heterosexually:

marxferatu:

can you imagine how many people would be able to leave abusive situations if housing was free

My psychology professor actually did a longitudinal study in our state with women in abusive relationships where they have three different groups different options one of which being a year of rent free apartments if they did not speak to or allow their abuser to contact them again and of all the women only one lost her apartment for not adhering to the rules. When he other women were checked up on in their apartments they had new jobs, looked so much happier and just overall like different women, and were really thriving. Also if you think a year of free housing is expensive you have no real idea how much domestic violence really costs our country.

having to be tied to this administration as a general American like

kittydesade:

primarybufferpanel:

insomniac-arrest:

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And the rest of the world like…

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that’s the look that says ‘sorry you’re going through that, unfortunately we’re going in the same direction with only slightly more agency’

I like this analogy because it includes the hope that eventually we get to rip the faces off of our primary abusers.

heyatleastitsnotcancer:

crap-posts-about-nothing:

heyatleastitsnotcancer:

Shout out to the “small fat” women. The women who are too big for “regular” sizes and too small for plus sizes. The women who feel like they don’t belong in either group and feel left out of body positive movements. You are gorgeous! ❤

Curious as to where you shop, I have never seen a gap in clothing sizes. From small to 6xl sizes, above and below that I am not sure about.

What size are small fat women?

The 12-16 range I’d say. Funny enough that’s the average size of American women but it’s really hard to find clothes in that fit at my age/style.

And often that size range is excluded from fat positivity and excluded from skinny.

I’ve been told I’m too fat for some things and too small for others. I’ve been told I’m not fat enough to call myself chubby but skinny girls call me fat. So it’s really this in between space that’s hard to fit in with groups.

YOU ARE NOT A TETRACHROMAT, AND THIS GRAPHIC IS BULLSHIT

lenyberry:

cthulhu:

flavoracle:

ladyofnonsequitur:

That nonsense post about tetrachromatism is going around again. Here’s a link to a “why that post is nonsense” essay someone posted two years ago as my tiny, futile effort to stop it!

I am a fan of dispelling misinformation and spreading actual science, so I’m passing this along even though the language is a bit stronger than I typically use myself.

Enjoy.

OH THANK GOD I spent all morning debating whether I should be correcting the damn post myself
for the love of fuck your computer screen only produces RGB light

For those wondering, the variance in colors people can see on the graphic is accounted for by some combination of: 
– differences in computer monitors and monitor settings, and
– differences in color vision between individuals (colorblindness is diagnosed when color vision gets below a certain threshold, but there is a spectrum and some people can distinguish smaller color variations than others without either being considered colorblind).

YOU ARE NOT A TETRACHROMAT, AND THIS GRAPHIC IS BULLSHIT