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Fun fact time: many of my old acquaintances still make joking comments whenever they see me wearing pink, because as a child (and honestly pretty much right up to high school) I would refuse to associate with any pink objects.
It wasn’t because I didn’t like pink, it was because since I appeared female I was supposed to/ it was immediately assumed that I did and therefore it pissed me the ever-loving fuck off. I was ashamed to like it, which is terrible because pink is an awesome color. But when you shove it down young girls throats it gets really old, really fast.
Give the child the fucking rainbow, and if they pick pink, it’s not because they are female and/or effeminate, it’s because they like the color pink.
THIS.
Gosh this
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Rape is just a “method of conception,” relegating women to the means of conception, instead of, you know, people whose experiences, hopes, and fears actually matter…
Fundamentally, the debate over abortion is a debate over what we make of the fact that some of us in this world can have babies. For pro-choicers, “being able to make babies” is a nifty thing to be able to do, like being able to play the piano or being able to bake pies. It’s your skill, your ability. You should use it how you like…
For anti-choicers, the fact that someone can make a baby means that making babies is what she is for. People mistake the term “objectification” to mean “looking at with lust,” but what it actually means is “reducing someone to an object to be used.” Sexual objectification is assuming that because women turn you on, they are for sex, instead of a person whose sexuality should be an expression of their agency. What anti-choicers engage in is reproductive objectification. Women are among an array of objects to be used. The refrigerator is for storing food. The bookshelf is for holding books. The woman is for making babies. You no more give her a choice in the matter than you would give your refrigerator veto power over what food it hold because it didn’t like your method of shopping.
"- Amanda Marcotte, She’s Just an Easy-Bake Oven: How the GOP and the Anti-Choice Movement See Women (via seebster)
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“Have we become a people who will support our big banks with nearly free loans, while we crush our kids who are trying to get an education? … This is morally wrong.”
Senator Elizabeth Warren slammed the GOP for blocking a bill that would prevent the interest rates on student loans from doubling in July.
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Teen Win Lose or Draw - 1989 with Wil Wheaton and Josie Davis
Great submission from forevertiffy
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2x13 - Monkees in Texas
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preschoolers, bluring the line between psycholinguistic insights and stoner talk
I knew it!
Which Birth Dates Are Most Common, from Matt Stiles’ The Daily Viz
(ht r/dataisbeautiful)
My birthday (Aug 8) is very common yet I’ve only met one person with the same birthday as me.. and he’s my twin brother.
I guess this means December is the most magical month.
I keep hearing that August/September are big months for birthdays, but when I was a kid it sure felt like everyone was born in the spring, or at least those were the birthdays that everyone made a big deal about. My birthday is September 27 and my birthday was like 6 months before all of my friends’. My high school had a balloon store for people to buy balloons and decorate their friends’ lockers on their birthday. It was NEVER even open until at least October. My locker was never decorated. Not even once. Of course that’s also partly because some of the people I thought were my friends didn’t really give a shit about me, but that’s another complaint…
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