My new writing computer! 11-inch Samsung Series 9 (Taken with instagram)
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So let me get this straight – it’s a problem if my mom listened too much to my dad, but it’s a heroic act if the President made a massive change in a policy position that could affect the entire nation after consulting with his teenage daughters?
While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview. In this situation, it was the other way around.
I guess we can be glad that Malia and Sasha aren’t younger, or perhaps today’s press conference might have been about appointing Dora the Explorer as Attorney General because of her success in stopping Swiper the Fox.
Sometimes dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would’ve been nice if the President would’ve been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee.
” —Wow, Bristol Palin, you are a MQ.*
*Can you guess.
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um. hey. direct insult to the President’s intelligence, go!
“that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking…”
ah. so let’s forego all the developments in medicine. don’t want to disrupts thousands of years of thinking about health. let’s go back to leeching. or better, let’s just leave loved ones to the wolves.
while we’re at it, let’s forget about planes. after all, folks just knew man couldn’t fly for centuries. millenia, even. that’s thousands of years, for the cheap seats. shut down the airports.
can i also point out that the definition and purpose of marriage has changed several times in the past and that folks seem to ignore that rather conveniently in their passion to “save” it?
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Once again I say: Bristol, shut the entire fuck up and take all the seats. When you prove to me that you have one iota of understanding about history then maybe you can have an opinion at this time.
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Bristol Palin.
oops
Welp.
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in regards to the HONY thing. i was wondering if maybe this is something that ties into the ability for him to go as far as demand all these people to take that image off the net. i guess many ultra orthodox jews have been harshly shunned for outting any kind of sexual assault/rape/molestation. i am sure this article has a possibility of creating a kind of stereotype and i am not interested in creating one. but i found the whole timing interesting. the article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/nyregion/ultra-orthodox-jews-shun-their-own-for-reporting-child-sexual-abuse.html
This article made me want to throw up. I couldn’t even finish it. No community, regardless of religious or cultural values, should ever put barriers to child molesters being brought to justice. Any community that allows people to abuse children has an obvious cancer.
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Riley touched on this a long time ago with their Rules of a Whiteness-Free Discussion. However, I’m interested in digging a bit deeper to figure out a new way of talking about social justice online.
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking and reflecting, and I’m starting to believe that POCs need our own movement that comes at social justice from our ways of doing things. Currently, I’m feeling increasingly confined by the Whiteness of how social justice (including anti-racism!) is framed in online discussions, and how inauthentic and disconnected I feel whenever I participate in it.
What I want to see instead is a way of framing social justice that’s rooted in our identities as POCs. For instance, I want to see more discussions about queerness and ethnicity that focus on queering the [insert ethnicity] way. I want to see more discussions about social justice from the framework of cultural values, history, myth, religion, etc. I’d love to see less emphasis placed on “I do this because this is what it means to be an ally” and more on, “I do this because this is what it means to come from this culture with this history.”
Of course, different POC communities will frame things differently, but the possibility of sharing our collective wisdom would, in my opinion, offer us many ways to learn about and heal ourselves and our communities. Here is one example, but I imagine that there must be more.
However, I want to get this started by hearing from you. How does your culture affect how you do social justice? How do you envision social justice rooted in culture? What specific ideas and values do you speak and act from? What do you find in your own culture that you want to see more of in how we discuss social justice online? What questions do you have for anybody else who’s currently or potentially doing this sort of thing?
Context. Nuance. Fact-checking.
As well as a debunking of myths about ourselves that even PoC hold.
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[Image: A picture of a tall, very thin Black woman with her shoulder over a shorter, older white man wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing on a New York sideway.]
staghunts:
“This one is very serious, guys:
I came upon these two on the sidewalk. They were having a conversation. “Excuse me,” I said, addressing the girl: “I’m sorry to interrupt, but is there anyway I can take your photo?”
“Why would you want my photo?” she asked.
“Because you look beautiful,” I said. And she did. She was Sudanese. There is a very distinct beauty among people from the Sudan, and she was filled up with it. Suddenly the man cut in:
“I was just telling her she was beautiful,” he said.
Naively, I assumed I had just walked up on one stranger giving a compliment to another. I wanted to capture the moment. “Let me take your photograph together,” I said. The man seemed reluctant, he started smiling nervously and inching away. But the girl called him back.
“Come take a picture with me,” she said. Encouraged by her attention, he returned. She put her arm around him, and I took the photo.
As I examined the photos on my camera, the man started whispering to the girl. She answered him in a loud voice: “I told you! I’m not that kind of girl.” She seemed agitated now. Finally sensing that I had misread the situation, I stepped between them. The man began hurrying down the sidewalk.
When the man left, the girl’s demeanor changed completely. She seemed shaken. Her eyes were tearing up. “He just offered me five hundred dollars to go out with him,” she said. “And then when I said ‘no,’ he offered me one thousand. Why does this always happen to me?”
“It happens a lot?” I asked.
“All the time,” she said. “I’m sorry I’m getting emotional. I just can’t go out of my house without this kind of thing happening. I have a son. I’m a mother. I would never degrade myself like that. I just don’t understand why this keeps happening.”
“Do you mind if I tell this story?” I asked.
“Please,” she said. “Tell it.”
Let’s hope this man, and all men, realize the emotional damage they are inflicting on the women they try to buy. In the meantime, feel free to SHARE.*
Dear Tumblr, fuck you for trying to erase this.
I’m saving this post because as many times as Tumblr tries to erase this woman’s story and act like anything about this was okay, that’s as many times as I’m reposting it. They can either cut me off or stop being assnuggets about this. whichEVER.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3v4ahIMJ41qlxu8ho1_500.jpg)
[Image: A picture of a tall, very thin Black woman with her shoulder over a shorter, older white man wearing traditional Orthodox Jewish clothing on a New York sideway.]
“This one is very serious, guys:
I came upon these two on the sidewalk. They were having a conversation. “Excuse me,” I said, addressing the girl: “I’m sorry to interrupt, but is there anyway I can take your photo?”
“Why would you want my photo?” she asked.
“Because you look beautiful,” I said. And she did. She was Sudanese. There is a very distinct beauty among people from the Sudan, and she was filled up with it. Suddenly the man cut in:
“I was just telling her she was beautiful,” he said.
Naively, I assumed I had just walked up on one stranger giving a compliment to another. I wanted to capture the moment. “Let me take your photograph together,” I said. The man seemed reluctant, he started smiling nervously and inching away. But the girl called him back.
“Come take a picture with me,” she said. Encouraged by her attention, he returned. She put her arm around him, and I took the photo.
As I examined the photos on my camera, the man started whispering to the girl. She answered him in a loud voice: “I told you! I’m not that kind of girl.” She seemed agitated now. Finally sensing that I had misread the situation, I stepped between them. The man began hurrying down the sidewalk.
When the man left, the girl’s demeanor changed completely. She seemed shaken. Her eyes were tearing up. “He just offered me five hundred dollars to go out with him,” she said. “And then when I said ‘no,’ he offered me one thousand. Why does this always happen to me?”
“It happens a lot?” I asked.
“All the time,” she said. “I’m sorry I’m getting emotional. I just can’t go out of my house without this kind of thing happening. I have a son. I’m a mother. I would never degrade myself like that. I just don’t understand why this keeps happening.”
“Do you mind if I tell this story?” I asked.
“Please,” she said. “Tell it.”
Let’s hope this man, and all men, realize the emotional damage they are inflicting on the women they try to buy. In the meantime, feel free to SHARE.*
Dear Tumblr, fuck you for trying to erase this.
I’m saving this post because as many times as Tumblr tries to erase this woman’s story and act like anything about this was okay, that’s as many times as I’m reposting it. They can either cut me off or stop being assnuggets about this. whichEVER.
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“Stalking Latino Women: “In another instance, during a crime suppression operation, two MCSO officers followed a Latina woman, a citizen of the United States, for a quarter of a mile to her home. The officers did not turn on their emergency lights, but insisted that the woman remain in her car when she attempted to exit the car and enter her home. The officers’ stated reasons for approaching the woman was a non-functioning license plate light. When the woman attempted to enter her home, the officers used force to take her to the ground, kneed her in the back, and handcuffed her. The woman was then taken to an MCSO substation, cited for ‘disorderly conduct,’ and returned home. The disorderly conduct citation was subsequently dismissed.” —
10 Worst Things Arizona’s Racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio Has Done | Civil Liberties | AlterNet
i appreciate that the top ‘worst’ things done pinpoint what this asshole has done to Latinas. I am highlighting this section in particular because Driving While Colored is far far FAR too often represented as something only men of color have to deal with.
having said that, i do wish that they had also highlighted what is being done to trans Latinas—if cis women are being physically humiliated and shamed with their period blood, I can’t even imagine what trans women are going through. especially when trans women in detention centers that AREN’T run by this asshole are in horrific situations.
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I’ve seen this shit before and have been meaning to write about it.
Imagine an abusive relationship (can work with romantic relationships and/or with family) and this is said by the abuser:
“Why do you want to leave me? I allowed you to live in my house, and I make all the money. You’re dependent on me. YOU need ME. Nobody will ever love you like I do, and I have everything you need right here. All you need to do is behave and say with me. Why do you want to leave me?”
It’s the EXACT SAME shit abusers tell their victims so that the victims stay, and the abusers retain power and control.
EXACTLY.
And you’re not good people.
They might be subtle, but these are threats. And you’re trying to make false promises of “equality” if ONLY PoC submit to you and behave the way you want us to.
And you should be able to step on our foots all you want to, but we better not complain about it if we REALLY want equality, which YOU try to set the standards for.
But, you know, you are “trying to help” us. Because you’re a “good person.”
White people who think this way and tell PoC who tell them to go away, “But don’t you want equality? We are the ones in power and COULD give it to you if you would just act how we want you to act and say what we want to hear!”
It’s intimidating bullshit. You are THREATENING PoC into submission, waving around your privilege and power and threatening to use it against us if we don’t submit. You are crossing our physical, emotional, intellectual, and time boundaries all at the same time and saying “we must not want equality” if we try to enforce them while you invade them.
Nobody has to teach you shit, and nobody is obligated to hold your hand, change their tone, or take the time to accommodate their personal spaces for you.
And who the hell would want to be “equal” to an abuser like you?
It’s impossible. You actually don’t want equality. All you want is control over others and will do and say anything to get people to submit to you.
PoC and marginalized people who get this from privilege people, RUN, don’t just walk, RUN away from them and blast them for the abusers that they are. Please do NOT fall for this shit.
In the end, you cannot reason with abusers. Just walk away, and don’t even bother wasting your time.
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After the sentencing, Rep. Corrine Brown confronted State Attorney Angela Corey in the hallway, accusing her of being overzealous, according to video from CNN affiliate WJXT.
“There is no justification for 20 years,” Brown told Corey during an exchange frequently interrupted by onlookers. “All the community was asking for was mercy and justice,” she said.
Corey said she had offered Alexander a plea bargain that would have resulted in a three-year prison sentence, but Alexander chose to take the case to a jury trial, where a conviction would carry a mandatory sentence under a Florida law known as “10-20-life.”
The law mandates increased penalties for some felonies, including aggravated assault, in which a gun is carried or used.
Corey said the case deserved to be prosecuted because Alexander fired in the direction of a room where two children were standing.
” —Florida woman sentenced to 20 years in controversial warning shot case - CNN
Fuck. This. Shit.
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Between Marissa Alexander’s sentencing and the asshole selling Trayvon gun range targets, I’m done with Florida. Done.
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Precious Natural Babygirl
oh my uterus
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Holy crap, is she gorgeous. Just ridiculous amount of perfection.
She is elebindy pretties.
