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seriouslyamerica:

drst:

spacemonkeyg78:

angstbotfic:

AKA why the electoral college has gotta go. 

though looking at the comments the folks who live in the red part think this is why the electoral college has got to stay. because they like getting 3.5 votes per capita. 

Tyranny of the few is a pretty sweet deal if you belong to the few.

“Why should the coast’s vote count more?” BECAUSE THAT’S WHERE THE PEOPLE ARE AND THIS IS SUPPOSEDLY A DEMOCRACY.

A Map Of Where The People Live

tenderlesbian:

to be honest, people need to stop acting as if lesbians have to be absolutely disgusted and repulsed by the idea of dating a man (or being sexually involved with a man) in order to be a lesbian.

this kind of mindset leads to women telling themselves “oh, i guess i could tolerate being with that man. if i had to be with him, i don’t think i would vehemently hate it.” and they literally think that means they can’t be a lesbian?? which is far from the truth, in fact, if you’re telling yourself things like this you’re most likely a lesbian.

attraction is supposed to feel good. not tolerable. if you say things like “if i had to be with him-” just stop yourself right there, because you don’t have to be with him! don’t ever settle for being with someone who you just tolerate. don’t ever settle for being with a man who makes you say “i can put up with him, i can stand him. i can endure being with him”

Bleh. Just having one of those days where I just can’t break this bad mood. It didn’t hit me until the end of the work day but it’s stuck with me for the rest of the evening. It doesn’t help that I don’t have much for distractions :-/

marmoset-marmoset:

jumpingjacktrash:

roachpatrol:

aetherbox:

nevver:

Isolation

I am now imagining a trio of dysfunctional vampires or immortals or something. And 2-300 years later, one of them is still That Fucking Guy.

it’s not technology, buddy, it’s just that no one agrees with your entitlement to their attention

HEYO

roachpatrol nailed it. A lot of people are very bothered by being deprived of a “polite” way to interrupt and demand the attention of people who don’t want to talk to them right then, and dress this up as being concerned that people aren’t interested in the “world around them”, where the “world around them” actually means “engaging with me right this minute.”

calystarose:

controlledweirdness:

pleasekitten:

clara-the-slytherin-graduate:

lesoleilluittoujours:

School dress codes aren’t only sexists, but there’s also racist and islamophobic.

I (First Nations, Mohawk) used to have hair past my chest but my middle school forced me to cut my hair because “boys couldn’t have hair past the tips of the ear” (I’m not a boy either, but they assigned me ‘boy’ as a gender) but even when I begged them to let me keep my hair because of spiritual beliefs, they forced me to cut it. A classic move of the white school system against native children. I got a referral everyday for the 65 days I refused to cut my hair. I cried for two weeks after the principal took scissors to my hair. I’m still growing it back.

My best friend (who is an aboriginal Egyptian) was once told to remove her hijab (also a gift I had given her) because “hats weren’t allowed” (a mixture of racism and islamophobia), she reluctantly took it off.

In middle school again, my friend Nemo ( First Nations, Navajo) was told she couldn’t wear her traditional clothing on her 13 birthday, celebrating her reaching puberty. She was sent home and forced to spend her birthday alone while her parents worked.

Tomorrow is my 18th birthday, an important life event in Mohawk culture (becoming an adult) and I want to wear my traditional clothes to school, especially because I’ll have to celebrate all alone this year since I live far away from my nation. Even though my school doesn’t have uniforms or a strict dress code, I’m afraid they’ll tell me that my clothes or very light face paint are “distracting” and tell me to take off my traditional jewellery (headband, choker, bracelets) or wash off the face paint.

I’m sure these are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to racism in the school dress code, and general school systems. White culture is enforced in everything from the dress code to the curriculum.

many european countries explicitly prohibit wearing headscarves like the hijab in schools, too

Oh my god. And I thought school dress codes were only sexist. This is a whole new level.

don’t forget african-american students being sent home for or forbidden from wearing their natural hairstyles

Even when the school dress code appears to be ‘only sexist’ it is often applied in racist ways. My younger sister was quite a bit darker than the average white bitch at our high school and consequently her clothing was policed much more strictly.