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Fri, 24 May 2013 22:17:34 -0700

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missgingerlee: shamaninasuit: Please help! Richmond, VA,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:30:16 -0700

shamaninasuit:

Please help!

Richmond, VA, 23235

This is my cat Butterball, whom I’ve had since he was born. (I helped deliver him.) He’s a very good cat, and very important to me. However, I am going to be homeless starting on the 29th of May— I won’t have any way to support him or a place to keep him.

I love him very much, and I don’t want to take him to an animal shelter— I’d much rather see him go directly to a loving home, so I’m hoping that someone in the area can take him in. (In the future, if it’s possible, I’d really like to get him back, but as long as he’s with a loving family…)

He is an orange and white adult (older, but not elder) male cat who has been neutered. He’s very smart, and knows several words, including ‘no,’ ‘food,’ ‘snicker snacks (treats)’ ‘outside,’ and ‘lay down’. He’s litterbox trained but prefers the outside. He’s usually too lazy to hunt, but he loves to cuddle with people and is a very affectionate cat. He also loves people food, and is a terrible begger— and be careful if you have roast beef around him, he’ll go straight for it!

His health is good, but he sneezes a lot and sometimes likes wet cat food when he can get it because he is missing some teeth. (This is not a requirement, but he’ll love you for it!)

He’s a very lovely cat, and he deserves to find a loving home. Please, if you’re in the area and can possibly adopt him, please send me an ask and I’ll give you contact details to reach me. If you can’t, I humbly ask that you reblog this— I trust tumblr to help me find someone loving for him.

Signal boost, y’all.

Because Butterball.

I wonder if Nami realizes how tiny this kitten really is,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:17:52 -0700

I wonder if Nami realizes how tiny this kitten really is, considering how terrified she is.

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Fri, 24 May 2013 20:34:39 -0700

Call of Duty got a playable dog character before it got any playable women characters

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:51:36 -0700

mercy-misrule:

sendificator:

silentmania:

weeaboo-chan:

brotherentropy:

tsunderisse:

geoomega:

because it’s marketed more to men than to women

you’re a misogynist.

i like the implication that men find it easier to emotionally connect to a dog than a woman and that that’s for some reason not an extremely fucked up thing about our culture

who wants to fund my kickstarter for a device that will let me directly piss on the entire video game industry

I find it wayyyy easier to make an emotional connection with animals rather than women. That doesn’t make me a bad person or sexist, it just means that a dog isn’t as complicated to me as humans (male/female/whatever) are.
p.s. Smile. :)

>:(

no seriously, lets fuckin set video games on fire

i just….

fuck this awful mess

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Fri, 24 May 2013 17:09:03 -0700

justbesplendid: cute!

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:26:00 -0700

justbesplendid:

cute!

envynervine: envynervine: lavaire: lavaire: So this happened...

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:16:40 -0700

envynervine:

envynervine:

lavaire:

lavaire:

So this happened this morning, and we just got how much everything is going to cost in a phone call..

Meet Belle. She’s a 6 month old sweetheart who loves everyone she meets and especially loves to snuggle at the foot of her mama’s bed every night.

Well, last night while me and my girlfriend were asleep, Belle fell off the bed and fractured her elbow on the hardwood floor. We woke up when we heard her cry and immediately had her rushed to the vet as soon as we could.

The vet just told us the surgery she would need would cost around $3000, and with only one of us working a dead end job and a rent to pay, we simply can’t afford the surgery without help.

So for the next few days we have to keep her all wrapped up and on the couch which being as she’s a puppy is just not an option!

Belle would really appreciate any help! I really hope she can go out and be the little playful puppy she used to be again.

Thanks so much everyone.

My pug really needs your help! T_T

If you could here’s where you can donate, Signal boost if you can’t please!

I’m sorry for the long post but we’re in a really tough situation…

Another picture of the baby napping u vu <3

Okay so I’ll do ANYTHING now:

Fanfiction? You got it.

Fan Art? I can’t draw for beans but I sure can try

Pixels? Sure why not?

Sprite Edits? Eden and I can work something out

Props/Comissions: As long as you can cover shipping to your destination separately, I will do it.

Jewelery? Sure. I just found my old kit, and steampunk gears.

I Will Do ANYTHING

Please guys. The job hunt has been bone Dry! I’ve gone so far as to put my resume on Craigslist.

Please! Anything helps period.

Signal boosts are epic just please help if you can!

If you don’t want to go through GoFundMe, please send me an ask, they do take money from us, anyway.

Please signal boost. We haven’t gotten anywhere recently and we’re falling behind in payments now. :c

goddddddddddddd is this guilt going to go away i have to work tonightworking includes drivingcan i...

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:52:16 -0700

goddddddddddddd

is this guilt going to go away

i have to work tonight
working includes driving
can i even do that

"Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat."

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:43:07 -0700

“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat.”

-
When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.

It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

I mean, it’s just true.

(via tealeafprincess)

“Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.”

That’s it. That’s it right there.

(via oddpicturesoddpeople)

shorm replied to your post: someone is literally saying that not wanting their… the best part...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:18:48 -0700

shorm replied to your post: someone is literally saying that not wanting their…

the best part is that it IS racist so uh

well she appears to be a woc so i’m not gonna go there but those two things aren’t equivalent so???

someone is literally saying that not wanting their child to have a gay boy scouts troop leader is...

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:16:33 -0700

someone is literally saying that not wanting their child to have a gay boy scouts troop leader is not homophobic because her not wanting to stay in “the hood” is not racist

girljanitor: mariavontraphouse: princessneeshydoomcuddles: tas...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:00:26 -0700

girljanitor:

mariavontraphouse:

princessneeshydoomcuddles:

tashabilities:

When I tell you white folks are trying to take over ALL our shit,

Including the language that they call us ‘ghetto’ and ‘ignorant’ for using?

And they sellin it on teeshirts like a white woman would come up with that phrasing.

AAVE is the same language they penalize us for using, denying us opportunities and resources, calling us ignorant,

But they put it on a shirt with a BLONDE bitch and SELL IT?

I feel kicked in the chest.

WHITE PPL YOU NEED TO STOP

This is why don’t no body fucking like you white people

*barfing forever*

Daydream of the Windfishby *MiloNeuman

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:17:20 -0700

Daydream of the Windfish
by *MiloNeuman

stfuconservatives: beygonce: writeswrongs: Black Man to Lose...

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:34:25 -0700

stfuconservatives:

beygonce:

writeswrongs:

Black Man to Lose Scholarship For Refusing Racist Assignment

Timothy McNair is a graduate student of opera at Northwestern University’s famed Bienen School of Music. McNair is at the school on a full scholarship, but the 25-year-old is standing up to his school after his professor, Donald Nally, gave him an assignment to perform a song created by a racist American poet named Walt Whitman. McNair asked his instructor if he could be assigned to perform the work of other artists but Nally denied him the opportunity and told him if he didn’t turn in all of his completed work by Friday, May 17th he’d receive a failing grade. McNair refused.

“Certainly I do not deserve to fail this class. I have a 3.7 GPA. I’m an officer on three committees of this university. So what is deserving for me? Is to be able to perform two pieces and have the third piece removed because of the insensitivity,” McNair told Chicago’s WGN news station. Although the piece McNair is instructed to perform does not contain any blatant racism, McNair believes it is still offensive that he was asked to complete the works of a devout racist. “We know (he) was historically racist. He’s called African Americans ‘baboons’ and was for oppressing voting rights,” McNair said of Whitman.

But let a white person had to sing a song written about Osama or Sadam that shit would have been on every new station.

I didn’t realize Walt Whitman had written such racist stuff (that wasn’t covered when we read his work in high school, SURPRISE) (if you’re curious, his archive has a super-apologist piece about it - along the lines of “well sure he was racist, but everyone was racist back then!”), and this is super fucked up.

c00tiebreath: watching COPS makes me so mad Suspect: “I picked her up to give her a ride but when...

Fri, 24 May 2013 06:51:45 -0700

c00tiebreath:

watching COPS makes me so mad

Suspect: “I picked her up to give her a ride but when she offered to give me head for money I told her I wasn’t interested in that and asked where I could drop her off at”

Officer: “Why didn’t you kick her out of your car when you found out she was a prostitute?”

????? MAYBE BECAUSE SHE’S A GODDAMN HUMAN BEING YOU FUCKING PIG ASS COP ???????

you-do-not-do: hoelita: people seriously think that you can just leave an abusive relationship,...

Fri, 24 May 2013 05:08:47 -0700

you-do-not-do:

hoelita:

people seriously think that you can just leave an abusive relationship, like walk out and it’s over

let’s talk about how one-third of women murdered every year are by an intimate partner. let’s talk about how a woman leaving her batterer is seventy-five percent more likely to be killed.

killallcars: riseofthecommonwoodpile: look all life has inherent worth but I’m just saying that...

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:25:45 -0700

killallcars:

riseofthecommonwoodpile:

look all life has inherent worth but I’m just saying that I’d rather save a mouse from dying than a men’s rights activist you know what I mean

if i was in a crashing plane with a wasp and a men’s rights activist and i only had one spare parachute, i would use it on the wasp even though the wasp has wings

redfirerose: Jupiter is just awesome.

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:43:16 -0700

redfirerose:

Jupiter is just awesome.

Filthy Queer Polak-Viking: "biological sex" is socially constructed

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:17:18 -0700

Filthy Queer Polak-Viking: "biological sex" is socially constructed:

jazmeister:

thepersonalispolitic:

Ok, it’s time for an education. It’s not entirely your fault you’re utterly ignorant since the medical industrial complex AND the hatefilled society in which we all live both actively seek to reinforce the binary at any and all costs and purposefully keep people ill-informed and misinformed about the realities of biology. But after I take valuable time out of my evening to educate you on how utterly biased and flawed the modern concept of “biological sex” is you no longer have an excuse and choosing to continue to cleave to your bullshit will officially become proof that you are nothing more than a bigotted asshole.

So let’s take a look at some true facts courtesy of Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling who is a biologist and geneticist with a PhD, you know, a doctorate, in science, that thing you seem to be so obsessed with, that thing you seem to think is absolutely “objective” and always right all the time. There are 5 specific measures of biological sex according to modern medical science.

Chromosomes (men = XY, women = XX)

Genitalia (men = penis, women = vulva and vagina)

Gonads (men = testes, women = ovaries)

Hormones (men = high testosterone, low estrogen, low progesterone; women = high estrogen, high progesterone, low testosterone)

Secondary Sex Characteristics (men = large amounts of dark, thick, coarse body hair, noticeable facial hair, low waist:hip ratio, no noticeable breast development, rough skin; women = fine, light colored body hair, no noticeable facial hair, high waist:hip ratio, noticeable breast development, smooth skin)

The thing is, in real life, very few people actually match up with all five categories. There are, of course, genetic differences that account for a decent percentage of human births like XXY, XXX, XO, and XYY (apx 1:500 births though it could easily be more than that since we don’t do genetic testing for all people and even at that ratio if there are over 6 billion people in the world 1:500 means there are a whole lot of genetically intersex people out there) but it goes far beyond that. There are people out there who have XX chromosomes, a vulva and vagina, ovaries, male secondary sex characteristics and male hormones patterns. There are people out there who have XY chromosomes, a penis, testes, female secondary sex characteristics and female hormone patterns. There are even people out there with XY chromosomes, testes, a vulva, a vagina, female secondary sex characteristics, and male hormone patterns and there are even people with BOTH male and female secondary sex characteristics at the same time and people with BOTH male and female hormone patterns at the same time regardless of their genes, gonads, and genitalia

And the thing is those people, the people with the “opposite” and/or “blended” secondary sex characteristics and “opposite” and/or “blended” hormone patterns are technically intersex assuming that the two sex system is absolutely true all the time. If there are only two sexes and there can only ever be two sexes and that’s it then all those hairy women and all those men with breasts and all those men with no noticeable body or facial hair and all those women with massive muscles and all that testosterone don’t actually count as “real” women/men and they are treated by the medical industrial complex and society alike as freaks, as anomalies, or as though they don’t actually exist because their existence breaks up the binary. In order for the binary to exist, to be real, all people everywhere must necessarily match up on all 5 markers of sex all the time. That’s not what happens in real life. In real life literally millions of people have bodies that are in some way contrary to the biological concept of the two sex system. Millions.

Millions.

And since there are millions of people out there who’s very existence defies the biological concept of a two sex system we have legitimate proof that the concept of biological sex is a social construct. Biological sex is a social construct. BIOLOGICAL SEX IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT. Seriously, biological sex is a social construct. It’s not real. It’s NOT something that is objective or unbiased or “natural.” The concept of biological sex is just as biased, subjective, and utterly flawed as the concept of gender is. Humans created biological sex just like they invented everything else. It’s a category that humans created and as such cannot be objective, can only be biased. It’s a category that humans created so they could categorize and control the world around them and when they started to discover people that didn’t fit into their idea of the way the category should function, when they started to discover trans* and intersex people they decided to hide those people, to erase those people, to ignore those people, to murder, destroy, pathologize, lock up, mutilate, and deny the very existence of those people. Rather than simply admit that the categories are wrong, are flawed, aren’t even real they chose instead to rigidly reinforce those categories at all costs even when the cost is the lives and well-beings of people.

So the next time you sit there and claim that biological sex is a real thing, is an objective thing, is an unbiased, immutable, unchanging, innate, natural thing remember that you are actively contributing to the persecution of every single person on this planet who doesn’t “fit” the way they’re “supposed” to. Remember that and think about what you’re doing. Remember that and think about the fact that trans* people and intersex people are PEOPLE, people who deserve the same rights and respect that all people deserve. Remember that biologcal sex isn’t even real, that the only reason you’re a woman and he’s a man is because some person somewhere arbitrarily decided to create the two sex system, a system that’s not real, has no basis in reality, a system that was socially constructed to help control people and their lives. Every time you hate on trans* people and try to claim that trans* women aren’t really women or that trans* men aren’t really men you are doing the same thing all those other people have done to you. You are arbitrarily creating socially constructed concepts and then using them to control people and their lives. You are being oppressive, you are instituting, perpetuating, and exploiting a power inequity. You are just as bad as all the patriarchal assholes you bitch about every single day of your life and, in fact, you are using their system - the system they created to oppress you - to oppress people in ways similar to the ways they’ve been oppressing you. You are not better than them and it could be said that you’re actually worse since you know first hand how shitty it feels to be oppressed like that and you’re so unsympathetic and blind that you’re actually willing to do it to others.

[i snipped a lot of the argument that preceeded this because the point is lovely on its own -Jaz]