ThePrettiestOne

drst:

zaynshair2k14:

bringingthetruthback:

tinalikesbutts:

So when boys want to wear tank tops, it’s okay, but when I want to do it, it’s indecent and my shoulders are going to give every boy in a 20-mile radius a boner?

if your underage and its a professional environment, wear professional clothing. women have sexual organs on their top half, men don’t, don’t you know biology??

breasts aren’t sexual organs and neither are shoulders do everyone a favor staple your hands to your ass

If it’s a professional environment boys shouldn’t be wearing tank tops either, so that’s about the stupidest answer you could give.

tashabilities:

geeksofdoom:

washingtonexaminer:

That’s the expected cost to taxpayers over 10 years from Obama’s proposed free tuition plan, the White House admitted Friday.

That’s about the cost of 8 months of war in Iraq. Seems like a much better investment of my tax dollars to me.

I bolded

It’s amazing how 80 billion isn’t worth mentioning when it’s about killing people, but is suddenly a huge, horrifying barrier when it’s about improving lives.

sugarkokee:

buffytags:

#oh god spike and giles in the same space there is nothing i love more  #every time they both say something english they feel community in amongst all these americans  #which they both instantly hate  (via ceceliatallis​)

#i love that little exchange  #a tiny reminder of the weird parallels between those two  #giles is what spike used to be and spike is what giles used to be  (via the-elusive-ollie​)

"Giles is what Spike used to be and Spike is what Giles used to be." God, I knew, but never put it together. Brain hurts now.

"Helping the princess" by Port Sherry

“Introverts don’t get lonely if they don’t socialize with a lot of people, but we do get lonely if we don’t have intimate interactions on a regular basis.”

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I have never related to a quote more in my life than I do this one right here, right now. BAM.  (via

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ablacknation:

The Prison Industry: A new form of slavery in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a 90 cents - $4 a day. [X]

According to California Prison Focus, “no other society in human history has imprisoned so many of its own citizens.” The figures show that the United States has locked up more people than any other country: a half million more than China, which has a population five times greater than the U.S. 

Prison labor has its roots in slavery. After the 1861-1865 Civil War, a system of “hiring out prisoners” was introduced in order to continue the slavery tradition. Freed slaves were charged with not carrying out their sharecropping commitments (cultivating someone else’s land in exchange for part of the harvest) or petty thievery – which were almost never proven – and were then “hired out” for cotton picking, working in mines and building railroads. From 1870 until 1910 in the state of Georgia, 88% of hired-out convicts were Black. In Alabama, 93% of “hired-out” miners were Black. In Mississippi, a huge prison farm similar to the old slave plantations replaced the system of hiring out convicts. The notorious Parchman plantation existed until 1972.

During the post-Civil War period, Jim Crow racial segregation laws were imposed on every state, with legal segregation in schools, housing, marriages and many other aspects of daily life. “Today, a new set of markedly racist laws is imposing slave labor and sweatshops on the criminal justice system, now known as the prison industry complex,”

The prison industry complex is one of the fastest-growing industries in the United States and its investors are on Wall Street.

MAJOR CORPORATIONS BENEFITTING FROM PRISON INDUSTRY COMPLEX. [X]

• McDonalds

McDonald’s uses inmates to produce frozen foods. Inmates process beef for patties. They may also process bread, milk and chicken products.

• Wendy’s. 

Wendy’s has also been identified as relying on prison labor to reduce it’s cost of operations. Inmates also process beef for patties.

• Wal-Mart 

The company uses inmates for manufacturing purposes. The company “hires” inmates to clean products of UPC bar codes so that products can be resold.

• Starbucks

The company uses inmates to cut costs as well. Starbucks subcontractor Signature Packaging Solutions hired Washington state prisoners to package holiday coffees.

• Victoria’s Secret

The company uses inmates to cut production costs. In South Carolina, female inmates were used to sew products. Also, inmates reportedly have been used to replace “made in” tags with “Made in USA” tags.

The gnostic paradox of young, tech-savvy traditionalists, who see through everything except their own conspiracy theories Read the rest

tamorapierce:

Can I hear you say hallelujiah, brother?  Yes, I can.

“Femmeness is especially vilified because it’s seen as being connected to decadence and class-privilege. I know this from experience: if you bring five bucks to the thrift store, you can walk out with a total gem and look really good. It takes a good eye but you cultivate that from being without, like I did. You have to cultivate that skill, and you earn it by being able to feel really confident. It’s a problematic notion because it also allows men and masculine people to put on a working class aesthetic: “Look at the one flannel I wear over and over again!” This isn’t seen as performance, it’s seen as more authentic.
I experienced really fucked-up mean-girl dynamics in anarchist spaces, because there was a vying for social capital. There was really shitty and weird behavior. I’m more focused on surviving and creating a sustainable lifestyle that’s not just me crying at the end of every meeting. People were emotionally terrorizing, and I don’t think it’s any coincidence that it happened to femme women more often. In political spaces, the Left demonizes femininity because it is associated with excess – as though all of these heterosexist men would listen to us if we came into meetings looking like shit. They wouldn’t even hear us out if we didn’t look fucking fierce.”

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*screams yes at this a thousand fucking times until i pass out* 

now i know why i was so “hmmm” and then yes but also “hmmm”

 the more i think about it the more it bums me out that the idea of femmeness suzy is talking about here is so associated with having to look feminine, i don’t think that pressure is actually fair and is one of the reasons i’ve kind of slid away from identifying as femme myself. so much of femme-ness is centered around traditional passing privilege and all that stuff and it’s fucked up. there’s a lot of pressure and value placed onto specific versions of femme that i’m not into. women regardless of being femme are hardly listened to, and that’s fucked up. there is class privilege, and passing femme privilege, and conceptualizations of femininity that a lot of people don’t have access to — even as those aspects are vilified, they are also revered. it’s all so complicated!

im gonna chew on it more 

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cindymayweather:

"I just want you to know that you don’t have to be perfect. Perfection is often the enemy of greatness. You are enough no matter where you come from." (x)

bornabitch-allthedaysandnights:

trungles:

theblacksophisticate:

feminism5ever:

When people say “culture is meant to be shared” I’m literally like ???? Because that has literally never been the purpose of any culture. Culture is about identity, community and family. It’s about tradition. It is not and has never been about “sharing”.

Say it!

They keep saying “shared” when they mean “made available for my consumption.”

and boom goes the dynamite

queenofthedorks:

ursulavernon:

seananmcguire:

sizvideos:

Video

It’s almost like they’re sweet, eager-to-please dogs that are often good with children and each other if not abused by humans.  Huh.

I have been looking for a rescue dog lately, having lost our senior dog some weeks ago. Pit mixes always get a look.

(Although judging by what I’m seeing needing homes, some local genius apparently decided that the best possible crossbreeding of dog breeds was—kid you not—Boxer/St. Bernard.

I’m like “Great, you’ve made a couch that can jump on people. Go, you.” Seriously, I’ve seen like five of these, not all the from the same litter, and I am wondering if we can find these people and stage an intervention… )

In conclusion, pits.

Okay, I had to google it because I wanted to see what a boxer/st bernard cross would looked like. Apparently a St Bernard/Boxer cross is a designery type cross. They’re calling them St Berxers? Which might explain why a lot of them are being seen in rescue situations.  I have more experience with boxers than st. bernards, but I don’t understand why anyone would think it was a smart idea to cross these two breeds. They’re not bad breeds individually, but I wouldn’t want a dog with a boxer’s enthusiasm for people/leaves/other dogs/air with a st bernard’s size and power. 

…you know, it never occurred to me that this might be a widespread designer thing. Dear. God. DID THE GOLDENDOODLE TEACH US NOTHING?!

St. Berxer. Christ.

fuckyeahbiguys:

"I’m sick of how bisexuality is erased in LGBT spaces. I get really nervous before any LGBT event, especially Pride. I feel incredibly sad and hopeless when gay and lesbian people call me insulting names. If gay and lesbian people don’t understand me – Continue reading Prejudice at Pride at Empathize This

bluandorange:

all Bucky wanted to do was get some more tea and now this. Thanks a lot, Sam. You had to fuckin’ tell him, you ass.

liberalsarecool:

Conservatives lost TRILLIONS in 2008, didn’t criticize Bush once. Obama incessantly criticized everyday by Right Wingers as his policies made them all wealthy.

Via thedailyedgeontumbler

Everyone has something like this: a story their parents told them to justify something they couldn't explain or that had an answer unsatisfying to a child. In this one, a father tells an epic tale of scientific study and ravenous bears to a child wondering why she has to be quiet.

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rogitative:

animepunkchild:

immaculatellamalord:

lauriejuspeczyk:

221becquerel:

queenaglaia:

uncalmly:

silentknightley:

rookieoftheday:

Do you understand how scary this picture is

god forbid a real person do real person things he wasnt just a robot who killed people jesus fucking christ

uh yeah its not like he killed and tortured six million jews or anything

Hold on just a tick. Listen, I’m Jewish, so I’m perfectly capable of understanding that what he did was just…..well, there are no words for it. But let’s not round it up to simply Jews that got killed. It was six million people that died in those camps, not just Jews. Did you know that homosexuals were sent there, too? Yeah, I’m sure you did. They had to wear special little symbols on their clothes. Do you know what it was? It was a pink triangle.

It was six million PEOPLE. 

But you let that roll over in your mind for a while and you are going to forever see this man as a monster, but that’s not what he was. He was someone who thought he was truly doing something right for his nation, no matter how shitty he was doing it. Believe me when I say that I don’t like him. I really don’t. My grandfather’s brothers died in those camps, and my grandfather escaped to Spain, then to Mexico. He was lucky.

This is not a monster holding hands with a little girl.

This is Adolf Hitler, a man, holding hands with a little girl. 

Yeah. It’s fucking scary. It really is. Do you know why?

It’s because you’re seeing that he wasn’t, in fact, a monster. You’re seeing in this picture that he was a man. He was a man, and that’s really the saddest part of it all.

As a History major who specializes in the history of early modern Europe, I’ve studied a lot of dictators in detail, not just Hitler. The number one mistake anyone could ever make in history is making the assumption that only inhuman monsters are capable of doing terrible things.

Stop dehumanizing Hitler just so you can reassure yourself that “normal” humans aren’t capable of doing bad things. Hitler liked children and dogs, he was a vegetarian and he cried like a little boy when his mother died. I’m not saying he was a good, innocent person, but when you stop attributing human characteristics to historical figures like Hitler, it’s how you overlook people just like him in real life, and it’s how people like him end up back in power.

That last statement.

This fucking post man. I’m Jewish and damn, I only saw Hitler for what he did. But this also goes back to what Anne Frank said about how everyone has good in their hearts. She fully believed there was a bit of good in Hitler.

Oh my god. To be honest I haven’t read the whole thing but I am so fucking happy to find others who think this way too.

It’s too easy to see the villains of history as easy-to-spot monsters, and that’s what frightens me.  Everyone casts the serial killing creep as Michael Meyers.  The one you don’t see, the one who kills people who are watching for the monster, is handsome, boyish Ted Bundy.  The street boy runs along yelling for help, and along comes quiet, soft-spoken Jeffrey Dahmer, who says the kid’s just drunk, that’s all, and everyone smiles and watches Jeff take the kid back to his place to sleep it off—where Jeff kills and cooks him. 

The real world isn’t like the movies.  Monsters are people.  And some people are monsters.

sourcedumal:

What Would You Do? television show, showcases the contrast in responses to young white male criminals vs black criminals. Not only did people call the cops 10 times more to report the black vandals, but even sleeping black teenage boys were perceived to be more inherently threatening than the white teenagers who were actively vandalizing a car nearby. [Part One] [Part Two.] 

Even in the act, whiteness is given a free pass to commit crime.

White is a get out of jail free card while Blackness is always criminal, even when innocent

The scariest fact about the Disneyland measles outbreak:

tamorapierce:

fandomsandfeminism:

wocinsolidarity:

randommomentsdevida:

You don’t get vaccinated just to protect yourself. You do it to protect others.

Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.

Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.

Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.

Six of the cases were in infants too young to have been vaccinated.

"The measles vaccine is not licensed for use on babies younger than 12 months. That means that, for the first year of life, babies depend on the fact that everybody else around them gets vaccinated. This essentially creates a firewall: if other people are vaccinated, they won’t catch the disease — and won’t spread it to young children who cannot get protection.

This is what scientists call “herd immunity,” and its a huge reason we get vaccines in the first place. The shots aren’t just about protecting ourselves from measles, mumps, the flu, or other diseases. They’re about making it really hard for those who are medically frail (like the elderly) and those who can’t get the vaccine (often babies and pregnant women) to catch a disease that could be devastating to them. The vaccinated people form something like a fence around the vulnerable people, making it extra hard for the disease to come in.”

This is why everyone who CAN safely be vaccinated NEEDS to be vaccinated.

Not vaccinating for religious reasons, or because of misleading, debunked, ableist “concerns” about the “safety” of vaccines is horrific, unethical, and dangerous to everyone who comes in contact with you.

Measles is the reason I have astigmatism.  (Well, measles promptly followed by chicken pox.)  Got `em before I could get vaccinated and now I wear corrective lenses all the time.

People want to forget that these are diseases that can have permanent, negative effects on others, because “oh, vaccination is my choice.”  Well, you’re not just choosing disability, disfigurement, and possible death for your children.  You’re choosing it for the children of others.

Cut it the fuck out.

casswaterhouse:

Another life lost due to police brutality. Her name was Jessie Hernandez. She was 16. Brown. Queer. Loved. She was fatally shot by police in Denver this morning.

“A neighbor captured a video of the female suspect being searched by police after she was shot. In the video, the teen is handcuffed and rolled on her stomach and back on the ground, appearing to be searched. The girl is limp, silent and motionless as officers move her about.”

I don’t care what she was a suspect of, this is disgusting. Officers couldn’t take a petite teen girl into custody? Right. She was just a child. My thoughts are with her family.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27394478/denver-police-shoot-2-suspects-critically-injuring-one

Three similar police shootings in one year.  The earlier two “still under review.”  Three sets of suspects tried to hit the officers with a car.

Something.  Stinks.  in Big Sky Country.

I thought about this ask a LOT while I was away from my computer today.  A LOT.  Because I have always tried to be calm and cool and answer your questions respectfully, and this bothered the shit out of me.

So I am not going to be calm, and I am not going to be cool.  This is your only warning.

First off, cartoon porn has always existed.  Google “Tijuana Bible” if you’re curious.  You, too, can see Mickey Mouse fuck Olive Oyl in the ass while she sucks off Popeye and Goofy masturbates in the background.  The art’s not as good as some of what we have these days, but hell, standards change.  When I was in high school, I and a bunch of other kids in my art class had what we called the “porn sketchbook,” which was full of EXTREMELY explicit cartoon porn, showing lots of popular characters fucking each other’s brains out.

Guess what we didn’t show to six year olds?  Gosh, you’re a good guesser.  And guess what most six year olds don’t know?  Terms like “safesearchwrapup.”  The post that I reblogged, that you are now addressing me over, OPENLY EXPLAINED the search standards.  That “safe search” was on.  That the pictures showed up anyway.  And that sometimes kids will get on the internet without supervision.

I have NO FUCKING PROBLEM with cartoon porn.  I may find some of it to be in questionable taste, and I cheered when Princess Molestia was removed from the internet, but whatever.  Your kink is your kink, and your kink is okay, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone.  When your kink literally pushes little girls out of their fandom, IT IS HURTING PEOPLE.

Let’s look at a word.  The word “brony.”

I am a My Little Pony fan.  I have been since I was four.  My first ponies were Cotton Candy and Minty.  I still have them, and more than two hundred others.  I have the original cartoon on DVD.  Some of my earliest works of fiction were stories in which I got to travel over the rainbow and live in Ponyland.  I am not a newcomer to this fandom.

My Little Pony is a “girl toy,” so yeah, most of the fans I knew were girls.  But there were boy fans.  You know what we called them?  FANS.  We didn’t give them a special, gender-specific name that proved how cool they were for liking something that wasn’t made specifically to appeal to them.  WE CALLED THEM FANS.

The very term “brony” is a statement of conquest.  “This was made for girls, but we’re too cool to like it unless it’s on our masculine terms.  Our bro-terms.”  So we’re once again belittling men, because they can’t love a thing unless it’s somehow masculized.  And we’re excluding girls, because seriously.  We teach little girls FROM DAY ONE that boy things aren’t for them, and you don’t get more “this is for men” than a name that includes “bro.”  (And no, saying I can be a “pegasister” doesn’t help.  I AM NOT THE PROTAGONIST’S SISTER IN MY OWN FANDOM.)

Cartoon porn is fine in its place, but it should not be so prevalent and so poorly tagged that it takes over the search results for a children’s property.  The way the brony community has said “MLP is for us, always us, us above all others, little girls don’t count, the intent of the brand doesn’t count, the people who have loved this property since 1982 will never love it like we do, because they don’t have a special name” feels like the fannish equivalent of that old Eddie Izzard sketch about “Do you have a flaaaaaaag?”  I don’t need a flag.  I LIVE HERE.

I always have.

“So let’s be brutally honest here. The Romney-Ryan position on health care is that many millions of Americans must be denied health insurance, and millions more deprived of the security Medicare now provides, in order to save money. At the same time, of course, Mr. Romney and Mr. Ryan are proposing trillions of dollars in tax cuts for the wealthy. So a literal description of their plan is that they want to expose many Americans to financial insecurity, and let some of them die, so that a handful of already wealthy people can have a higher after-tax income.”

- Paul Krugman, “Death by Ideology” (via downlo)

“It’s amazing, the things you can get used to, that can come to seem normal. In America, it has come to seem normal that a major news organization functions as the propaganda arm of an extremist political ideology, that it spews a constant stream of racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, paranoia and manufactured outrage, and that it does so with brazen disregard for what is factual, what is right, what is fair, what is balanced — virtues that are supposed to be the sine qua non of anything calling itself a newsroom.
 
If you live with aberrance long enough, you can forget it’s aberrance. You can forget that facts matter, that logic is important, that science is critical, that he who speaks claptrap loudly still speaks claptrap — and that claptrap has no place in reasoned and informed debate. Sometimes, it takes someone from outside to hold up a mirror and allow you to see more clearly what you have grown accustomed to.”

- Why serious people discount Fox News

[Originally published January 27, 2015.]

You don’t smile enough. People don’t like you.

You smile too much. People don’t take you seriously.

You’re abrasive, for example that time when you asked for a raise. It was awkward and you made the men on the senior leadership team uncomfortable.

You don’t speak up. We’d really like to see you take on more of a leadership role before we pay you for being a leader.

You’re sloppy. Like when you sent that email with a typo. You need to proofread your work.

You’re too focused on details. Leaders need to take the 50,000-foot fighter pilot view. No, I never served in the armed forces, what’s your point?

You’re not seasoned. Oh, wait, you’re 35? Well, you look young. Maybe if you were more mature, like if you were married or had kids (why don’t you have kids, by the way? We’re all a little curious) then we could envision you as being a leader in this organization.

Oh, you do have kids? Well, we’re concerned about your ability to balance everything and you look really tired all the time and I feel guilty asking you to stay late so I just ask good old Tom who’s a great guy and simple and easy to talk to.

You’re argumentative. For example, right now you’re upset that you didn’t get a promotion and you’re asking for concrete examples of what you can do better. I really don’t want to get into the nitty-gritty and you should trust my judgment anyways.

You’re a pushover. When Tom came up and gave you that totally platonic hug in the shareholders meeting you should have just told him to not touch you instead of telling me you thought it was inappropriate. Leaders handle their own problems.

You’re not a team player. If you’d just wait a few years, there will be some great opportunities here for you, we need you in this role right now.

You aren’t good at promoting yourself. I mean, toot your own horn a little!

I’m not sexist and this organization is not sexist and I have to say you’re developing a little bit of a reputation as a troublemaker. Five years ago we promoted a woman who happens to be black –- I mean, African-American… or maybe just African, I can’t remember –- and that proves that we are tolerant and committed to diversity.

thesearchforinspirado:

mochakimono:

bohemianwaif:

And for all the people out there who want to criticize like “Why do you need two bedrooms?” or “Get a better job if you want luxuries.”

1. You’re being deliberately horrible to other people. Stop.

2. If you are a parent, you probably need a couple of bedrooms so you and your children have a place to sleep. Or maybe you aren’t a parent, you’re living with a partner or a friend or a relative who is unable to work. Same thing, you need space to sleep and call your own. Not cramming everyone into one bedroom or making someone take the couch every night isn’t really a luxury.

3. The whole idea of the minimum wage when it was first implemented was that it would be enough to support a family on one person’s wages. Food, shelter, medicine, et cetera. And now, one person’s wages can’t even cover housing for the family *anywhere in the country* let alone food or medicine or anything else.

This isn’t trivial — this means tons of people are homeless and hungry and sick. This means that they labor as long and as hard (or usually longer and harder) as everyone else and they still can’t afford a warm place for their family to sleep.

I don’t think it is at all a stretch to say that people working for minimum wage are being robbed, and that that robbery has real and violent effects on laborers and their loved ones.

so true.

Don’t forget the “two heartbeat” law in some places: two people per bedroom, regardless of age. If you’re one working person with 2-3 dependents, you can’t just live in a one-bedroom place to save money. You can’t have a bunch of roomies or a big family condensed in one apartment or even let your friends crash on the sofa. For every two people, there has to be a bedroom — even if the bedrooms aren’t used.

My family would’ve had a much easier time getting back on our feet after homelessness if we could’ve just moved into a one-bedroom place and had me sleep on the sofa — far from ideal, as OP points out, but we were willing — but it’s literally illegal here. All three of us were employed but we could hardly afford to live anywhere.

They wanted to charge us $20 extra a month at our old 1BR apartment because my husband and I lived together in it.

A tax on married people. What the superfuck?

We are finally in a 2BR but it’s still not easy to get by.