Science is not apolitical. Researcher bias is real and there are many instances where racist, homophobic, and misogynistic scientists have slanted data (often subconsciously) due to their worldview and bigots use this to justify their hatred. Science is an impressive tool for understanding the world but any tool can be misused and being a scientist does not automatically immunize someone against their internal biases or the prejudices that exist in their societal milieu.
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protect Jewish girls.
Protect Jewish girls who:
- are very religious and keeps religious modesty rules
- are not very religious and do not keep these rules
- Jewish girls of colour
- Jewish transgender people and non-binary Jews
- Jewish girls who are pro-Israel
- Jewish girls who are pro-Palestine
- queer/asexual/lesbian/bi Jewish girls
People have a knack of really over simplifying feminism like “feminism: the radical notion that women are people” or “feminism is literally just believing in equality”
like… no its not its so much more complex than that ask any dingus if they think women and men should be equal they’ll probably say yeah but their actions and thoughts probably majorly contradict that
so quit acting like anyones a feminist if they vaguely believe women are ok humans
Age that women first noticed men were looking at them sexually
by Teelo888
Girls don’t get childhood. They get girlhood.
Because I don’t want to see any comments after this reblog on how it’s perfectly normal for boys to start noticing girls when they’re all going through puberty – this graph is based on women’s responses to an /r/AskReddit thread that specifically mention grown, adult men.
I remember doing a shift at my work experience placement in a bookstore and some grown man (he was starting to grey around the beard) came up to me while I was stocking the shelves. He was asking if I always worked in the History section and I said no, I stock all over the store (duh?) and suddenly went from zero to a hundred by asking “What time do you get off work? Can I take you for coffee?”
The feeling was instantaneous – hot and cold at the same time. Your stomach curdles and chills while your skin heats and feels like it’s melting away. My whole face turned red and all I wanted to do was vomit. “I am fourteen years old.”
He looked embarrassed as hell.
… And yet …
“What? No, you can’t be.”
“… BUT I AM. I AM FOURTEEN YEARS OLD.”
“Bullshit, where’s your ID?”
“SIR, the only ID she has is from her JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.” My (male) manager had walked up behind me (he later said he heard me say my age the first time around and came running over). “She’s a minor. She doesn’t have to show you anything. Can I help you with something? Do you need help with a purchase?”
The word ‘minor’ set this guy off and he started ranting about how I was leading him on. Another customer (probably in his 20s) overheard it all, looked at me and back at the guy, obviously determined that I was not in my twenties, sneered and went “Gross, dude” – which, yeah, but that set this creep off even more. My manager and another male employee ended up walking him out.
I will fucking love that manager until the end of days for stepping in like that – but unfortunately nothing will take away that cold, gut wrenching feeling a young girl gets hit on by a man twice her age.
I was fourteen, in the Bahamas on vacation, and a full-grown man tried to lure me away from the table where I was waiting for my mother who was in the washroom. I was timid and shy and had absolutely no idea what his motives were, but in retrospect, best case scenario, he wanted me to have sex with him. Don’t want to think about the worst case scenario.
I looked mature for my age, but he ASKED ME MY AGE AND I TOLD HIM AND HE CONTINUED TO PURSUE IT.
Thank the fucking lord my mother returned a minute later and had a fucking meltdown when she saw what was going on.
If men want to complain about how they’re always seen as predators, this graph is a good fucking example of why most women do. I guarantee you that most women have one or two stories like this.
Support fat trans and nb people. Support people that will never “pass” or look androgynous no matter how hard they try. Support boys with large breasts that they can’t bind down and wide hips that scream “femininity” and cute, round faces that won’t contour into masculine angles.
how neurotypicals think triggers work
- i had a traumatic experience but i’m 100% fine and never think about it
- unless i see a neurotypical-approved trigger
- then i will remember it all of a sudden and have a horrible panic attack
how triggers actually work
- i had a traumatic experience and the long-time effects of trauma influence my life every day
- seriously, no one forgets about a traumatic experience
- (unless they repress those memories completely)
- a trigger is something that makes those memories resurface
- triggers can be anything; words, phrases, smells, symbols, colours, things that seem ridiculous to you but to me have a connection to my traumatic experience that i am not obligated to explain just because you think i’m “tossing the word trigger around like it’s nothing”
- reactions to triggers can range from slight discomfort to severe panic attacks; none of these reactions are less valid because they’re not ‘bad enough’
- my general mental health influences how i respond to a trigger. the same trigger might not bother me on a good day but make me suffer from paranoia and anxiety on a bad day. it is still always a trigger.
- veterans are not the only ones suffering from ptsd. “war” is not the only real trigger.
- mocking triggers (no matter how silly they seem to you) means mocking and disrespecting everyone who had a traumatic experience and asks people to tag triggers because they don’t want the memories to resurface more than they already do anyway
- you’re not my therapist. you have no say in what triggers me and how i am supposed to deal with that.
- so if i ask people to tag penguins, but don’t feel comfortable telling everyone that the reason for this is that they are my abuser’s favourite animals which they often talked about (when they weren’t hitting me, locking me up and letting me starve, and telling me i deserve it), you have absolutely no right to make fun of that
- bye
May 23
Officer Michael Brelo was one of 13 officers who shot at Timothy Russell and his passenger, Malissa Williams, during a chase through the Cleveland area on Nov. 29, 2012. Police officers fired 137 rounds at the car, prosecutors have said, including 49 by Officer Brelo.
Officer Brelo climbed onto the car’s hood and fired at least 15 rounds from close range, including the fatal shots.
Malissa Williams and Timothy Russell were unarmed.
The DOJ has announced that they will review the Brelo case.
You can read the full text of the #BreloVerdict here.
Here’s everything you need to know about the murders of Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams.
positivity is cool and all but repressing negative feelings is toxic to yr mind and body. dont feel guilt for having an array of emotions. its corny to fake positivity when it isnt sincere, feeling stuff even bad stuff is nothing to be guilty over. its okay to feel bad sometimes
I think it’s really insulting that westerners talk about communism. y’all had it too good and now y’all are being spoiled little brats. let me talk to you about the women and men executed and how their bodies were thrown out of trains and the basic food being rationed so harshly that we actually started black markets for fucking sugar and oil and let me talk to you about how they used to spy on everyone, we had mikes in our homes, how they made kids rat on each other and how controlled the education was. lights went out at 7. my parents used to study by a candle. everything. was. controlled. everyone. was. oppressed.
# DESTROY TUMBLR’S UNAPOLOGETIC ROMANTICISING OF COMMUNISM 2K15 TBH
My step mom once employed a man from Cuba, where they are socialist but still have a trace of communism, Anyways, one time I overheard them talking and he was saying how he use to be part of the mafia. It wasn’t a drug or crime mafia. It was one where they brought in coffee, eggs and other produce because everything was rationed and I thought that was really interesting.
I’ve had several professors who were born in the USSR now. One who lived under Stalin. No one hates communism more than them.
Scientific evidence rape jokes cause rape.
http://rajsivaraman.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/a-scientific-case-against-rape-jokes/
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/11/12/rapists-who-dont-think-theyre-rapists/
But do go on how it’s just a joke.
I remember back when I didn’t think people were either that suggestible or prone to evil. It wasn’t very long before actually interacting with people shattered that naive optimism.
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