Are you angry that protesters are burning or stomping the American flag?
Good news. I have a solution. Just look the other way, like you do with the injustices that caused the protesters to burn or stomp the flag in the first place.
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thinking about just. hacking off all my hair
i like that it’s long but i don’t do anything with it and it keeps getting caught on stuff/dragged into food/etc. i mean, it grows back; the only reason it’s so long now is b/c i’ve been putting off a haircut for like…. four years now
also if it’s short i can dye it again waaaaay more easily. i liked having purple hair it was fun
I’ve been thinking of it too, but not so much because I want ultra short hair but because it’s a mess and I want to start over.
I would consider a short cut first, maybe kinda like I have, with a front part long? You can still donate quite a bit that way, and it can be a middle step. I’d like to be cool and brave and just chop it all off but the reality is probably that I would really struggle with my self image. (Also if I’m gonna go it it should not be in winter…)
As someone who went from having thick, curly hair down to her boobs to a #4 done with clippers, I totally encourage anyone thinking of going for a drastic cut to just go for it. It’s hella liberating.
Honestly, it’s irresponsible to treat Trump supporters in any way that suggests their actions and views are excusable. The ones you know, shame in both public and private. Shun them. Large-scale social enforcement works. Bigots’ going unrebuked is why we’re in this mess.
The deluge of desperate, whining pleas from so many Trump supporters circulating right now to not “bully” them, to extend them respect as though they didn’t just vote to strip it alongside actual, tangible rights away from masses of people, essentially to coddle their consciences and pretend their vote wasn’t a vote for injustice itself—this is evidence that enforcing accountability via social means WORKS, and plenty of these assholes are indeed afraid of it.
Could you specify what rights that Trump has threatened?
Yeah, sure.
“Sealioning is the name given to a specific, pervasive form of aggressive cluelessness, that masquerades as a sincere desire to understand.
A Sealion is a person who, when confronted with a fact that they don’t care to acknowledge, say, the persistence of systemic racism in America, will ask endlessly for ‘proof’ and insist that it is the other person’s job to stop everything they are doing and address the issue to their satisfaction.
Sealions are just ‘asking nicely’ but they are asking questions that have been asked and answered fully many times, and are unwilling to so much as open a tab to look up the answer, nor will they recognize the validity of your sources, your experience or expertise.”
— Erica Friedman
THERE’S A WORD FOR IT.
THANK YOU TUMBLR.
the worst part of getting out of bed is losing all the heat you had built up
Walkers With the Dawn by Brian Day
“Walkers With the Dawn”, is centered around the epidemic of residential fires in the Metro Detroit area. Rather than focusing on the literal fire, the series aims to document the emotion and resilience of both the firefighters as well as the residents, who soldier on in spite of challenges. Brian Day, a street photographer based in Detroit, Michigan.
I wish I wish
With all my heart
TO FUCKING PASS MY CLASSES AND FINALS
if u weren’t aware of salvation army’s homophobia, its prety hardcore
a guy in a salvos truck yelled at me and my gf while we were kissing today so I was thinking of this
Do you know, when I was in high-school I went to the mall near my house with my girlfriend to do some Christmas shopping.
We were there, sixteen year old me and seventeen year old her, holding hands and window-shopping, minding our own business.
This Salvation Army shitheel gets aggro about it in the middle of the mall and I’m there totally flabbergasted cause like, it’s christmas
Only, 16!Tabi had even less composure than 26!Tabi, so I lost my fucking mind on her.
Thing is: when I’m really angry, I don’t rage, I go all cold and apparently that freaks people out, because I could see my gf backing up and the lady getting tense and then I realized that anger doesn’t solve problems.
So instead, I started wailing.
Picture this: 5’4, tiny, blonde haired high school girl with her little violin on her back and pearls in her ears just as PTA-approved as could be, full on sobbing in the hallway.
Just, sobbing like my dog’s been shot.
Now my gf’s like, “oh fuck” and the lady’s like “oh fuuuuck!” and I’m here, head thrown back, tears down my cheeks and in that shrill, distressed, /loud/ voice, “WHY WOULD YOU B-b-be so MEAN?! It’s CHRISTMAS!”
And the lady’s like “please stop Oh fuck” because now we have a crowd, and this Molly Weasley of a woman putters over, “what’s the matter, dear?”
And mall security’s coming and this bell ringer is looking very uncomfortable so I just look at this matronly ellen-watching suburban housewife lady, eyes wide and wet and my lip wobbling.
“I was, she s-said, s-s-she said I was going to HELL!”
And I burst right back into tears.
Maaaaaaaan, they didn’t even stick around to ask why she’d said it. Soon as I said it, Mall po-po bounced her like a fucking pogo stick.
We get outside and my girlfriend’s like “that is the most Slytherin thing I have ever seen anyone do.”
It was four years before I saw the Army back in that mall.
that is beautiful
Holiday reminder: don’t let anyone get away with trying to make you feel bad about yourself.
things to normalise
- gay parents
- female masturbation
- guys showing emotion
- they/them pronouns-periods
-women in positions of power
-gender neutrality
-adoption-breast feeding
-men supporting each other emotionally
-men being feminine
-women being masculine
-people wearing whatever they want regardless of gender