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where I grew up in California not only is “dude” generally non-gender-specific, half of the time it doesn’t even refer to a person at all.
I said it to a faucet today.
Having also grown up in California, I can attest that dude can be anything. Males are dude. Females are dude. My phone is dude. That cat over there, it is dude. The green light that only lasts long enough for 1 car to pass is dude. I have called my hair “dude”. I have called my coffee maker “dude”. The entire population of the world, and all of their belongings, are all dude.
we are all dude
(That being said, if someone doesn’t want to be called dude, fuckin respect that rather than reeling off why dude is gender nuetral.)
no offense but I have literally no sympathy for homophobes anymore like I don’t care if that’s “how you were raised” it’s fucking 2015 get over it
When you tell me “it’s how I was raised” you’re basically telling me you have no idea how to think for yourself and depend on others to tell you right from wrong.
tbh if you reblog something from me i always look at your tags because i like to know how y'all feel
hxans: "There’s a guy who needs a place to stay or something like that? And the woman is like ‘of course you can stay. It isn’t a problem cuz…it isn’t.’ " Okay for some reason I dreamed about this last night and my brain is convinced it's Mal (or Simon) & Kaylee? It just seems like a very Kaylee thing to say...
Yes it is Kaylee talking to/about Simon. I remembered, but forgot to update the post.
This pioneer was a notable transgender rights activist and popular figure in New York City’s gay and art scene, as well as one of the city’s best known trans women of the times. She was a leader in clashes with the police amid the Stonewall Riots.
She was a co-founder, along with Sylvia Rivera, of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.) in the 1970s, and also the “mother” of S.T.A.R. House along with Sylvia, getting together food and clothing to help support the young trans women living in the house on the lower East Side of New York.
Once, appearing in a court the judge asked Marsha, “What does the ‘P’ stand for?”, Johnson gave her customary response “Pay it No Mind.” This phrase became her trademark.
In July 1992, her body was found floating in the Hudson River, shortly after the 1992 Pride March. Police ruled the death a suicide, but her friends and supporters denied this, and a people’s postering campaign later declared that Johnson had earlier been harassed near the spot where her body was found. Attempts to get the police to investigate the cause of death were unsuccessful.
canada’s pride and joy is a
doughnut shop named after and founded by a hockey player in the 1960s
for all you non-canadian’s who think I’m exaggerating:
“Tim Hortons holds 62% of the Canadian coffee market (compared to Starbucks, in the number two position, at 7%)
“Canadians eat more doughnuts per capita and have more doughnut outlets per capita than any other nation“
“The company [Tim Hortons] opened twice as many Canadian outlets as McDonald's and system-wide sales also surpassed those of McDonald’s Canadian operations as of 2002”
“The chain accounted for 22.6% of all fast food industry revenues in Canada in 2005.”
there is more to this story and it actually gets better
tim horton the hockey player’s signature move was literally picking opposing players up and hugging them. the guy was like 6′5 on skates, built like a tank, would have come out on top in every hockey fight except that he absolutely refused to punch. someone would hit him and he’d just pick them up in a giant, angry bear hug.
this one time he broke his jaw and leg in a collision and was off the ice for years, and this freaked him tf out, because dude bro do i like…….have value behind all this muscle? what if this like……happens again, bro? what if i can’t play hockey, bro? huh? bro. basically he broke his face and had an existential crisis. happens to the best of us.
so he started a donut shop because he figured he’d need something to do when the next injury rolled around, seeing as oblivion lurks around every corner and none of us have a purpose. he started it in hamilton, ontario.coffee was ten cents.
anyways, when his face got better, he invited a police officer to come run his company so he could go play more hockey. which he did.
so: canada’s pride and joy is a donut shop named after and founded by a touch-starved hockey player in the midst of an existential crisis, that was later run by a cop when the aforementioned hockey player left to play more hockey, that then somehow ate up 62% of the canadian coffee biz. god bless.
A hockey player who hugs his way out of fights is perhaps the most Canadian thing I can imagine.
“Bernie did well last weekend but he can’t possibly win the nomination,” a
friend told me for what seemed like the thousandth time, attaching an article from the Washington Post that shows how
far behind Bernie remains in delegates.
Wait a minute. Last Tuesday, Sanders
won 78 percent of the vote in Idaho and 79 percent in Utah. This past Saturday,
he took 82 percent of the vote in Alaska, 73 percent in Washington, and 70
percent in Hawaii.
In fact, since March 15, Bernie has won six out of the seven Democratic
primary contests with an average margin of victory of 40 points. Those
victories have given him roughly a one hundred additional pledged delegates.
As of now, Hillary Clinton has 54.9
percent of the pledged delegates to Bernie Sanders’s 45.1
percent.That’s still a sizable gap – but it doesn’t make Bernie an impossibility.
Moreover, there are 22 states to go with nearly 45 percent of pledged delegates still up for grabs – and Bernie has positive momentum in almost all of them.
Hillary Clinton’s lead in superdelegates will vanish
if Bernie gains a majority of pledged delegates.
Bernie is outpacing Hillary Clinton in fundraising. In February, he raised
$42 million (from 1.4 million contributions, averaging $30 each), compared to
her $30 million. In January he raised $20 million to her $15 million.
By any measure, the enthusiasm for Bernie is huge and keeps growing. He’s
packing stadiums, young people are flocking to volunteer, support is rising
among the middle-aged and boomers.
In Idaho and Alaska he
exceeded the record primary turnout in 2008, bringing thousands of new voters. He
did the same thing in Colorado, Kansas, Maine, and Michigan as well.
Yet if you read the Washington Post or the New York
Times, or watch CNN or even MSNBC, or listen to the major pollsters and
pundits, you’d come to the same conclusion as my friend. Every success by
Bernie is met with a story or column or talking head whose message is “but he
can’t possibly win.”
Some Sanders supporters speak in dark tones about a media conspiracy against Bernie. That’s baloney. The mainstream media are
incapable of conspiring with anyone or anything. They wouldn’t dare try. Their
reputations are on the line. If the public stops trusting them, their brands
are worth nothing.
The real reason the major media can’t see what’s happening is
because the national media exist inside the bubble of establishment politics, centered in
Washington, and the bubble of establishment power, centered in New York.
As such, the major national media are interested mainly in personalities and in the money
behind the personalities. Political reporting is dominated by stories about the
quirks and foibles of the candidates, and about the people and resources behind them.
Within this frame of reference, it seems nonsensical that a 74-year-old Jew from
Vermont, originally from Brooklyn, who calls himself a Democratic socialist,
who’s not a Democratic insider and wasn’t even a member of the Democratic Party
until recently, who has never been a fixture in the Washington or Manhattan circles
of power and influence, and who has no major backers among the political or
corporate or Wall Street elites of America, could possibly win the nomination.
But precisely because the major media are habituated to paying attention to
personalities, they haven’t been attending to Bernie’s message – or to its
resonance among Democratic and independent voters (as well as many
Republicans). The major media don’t know how to report on movements.
In addition, because the major media depend on the wealthy and powerful for revenues,
because their reporters and columnists rely on the establishment for news and access, because their top media
personalities socialize with the rich and powerful and are themselves rich and powerful, and because their publishers and senior
executives are themselves part of the establishment, the major media have come
to see much of America through the eyes of the establishment.
So it’s understandable, even if unjustifiable, that the major media haven’t
noticed how determined Americans are to reverse the increasing concentration of
wealth and political power that have been eroding our economy and democracy. And it’s understandable, even if unjustifiable, that they continue to marginalize Bernie Sanders.
Repeat this over and over again until blood comes out of their fucking ears:
The real reason the major media can’t see what’s happening is
because the national media exist inside the bubble of establishment politics, centered in
Washington, and the bubble of establishment power, centered in New York.
