"And how should I presume?"
Cast of characters: My adorable sister (and tag)
The Wash to my Zoe (and tag)
The John to my Sherlock
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Insomnia buddy/fanfic rec machine
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safaiagem asked: Whoa whoa, you got a hug from Mark Ruffalo?
I GOT TWO.
I was at the Avengers premiere in London, and a friend of mine won the costume contest so I was his plus one, they put us in a little...
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TV Guide: If you sat on the Iron Throne, what would be your first edict?Natalie Dormer: Worldwide emancipation for women, equality for the sexes in all areas.
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twbasketcase, thank you.
(via anelledisa)
just need to sit down from the beauty of that article jesus christ
(via grimgrinninggirl)
It was exactly three months ago that Richard Littlejohn published a piece in the Daily Mail viciously attacking Lucy Meadows, a primary school teacher in Britain. Littlejohn targeted Meadows because she’s transgender and had chosen to remain in her job as a teacher after beginning to present as a woman – this was the entire basis for his outrageous, unprovoked assault on her identity, her career, and her very life. It was vile and hateful in all the ways we’ve come to expect from a publication that, like much of the press these days, treats trans women as alternately ridiculous or a threat to society. It was quite literally intolerant of everything that Lucy Meadows was.
So it came as a surprise today that the Daily Mail has completely removed any mention of Meadows from Littlejohn’s column. What happened? Did they suffer a sudden attack of morality, three months later? No. Their decision was based on something much darker than conscience.
Lucy Meadows killed herself this week.
Fuck this shit. Fuck this asshole. Fuck everything.
(via vantwinblade)
“In fact, the large majority of women in contemporary Western societies have sex exclusively with men,” said Meredith Chivers, a Ph.D. candidate in clinical psychology at Northwestern University, a psychology intern at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the study’s first author. “But I have long suspected that women’s sexuality is very different from men’s, and this study scientifically demonstrates one way this is so.”
Oh God so much transphobia and misogyny and biphobia and gah. No. Bad study. Bad.
I did a lot of soul searching last night and I decided that my real identity is Dwayne Johnson.
From now on, please, call me “Dwayne”, or “The Rock”.
Thanks so much for respecting my wishes, I’m looking forward to interacting with you all…. as a transcelebrity.
I don’t think I need to point out every single fucking thing wrong with this piece of shit, so I merely point out its existence.
Do not like this piece of trash, reblog it with commentary.
(via thisfreakinblackcat)
North Carolina pastor Charles Worley (via think-progress)
Every time someone says “gay people can’t reproduce,” I sigh and think of trans people. The fact that this is a hateful piece of shit goes, I think, without saying.
(via think-progress)
If your atheism is; misogynistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic, or any other type of bullshit bigotry, we ain’t comrades.
If your feminism isn’t Intersectional, we ain’t friends.
If your feminism isn’t Transfeminist, we ain’t buds.
Just need to get this out of the way so there is no confusion or awkwardness.
The Revolution Will Not Be Polite: The Issue of Nice versus Good (Social Justice League)
Concern trolls (‘we’re so ‘concerned for you’, we’re just doing it for your own good’) always think being polite about their bigotry makes it harder to spot them.
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(via fuckyeahsexeducation)
In a heteronormative society, we have double standards, and one of those double standards is when heterosexuality is considered good while homosexuality/bisexuslity/pansexuality/asexuality is considered inappropriate. What happens is that people who are gay, bi, pan, trans* or ace are told to be quiet and not to talk about their experiences because they are deemed inappropriate. Meanwhile, heteronomatice, cis* centered conversations are allowed to commence while LGBTQ+ people must remain silent.
This game is planning on changing that.
Take a shoe-box(decorated to your pleasure) and pass it around a group of friends or a classroom. Ask the people to place their sexual orientation within the box. Once everyone has done so, seal the box up.
RULES:
- There shall be no mention of any sexuality of any person for one hour straight!
- You cannot discuss relationships, dates,marriages, etc. etc. etc.
- If you mention anything pertaining to any sexual orientation, then YOU LOSE.
- If you lose, you are to remain silent for the rest of the game.
- Before the game begins, pick out two trustworthy friends/students to be hearing aids. They’re the people who will be walking around and calling out the people who have lost.
- After the hour is up, discuss with the group/class the double standard that was firstly mentioned above.
It is important to state that asking LGBTQ+ people to be quiet about their lives while voicing their heteronormative/cisgender views is cissexist, heterosexist, and discriminatory. People have every right to speak about themselves; and if you insist that LGBTQ+ be quiet, then straight/cis* people should be quiet as well. If not for the fact that it’s right; then it should be for the fact of common decency.
A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’
(via npr)
See also: why straight comics can’t write successful or funny jokes about queer people, and why cis comics can’t can’t CAN’T mock trans people. A well known podcast host and guest had an extended discussion mocking and then defending their ‘right’ to mock trans people and it was the worst. I eventually shut it off because it made me want to throw up, and I can’t lie, I listen to the podcast a lot less now. If you’re writing material and you start feeling a bit weird about it, ask yourself… “Does my apparent social / ethnic / orientation presentation have power over this minority group?” and if the answer is yes, throw that shit away and write some better material you asshole.
(via khealywu)
Yeah, exactly. This is also why I hate “People of Walmart” and stuff of that ilk, like the millions of jokes I’ve heard about homeless people.
I’m just humorless though.
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i’m just going to keep reblogging this.
The Change.Org petition to have charges against CeCe dropped.
Reblogging again for the petition link AGAIN, because it makes me really angry that this has been going on for so long and the petition still has less than 10,000 signatures. I feel like everyone has to know about CeCe McDonald right now, but clearly not.
Signal boosting.
(via that-cabbage)
Ms. Talackova has been disqualified from the Miss Universe Canada contest solely for being transgender. This is discriminatory, unjust, and quite frankly disgusting. She is a woman and deserves to be treated as any other woman would be. What kind of genitals she was or was not born with (and even what kind of genitals she has today) is completely irrelevant. This petition is to get her reinstated as a contestant, since she was unfairly disqualified.
There are only
728 signatures. WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS!34! GO GO GO TUMBLR!
192! Now we’re talking :D
SIGN AND REBLOG, PLEASE!
Signal boost!
Signed. LET’S GO, TUMBLR!
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Imagine a minefield… a strip of land seeded with traps that will maim or kill you if you put one foot in the wrong place. What’s the wrong place? You’ll know when you step there. There’s no rhyme or reason to it. The pattern that gets you safely through one part might get you killed in another part.
It isn’t that every square inch of soil in the minefield means certain death, of course. But what would the ratio of safe ground to mined ground have to be before you could actually relax, before you could feel safe… before you could be safe, in practical terms?
Imagine that you and your entire family are woken up at dawn every day and made to cross the minefield in order to just live your lives. You’re not allowed to take the same route as each other. You have to watch each other as you make your way through an invisible deadly maze, never knowing if today will be the day but always knowing that it could be.
And one day, while you’re in the middle of that maze, watching your children or your siblings pick their way carefully around you, you say, “I HATE EVERY LAST INCH OF THIS FUCKING MINEFIELD.”
And then you hear a voice from up above you, from someone who doesn’t have to walk the minefield… someone who’s allowed to use a footbridge to bypass it every day while you’re inching your way through it, someone who gets a head start on everything compared to you and yours because they don’t have to go through the minefield…
And the voice says, “That isn’t fair. Sure, some of the minefield will kill you if you step on it, but it isn’t all like that.”
This is for every person who has come to me on both twitter and tumblr talking about “we’re not all like that”. I’m so sick of hearing that shit.
this is beautiful.
Bay. Sick. Lee.
(via animehrmine)
*TRIGGER WARNING - TRANSPHOBIA, TRANSMISOGYNY, AND CISSEXISM*
Urban Outfitters outlets have been selling this horribly offensive card. Please reblog and contact them to complain. The general Urban Outfitters email address to complain: UrbanEuropeCS@urbanout.com Company president, Richard Hayne: richard.hayne@urbanout.com
come on tumblr you can do it
Please please send them a message, this is a disgusting card
Is there anything Urban Outfitters sells that isn’t horribly offensive?
Reblogging to signal-boost.
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