Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win
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I am 16. I’m dancing to my favorite pop song at my friends birthday party when a boy whose name I do not even know comes over and slaps my ass. My face flushes with redness and I sit down for the rest of the night avoiding the eyes of everyone in the room.
Later, I ask him why he thought it was okay to invade my body without my consent. He says it was a joke.
I don’t laugh.
I am 12. Every girl in my grade is dragged to the school’s auditorium, where we are told that ‘dressing like sluts’ in ninety degree will not be tolerated, and that we will get two detentions if anyone finds our clothing distracting.
Later, I find out that, while we were being lectured on our own bodies, all of the boys stayed in their homerooms and watched a movie, because ‘It’s natural for boys to get aroused, the girls are the ones that have to cover up, they’re causing a problem and taking away from the education of others.’
I don’t understand any of it.
I am 7. I stand up at bat in gym class and blatantly miss the hollow plastic ball that is thrown in my direction. The whole class bursts out laughing. ‘You hit like a girl,’ one of the boys hollers to me.
Later, I ask my female gym teacher why hitting ‘like a girl’ is a bad thing. She smiles at me sympathetically as she says ‘Honey, it just is.’
I don’t smile back.
I am a girl, and since the day I was born, my gender has become synonymous to weakness, incapability, and inadequacy.
”—And that isn’t fucking okay.Here’s the thing about being pro choice that people don’t get…
You don’t have to morally agree with abortion to be pro choice. That’s why it’s not called pro abortion. It’s an understanding that you can’t make that choice for someone else and they have full control over that not you. It’s pro I’m not the boss of everyone else.This is important.
my exact feelings on this subject.
- the ones who are basically your friends and you can tell them anything
- The ones who seem to hate teenagers and teaching and JFC why did they choose to do this for a living
- the ones that are really nice but just suck at teaching and you never really learn anything in that class
- the dorky one that never gets mad just gives you that long “I’m dissapointed in you look”
- the ones that teach no matter whats going on in the class
2015 trend: answering the question “are you a feminist?” with the question “are you not?” in order to make not being a feminist sound more like the ridiculous, illogical thing that it is.
I’ve never reblogged anything faster.
Also yeah, I’ve said it before, but like when people are like “why doesn’t Harry ask for help more, why doesn’t he ask questions” THAT IS LITERALLY WHAT HE LEARNED HE WOULD BE PUNISHED FOR DOING GROWING UP. It was drilled into him not to ask for help.
Like the scene that…
- have your wallet ready while waiting in line
- take off your headphones (if you’re wearing them)
- hand your cash/card directly to the cashier (please don’t just drop it on the counter!!!!)
- be polite!!! please and thank you is more than enough
- don’t yell at or harass the cashier for things they can’t control!!
- just be a decent human being???
Boys who are into consensual sex and agree with feminism are so cute and I wanna kiss them all.
the bar has never been lower
Idk whats scarier :the fact that the bar is THIS low or the fact that most men dont even meet these qualifications
if you give kids zero restrictions they’ll become the nicest fucking kids ever who never do drugs or get into trouble i know because my parents let me do nothing but eat chicken nuggets all day and read hentai until 4am and i am a straight A student
Seriously though this seems to be the case with a ton of people I know, if you don’t restrict them all the time they actually do better and are mentally healthier
WHY DON’T PARENTS UNDERSTAND THIS?!?
LITERALLY THE TRUTH. I think I’ve been grounded maybe three times in my entire life? And it was over things like “JFC, child, I don’t care if you dropped something, pay some attention and don’t run into the goddamn road!!!!” (Self-preservation has never been my strong suit.) I was permitted to make a case for having a later bedtime and once I could make a logical argument my parents were like “Sure, what do you think would be reasonable.” Treat kids like they have a fucking brain, and in return they’ll act like they have a fucking brain.
Once upon a time, I decided that it was my solemn obligation to prank my friends before we graduated.
So…I made Hogwarts Acceptance letters. A lot of them. Because who isn’t still waiting for their freaking letter to arrive?
My hand hated me so much. Also, cursive G is the worst.
Letters were posted. All was well.
Until this happened…
What the-?
This is literally the best thing I have ever seen in my entire life.
i would absolutely never have any practical use for a sword but i want one anyway
But white people know the exact percentages that make them up
because their family history wasn’t obliterated and their historical names arbitrarily chosen for them
Bless the comment. Seriously.
no fucking trans person is obligated to disclose the fact that they are trans to anyone until they are comfortable in doing so lol it’s not fucking “deceptive”
one time when I was about four, the 10 year old neighbour boys attacked me with water guns and when I ran away and told my mom she gave me the hose and set it to pressure wash and basically told me to finish what they started
Excellent parenting.
So those people who happened to be different were locked up in vaults and treated like animals (and by animals I mean the bad example of how you treat an animal) I mean were they evil? were they offered help? how long…
laughingalonewithautoresponder:
“i’m so depressed,” posted the caucasian heterosexual cisgender teenage girl on her blog
“I’m so depressed” posted the person who is clinically depressed and who cannot help their depression despite their privilege because depression does not exclusively affect certain groups.
preach
Pre-serum Steve was goofy and awkward as hell, he gave Peggy a list of all the places he got beaten up for literally no reason. He just thought that was an okay thing to do.
I was wearing my Gryffindor shirt while Christmas shopping and there was this cute boy in a Slytherin hat and we made eye contact and he looked me up and down and said “10 points to Gryffindor” and winked at me and normally I hate being hit on but damn son that’s the way to do it
do i have writers block or did i never have any talent and just accidentally wrote something good that one time
I think that if voldemort really wanted to kill harry potter the night the spell didn’t work on him he could’ve just picked him up and thrown him out a window given the fact that he was a one year old infant
What I look for in a girl:
- Water, 35 litres
- Carbon, 20 kilograms
- Ammonia, 4 litres
- Lime, 1.5 kilograms
- Phosphorus, 800 grams
- Salt, 250 grams
- Saltpeter, 100 grams
- Sulfur, 80 grams
- Fluorine, 7.5 grams
- Iron, 5 grams
- Silicon, 3 grams
- Trace amounts of 15 other elements
I dunno, I still think your standards are too high.
A woman like that is gonna cost you an arm and a leg.
moment of silence for all the characters who had good character development potential but their writers were pieces of shit who were either incapable of fleshing them out or absolutely refused to
