This was 1976. Big Bird understood and was wholly accepting and empathetic toward Buffy breastfeeding in public, and Big Bird is meant to be the equivalent of a preschool aged child, but every single day on social media, adults exclaim disgust toward breastfeeding in public and misogyny at the parents who do so. People, you’re less evolved than
Big Bird was 38 years ago. Grow the hell up.
holy shit. I had NO idea Sesame Street covered this topic.
And Buffy was Native American. And she breastfed. In front of muppets and children. No one died.
im not christian, but i have encountered so many transphobic christians that actually hearing someone in a position of authority in their religion actively support trans people makes me feel like maybe there is hope
Just because an artist or creator or song maker was a bad person it doesn’t mean you have to completely ignore their works. I mean, don’t listen to or read their stuff when their alive and they get profit for it.
This is gonna seem morbid but, DO IT WHEN THEIR DEAD. Then your just listening to something without a bad person getting profit for it.
Yea, David bowie was a shitty person. Doesn’t mean I’m not gonna listen to his songs. He’s dead. And his sounds were and are good. That’s how life works. There’s shit people, and there’s good people. That’d how it works. Don’t deprive yourself of a type of media because the dead person who created it was a God awful being.
Sometimes I’m reminded that in universe Chilchuck is an actually influential figure who like. Made huge advancements for his people and community. Like as in gave them rights and protections. And who is widely known by half-foots because of that. Like. He’s not just some guy.
Idk For some reason that just makes his role in canon really funny to me. Like this older, extremely important and accomplished figure is just willingly putting himself thru it for the sake of this random autistic 26 year old.
This is one of those true, declassified government things that always sounds made up but one of the things Henry Kissinger did with his career was use the CIA to help turn small, prosperous socialist nations into fascist dictatorships just to keep those nations powerless and possibly to keep socialist systems *looking* doomed and futile to the American public, like maybe just to scare Americans out of demanding better infrastructure or universal income. Yes it sounds like an insane conspiracy theory a maniac would invent. It also happened multiple times and several generations of people around the world are still living in misery because of it.
I think it’s not very good to forever categorize people into “good” or “bad” Because it closes the door to rehabilitation and improvement and two, nobody’s perfect and to live in a way where you can’t make any mistakes especially if you are young, is really stressful and puts so much pressure on you when you end up fucking up anyway. nobody should be obligated to forgive another party for their wrong doings but they should at least acknowledge that others can change with time and patience and proper help.
sometimes you people sound like light yagami and it scares the hell outta me. in my own opinion mixed with my own experiences, I think people can change, especially if they are very young and impressionable.
“Through a rapist’s eyes. A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interview…ed on what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:
1] The first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle. They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail, bun! , braid, or other hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also likely to go after a woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not common targets.
2] The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for women who’s clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry scissors around to cut clothing.
3] They also look for women using their cell phone, searching through their purse or doing other activities while walking because they are off guard and can be easily overpowered.
4] The number one place women are abducted from / attacked at is grocery store parking lots.
5] Number two is office parking lots/garages.
6] Number three is public restrooms.
7] The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a woman and quickly move her to a second location where they don’t have to worry about getting caught.
8] If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after you isn’t worth it because it will be time-consuming.
9] These men said they would not pick on women who have umbrellas,or other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in their hands.
10] Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close to the attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these guys you’re not worth it.
POINTS THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER:
1] If someone is following behind you on a street or in a garage or with you in an elevator or stairwell, look them in the face and ask them a question, like what time is it, or make general small talk: can’t believe it is so cold out here, we’re in for a bad winter. Now that you’ve seen their faces and could identify them in a line- up, you lose appeal as a target.
2] If someone is coming toward you, hold out your hands in front of you and yell Stop or Stay back! Most of the rapists this man talked to said they’d leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that she would not be afraid to fight back. Again, they are looking for an EASY target.
3] If you carry pepper spray (this instructor was a huge advocate of it and carries it with him wherever he goes,) yelling I HAVE PEPPER SPRAY and holding it out will be a deterrent.
4] If someone grabs you, you can’t beat them with strength but you can do it by outsmarting them. If you are grabbed around the waist from behind, pinch the attacker either under the arm between the elbow and armpit or in the upper inner thigh – HARD. One woman in a class this guy taught told him she used the underarm pinch on a guy who was trying to date rape her and was so upset she broke through the skin and tore out muscle strands the guy needed stitches. Try pinching yourself in those places as hard as you can stand it; it really hurts.
5] After the initial hit, always go for the groin. I know from a particularly unfortunate experience that if you slap a guy’s parts it is extremely painful. You might think that you’ll anger the guy and make him want to hurt you more, but the thing these rapists told our instructor is that they want a woman who will not cause him a lot of trouble. Start causing trouble, and he’s out of there.
6] When the guy puts his hands up to you, grab his first two fingers and bend them back as far as possible with as much pressure pushing down on them as possible. The instructor did it to me without using much pressure, and I ended up on my knees and both knuckles cracked audibly.
7] Of course the things we always hear still apply. Always be aware of your surroundings, take someone with you if you can and if you see any odd behavior, don’t dismiss it, go with your instincts. You may feel little silly at the time, but you’d feel much worse if the guy really was trouble.
FINALLY, PLEASE REMEMBER THESE AS WELL ….
1. Tip from Tae Kwon Do: The elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it, do it.
2. Learned this from a tourist guide to New Orleans : if a robber asks for your wallet and/or purse, DO NOT HAND IT TO HIM. Toss it away from you…. chances are that he is more interested in your wallet and/or purse than you and he will go for the wallet/purse. RUN LIKE MAD IN THE OTHER DIRECTION!
3. If you are ever thrown into the trunk of a car: Kick out the back tail lights and stick your arm out the hole and start waving like crazy. The driver won’t see you but everybody else will. This has saved lives.
4. Women have a tendency to get into their cars after shopping,eating, working, etc., and just sit (doing their checkbook, or making a list, etc. DON’T DO THIS! The predator will be watching you, and this is the perfect opportunity for him to get in on the passenger side,put a gun to your head, and tell you where to go. AS SOON AS YOU CLOSE the DOORS , LEAVE.
5. A few notes about getting into your car in a parking lot, or parking garage:
a. Be aware: look around your car as someone may be hiding at the passenger side , peek into your car, inside the passenger side floor, and in the back seat. ( DO THIS TOO BEFORE RIDING A TAXI CAB) .
b. If you are parked next to a big van, enter your car from the passenger door. Most serial killers attack their victims by pulling them into their vans while the women are attempting to get into their cars.
c. Look at the car parked on the driver’s side of your vehicle, and the passenger side. If a male is sitting alone in the seat nearest your car, you may want to walk back into the mall, or work, and get a guard/policeman to walk you back out. IT IS ALWAYS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. (And better paranoid than dead.)
6. ALWAYS take the elevator instead of the stairs. (Stairwells are horrible places to be alone and the perfect crime spot).
7. If the predator has a gun and you are not under his control, ALWAYS RUN! The predator will only hit you (a running target) 4 in 100 times; And even then, it most likely WILL NOT be a vital organ. RUN!
8. As women, we are always trying to be sympathetic: STOP IT! It may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane, or a limp, and often asked “for help” into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted his next victim.
Send this to any woman you know that may need to be reminded that the world we live in has a lot of crazies in it and it’s better safe than sorry.
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REBLOG THIS AND LET EVERY GIRL KNOW AT LEAST PEOPLE WILL KNOW WHATS GOING ON IN THIS WORLD. So please reblog this….Your one reblog can Help to spread this information.
The year is 2042. Your daughter is awkwardly silent as she eats her dinner. “Something wrong sweetie?” She sighs and puts down her fork. “I was digging really deep in AO3 last night…Why didn’t you finish that coffee shop au?” It happened. Your past has come back to haunt you. Nay, it never truly left.
U CANNOT OUTRUN UR CRIME
OKAY BUT WAIT. This has happened to me. Recently. Because I am old and I have things out there from previous fandoms with previous pseuds and one day my teenager begins a rant at me about people never finishing any WIPs on the pit of voles (which he does not call the pit of voles because he has No Knowledge of such a thing but yet he still reads on which I didn’t think anyone did any longer) and he points out an example to me of something I WROTE AND LEFT WIPing for ages and he has NO IDEA #1 that his mom wrote this and #2 How much it still haunts me to this day that it will. sit. there. for. eternity. because I am too lazy to pull it down.
I think it’s not very good to forever categorize people into “good” or “bad” Because it closes the door to rehabilitation and improvement and two, nobody’s perfect and to live in a way where you can’t make any mistakes especially if you are young, is really stressful and puts so much pressure on you when you end up fucking up anyway. nobody should be obligated to forgive another party for their wrong doings but they should at least acknowledge that others can change with time and patience and proper help.
sometimes you people sound like light yagami and it scares the hell outta me. in my own opinion mixed with my own experiences, I think people can change, especially if they are very young and impressionable.
LGBT activists have been vocal about intersex issues for several decades, because establishing the legal right to bodily autonomy for intersex persons is basically inseparable from establishing the right of trans persons to that same legal autonomy over their own bodies. many intersex persons prefer not to be grouped together with LGBT causes; however, the vast majority of LGBT activists would agree that performing “corrective” surgery on intersex infants - to force them to adhere to a largely fictional gender binary - is pretty fucking evil.
[Image IDs: a series of tweets from #EndIntersexSurgery (@/ Pidgejen) reading: Anyways, let’s start with what I thought I once knew about myself. When I was 18, I discovered I wasn’t like other girls. My medical records read “male pseudo-hermaphrodite 46 XY” & other BS terminology that pathologized my healthy/beautiful intersex body.
I discovered then that I had been diagnosed with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome (PAIS); my XY body couldn’t fully utilize androgens (like T) and so I developed mostly like a typical female person externally.
For me, this meant I had a somewhat “ambiguous” looking body (aka a non-binary body) and the doctors performed 3 unnecessary cosmetic surgeries to make me look more like a “normal girl”
Not to mention, they lied to me about All Of This and then forced me to take Premarin (a low does of estrogen made from extracting the hormone from a pregnant mare’s urine (horse face emoji, crying face emoji)
Anyways, I got in touch with a new endocrinologist recently thanks to my therapist at @/ RuchMedical who suggested I see him.
He did something no other doctor had ever done. He asked me if he could see my medical records, all of them, and then took time to read of them.
He even reached out to other experts in his field when he was confused by something.
Wow, We love humility in medicine.
Anyways, he ended up suspecting something is up and that perhaps my PAIS diagnosis is wrong.
He then orders me a genetic (dna emoji) test. Thanks to covid it took almost half a year to get the results, but a month or so ago I got them back.
Turns out, I don’t have PAIS. I actually have something else known as NR-5A1. Now this is big news mostly because 1. It supports my thesis that docs who deal with intersex kids don’t know shit…
And 2. P/AIS intersex folks are believed to not be able to utilize androgens and wo we’re often only given estrogen (never T), forcibly “feminized” with fucked up “cosmetic” surgeries, and forcibly assigned female.
Doing what they did to me was fucked up enough, but now realizing that they didn’t even have the diagnosis right—and that I *can* utilize androgens—is fucking infuriated beyond belief.
We need to #EndIntersexSurgery y'all like yesterday. /End IDs]
More people need to hear this
You can’t change someone’s body without their consent
People need to get over the “b-b-bwut their not canonnn!1! 🥺🥺🥺” Bullshit before I throw fanfics of two characters from entirely different generas at them like GROW UPPP WHO GIVES A SHIT IF THEY HAVEN’T EVEN MET THATS WHY ITS CALLED CRACKSHIPPING
Okay but this is serious, I work in retail and I had a lady come up and ask for 2 $500 Google play gift cards. We have been trained to look for these scams and to warn the customers NEVER give the card numbers over the phone unless you have met this person face to face. I told the lady this and she started crying, saying they were the IRS and that if she hung up they would call the police and have her arrested. They wanted to keep her on the phone so she couldn’t call her husband, who was more aware of how the IRS works. I was able to convince her to hang up and call the police on *them* instead, and saved her $500.
Scams are serious, people lose a lot of money and older people are targeted the worst because they’re easy targets.
First of all, the IRS will *never* call you and ask for money, and they definitely won’t call the cops on you. They’ll get your money if they really want it through taxes.
But now they’re trying to target our generation using crypto, which is super hard to trace if the money gets lost. So they’re getting smarter, and they’ll use whatever they can to get you to give them money.
What you really need to know or take away from this is: NEVER, and I mean EVER, buy a gift card and give the barcode number on the back to someone over the phone. It is ALWAYS, 100%, a scam!
Please be safe and hang up on these fuckers the second they ask you to buy a gift card.
More pertinent to the 18-to-35 crowd are employment scams. I don’t mean in the stolen wages or unpaid labor of capitalism, either. In the past couple years, there has been a massive boom in listings for exploitative, nonexistent, and occasionally illegal “job opportunities”. Worst of all, you may never be paid for a second of it.
Generally,“if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is” are wise guiding words for any opportunity you stumble across. Some things to look out for are:
Ambiguous requirements/description – This doubles as a scam and toxic workplace red flag. Job listings should include an overview of responsibilities, and ideal candidate descriptions. Legitimate employers who can’t communicate that won’t get better if you’re hired.
Fees and “investments” – Job applications do not cost money, and employees are never personally responsible for the purchase of stock, investment, etc. These can both be one-off scams, or a hook into a multi-level marketing scheme.
Carrot on a stick – Compensation does not include the potential of earning later. Be especially wary of introductory pay lasting months or time frame specific raise “opportunities”. There’s a good chance they have a high turnover, and are running out the clock on cheap labor.
Travel without compensation – This is another dual scam/toxic workplace red flag. If travel is a requirement, you should be compensated for the time and cost. If the position is not transport, investigative, or administrative-related, travel requirements are also generally worth interrogation.
Limited staff – With some exceptions, oh my god, be suspicious of any job offer where you’ll be the only employee. Even with small businesses, they should be upfront about the pressure, have a contingency plan for when you’re unable to come in, and can demonstrate the ability to be professional and managerial.
I’m sure there are other warning signs, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Just stay vigilant, y'all!
yeah I got scammed by a fake rental listing, they apparently just take application fees and never rent the place out. I think it’s still up to this day.
fake rentals can also be a duplicated rental listing where they list a house that’s not actually for rent on craigslist and then you, who are moving in from out of town, send them your deposit and your first month’s rent only to discover that somebody else lives in “your” house the instant you show up and your fake landlord has disappeared.
anyways, don’t try to rent a place without checking it out first, and even then, we wary of weird vibes.
Asexuals who still enjoy sex are just as valid as sex repulsed or sex indifferent asexuals
Aromantic folks who still crave romance are just as valid as romance repulsed or romance indifferent aros
Aroace folks who want to be with people outside of being friends are equally as valid as aroace folks who do not want to be in a relationship with anyone
Alloaros and alloaces are just as valid as aroace folks and we should not be excluding them from the aspec community
Agender people are part of the aspec community and we should not neglect agender folks in favor of acespec/arospec folks
Just so like… it’s clear… anyone who censors words that contain “man” or “men” to anything like “xxn” that’s TERF shit.
Any reference to women/womanhood that solely revolves around having a uterus or “womb” is TERF shit.
Any sentence where the OP says they support people being “trans identified” with quotes around “"transwomen”“ or ”“transmen”“ is TERF shit.
I’m seeing a lot of you baby Tumblr gays out there not knowing what these specific TERF dogwhistles look like.
"Wombxxn” is an incredibly dumb way of spelling “woman” that treats the word “man” like a slur and also reduces women to their ability to give birth.
“Trans identified” is their way of saying “this person calls themselves trans, but I don’t believe they are.”
Saying “People should be allowed to identify however they wish, but we still need to protect women/children” IS TERF SHIT.
Learn to identify this garbage, because not all TERFs are going to spell out their intolerance for you. Some of them are going to try and seem reasonable and polite and normal, and it’s fucking dangerous to our community.
Also unpack any internalized transphobia and your transmedicalism, because both those things will have you quickly siding with TERFs and bigots.
Hey, guess what? You’re allowed to identify as something and then later identify as something else. It doesn’t make you a liar or a fraud or an idiot. It’s fine. It’s okay. People change and grow and their understandings of themselves change and grow too. That’s life. Don’t sweat it.
It’s okay to identify as gay and then later as bi or as bi and then later as gay. It’s okay to identify as aro and then later realise you do experience romantic attraction. It’s okay to change what name you use or what pronouns you use three hundred times. It’s okay and you’re always welcome in my community. Be kind to yourself and give yourself grace.
i think that trans lesbians generally dont enter the queer community until they start transition; if you think youre a Straight Man, the undefined malaise of queerness that follows you as an egg is often (not always!) not enough to go “oh im ace” or “oh im nonbinary” and join your high school gsa. Instead you drift around Male Nerd groups until youre exposed to the idea that trans women are Normal People You Can Be and not disgusting sex objects
this explains a few things;
why trans lesbians have some distance from the queer community and dont have as much connection with cis queers as say, many transmascs or many straight transfems- she probably never spent time in drag communities because theyre mostly a space for people who like men.
and also why trans women are so protective of the idea of “egg cracking”; a “straight boy” who quietly wishes “he” was a woman isnt going to seek out tme-dominated queer spaces and start exploring labels, (which i understand is often the case for people who settle on a gay transmasc identity) “he” might need another trans woman to extend her hand.
So like just to clarify! This is more me noticing trends and not me drawing hard rules! If you are a transbian but had a different experience, I see you and I love you. If you are NOT a trans lesbian but DID have a similar experience, I see you and I love you!
And to the dozen or so girls in the notes saying something like “this is a scarily accurate description of my life”, I see you, I love you, and I am offering you a big long tight hug because you are a sister to me.
A pottery bowl with human feet. I love this silly thing. The Met says it resembles the hieroglyph meaning “to bring”, though (amateur theory warning) I’ve always wondered if it was meant to spell wab, “to wash”.
cant have sex with my IOS wife because my dick doesn’t fit her portussy so now i have to go to the shitfuck apple store and buy the like 200 dollar strapple
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