dear men who feel like marriage is a trap and “taking away your freedom”, here’s a list of things you can do:
- not get married - literally - just don’t fucking propose - and if she asks you, say no - don’t get her hopes up - seriously what the fuck is wrong with you???
okay so apparently the creator of the Minions (who is named Pierre Coffin, holy shit, what an amazing name) said something along the lines of “All the Minions are boys/men because I just can’t see women acting that stupid” which a lot of people are taking as “haha yeah men are stupid!” but also this is a really boring trend I’ve seen in media (especially cartoons and sitcoms) since the dawn of time
characters that are silly, goofy, stupid, funny, loud, obnoxious, and ridiculous are always boys.
characters that are smart, mature, delicate, and sophisticated are almost always girls.
now to a lot of people this is probably a “yeah, so?” kind of thing, and some people might even see it as a good thing? they might see it as “yes i’m glad girls are being taught that boys are stupid!”
well, that’s not really the case. girls aren’t being taught boys are stupid, they’re being taught that boys GET to be stupid. boys GET to be loud and goofy because they’re boys, and that’s just how boys act. it enforces a really harsh gender role that says that boys are naturally funny and silly and girls need to stay quiet.
and typically whenever these two character archetypes interact, the mature girl is always there to ruin the boy’s fun (Cosmo and Wanda, Billy and Mandy, Dib and Gaz, Goku and Chichi, Fred and Wilma, George and Jane, and Every Sitcom You’ve Ever Seen)
i just think it’s time for some girl characters that are allowed to be silly! that are allowed to run the show with their goofiness! to tell girls that it’s okay to not be mature and have fun! i’m just tired of the same gender roles being enforced that I’ve been noticing since I was a kid!
thank you for putting your finger on why that quote was bugging me
Every time people try to say that this is a hurtful stereotype against men, they’re forgetting how glorified the male “simpleton” characters often are. Yeah, we’re supposed to laugh at them, too, but people *love* the Homers and Patricks and Stimpys and Braks and Meatwads and Eds, and they’re supposed to.
Those characters are constantly portrayed as happier, more fun to be around, well-meaning, innocent and full of unexpected insight into life. They’re characters who always know how to have a good time in any situation and often come out on top over the un-fun “smart” people. Even when they’re villains, they’re the adorable not-really-evil villains.
And the worst part is, “dumb” female characters DO exist….they just aren’t written to be fun. They’re always “valley girls” and “vapid blondes” hanging out with the ~mean popular kids~ or the joke is that they’re “dumb” but at least they’re “hot” LOL“Dumb” male characters are protected, rewarded, written to be the ideal friend and innocent cinnamon roll, while “dumb” female characters are more often demonized, punished and presented as shallow, despicable trash.
One of the reasons I got into anime years ago was all the crazy comedic female characters. Sana, Lina Inverse, heck even Misato from evangelion (sure, she was motherly and sexy, but her party girl carelessness was played for laughs, rather then as something inherently bad.)
As far as american cartoons went—unless the shows had an all female cast, the job of the girls was to be a sensible foil for the boy’s antics, someone to impress/protect or a bully (usually a stuck up bossy know-it-all like Lucy or Angelica).
But now we have-
and
There are probably other examples, at least things are starting to change. At least now you can find ridiculous female characters that aren’t demonized. They are rude and loud but we’re still supposed to love them.
Humans are so weird. We all have our own group languages, but the moment we encounter the fact that those OTHER groups over there have THEIR own languages, well, THAT'S just STUPID, why can't they talk right!
The entire purpose of language is to identify which people are in your group, and which people are not. Communication isn't even ever our point.
I havent seen any fuck boy coverage of this yet, and that makes me very happy. I’m sure its coming, but so far the media seems to be getting the point.
ATTENTION WHITE PEOPLE These are exaggerated micro-aggressions. It is likely you have said something comparably offensive to a POC during your lifetime.
When we say that white people are inherently racist due to social conditioning, we are generally referencing things like this. Saying nigger/chinc/spic isn’t the only way to be racially divisive and hurtful. When you say things like this, you are perpetuating deeply harmful stereotypes that make it hard for people to simply exist in America.
Please do us all a favor and check your privilege.
my fave greek history story to tell is that of agnodice. like she noticed that women were dying a lot during childbirth so she went to egypt to study medicine in alexandria and was really fucking good but b/c it was illegal for women to be doctors in athens she had to pretend to be a man. and then the other doctors noticed that she was 10x better than them and accused her of seducing and sleeping with the women patients. like they brought her to court for this. and she just looked at them and these charges and stripped in front of everyone like “yeah. im not fucking your wives” and then they got so mad that a woman was better at their jobs then them that they tried to execute her but all her patients came to court and were like “are you fucking serious? she is the reason you have living children and a wife.” so they were shamed into changing the law and that is how women were given the right to practice medicine in athens
It’s actually impossible to measure how many fucks a corvid give because there is no device sensitive enough to register such a tiny amount.
science/animal side of tumblr… explain to me the birb thing
Tail Pulling is a behavior noted in many corvids. The practical application is to create a distraction that will allow the birb to make off with the target’s food. Imagine being in the lunch room and a large fellow has a Twinkie you covet. You can’t just take it from him because he’ll defend his Twinkie. But if you thwap him on the back of his neck and then dash around to snag the Twinkie while he investigates, you stand a decent chance of enjoying spongey goodness. This is basically that in birb form.
Except corvids don’t only do this as a distraction. Sometimes they seem to just being doing it to mess with other animals/birbs. But to use my lunch room analogy, there are times you might thwap someone sneakily on the back of the neck just for amusement. Primates exhibit behavior that appears to be just be annoying other animals for amusement. Given how intelligent crows are, its not unlikely that this is a manifestation of an innate desire to just fuck with someone else for the fun of it. Such as this from the link above:
Phillip and Darren are two pit bull brothers that currently reside in Brisbane, Australia. As you can see, they are very dapper and aren’t shy when it comes to posing for the camera. Check out some highlights below, then go follow them on Instagram. [via designtaxi] https://instagram.com/p/6iwjyvrPrx/ https://instagram.com/p/6Dn0zWrPsl/ Traumatised by the bath experience yet again, … Continued
Star Wars is not here for your armor misconceptions. In a response that’s getting some digitalink, the official Star Wars page’s reply to a clueless comment on Phasma’s armor. Just say no to actually dangerous boob-plates!
It’s been just over a year since India was officially declared polio-free, and the country’s public health system has just achieved another remarkable result: tetanus is no longer listed as a public health threat.
The success is part of the Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus Elimination Initiative, an immunization drive started by the United Nations in 1999 to halt the deadly spread of tetanus amongst mothers and newborns (often a consequence of the unhygienic conditions of delivery, which exposes them to the bacteria).
India—part of the immunization program together with 58 other countries—has achieved the goal of reducing tetanus cases across the nation to one in of every 1,000 live births, ahead of its target deadline of December, announced prime minister Narendra Modi on Aug. 27. He credited Mission Indradhanush, a nationalprogram (part of the larger UN framework) aimed at increasing the immunization rate amongst Indian children against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, childhood tuberculosis, polio, hepatitis B and measles from 60% to 95%.
Global progress to eliminate tetanus has been remarkable. Over the past 15 years, the worldwide death rate from tetanus dropped from over 800,000 deaths in 2000 to under 50,000 this year. However, in 22 countries, including Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria, the disease still represents a public health threat.
As UNICEF points out, what made India’s program stand out is the fact that it didn’t rely purely on immunization drives. Childhood vaccinations were supported with a policy that encouraged women to give birth in sanitary environments: the Indian government offered a payment of $21 for every delivery in a hospital, and women who insisted on a traditional delivery at home were offered free sterilized delivery kits.
If Donald Trump's mass deportation plan seems eerily familiar, that's because it is. We tried this in the 1930s and apparently with no regard for what was legal at the time.
During the Great Depression, counties and cities in the American Southwest and Midwest forced Mexican immigrants and their families to leave the U.S. over concerns they were taking jobs away from whites despite their legal right to stay.
The result: Around 500,000 to 1 million Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans were pushed out of the country during the 1930s repatriation, as the removal is sometimes called.
During that time, immigrants were rounded up and sent to Mexico, sometimes in public places and often without formal proceedings. Others, scared under the threat of violence, left voluntarily.
About 60 percent of those who left were American citizens, according to various studies on the 1930s repatriation. Later testimonies show families lost most of their possessions and some family members died trying to return. Neighborhoods in cities such as Houston, San Antonio and Los Angeles became empty.
That's the history Trump wants to repeat—indiscriminately kicking out undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens alike and significantly squeezing the populations of many American cities. God only knows what the process of actually deporting 11 million-plus immigrants would look like. Not to mention the cost.
The conservative-leaning American Action Forum concluded in a report it would cost between $400 billion to $600 billion and take 20 years to remove an estimated 11.2 million immigrants living in the country illegally.
It looks like the raven really wants the owl to leave and is trying to intimidate it, but the owl doesn’t care because it knows the raven is all bark and no bite. Or all squawk and no peck. Erm…
Actually, it looks more like the raven is curious about the funny bird and wants to sit next to it, and the owl doesn’t wanna be friends :[ The raven’s body language isn’t aggressive at all — it’s backing down appropriately when the owl displays aggression. Notice the way it’s careful to draw back every time it gets too close to the owl. This is an animal that’s trying to establish it isn’t a threat.
Keep in mind there’s a huge intellect disparity here — ravens exhibit novel tool use and complex communication, whereas owls aren’t even as smart as ducks. We’re sort of trained to view crows and ravens as villainous, but really they’re very playful animals.
“HI YOU’RE PRETTY WANNA BE FRIENDS??”
“HISSS”
This is so cute ‘cause I can imagine the crow being the talkative, friendly one and he’s just like “hi gosh wow you’re pretty I’ve never seen a white crow before! How’d ya get your feathers so white? Do you eat a lot of marshmallows? I eat a lot of marshmallows! This human lady feeds me marshmallows—” and on and on and the owl’s probably just like “What no go away”
Owl: *stares into the camera like it’s on The Office*
After Ann Coulter referred to President Obama as a “retard” in a tweet during Monday night’s presidential debate, Special Olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens penned her this open letter:
Dear Ann Coulter, Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult? I’m a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public’s perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow. I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you. In fact it has taken me all day to figure out how to respond to your use of the R-word last night. I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child by people like you, but rose above it to find a way to succeed in life as many of my fellow Special Olympians have. Then I wondered if you meant to describe him as someone who has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says, as everyone else races from one snarkey sound bite to the next. Finally, I wondered if you meant to degrade him as someone who is likely to receive bad health care, live in low grade housing with very little income and still manages to see life as a wonderful gift. Because, Ms. Coulter, that is who we are – and much, much more. After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV. I have to wonder if you considered other hateful words but recoiled from the backlash. Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor. No one overcomes more than we do and still loves life so much. Come join us someday at Special Olympics. See if you can walk away with your heart unchanged.
I have a theory that the reason they have yet to have an official sequel announcement is because the scriptwriters are busy trying to slip in as many Mad Max references as possible past the censors.
“In contrast, all my husband and I had to do was sign a form. Our competence to choose the outcome of our embryo was never questioned. There were no mandatory lectures on gestation, no requirement that I be explicitly told that personhood begins at conception or that I view a picture of a day-five embryo. There was no compulsory waiting period for me to reconsider my decision. In fact, no state imposes these restrictions — so common for abortion patients — on patients with frozen embryos. With rare exceptions, the government doesn’t interfere with an IVF patient’s choices except to resolve disagreements between couples. The disparity between how the law treats abortion patients and IVF patients reveals an ugly truth about abortion restrictions: that they are often less about protecting life than about controlling women’s bodies. Both IVF and abortion involve the destruction of fertilized eggs that could potentially develop into people. But only abortion concerns women who have had sex that they don’t want to lead to childbirth. Abortion restrictions use unwanted pregnancy as a punishment for “irresponsible sex” and remind women of the consequences of being unchaste: If you didn’t want to endure a mandatory vaginal ultrasound , you shouldn’t have had sex in the first place .”
Started early this year. Found pie pumpkins for sale on Friday, and started the annual pumpkin slaughter fest this weekend.
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It has been decided that Halloween season officially begins on September 1 and lasts until 11:59 p.m., October 31. There is far too much to see, do, taste, touch, listen to, scare, hide and/or run from to contain within the 31 available days in October.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Evil Supply Company official press release August 30, 2012 at 12:56 PM Central, USA (via evilsupplyco)
2nd annual re-issue: August 31, 2013 at 10:51 AM Central, USA
If black people stepping on the American flag offends you more than black people dying in the streets, you need to reevaluate your priorities.
If black people symbolically saying “fuck you” to every man and women who has died in uniform, doesn’t offend you, you need to leave this country.
If black people symbolically saying “fuck you” to every man and women who has died in uniform offends you more than black people dying in the streets, you need to reevaluate your priorities.
What about the people that survived in uniform and died at home because they were black?
So like …we are going to ignore that the military targets the so called “minorities .”
Black LIVES are more important than military SENTIMENT. Why is this even a fucking debate??
So, as an ACTUAL VETERAN let me tell you what I think about this shit.
I do not appreciate AT ALL you fucking civilian assholes using my service to shit on minorities. I don’t give a fuck about the flag. That is not why I was fighting! I joined up, like most servicemembers, to go to college, and I deployed because they Army was like “Guess where you’re going! Afghanistan!” Patriotism didn’t matter a lot for me, and I never felt like I was “defending” the flag–what, are these poor as fuck Afghani sustenance farmers going to bomb America? (No. No they are not.)
You know what would really help me, as a vet? Not people pretending they care about me by using my service as a way to justify their racist beliefs. I know for a fact that you don’t actually give a shit about me,
always-a-lighthouse. You don’t give a shit about my fucked up knee, my poverty, how it took me three years to learn how to be a civilian, two years to get a handle on the blinding rage I felt about literally everything, how I’m still in therapy to deal with the way the Army fucked me up. None of that matters to you because all you want is a convenient excuse to justify your racism. If you actually gave a fuck about me you’d fight to get the VA better funding or expand the GI bill so it actually covers all four years of undergrad. But you don’t. I’m not a person to you, I’m an idea, and even then, only as long as it suits you. As soon as I’m not a convenient way to blame people, I cease to exist. No wonder so many of us feel like we only matter as long as we’re fighting!
Also, I don’t think you understand how protest works. Symbolism is vitally important. When someone walks on the flag, what they’re saying is “This flag, which promises liberty and justice for all, is denying me liberty and justice. In this land of freedom, I am not free. This flag serves people who do not look like me and do not care about me, and I will not rest until all people are equal under this flag.” That’s powerful symbolism.
Don’t like it? A) Fuck you. B) They wouldn’t be desecrating the flag if there was any other way to get what they need. When you deny people justice and equality, than make it impossible for them to get it through conventional means, you guarantee that they up the ante until they find something that works. Do you not understand how people think? You aren’t going to stop the protest over people being murderedby acting like those lives are less valuable than the fucking flag. The flag doesn’t care! It’s an inanimate object! Why the fuck would you care more about a piece of cloth than human lives?!
The next time I hear you fuckboy assholes using my service and the service of the people who came home in coffins as a way to justify your racism, I will track you down and beat your head into the wall until you learn. STOP ACTING LIKE YOU GIVE A SHIT ABOUT US.
i don’t know but i’m reblogging it because i’m afraid it’s one of those “REBLOG THIS CREATURE AND GET WEALTH” memes in disguise, and if I don’t, it’s going to come to my house, steal everything of value I own, piss on the rest, and leave without even letting me pet it.
If Donald Trump's mass deportation plan seems eerily familiar, that's because it is. We tried this in the 1930s and apparently with no regard for what was legal at the time.
Super Opinionated.