White privilege is being a 21-year-old loser who plots and kills 9 people in their church and when you are confronted by the police, armed, you survive without incident. Later, when you’re escorted to the police station, you are not handcuffed and you even have a bulletproof vest for protection. Meanwhile, the media is already infantilizing you and blaming your actions on anything other than you, even though you planned this attack for 6 months. No one is asking why White men are so violent when 87% of mass killings in America have been committed by White men and nobody’s calling you a terrorist when your very intent was to cause terror.
Also you get Burger King on the way to jail, paid for by the police arresting you.
I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been
The Hagia Sophia has inscriptions that were considered sacred for centuries until they were deciphered in the 70s to be Nordic runes saying “Halfdan wrote this”
my old english prof told us that theres a cave in Scandinavia where a viking gratified some runes like 14 feet up on the wall and when they finally reached it all it translated into was “this is very high”
Ancient Shitposting
Now on the History Channel
‘People have literally just always been people’ is genuinely my favorite fact about the world
Also, basically every generation has had people complaining about the younger one. Victorians, Tudors, Ancient Greece - if you were to go back to the Palaeolithic, you’d probably find a caveman going ‘Rock good enough for Ug! Why Ug Jr tie rock to stick? Youth today too dependent on technology!’ And I think that’s brilliant.
The number of teenage women having children has hit an all-time low, thanks in large part to increased contraceptive access and use among Hispanic and African American teenagers, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
For decades, the United States has hadhigher rates of teen pregnancy than most other developed countries. But recent increases in access to contraception, particularly to long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) such as IUDs and implants, have helped women of all ages reduce the chances of unintended pregnancy. Since 2002, LARC use has increased five-fold, with most of that change being due to greater use of IUDs.
Though the CDC stopped short of completely attributing the drop in teen births to contraceptives like LARCs, according to the report "preliminary data" suggests that the use of evidence-based reproductive health services, including contraceptives, is what has led to the huge drop in childbirth among young women over the last ten years.
The drop was particularly notable among Hispanic and African American teenagers. Birth rates for young Hispanic women fell 51 percent since 2006, and for black teenagers 44 percent. That's a big deal, because Hispanic and African American teenagers have historically had much higher rates of teen pregnancies than their white counterparts. Ten years ago, the birth rate for Hispanic teens was nearly 80 births per 1,000 women, but the rate for white teens was around 25. Now, the rate for Hispanic women is closer to 40.
Still, even though the number of white teens having children has also decreased, black and Hispanic teens still have twice as many pregnancies as their white peers. According to the report, that's because social inequalities, like income and education, and employment opportunities, remain low in communities of color and influence rates of teen pregnancy.
"The United States has made remarkable progress in reducing both teen pregnancy and racial and ethnic differences," CDC Director Tom Frieden told the Washington Post. "But the reality is, too many American teens are still having babies."
(Thanks you talking-bird-jessie for suggesting this scene from Order of the Phoenix!)
Reblogging because this is beautiful and totally should’ve been in the movie
Why are moments like this not in the movies? :’(
I have this headcanon that after Neville proposed to Hannah Abbott, he went to his parents at St. Mungo’s and sat with them. Even though he was sure she wouldn’t understand or remember, he held his mother’s hands and told her, “I’m getting married, Mum. She’s great. You’ll really like her.” Alice just hummed and stared off into the distance. No reaction. Neville still stayed, telling his parents all about Hannah and their plans, and how she wanted so badly to come meet them and he would bring her next time.
Then, as he put his hand on the door handle to leave, he felt a hand on his shoulder. It was Alice. She held out her hand as she had done so many times before. Expecting a candy wrapper, Neville held out his hand but felt something heavier drop into it.
When he looked down, there were two rings. And when he glanced to his mother’s hand, there was an indent where her wedding ring had once rested but was no longer there.
Black women, particularly black female blues singers, are part of the foundation from which rock & roll was built. The raw, unhinged vocal style and sexual ambiguity of Big Mama Thornton, the innovative guitar playing of Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the frenetic stage presence of Tina Turner shaped our ideas of what it means to not only play but embody rock music. Yet our conception of what the rock musician looks like has become starkly white, boxing black performers into R&B and soul categories no matter how genre-bending they are. During Prince’s lifetime, for example, his music was often labeled as R&B, though his style and guitar playing comes from the rock tradition. One of rock’s biggest innovators, Prince just happened to fuse R&B, funk and pop into his sound as well.
Been there. Done that. Am older and craftier about hiding it now.
sometimes ‘im working on it’ means ‘executive dysfunction is kicking my ass rn and even though i’m clearly Not doing the thing i am trying very hard to get into a state where i Can do the thing and i probably will be doing it soon’. but no one understands this, they just get mad at you
I will, until I am blue in the face, defend any adult’s right to enjoy whatever silly, all-ages thing they like without being hassled for it.
But there’s a flip side to that right: As adult fans it is absolutely our responsibility to make sure our enjoyment of that thing does not interfere with a minor’s ability to enjoy the same thing in a safe space.
That means putting warnings on fics that have adult themes, that means not posting porn in the main tags, and it absolutely positively means not having any inappropriate interactions with minors you meet on this website, even if it’s their idea.
This is the basic price of admission every adult has to pay for entry into an all-ages fandom.
I have an IUD. I have never been pregnant. It works quite well for me. It does hurt like A LOT on insertion. But I'm PRETTY sure childbirth hurts worse. So there's that.
If your gynecologist has turned down your request for an IUD in the past, it might be time for another try—or another doctor. Older rules said that women who had never given birth shouldn’t get IUDs. That changed years ago, and docs are slowly getting the memo.
You know why they up prices? Because weddings, and wedding guests, are pains to have to deal with. Still traumatized by 12+ years in hospitality.
Wedding markup is very real, and Consumer Reports has the numbers to prove it. In a recent study, they found that 28% of vendors increase prices for wedding events. The good news is, many of these vendors are willing to haggle when you call them out on it.
No bs, I hate when folks talk shit about dudes getting their bald spots covered. We all wanna be confident with out apperance. And he looks great man.
I fuck wit this,
God bless those hands! He looks 10 years younger
Aw he’s so happy
She did an awesome job!
woah
If dudes wanna be okay with this they have to AT THE SAME TIME stop calling women liars for wearing makeup, hair extensions, etc. Because it’s the same thing.
And it’s okay! It’s your body! Do what you want with your body! Just like the (really great) stylist says at the end of the video: “do what you like!”
Stop shitting on people for what they wanna do w their look 2k4Ever.
Step one: Create a spreadsheet. Step two: You're done, you've created a spreadsheet. Step three: Pet any available nearby furbaby.
The first step (always the hardest, right?) in solving a problem is recognizing you have one. We’re all familiar with the feeling of grappling with a head-scratcher for longer than we’d like. It can take a while to connect the time we’ve lost staring at the screen with the fact that we’re stuck on something and it’s time to try a new approach.
That would be the boyfriend's cat. Sometimes if people come over, she doesn't manage to hide fast enough, so she freezes, and I'm used enough to her that I can actually spot her and point her out to people. As soon as they turn their backs on her, she creeps away and then disappears COMPLETELY until a couple hours after they leave. I find it disturbing that after living here for five years, she still apparently has hiding spots that the bf and I haven't managed to locate.
“As I’ve worked to dismantle my own internalized racism and the ways that I privilege whiteness, I’ve learned to resist being ‘othered’ through the use of language. So when someone says, ‘Oh, they did that to you because you’re black,’ I quickly correct them with, ‘No, they did that because they are bigots.’ This often shocks people. I can see the panic in their eyes. Sometimes, their eyes dart about. If there are lot of people, they may get quiet.
Sometimes, someone will try to lessen the blow of my words with some clever deflection. I then come back with, ‘No. They are bigots.’ I name the problem. Trayvon and Michael’s blackness wasn’t the problem. The problem was the negative perceptions of that blackness and what spaces that blackness was ‘allowed’ to occupy. These perceptions are supported, funded, and reinforced by institutionalized racism. Matthew Shepard wasn’t murdered because he was gay. Sakia Gunn wasn’t murdered because she was a lesbian. Matthew and Sakia were murdered by people who made a choice to exercise their bigotry within a culture that deemed Matthew and Sakia ‘others.’”
This week’s list is even “deeper than I expected…” reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it reblog it Tumblr Gets Deep: … Continued
This also happens in government. It especially happens in government when the current administration devalues the end product of the agency you work for.
And then, once they've cut the staff past the point where the work can actually get done, they start making noise about how inefficient and ineffective the agency is, and how it shouldn't exist because the thing it's supposed to do shouldn't be done and they're barely doing it anyway...
Recognize there is such a thing as 100%. At some point, your employees are using all of their time and energy, and once you hit that point, you can’t add any more tasks without taking some away. At 100%, telling people to work “harder” doesn’t mean anything. Your employees have a finite capacity and you’ve reached it. You can’t put anything more in the box without taking something out.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a small thing, if it’s just a simple ten-minute task. People who are at 98% can do another ten minutes. People who are at 100% can’t. That’s what 100 means.
God I’m tired.
My experience is it’s mostly corporate that doesn’t understand this. They put higher and higher demands on managers, who really have no choice half the time but to transfer those demands to their employees. It goes something like this:
“Oh, you’re getting all your work done with 200 employee hours? I’ll bet you could get it done with 150, AND we’ll save on payroll! Man, aren’t we geniuses?”
The manager then has to cut hours, or let someone go, while expecting the people who are still working to accomplish the same amount of work with less time and fewer hands. If, by some miracle, everybody steps up and the store doesn’t fall into complete disarray, corporate says, “Oh, you’re getting all your work done with 150 employee hours? I’ll bet you could get it done with 130!”
