just a friendly reminder that undocumented immigrants are allowed to donate organs but arent allowed to recieve transplants
they don’t pay taxes??? they’re not citizens??? why is this a negative post??? pay taxes and be a productive member of society and then you will have the operations and health benefits every other tax payer/citizen has???? like what???? I hate this website!!!!!
And even if they didn’t do all those things for American society, they have a right to life like every other citizen, it’s a truly revolting society that happily takes organ donations from a group of people it will not gilife-saving donated organs to based on some arbitrary system of human worth and “productivity”. People shouldn’t have to literally die because they are not “useful” to society, if we actually did follow that logic in society we’d be killing most of our rich for just coasting through life but you all know why we’re not targeting them.
Seriously. Even ignoring how inaccurate the idea that undocumented works “aren’t productive” and “don’t contribute” to society is.
How fucked up is it that there are people who think you need to “contribute enough to society” to be worthy of life saving medical procedures?
"Bring consent out of the bedroom. I think part of the reason we have trouble drawing the line “it’s not okay to force someone into sexual activity” is that in many ways, forcing people to do things is part of our culture in general. Cut that shit out of your life. If someone doesn’t want to go to a party, try a new food, get up and dance, make small talk at the lunchtable—that’s their right. Stop the “aww c’mon” and “just this once” and the games where you playfully force someone to play along. Accept that no means no—all the time."
People are always so damned shocked that I say no and don’t change my mind when they plead and coax, even when it’s something small like ‘hey grab some ice cream with us’ or ‘did you see that new embarrassing cringe viral video?’
Consent in everything that we do, in everywhere that we are, is so important.
Persuasion quickly turns to talking over/ignoring/silencing. It’s all potential bullying.
I said no at work the other day, and a VP (a fellow white woman, but older, so there was a power dynamic imbalance) ignored me. I said no again, and they kept talking over me. I kept saying no, and finally walked out of the room where I had hidden myself to work on a project (where the VP then barged in to demand my attention) and returned down the hall to my boss’ (another VP) office.
The VP actually chased (chased) me to yell at me to tell me that I didn’t have a right to say no– after not letting me talk to say that in fact, I had a project for 1) the CEO and 2) OSHA (you know, the agency with the authority to fine workplaces hundreds of thousands of dollars?) that I had to finish instead. But they wouldn’t give me space to talk and say WHY I was saying no until they were faced with my boss, at which point I said 1) no, I have conflicting projects and 2) no, and how dare you not listen the first time and 3) no, how dare you chase and raise your voice at me and then, 4) I left the room and my boss took it from there with more raised voices and some actual cussing.
I am lucky I could do this because I am 1) a bitch 2) have done stuff like this before and 3) have a boss who will back me up on stuff like this, but it happens all of the time. Consent isn’t just about sex. It’s about your time and your boundaries everywhere.
when reading anything i write please interpret each exclamation point as one wag of a golden retriever’s tail
e.g. if i type “aaaaaaaaah thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!” please imagine i am furiously wagging my tail and possibly causing minor property damage to low positioned vases, lamps, tchotchkes, etc.
Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately gathered national attention there. Ehlers had never forgotten a rape victim telling her forlornly, “If only I had teeth down there.”
Some time afterward, a man came into the hospital where Ehlers works in excruciating pain because his penis was stuck in his pants zipper.
Ehlers merged those images and came up with a product she called Rapex. It resembles a tube, with barbs inside. The woman inserts it like a tampon, with an applicator, and any man who tries to rape the woman impales himself on the barbs and must go to an emergency room to have the Rapex removed.
When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers replied tersely, “A medieval device for a medieval deed.”
- Half the Sky, Nicholas Kristof
REBLOGGING THIS. x1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
A medieval device for a medieval deed - yes.
This is perfect
BLESS THIS PERSON
I BOW TO THIS INTENTION
Can we talk about how beautifully this turns rape culture on its head? Instead of “If they weren’t dressed like that they wouldn’t have been raped” THIS IS LITERALLY “IF THEY HADN’T TRIED TO RAPE SOMEONE THEY WOULDN’T HAVE SPIKES IN THEIR DICK”*
That bold bit~
reblogging for the rape culture comment omFG AMEN TO YOU
So according to an interview with Neil Gaiman in the back of Good Omens, before Terry Pratchett became a full time writer he wrote at least 400 words a day.
I’ve been trying it out for a couple weeks now and let me tell you 400 words is a totally awesome goal. It is very approachable and not intimidating, often leads to more than 400 words cause well now I have to finish this scene.
Seriously I probably would have written nothing in the last couple weeks, instead I’ve written 1000′s of words.
i would literally rather have darth vader be our next president than donald trump. if darth vader ran in the 2016 elections, and it came down to him and donald trump, i would vote for darth vader without even thinking
this post is interesting because it implies a future in which darth vader won the democratic primary
No but this could totally be a thing.
Like he’d look at gay marriage and be like “I too have known what it’s like to not be able to get married simply because of who you are.” Marriage for everybody.
He’s pro gun-control. Light sabers are much more elegant weapons, anyway.
He’d probably be for raising the minimum wage. He grew up a slave, living in the worse kind of poverty. He knows how important it is for single mothers to be able to support their children.
Darth Vader: a Force We Can Count On.
can this be real?
Darth Vader was a better human being than Donald Trump and that is truly amazing
he murdered children with a laser sword
We don’t have any real proof that Trump hasn’t murdered children with a laser sword. He needs to provide documentation on that. Some kind of certificate. Until then, I won’t believe him. America deserves the truth.
