherokee. I am 2nd generation off the rez Tuscarora, Iroquois Turtle Clan.

This is me and my mother. Yes she is my birth mother, I just got very fucked over in the genes department. I swear I’m adopted but we have many photos of the birth and have several paternity and maternity tests to prove that I fell out of this woman’s vagina.

Here are some more pictures cause I’m pale and I honestly don’t think you believe me:

(My mom actually made every piece of jewelry I am wearing and hand beaded that vest as well).

And here’s pictures of the woman that I blame for my bad genes: My grandmother.

I get told I look like her all the time AND I HONESTLY DO NOT SEE IT, but because I get told I look like her all the time I BLAME HER.

On the left you see my grandpa (full blood native) in his headdress, on the right you see my cousin (also full blood), the great medicine man Mad Bear, here’s a book about him since you seem to be so nosey.

And in case you doubted me, here are a few pictures of me when my ma and I were on the powwow circuit.

This is me with my ma’s regalia (if you call it a costume I will shank you) because a) she had a bad leg day and couldn’t dance and b) mine was not ready and made and I JUST REALLY WANTED TO DANCE. (This is also the day I got burnt ON MY FUCKING HAIRLINE WHERE MY HAIR WAS PARTED. THAT FUCKING HURTS!)

Here’s me in my fancy dance shawl. There aren’t that many pictures of me because a) I fucking hated them b) it’s normally seen as disrespectful to take pictures of dancers out of the circle without their permission and my ma and I were always dancing at the same times AND I NEVER LET ANYONE TAKE MY PICTURE AT THIS TIME IN MY LIFE.

So yes, my family is a very rainbow family, I just happen to be the one WHITE passing one. No really…

Here’s me (in the middle if you can’t guess), Bebe and Audree. I like to call this the ABC Rainbow of the Printup family (because my first name is Cheyenne…..I swear our parents DID NOT PLAN THIS). 

And this is another pic of me and Audree YEARS later

Am I Native? Yes

Do I look traditionally Native? No

Does that mean I am not going to label myself as native? HELL TO THE FUCK NO.

Please reblog and share so that people can understand that there are white passing people of color. Yes even some that pass as white as me. We do exist and no that does not give you the right to basically white wash us. I am proud of my native roots and I will share everything and anything you want to know. The more educational resources we can get out there the better. DON’T BE AFRAID TO SHOOT ME AN ASK. I LOVE IT, but please do not be a dick like this one and phrase it so accusingly. Much appreciated, thank you!

[geoclaire]

My wife was complaining about the price of peanut butter at the snooty grocery store and I said “yeah it’s nuts” and now she won’t answer my texts

[prokopetz]

While it’s good to be critical of excessive overhead in charities and nonprofits, you’ve also gotta apply a little critical thinking to claims of high efficiency, not just low efficiency. All organisations cost money to operate; if a particular charity claims to be putting 99% of their donations toward the cause, that doesn’t mean they’re super-efficient: it means they’re playing semantic games with what counts as a “donation”, and there’s a technically-not-donations revenue stream somewhere that’s not being reflected in that figure.

[annekewrites]

Or, alternatively, they are playing semantic games with what counts as “overhead.”  

In my experience, nonprofits with surprisingly low overhead costs are doing one or more of the following, and I Have Stories about all of these things:

1) Being a very large well-known nonprofit that has been around for a very long time that can rely on a very large endowment fund.  This is NOT most nonprofits - if it’s even remotely reasonable that this is possible you’ll know.

2) Counting the process of fundraising as “leadership training” or some such for the fundraisers themselves or as “community education” - in other words, playing games such that paying people to ask other people for donations is somehow now part of the purpose of the nonprofit. 

3) Relying excessively on the support of unpaid interns and/or mandated volunteers (high school students who need community service hours to graduate, people currently in the criminal justice system doing court-mandated community service, etc.) to do things that one would ordinarily pay a clerical staff to do.

4) Completely failing to pay anything that vaguely resembles a living wage and/or coercing employees to put in “volunteer” time for the organization that is also their paid employer.  

5) Relying on such antiquated and insufficient infrastructure that it is possibly a danger to the mission of the nonprofit.  I’m talking about clinical mental health staff storing case files in their cars because that’s the only secure storage they have, family conferences taking place in an open staff kitchen that is shared with multiple other nonprofits (and anyone from any of those nonprofits could come walking through in the middle of things) because it’s the only place that has enough space, computers that are too old to handle government-mandated year end online reporting, and so forth and so on.

6) NOT ACTUALLY COMPLYING WITH GOVERNMENT MANDATES FOR NONPROFITS in general or of their specific type because they can’t afford (or “can’t afford”) to.  No fiscal audit.  No proper registration as a charitable organization.  Insufficient or no background checks when they would ordinarily be a necessary thing.  Etc.

[workingitinportland-deactivated]

I can totally see the temptation to do some of these, even tho it goes against all my principles wrt labour rights and activism. I upped what I’m paying for working It submissions bc $25 felt like such a joke but it means it’s taking even longer to put together and put out (altho it’s attracted more writers and artists!) and then wrt people saying they want to volunteer–I feel like using volunteers is mostly unethical (and that most volunteers in Oregon are misclassified and technically should be getting paid for their work bc the org isn’t abiding by volunteer guidelines) but the other thing with volunteers is that they mostly only want to do cool, social capital work and that’s not really the work that keeps anything running. The stuff that’s necessary is boring behind the scenes stuff like data entry or bag stuffing over and over again.

This is a hard country and structurally they’ve made it impossible to do anything but give out a few bandaids. And some of them are life saving bandaids! But with all the money this country has, very little of it is going to any place that might actually make a long term change.

[catsbeaversandducks]

This Cat

“I FOUND A SPECIAL CATTO TODAY AND HER NAME WAS TIMINE (PRONOUNCED TEE-MEE-NE)”

Photos/caption by Joëlle Bouthillier - via Shocking Group of D E N G Catto!!

[animalbody]

depressed kids in the media: I don’t wanna go to therapy! I don’t need help! I’m not some specimen for you to dissect!

me, rollin up to my therapist’s office and collapsing in relief: what is UP my homeboy I fuckin missed you,, hope ur ready to hear some Bull Shit that fuckin happened to me this week

[gay-jesus-probably]

families of depressed kids in media: okay sweetie we’ve researched depression for ten hours straight and signed you up for therapy and re-arranged your school schedule to be less stressful

actual parents of depressed kids: look i get you’re sad but someones gotta do the goddamn dishes stop being lazy get up. why didn’t you go to school today, what’s wrong with you, you’re such a burden on this family.

[kremeroyale]

Therapists in the media: *understanding head tilt*

My real live therapist whom I adore: Natalie, that is the DUMBEST thing I’ve ever heard.

[westieronto]

How most people with invisible illnesses are treated by health care “professionals”

[thefemcritique]

The Golden Girls didn’t fuck around

[pardonmewhileipanic]

pls watch

honestly i really appreciated this scene when I first saw it bc it took me like two years to get a diagnosis for what’s wrong with me

[mttheww]

Dorothy:  Dr. Budd?

Dr. Budd:  Yes?

Dorothy:  You probably don’t remember me, but you told me I wasn’t sick.  Do you remember?  You told me I was just getting old.

Dr. Budd:  I’m sorry, I really don’t–

Dorothy:  Remember.  Maybe you’re getting old.  That’s a little joke.  Well, I tell you, Dr. Budd, I really am sick.  I have chronic fatigue syndrome.  That is a real illness.  You can check with the Center for Disease Control.

Dr. Budd:  Huh.  Well, I’m sorry about that.

Dorothy:  Well, I’m glad!  At least I know I have something.

Dr. Budd:  I’m sure.  Well, nice seeing you.

Dorothy:  Not so fast.  There are some things I have to say.  There are a lot of things that I have to say.  Words can’t express what I have to say.  [tearing up]  What I went through, what you put me through—I can’t do this in a restaurant.

Dr. Budd:  Good!

Dorothy:  But I will!

Dr. Budd’s date:  Louis, who is this person?

Dr. Budd:  Look, Miss–

Dorothy:  Sit.  I sat for you long enough.  Dr. Budd, I came to you sick—sick and scared—and you dismissed me.  You didn’t have the answer, and instead of saying “I’m sorry, I don’t know what’s wrong with you,” you made me feel crazy, like I had made it all up.  You dismissed me!  You made me feel like a child, a fool, a neurotic who was wasting your precious time.  Is that your caring profession?  Is that healing?  No one deserves that kind of treatment, Dr. Budd, no one.  I suspect had I been a man, I might have been taken a bit more seriously, and not told to go to a hairdresser.

Dr. Budd:  Look, I am not going to sit here anymore–

Dr. Budd’s date:  Shut up, Louis.

Dorothy:  I don’t know where you doctors lose your humanity, but you lose it.  You know, if all of you, at the beginning of your careers, could get very sick and very scared for a while, you’d probably learn more from that than anything else.  You’d better start listening to your patients.  They need to be heard.  They need caring.  They need compassion.  They need attending to.  You know, someday, Dr. Budd, you’re gonna be on the other side of the table, and as angry as I am, and as angry as I always will be, I still wish you a better doctor than you were to me.

[jennytrout]

Reblogging for any of my mutuals who’ve ever dealt with Dr. Budd.

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

“Shut up, Lewis”

[sailormoonwannabe]

Golden Girls is a show that will forever go down in history for touching many stories that other shows wouldn’t even go near. Thank you for giving me laughter, but also addressing issues in an appropriate manner.

[the-david-ten-inch]

@thebibliosphere

[smokingsomethingwithrihanna]

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[smokingsomethingwithrihanna]

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