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PSA: That Shady Postcard You Got About The Primary Election Is Misleading
The presidential primary in New York is still on April 19th.
NYC followers: the Board of Elections sent out “correction” postcards to new voters (AKA Bernie voters) saying the primary is in September. It’s still April 19. You should still vote. In fact, bring two friends who weren’t going to vote as a “fuck you” to the people who were trying to trick young people out of voting in the first place.
This election is getting dirtier and more disgusting every time I turn around and the primaries aren’t even over yet.
“I prefer intelligence to beauty” doesn’t make you deep, you’re literally just replacing one ill-defined social standard based on the interests of the privileged, with another.
Both ideas are social constructs and they’re both being defined by the same white supremacist, classist, ableist cisheteropatriarchy.
When people think about what it means to be intelligent, we largely imagine the kinds of intelligence likely to be found in wealthy abled white cishet men, discounting the contributions of anyone else, with notable exceptions who are praised for their resemblance to those same powerful white men - just as when people think of beauty we’re trained to think of a white wealthy thin abled cis woman, and anyone else can only be beautiful by resembling that narrow ideal.
“What does it mean to be intelligent?” is a question with as infinitely many answers as “What does it mean to be beautiful?” but they’re both shrunk into tiny narrowly-defined boxes in order to be used as tools for maintaining power. Both constructs should be aggressively questioned and reimagined in order to become something other than weapons against those who do not hold social power.
Anonymous: How old were you when you lost your virginity???
thatsthat24:
It was the winter of 1932 on the wintery tundra of Saskatchewan. I had put my virginity down for only a second, but when I turned to retrieve it, it was gone. It’s been 82 years, and not a day goes by when I don’t wonder where my virginity ran off to, and how much differently my life would be if I had never lost it. Godspeed to you, virginity. Godspeed.
This is your periodic reminder that not everyone’s family is warm and loving. Parents can be toxic and abusive. Siblings can be jealous and dismissive. Genetics don’t demand respect. No one owes forgiveness or love to anyone just because they’re family.
Not everyone has the same life experiences. Remember that in life and online, and be gentle with one another.
Reinhard Gorner - Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Netflix, Time Warner, Sony, And Others Speak Out Against Georgia’s Anti-LGBT Bill
If Georgia passes an anti-gay "religious liberty" bill on May 3, the state stands to lose billions of dollars in revenue.
If Georgia passes an anti-gay “religious liberty” bill on May 3, the state stands to lose billions of dollars in revenue. Not just because of the loss of extravagant, amazing gay weddings — although, that too — but because a fleet of major Hollywood players have joined the Walt Disney Co. and its Marvel Studios film unit in threatening to boycott Georgia should the bill be signed into law.
Flint Water Crisis Inquiry Finds State Ignored Warning Signs
An independent task force charged with investigating the city’s tainted water also laid part of the blame on environmental racism.
An independent panel has concluded that disregard for the concerns of poor and minority people contributed to the government’s slow response to complaints from residents of Flint, Mich., about the foul and discolored water that was making them sick, determining that the crisis “is a story of government failure, intransigence, unpreparedness, delay, inaction and environmental injustice.”
