it’s so weirdly common to be rude to people who need subtitles or want subtitles as if it’s some kind of nuisance to have subtitles, but honestly? normalize having subtitles on everything. overall it can help people with language barriers who can read better than they can listen to a language, it helps people with comprehension issues, it helps people who have trouble hearing, it helps in general so whatever you’re watching isn’t interrupted by someone asking what someone just said, just put subtitles on! what the hell!
look, I’m Belgian, we put subtitles under everything instead of overdubbing and lemme tell you if a whole nation can survive that without whinging, so can you.
This is a thing I love about movies in Switzerland!
And I hate that movies and TV in Spain don’t do it! Everything is always better in the original language and subtitles than it is dubbed!
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This picture deserves its own post.
So dashing.
it’s always so funny learning about the Great Depression in grade school cuz they don’t ever talk about how latinx and Hispanic people were lowkey deported to Mexico even if they weren’t Mexican and how the depression was literally twice as worse for black people who were the first fired and last hired. like educators always report these tragedies by how they impacted whites UNLESS you are in a class like AA studies or something.
This is the truth. The experiences of poc have been outright erased from history in US public education. The white experience is labeled as universal in order to cover up white crimes and to keep white kids ignorant so that we uphold white supremacy throughout our lives.
just do it
“Hillary Clinton has certainly lived the impact of these stereotypes about women and power. Her likability, or lack thereof, is a regular topic of discussion and concern. She was too liberal before she was too conservative; she’s too loud when she speaks, but she’s also too boring; she was too moralistic, and now she’s too cynical. As long as she’s running for office, it seems there’s no ‘just right’ for voters’ perceptions of Clinton. And once she actually holds office, she’s low-key, a collaborator and supporter of others, rarely quick to claim credit – which is perhaps why, despite being a hugely effective senator and a Secretary of State who handled important work quietly, she doesn’t often get the same recognition as her male peers. ‘I’m the girl who did the whole lab project and organized the whole group presentation,’ wrote Alexandra Petri in a Washington Post piece humorously describing what Real Talk speech from Hillary would sound like. ‘And then let Chad give the speech.’”
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Jill Filipovic, Hillary Clinton’s Nomination Is a Victory for the Smart Girls, Cosmopolitan
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(via morgan-leigh)
srsly, i don’t know if younger voters really appreciate how much she was demonized for being an emasculating leftist harpy before she was rebranded as a corporate lackey
(via cacchieressa)
start holding your boyfriends to best friend standards pls
“my boyfriend was annoyed that I didn’t shave for days” vs “my best friend was annoyed that I didn’t shave for days”
“my boyfriend doesn’t like my haircut so I’m growing it out again” vs “my best friend doesn’t like my haircut so I’m growing it out again”
“my boyfriend hates when I wear makeup so I guess I have to stop” vs “my best friend hates when I wear makeup so I guess I have to stop”
if your boyfriend would leave you for something that your best friend wouldn’t care about, KILL THEM AND EAT THEM
Lmfao
true tho because people forget having a partner is literally just having another best friend with a slightly different intimacy thrown in, not all the rules should change and you should feel 100% as comfortable with your partner as you do with a friend. it took me a long time to realize that.
This is fucking great. Needed this.
More prominent Republicans are backing Hillary
The latest GOP defections to Clinton’s campaign includes former Reps. Connie Morella of Maryland and Chris Shays of Connecticut; former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, who served under GW Bush; former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Carla Hills, who served under President Ford; and John Negroponte, who served as the Director of National Intelligence under GW Bush. Trump is losing support even among his “easiest” group of voters.