katelyn-danger:

I think the bicycle helmet discourse really just reinforces the idea that people believe that accidents only happen to the stupid and careless, and that people who get hurt somehow deserve it. And since nobody wants to believe themselves to be stupid, or thinks they could be careless or distracted, it’s not necessary to take precautions.

And then they take safety advice as an insult because telling someone to be safe is seen as an accusation of being stupid and irresponsible, and not just a value neutral acknowledgement of statistical inevitably. We see it with masks, and seatbelts, and now bicycle helmets because everyone wants to believe they’re too clever to get hurt, and too lucky to get hurt badly, until suddenly you’re not and you have to resign, in shame, to being one of the people you previously saw as annoying nags, assuming you’re even still alive.

randomslasher:

flightsofwonder:

flightsofwonder:

being an adult is just saying to yourself “this is the weekend i’ll clean my [x]” and then proceeding to not do that because it’s the weekend and you deserve to relax, goddamnit

why does this have 85K notes

because we reblogged it instead of cleaning our [x]

tenderheart444:

how grateful i am to not be a teenager during the era of tiktok

transexualmothman:

bough-and-arrowx-deactivated202:

kimberly-wexler:

Transphobia is so antithetical to genuine feminism it blows my mind there’s such a wide overlap like you either believe in autonomy and self determination or you don’t

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#you can’t reconcile the feminist idea that men and women are equals with acting like they’re different species

#the feminist idea that women are more than their reproductive systems with the one that womanhood is defined by a reproductive system

#the feminist idea that women don’t need to adhere to arbitrary standards of femininity with the one that they do or they aren’t women

#the feminist idea that women are allowed to have body hair and be tall or muscular with the one that they’re to be scrutinized if they are

#the feminist idea that women as equals to men should be allowed to compete with them with the one that both must always be separated

#i can not consider terfism to be feminism in any fucking way

#and don’t say ‘no true scotsman’ that’s not it

#i don’t consider feminists for the same reason i don’t consider the democratic people’s republic of korea a democracy #or nazism socialism. having feminist in their name does not mean their ideas are automatically feminist

#i’ve yet to meet a terf that actually cares about women more than about hating on trans folk

#there is no feminist belief that can come from someone who views women as vaginas with legs that are too frail to do anything men do

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i-say-ok:

nixcraft:

ok.

mini-wrants:

I think part of the reason it’s so hard to discuss abortion’s importance for any woman’s life is because we would have to actually talk about how much harder having children makes your life.

We discuss mommy penalties on working moms, but always under the assumption that the child was wanted.

We don’t talk about the woman with the unplanned pregnancy, crying in her bathroom alone at night cause she can’t get her baby to sleep and also she has a big conference call tomorrow.

We don’t talk about the resentment a 20 year old feels after dropping out of college and moving back home to raise a kid she never planned for, watching her future slip away, knowing it’ll be years, decades likely, before she can finish her degree (if she’s ever able to).

Families with planned pregnancies already struggle to find childcare. Do you honestly think a young single mother has an easier time juggling a job and a baby, all alone?!

We think of it as selfish for choosing an abortion to complete college of move further in your career, but there are scores of men out there who simply dip out and disappear when they find out their One Night Stand is pregnant. They face relatively few consequences.

No suburban mom wants to admit that she knows she would encourage her 16 year old daughter to get an abortion if she fell pregnant, but we all know that’s precisely what would happen cause mom doesn’t want her daughter to lose her future to diapers and 3 am feedings.

But I do think these are conversations that need to be slowly introduced, one on one, to women who are on the fence.

Answer me honestly; if your kid was pregnant in college, what would you tell her to do?

cosmictuesdays:

solitarelee:

seriouslyamerica:

tumblr users: i hate tiktok it’s the worst

every post of a tiktok video: 12,746 reblogs, 45,094 likes

yes but the experience of occassionally seeing a curated-by-my-homies tiktok vid on my dash is so violently different from the endless stream of scrolling through algorithmic video content. i crave variety. what is my social media experience without walls of text interrupted randomly by videos of ducks and pictures of weird vegan brownies.

#every tiktok that appears on my dash has gone through at minimum 2 layers of human peer review

thepeacefulgarden:

thepeacefulgarden:

mobydyke:

mobydyke:

mobydyke:

mobydyke:

part of the universe’s inherent cruelty that all the parts of being a grownup that you idolized as a kid are both the best and worst parts of adulthood

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balance in all things etc etc but this is mostly to say that whenever ur feeling rly down about how hard growing up and having responsibilities is, it’s worth trying to remember that your 6 year old self would be so excited about this. you gotta let that optimistic little motherfucker have a voice in your head, even if that voice mostly tells you to buy gushers when you’re in the middle of grocery shopping

ali3nboyfriend:

to any of my fellow trans folk in missouri, Plume (the telehealth provider i get my HRT from) is offering no-cost HRT prescriptions from April 24th-April 27th. please pass this on so anyone in need in missouri can get help

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Transcript of email with links provided:

To our Plume community,

In response to the Missouri Attorney General’s emergency rule severely limiting access to gender-affirming medical care, we will provide gender-affirming hormone therapy at no cost before the rule goes into effect from April 24 to April 27.*

If you’re in Missouri and need immediate care, you can schedule your appointment here.

We are pulling together all available resources to help as many people as possible across the state, but we can’t do it alone. We’re calling on every clinician in the state who can join us in this effort, and applaud Planned Parenthood and other providers for expanding availability for gender-affirming care appointments up until April 27 as well. We’ll be actively promoting on our website any and all providers that are still accepting appointments, in case we can’t responsibly service everyone who needs it in time.

We understand how stressful this is for our Members, employees, and everyone in our community right now. Know that we’ll be doing everything in our power to help you through this.

[Learn more about what we’re doing in Missouri and how you can help.]

Please forward this email to anyone in your community who could be of assistance.

-The Plume Care Team

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at hello@getplume.co.

*Please note, any no-cost medical services we are providing ahead of the proposed Missouri AG’s proposed rule are in effect only from April 24, 2023 through April 26, 2023 at 11:00 PM CT.

squeeful:

twitter has apparently unverified the pope. i need a bishop in avignon to decide to be the funniest person on the internet

neurotypical-karen:

the-macra:

having used tumblr as a teenager is a vaccination against using tiktok today

i realize you’re probably half-joking but legitimately having this level of control over what i see on my dash and not having the popularity of my posts determined by The Algorithm makes using tiktok feel like my body is fighting a Disease

mostly-funnytwittertweets: