Reblogging for this hilarisad string of tags. In my head that little smile is definitely Furiosa laughing at herself for even asking, like, What did you expect, you idiot? He won’t even tell you his name.
Looks like all of those raucous protests are paying off. After many criticized #BlackLivesMatter protesters for preventing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders from speaking at a rally in Seattle, the Vermont Senator released a sweeping racial justice plan. Now, he’s agreed to meet with activists to talk about it.
When Michael Brown was gunned down by a police officer in Ferguson, DeRay Mckesson became one of the most notable faces of the movement for justice. Alongside Johnetta Elzie, Mckesson live-tweeted protests, broadcasted video, and offered a perspective the mainstream media couldn’t. Now, he’s got the ear of a popular presidential candidate.
While many continue to question the tactics of some protesters, it’s hard to deny their message is being heard.
In case you missed the reason why Bernie Sanders and other presidential candidates were interrupted by Black Lives Matters activists, head to this post.
my nursing lecturer was saying how her daughter almost died at birth and the doctor said ‘you’re lucky she’s a girl because girls are more resilient, even from birth’ and she just thought he was comforting her but she researched it later and there had been studies literally done into it
Not even just from birth. Female fetuses are less likely to miscarry in adverse conditions, such as famine. It makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint. If a sexual dimorphic species is to survive, it needs far more females than males. In nature, males are pretty expendable.
I just randomly thought of something that was probably inspired by another post about fans interacting with the people they admire and I thought I might as well put it out there while it’s in my head.
Now, I’m sure you are all familiar with the meaning of consent and I don’t need to go into the details of what defines consent. I mention it now because it’s going to be the entire point of this post.
Which brings me to this:
DO. NOT. TOUCH. A PERFORMER. WITHOUT. THEIR. CONSENT.
When you are at the stage door, for the love of all that is holy, do not lay a single FINGER on a performer unless they give verbal consent or they initiate physical contact. For example: hugging a performer. I’m going to draw from two personal experiences for this point. Last summer, when I saw Phantom, Sierra Boggess was playing Christine and she came to the stagedoor. One of her fans, out of nowhere, practically jumped on Sierra in order to give her a hug, which left Sierra wide-eyed and stunned for a few seconds. Don’t be that person. Instead, be like the girl I saw at the stage door in Toronto when I saw Julia Murney in concert who asked Julia if she could have a hug before the two of them hugged one another. Just take two seconds to ask if it’s okay instead of assuming that the performer you want to hug is okay with you invading their personal space. Or, if the performer knows you well enough or recognizes you from a time you’ve gone too see them perform before and initiates the hug, then you’re in the clear.
I won’t even wrap my arm around a performer when I get my picture taken with them unless they wrap their arm around me first (which is something I believe every stage door patron should put into practice). This allows the performer to be the one to, you guessed it, initiate physical contact.
I understand that you may be a touchy/feely person. I am aware that their are performers out there who are the same, who have no issues whatsoever when it comes to physical contact with fans. But this doesn’t give you the right to invade a performer’s personal space against their will.
TL;DR: DO NOT BY ANY MEANS WHATSOEVER TOUCH A PERFORMER AT THE STAGE DOOR WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT
if the titanic sunk today you can bet your ass that almost everybody would’ve lived because there’d be enough life boats for everyone and the third class passengers wouldn’t be forced to stay in their rooms. also, with today’s technology, they most likely would’ve known about the iceberg and they wouldn’t have hit it–not to mention that the boat would’ve been able to move away from the icebergs because ships aren’t built the same way anymore.
in fact, most of these people would’ve been on a plane.
All right, not that you didn’t make some really great points there, but I’d like to point out ONE OTHER THING about this concept, the idea of the Titanic going down today.
If the Titanic sank today, and let’s suppose for the sake of argument that it went down much like it did in 1912 (crashed into an iceberg, insufficient lifeboats, many dead and dying as the ship went down, for whatever reason help can’t be reached), you know what would be different?
There wouldn’t be any confusion about who lived and who didn’t, no families desperately waiting for news, because people would be saying goodbye. They would be pulling out their phones and their tablets and they would call or message their families or friends. And they would say “the ship is going down, we’re going to die, and I wanted to make sure you knew.”
Can you imagine those messages?
“I gave up my seat for a young woman and her baby.”
“I don’t want you to be scared for me.”
“I’m sitting with a friend I made last week–her whole family is on board.”
“I just wanted to hear your voice.”
“I didn’t want you to be left wondering.”
“I’ll miss you.”
“I love you.”
So I sort of doubt that’s what this person was trying to get at (although can you imagine the murder that a historian would do to have concrete knowledge of how something like this happened rather than theorizing from evidence and scattered accounts), but like listen to me for one second: people would fucking know what happened to their loved ones. They would be able to say goodbye.
Has anyone ever taken a pad or tampon out into the light of day only to have boys and grown men back five feet away? This shit is tip of the stigma iceberg that women experience for simply menstruating. How many of those products in the image can cause toxic shock or infections? How expensive are those products? How often do they need to be bought/replaced? These are real issues that affect our health, finances, and social/internalized perceptions of ourselves. Men absolutely REFUSE to acknowledge us for our biology when it’s not sexually appealing to them. They refuse to consider our mental and physiological health, and mock and silence us when we try to talk about it.
we should make armor out of menstrual products so men stay away
