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charleyfoster: Joe Wenderoth

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:30:23 -0700

Joe Wenderoth

[insert literary reference]: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:30:43 -0700

[insert literary reference]: Why Do Men Keep Putting Me in the Girlfriend-Zone?:

You know how it is, right, ladies? You know a guy for a while. You hang out with him. You do fun things with him—play video games, watch movies, go hiking, go to concerts. You invite him to your parties. You listen to his problems. You do all this because you think he wants to be your friend.

But…

it's okay to be fat!*

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:01:20 -0700

snakeoil:

dathremar:

bodysexgender:

rowanazra:

* if you meet one of these requirements:

an hourglass shape

large breasts

large butt

a streamlined figure

no rolls

really conventionally pretty face

big hips

getting really tired of the hierarchy i see in my life and on my dashboard. if your acceptance has conditions, it’s not acceptance.

IF YOUR ACCEPTANCE HAS CONDITIONS, IT’S NOT ACCEPTANCE

IF YOUR ACCEPTANCE HAS CONDITIONS, IT’S NOT ACCEPTANCE

YAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSS

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Tue, 21 May 2013 12:30:40 -0700

clatterandclank: carriehopefletcher: I want ALL of...

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:01:13 -0700

clatterandclank:

carriehopefletcher:

I want ALL of these….

ooooh the second one with the utility pouch….

gifthorsedentistry: #freelancing

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:30:34 -0700

gifthorsedentistry:

#freelancing

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Mon, 20 May 2013 15:30:30 -0700

dapperandroid: Fancy Friday! What’s fancier than a bow tie?...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:01:05 -0700

bow tie--with a smile

bow tie--with confused face

this is just a great picture of boots

fancy bench sittin

belt deets!

full body with a weird face

dapperandroid:

Fancy Friday! What’s fancier than a bow tie? Maybe spats, but I hate spats. Fuck spats. Yay! Bow ties are cool. I am really digging the gold brown of the boots and the belt against the gray jeans here.

The clothes:

green bow tie* - a gift (and a hell of a story, see below)

teal button up - Old Navy, size L

yellow leather belt - Gap, size XL (it’s actually too big and I really need to punch new holes in it)

gray jeans - Old Navy, size 14

brown buckled ankle boots - Modcloth, size 8 1/2

Pictures and art direction by the lovely and talented Samantha.

*Ok, so, last year I worked as a labor organizers for teachers in Detroit, and I went into schools to talk to folks like you do. Around April-ish, I went into this one high school and went to find the building rep, who was doing something with the graduating seniors. There was a guy from some external program—mid-twenties, Black, very snappy dresser—who was like WHOA WHOA THIS IS ONLY FOR GRADUATING SENIORS. And I was like…I am 27. I am not a student here. And he was like…..really? (I get that a lot actually). And then he complimented me on my tie and my pink pants and asked if I ever wore bow ties. I told him I wanted to but I didn’t have any. So he GAVE ME ONE just because. So this is my first bow tie, and it was a gift from a stranger. Thanks, Detroit!

Those boots are INCREDIBLE. And that blue looks great on you!

I can once again consider myself a responsible and productive member of society; I have refilled my...

Mon, 20 May 2013 12:57:01 -0700

I can once again consider myself a responsible and productive member of society; I have refilled my Tumblr queue.

Noam Chompsky's Early Language Acquisition: Gah. At the dog park today there were lots of dogs, but one that would...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:36:42 -0700

Noam Chompsky's Early Language Acquisition: Gah. At the dog park today there were lots of dogs, but one that would...:

chompsky:

Gah. At the dog park today there were lots of dogs, but one that would NOT leave Chompsky alone. He kept trying to mount him, Chompsky kept letting the dog know that wasn’t cool, and the dog would keep trying, over and over. Chompsky was getting frustrated: his warnings were becoming louder and…

I know that feel, dog.

strugglingtobeheard: genderbitch: masksarehot: gaobibaituo: a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:48:16 -0700

strugglingtobeheard:

genderbitch:

masksarehot:

gaobibaituo:

awesome-everyday:

shorterexcerpts:

thecallus:

theatlantic:

The Cheapest Generation: Why Aren’t Millennials Buying Cars or Houses?

What if Millennials’ aversion to car-buying isn’t a temporary side effect of the recession, but part of a permanent generational shift in tastes and spending habits? It’s a question that applies not only to cars, but to several other traditional categories of big spending—most notably, housing. And its answer has large implications for the future shape of the economy—and for the speed of recovery.

Read more. [Image: Kagan McLeod]

It’s safe to say that a decent number of Tumblr users are a part of the Millennial generation. So, tell us: Do you own a car or house? If not, why?

IT’S BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO DISPOSABLE INCOME YOU THUNDERING IDIOTS. Fucking preference has nothing to do with it. 50% of college graduates have no job! They all have the most student loan debt ever! What are you asking this question for?!

Also: housing is a good bit more expensive now.

My parents got a 15-year mortgage on a new house in the mid-70s. The house was $32,000. Average home price in that area now? $190,000.

So, home prices went up. Food prices went up. Health care prices went WAY UP. Rent prices went up. Higher education went up so damn high that some of us forgo that all together. Energy prices went up. Car prices went up.

Prices of prices went up.

We also pay cell phone bills, internet bills, data plans, text plans, online subscriptions, cable/satellite tv, netflix, DVR subscriptions — bills that didn’t even exist 30-40 years ago. We also use computers and smartphones and microwaves and other consumer electronics that didn’t exist 20-50 years ago.

We need medications and doctors and contact lenses and tampons and maxi pads and other things that cost money just to be alive and keep us healthy.

Most of us can’t afford to:

Get married and have a “Traditional” big wedding

Buy a house

Buy a new car

PLAN to have children

Take two, consecutive weeks of vacation.

Jobs that paid 50k in the late 1990s now pay between 30-35. Interest rates that favor consumers have gone down.

So I say, no. We are not choosing not to buy homes. We’re not choosing to take the bus in cities where there’s no good public transit. WE ARE NOT CHOOSING TO LIVE WHAT SOCIETY DEEMS AS AN UNDESIRABLE LIFESTYLE.

Don’t even get me started on the fact that these two people in the picture are young white hipsters. Young black and brown folks have been forgoing homeownership and buying new cars for decades, this shit isn’t new, pal. You’re just acting like this shit is new because it’s hitting white folks.

anyway, my point is: We are fucking broke.

fuck all these articles written by assholes who actually know nothing about our generation

FUCK THEM

FUCK
THEM

I’m either Gen X or Millennial, depending which dates you use, and so I’m old enough to have been living on my own as a lot of this started spinning out of control. It was like watching a trainwreck. The current state of all of this is ridiculous. I was going to go on a long rant about Boomers refusing to age gracefully, the impact of 9/11, the double-edged sword that is globalization, and our current loan culture and confusion of “needs vs. wants” that has been bred into us by clever marketing, but I’m too angry, and it was getting too long.

So I’ll just say this: the system is seriously out of whack, and we’re in this strange place where we’re both trapped in bubbles and depressions at the same.

I keep waiting for market corrections that just don’t seem to be happening.

And also, I’ll just throw up Crack Shack or Vancouver Mansion for reference. And if you visit it, bear in mind that this is in a city where the AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOME is $46K. FORTY-SIX THOUSAND A YEAR. Oh, yeah, the system isn’t broken at all…damn those cheap fucking Millennials & Gen-X-ers!

Is every dipshit who writes these articles a rich sheltered moron? Cuz if I had fucking money I would buy those things.

I DON’T HAVE FUCKING MONEY.

Lol convicted felons don’t get shit. Home ownership? I can’t even get a job I’m qualified for. And your generation wanted it that way. You paid for your homes and cars by redlining us, by allowing lenders to not give us access to lines of credit for being Black. By making your homes and suburbs “safe” by allowing Nixon and Reagan and Clinton and bush and now Obama to lock us up, to fight a war on drugs against the same people you enslaved and then gave nothing to. My family before me didnt own a home because of you you white fucks. While you drink and get high and abuse your wives and children in your suburbs you also lynched economically tortured and continued genocide via policy and white supremacy. Sent police on us and prevented us from organizing or locking us up for organizing. Us Black American millennials are the children of civil rights activists and parents alive during segregation and busing and all kinds of shit. You didn’t allow them to accrue wealth. Add all the economic shit everyone discussed above and why the fuck would I be buying a home? With what? Even if I earn the money I can get screened and denied. It’s not like the whole housing crash was because white bankers preyed on my people and other people of color with subprime loans. It’s not like we still don’t experience housing discrimination. Redlining and the benefits white soldiers but not Black soldiers got after WW1 and WWII, that never fucking happened.

I love how journals like this can have writers like teju and also dipfucks like this

shorm: raptorific: Pros-and-cons of Sherlock and Elementary,...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:12:36 -0700

shorm:

raptorific:

Pros-and-cons of Sherlock and Elementary, rebloggable by request

This is a REALLY good list.

Yes, this pretty much sums it up.

gingerhaze:

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:24:35 -0700

gingerhaze:

gingerhaze: i saw Star Trek and I wish the whole movie had been...

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:36:37 -0700

gingerhaze:

i saw Star Trek and I wish the whole movie had been about them being a super fashionable space biker gang with their space-leather jackets.

littlelaurakitten: ask-gamzee-ccrs-makara: do-not-feed-the-anim...

Sun, 19 May 2013 09:48:19 -0700

littlelaurakitten:

ask-gamzee-ccrs-makara:

do-not-feed-the-animal:

I went to Disney World yesterday for the first time since I was eight. Immediately I went to buy a Peter Pan cap. Pan has been my favorite Disney movie since I was two. After I found my cap and went on a few rides I went around looking for Peter. Once I found him I waited in line to get my picture, which probably looked odd seeing as I am sixteen years old and 5”8, standing in line next to a bunch of six year olds. Once I got up there, he saw my cap and said “Defending the park from Hook while I’m off duty?” I replied “yes, I hope I’m doing a good job!”
That was around the time he noticed the scars on my wrists. He kinda gave me a look in my eyes and said “you okay?” I told him, “well Peter, you’d know better than anyone how tough it is to grow up.” And he looked at me and whispered, “Neither of us are grown up yet. We might have gotten older over the years, but we haven’t forgotten what it’s like.”
Then he told me, “since we’re both from Neverland, and you’re my partner in crime, stand back to back with me, and cross your arms. We’ve got to do the signature pose!”
I know the guy who dresses up as Peter Pan for Disney doesn’t realize this, but all that he did for me in the five minutes I met him made me feel happier than I’ve felt in months. I felt like a child again, and feeling like a child is pretty great sometimes.
I’m not ready to grow up yet.

oh no im crying

is someone cutting onions in here tho

themarysue: Doctor Who Cares? - A spinoff in which all is...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:12:29 -0700

themarysue:

Doctor Who Cares? - A spinoff in which all is right with the ladies’ storylines and they take custody of the TARDIS every weekend to explore the universe together

Who needs him? WHO needs him? DONNA THIS IS WHY WE LOVE YOU.

wristwatchesareneat: thefingerfuckingfemalefury: One Shade of...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:24:28 -0700

wristwatchesareneat:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

One Shade of Grey & Feminist Utopia Fantasy Story

Other Feminist titles include such legendary tales such as:

“Welcome to the 21st Century”

Nobody made rape jokes because of every reason ever.

“It’s Pretty Simple”

Maggie explained to her friend how what he said was sexist. He apologised, and the world kept spinning.

“Going Outside Without Being Told How To Be Alive”

Jocelyn went outside. Nobody told her how she should dress or what shape her body should be or how she should talk, act, or think. The end.

“Unrequited Love Is A Useful Term”

Lilliana didn’t love Tom in the same way that he loved her. After a few weeks of awkward conversations, they moved on and continued being friends. The phrase “friendzone” was never uttered.

“Being Considerate”

Phoebe saw someone in the street ahead of her. Somewhat afraid she crossed the street, and that person didn’t get offended and chase after her.

And other lesser known titles such as:

“Stop Speaking For Everyone”

April stopped attempting to assert Western Feminism on all the other women who didn’t want it. Bianca recognised her white middle class cis-gender privilege and set time aside to learn about intersectionality.

And finally, no collection would be complete without:

“Pro-tip”

Feminism ≠ Misandry

"Study Says Most Women Don’t Regret Abortion: …a study out this month finds that 80% of women were..."

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:36:52 -0700

“Study Says Most Women Don’t Regret Abortion: …a study out this month finds that 80% of women were not depressed after having an abortion. In fact, the rate of depression in the postabortion group was equal to the rate of depression in the general population. As for post-traumatic stress symptoms, the rate was 1% in the postabortion group compared with an estimated 11% in women of the same age in the general population.”

- The August 2000 issue of Archives of General Psychiatry (via whyprochoice) (via rabbleprochoice)

STFU, anti-choicers: getting an abortion does not ruin your life.

(via stfuconservatives)

yeah we’ve been saying this all along

but maybe now people will listen

(via methodistcoloringbook)

(via hunterbadger)

Have a nice day.

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:48:26 -0700

Have a nice day.

gingerhaze: i have been waiting for this moment for a long...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:12:33 -0700

gingerhaze:

i have been waiting for this moment for a long time.