On a Xylonite Sea

invisincere:

marvelousreality:
gaylor-moon:
invisincere:
when someone says “now that he’s a girl” about a trans girl
jfc I love this trend of positive affirmations
It’s weirdly Orwellian. When you have someone who has for much of their life identified as a man and was born male, it is weird to pretend that was never the case, to rewrite history. There are lots of transwomen who did not believe themselves to be women for many years so by either the standard of self-identification or biology they were not what you would now claim they always were.
trans person: hey, pls stop misgendering me !! thx !!!
some weirdo on the internet: what is this dystopian nightmare ??!!?!!!!??????? 😮😮😮

Orwellian in the sense of rewriting personal history in a way that requires you to simultaneously hold two contradictory ideas.

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Younger generations failing to pick up where parents left off when it comes to charitable giving

stopmakingliberalslookbad:

allthecanadianpolitics:
Why do millennials act as if they’re the only ones with money woes or the only ones who were affected by the recession? Do you know who is especially hurting right now? The Baby Boomers and the elderly. Funny how they don’t seem to have a problem donating, despite being on fixed incomes.
This is one of the many reasons that I’m so insistent on being referred to as an Xennial. Millennial victim complexes are so embarrassing.

One of the things that most perplexes me on tumblr is this idea that elderly people are all super wealthy and powerful, and can’t possibly understand the hardships of millenials because things were so great for them. As if elderly people aren’t one of the most vulnerable groups in society, often live in poverty, and grew up in living conditions that would be unimaginable to young people today.

(Source: cbc.ca)

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gaylor-moon:

invisincere:
when someone says “now that he’s a girl” about a trans girl
jfc I love this trend of positive affirmations

It’s weirdly Orwellian. When you have someone who has for much of their life identified as a man and was born male, it is weird to pretend that was never the case, to rewrite history. There are lots of transwomen who did not believe themselves to be women for many years so by either the standard of self-identification or biology they were not what you would now claim they always were.

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barbucomedie:

Combed Morion Helmet of a Guard of the Elector of Saxony dated to 1580 on display at the Wallace Collection in London
The Trabanten Guard of the Elector of Saxony were decorated in ornate armour and uniforms to show off the wealth of the Electors.
Photographs taken by myself

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vr4300:

marvelousreality:
Okay, but there’s a lot of work involved in getting clean drinking water to people’s homes, it doesn’t’ just magically teleport itself into your tap. The people who do that work need to be paid wages don’t they? And maintenance and infrastrcture needs to be funded doesn’t it? So one way or another we have to pay for water, whether it’s directly or indirectly.
Have you ever heard of this concept called “taxes”

If you fund something through taxes you’re still paying for it, “free at the point of use” isn’t the same thing as “free”.

(Source: mysharona1987)

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Okay, but there’s a lot of work involved in getting clean drinking water to people’s homes, it doesn’t’ just magically teleport itself into your tap. The people who do that work need to be paid wages don’t they? And maintenance and infrastrcture needs to be funded doesn’t it? So one way or another we have to pay for water, whether it’s directly or indirectly.

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fuzzy-honeybee:

I’m feeling very fucking fired up tonight because yet again trans people are gonna be robbed of positive Hollywood representation by yet another well-known cisgender actor.

A leading role in a film is neither a right nor a gift bestowed by film makers. Studios hire actors who they think will draw a audience, and Scarlet Johanson will draw a large audience. Much can be done with makeup and costume and the effect may turn out to be very convincing.

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Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk.

Henry Jenkins
(via mysharona1987)

That’s such a strange gloss to put on it, do you believe that every book/film constitutes a contemporary myth the authorial control of which belongs to the public?

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effeminnate:

effeminnate:
threefeline:
floozys:
gothhabiba:
femoids:
My dad’s a lawyer shorts meet my dad’s a CEO
these are… “I’m in a fraternity at an Ivy League and think it gives me the right to talk to people however I want” shorts
these are “I rate women on a scale of 1 to 10” shorts
these shorts say “I want to be unexpected and daring, but not unexpected and daring enough to wear something that’s actually shaped substantively differently than the 37 pairs of khaki shorts & Ralph Lauren polo shirts that I chill at my country club in, along with my boating shoes and the Rolex that my dad gave me upon graduation from high school that, as I will tell anyone who will listen, is real”
these shorts say “in elementary school I was in the habit of meeting taunts of ‘my daddy could beat your daddy up’ with the response ‘my daddy could buy your daddy’ and I still get the occasional impulse to say that but it’s not really socially acceptable at this age so I expect these shorts to get that message across for me”
these shorts say “I’m straight and I expect it to be obvious enough that I’m straight that I can get away with wearing these, please sleep with me”
just wear some booty shorts like everyone else you miserable cowards
none of that accurate this is a look
literally do any of these men look straight to you
Also you can buy those shorts at their website, hologram city
this is literally from this gay ass music video by cazwell, a gay rapper lmaoo. i….dont get how yall see this shit as str8 but it isnt and its rly obnoxious assuming that it was lol 🙄🙄🙄
how yall r rn

What an idiotic exchange this is, how desperate is tumblr to put people in boxes.

They’re jusy silly-looking shorts. They don’t actually say anything about the substance of the people wearing them.

(Source: jeffbezosdivorcelawyer)

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the-gaminggoblin:

antiqeel:
paul-danka-memes:
commodus-the-great:
moscateaux:
blackness-by-your-side:
waiting for people to call them the “Friends of Pompeii”
Let them be gay!
It was actually very common for people in Italy, and even Greece, in that time period to be gay or bisexual. The armies would let men find same sex lovers to fight along side during war, because they believed they’d fight harder if they were fighting with the one they loved. Many of those relationships were still kept after battles.
gays?!?!?!??! A MODERN IDEA NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE EVER
Gay’s!?!? In my history!?!?! It’s more likely than you think…

Couple of things:

1. People have always had homosexual sex but they didn’t think of their sexuality in the same terms we do. The ancient Greeks thought there were periods in a man’s life when he should be having relationships with men and periods when he should be having relationships with women. The big delineation for the Romans was between giving and receiving and they were less concerned about the sex of those involved. In some cultures pederasty and/or paedophilia would be embedded as part of these relationships.

None of these things exactly match up with our modern concept of gay/straight/bi. People in the past engaged in the same acts we do but thought of them in very different ways and understanding their cultures requires us to be open to these nuances. If you’re genuinely interested in this stuff you’d be better off trying to understand the context rather than going for a glib one-liner.

2. The bodies found at Pompeii certainly could be lovers but that’s purely conjecture. Two men facing death huddling together doesn’t necessarily mean they were in a relationship.

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muchymozzarella:

T'challa is a Good Male Protagonist ™ mainly because he is humble and without the ego you see from so so many other male protagonists in blockbuster films
He defers to the wisdom of his mother, his sister, his general, his love, the women around him. He was a sweet and loving son who expressed and enjoyed physical and emotional tenderness from his father.
He’s proud but doesn’t ever disrespect anybody. He values family, affection and emotion and expresses it freely, but still retains the poise of a king.
That’s kind of rare in a lot of the mostly white, mostly male Hollywood protagonist lineup.

What a death sentence it would be for art if everyone strived to create Good Male Protagonists. Do you really believe that fictional characters should exist to embody admirable traits? Drama comes from flaws.

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scientificradfem:

A friendly reminder that you get cravings before your period because your BMR (the amount of calories you burn per day) increases. Don’t hate yourself for craving food, it’s your body telling you it needs more because its about to reconstruct the lining of an organ.

BMR increase leading up to period is pretty modest, between 5 and 10 percent, and likely has more to do with hormonal changes than directly replenishing the endometrium. After all the body is replacing cells constantly.

There is a danger here that people may over compensate for what is a pretty slight change to nutritional needs.

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So sick of these cynical pseudo-apologies. You can’t have an apology without an admission. To say “I’m sorry but I have no recollection of that” or “I’m sorry but many of the allegations are untrue” is meaningless. If you’re sorry admit what you’re sorry for. If you don’t believe you did anything wrong then don’t apologise.

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aint-no-holla-batgirl:

marvelousreality:
You get off on pretending to rape little boys with toy rabbits to…teach them a lesson?
Dude, what? The plot of the episode is that Eddie, the son, mistakes an anti-harassment psa in their house for porn and shows his friends. They, thinking they’re being cool and adult act out the harassment examples on female classmates. They don’t really get it and the entire episode is other adults trying to explain the issues to them while tiptoeing around explaining sex. She gives him the talk and uses this as a metaphor for consent so he understands it even if he still doesn’t get the idea of sex.

I feel, based on the language you’ve used and the context here that the issue you find is in it being gendered and playing into the ‘teach boys not to rape’ camp? If that’s the case, whole not ideal I still think it’s extreme to describe it as you have. And I also think it’s still a good message, just one I wish wasn’t unintentionally caught up in gendered trappings.

Regardless it’s uncalled for to accuse me of getting off to pretending to rape little boys, or of pedophilia as you have it tagged. You clearly don’t think I’m a rapist or a sexual pervert or something because you continued to like my posts, haven’t blocked or unfollowed me-so I am confused as to why you would say such things.

I don’t know the TV show this is from, I’m talking about what I’m seeing which is what appears to be an adult acting out grinding on a little boy who looks to be about 11 or 12.

There might be issues with gendering consent messages and “teaching not to rape” but my problem here is physically what’s being done. The dialogue suggests that I’m meant to be cheering on the person simulating raping a child for teaching the little boy a lesson. It is fucked up. What am I missing here? How is this not completely fucked up?

I am not accusing you of being a paedophile, I am asking what the appeal of these images is for the people rebloging it. Is it meant to be funny? Is it meant to be sick? Or, as I think you’ve confirmed, is it meant to be a triumphant moment where a child “learns their lesson” by having rape simulated on them.

But yeah, the tag is not inaccurate, if you try this particular teaching exercise in real life you belong in prison. If you still don’t get it imagine the genders of the two people in this scene being reversed.

(Source: kalingly)

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