i know yall like calling tumblr the gay communism website but i don’t really think it has earned that title considering how common it is to be accused of being a psyop for opinions as mild as “maybe war is bad” and “the US electoral system might not be infallible”
When Barbie looks at her creator and asks to become human, and Ruth tells her “you don’t need my permission” and tells her to just feel it. The idea that you look at your god and say “can I change please” and they say back “you don’t need to ask me to change, all you have to do is feel what you are.” My trans little heart sang.
I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.
When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day.
Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.
Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.
Makes me happy to see people learn about the culture of my country :D
Also, please remember that the idea of a nomadic or semi-nomadic culture being “less intelligent”, “less civilized” (and please unpack that word) was invented by people who wanted to make a graph where they were on the top.
Societies that functioned without 1) staying exclusively in one location or 2) having to make complicated, difficult-to-construct tools to go about their daily lives… were not somehow less valid than others.
“The paradox of conservatism is they want being normal to be punk. They want to rebel against authority while being the ones in power. They want to be rugged individuals and they think everyone should be the same as them. They want to overcome adversity while staying in the majority.” -@innuendostudios on twitter
I don’t hate Christians. I just don’t agree with their lifestyle or choices.
I have a little niece to look out for, you know. If she sees Christians yelling at people for existing, how am I supposed to explain that to her? Do I just tell her some people legitimately believe people who disagree with them deserve torture? What kind of a world is that to grow up in?
I don’t hate Christians. I just don’t agree with their lifestyle or choices.
I have a little niece to look out for, you know. If she sees Christians yelling at people for existing, how am I supposed to explain that to her? Do I just tell her some people legitimately believe people who disagree with them deserve torture? What kind of a world is that to grow up in?
in a world where people simply want to be who they are without being apologetic, there will always be people who bring others down. it sometimes feels like the world is more accepting of peoples sexuality, but that’s sadly not the case. in just 2022, over 60 countries around the world made lgbtq+ relationships/ marriages illegal and according to NBC, almost 670 homophobic bills have been passed since 2018. even on social media, random strangers will be harassed and bullied in comment sections by cyberbullies simply for being openly apart of the lgbtq* community. it happens so often that it’s become essentially normalized, when people say it’s a joke but it’s clearly just being a bully. during pride month people literally tore down target lgbtq+ section in my city because they believed it was wrong to be gay, that it was a bad thing. STOP LGBTQ+ HATE!! THEY ARE PEOPLE WITH FEELINGS AND IT DOESNT MAKE THEM ANY LESS OF A PERSON.
“All squares are quadrilaterals” does not mean “All quadrilaterals are squares” is equally true, because newsflash! That’s not how shit works, even in fucking math! But clearly, someone wasn’t paying attention in math class.
btw an important figure in feminist history being a trans man does not erase their importance or significance because trans men are also oppressed by the patriarchy. trans men’s defiance against misogyny is not somehow less radical because they aren’t a woman. feminism has gotta stop clinging to woman-identity as the most important thing wrt anti-patriarchal action
idk man i think that if you can read dozens and dozens of trans men talking about how their support systems abandoned them when they started getting too masculine on T or had top surgery or whatever, and queer spaces started treating them like threats or potential predators, and you find these stories going back to the 90s or even earlier, and you read all of that and come away thinking that there’s nothing wrong with how progressive communities treat men, you are just fundamentally beyond help dude. you don’t see us as people
It’s so crazy how “Don’t feed the trolls” was like the Motto of the internet & in forum culture of the 00s and early 10s and now you log onto a certain website and it’s just an endless sea of people pouring gruel into the troll trough day in day out and no one seems to realize or care that their internet experience being a constant deluge of misery and bad faith discussion might in fact be their own fault
But they don’t want to fight sex trafficking. They want an excuse to go after every marginalized group they can demonize by suggesting or outright accusing said groups of being sexual deviants who all love the idea of sex trafficking. Point out that such claims is ludicrous? That just gets you accused of defending sex trafficking. And nobody wants to look like they’re defending sex trafficking, right?
(Sometimes they say “pedophilia” instead of “sex trafficking”, which is even more transparently not what they actually care about, given how many people in the same political party are fighting to make sure that they can continue to marry 14-year-old girls in the states that still allow that.)
y'all are really gonna say 40 year olds can’t date 25 year olds while milf stocks are at an all time high, huh? while mommy kink is blowing up hugely? you make me sick.
this post is going to make me throw up hes a board hes flat theres nothing there why would you make an edit of this concave ass im sick of tumblr i hate all of you
How is bnha anime of the decade…… they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second
The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em
1969………
Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.
something i wish i had realized earlier: you can write poems on the same subject more than once. you can write, paint, draw the same thing over and over if you want to. you can spend your whole life making art about oranges. i think i always felt this pressure to get it right the first time like i couldn’t go back and use that inspiration again. but you can. you can go back and revisit it. you can pick up the conversation again and again if you have more to say.
just experienced a friend saying I had his “bode of confidence” and then quietly losing his mind when we finally figured out that he’d thought that was how the expression “vote of confidence” went for his entire 30+ years of life
this is extra funny because he’s a very well-spoken individual otherwise but also I, a chronic tumblr user, was immediately like BODE???
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