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[obiwan]

Harry Styles Coachella (2022)

[doubleca5t]

[alwaysbewoke]

that went hella left

[dilfhershellayton]

jojo siwa is like. her style is not my taste at all but as soon as other people call it annoying im like actually you're wrong she's an icon and a legend

[saxophonechihuahua]

she looks like the concentrated essence of a claires store and i do not mean this negatively

[hummingirls]

it’s the “fuck you” to the current trend of encouraging teenagers to look 24 and embracing girly things that cis men hate

[universejunction]

American Kawaii

[sexycraisinthanos]

she looks like someone turned a Skittles commercial into a person and i love it

[super-mario-girl]

If you don’t mind me putting my two cents:

I feel like Jojo Siwa’s style is reminiscent of the colorful teen girl fashion of the late 2000s and early 10s. Back then it was considered fashionable to use lots of colors, accessories, etc. Take a look at Jojo Siwa:

Very colorful, generous with sparkles and accessories. It’s meant to be fun!

If you were a kid in 2007-2012 you saw something similar in the clothing the teens in your sitcoms wore, although not as exaggerated. The fashion in Shake It Up(which came out in 2010) is a really good example of this:

(You may laugh, but this was the height of fashion to 13 year old me.)

The point is, Jojo’s aesthetic is similar to being a young pre teen girl walking into Limited Too for the first time.

And the reason cishet men hate it is because they don’t find it attractive. That’s why she’s often made fun of and used as a joke so much. Because that style doesn’t cater to the male gaze. It’s not for them, so it must be bad.

[tryxyhijinks]

Cyndi Lauper, late 1980s, for your consideration.

[felicitousfeline]

Okay but you realize that the person who said "American Kawaii" has it exactly right, yea? That kawaii in Japan was created for girls to embrace cutesy juvenile things that refuted the beauty standards (created by men) that expected them to look mature and marriageable as soon as possible. It was over-the-top BECAUSE men hated it! Because the girls in the subculture specifically wanted to keep them away as long as they could and enjoy their childhood without being seen as Somebody's Future Wife™.

アメリカのカワイイです！

[kreature-ofthenight]

Goth and Punks we should stand in solidarity for or sisters in lace and sparkles

[textbooklesbian]

this is the type of work they’re gonna make high school art students study in ten years

[yorksilk]

this week in I Am Very Smart: having enough money to go to the opera, museums and concerts correlates with having enough money for food, shelter and basic health needs

[cyborgfirelord]

They controlled for socioeconomic factors though! The people who conducted this study knew that people with lots of money to attend the opera were also more likely to be able to afford basic necessities, so they controlled for it in their analysis. The fun thing about statistics is that you can control for different confounding factors so you can look at the effects of one independent variable (opera or whatever) on the dependent variable (mortality). Part of being critical of potential biases is actually reading the article and knowing what to look for.

[starstuffandalotofcoffee]

In addition to that very good point about controlling for socioeconomic factors, the article says a single museum or concert per year makes a difference. Most cities have free community concerts (some even have free opera performances!) and museums that are either free, pay-what-you-want, or at least have specific days/times during which they are free or at a significantly reduced cost. Many libraries (which are free) provide free museum passes to card holders. In fact, the article quotes a museum worker who works at a free art museum in Baltimore.

If you actually read the article you would also read that educators are excited about this study because it provides evidence that the arts should be made more accessible financially - by restoring arts programs in the public schools, for example.

[focsle]

Also, “Advocates said the study was also a reminder of how critical it is for the arts to be more accessible to Americans of all incomes.” Linking to the article so it’s easier for people to get to cos it’s a good read.

[theoriginalblackbarbie]

For example Frederick Douglas’ wife did so much for his ungrateful ass. She helped him get on his feet, gave him her last name, and supported him financially and took care of house and home. And in return was does this nigga do? He lets white abolitionists tear her down and treat her like a slave in HER HOUSE. Moved two bitches into HER HOUSE over a span of 20 years. Belittles her for being illiterate while using HER MONEY. Not even in death does she get the respect she deserves. His last wife is more recognized as being apart of his life than she was. Just trash. And y'all still normalize that shit as if it’s a black woman’s job to struggle. Fuck that.

[lovableshade]

Fuck Frederick Douglas.

That negro was a massive hypocrite. How the fuck you wanna abolish slavery and support women’s rights, then treat your own wife like shit?????????????????

[theoriginalblackbarbie]

^^^^ history left her out of his story too. Claiming his parents have him money to start up when it was her.

[aawifde-deactivated20181224]

Don’t forget MLK and Malcolm X

[theoriginalblackbarbie]

My heart broke a little but I’m not surprised. What did Malcolm do ?

[blackgirloutrage-deactivated201]

I don’t know about Malcolm X, but I know that Martin Luther King was in love with a white caferteria lady name Betty that he was seeing while he was attending college. The only reason why he married Coretta and not the cafeteria worker is because his dad frowned upon it. Not only that but his best friend Ralph Abernathy and Jackie Onassis exposed him for being a sex craved phony that loved cheating on Coretta. I guarantee that if black women from the civil rights era could talk now, our heads would explode. 

[ambelle]

I mean if we’re gonna spill tea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UG7YCgkXTo

Our community has always treated us like shit no matter what. Not to mention Miss Claudette Colvin who was the actually pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement. She was arrested for not giving up her seat on the bus 9 months before Rosa but she was a dark skinned single mother so she wasn’t good enough. 

[blackgirloutrage-deactivated201]

Let’s not forget Black Panther’s leader Eldridge Cleaver and his famous book “Soul On Ice” where he recounts how he practiced raping black women because he knew no one would care and when he “mastered his craft” he starting raping white women. Also let’s never forget that he said that there is no more love left between black women and men and that everytime he embraces a black woman, he embraces slavery. Y’all gon’ get this history lesson today!

[ambelle]

Wow… and somehow I’m not even surprised.

[theoriginalblackbarbie]

I knew all of that. Martin was constantly cheating with white prostitutes even a German exchange student while protesting civil right. Cleaver was the worst. Preying on and raping young black girls in the hood as practice for raping white women. Claudette is still referenced as “the other rosa parks” when the light bright brigade “NAACP” weren’t gonna let her share her story to begin with.

[angel-of-death-2015]

Let this post never die. Black women were NEVER respected back in the day, and we’re STILL getting disrespected every minute.

[raimagnolia]

Wow….

[futurewitchdoctor]

[reasons why I think most Black dudes r performative when it comes to being *proBlack* n only know how to mirror yt ally theater/chase yt validation. n nonBlack ppl better back the fuck off this post and start combatting the antiBlackness before they even think of comment.]

[kimreesesdaughter]

Just a reminder that Claudette Colvin didn’t get pregnant until 3 months after refusing her seat on the bus. She was a poor dark skinned girl. In her words “they wanted someone PEOPLE would sympathize with and I didn’t look like that.” Colorism AND Classism waaaay before Instagram 🙂

[walksoftlytay]

Bruh I learned all of this and more in my civil rights history class last semester. My professor actually got her doctorate in black women in the black power movement. Even though two black men from California started the radical group as we know it, black women did most of the work and kept the group afloat. By the 80s it was largely female led. Also, elderidge cleaver wrote an essay after getting out of prison where he recanted everything he said in soul on ice and this was largely due to the fact that women were running the bpp and told him he couldn’t join if he was to co tibie to perpetuate this rape nonsense.

Also also claudette Colvin wasn’t the only one who was forgotten during the Montgomery bus boycott. Do y'all know who Jo Ann Robinson is? Home girl was the backbone to the whole movement tbh. Yeah rosa (a trained activist btw) was the igniting flame and yes in her documents and Jo Ann’s Claudette was credited as the inspiration, but jo Ann really kept the movement running. She organized car pools for all the black folks in Montgomery. Y'all the Montgomery bus boycott lasted for a year! People still had to get to work and shit. Jo Ann was on it! Plus she had a whole committee that was pushing for regulation changes and the end of segregation in busing. And hell, Montgomery buses were damn near reliant on black commuters so they eventually had to give.

Plus my all time fave is the homie Ella baker. Home girl ensured the founding of sncc when fuckboy Mlk tried to make them the youth chapter of the sclc. SNCC is the group that made sit ins a popular form of protest during the early civil rights movement. They founding students had their first sit in in 1960. Ella baker was like these students need their own separate movement and the sclc ain’t it. Plus she was a true proponent of self determination which was clear in everything that sncc did.

Basically what I’m trying to say is black women been the backbone of society and they still are.

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

Let’s also talk about how Huey P Newton, the founder of the BPP ordered the severe beating of Regina Davis. Regina Davis was an administrator at a BP school and was literally jumped for reprimanding a male BP member. She was beaten so bad that she was in the hospital for a broken jaw and had to flee to LA for her own safety. Her attack was a deliberate message to all female BP because the men were getting  upset with the increasing power black women had in the party and wanted to put them in their place.

In 1974 Huey P Newton also shot and killed a 17 year old sex worker in Oakland named Kathleen Smith in the face for calling him “baby” and because she didn’t give him the “respect” he wanted (x) 

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

and who could forget good ol’ Harry Belafonte and how he treated Ertha Kitt way back when 

Ellen Holly was a super light skin soap opera actress who claimed to have a similar experience with Harry Belafonte before he married a white woman and called him out in her autobiography about his behavior towards black women

[andreseward]

THIS IS WHY WHEN PATRICIA ARQUETTE SAID WOMEN HAVE HAD TO TAKE A BACKSEAT TO OTHER GROUP´S PROGRESS SHE WAS RIGHT! 

BUT Y’ALL WERE SO UPSET WITH HER

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

That white woman ain’t got nothing to do with this. We’re talking about black women’s treatment here.

[hatingeverything]

How dare you bring Patricia Arquettes white feminist ass on a post about the treatment of Black Women

[feministories]

That was a much needed thread. Reminds me of the first time I discovered Tumblr and learned so much about feminism and women’s history. To add my 2 cents to this, I put the pictures of most of the ladies mentioned above (I couldn’t find a picture of Regina Davis, if you have one that’d be great), so that anyone discovering these wonderful women can put a face to their name. 

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

unfortunately there are no known or publicly available pictures of Regina Davis or Kathleen Smith

[veryfemmeandantifascist]

Keep this thread going and share the stories of how Black women have been degraded by black mens sexism 

Just to add some more, let’s not forget the importance of Shirley Chisholm. She was an unapologetic black feminist who fought for the rights of women and the poor in her community.  She was a founding member of both the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Women’s Caucus. 

She was the first black women ever elected to the US congress and was the first woman and black american to ever run for the president of the US. Her campaign to be the democratic nominee was treated like a joke, and although she had the support of her loyal husband she received NO SUPPORT  from black male leaders. Her campaign went underfunded and the men of the black caucus rallied around white male candidates instead because they were pissed off that she was getting attention and wanted a black male candidate instead.

“They think I am trying to take power from them. The black man must step forward, but that doesn’t mean the black woman must step back.“(x)

[devine-warfare]

what type of sorcery is this thread….not claiming none of this is a perspective worth understanding but Black women…when you openly shame your men like this, it will be used to not only justify harming our men and boys as we constantly see, but YOU are also a target because you’re claiming to your enemy that you don’t make efficient men in your womb which means YOU’RE ALSO WORTHLESS!!! 

[okayysophia]

LMFAOOOOOO!!!!

[patrochilles-or-bust]

God the hotepery in that second to last comment!! 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️ I knew about half of these. I’ve never heard anything about Malcolm (post NoI) but I did know about King and Belafonte. And then I learned something new! Whew. And my parents get mad when I say “the movement has to be intersectional” in response to “women are the reason black people can’t move forward”…..as if we don’t make up half the movement -_-

[okayysophia]

they love the “black women stop us from moving forward” nonsense.  they believe were the reason for not being able to move forward because they’re definition of progress is being white men with all the benefits and privilege.

black women have always done the work to sustain movements while black men end up being the face of the movement, reaping benefits and scrape up whatever amount of power they can just to abuse it. then when you bring up the bullshit that they’ve been able to do because they’re men, they’ll try manipulating you by telling you your being divisive and that its not about gender but about black people… as if we don’t live in a patriarchal society that would rather suffer than listen to the voices of women… its the same shit they did a few months ago during the BLM protests, silencing black women when we brought up the fact that were not only being killed by police but by them too, reassuring us that fighting for the black men that died is a fight for all of us then called us divisive for making it about gender…

if black women would take even an ounce of the blood, sweat and tears they put into protecting black men and put it into themselves for once, just imagine the shift… we have the voice, the reach, the intelligence to fight for ourselves and the people who fight and stand for us… so why don’t we normalise that??

all this post shows me is a history of manipulation and pain against black women while normalising the expectation that black women are only useful when birthing children and putting in work to protect everyone before themselves because “black men have it rough”. i’m tired of us being expected to protect and standby the same black men who would, if given the chance, completely disregarded me as a human being just for the opportunity to lick a white mans balls… its disgraceful…

[witches-ofcolor]

this reminds of that posts going around telling non-blacks to center black men in BLM converations. Black men have always been the center of those conversations, I don’t know why that post even had to be made. 

[stopwhiterailing]

This thread has it all: whiterailing, manrailing. Just all of it. 

White women and Black men come together like buttcheeks when its time to shit all over a conversation about Black women.

[crazy-brazilian]

[nutsacktorturer]

Female HP Lovecraft

[mr-deep-downer]

[liberalsarecool]

Republicans normalize racism. Writ large.

[meridionalis]

the decrease in costuming quality over the last 20 years has been soooo precipitous & nauseating. i’m not even talking abt marvel’s cg supersuits or anything this time, look at the fabric quality, structure, layering, character, and craftsmanship of older costumes in 102 dalmations (2000) vs cruella (2021)

ever after (1998) vs cinderella (2021)

lord of the rings (2001-2003) vs the rings of power (2022)

this trend should upset you not just because it looks cheap, but because it suggests a strong anti-art and anti-labor movement in film and tv making. don’t forget costumers are unionized

[arguablysomaya]

he gets it

[dnd-homebrew5e]

Just started imagining a Necromancer using their magic to create undead for the sole purpose of creating a musical number and they need back up dancers for their song solo.

[jared-the-dm]

[thepokeduck]

[neomikey]

[silver-tongues-blog]

Ah yes, the necromancer subclass: necrodancer

[gothfoxx]

The dead are infused with insatiable grooves

[witchcatcher]

@probablybadrpgideas

Crypt of the NecroDancer on Steam

Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to

[schizoauthoress]

Today I learned that Van Halen have that rider in their contract about “a bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed” in order to know at a glance if the promoter read the entire contract.  And the reason they do THAT is because they once had a stage collapse because a promoter hadn’t read the proper way to set up all the specific technical stuff.

So if the band goes in the dressing room or catering and sees brown M&Ms, they know they have to double-check the stage setup for safety.

[darkfrog24]

I heard about this on Freakonomics Radio.  Turns out the bit about no brown M&Ms is HUGE, in BIG font, bold, underlined and quotated like they’re on the Group W Bench.

The band was all, “We have fifty-pound lights hanging over our heads and fire being shot out of cannons.  We had to know whether they read our safety regs so we didn’t flamebroil any roadies.”

[gobbochune-deactivated20241018]

interesting how this has become a meme in the music industry about divas. i’ve always heard jokes that amount to “this stuck up celebrity hates the green gummy bears!! they’re refusing to perform just for that???” and its reading stuff like this that i realise how that joke might have come about. people get grumpy that the band refuses to play but cant admit its because THEY’RE incompetent, so they make it all about the M&Ms. another example of artists using a creative method to ensure they have a perfectly reasonable request fulfilled that is then bastardised by lazy people who wanna make money off them. 

[thesylverlining]

…this is like the music industry version of hearing the truth behind the McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit

[easyvirgin-deactivated20160413]

happy Thursday the 20th

[askjennaflorida]

I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

[mx-mythical-deactivated20260319]

next days you can reblog this on a Thursday the 20th

August 2015

October 2016

April 2017

July 2017

September 2018

December 2018

June 2019

February 2020

August 2020

You know, just in case you wanted to set your queue for the next 6 years

[blinkyxx]

HAPPY THURSDAY THE 20TH EVERYONE

[aaronderschaedel]

Additional days you can reblog this:

May 2021 January 2022 October 2022 April 2023 July 2023

[thegreatklaid]

Wow Ive seen that whole list go buy. Ive been on the hell site too long…

[toastbutteregg]

[floralflowerpower-deactivated20]

Just cause of the Starbucks news *cough cough*

[corporationsarepeople]

Some Starbucks news from end of 2021:

Starbucks Workers in Chicago and Colorado File Union Petitions With NLRB

"We see unionizing as a commitment to making our store a staple in the community, and making Starbucks the great company we know it's capabl

Starbucks loses bid to delay union vote count in 3 NY stores

Starbucks Corp on Tuesday lost its bid with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to delay a union election at three of the coffee chain

NLRB: Starbucks workers at New York store can form a union

Starbucks, which has not had unionized employees anywhere in the United States for years, did not object to the Elmwood results, the NLRB co

Boston Starbucks workers seek to unionize after Buffalo vote | AP News

BOSTON (AP) — Starbucks workers at two locations in Boston are looking to unionize, days after a successful union vote at a Starbucks in Bu

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

controversial opinion

you are not better than fat people!

even REALLY fat people!

even fat people who don’t put a lot of time into their appearance!

even fat people who wear clothes you think are unflattering!

your appearance literally does not make you better than a fat person. you are not more fun to hang out with because you’re not fat. you are not funnier, smarter, or more interesting by virtue of not being fat. you aren’t harder working, you don’t have more self-control, you don’t have your life more together.

the only difference between you and fat people is that they have to put up with a lot of harassment, discrimination, exclusion, and other bullshit that you don’t even think about.

try not to add to it.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Everyone adding “but i DO have more self control than a fat person!!” is a self righteous piece of shit who 1) knows literally nothing about fat science and 2) has been blocked. Fat people deserve respect. You have not earned the privilege you have over fat people; it’s been given to you by an unfair hierarchical society and you fuckers walking around thinking it’s a meritocracy so you can feel special need to get a fucking clue.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

Yes, this applies to fat people who aren’t trying to lose weight!! And fat people who eat more food than you do!! You are not better than them and acting like you are just makes you an ass.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

I’ve just gone through and blocked another round of assholes from the notes, and I’d just like to add, as a disabled person with a long list of chronic illnesses, that if you think you’re better than someone else because you think you’re healthier than they are, you are vile.

Your health is not a reward for being a wonderful person, it’s pure fucking chance. It is fucking evil to think you’re superior to someone else because they’re suffering in ways you aren’t. Also, not all fat people are unhealthy and not all unhealthy people are fat, but even the fattest people whose health problems are connected to their weight are just as worthwhile, interesting, fun to be around, and worthy of dignity as you are. You are not a better person just because your size or health status is different.

You just have the privilege of being catered to in ways fat people aren’t. Don’t think for a moment that you deserve this special treatment or that fat people deserve the harassment, abuse, discrimination, and exclusion our society systemically aims at fat people.

[kaijutegu]

Also, on top of all of this:

Self-control doesn’t make you a good person. It doesn’t make you interesting or fun or worth knowing! So what if you have more self-control than someone else? Big deal. Nobody in the history of the world has chosen their friends based on self-control.

Human beings have an inherent worth, and to think that something like one’s size can change that is ridiculous.