fairyprincessjace

soravagemecrazy:

furiousradfem:

womanphilosopher:

furiousradfem:

Don’t be fooled, men are not worried about being falsely accused of rape.

If they were, they would watch very carefully not to touch a woman who is unwilling and reluctant to be intimate with them.

They would check over, over, and over again before initiating sexual contact.

They wouldn’t dream of pressuring, coercing, intimidating, or tricking an unwilling woman to have sexual relations with them.

They wouldn’t even come close to women who show clear signs of not wanting them around.

Men aren’t worried at all.

We should make them worry.

Men aren’t worried about getting falsely accused of rape. But men are worried that they won’t get away with rape anymore. So they make false accusations sound like a real problem in society so that when they are rightly accused, society will scrutinize women so much that men always get off easy on the benefit of the doubt.

exactly.

This is some TEAA chile

whatbigotspost:

whatbigotspost:

Y’all. This tax bill is so bad from so many angles, it’s actually fucking horrifying.

It will make the rich richer.

It favors big business w/ corp tax cuts, but that won’t lead to more employment as Republicans claim.

It discourages homeownership for the middle class which is another tactic to ensure the rich (landlords) keep getting richer.

It makes student loan debt more difficult.

It could make graduate studies only accessible to already very wealthy students.

It repeals state/local tax deductions and effectively penalizes people who live in states where there are higher taxes (and therefore states that tend to have more social safety nets and progressive voters.)

It’s predicted it will have a chilling effect on nonprofits and charity (which will mean a reduction in services that low income folks routinely depend on.)

It is a giant threat to the health of middle/low income people.

It will increase political corruption and the likelihood of election buying. A provision to repeal the long standing Johnson Amendment could “… dramatically increase untraceable political spending and lead to the creation of ‘sham churches’ to take advantage of the new avenue for political spending, which — unlike donations to candidates, ‘super PACs’ and party committees — would allow donors to deduct contributions.”

And this is JUST the stuff I’m aware of from listening to TONS of NPR coverage this month, which I then googled to find sources.

Jesus. This is bad.

thatrandogirl:

thequantumqueer:

orochimemelord:

severus-snape-is-a-butt-trumpet:

is there a word for “i was instantly good at a lot of things as a quote-unquote gifted child, and, as a result, i was able to skate by without ever being taught how to actually learn a new skill, and now that i’m an adult trying to learn new things that i can’t be good at instantaneously, i don’t have the patience or knowledge to improve on them, because skills that don’t come naturally to me just make me angry because i lived off instant gratification my whole childhood due to not ever being challenged intellectually or taught basic learning skills?” asking for a friend

people like this piss me the fuck off

why does everyone refuse to consider the possibility that maybe an education system designed from the ground up to turn intelligent and creative children into mindlessly efficient factory drones might have a negative effect on the people it deems (correctly or not; usually not) to be more intelligent and creative than average?

we were punished for “learning too fast” by having the lessons about how to learn taken away from us, and by couching it all in positive language so that our peers would resent and isolate us. literally all of us know we’re not better than anyone else, but that doesn’t seem to matter in the face of “i was jealous in elementary school and have held on to that for 15+ years.”

when we say things like “i don’t know how to learn things that i don’t immediately understand” you hear “i was that kid you hated because i never studied but i always got a 100% on the test anyway,” but what we mean is:

i have a vague understanding of what a flash card is, but no idea how to make them or what to do with them

i have literally no idea how to take notes because:

i don’t know what i’ll forget if i don’t write it down

i don’t know how to pay attention to what’s being said while i write

i wouldn’t know what to do with the notes anyway

if i don’t understand something, i don’t know how to formulate a question

i don’t know how to recognize when i don’t know something until it goes wrong, at which point i don’t know how to identify what i did wrong

i can’t tell the difference between a mistake that’s part of the learning process and a mistake where i should know better

but yeah, if we ever acknowledge any of this, we’re definitely just being ungrateful whiners who don’t realize how good we had it when we were 7

THIS IS SO TRUE

nicolezai:

never stop being a good person because of bad people

pure:

(jay-z voice) i emotionally abused my wife, which impacted her to the point of having multiple miscarriages, i had my eyes on her when she was 16 and i was 28. i admit to being a dumb ass leech, please congratulate me for barely passing as human, also…racism bad prison industrial complex stop the oppression we need unity martin luther king. please buy my album and support my decaying craft that i am forcing upon the masses at mankind’s expense.