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the grinch is fucked up right. he was created specifically as a critique of the commercialization of christmas, but now all his edge has been sanded off. now he's a generic mascot for "hates christmas," which is great to have because the commercialization of christmas has become so overbearing that that's a demographic you can market to! and now he's just part of the Christmas Fold. he's santa's edgier joker counterpart. he has become the very thing he sought to destroy. back in november i checked out a customer with a $1100 order and most of it was grinch merchandise

shorthistorian

#ick

ellohcee

Red supergiant meets white dwarf star

tastylemonbread

thank god they invented someone who makes art that appeals exclusively to my tastes. unfortunately, this person is me

effemimaniac

Sex Isn't Real And You Can't Have It

wizardshark

Yes master card.

Sorry master card.

redstonedust

3/4s of the way through a delicious meal and feeling pretty full. well im so close to finished i might as well keep eating. surely this decision will not harm me in any way

redstonedust

my #vent art

escuerzoresucitado

asskylosaurus

You know I turned on the sound just to help me understand what was going on and I guess it was exactly what it looked like.

geeoharee

Ooh! Spot the industrial safety device! The worker has to press a 'stab the cheese' button with both hands. This is because if they're doing that, neither of their hands can be within the cheese stabbing zone.

thetablestspoon

This cheese is being stabbed safely

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gilkenansmonsterhouse2006-deact

i have not seen this meme in so long im loving it

adulthoodisokay

one of the reasons i love tumblr is that occasionally classic memes like this show up on my dashboard

catgirlforeskin

It’s like reaching into the cupboard for food and accidentally finding a 19 year old can of soup that you’ve kept for sentimental reasons

catasters

warl0ck-arts

Perfection.

audhdspacewizard

"I wish I had something that could store energy and also absorb vibrations."

The faithful and compressable spring:

lenreli

tpwrtrmnky

remember the like tiny sliver of time when there was a real push to just say "people who have a uterus" or "people with testicles" or whatever when that was what you meant, and then faux-progressives who were willing to cave to terfism to avoid saying icky anatomy words ruined it with "AFAB-bodied"

globalincident

I still think that the best thing to do is just say "men" and "women" or possibly just "people", and let everyone infer from context precisely which body parts or societal expectations I'm talking about.

tpwrtrmnky

okay

now you have a guy with a beard, hairy, flat chest with rippling pecs, bald, and because he has a uterus due to his medical history of having been born with one, he is pregnant. he would like to not be pregnant.

your law for the right to an abortion says "women"

this is the type of problem that the post you're replying to presents a solution for

catboybiologist

AGAB language has gone way too fucking far, to the point that it's inaccurate. Equating AGAB to biology is honestly horrible, and erases the original intent of using AGAB, which was to describe the horrific experiences intersex people have with legal sex classification.

And let me be clear: being assigned a gender is a legal and societal action, one applied to you.

I feel like the aversion to talking about real anatomy and biology is because kinda-progressive and center-left circles fell to propaganda. Specifically, they fell to the intersexist rhetoric that "biological sex" is completely binary (they just tacked on "but gender is separate!" Haphazardly), and they bought the transphobic rhetoric that "biological sex" is immutable.

This is honestly stupid. A trans person that has been on HRT for a while *needs* to understand those hormones as part of their biology. A trans woman on HRT has more physiological similarities with a cis woman than a cis man, and in many respects is functional a sterile cis woman. This influences blood testing and metrics, nutritional considerations, drug dosing, susceptibility to intoxicants, and on and on. A trans woman on HRT calling herself AMAB without acknowledging many aspects of your biology as female is wrong.

I don't have universal solutions for this, but if I'm having a conversation about my medical history or my biology, I'll use male and female as extremely specific descriptors of whatever part of my physiology I'm talking about. I'm hormonally female, reproductively neither, my skin is more "female", etc. This is a LONG way from perfect, and still uses a binary that isn't universally applicable, but it is WAY more accurate than calling myself "AMAB" to describe anything that's biologically or medically relevant.

I also describe myself as "natally male", but generally only with other scientists or people I know are safe, because I know that's a dog whistle. To me, I only say that with full acknowledgement that this generalization about my natal and past sex has changed now due to my transition. Separating my natal sex from my current sex is an accurate way to do things.

And no, this doesn't mean I'm in denial about my body. I'm not saying I'm identical to a cis woman. I'm saying there's a lot more overlap than people wanna admit and I like being precise and accurate about it.

#thank god for this post #this is a VERY important disambiguation. gender is something that exists outside what we've used to define it

punkitt-is-here

this duck LOVES pink drink

punkryuki

sawdust-emperor

Her just pouring the puree straight over the duck's head because she knows there's no getting that duck out of the cup is killing me

rongzhi

Outfit selection

English added by me :)

verodoodles

Biblically accurate rainbow unicorn wood burning✨🌈🦄🪽🪽🪽🪽

allamericansbitch

i love this new gen of pop stars so much

allamericansbitch

an absolutely humungous update they just keep getting better

rowark

I think this needs an important addendum:

Not only did Billie Eilish donate $11.5M, she also called out a room full of billionaires, including Mark Zuckerberg, directly to their faces, saying "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire? No hate, but, yeah, give your money away, shorties."

The $11.5M she's donating is about 1/4 if her net worth. Imagine if a billionaire did that? If Mark Zuckerberg donated 1/4 of his net worth, it would be about $55 BILLION... and he's still have over $100 billion left.

And, yet, unsurprisingly, people are mad at Billie Eilish for what she said and not at the billionaires for hoarding all the money and resources

remember-mufucka

what is the point of oscar the grouch on sesame street?

dakotacityukuleleorchestra-deac

It’s okay to not like things and it’s okay to be unhappy. He was created from the idea that “non-destructive deviance” would go over well with kids.

madamethursday

THANK YOU!

Basically, the point of Oscar the Grouch is so that kids know it’s okay to have fucking emotions and moods that aren’t all cheery. That’s the fucking point. And that’s even more important to the kids who are living in harsh realities. Realities where their families are falling apart or they’re not getting food every day or they’re getting abused. Telling them it’s okay to express that they are NOT HAPPY because they are HURTING is so fucking important I cannot even say it.

Big Bird is nice, but goddamn, when you’re a kid who’s hungry and you just got beat by your caretaker and all you wanna do is hole up somewhere and tell everyone else to go away because you don’t even have words for how bad things feel? Big Bird is not your dude. Cheery happy, “well, let’s play a happy game!” Big Bird ain’t cutting it for you. Oscar the Grouch is your dude. Oscar the Grouch is the dude who tells you it’s okay to put the lid on your garbage can and be alone and be upset.

Big Bird tries to talk you out of being upset (and maybe sometimes that’s okay). But Oscar the Grouch teaches you that, no, it’s okay to be upset and you have every right to stay upset and grouchy and unhappy until you’re at a point where that can change. Oscar the Grouch teaches you that you have a right to your emotions, whatever they are.

On a more advanced level, the point of Oscar is to start teaching kids that it’s okay to have boundaries, it’s okay to want to just go into your trash can (home/safe place) and not be bothered, it’s okay to defend those boundaries and say “go away!” when you want people to go the fuck away and that you can still have a place on Sesame Street. That not everyone has to be shiny, happy Big Bird.

That’s the point of Oscar the Grouch.

rgr-pop

“what is the point of oscar the grouch” who even made you

madeofpatterns

Also Oscar the Grouch *likes* things that no one else likes and he’s completely unapologetic about it.

The fact that people tell you things you like are stupid doesn’t make it’s true. He loves trash. He loves it because it’s trash. That’s important too.

As is the fact that *even though everyone thinks his interests are stupid*, people don’t take his trash away and they don’t drag him out of his can.

Also he has *fantastic* body language. Boundary laden but also very emotional. And just the way he likes stuff and expresses interest…

…Oscar the Grouch = awesome.

muppetmindset

This is a wonderful series of texts post that needs to be shared with all of you

poetry-protest-pornography

This is an excellent defense of Oscar!

Just want to add the very important details that Oscar gets to be grouchy and occasionally avoidant and gets to like “weird/gross” things, and his friends still love him

The rest of Sesame Street’s residents still seek Oscar out, and still listen to him when he talks and still care about him! So it shows kids not only that they can still be loveable even if they’re grumpy/weird/etc, but it shows that if you have a friend who is grumpy/weird/etc, they are worth keeping!

Oscar is so important.

(see also: Eeyore)