Once some guy mentioned that when i laugh my mouth looks really weird and now whenever i laugh around people i don’t know 100% i cover my lower face with my hands.
A girl who didn’t like one of my friends told her that her eyes squint different sizes when she smiles, and now whenever she’s happy she look’s down or away.
You’ve gotta be careful with what you say to people, because it might turn their happiness into insecurities.
I hate how people have this way of making you feel small
Like once these two girls made fun of how i said a certain word or something and my voice is now one of the things i hate most about myself. i’m self-conscious of it like 24/7 and am terrified of speaking in public (for that and other reasons)
You never know what comments you make that will still be running through someone’s head years later
Someone said my voice sounded like Mickey Mouse like five years ago (I think they meant it to be funny) and I still think of it all the time.
Someone told me that short girls could only be cute, not beautiful, and if I had a nickle for every time I repeated it I’d be fucking rich.
A bunch of people told me that the way I spoke (I used to sound like an academic when I was like ten or thirteen, because of a lot of reasons including the fact that I’m socially a bit incapable) made me sound arrogant and condescending and bitchy. I literally altered my entire speech pattern to sound more colloquial.
Before the Gregorian calendar was established, the first day of the new year was April 1st, because of spring. When the new calendar was put into place, people who continued the old calendar were mocked because they still celebrated the new year on April 1st.
I think that if they make abortion illegal, they should make men deserting women who they got pregnant illegal as well. Because if a woman can’t back out of a pregnancy a man shouldn’t be able to either.
My feminism will ALWAYS include trans women, sex workers, women of color, disabled women, fat women, intersex women, poor women, neuroatypical women, and all the other women who are often neglected
But what about vampire history teachers. Vampires who read something from a text book then proceed to light the book on fire and throw it out the window because “No. that’s not even close to what really happened. Listen up nerds I’m about to teach you what really happened in France during the revolution”
Stop assuming that everyone has been treated well by that family.
Respect is not freely given, it is earned. You don’t owe anyone respect. You do not owe anyone anything.
This line is used repeatedly in abusive situations. It is frequently used in emotional abuse in the form of gaslighting to make the survivor doubt their perceptions of events. It also is frequently used to control, manipulate and coerce behaviour.
9 times out of 10 i sit with my hand/s between my thighs or fucken jammed up in my crotch or something to keep them warm and im always concerned that ill be chilling like that and people around me will notice and make it weird. dont make it weird
I just saw some excellent parenting at a nail salon. A woman was getting a pedicure while her young son sat and waited. One of the manicurists noticed him eyeing the wall of nail polish and told his mom that she could do his nails too if she liked. He lit up with a smile and the mom agreed. He is now getting a manipedi with sparkly green gel nails. Not a single “that’s for girls” was even hinted at, nothing but support. A+ parenting, ma’am, you tell those gender roles to fuck right off and you let that child of yours shine
fun fact you shouldn’t make fun of people who talk a lot because sometimes they can’t control it because of adhd or sometimes it’s a coping mechanism to help them deal with anxiety or something like that and making fun of them because they talk a lot just makes them feel shitty because they know i promise you they know
tell me all the gritty plots and auteur ideas you want, but we all know the perfect movie would still be a remake of grease starring kristen stewart as danny zuko and taylor swift as sandy
I wear glasses. Can I manage without glasses? Well, yes, probably. I could squint a lot, constantly move up close to anything I want to see, take the bus or a taxi if I want to go anywhere. I could just accept that I’ll never be able to see eagles flying in the sky or whales jumping out of the ocean.
But why? Why try so hard to manage life when I could just put on a pair of glasses? No one would ever suggest a near-sighted person should just work harder. No one would say ‘Maybe that’s just your normal’ to someone that needs glasses. They would say ‘Let’s go to the eye doctor and get you a prescription so you’re able to see again.’
You shouldn’t have to try so hard.
”—
My doctor (paraphrased), when I expressed doubts about going back on an anti-depressant. (via
This is such a good analogy because nobody thinks about it like this. If you wear glasses, you literally need constant use of a medical aid to experience the world like most people do. If it were anything besides glasses, that would be considered a disability. But needing glasses is an extremely common, visible, and accepted form of disability to the point that we don’t even consider it one, we just accept that some people need glasses and that’s perfectly normal and there’s nothing wrong with needing to rely on them.
That is how all disabilities and illnesses should be seen, and how we should look at treatment for them. You have a problem, and you need help dealing with it, and there’s nothing wrong with either of those things. That’s perfectly normal and that’s okay.
It took me this long to realize that the reason Edmund wants Turkish Delight so badly is because sweets were rationed during the war and I’m not gonna lie, if i hadn’t had chocolate in 6 months and someone said they could get it to me I’d just be like who do you need dead
“Why do police have quotas? If a doctor went around intentionally sneezing on people to get more patients, that would be seen as a travesty to their profession. But police, can sit around and wait for someone to turn on a red light or commit other mundane ‘offenses’ because they have quotas to meet. Quotas are all the proof we need that policing is not a public service vocation; it’s a business and a subsidiary of Wall Street.”—Enrique Molina (via rubiewooo)
“However, long before the mythical Hades was ever conceived, in more ancient, pre-patriarchal times, Persephone was Queen of the Underworld and was another form of Hecate. Originally, the Triple Goddess was…
