BORROWING WORDS.

stfuzac: migrated: change the direction of the train if you...

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:55:31 -0400

migrated:

change the direction of the train if you concentrate

WOAHHH

yourendorphine: homophobic participating countries who didn’t show the gay kiss on eurovision must...

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:54:51 -0400

homophobic participating countries who didn’t show the gay kiss on eurovision must pay a fine because eurovision must be shown from beginning to end without cutting anything out and they are banned from eurovision for the next three years

i am crying right now i love you europe

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serenadesofsmiles: Boys bathroom selfies at star trek

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:16:00 -0400

serenadesofsmiles:

Boys bathroom selfies at star trek

lamamama: I mean singling out Daisy as The Worst Character in Gatsby is kinda weird when her...

Sun, 19 May 2013 02:13:56 -0400

lamamama:

I mean singling out Daisy as The Worst Character in Gatsby is kinda weird when her husband is a white supremacist who beats his mistress.

"Some men who want to compliment random women on the street are genuinely good guys who just don’t..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 02:12:04 -0400

“Some men who want to compliment random women on the street are genuinely good guys who just don’t understand why their comments might be unwelcome. Some men who want to compliment random women on the street are creepy predators. Most are somewhere in between, and guess what? I don’t know you, I don’t know your life, and I have no idea if you’re going to leave it at “Hey, you look good in that dress!” or follow it up with “But you’d look better without it! Har har! C’mon, where’re you going? I know you heard me! Fucking cunt, nobody wants your fat ass anyway, bitch.”

When you compliment a random woman who doesn’t know you, no matter how nice you are about it, there’s a good chance she’s going to freak out internally because for all she knows, you could be that latter type. And I get that it’s really unfair that women would just assume that about you. I get that it sucks that sometimes, expressing totally reasonable opinions like “hey you’re hot” will make women terrified of you or furious at you. That’s not fair.

But if you’re going to lay the blame for that somewhere, for fuck’s sake, don’t blame the woman. Blame all the guys who have called her a bitch and a cunt for ignoring their advances. Blame all the guys who may have harassed, abused, or assaulted her in the past. Blame all the people who may never do such a thing themselves, but who were quick to blame her and tell her to just get over it. Blame the fact that if she stops and talks to you and then something bad happens, people will blame her for stopping and talking to you.”

- Why You Shouldn’t Tell That Random Girl On The Street That She’s Hot » Brute Reason (via brute-reason)

^^^^^^^^^^^^

(via misandry-mermaid)

You know, I’ll go a step further and say - there are no “men who want to compliment random women on the street [who] are genuinely good guys who just don’t understand why their comments might be unwelcome.” There are guys who pretend that they don’t understand why their comments are unwelcome. But the man who whistles out his car window at me while I’m waiting for a light, the guy who stares at me while I ride past on my bike, the guy who says “Hey beautiful!” at me and my friend as we’re talking at an outdoor cafe - none of those guys want to make me feel good.

Not a single one.

I keep hearing about this guy! The good guy who catcalls and doesn’t get how it’s wrong, the nice guy who just wants to tell you you have beautiful eyes. And every time I’m told about that guy, it’s so that I don’t react, don’t glare, don’t respond negatively. Because who knows! Maybe he really super meant it in his heart and was just trying to pay you a compliment.

Because here’s the thing - here’s how I know that the nice guy ain’t real; because I always do react, always glare, always respond negatively. I always say, “No, that wasn’t okay. Don’t do that to me again.” And a nice guy? Would come back with, “Oh, man, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to make you feel bad. You’re right. I won’t do that again.” A nice guy who didn’t get it would say, “Wow, I didn’t think about it that way. Is this something that you think a lot of women feel?”

And that never happens - what happens is I get called names, or have coffee thrown at my face, or get shoved up against a wall, or get followed for fifteen blocks, or get shouted out from six inches away by a man who’s six inches taller and fifty pounds bigger than I am. What happens is that I’m shown, again and again and again, that these “compliments” are prologues to a story this guy’s just desperate to tell, the story of him scaring me, hurting me, making sure I know my place. And he can tell the story as loud as he wants, because he can always fall back on, “I’m a good guy! She’s the one who started it! I was just trying to pay the bitch a compliment.”

So stop telling me that there are good guys out there who just don’t understand, because there aren’t. What there are, are guys who will pretend to be good guys, right up until you don’t smile at them. And then they show who they really are.

(via leupagus)

condominic: grzmot: jaredchambers: Onion Valley, Eastern...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:43:22 -0400

condominic:

grzmot:

jaredchambers:

Onion Valley, Eastern Sierra’s, CA - May 2013

Aleks Kocev

yes ty

aliciaaadanielle: ACTUAL MESSAGE OF (500) DAYS OF SUMMER THAT...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:40:48 -0400

aliciaaadanielle:

ACTUAL MESSAGE OF (500) DAYS OF SUMMER THAT NO ONE ACTUALLY REALIZES

THANK YOU

imagine-dragonlords: thewayweride: If you’re lesbian and you fall for a guyFINEIf you’re gay and...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:03:42 -0400

imagine-dragonlords:

thewayweride:

If you’re lesbian and you fall for a guy
FINE
If you’re gay and you fall for a woman
FINE
If you’re bisexual and you have a preference for girls
FINE
If you’re bisexual and you have a preference for guys
FINE
If you’re pansexual and have a preference
FINE
What’s not fine is telling someone they can’t love another person because it doesn’t fit into the confinements of a label.

T H I S

If you’re asexual and get attracted to someone somehow.

FINE.

norsegays: astrolope: People being angry about ~dem gays~ on...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:47:58 -0400

norsegays:

astrolope:

People being angry about ~dem gays~ on Target’s Facebook.

I just want to give my two cents on this and tell you a story.

A couple weeks ago, I was hired at Target. I have a job at Target. Not a big deal right?

It is a big deal because i’m a transman.

It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that it’s hard for me, my brothers, and sisters to get a job. There are legal restraints regarding the job and if you don’t pass, it’s hard to be taken seriously at a job interview.

Right on the application, it asks what your preferred name is. It also asks if there is anything that target should know. I put the fact that I am a transman, expecting not to get a call because usually when you put that down, people will throw out the application. I got TWO interviews.

At the interview, they asked me about it. I told them I am on hormones and they told me that they didn’t care. Not in the sense that they don’t emotionally care, but that it didn’t matter. I was male and that’s all that mattered. They also told me that they give sex same couples benefits in states that do not recognize them as a married couple.

At my job orientation, I was not misgendered once. Even my supervisors who weren’t sure of my gender avoided pronoun use, which I found only happens when you’ve had pronoun training. They gave me a name tag with my preferred name and didn’t ask questions. I felt safe and respected, which is huge for a trans* person.

TLDR: Target is amazing not just for the LGB, but also the T. Shop there for the rest of your life.

weareallmedie: lovelymoonbeams: stunningpicture: ‘Cause...

Wed, 15 May 2013 17:44:45 -0400

weareallmedie:

lovelymoonbeams:

stunningpicture:

‘Cause people seem to only post the 20-something Audrey Hepburn

this is genuinely the first photo i’ve seen of her looking older

Damn, if I age half that well.

graceebooks: men at large feel like they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:50:44 -0400

graceebooks:

men at large feel like they are being robbed of something when an attractive woman with a 90% chance of developing breast cancer gets a double mastectomy

what better illustration of the male sense of sexual entitlement do you need

beatyourselfup: Memphis Cop Car Ends Up Against Pole, Other...

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:59:35 -0400

beatyourselfup:

Memphis Cop Car Ends Up Against Pole, Other Cops at the Scene Ticket Drivers for Going Too Slow

A Memphis police officer was driving too fast as he tried to chase down a driver for not wearing a seatbelt, so his car ended up upright against a telephone pole, prompting other motorists to slow down and take photos of the incident.

That, of course, prompted other officers to ticket those drivers for driving too slow, according to WREG.

No word yet as to whether the first officer will be ticketed for reckless driving.

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"The SAT is a scam. It has been around for 50 years. It has never measured anything. And it continues..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 19:42:59 -0400

“The SAT is a scam. It has been around for 50 years. It has never measured anything. And it continues to measure nothing. And the whole game is that everybody who does well on it, is so delighted by their good fortune that they don’t want to attack it. And they are the people in charge. Because of course, the way you get to be in charge is by having high test scores. So it’s this terrific kind of rolling scam that every so often, somebody sort of looks and says—well, you know, does it measure intelligence? No. Does it predict college grades? No. Does it tell you how much you learned in high school? No. Does it predict life happiness or life success in any measure? No. It’s measuring nothing.”

- John Katzman, founder of The Princeton Review (via thepeacefulterrorist

gazzymouse: gazzymouse: This is it boys, this is...

Sun, 12 May 2013 20:53:53 -0400

gazzymouse:

gazzymouse:

This is it boys, this is war…

Appropriate self-reblog for Mother’s Day

thefullerview: brattle st / cambridge / david fuller

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:07:54 -0400

thefullerview:

brattle st / cambridge / david fuller

“The forest is ruined, the spirit god is dead. I cannot forgive...

Sat, 11 May 2013 16:31:10 -0400

“The forest is ruined, the spirit god is dead. I cannot forgive what the humans have done..”