Saying “we white people have no culture” sounds like this cool, self-critical, anti-racist statement but it’s actually making out that the ways white people (by which the speaker almost always means white Christian Anglophone Americans or occasionally white Christian Anglophone Brits) live/eat/make art/ think about ethics etc. is just the Default way of doing things and everyone else is wierd and fascinating.
English is a language, not default human speech.
Christianity is a religion, not default human belief.
Western nuclear families are a specific social arrangement, not default human living arrangement.
White Anglophone cultures’ ideas about gender are a specific set of ideas, not default human gender.
The Latin alphabet is an alphabet, not default human writing.
Modern staff notation is a specific musical system, not default human music.
“White people food” is a specific kind of food (or rather several specific kinds) not default human food.
Christmas and Easter are specific religious/cultural festivals, and the specific ways they are celebrated in white Anglophone Christian communities are specific forms of celebration, they are not default human annual events.
Assuming white Anglophone Christian norms are just default human behaviour isn’t actually challenging racism.
(via lupinatic)
I am an English Teacher at a private conservative Christian school and most parents don’t allow their kids to read Harry Potter. I let kids borrow my copies and read them in my classroom without telling their parents.
As awesome as I think this is, I sincerely hope you don’t get caught. This sounds like exactly the sort of thing that could get you fired from a school like that.
(via lupinatic)
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SCIENCE HAS CONFIRMED THAT DOGS LOVE US BACK BECAUSE THEY GET THE SAME RUSH OF OXYTOCIN WHEN THEY LOOK AT US THAT WE GET WHEN WE LOOK AT THEM
Are you telling me that dogs are looking up to us and think “omg what an adorable fucking cutiepie”?
a while ago I read an article about how dogs love us back, but recognize that we’re different from them, while cats see us as bigger and clumsier than them, but do not consider us different
Dogs: I am fuzzy creature and you are a different adorable creature and I love you!!!!!
Cats: I am lanky and graceful and you are a giant messThis is why cats occasionally try to bathe and feed us
It’s true; cats see us as giant dumb hairless babies. That’s why they bring us half-dead prey– to teach us how to hunt and eat properly. That’s why they attack when we rub their bellies– that’s how parent cats teach kittens to defend themselves. That’s also why they meow– cats communicate with other adults on a frequency we can’t hear, but meow at kittens because their ears aren’t fully developed. They even specialized a set of meows they use only for humans, because we are especially deaf babies.
We are all of us dumb kittens.
Today I Learned That I Am A Dumb Kitten
(via adelindschade)
I laugh so much at those homophobes who are into literature and classic stuff because like hey you’re into michelangelo? gAY. you like Virginia Woolf books? totally leSBO. you think oscar wilde is modernist and agree with his philosophies? gAY. you like the iliad? greek mythology? any era of history tbh? GAY GAY TRIPLE GAY. everything you love is covered in gay. all the great writers and musicians and artists you admire were queer as all hell hAH
(Source: 1975pxl, via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
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(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)
So I just woke up and my first thought was “what if in the four horsemen of the apocalypse, pestilence was one of those anti-vax moms?”
quite frankly the four white suburban soccer-moms of the apocalypse would scare me way more
War is the one constantly screaming at retail workers
(via bronzedragon)
In Which Diversity Isn't a Myth -
Ok. I’m tired of the typical vampire, werewolf and fairy.I’m also tired of the occidental-centrism in mythology. Hence, this list.
I tried to included as many cultural variants as I could find and think…
(via allephant)
Sex tip: If he’s pressuring you to do anal, buy a dildo the same size as his dick, and ask him to do it first. If he’s scared of the pain- case closed. There’s absolutely no reason that he should expect it to feel any differently for you. If he says that it would be emasculating, belittling or ‘gay’, then that man is a misogynistic homophobe, and you better run for the hills as fast as your legs can take you.
I’m screaming
Take it like a man
What if he says yes
then you start making memories
holy shit
(via yea-lets-do-this-shit)
It’s my business when men are forcing their girlfriends into anal sex. It’s my business when women are getting surgeries on their labia and breasts so they can look like model’s in playboy, its my business because young girls are being forced to act out porn scenes with their first boyfriends in case their boyfriends leave them or stop thinking that they’re hot, it’s my business when men are so gorged on porn they think a woman who doesn’t send nude pictures is weird, its my business when men are taking up-skirt photos and groping women, it’s my business when women are being forced to have sex without condoms so that it will feel better ‘for men’, because there are no condoms in porn scenes, its my business when women are lying and faking their orgasms because porn has taught men that sex is about THEIR pleasure, and that sex is just endlessly pumping their dick into a woman over and over again, it’s my business when I can’t look up anything on the internet without coming across advertisements for porn, its my business when I can’t look up any information on my sexual orientation without being overrun by porn even with the safe search on. Its my business, its my business, its my fucking business.
(via yea-lets-do-this-shit)
