while you are supposed to have legal protection, in reality a lot of schools won’t protect lgbt+ kids and will flat out tell you that they won’t. please remember to first and foremost stay safe!!
The teen’s arrest was captured on a cellphone video and posted to Facebook. In the video, the teen is heard yelling for help as a school resource officer pushes him against a wall and knees him in the back after taking him to the ground. The videographer said the officer sprayed a chemical irritant in the teen’s face, and the teen is later heard complaining that he was “Maced.”
This happened last week at my school, St. Paul Central High School, in St. Paul Minnesota. This police officer, (officially titled a police liason / community resource officer who is stationed in our school) has a history of escalating interactions with black students and using excessive physical force.
The student shown here was a former Central student who had transferred schools, and was visiting to speak to a former teacher about something. He had gone in the wrong door to speak to the teacher, he was supposed to go in the main office door and sign in. But instead of redirecting the student calmly, eyewitnesses say that the officer was antagonizing and intimidating from the start, with the intention of arresting him for trespassing. The student talked back to him and got angry, understandably since many students at my school are wary of our police resource officers due to their history of deplorable conduct, and the officer then resorted to excessive and humiliating physical force. Teachers in my school are insisting the officer was defending himself, even though this 16 year old boy had no weapons, did not have the capacity to harm the officer at all, etc. The officer had no reason whatsoever to conduct himself in this humiliating and forceful manner. He has never responded this way to a white student, despite the fact that I have seen white students talk back to and even shove him.
This is the reality about resource officers in our schools. They do not de-escalate conflict and violence, they incite it disproportionately against black students. They repeatedly escalate situations. They do not improve the safety of the school climate at all.
This is a 16 year old teenage boy, being manhandled and humiliated and arrested with disgusting force by a man twice his size who couldn’t possibly be in any danger from him. None of the articles I have seen will say his name. I am not sure if this is because the family has not consented to release it, or for other reasons.
To point out a couple of things from the video:
1. The officer wrenches his shoulder so hard he yells in pain.
2. The officer repeatedly tells him to put his hands behind his back, despite exerting physical force on his back so that he cannot realistically comply, and then escalates the physical harassment.
3. The white woman in the video telling the onlooking student (Nelson Moroukian) to stop filming is a Central High School administrator. She is deliberately trying to obstruct the legal taping of an officer on duty. She is standing by while a 16 year old child is physically terrorized, and telling a student to stop filming it. So far, nobody has tried to hold her accountable for those actions either.
4. The officer’s name is Bill Kraus. The administrator’s name is Teri Lensch. There should be no anonymity around their deplorable actions.
The day after, administrators including Teri Lensch, sent us all home 5 minutes early to head off planned protests. Teachers have been overwhelmingly taking the side of Mr. Kraus and blaming the 16 year old former student.
Soooo this is what we still doing? In 2016? Oh okay. St. Paul Public Schools 651-767-8100 Central High School St. Paul, MN 651-744-4900 Principal- Mary Mackabee mary.mackbee@spps.org Bill Kraus william.kraus@spps.org Teri Lensch mary.lentsch@spps.org
the number one surefire way to make people remember something is to annoy them so here’s an annoying announcement that some of the douchebags i keep seeing are gonna get mad at and then remember because it made them mad
[sidenote: gay/bi/pan/etc, trans, and ace are not mutually exclusive identities and this comic does not imply that. just in case anyone tries to get picky. you can be het-ace-trans and acephobic/biphobic, aro-gay-trans and homophobic, etc etc. endless possibilities exist for being a shitty person.]
He is, however, perfectly willing to fuck with time and reality.
And also steal your infants.
He didn’t steal anything. She literally asked him to take the baby. Don’t make him the bad guy just because she was a shitty sister.
I think you are severely misinformed as to how baby ownership works.
It was not her baby to give.
David Bowie is unquestionably the villain.
Which do you think existed first, modern custody legislature, or the goblin king?
The girl was entrusted by her parents with the care and custody of the child. By the laws governing the goblin king and his transactions, the girl was the current rightful owner of the child and made a deal with the king to take the child. Perhaps you’re not familiar with english folklore. Fae have rules, they’re tricksters, they can be sneaky, but they never break the rules.
Slammin’ it down in the Labyrinth fandom tonight, kids.
Don’t talk about breaking rules to the Fae. They don’t put up with that shit.
if a guy is hitting on u and he is clearly the alpha in his group of guys.. go for the third in command and undermine their whole power structure
Oh god, I used this tactic so often. Because in most cases I was trying to pull dudes for my friends, rather than myself. You figure out who their leader is, go for #3 or #4 in the group, who is generally much cuter and a bit more shy. This is why he ranks high, but not too high. You go hard on this dude. You hold his hand and smile at him. You don’t even have to go further. Dude #3 is just bewildered you brushed off #1. This makes the dude at the top antsy. It causes dissent in the ranks. Your friends can now swoop in, picking from the remaining dudes as they start to scatter in the wind. They have lost all sense of self. You have secured free drinks for the rest of the night. And whatever else your genitals desire.
there is a common thread that I’ve noticed among women wherein many of us (rightfully) believe ourselves to be good girlfriends and wives. and this isn’t without reason. entering into a romantic relationship and we naturally mold ourselves to our partners wants and needs. we think, I’m going to throw the shirt they left here in the wash so they don’t have to worry about cleaning it later. I’m going to pick up ingredients at the market for their favorite meal and make it for them. I’m going to leave a glass of water on their nightstand for when they wake up. I’m going to inconvenience myself in this small way in order to make their life marginally easier. these sacrifices hardly even feel like sacrifices. if anything they’re pleasurable: their happiness is your happiness. and yet it’s clear to me that this is a particularly deeply entrenched tendril of socialization. men rarely think like this, rarely reorient their thinking so radically when in a relationship. it presents a dilemma for women. you can either continue being overtly caring and nurturing, even if it’s not reciprocated or even necessarily appreciated, or you can actively become more withholding, which is emotionally taxing in its own right. what can you do. womanhood is synonymous with dissatisfaction and disillusionment
First, thank you for asking. This is something I feel is important!
Second, to those who wonder where this question came from, a while back, I reblogged this, and added the comment about squicks not being the same as triggers.
So what, you ask, is a squick?
A squick is an old fandom term for something that makes you supremely uncomfortable and you absolutely do not want to read it. It can be a trope, a ship, a concept, or just an event that happens within a fic or in canon. For me, abused animals are a definite squick. I don’t like it, and will generally avoid reading any graphic descriptions of such. (That includes tumblr gif sets and such too, people! Tag that shit, will you? Even if it has a happy ending.) Another deep, deep squick of mine is infant age play. Don’t like it, don’t get it, don’t want to think about it.
Now, neither of these things are dangerous to my mental or emotional state. I have never experienced either in my life, and they do not bring about any sort of PTSD, dissociation, or spiral of depression, anxiety, etc. They are simply things I prefer not to think about in my daily life, or read about in my escapist hobbies. Therefore, theyare not triggers. Triggers are very real, very bad things for some people, and to label things we choose not to read because we find it disturbing or gross or weird is to diminish the very real danger of actual triggers.
I love the term squick. It perfectly describes the concept without assigning any negativity to the thing you dislike, or to people who do like the thing you dislike. It is something you personally do not care for and wish to avoid, simple as that.
A squick is an old fandom term
*waves walking stick in the general direction of her lawn* This.
Bring back “squick” 2k16
Squick is wonderful for many reasons, especially because it is value neutral. Being squicked by something doesn’t mean it’s gross or wrong or ~problematic~, just that you, specifically do not enjoy it and that it makes you, specifically uncomfortable to read and/or write about it.
