princetonskye:
“BOOST!!!
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princetonskye:

BOOST!!!

therealxtina:

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.  

https://www.youcaring.com/victimsofhurricaneharvey-915053

thexfiles:

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

catsandmadteaparties:

unstoppablelesbian:

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. 

imkatandimawesome:
“ castiel-knight-of-hell:
“ jen-kollic:
“ thejollity:
“ jen-kollic:
“ hobopoppins:
“ manaphy:
“ wow I didn’t know fuckin chocolate eggs were gendered
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OKAY LET ME TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT THE FUCKING PINK EGGS.
I work at a...

imkatandimawesome:

castiel-knight-of-hell:

jen-kollic:

thejollity:

jen-kollic:

hobopoppins:

manaphy:

wow I didn’t know fuckin chocolate eggs were gendered

OKAY LET ME TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT THE FUCKING PINK EGGS.

I work at a concession stand in an ice rink. We sell a bunch of chocolate bars and snacks and shit including Kinder Surprise eggs.

So one day this woman comes up to the counter with her two little kids, a girl who’s probably about 6 or 7 and a little boy, maybe 3 or 4. The mom asks what they want, the little girl points at the Kinder eggs and says “One of those!”. I asked if she wanted the white or the pink egg. She said pink. The little boy pointed to the Kinder eggs and says “One of those!”. I asked if he wanted the white or the pink egg. He said pink. HOLY SHIT IT WAS LIKE I OPENED THE GATES OF HELL. The mom absolutely FLIPPED and was like “YOU ARE NOT GETTING THE PINK EGG IT’S ONLY FOR GIRLS. YOU CAN GET THE WHITE ONE OR NOTHING AT ALL”. The little boy looked at his mom and said “But I want the same as ______ (whatever the sister’s name was)”. The mom completely ignored him and turned to me and gave me a death glare. “He can have the white egg.”

I had to give a little boy a white egg when he wanted the pink so that he could be the same as his big sister and he started crying. The mom just reiterated that the pink egg was for girls and told him that boys don’t cry.

And this is why we shouldn’t gender fucking chocolate eggs.

This is actually a relatively new thing, originally Kinder Eggs were all white like the ones on the left. I don’t know at what point they decided to make ‘girl’s’ Kinder Eggs, but I do not like it.

Holy shit do not even get me started on how moms constantly police their sons’ masculinity. I’ve seen mothers do it WAY more often than fathers.

I used to work at a bakery that specialized in creating custom cakes. We had this feature where we could print out any image off the computer and put it on a cake (with rice paper). One day this lady comes in and asks for an image we had of the baby Sesame Street characters. They’re all together with cake and confetti, and she asks, “Oh, well since it’s a boy, can you please change all of the little pink confettis into blue confetti? I mean, he’s a boy, you know.”

Confetti.

The fucking confetti.

It barely covered 5% of the image.

Another instance was when a lady asked me for an image of four superheroes to put on her son’s cake because her son was turning four. She admitted to not knowing any superheroes, so I offered the most obvious choice—The Fantastic Four. I pulled up a picture of them and she goes, “Oh no no, we can’t have that. Let’s do another one.” Confused, I pulled up a Justice League one with Batman, Superman, The Flash, and Wonder Woman. Again, she said no. I asked her if she needed anything specific (she didn’t know superheroes, why was she so picky?), and she just said, “Oh, it’s just that he’s a boy, you know? We can’t have a girl superhero on his cake.”

I nearly lost my shit. I did temporarily lose my customer service face and ask why, women have been superheroes all the time, Wonder Woman is iconic, etc etc and she was like, “It’s just that my son has been playing with Barbie dolls lately and I really don’t want him to end up… well, you know.”

This shit has got to stop. When you teach boys that certain things are only for girls, you’re limiting them and you’re teaching them that girls or “girly things” are bad. If you want gender equality as an adult, you better make DAMN sure that you’re teaching the same thing to your kids.

So this woman did not want her son to turn out ‘you know’ and her plan for that was to get him a cake with spandex-clad manly men AND ONLY MEN on it? I don’t think she thought that one through too well…

in sociology class we were talking about gender being assigned to objects and one of the male students started saying how forward thinking he is because he buys his daughter sports equipment and “boy toys”. I asked if he’d do the same if he had a son and he said “Of course I’d buy my son sports equipment”. I clarified “No, would you buy him dolls and other toys that are thought of as being for girls”. He turned around and didn’t answer.

Parents will pat themselves on the back for letting their little girls play baseball but a little boy with a Barbie is still considered an affront to society

Patriarchy is it’s own biggest problem.

freedominique:

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?

traveler-of-heart:

traveler-of-heart:

I hate when annoying white male characters show up in the second season to reduce the female protagonist to a fucking love interest

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Every single time this post comes back I wonder what show has heteronormativity ruined now

12yearsaking:

merkkultra:

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.

pearls-butt:

thetrippytrip:

America take notes

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