Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win
Month
If you don’t reblog this, you are on duty to get the cookies off the top shelf. You have been notified.
Jessica Williams in response to being told by feminists that she needs a self help group after saying she was under qualified for taking over Jon Stewarts position. (considering she’s 25 and at TDS for just a few years) Read more here.
Can I just explain how much I’ve loved Jessica and how significant her response to all this paternal “but let us save you, you poor soul!” response from Lean In™ feminists.
1) They love her because… why? I can’t be because of her intelligence and ability to be brilliant because automatically they infantilized her and stopped at nothing to reduce her to their imagined insecurity.
2) Can we just stop to think about how someone pointed out that “a man would never say they weren’t qualified.” There’s a reason for that. There’s a specific arrogance and entitlement with white patriarchy that says you must prove that you’re the best at everything. There is no strength, with hegemonic masculinity, in being thoughtful about your strengths and rooms for growth. Instead of adopting toxic points of view - Jessica is mature and intelligent enough to say that based on her FIRST HAND experience with working on the show, she know her abilities and knows that at this time this is not a venue she’ll pursue - DESPITE WHAT OTHER WANT her to represent for THEM. Like, you have to sit back and examine how the arrogance and entitlement really shows through in the feminist backlash she received. “How dare you not give us the feminist we deserve in this space. Make it happen!”
3) It is very eye opening. And saddening. Because, like I said, what do these feminists want Jessica to represent? Why do they like her? It has to be that they can say “we have a black female role model that we pushed to the top and can take credit for” because it CAN’T POSSIBLY be that they actually believe that she’s intelligent and brilliant at her work - because if they believed in her brilliance they wouldn’t have dared to be so condescending and patronizing. It proved to me that they don’t actually believe in her intelligence as a black woman. They only believed in her being a prop for them. Which is the worst. SHE IS NOT YOURS. Black women are not your props nor your objects.
And of course, Jessica Williams showed her strength and blatantly obvious wit in defending herself, her choice and intelligence in this situation. It only made me feel strong in myself. In the face of having such systemic factors trying to tear her down, Jessica spared no expense in letting everyone know how much her brilliance burns. But also, which is what this all is about, how much thought she obviously placed in her initial decision in the first fucking place.
(via newwavefeminism)
You have to wonder at what kind of loyalty James Potter inspired in his friends that Remus Lupin, who so feared the idea of being harming people because of his condition, was 100% willing to abandon those morals to avenge James’s death. And would’ve done so, had Harry not reminded him and Sirius that James would not have wanted to them to murder anyone for him.
trans lives matter and not just when its convenient and popular to think so
watch the notes on this post slowing down as it gets less convinient and popular to think that trans lives matter
If you ever think you’ve made bad decisions just remember what it must feel like to be one of the 12 publishers that turned down Harry Potter.
musicalluna:“you know what would be great? if a year or two down the road, fury discovers that it’s STEVE who’s the huge pain in his ass, not tony. tony’s getting his shit together and mellowing out…
This hasn’t been on my dash much, but on February 15th, 2015, Zander Nicholas Mahaffey, a 15 year old transgender male, commited suicide. He had a rough time at home and was constantly misgendered and yelled at. He wrote a suicide note over 3,000 words especially everything on his blog.
Please don’t forget Zander. We spread Leelah around, let’s spread Zander around. We need to stop families from murdering their transgender children.
Why does no one recognize the KKK as an actual terrorist group??? As an actual WHITE and CHRISTIAN and AMERICAN terrorist group?? Is it because they’re white? Is it because they’re Christian? Is it because they’re American? Or is it all three? Hm……….Guess we’ll never know………………
Keep reblogging this please I’m getting so much hate from racists it’s hilarious
if there was a way to make your blog have a smell, so that everyone visiting your blog automatically smelled it, what would you make your blog smell like?
“girls don’t know how to take a compliment” a woman at work today told me my hair looks like something out of a botticelli painting and made my entire week, so maybe the real problem is with the ‘compliments’ you give
That is the loveliest compliment!
so here’s a thought: who cares if food stamp recipients test positive for drugs. we still deserve food.
YO.
If you think people who are strippers are less than you. Please put on 6 inch heels, have thighs as strong as Wonder Woman, do an upside down split on a pole , and use the simple flick of cleavage to get a 50 and
then talk shit.I sure as shit can’t do that! Kudos ladies!
ppl who randomly message u on the tumble are the best kind of ppl even if they’re just bein all like ‘hello!’ because its like omg hi hello person wow someones talking to me this is the best day ever
i get like 10 hellos a day because of this post
No one ever messages me. 😒
I got seven hellos & hi’s the last time i reblogged this
send me hellos :c
does anybody else think tired and sleepy mean two totally different things
sleepy is cute and dozing off and happy but tired is 10 cups of coffee and murder
reblogging because the last graphic comment is FLAWLESS
- That nudity is inherently sexual
- That people should be judged for their personal decisions
- That yelling solves problems
- That they are too young to be talking about the things they’re already starting to ask questions about
- That age correlates to importance
- That interacting with someone of the opposite sex is inherently romantic
- That the default for someone is straight and cisgender
Let’s see here, we got slash, crack, lemon, lime, PWP, fluff, angst, AU. Seriously, it’s like some sort of shady fanfic underground.
Hitting up the alleyways trading doujin in paperbags.
theres slash being traded for crack and au downtown but you didnt hear it from me
so basically we’re all pirates who do drugs
Dear god. What a world I have been sucked into
You don’t get vaccinated just to protect yourself. You do it to protect others.
Pros of an 8 AM class:
- I get to see the sunrise
- making the most of my day?
- who am I kidding
- there are no pros
- I am so tired
- I can’t feel my face
- somebody help me
FYI, if someone brought up as a girl says ‘I don’t know….’ Or expresses indecision in response to a request, just treat it as a no to begin with. If they are keen, they will tell you, but otherwise you might be seeing someone grappling with the fact they have been taught to never say no for most of their life.
Very important
Read this twice. Seriously.
Hoban Washburne, Firefly, “Shindig”.
Wash is a perfect husband.
(via fuckyeahfirefly)
eteo:
what if giraffes lived underwater
what a majestic creature
It would explain nessie
Oh my God. I have been waiting literally over a year to use this gif, and before I do, I want to thank you for the opportunity.
External imagepardon
yOU FUFCKGN ASSHOEL I JUTS SPIT MY LATTE ON MY TABLET F UCK TOUOYU JESUS CHRIST
Best post I’ve seen this month
tumblr recommended a snape/lily post on my dash i
you come into my house
you step over my husband
Ignore my crying son
cradle my corpse in your creepy arms
spend six years abusing my orphaned child
Tbh I don’t give a fuck if you don’t like Grant Ward, everyone’s entitled to their opinion. But if you deny that he’s an abuse victim, or that some of his actions were not entirely his own, then we have a problem.
