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We’re two trans women struggling to keep our heads above water. Yet another month has rolled around and we still don’t have the money for rent, bills, or food. The good news is, this should be the last month I have to ask for this! But first, we need help to stay in our home and buy food, electricity, and hot water. For the month, to cover everything, we need about £1400.

If you are able to help, my paypal is paypal.me/whenyoutried

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Not to continually be that girl but the whole of social justice (primarily being done in online spaces) needs to be redone. We have to move away social justice (morally) motivated by vengeance and separatism towards one guided by love and solidarity that’s just my raw onion tho

is there context for this

i didnt make the post so obviously i wouldn’t know much but i think a lot of ppl nowadays tend to see social justice as based on accusation and holding everyone to a standard of moral perfection rather than understanding that no one is raised free of social biases and that criticism should come from a place “i want you and the world we share to be better” and not “you made a mistake so now ill pounce on it and weight it with the same equivalence as really horrible acts of oppression”

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i really really love when animals lay on their back and their paws do that thing

the front paws. i love that

its just very good

peep

we call this ‘pupside down’

Life imitates art

Reminder that TERFs can fuck off. 

She followed the meme to a T.

This is me… all the time. 

I relate to this on so many levels as both a gamer and person.

the implication that gamers aren’t necessarily people haunts me

A day or two ago, I was at “boob” restaurant (like an owl one) for a best friend’s brother’s birthday. I got up to go to the bathroom. Talked to a waiter to ask where it was, blah blah blah, normal stuff. And when I was halfway across the restaurant, some guy at a table slapped my ass. And he and all his friends started laughing about it. I spun around and slapped him across the face back.

He got sooo pissed. Started yelling at me and calling me a bitch and then told me “You can’t hit me! I’m a customer!”

I’m pretty well developed for my age, and this happened when it was hot as fuck outside so I was wearing shorts and a tank top.

“I’m not a worker, asshole! And you shouldn’t slap their asses too just because they can’t hit you back!” I’m pretty sure I said something to the effect although I probably am explaining it as if I was smooth and calm back then, but I was an embarrassed, mortified mess

And then I asked one of the waitresses to call the police. The guy was backpedaling and trying to apologize.

Fun fact: I’m 15. Like I said, very well developed for my age.

So I told him no, we were both going to wait here for the police to show up so I could report him for sexually abusing and harassing a minor.

He panicked and was even trying to bargain with me, but like fuck I was letting him off the hook. Think of how many other girls this asshole has probably harassed! I just have the power to do something about it.

Police got there and I had about at least 50 witnesses to attest to the fact a stranger, who was probably like 40, slapped my ass, when I am, in fact, a minor. Not to mention he yelled things at me when he thought I was a worker like “You can’t touch me! I’ll beat your ass, cunt!” Which I referenced as him threatening me too.

The rest of his friends were mortified and had tried to leave but I insisted that they have to stay because the cops might want statements from them. Whether or not that’s true, I don’t fuckin know, but the manager seemed to agree enough to tell them to wait for the police.

I had tried not to, but as some point when talking to one of the waitresses while waiting for the police, I started crying because of how violated I felt. It may have done good for the police came in to see my crying, I don’t know, but the waitresses were all so sweet and tried to comfort me when they had the chance.

I intend to press charges. Since I am a minor I need my parents to help or whatever and I know nothing about this kinda thing but I can potentially get him labeled a sex offender, which he IS, so I want him to actually feel punishment for his abuse towards female workers (I doubt I’m the first girl he’s harassed, maybe just the first who could fight back without her job on the line, so I want to be the last girl he harasses), just… ugh. I just hope he gets the punishment he deserves. So… wish me luck with this whole “legal system” nonsense.

My hero

Absolute hero status - no way would I have stood up for myself like that at 15. Never lose that fire, girl!

inb4 anyone even thinks of defending him because of where he was “You can’t hit me I’m a customer” This sentence right here tells us so many things: - He is aware of what he sees as his ‘rights’ as far as retaliation - For this to be his *first* thought (rather than “WHY did you hit me”) shows he was fully aware of why he was hit - If he knew instantly *why* he was hit then he knows that slapping someone’s ass is something they DON’T LIKE - He chose to slap a person, knowing that slapping is something that people don’t generally like - He felt entitled enough to his actions that the only thing that surprised him was the retaliation NOT the reaction - He EXPECTED her to be upset by his actions. He was SURPRISED there were consequences.

That is a scummy, cowardly, weak piece of shit human being right there.

I would really love an update on this

step one: 

artemis fowl movie:

failed step one

The casting call for Artemis Fowl described him as a boy with a “fun-loving, open heart” so you knew before they even landed their eyes on the first mediocre white person the movie was irretrievably fucked

The casting call described him as what now

last i checked back in 6th grade, artemis was a fuckin dick of a child

“emotional intelligence” artemis fowl literally would rather die than express an emotion

im pretty sure he actually has on multiple occassions

im reblogging this again because i just remembered that artemis fowl hates being a Human Being With Feelings so much that he emotionally and mentally devastated *several* psychologists so badly that they gave up the profession, just because he didn’t want to admit that his father being declared dead and his mother falling into severe untreated mental illness such that she couldn’t recognize him on most days might, maybe, have upset him a little.

They really Percy Jackson’d this franchise, huh?

Your friendly reminder that the Liberal Party of Canada and Justin Trudeau are not leftists. They’re not even Centre-Left.

#1: Liberals award businesses with $16 billion dollars in tax breaks:

Ottawa aims to boost edge with $16 billion in tax breaks for business

#2: Liberals plan to use anti-worker Back to Work legislation on Canada Post workers:

Federal government gives formal notice for legislation to end Canada Post strike

At the next election, vote NDP unless you want more of this.

I have never seen an advertising campaign more evil, more insidious than the one for the army currently airing in the UK

“This is belonging”

We’re introduced to a group of earnest young men. they’re white, they’re black. they drink tea. they play practical jokes. they quote popular TV shows. they talk about sports. they face their fears. it’s loving and domestic and all too easy to overlook the guns and camo and helicopters blaring overhead.

make no mistake, these adverts are aimed at the young and disenfranchised. poor people, people of colour, people who have been bullied and abused by society and made to feel like they don’t belong anywhere. Join the army, they’re told, and you can have the love and acceptance you crave but have always been denied. Elsewhere, you might get called racial slurs. you might get called a pansy or a fairy, but not here. You belong with us.

For example: Islamophobia is rampant in the UK. here we have an advert of a Muslim soldier praying while his squadron, armed to the teeth, sits in silence. the message is clear - while the rest of society may despise you, here, you will be respected. this is belonging.

here’s one called ‘expressing my emotions’, featuring a white man in his 40s - practically the posterchild for the UK’s current mental health crisis. you don’t have to worry about bottling up your feelings in the army. after all, this is belonging.

here’s another one called ‘can I be gay in the army?’. we’re told: “I was really worried about whether I’d be accepted, but within days, I was more than confident in being who I was.” Clearly homophobia is a thing of the past in the army. don’t worry. this is belonging.

and it works. while the response to these adverts from an unfortunately vocal number of people is basically “fuck you, we’re racist and proud of it!” there are young people being taken in by this. I have met gay children, trans children who are determined to join the army because, after being rejected by their parents and peers, they’re now being told “here you will be accepted. here you will be loved.”

fuck that. don’t be groomed; don’t let the vulnerable and desperate people in your life be groomed. we need to fight the root causes of these problems in our society and stamp them out so that wielding a gun and cowering in some blown-out building in a country you helped destroy is no longer seen as some sort of salvation. fight racism. fight homophobia and transphobia. fight the stigmatisation of mental illness. fight the system that prioritises the rich and leaves the rest of us to rot.

don’t be taken in by something that offers easy answers, chews you up and spits you out, destroyed, guilty, with PTSD and nowhere to go. where do you belong when you can’t fight any more? where do you belong when you can no longer be used?

you are not immune to propaganda

Plus they started airing these just around the time of exam results days, purposely targeting young people who are worried about failing/have failed their exams and are scared about their future. It’s fucking disgusting

and as someone else here has noted abt this sort of rhetorical move, lots of these women don’t have to like hunt out and locate why they might have been treated better by society and place it on their birth assignment. Like, for the most part these sorts of me culpas are coming from white (/white identified, in the case of ALC), upper-middle class women w access to immense amounts of education and technology, along w a variety of social networking opportunities.

The fact that they want to locate something that was *in the past* for them (hypothetically) is a convenient deflection from the social factors that they currently exist in that safeguarded them and led to + continue to lead to their perspectives being centered! This is a v easy argument for a specific kind of trans woman to make that provides an excuse for their success that isn’t based on the actual systemic and structural situation (nor the social science data)

lads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s you and me versus the world (which for the most part completely agrees w this specific perspective)

hmm, i wonder

“potential to understand the barriers facing ethnic minorities” the dude…. was literally Jewish………… and denied opportunities for being Jewish…….

Imagine getting paid to be this wrong.

Einstein was a Jew who moved to America to escape the Nazis. does the writer of that article not… know that

Nazi’s weren’t a thing until the mid 1900’s…

And Einstein was in the US in 1933 when Hitler came to power and refused to go back to Germany BECAUSE of that.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/einstein-germany-and-the-bomb/528534/

Ah yes, the sexualities: straight, confused, i don’t have to tell you, what are you, a cop? Fuck off, and More ™

my s/o is cute and talented rb if ur s/o is cute and talented