I’m seeing a lot of people talking about Rebecca Sugar coming out like, “lmao did anybody think she was straight?”
Please don’t do this. Coming out can be one of the hardest things a person does, even when they play it off like it isn’t a big deal, especially given the circumstances Rebecca was under. Making jokes about how she was ~basically already out~ or that ~it was obvious~ is incredibly trivializing of the decision she felt she had to make, and furthermore becomes a serious issue of bi visibility and erasure when her coming out is met with remarks that sound an awful lot like, “Knowing she wasn’t straight was enough, we didn’t need to know she was bi.”
Just, please. Reconsider the way you’re talking about this.
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In my opinion, the most dangerous stereotype and one that allows racism to flourish is the one that “racists” are people who live in southern or flyover states, shop at WalMart, are Evangelical Christians, do not go to college, and vote Republican. A lot of urban, non-Christian, educated “progressives” like Lena Dunham do a good job of convincing themselves that they are not racist, b/c they drink espresso, and listen to jazz or Mos Def, and live in cities, voted for Obama and sometimes have sex with POC, and as a result, they give themselves free reign to engage in racism on a regular basis.
Commenter nicthommi in a discussion of Lena Dunham on Racialicious (via thefemcritique)
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so i just wanted to double check because i keep thinking about it. so i have bpd and so does one of my ex-friends. this ex-friend insists that they can’t be abusive because they have bpd. and that just seems so absolutely wrong to me
It is absolutely wrong. While having Borderline does not mean one is automatically abusive it doesn’t mean the opposite either. Anyone can be abusive and trying to excuse abusive behavior as mental illness does the stigma against PD’s and Mental Illness no favors.
I’m not saying your friend is abusive but I am saying they are wrong in their statement that you can’t be if you have BPD. They might be or they may not be, but the BPD has little influence on that.
~ Vay
Look at me. Look me in the eye. On November the 8th, 2016, one of two things will happen: Hillary Clinton will become president, or Donald Trump will become president. These are the only two possibilities. The superdelegates aren’t going to switch. An indictment isn’t coming. There is no third possibility. There is no space between the spaces where you can hide. Every vote for Donald Trump requires two Hilary Clinton votes to overcome. A Hillary Clinton vote can only be overcome by two Donald Trump votes. If you stay home, a Donald Trump vote doubles its power. This is the real, actual reality of the situation. There is not one other option.
And there’s no ctrl-alt-del for the election. Read up on 2000 if you doubt this.
And to those of us who supported Bernie, he WANTS you to vote for Hillary. If you believe in him and his mission you will follow his advice. He knows that writing his name in, or voting for anyone else besides Clinton, is effectively voting for Trump.
Refusing to vote for Hillary is a vote for Trump, no matter how much you scream and say how it’s not. And if you’re standing by to do nothing in regards to taking down Trump, then you ARE grouped along with the rest of the people in this country that ruin things for everybody else.
No, seriously, go read about the presidential election in 2000.
If you weren’t old enough to remember and/or understand the ramifications of the 2000 election, I WILL TELL YOU.
Do not let Trump win. Please. I beg you. I went to grad school with people who voted for Nader in 2000 and my FB feed is full of them begging others not to make the same mistake they did. Bernie has his priorities straight, and the priority is stopping Trump.
And if that doesn’t do it for you, this is the Republican platform 2016. It calls for:
- Conversion therapy for queer kids. Let me repeat that. CONVERSION THERAPY FOR QUEER KIDS. Some members of the RNC even wanted to endorse it more explicitly than they did.
- Zealous opposition to same-sex marriage. Here’s the quote:
- Reversing the Obama administration’s order to grant trans students access to restrooms, locker rooms, etc. The Republicans feel that such things should be based on biological gender, not gender identity.
- Treating internet porn as “a public health crisis.” Quote: “Pornography, with his harmful effects, especially on children, has become a public health crisis that is destroying the life of millions. We encourage states to continue to fight this public menace and pledge our commitment to children’s safety and wellbeing[.]”
- Gender discrimination. To quote Time magazine: “[T]he platform committee voted against including the word “gender” in a list of types of discrimination that should be opposed.
On Tuesday, one member described the attempt to add that word to a list including qualities like race, sex and creed as a “sneak attack.”
- Repeal of the Johnson Amendment. The Johnson Amendment currently prevents churches and other tax-exempt organizations from organizing politically, endorsing political candidates, etc. Repealing it would throw separation of church and state out the window…not to mention that it would give evangelical churches and televangelist organizations much more power, driving the country further to the right.
If you vote for Trump, these are some of the planks of the platform you’re voting for.
The distractions…
Shit is crazy out here
I swear I was just talking to my mom about how no one is talking about Flint anymore as if the water problem has ceased. Smdh
Hey guys here are some places still taking donations!
Bernie Sanders says he’ll vote for Hillary in November
Asked on MSNBC’s Morning Joe whether he’d vote for Clinton in the fall, Sanders, who plans to remain in the Democratic race through the party convention in July, responded, “Yes.” He went on to say that right now he has a job to do inside the Democratic party.
To everyone out there who threw shade and said they’d never vote for Hillary because they wanted Bernie. The man himself is voting for her, please do the same.
There’s this ableist idea that the default is for people to have zero disabilities
and mental illnesses. That’s why there’s a concept of there being
“too many diagnoses” – because people totally assume there’s like, a Perfectly
Normal Human to begin with and that that idealized body has zero brain
issues or disabilities.And that’s so wrong. That’s just as wrong
as assuming non-intersex, cishet middle-class white guys are the
Perfectly Normal Human of which everyone else is an imperfect copy.We’re not made from a mould. We have endless variations
and they aren’t divergence from some Perfectly Normal Copy,
they’re literally the way life functions. There is no perfect copy. There are only variations, some of which have the privilege of being normalized.But privileged people
see themselves as the default, and “too many differences” can seem “made up” to them, because they’re not used to relating to people who are different. Unfortunately we mentally ill/disabled
people absorb this idea too and it’s really hard to unlearn it when
we’re stuck in a society that’s constantly reinforcing it.We
have to be gentle with ourselves and with each other and work on
normalizing variations like mental illnesses, disabilities, etc., so the
focus can be on meeting the needs of people who have them instead of
just surviving ableism.
This is exactly why I don’t go to college.
Woahhh he basically said everything I’m feeling in four mins.
I’ll be waiting for this guys revolution. I need it.
Who this
exactly
Reasons y I took a semester off changed my major and why I’m still n school fuuuccckkk
Shit man
Jesus we’re literally crying because of the message here, WTG US
So what do you do when everything in the universe is telling you “go back to the thing you love to do” but you feel obligated to finish a degree you’re not sure you even want anymore?
And you’re also terrified of being poor and stuck?
Goddddddd I can’t with this tonight
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