whateverphile

The miscellanea of an ESOL-teacher in training...

[caitcorrain]

This is the same man.

[jadelyn]

This works quite nicely at debunking the “beefcake guys in comics are objectified for women just like women in comics are for men!” imo.  On the left: a magazine tailored for a male audience, showing him in full beefcake-type mode with headlines about how you, too, can look like this.  On the right: a magazine tailored for a female audience, which has a headline about romance and shows him looking more or less like a normal dude.

Tell me again how comic book guys are designed for female sexual enjoyment, completely equivalent to anatomically-improbable spines and giant tits with their own individual centers of gravity, and totes aren’t just male power fantasies.

[lilacbreastedroller]

COMMENTARY

[deletingthisnow]

Women don’t treat men the way men treat women.

[its-me-bexy]

it’s also worth noting that despite all the geeks complaining about women’s impossible standards, the fantasy on the right sets a really really easy low bar to meet:

“cool clean friendly non-aggressive man who will cook a food for u”

yep what an unfair standard to be subjected to

[peonymoonflower]

that last comment was beautiful

[ficklefandoms]

Pretty sure I’ve RBd this before, but doing it again for the penultimate comment.

[theonion]

Eminem Terrified As Daughter Begins Dating Man Raised On His Music

[relv07]

if you’re afraid that the cast of mulan won’t be entirely chinese (or at least asian) clap your hands

[peaceshannon]

Adoptees Are Finally Winning Birth Certificate Rights

“Those who approved these laws didn’t think about what would happen when adopted children became adults. (They also) lied to birth mothers that they would forget their offspring. These are archaic laws that do not fit our society’s current social mores,” said Connecticut State Rep. David Alexander, an adoptee who helped draft language for the new law.

While opponents say the new laws infringe on the rights of birth parents who expected privacy when placing a child for adoption, the American Adoption Congress and other advocates say about 95 percent of birth parents want reunions too.

[coconutsheabutters-deactivated2]

How is this even fucking legal

[dangercupcakemurdericing]

How is altering birth certificates to display false information in order to make the adoption system more palatable for potential adoptive parents legal?

Well, there’s a really good book called The Baby Thief that I highly recommend for people who want an overview of how the US gained its current adoption system that everyone takes for granted. Bastard Planet is also a great resource, if you’re willing to learn.

[brandx]

This birth certificate falsification and other adoption industry fuckery actually originated in Europe (surprise surprise). So for European adoptees and anyone else outside the U.S., I second the advice to check out bastardplanet​, it’s the only community on here that encompasses adoption in Europe, Australia, AND North America (most of the other adoptee spaces on here are disappointingly U.S.-centric.)

[crypticomega-deactivated2020102]

Myth: Birthparents don’t want adoptees to know their own information.

Out of the 400,000 adoptees in Ohio 114 birthparents filed to have their information redacted from the adoptee’s original birth certificate - A move which, by the way, has been proven illegal by at least one state supreme court. So, we’ll see how long that lasts. Anyway, what is that? Like .0002% of the population?

The largest percentage I’m aware of was in Alabama and it was 3.71%. And it wasn’t to have their information redacted, it was the percentage who completed a request not to have contact with their offspring. Time to stop that myth in its tracks.

Also, historically, birthparents were never promised anonymity. The trend for closed records was started by Georgia Tann so she could make money from the sale of poor women’s babies to the wealthy. Thus she turned adoption into the Adoption Industry, a fully profitable industry now worth millions in revenue and whose CEOs can easily make six figure salaries a year. So much for charity, eh?

Can we end the Georgia Tann legacy and stop the legalized sale of children, please? Also, if we could give adoptees back their civil rights, that’d be nice.

[gayturians]

don’t say you’re a writer if you just write fanfiction for your entertainment. you’re only a writer if you kill a bear with a typewriter to appease the spirit of hemingway and slather yourself in ink in tribute to shakespeare, the one true over-penis of literature.

[crewdlydrawn-deactivated2022072]

I was prepared to be so angry, and then this just got awesome.

[cofeein-deactivated20150711]

BEST

[plansfornigel-deactivated201703]

DEBUNKING THE MEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENT POSTED BY DEBUNKINGMRAS

POSTED ON MARCH 12, 2014

What follows is a response to a popular list of claims and arguments made by men’s rights activists.

1. SUICIDE: Men’s suicide rate is 4.6 times higher than that of women’s….

[dntdodrugs-deactivated20150502]

[dremoranightmares]

oh god i tried to explain i’d’ve and y’all’d’ve to a friend who is a korean exchange student and she just kind of stared at me in horror for a minute lmao

[linguisten]

What if I told you… ?

[cute-overload]

Shark baby

[ljusen]

I’m laughing so hard look at this lil bby he’s the happiest mf on earth life is gorgeous

[horreurscopes]

funraising fees are fucked up did you know gofundme takes up to 7.9% of everything people donate you + $0.30 per donation

that means that if 10 people help you raise $1000, you’re losing $82 bucks

if youre a kid in trouble trying to raise money dont make my mistakes and use youcaring which is apparently toally free, and not gofundme

[hagspo]

Also gofundme hosted the Darren Wilson fundraiser and refused to take it down after multiple requests (specifically because they stood to make so much money off it) which is reason enough not to use them even before getting into the fees. Fuck gofundme

[manateeselfies]

And now, for The Best Children's Book Ever

I’M LAUGHING SO HARD. THAT’S IT GUYS, THAT’S ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.

[vengeancelatte]

You know what’s funny? Teachers who are proud of the fact no one passes their class. Why are they so smug that so many kids fail???? A classroom’s grades reflect on a teachers ability to teach??? You??? Suck at your job?????

[hypnospilot]

Everybody! 

Remember this throughout your entire educational experience. Seriously. When you get to college you’ll have professors who will begin the first day of class by announcing that half of your classmates will fail/drop out. This is especially common with Chemistry (O Chem) and Math (Calc 2) classes. This lets you know the professor is absolutely shit at their job, and/or trying to keep their department regimented by old bullshit hierarchical systems likely established in the late 1800′s to early 1/2 of the 20th century (i.e. racist, sexist, classist, and more!). 

Remember that you are not the problem. The work is challenging, yes, but if you’re applying yourself and your professor isn’t helping you make sense of it, think about it complexly, and apply it to situations outside of your assignments, they have failed to teach you. This means they are failing to do the most basic element of their job. 

And you? You complain to the dean about that shit. You are spending too much time, too much energy, and far too damn much money on school to have the people you’re paying to teach you sabotage you instead.

[phreequea]

all the highly empathetic people i know in my life have had abusive home lives and that’s because we were trained to read a situation at any given moment in our homes and learn how to react within seconds because if we...

[toastyhat-deactivated20180203]

I just discovered foodtimeline.org, which is exactly what it sounds like: centuries worth of information about FOOD.  If you are writing something historical and you want a starting point for figuring out what people should be eating, this might be a good place?

[purupurupikopuyo]

now that’s the kinda news i wanna hear

[binch100-deactivated20210320]

i made my cat listen to the audio clip in from the article + he loved it

[kedreeva]

I called my skittish kitty, Aislynn, into the bedroom and up onto the bed next to me, and I played the Cozmo’s Air for her. No reaction. But she’s my “suckler” kitty, who does nursing paws and drools on stuff when she is happy. So I put on Rusty’s Ballad instead. And she stopped moving, just staring at me like she’d found god. Then she closed her eyes. I played it again and she carefully laid down with her head near the speaker of my laptop. I paid for and downloaded the whole song immediately and halfway through playing the full song, my other cat came into the room and stared at the computer like she had also found god, and now they are both laying near me listening with their eyes slitted and their ears ticking.

[ihaveseenthefuture]

what would we do without scientists

[ashes-acedia]

Sigyn’s reaction, guys

[amorphousblob]

CAT OWNING FRIENDS CAT OWNING FRIENDS PLEASE PLAY THIS FOR THE TINIES

[buttify-blog]

i kinda wanna rebel against society but i also kinda wanna take a nap

[fightcapitalism]

everything gets so much better after you realize that idleness is strongly discouraged by capitalism, so you can now do both at the same time

[pumpkinskull]

this was the most affirming thing i’ve read in my life

[angrygirlcomics-prime]

Where did this horror movie thing of mummies walking come from was it just some racist weird western notion to further exotify Egypt?? Did anyone actually believe this before The Mummy (the really old version) came out in the 20’s?

[takingaselkie]

Buckle up, y’all, I...