(For clarity: I’m not anti-gay-marriage. I just can’t understand for a second why it’s something worth fighting for.)
It's refreshing to see someone who sees the whole gay marriage business similarly to how I do.
![lovewallace:
casual-isms:
Presented without comment, because I’m sure someone will be able to find the words better than I can.
oh look we have cute doodles too
The solution to racism is not racism. Racism from A towards B is not acceptable just because the distant ancestors of B were racist towards the distant ancestors of A. That’s the kind of fucked-up vengeful logic that most people get over by the age of ten, for fuck’s sake.
[also, the same paragraph again, but replacing “racism” with “sexism”]
Shit, this kind of thinking makes me angry.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/5e8ec6715504dbdeff03c502fb7f16ea/tumblr_mjz7mbmocs1re4z1lo1_500.jpg)
Presented without comment, because I’m sure someone will be able to find the words better than I can.
oh look we have cute doodles too
The solution to racism is not racism. Racism from A towards B is not acceptable just because the distant ancestors of B were racist towards the distant ancestors of A. That’s the kind of fucked-up vengeful logic that most people get over by the age of ten, for fuck’s sake.
[also, the same paragraph again, but replacing “racism” with “sexism”]
Shit, this kind of thinking makes me angry.
(via josephasfoury)
Patriotism is strange.
Why is it exciting that the man who can run faster than those other men was born in the same political boundaries as me?
Why do I want this stranger who I’ve never met to throw that thing further than all these other strangers?
Does the fact that there’s an incredibly tenuous link between that woman, who just achieved something, and me, sitting on my arse in the living room somehow make me feel better about the fact I can’t do that thing she just did?
Why should I be proud of where I was born, when I had no more say in that than whether I had blue eyes or whether I was a turtle?
Why would I be willing to die for people who I will never meet just because we share a nationality, and willing to kill people who I do meet just because they have the wrong nationality?
Patriotism strikes me as at best strange and outdated, and at worse, seriously dangerous.
How to Know When a Woman is Mad
these ladies are my idols
Getting revenge. You’re doing it right
I cannot be the only person who looks at these photos and sees hundreds of pounds of criminal damage, rather than some well-deserved “revenge”.
Yeah, the billboard, the poster and the plane, fair enough. That’s pretty original, so while I think it’s a little petty, they don’t launch me into a fiery rage like the others.
But the others, they’re just illegal. It’s not commendable, or anything even remotely worth idolising, for fuck’s sake.
Just to be clear: I am in no way defending adultery. Obviously it’s bloody stupid and morally wrong - however I would argue that the “revenge” enacted in several of these cases is far more morally wrong.
What these pictures represent most of all to me is the spectacularly fucked up idea of gender “equality” we have today. Imagine if you saw some of these images (particularly the last with the pickaxes) and were told that they had been done by an angry husband after his wife had been unfaithful. You’d feel sorry for the woman… you’d imagine her fear and panic at discovering such an act of brutality performed on something she owned, and worry for her safety.
And so just why the FUCK is it any different when it’s done to a man? It’s this same attitude which means that hundreds of thousands of men who are abused by their wives aren’t taken seriously, and are forced to live in fear. It’s demeaning both to men and women alike: men because they are made to feel pathetic and have no way of dealing with the situation, and women because the very reason that females get away with this sort of thing is because people automatically assume they’re weaker than men.
I know it’s ludicrous to hope that this situation is going to change any time soon… but god fucking DAMN does it get me angry.
(Source: liquid0xy, via t3ganandsara)
Posts like this really irritate the crap out of me. Like, seriously, do you really think there’s someone somewhere who’s like “OMG no I’m not reblogging that, I fuckin’ love cancer, me.”?
It’s just a shockingly transparent attempt to get notes, which makes you just as bad a person for whoring out a fatal disease just for the sake of a small amount of internet fame.
(Source: kany3shrugs, via trialsandtribulationsofafangirl)
![thedailywhat:
Afghan War News of the Day: A US soldier reportedly carried out a brutal slaying of at least 16 Afghan civilians early this morning in two small villages near his base in the country’s southern Kandahar Province.
“It appears he walked off post and later returned and turned himself in,” military spokesman Lt. Cmdr. James Williams said of the unidentified staff sergeant who is currently in custody.
According to eyewitnesses, the soldier walked into at least three homes in the villages of Balandi and Alkozai and fired at their occupants. Nine children and three women were among the dead, per the latest report.
The deputy commander of Afghanistan’s international troop coalition, Lt. Gen. Adrian J. Bradshaw, stressed that this was “in no way part of authorized military activity.” US officials further denied earlier reports that the shooting was perpetrated by more than one assailant.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai released a statement demanding an explanation for the attack, which he referred to as “an intentional killing of innocent civilians [that] cannot be forgiven.”
The Taliban issued a similar statement, admonishing “the so called American peace keepers” for “once again quench[ing] their thirst with the blood of innocent Afghan civilians.”
This latest setback for US efforts in the region comes just as fury over last month’s Koran burning at Bagram Air Base and January’s corpse urination footage had begun to abate.
The US Embassy in Kabul attempted to diffuse the tension by releasing a statement expressing “deepest condolences to the families of the victims,” but experts say today’s incident may be the “fatal hammer blow on the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan.”
President Obama’s drawdown plan has US soldiers transferring full security control to their Afghan counterparts by the end of 2014.
[photo: afp/getty via msnbc.]
So, we take a bunch of already-morally-maladjusted people, give them heavy firearms, and put them in an incredibly stressful situation… and then act surprised when shit like this happens? Could we be any more naïve?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0qe0zICOw1qzpwi0o1_500.jpg)
Afghan War News of the Day: A US soldier reportedly carried out a brutal slaying of at least 16 Afghan civilians early this morning in two small villages near his base in the country’s southern Kandahar Province.
“It appears he walked off post and later returned and turned himself in,” military spokesman Lt. Cmdr. James Williams said of the unidentified staff sergeant who is currently in custody.
According to eyewitnesses, the soldier walked into at least three homes in the villages of Balandi and Alkozai and fired at their occupants. Nine children and three women were among the dead, per the latest report.
The deputy commander of Afghanistan’s international troop coalition, Lt. Gen. Adrian J. Bradshaw, stressed that this was “in no way part of authorized military activity.” US officials further denied earlier reports that the shooting was perpetrated by more than one assailant.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai released a statement demanding an explanation for the attack, which he referred to as “an intentional killing of innocent civilians [that] cannot be forgiven.”
The Taliban issued a similar statement, admonishing “the so called American peace keepers” for “once again quench[ing] their thirst with the blood of innocent Afghan civilians.”
This latest setback for US efforts in the region comes just as fury over last month’s Koran burning at Bagram Air Base and January’s corpse urination footage had begun to abate.
The US Embassy in Kabul attempted to diffuse the tension by releasing a statement expressing “deepest condolences to the families of the victims,” but experts say today’s incident may be the “fatal hammer blow on the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan.”
President Obama’s drawdown plan has US soldiers transferring full security control to their Afghan counterparts by the end of 2014.
[photo: afp/getty via msnbc.]
So, we take a bunch of already-morally-maladjusted people, give them heavy firearms, and put them in an incredibly stressful situation… and then act surprised when shit like this happens? Could we be any more naïve?
(Source: thedailywhat)
“Spreading awareness”
It’s like prayer for the 21st Century.
An ingenious technique used by the naturally privileged to feel like they’re useful, like they can make, and have made a difference. You reblog an image, or tweet a hashtag, and that’s it. Your job’s done, you’ve done your good deed for the day. That warm, self-satisfied feeling inside you lets you know that you’re a Good Person.
Except what have you actually achieved? The only difference you’ve made is that there are now a few more people who, just like you, will care passionately about whichever issue is fashionable this week, and then forget about it two days later.
Just to be clear, this isn’t a direct response to #stopKony, so much as a response to the growing trend of suddenly deciding to care passionately about an issue you’ve known about for years and not given two shits about, just because it’s suddenly become cool to do so.
Awareness isn’t going to feed the starving, depose dictators or create world peace. There’s nothing in your power that will. But, I suppose, if you want to pretend that you can change the world then you’re welcome to continue. Just don’t get your hopes up.
No, you ignorant fuck, your phone isn’t “being gay”, it’s broken. In fact, I highly doubt your phone actually has a sexuality, since it has no gender, no conscious thought, and is not a living thing. And if it did, and it did happen to be gay, that would definitely not make it broken. Liking other phones of the same model does is not a symptom of malfunction.
Believing that “gay” is synonymous with “broken”, however, probably is.
What an utter tosser. What does the persecution of black youths (which I’ve never seen any evidence for anyway) have to do with this in the slightest?
Arseholes like this bloke are the reason nothing’s been done about these riots; he’s trying to suggest that there’s a legitimate reason behind this wilful abandon of law and morality, when really it’s just a bunch of overexcited chavs who like the idea of a free plasma-screen.
(Source: BBC)
