The front page of today’s Daily News issue
when you’re so used to shitty airplane stories that this one makes you exhale with relief
^^Seriously. I saw the older white guy and was like “Oh shit”. Then, “yay!”
Thanos could’ve killed 100% of all mosquitos and racists, but he chose not to, and for that reason, he’s a bitch
Capitalism is literally the most nonsensical and inefficient system ever. Like how is this a fucking problem. Scarcity exists where it shouldn’t
things i am going to teach my children later: the “pick one favourite” syndrome embedded in our culture is stupid and useless
it starts at fucking pre-school, in those little get-to-know-me books, and it never ends. favourite colour? mother tongue? favourite character? best friend? favourite sport? song? movie? book? series? band? toy? no you can only pick one
and i am deeply convinced that this is intrinsically linked to one of the things that annoys me the most, which is that in our society, it’s considered a sign of maturity to prioritise one thing, and often specifically one person, above everything else. i mean, priorities are definitely important, but you are also absolutely allowed to equally enjoy/love/feel connected to different things without constructing some kind of hierarchy where one of them always wins out
“you can only like one gender, you can only be one (of the two “biological” - ha) genders, you can only have one partner, you must have one best friend, you must have one favourite activity (preferably your job, bc that makes you a functional member of society) because clearly if you love multiple things, you must love them less than if you spent all that love on one thing”
this rhetoric creates so much guilt and jealousy - as if love is a finite concept.
(incidentally it is also possible to genuinely love something without it being one of the things you love the most, and that doesn’t make that love any less valid, but that’s another discussion)
when will the straights™ understand that literally the only reason there seems to be more queer people nowadays than there were a few decades ago is because it’s relatively safER now to come out than it was in 1970 or 1933. It’s not a “trend” that young people came up with. Why is this a hard concept to grasp? being non-cis and/or non-straight was considered illegal and a mental illness. Coming out or showing any sign of queerness in public caused people to be imprisoned or put in mental institutions. And guess what, the LGBT+ community is STILL not fully accepted or treated decently in the majority of the world.
Also, the community is starting to recover from the aids crisis
sure, not all men, but a lot of men, and we have no way of knowing which ones
“sure, not all black people, but a lot of black people, and we have no way of knowing which ones.”
This is exactly how you sound.
“sure, not all muslims, but a lot of muslims, and we have no way of knowing which ones.”
lettuce consult the fbi data:
Of the 1,864 women murdered in 2010, 91% were killed by men. (by contrast, of the 3,872 men murdered, only 9% were killed by women). Of all the women murdered (by either sex), over a third were killed by a husband or boyfriend. women have legitimate reason to fear men, even the ones they know.
Of the 3,327 white people murdered in 2010, only 13% were killed by black people. 3% were killed by other or unknown races. white people do not have a statistically legitimate reason to fear other races.
women’s fear of men is based in reality, not bigotry. white people’s fear of other races is based in bigotry, not reality.
This deserves much more than 294 notes
