75% of Americans think being Transgender is a choice.
Compared to 47% thinking that being gay is a choice. (http://www.queerty.com/47-of-america-thinks-being-gay-is-a-choice-and-yet-43-supports-gay-marriage-20091218/)
Dear LGB people, we’ve fought for and supported your rights, mind returning the fucking favor?
Am I the only one who thinks pegging this on the LGB community not doing enough is silly? I recognize that there’s still a huge disparity in representation between the LGB and the T, but really? LGB is still not accepted in society and as a large human rights movement it’s been louder and more public for longer. Just as LGB acceptance is (slowly slowly) increasing, so is trans*. Of course it should be part of the LGBT community’s job to help that cause, but saying it’s the LGB community’s fault that there’s still a disparity is BS. I know there are problems within LGBT, but they’re not the only problems, and I personally don’t think they’re the biggest we have to be worrying about.
Anyway. It’s late and I have a lot of feelings.
Are you for real here?! Just because cis LGB people don’t have full equality doesn’t mean that we should focus on the lack of representation of trans people, transmisogyny within the movement, and the fact that we have less rights than them. Are you joking? How is marriage equality more important than me being considered a human fucking being. What’s more important than me having legal protections? Tell me. Right to my face. Tell me.
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In my end is my beginning.
Here’s Mitt sucking the life essence from a human child.
OMG look at that baby’s hair!
Today in Anderson Cooper making people look stupid simply by asking questions: This lady. It may be the best entry in this subgenre of news since this video. (via pbump)
(via think4yourself)
“Four hundred and eighty-eight voters, all but four lifelong Democrats, and nearly all Black, had their voting history erased by Shelby County (Memphis) election workers, setting them up for purge from the voter list. These selective alterations appear to target the race of US Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-09).”
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Bev Harris details yet another example of GOP election fraud, after the new tightened election restrictions have been passed. This is what they were intended to do all along, incidentally. (via jonathan-cunningham)
i need somebody to connect this shit to the murder of trayvon and the protection of george zimmerman and the imprisonment of marissa alexander—-i am working all day so i just don’t have the time—but y’all, this shit is ALL interconnected. in historical ways that are connected to slavery and jim crow. and they are terrified of us *seeing* that theyre all interconnected.
UGH.
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(Source: bradblog.com, via bitterseafigtree)
“Woman was on the phone being interviewed for a job and this guy took her phone to put in a good word.” via @dan4lopez
#gooddeeds
#hire her or i’ll send you dead fish for the rest of your life
I hope the interviewer isn’t Republican.
“The institution of marriage is not under attack as a result of the President’s words. Marriage was under attack years ago by men who viewed women as property and children as trophies of sexual prowess. Marriage is under attack by low wages, high incarceration, unfair tax policy, unemployment, and lack of education. Marriage is under attack by clergy who proclaim monogamy yet think nothing of stepping outside the bonds of marriage to have multiple affairs with “preaching groupies.”
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Rev. Otis Moss III, Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ (via touchoftea)
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Gimme a break,
If you think you’re oh so righteous, use the actual term.
It’s called abortion.
It makes you “Pro-Abortion”.
I hate euphemisms for a reason.
I’m pro-abortion.
You get an abortion.
You get an abortion!
EVERYBODY GETS AN ABORTION!
My abortion was the best decision I’ve ever made. Abortion is important, abortion is the reason I am ALIVE today (and you totes care about Life, right?)
I am pro-Abortion.
I’m pro-abortion
hell fuck yeah!
(via green-street-politics)
I learn a lot about things because of Tumblr. I hear about new things and am purposed with researching them and formulating an opinion, making me a more-faceted, more interesting person. But this is one thing I just can’t seem to agree with.
Exploitation, that’s wrong. But because I’m a white American, I shouldn’t have been allowed to learn Japanese martial arts? Or study Indian and Thai culture and religion? To adopt the most beautiful things from every culture, to live my life in the best way possible?
Many things from outside of my heritage have changed my life, permanently and for the better. Just because it isn’t called discrimination doesn’t mean that it isn’t.
It’s almost as crazy as saying that you HAVE to pick an organized faith and believe everything in it, good and bad.
I very much prefer cultural assimilation. Because that’s what it is… it’s about the education of people from different cultures to make one, larger, better culture.
This is an article you need in your life:
http://clairelight.typepad.com/seelight/2009/01/defining-cultural-appropriation.html
As a geek, I just want to point out the cultural context of the word you picked. Assimilation. You say it like it’s a good thing. Here’s a quote that many other geeks will be familiar with:
“We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.”
And in defense of cultural appropriation it is way, WAY too apropos. Because it’s exactly what you’re condoning, though you probably didn’t mean it to fit so perfectly. Of COURSE you, a person of cultural privilege, are all up for assimilation. You’re the Borg in this scenario. You get to take the best and shiniest of all that you see and add it to yourself to further your personal abundance. We are the people it is taken FROM, and it leaves us diminished.
Cultural appropriation is stealing.
It’s not to be confused with sharing or cultural discourse, in which two cultures share and reflect fashionable trends; that implies a willingness of both cultures and equality between the cultures. Cultural appropriation is theft of important, especially sacred items by a culture that has the power to steal those items - because the dominant culture finds them aesthetically pleasing.
One of the greatest disservices that privilege does to -everyone- is that people who have privilege are led to believe that everything in the world is theirs to have.
Learning Japanese martial arts that are taught to you by Japanese people or Americans of Japanese descent isn’t cultural appropriation because this is a skill set that you are being given (or sold) freely by a member of the community. That’s a case of cultural syncretism, as discussed in the article above. When you study a culture using materials provided to you by members of that culture, when you enjoy cultural food or music or performance, when you enjoy a visual aesthetic etc you are not participating in cultural appropriation, but cultural celebration. No one is trying to take that from you.
It’s when you try to take shit that isn’t offered, including identity, that the record scratch and cold stare happens.
It’s when white people read books by white people about nonwhite people that turn nonwhite people into a hollow, exotified other, excluded from the ongoing conversation.
My culture will not fucking adapt to service you.
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thequietworld | wecouldliveonthesun:
is there a lisa evans fanclub yet or
#petition for a lisa evans cameo in marvelverse as cap’s mom y/y
Oh man, go mom
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<3 Cassey
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“Perhaps you should consider leaving the country. Your ancestors used numbers and ignorance to brainwash white americans into believing multiculturalism works. It’s unfortunate for my race, and this country, that it has had the adverse affect. It is a failure. There are many negroes who believe in racial separatism. I applaud these neanderthals. Instead of bitching about what happens to you, why don’t you leave. Europe doesn’t want you either. Try South America, or back where you came from.”
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this is an actual ask that was actually put in that girl’s askbox who was hit with eggs and rocks. this is a thing that actually happened. (via roddylaughingalonewithshittypuns)
bye.
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Brazilian soccer legend Pele and English legend Bobby Moore swap jerseys after a match in the 1970 world cup. Racism was a major issue at the time in the world.
Racism was a major issue at the time in the world.
Oh really? I was not aware of this whole ‘racism’ thing up until this point, please go on.
hahahahahahahaha RACISM ENDED IN 1970. It was captured in this picture. The more you know, people. The more you know.
awesome commentary
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