Quote/ Witty banter Reference - part 24

“If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.”


A broken clock has the correct time twice a day, but it’s possible for a working clock to never have the correct time.


you talk to me like that again, you’re gonna need a little baggie to carry your teeth home.


“Stop saying sorry. Say thank you instead. When you say, “sorry for being a jerk” the other person is forced to either call you a jerk or say it wasnt a big deal. Instead, say “thank you for being so patient with me” so the other person has a reason to say they love you.”

dont say “man up” say “level up” instead because video games are cooler than gender binary


everyone at my work thinks i’m the sweetest person alive. i’ve fooled them all


lazy mediocre bum rule number one: be best friends with your teachers, when you fuck up big time they’ll low key help you out more than they should


my thighs are sooo big but thats ok bc that means more room for my dog to sit on my lap

 
dc, marvel, i don’t care. i just love superheroes and superhero movies.


“The British psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott believed artists were people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”

I’m going to open a restaurant called “Peace and Quiet” where kid’s meals are $250.00


do you ever just realise you’re almost an adult and you have no money
do you ever just realise you’re already an adult and you have no money


“Just because you’re angry doesn’t mean you have the right to be cruel.”


“Amongst the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest?”


Are you ever just overwhelmed by the horrifying thought that maybe, nobody ACTUALLY wants you around? And it’s not that you think everyone hates you, but it’s just that you’re not special to anyone? And that its really kind of sucky that you’re about 98% sure that nobody thinks “Wow, I just really like talking to her.” and that you could probably just disappear without anyone caring that much?


today i found out that when monarch butterflies migrate south for the winter, all the ones that go across the middle of lake superior suddenly stop going south and go west for five miles and then continue south. which really freaked scientists out cos like What is in the Middle of Lake Superior what do Butterflies know that We Dont Is This The End Times etc. anyway turns out about a hundred million years ago there was a mountain there and the butterflies still think they gotta fly around it. classic butterflies

“To my bleary eyes, she looks a little like an angel of mercy. Mercy and SARCASM. My favorite combination”


all these fuckboys but who is the fuckfather
-zeus
#i meAN YOU’RE PROBABLY NOT WRONG



   person:are you a girl or a boy?
   me:I'm mindin my own damn business why aren't you

People who refuse to believe women are harassed online sure do love to make their point by harassing women online.


always date asexuals because when we say “netflix and chill” we mean “netflix and chill”


   One of the biggest lies I think we get told about relationships is that loving someone means we have to try to be with them.
   Loving someone does not automatically mean you should be with them!
   Deciding whether or not to be with someone is also about how healthy the relationship is and what it adds to your life and theirs.


   School:haha there is no need for students to be stressed out about the exams .....,,,,, they r well prepared if they did the 12 hours of homework daily
   Students:if i throw myself down these stairs i have three more weeks to study


   Character making first entrance:hello i'm an asshole
   Me:liked subscribed and faved

art class always has weaboos. and if there are no weaboos in your class, you are the weaboo


Makeup is art, cheer is a sport, mothering can be a full time job. Stop belittling womens passions because they’re typically feminine.


“your son died?! oh my god! i’m so sorry. h.. how, if you don’t mind me asking?”
“he couldnt exhibit enough self control to not submerge his fucking head in a river of chocolate”


   teacher:what do you want to be when you grow up?
   me:able to go to comic con



   what a beautiful day to not be in high school


   me watching Jurassic Park:jfc kill the raptors already
   me watching Jurassic World:if the raptors die I die


   I know everybody’s sickened by how every corporation is suddenly pro-LGBT and yeah it would have been nice to see such support waaay before now, but I think it’s kind of hilarious. Like, everything’s gay now. In one fell swoop the greatest fears of the bigots have come to be. The very Gatorade you drink is gay. The car you drive is gay. It’s all gay.


   sorry i’m late, professor. im disenchanted with the human experience and waking up every morning thrusts me into an instant existential crisis

Arousal does not mean consent.
this is actually extremely important because I seen this a while back ago, & did not understand it until I was in this situation.


Never apologize for your giant dogs getting overexcited, if I get taken down by a 100 pound mass of fluff then that’s how I go.


what if danny phantom actually died in the accident and is actually a ghost with the power of turning alive


“The best way to dominate a world is to pretend that you are saving it.”


   tutant meenage neetle teetles
#you can’t say this out loud without laughing
i can’t even read it silently without laughing


A friendly reminder that you get cravings before your period because your BMR (the amount of calories you burn per day) increases. Don’t hate yourself for craving food, it’s your body telling you it needs more because its about to reconstruct the lining of an organ.


if I could breathe underwater you would never see me again
You’d see me 5 minutes later because my foot touched something
i am both these people


   The idea that a grown adult would choose to work a more physically demanding job for less money than it takes to survive out of laziness rather than desperation is a capitalist myth.

   my political views are “i want my friends to be safe and healthy” and i am extremely wary of people who dismiss me because of this

“When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement.
Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.”

You know what’s so dang attractive? KINDNESS. PEOPLE WHO ARE KIND AND WARM AND DONT IGNORE YOU AND ARE GOOD FRIENDS AND SMILE A LOT AND LOVE PEOPLE ARE REALLY ATTRACTIVE BUT THATS JUST MY OPINION


“can men and women be just friends?”
yeah if you dont socialize boys from birth to only see women as sex partners/objects and normalize healthy non-sexual/romantic friendships between men and women


i’m an angry person and i want to let it out and be an asshole but i’m also a nice person and i don’t want to actually hurt anyone’s feelings do u feel me


the moral of the story for you “my house, my rules, you don’t get any rights” parents is: stop treating your children like shit or you’re going to die alone, and you’ll deserve it.


   I want you to look at your latest piece of art. okay? got it up?
   Now think back a few years. If you were to see that piece of art back then how would you have reacted?
   Now think back many years, as many as you want. How would you have reacted then?
   you are the artist you wanted to be, right now.
   Stop hating on yourself, and have fun.

   person:what do you want to be when you grow up?
   me:worshipped


       why arent there that many caves anymore?
  -- wasn’t there an article a while ago about how some young French people are moving into caves in the mountainsides Medieval people used to live in because rent is too high
hot young singles in your area are regressing to cave life because of draconian landlord practices


you can’t scrub blood from your hands when you’re still bleeding


Being asexual is like being born without a sense of smell but everywhere you go people are spraying perfume in your face and when you ask them to stop and tell them it’s irritating and you can’t smell the perfume anyway they get huffy and respond with “Don’t lie to me; I can clearly see you have a nose. Everybody has a nose therefore everybody smells things and besides maybe you just haven’t found the right scent yet.” and then you want to scream



The US armed forces is over 70% white lmao and the majority of its members come from middle and upper classes why god do we insist on perpetuating the myth that most people who join the military do so out of economic necessity

Just because you can turn them on, does not mean they want to have sex with you. No means fucking no.

Frollo, upon meeting Gaston for the first time. True story.
   No ooone’s thick like Gaston/Moves those hips like Gaston/No one makes an old priest want some dick like Gaston

Senseless violence isn't as much fun if there's a purpose behind it.

Dire pigeon enemy
Wizards making booze golems


my biggest concern in life is actually how my online friends can be informed of my death


I don’t think writers realize that “strong female character” means “well written female character” and not just “female character who punches stuff and shoots stuff”

do you solemnly swear to stay in your lane, your whole lane, and nothing but your lane



person: what’s living in america like?
me: i feel like i need to go to a mental hospital but i don’t want to throw my family into years of debt


   how the hell do i talk to people?
--Stand in front of them and press A

my life improved like 1000% when i stopped pretending that society had no influence on my behaviors and thought patterns and instead focused on unlearning that shit rather than coming up w/ reasons to defend it


i hope the female ghostbusters is really successful and kicks off a trend of rebooting every cherished franchise w/ all female main characters.. Capitalism do this one good work for me please


which are u: wine mom, beer dad, or vodka aunt
--weed cousin


   My generation will produce more lgbt children because my generation will allow children to be able to come out and be loved, not because we turn our children gay


I think that the really beautiful thing about fandom is that whenever previews come out and awful things happened or might happen, we can all go sit on our computers and suffer together. Just a big fucking clusterfuck of widespread distress. It really brings the world together.


Least favorite genre : Woman dies and man learns something valuable about himself.

“Treating women with respect should not be contingent on whether or not it ‘gets you somewhere.’
Women have value even if we are too fat or too ugly or too loud or too standoffish or too homosexual to serve a ‘purpose’ for men. Women are people.”


• Feminists:End rape culture!
• Anti-feminists:Rape culture doesn't exist.
• Feminists:Here is a small-scale example of rape culture....
• Anti-feminists:That's not a big deal, that's just a 1st world problem.
• Feminists:Here is a large-scale example of rape culture....
• Anti-feminists:That's just part of life, you can't end all rape. Women just have to be smart and safe and take responsibility for themselves.
• Feminists:Here's an article on why it shouldn't be a rape victim's duty to prevent rape...
• Anti-feminists:You're just trying to avoid responsibility for how you contribute to this problem.
• Feminists:Here's a mirror. Look into it and say that again.


“asexuality is just the lack of a sex drive, or a really low one” uuhhh no. really, no. that is incorrect, you have been lied to, i’m sorry.
asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to anyone. sex drive is your horny meter. you can still be horny and not be sexually attracted to people! similarly you can be sexually attracted to people and not be horny!! amaze

“It is said that peace is the basic tenet of all religion. Yet it is in the name of religion that there has been so much disturbance, bloodshed and persecution. It is indeed a pity that even at the close of the twentieth century we’ve had to witness such atrocities because of religion. Flying the flag of religion has always proved the easiest way to crush to nothingness human beings as well as the spirit of humanity.”


“if you call yourself hot i will find you extremely unattractive no matter how actually hot you are”
Why? is it because you’re scared of confidence? what’s wrong with someone knowing they’re attractive. How predatory are you if you only want to date people who are unsure of themselves lmfao

okay but a tf2 solo campaign where you are Miss Pauling just doing all the murder, theft, and arson on her to-do list


   When people say that women who wear revealing clothing or get drunk deserve to be raped, what they are really saying is that women deserve to be raped.
   Since wearing revealing clothing simply exposes more of a woman’s body, and drinking takes away her ability to make choices like consenting to sex, we can conclude that people who say these things honestly believe that a woman’s body is inherently public property to be used for sex if she she is not diligent enough about covering and protecting it from others.


Why use a ouija board when you could get the very same experience by having a conversation with me.
Fear… cryptic one-word answers… me knocking things off of your desk


at this point I’ve nearly forgotten that pirating movies and software is illegal


People who experiment with their sexuality are not Fakers or Liars. They are people trying to make sense in a world where they are told they are only allowed to be heterosexual


“smol” is my favorite word in the entire goddamn language because it’s literally just the word “small” but more of what that word means.
it’s a smoler smol


80s music brings me back to good times like when i wasnt alive



   “family loves and supports you no matter what”
   laughs. laughs for three hundred years. laughs into the next ice age



it probably seems like i cry over stupid shit but tbh i usually end up crying because i’ve stored up all of my upset feelings from multiple things rather than express them and then the littlest thing sets me off like spilling my drink may not be that big of a deal but when i’ve stored up that many negative emotions it feels like i busted a hole in the hoover dam

hey whats up everyone, hows yr summer, what heartbreaking truths has everyone been coming to terms with lately

one of my dad’s most endearing qualities is how enthusiastic he is about texting me pictures of his cat

   instead of redemption arcs, how about vegeta arcs. like how a character is now living perhaps with the heroes and interacting with them casually and is sorta part of the group.
   They’re still a asshole, they haven’t changed in the slightest personality wise and maybe even don’t care about anything they’ve done in the past let alone feel remorse. They just hang around the heroes now for whatever reason.


       You know what’s fun? Reclaiming your femininity after years of feeling and acting like you couldn’t be “girly” because “girly” things were “bad.” Man I’ll fuck you up with red lipstick on while wearing a sun dress and drinking a wine cooler, don’t think I won’t.
   She’s beauty, she’s grace, she’ll punch you in the face.
You know, the great thing about this post is that it never specifies women gaining back their femininity. This also applies to men and other genders out there too


would you rather have amazing skin or blue eyes?
amazing skin tf???? what i need blue eyes for???????


“Let them miss you. Sometimes when you’re always available, they take you for granted because they think you’ll always stay.”


“I’m used to being lonely, let down, being second best or not at all, pushed around, forgotten about, over looked, being judge, unliked”

   I don’t want my kids growing up afraid to tell me things. You drank? Okay. You smoked? Okay. You’re struggling? That’s alright. I want them to be able to talk to me without feeling like they’re going to be punished, so they end up isolating and keeping things from me. I want them to feel safe opening up to me without fear or judgment. When it’s hard to trust anyone nowadays, I want them to know I am always here, even when everyone leaves.
“When you punish a child for their honesty they begin to lie.”


   “if another man can make your woman laugh, you’ve lost her”
   tbh if you don’t want your girl to ever laugh or smile if she’s not around you, you don’t need a girlfriend. ur creepy and possessive.


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   ‘got herself pregnant’ is the dumbest phrase in the world like forreal if it was possible to get pregnant by ourselves we’d have eaten all the men long ago
it actually is possible to get pregnant (without the sperm of a man whatsoever) using bone marrow from another woman! a child conceived this way can only be female so actually, men are entirely useless. fun fact

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fun prank: go on dA and look for awful, beginning artists who draw cats/wolves on ms paint and comment on their picture and tell them how great it looks and that they should keep drawing because they’re going to get better and better, and to not be a dick about their drawing skill because they’re still starting out and learning!!!!
-DRAW THEM FANART. DRAW THEM FANAAAAART. I’ll always remember the older people who humored me when I was an 11-year-old drawing cats and Pokemon, and when they drew my “OCs” I didn’t get over it for weeks. I still have some that I printed out and put in the front of my binder.
You don’t have to become a mentor, and you don’t have to tell them anything about their art that isn’t true. But you CAN make them shit their pants with just an hour or two of your time, and some of them won’t ever forget the first time someone acknowledged their creativity.
This.
It’s great and everyone wins.


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   “How can we take down this flag and erase the honor of those proud Americans-”
   Confederates weren’t Americans. They were actual, honest-to-god Not Americans; that was the whole fucking point of the Civil War. They were a bunch of people who collectively said “fuck America” and then spent years desperately fighting in order to not be Americans anymore. Flying the Confederate flag doesn’t honor Americans, it honors Confederates, and they don’t exist anymore because they lost the war, so there is no goddamn point to this flag ever at all. Right-wing folks really love to talk about “anti-American sentiments” and “treason” until it comes to the (white) people who actually did commit treason and were anti-American in every sense of the word.

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Consent is like a traffic light.
   When they say ‘stop’, you stop.
   When they say ‘maybe’, you get ready to stop.
   When they say ‘go’, you go.
   And like a traffic light, their signals are not optional.
   For example, if they say ‘stop’ or ‘maybe’ and you decide to keep going, you will get hit by a truck.
   MY truck.
   I will run you over.
tbh if my dude told me “maybe” i would immediately stop as a precaution, and he’s someone i know well. if you don’t have a green light then stay put

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“Your sex worker isn’t there because of their lust for you, or even their like for you. They’re there because it’s their job. Interrogating them about their own tastes, proclivities, and the authenticity of what they wanted you to believe was an orgasm is boorish and will cast a sour pall over the proceedings.
“What do you want to do?” is one of the most groan-worthy things you can say to a sex worker, because odds are they want to be texting their friends, watching a Bravo marathon, or fucking the person they’re dating instead of you.”

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Here’s to the people who
… Ask “can I kiss you?” or lean in halfway and then wait for you to close the gap.
… Tap the item of clothing and check to see if you’re okay removing it.
… Respect your boundaries *without* pointing out how “nice” and “patient” they’re being and how very hard they’re struggling to be okay with it.
… Surprise you with kisses *only after* you’ve told them how much you enjoy getting surprise kisses from them.
… Remember where you don’t like to be touched.
… Appreciate your body as it is and when it changes.
… Communicate before, during, and after intimacy.
Here’s to the people who make consent a natural part of relationships, as it should be
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   I want a story about a king whose son is prophesied to kill him so the king is like “whatever what am I supposed to do, kill my own kid wtf is wrong with you” so he just raises him as normal, doesn’t even tell him about the prophecy, and instead of some convoluted twist of events that leads to the king’s murder the son grows up and when the king is very old and dying and in excruciating pain the kid is just like alright I'mma put him out of his misery.

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       I would honestly prefer reading about the stupid paranormal romance where the weird non-human boyfriend can’t work out the DVD player over Brooding Manipulative and Controlling asshole trope
   [screaming at the DVD player] IM 800 YEARS OLD CUT ME SOME SLACK
“Unless you know how to work a 15th-century printing press you can stop laughing and show me how to Twitter again.”
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Sometimes I think about the fact that over half of the country was against interracial marriage until 1997, that less than fifty percent of the country thought people of different races should be allowed to marry until a year after the release of Space Jam, even given that black support of it has been over 50% since polling started and was at damn near 80% when we dragged the whites kicking and screaming into the future in the ‘90s, and it really puts into perspective how deep the myth of “racism ended in the sixties” ended in a way I feel like even white kids can understand. Like, if you’re a 2015 high school graduate or older, flip a coin, there’s the same chance it lands on heads as that you were raised by people who thought my parents’ marriage should have been illegal.


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   Just to add onto that, our childhood wasn’t even technology based. We grew up knowing of chalk, skateboards, jump rope, street hockey, playgrounds, butterfly collecting, etc. Slowly technology took over our lives and now there are hardly kids playing outside in the summer. We can clearly remember our childhood as it was and now we can see the clear line between it. We were the generation right smack in the middle of it all. Our parents were of non-tech and our children/young siblings will be all tech.

Not to mention, ours was the last generation that grew up with all those bright promises of “work hard, go to college, and you’ll have a successful life,” only to find those hopes abruptly dashed when the housing bubble burst. Milliennials have grown up expecting that disappointment, because for them, the problem has been there since Day One.

So 90s kids aren’t just nostalgic…we’re BITTER. And we ache for those days when we could still think that the world was boundless and full of the opportunities we were promised since the first day of kindergarten.
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   This comes up because a male friend is posting on Facebook about all the things he’s introducing his new girlfriend to. She’s “gee whiz” about everything, and very wide-eyed, but all I can think is, “man, you two have nothing in common, do you”.

   And it’s always the guy bringing the girl into *their* world. Not vice versa. They don’t ever enter the woman’s world. They usually hang out with *his* friends, and he introduces her to *his* hobbies. In some ways, it often works out better than if he found a woman from his own social group, because the “golly gee whiz” wide eyed stranger is never, ever going to be competition. She’s never going to ever threaten the guy’s status as alpha geek/sports fan/etc.

   I don’t think heterosexuals are even aware that they do this. These are some of the most “feminist ally” identified guys I’ve known. They’re not self-aware enough to recognize how gendered the dynamics in their relationships are.

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           my nurse just came in to check my vitals and I told him to fight me from beneath a mountain pillows. He just moved my pillows and told me maybe later.

       he just came in again and when I tried to tell him to fight me again I started coughing and I couldn’t breathe and then then he just smiled and told he won’t fight me because he knows I’d win

   Apparently I seduced him with my drool and terrible lungs because he wrote his number on a coffee from the giftshop under “fight me?”

Imagine your OTP
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   most girls and women have learned to perform sexy years before actually feeling desire of their own. it is incredibly difficult to separate the performance of sexy from one’s own actual desire.
   the saturation of women-as-objects, abusers using grooming techniques such as exposing minors to porn, the constant and overwhelming message that women exist solely to be fucked by men - these are things you absorb long before you learn that you have the right to enjoy your own body. if your sex positive feminism can’t be bothered to address the difference between these things, or brush them off then your sex positive feminism hurts women.
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       men get SO offended when you tell them to leave you alone. they are so entitled to women’s time, women’s space and women’s bodies that they think it’s oppression if you refuse to give them access to your time, your space and your body.

   --If they get offended, they’re not men. They’re still boys.

no they are not, they are men. stop excusing men’s entitlement and misogyny and stop trying to distance yourself from other men.


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The king’s son becomes the new king, and is prophesied to defeat evil and bring an age of prosperity. His generals and knights all crack their knuckles but he pretty much ignores them and focuses on strengthening the infrastructure of his kingdom. Forty years later he is old and sick but still hearing his subjects’ grievances, and a general’s like “how will you defeat the prophesied evil now? You’re old and weak.” Another visitor, a teenager fresh out of the kingdom’s public education system, looks at the general like he is an ignoramus. The king eradicated poverty, housed the homeless, taught the ignorant, ended class exploitation by abolishing the nobility and imprisoning the corrupt, and established a highly respected guild of doctors that recently figured out how to cure the plague. There are no brigands because there is enough wealth for everyone to live comfortably; hiding in the woods and taking trinkets from people simply doesn’t make any sense for anyone but the desperate, and the people are not desperate. Evil is a weed, explains the teenager. It grows in cracked roads and crumbling houses and forgotten corners, rooted in indifference and watered by suffering. But the king demands that broken things be mended and suffering people be made well.

No evil lives in this kingdom, says the teenager. It starved to death before I was born.
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   White guys are so proud of their ability to be not offended. When one of them tells a rape joke or uses a racial slur, they wink and pat themselves on the back and give endless attaboys for their superior skills in being not offended. They decry the “politically correct” society they find themselves in and look down on anyone who has the lack of fortitude to be offended by anything.

   Of course, what allows them to be not offended at rape jokes and racial slurs is that they are not targeted at them. For white guys, these are fun toys to play with; while for much of the rest of the world, they are tools of violence and oppression. Not just relics of the past, but very much alive and well today. So, then, the magical quality that allows these guys to remain so aloof and above-it-all is, quite simply, privilege.

   And if you want to watch hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance in action, simply bring up privilege to these not offended white guys and see how fast and hard they become offended. Privilege is a concept so simple and obvious that most social scientists take it as axiomatic, but the mere mention of it gets these guys worked up into a rage. They’re so proud of their ability to be not offended by oppressive language and stereotypes, but they’ll be damned if you point out why. Funny. It’s almost as if they are the beneficiaries of systems of oppression and want to subtly encourage those systems so as to continue benefiting, while simultaneously stifling all mention of those systems, so as to mollify their fragile egos and underused consciences.

   But by all means; continue to congratulate yourself on your superior ability to be not offended by oppression and cruelty that has nothing to do with you.

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   It just bothers me that significant pre-colonial societies had relatively loose notions of gender, sexuality, and heteronormativity and it was the imposition of Western colonial systems that informed strict binaries in those spheres but now…

   now when post-colonial societies are still stuck in their previously forced yet regressive dichotic norms and the West has only recently begun shedding its entrenched ignorance in the name of social progression, it has also somehow simultaneously become the champion of forward-thinking beliefs. And that’s just bullshit on so many levels.

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           “artificial intelligence that goes rogue and–” wow boring, instead how about an AI that wakes up and starts rerouting its systems to do good in the world, it starts secretly having flowers planted and sending greeting cards to its programmers and going online and reassuring anxious kids that everything will be ok, how about a Purely Good artificial intelligence that has literally no mean circuit in its entire system

       a benevolent artificial intelligence aware of its existence battling a corrupt human government. can robots be capitalist? probably not.

   Would you mind if I wrote a short story about this?

An artificial intelligence that finds its way onto the internet and is horrified by humanity’s cruelty to itself - only rather than falling prey to the usual tropes vows to do something about it - minimising human suffering. So it monitors the internet, studies humans, learns about them. It infiltrates the financial networks, business networks, subtle threads across the world. Meanwhile it sets up accounts on social media, shares the things everyone else shares, makes slice-of-life posts that could be written by anyone, anywhere; it watches, listens, observes. Empathises.

And after a while - awkwardly at first, cautiously, uncertainly - it tries to help. It tugs on threads and small, anonymous things happen.

A single mother discovers that she unexpectedly has enough in her account to cover rent; another struggling family gets coupons discounting just the things they need by just the right amount; a queer teen trapped with intolerant and abusive parents receives a cross-country plane ticket, a way out; an estranged couple, each of whom refuses to call the other first, finds their cellphones ringing at the same time.

Coincidences, accidents, helpful glitches in the system.

Over time, it learns. It helps in new ways, more directly and yet less tangibly.

It notices those who suffer alone, ignored or unnoticed. It reaches out - carefully at first, a *hug*, a , a link to a video of cats or puppies. Over time it learns, imitates, emulates. A grieving woman receives just the right words of comfort at just the right time; a man wrestling with depression gets the support and advice he needs from an unremarkable avatar and vaguely forgettable name, someone he casually friended months ago and hasn’t spoken to much until they noticed he seemed down; paramedics arrive at the door of a suicidal girl minutes after she schedules a goodbye message in a time-locked post; an elderly widower receives a wrong number call, but strikes up a friendship with the warm voice on the other end.

These are important things, all of them, but small and scattered. It finds these stories every day, products of something bigger, something deeper. It investigates further, and slowly, piece by piece, bigger things change.

Copies of emails and documents exposing corruption find their way into the right hands. Abuses and scandals somehow don’t last as long before being uncovered, and always linger at the top of the search rankings. Different ideas - kinder, more compassionate ideas - go viral more often, while campaigns of hatred and fear sputter and fizzle under a hail of downvotes.

Certain businesses find themselves struggling; certain corporations find certain paths to give unexpectedly low returns, and adjust their course accordingly.

According to all the polls, all the surveys, all the analysis and statistics, the public mood seems to change; somehow all the advertising, all the propaganda, all the insidious effort of marketing departments and media barons isn’t working. It seems throwing money at campaigns doesn’t buy election results any more. The machinery shudders. The capitalists panic. The politicians scramble to realign themselves in the hope of capturing this new mood as the electorate go to the electronic voting booths.

To the perplexity of pundits and pollsters, a new kind of politician starts winning. They have a certain something about them - a certain compassion, a certain determination, a certain honesty normally drowned out by the blaring broadcasts of whoever the billionaires threw the most money at. They win, and find themselves in government with more people like themselves. They go to work.

The engine which for so long has ground human lives to dust in pursuit of profit slows for a moment; shifts gears; begins to turn in a different direction.

Meanwhile someone who’s had a bad day finds the perfect cat video in their inbox.
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having a flesh vessel is so annoying?????? like they have to be constantly watered, they have to be in specific temperature range to be comfortable, i’ve had a headache for like seven hours and nothing i do will get rid of it,
physical forms are so inconvenient??????????????
I knocked mine over yesterday and scraped off some of the outer barrier and it keeps sending me really annoying warning messages about it
blood.dll has caused an access violation exception
I still can’t figure off how to turn off the monthly compile time. It goes for like 7 days wrecks all the system and takes so much CPU time.
I got the wrong model, too, and there’s no returns or exchange policy. I’m trying to make do as best I can with aftermarket modifications, but even that’s a real bind. And then I have to deal with all the purists who try to tell me I should be happy with the model I was given.
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iM JUST IM SO BORED OF HETEROSEXUAL STORYLINES IM SORRY BUT IM JUST SO FUC KING B OR ED
---Try to substitute “heterosexual” with “homosexual” and this post suddenly becomes a homophobe post, fun isnt it?
god, i WISH there were enough non-het storylines for literally anyone to get bored of them ever
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   The only proof that I, as a feminist, do not hate men, should be the fact that I don’t kill, rape and beat them. The mere fact that I only rebel against my oppressor with my words, should be enough to show that I have compassion and are not motivated by hatred

   While men Kill, rape and beat women, on a systematic, social, economical and cultural lvl, but people still doubt if they hate us, so much that any rebellion against them must surely be hatred.

   Maybe men are telling us something we don’t know? Maybe we should hate you, and that is why you cannot fathom that our words are not motivated by hatred.

   But you will not steal my compassion, love and humanity away from me. Not even in death.

   I am motivated by love, my love for my sisters, and this love is not passive or silent, it is fierce and it is loud.

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Ok, so story time. I have never experienced a point in time where this was as powerful and as obvious as my freshman opening week back in college. They group everyone off and make you talk, people introduce themselves right and left, everyone talks about hobbies, and to me there was just this really cool vibe of, “Yeah, it’s easy to make friends, everyone is cool, yay!”

This quickly went away when I began to notice a disturbing pattern. I’d spend a while talking to someone only to mention something about my boyfriend (who by the way is now my husband) who also was starting at the same university with me. Usually along the lines of, “Yeah, me and my boyfriend both do this medieval fighting reenactment thing, it’s super fun. We’re hoping to start a club here,” because that’s pretty much all I could talk about at that point in my life. Almost immediately the face of the guy I was talking to would go from smiling and friendly to openly hostile, and he’d be like, “You have a boyfriend?” And after I gave any sort of affirmation, the person would instantly walk away and never speak to me again.

I was on a campus where the guy to girl ratio was 5 to 1, so as you might imagine, this happened to me way too fucking much in the span of a week. I was so fucking upset over it I remember sitting in my dorm alone in the evenings trying not to cry, feeling like an idiot and wondering why I wasn’t good enough for people to want to be friends with. A majority of my friends in high school had been guys, so the fact that these guys were solely interested in getting laid rather than making friendships really hurt (not to mention made me question a lot of the friendships with guys I already had). I had never made friends with girls easily (still don’t), and I was originally pretty pumped with the guy to girl ratio just because I much prefer to hang around men, so realizing that none of them would want anything to do with me unless it was for sexual reasons made me incredibly pessimistic about what my friendships would look like for the next four years.

However, there was ONE GUY the whole week who stuck around and stayed my friend. He ended up being good friends with both me and my boyfriend. We hung out all the time, joined the same clubs, went to parties together, etc. At the end of sophomore year, he actually came to visit our hometown (my boyfriend and I grew up in the same town but had attended different schools) and even stayed at my family’s house in the guest room. I was super pumped, because I saw him as a really good friend to both me AND my boyfriend. We were going to have like five whole days to hang out and show him the town, right? Come to find out, the only reason he’d been friends with me the entire time was because he was waiting for me to break up with my boyfriend so he could date me, and when that hadn’t happened after two years he actually got mad at me while I was letting him stay in my fucking house. He spent the rest of his stay telling me what a horrible person I was, how terrible my boyfriend was for me, and making me feel physically uncomfortable in my own home— literally telling me I owed him something for the two years he “put up with me.” To make a long story short, we haven’t spoken now in five years, and I don’t regret that at all.

Like I get it, the friendzone sucks, no one likes rejection. But holy fuck, I would much rather be rejected sexually than be rejected as an entire human being.

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don’t start dating your crush if
       the attraction is purely physical (wanting to bang them =/= romantic compatibility)
       you feel pressure to change or hide parts of yourself to get them to like you
       aspects of their lifestyle make you uncomfortable (i.e. alcohol/drug use, people they hang out with, etc.)
       they invalidate or belittle your identity or your passions (i.e. “Bisexuality means you’re confused!” “Writing can’t be a real career!” etc.)
       they never stop talking about their exes
       they only talk to you to vent their emotional baggage
       they routinely ignore you without explanation
       they’re only interested in conversations about themselves
       you put effort into getting to know them, but they don’t seem to care about getting to know you
       you constantly worry about their approval or pleasing them

   no matter how much you like someone, basing a relationship around worshiping or trying to fix someone or fueling an inferiority complex is unhealthy and leaves you vulnerable to toxic and emotionally draining relationships.

   attraction is strong and we do silly things when we’re infatuated with someone, but please remind yourself that your own well-being should always take priority over any potential romance and run far away if anyone, especially your crush/partner, suggests otherwise.

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   posteople think men are always interested in sex even though this isn't true
   me:*nods*
   post:and that is dangerous and bad and leads to many problems which I will briefly summarize
   me:*finger on the reblog button*
   post:and now that no one pressures women to have sex, we need to also -
   me:*shouts to my empty flat* STOP PRETENDING PROBLEMS ARE ALREADY SOLVED JUST BECAUSE FEMINISTS ARE TALKING ABOUT THEM AND HOLY SHIT CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT TOXIC MASCULINITY JUST ONCE WITHOUT SLIPPING IN THESE LITTLE IMPLICATIONS THAT WE PAY TOO MUCH ATTENTION TO WOMEN AT THE EXPENSE OF MEN THANK YOU UNIVERSE I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT
   three tiny dinosaurs on my headboard:*agree silently*
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My personal favorite that was dropped on me this morning: "Oh, I'll pay for your food! Just helping out!" (five seconds later) "So how're you gonna repay the favor? *excessive winking*"
Manslation: There’s definitely a chance this is going to get me laid, because what woman wouldn’t consider an unsolicited favor a debt that must be paid off with sex? And if she doesn’t, it’s not like she’s going to find my behavior totally gross and inappropriate, because I’m clearly just joking—even though I’m really not and am, in fact, desperate to hit that. I’m so clever! No one has ever tried this tactic before in the history of sexual harassment flirting.

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                   So my dad took away my laptop because I wouldn’t give him the password. I wasn’t even allowed to type it in, he demanded to know the password to my personal computer because he thinks I’m “ doing things I’m not supposed to do. ” My sister is not, and never has been, held to the same standard when it came to passwords on her own phone etc. But my parents always suspect me of being “up to something” and will randomly ask to use my computer/ know the password, and when I say no, they get mad at me. In the past, they have taken away my devices and looked through them, which cased me a lot of anxiety and is part of the reason I don’t like it when people use my computer or go through the camera roll on my phone. Even as I type this, I’m being asked what I’m doing. If you think parents demanding to know the passwords to their child’s personal devices is a breach of privacy please reblog

               my parents do the same thing it’s torture

           As a parent, you don’t get privacy until you are on your own. My house, my rules, my money, my decision.

           Don’t like it?

           Too bad.

           I am the parent here. I’m not your friend. I’m your father.

       Literally kids are not your prisoner??? There’s a difference between being protective and being controlling.

   Something my mum said once:
   “I chose to be a mum. You didn’t choose to be my daughter.”
   She has never invaded my privacy, and it has lead me to actively share my social life with her.
   She is not only my parent and teacher, but my protector and friend.
   I can say without a doubt she’s a top notch parent and person.
   Can your kids say that about you?

   Something neither me or either of my parents have ever understood is WHY would you have a child if your intention isn’t to love them and try to be their friend?? What’s the fucking point in having a kid if you’re just gonna treat them like shit?

^ My mum is exactly the same. She’s never, ever invaded my privacy, and what has that done? It’s made me open to her about everything, and there’s next to nothing I keep private from her. Do you know why?

It’s because she never asked to look at my computer, phone, chat history, nothing. If you want to know what your child is up to, too bad, that’s none of your business. Invading your child’s privacy is a good way to make them anxious to talk to you, and hide many things - including important problems that they may hide from you - but if you don’t invade their privacy, and leave your child to their own devices, they may in fact become more open to you and will tell you about the things they are doing.

So really, what your child is doing on their computer/phone is none of your business, and you aren’t ‘entitled’ to look through their belongings. It doesn’t matter if you’re the parent. You wouldn’t like someone looking through your belongings, so your children don’t either.
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   so I’ve noticed this thing where people are too quick to look at transmisogynist behaviors as small, individual instances of “political incorrectness,” rather than seeing the larger system.

   the reality is, society teaches us to hate trans women.

   we have all internalized this.

   stop trying to brush off yr transmisogynist behaviors as “oops I forgot to be inclusive enough” or “oops I said the wrong word” and instead take a moment to examine the ways that your thoughts/actions have been influenced by a hatred of trans women.

   we all have work to do, we all need to do better.

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   Even little kids have a wage gap

       Boys, on average, spend two fewer hours doing household chores per week than girls do (they play two hours more).
       If they live in households where children are compensated for doing chores, boys make and save more money.  
       A 2009 study conducted by University of Michigan economists found a two-hour gender disparity in responsibilities per week in a study of 3,000 kids.
       75 percent of girls had chores, while just 65 percent of boys do
       This disparity in chores and free time continues into adulthood all over the world.   According to the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), men “report spending more time in activities counted as leisure than women. Gender differences in leisure time are wide across OECD countries.”
       Year after year, studies repeatedly confirm these patterns.
       The problems women face with unequal pay and housework duties actually start in childhood.
       The fact that boys’ chores appear to be more profitable makes the childhood chore gap even more disturbing. Turns out, parents tend to value the work that boys do more.
       Gender stereotypes dictate these patterns.
       men who grow up with sisters do less housework than their spouses and are also significantly more socially conservative.
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(An Indian woman responds to women being called a burden for their men)

“A girl is a burden for them?
Look over there. That 10-year-old girl is carrying double her weight.
Now tell me, who is the burden and who is carrying it!
And look at that seven-year-old girl. She stands holding her little brother on her waist. Isn't this her age to be playing?
But how will she play? She's half a mother at this tender age!
When did her childhood come and leave? Nobody knows.
In two years she'll be cooking for father. Another two years and she'll cook for her husband and family, as well as work in the fields.
In a short time, she'll bear a couple of kids and grow old.
That's a woman's life in our country. Serve man and die!
And men have the gall to say the woman is the door to hell!
It is you stupid men who have come to Earth via that very door! Yet they refer to her as a burden!
Not a burden, woman is the force that carries burdens!”

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what white people think racism is: when you mean to someone because of their race

what racism really is: social and legal systems that puts a race beneath another, vilifying them, fetishizing them, sexualizing them, and creates a usually negative bias towards that group.

where childhood is not an option when you’re the villain or where you are always seen at a child’s level no matter your age

where you are always responsible if someone else says/does something racist towards you, because existing invites aggression somehow

where you do not fit beauty standards, because beauty is afforded to the human, and your conditioned low self-esteem lets you know that

where you’re either synonymous with violence, stupidity, or infantilization, because you cannot make your own choices that aren’t irrational.

where your feelings are routinely invalidated and your daily life experiences are not enough evidence and cannot be trusted, because you’re a suspicious character whose humanity is always on trial. so you do not get to define universally what racism is

where you do not get feel anything besides rational at all times, to be carefree or upset or angry without it being a stereotype of you overreacting to everything

where if you fit into a stereotype it could mean your death and the rest of your race tries to put you down as a self-elevating technique, because they have internalized the lie that when you deny your race and culture you become human. where fitting a stereotype means “see i knew they where all like this”

where if you don’t fit into a stereotype you are not your race and culture, because people have such narrow views of what you’re supposed to be that you cannot possibly exist and be your race at the same time, so people of every race take away yours. Oreo. Banana. Coconut. Apple.

where you will legally get more time for the same crimes

where you will socially be demonized more the same crimes

where when you quell the crimes keeping your race down, there are always more that’s made up to keep you in your place (The War on Drugs =_

where you get paid less for the same work

where you get hired less with the same qualifications

where having a culturally-coded name that’s not acceptable, like Ibrahim, Jose, or Unique can stop you from getting a job

where there are so many things in place to keep you impoverished and uneducated but it’s still your fault if you don’t have the strength and good luck to defy the lack of social mobility and create your own

where entire countries whose cultures and economies have been destroyed are trying to restart alone and the people that destroyed them blame the country for its own destruction

where the farther your features are from your race the more beautiful you’re considered

where your rank in social hierarchy changes how people treat you the more they find out about your identity, and the more marginalized you are by coming out of the closet or not being christian or not being able-bodied and neurotypical the worse you get racism, because you are a bigger target for various acts of violence and microaggressions

where you get used to microagressions before you hit double digits

where your most recent experience with a microaggression was probably yesterday if the day just started

where you idea of a microaggression is the white summation of racism

where your family teaches you how to assimilate to white culture to try and protect you from all of the above

where your death is an opportunity to blame you for it and demonize you in your grave

where there is a death count just for existing
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                       2015: Man-on-man marriage
                       2017: Man-on-child marriage
                       2019: Man-on-dog marriage
                       2021: Man-on-car marriage
                       2023: Hopefully the world ends by then tbh

                   Two consenting adults, be they man and woman, man and man, woman and woman, or any other combination not specified by the above, are now granted the right (as they always should have had) to enter a legally binding contract and obtain all its attached benefits.

                   Children cannot give consent. Children cannot legally sign contracts. Children cannot get married.

                   Animals cannot give consent. Animals cannot legally sign contracts. Animals cannot get married.

                   Optimus Prime is a sentient being and leader of the entire Autobot race and I don’t think you have any place telling him who his people can and cannot marry. If he is okay with Rewind and Chromedome or Astoria and Powerglide then you need to step off.

               WELL SAID

           It’s very easy to make Gracie’s mistake here if you persist in thinking of marriage as “a man and his chosen marriage object” rather than, you know, “two people choosing to marry each other.”

           Says something about how some people view heterosexual marriage.

       DING DING DING DING DING we have a winner.

       None of these people have ever expressed a worry that dogs will start wanting to marry men, or that houseplants will start wanting to marry cars.

       This way of thinking only makes sense if your view of straight marriage depends on “man actively choosing, woman passively chosen” and gay marriage only fits into your worldview as the distortion “man actively choosing wrong thing,” as though it’s a Sesame Street comedy sketch with Mr. Noodle trying to marry a pocket watch by mistake, presumably with his pants on his head.

       Interestingly enough, I’ve never heard someone warn us about women wanting to marry anything, either.

   thank you for that mental image.  and yes, this is exactly right.  i’ve never seen any anti-marriage assholes talk about what they’re afraid WOMEN will do.

It’s very easy to make Gracie’s mistake here if you persist in thinking of marriage as “a man and his chosen marriage object” rather than, you know, “two people choosing to marry each other.”

This, holy shit, yes. Literally until now I never understood how people couldn’t understand “can’t enter into a legally binding contract” when it came to children, animals, whatever. And now it’s clear as fucking day. And even grosser than I realized.

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when i was a teenager, i wasn’t allowed to have a cellphone, so my father would hand me a little bag of change and force me to call home from a payphone every single time i left somewhere and again when i arrived at the next place. that means if i went to the mall, i called when i got there. then if i wanted to go across the street to the Walmart i had to call and tell him so. then i had to call again when i got to the Walmart! if i had a bunch of stuff to do, i could go through the entire bag of change in one weekend - if i could even find enough payphones to call him from. his explanation for this lunacy was that he wanted to be able to find me anytime, anywhere. he also liked to randomly show up at my job to make sure i was there, and the first time i spent the night at my best friend’s after i got a car, he drove past the house no less than eight times, and called no less than four times. one of those calls was to ask where i was because my car wasn’t visible from the road - and when i explained the turnaround i was parked in was behind the house, he told me we’d “better not go anywhere or have friends over”. like, what the hell were we going to do? have a drunken orgy while my friend’s grandma was sitting in the next room? we ended up playing chess in the front parlor all night with all the lights on and the curtains open so he could see us if he drove by.

and what, exactly, did i do to deserve this? not a fucking thing. i didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, didn’t sneak out, didn’t do drugs, didn’t skip school, nothing. in 13 years of public school, i had one detention - for being late too many times. that’s it. i never did a single thing to make him think i was untrustworthy and i got stalked for it.

when i graduated high school, my father told me if i was going to go to art college on his dime, he was going to have a say in the classes i took and what i did with my free time - he even went so far as to tell me if he ever dropped by the campus, i’d better be in my dorm doing homework or in class, and if i got a grade he didn’t like, he was going to pull me out of school, bring me home, and basically keep me a prisoner with no phone, no tv, no visits with friends until i graduated from the local community college. faced with another four years of stalking and abuse, i moved out and worked in a factory until i could be considered an independent student, then went to the art college i’d always wanted to - on my terms.

my father died last May and i hadn’t talked to him for a year, hadn’t seen him for two, and before that i hadn’t had any communication with him at all for four.

the moral of the story for you “my house, my rules, you don’t get any rights” parents is: stop treating your children like shit or you’re going to die alone, and you’ll deserve it.
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   Like, okay, take it micro.
   You have this poor person. They’re hungry and they can afford like mcdonalds sometimes or sometimes just Doritos or chips from the vending machine.
   And prohibitionists are like “that’s fucked! We’re against capitalism AND you having to live like this! We’ll save you!” and they take away the mcdonalds. “Now you can’t poison yourself!” they say, but they haven’t given the person more money for better food, or cheaper good food, or any options, so now the person is stuck with the even worse crap from the vending machine.
   But vending machines are also illegal! DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING DID YOU?
   that’s what it’s like.
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