I don’t know if anyone cares since I haven’t been on here much but I’m fine, my family is fine, and my house wasn’t flooded luckily. However, hurricane Harvey is still active and moving away from my area but its still hitting all the surrounding areas of Houston.
Many neighborhoods close to mine are still being mandatorily evacuated and a lot of shelters are already at full capacity. Thousands of homes are already destroyed with people’s belongings being destroyed in the flood, with many thousand more homes expected to be destroyed as the reservoirs are at full capacity and they plan on releasing the water. Families are lucky to have their life and the clothes on their backs, but nothing else.
None of this was to be expected, we expected a hurricane not a flood. The entire greater Houston area has a population of 6.5 million people, the mayor was right not to order an evacuation. Harvey went from a tropical storm to a category 4 hurricane in a day. The last time the city ordered an evacuation was for Rita and people were stranded on the freeway anywhere between 19-24 hours to reach a 3 hour destination. If you’ve seen the pictures of the freeways being completely underwater, know that it was flooded within 8 hours. If there was an evacuation, tens of thousands would have drowned on the freeway.
If you do wish to donate or help in someway please DO NOT donate to the Red Cross but instead donate to J.J. Watt’s youcaring which has already raised over $2 million.
i’m mentally ill too but fucking listen to me here. you need to take responsibility for your actions regardless of whether or not they’re a product of your mental illness. you don’t get to manipulate, gaslight, take advantage of, or straight up abuse people because you’re mentally ill! you don’t! what the fuck! why are some of you still thinking it’s okay to say things like “manipulation is okay because i have _____ and need attention from my significant other” oh my god. Don’t fucking do that
i really hate the term “resting bitch face” it’s literally just a neutral facial expression like that’s just what a woman’s face looks like
women are always demonised as being “too emotional” but even if you express no emotion you’re deemed as bitchy and mean
100% this.
To the people saying “not all Trump supporters are racist, sexist, homophobic, etc.” and who are crying out that no one should “demonize” them, let me just say this: you, Trump supporter, may not be a fascist bigot in your personal life but you sure as hell voted for one. In doing so, you supported views that were openly sexist, Islamophobic, homophobic, anti-LGTB, racist and pro-rape culture. That’s a democratic fact. What is there to demonize?
I hate when annoying white male characters show up in the second season to reduce the female protagonist to a fucking love interest
Every single time this post comes back I wonder what show has heteronormativity ruined now
do men have resting bitch faces as well or do they not have negative characteristics ascribed to them for putting on a neutral rather than a deliriously happy facial expression
Yes, Black men in majority white spaces do. If I don’t smile every single second of the day my coworkers become in intimidated and start asking me what’s wrong, telling me to smile, make jokes about how I’m trying to be a thug/act hard, why am I angry, etc. And it’s not just white men at my job God FORBID I my large Black ass makes a white girl feel threaten because I’m sitting down with a neutral expression.
I’m not trying to take this post away from women and make it about Black men but I want to point out that wether it’s patriarchy or white supremacy; those who feel as if they have power over you HATE to see you not smile. They are so used to people like you smiling to gain their approval that when you don’t there’s a cognitive dissonance that makes them extremely uncomfortable.
That’s why “angry Black women” is a thing. They have to put on a smile for everyone (yes even feminist white women) or we all get uncomfortable.