It’s also really annoying how white people are acting like the white nationalists marching in Charlottesville are all virgin nerds that nobody wants to fuck.
In actuality, half them boys are married with children and the other half have WHITE girlfriends who want their racist Nazi boyfriends to finally stop playing games and be committed to them.
White people acting like racist white men are losers that no woman wants to fuck invisibilizes white women’s perpetuation of and active participation in white supremacy.
This also allows white supremacy to be othered and implies that it is both caused by societal rejection and is itself a cause of rejection.
But it’s not, people don’t join the Klan cause they can’t get laid. And being a nazi don’t stop you from having a social life. Our culture does not punish racism and antisemitism, it produces it.
Also calling bigots virgins or bad at sex is gross.
“I don’t like someone so I’m gonna imply they can’t get any.” Grow the fuck up.
^^^^^^ This is definitely a white tactic.
This is why “humanizing your enemy” really means.
It’s not an attempt make
bigots cuddly or agreeable in the eyes of the public. It’s to make sure you
know them when you see them – so you can recognize an attack coming
from inside the PTA barbecue, and defend yourself, rather than focusing
all your attention on weird-looking outsiders, and get taken by
surprise.Painting these bigots as as sexually inferior is also harmful to people who are actually asexual and/or aromantic, because it often makes people suspicious that we are anti-social “loners,” and we might “crack” or be susceptible to fascist recruiting techniques.
(Writes the quintessential middle-aged “Bleeding-Heart Liberal,” who happens to be a virgin, and didn’t even know that there was a name for asexuality until a couple of years ago, but realized it fit her perfectly as soon as she did).
Month: August 2017
BTW, the high five was invented in 1977 which means your parents probably didn’t grow up with it.
For real though Glenn Burke, inventor of the high five was a gay black player in the 70s, and the Dodgers tried to get him to marry a beard and their manager got mad when he befriended the manager’s gay son before being traded to the Athletics, probably for being gay. In Oakland, the rumors of homosexuality followed him and manager Billy Martin started using homophobic slurs in the clubhouse and homophobic behavior from other players lead to an early retirement for the promising young star at 27. After retiring from baseball he introduced the high five to the Castro district of San Franscio where the high five became a symbol of gay pride and identification. ESPN wrote a long form piece about it which I recommend reading, it’s got some homophobic slurs in it although not presented positively.
A few appendices:
Although he was unceremoniously drummed out of Major League Baseball, Burke became the star shortstop for the local Gay Softball League, and even dominated in the Gay Softball World Series, as well as medaling in the 100 and 200 meter sprints in the inaugural 1982 Gay Games. Unfortunately, Burke also picked up a cocaine habit and had his leg and foot crushed in an accident. He spent much of his final years homeless in the Castro, and died from AIDS complications in 1995, but he was in the first class of inductees to the Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame, and his High School retired his jersey number.
The Dodgers Manager in question was Tony Lasorda, whose son “Spunky” died of AIDS complications in 1992 although Lasorda maintains that it was cancer. Likewise, despite the High Five becoming a symbol of the 1980 Dodgers team, Lasorda maintained and continues to this day to maintain to not know its origin. It’s possible that this isn’t a deliberate slight to Burke, but given his homophobia in other matters that’s a hard benefit of the doubt to give.
The Athletics have, in the years since, attempted to make up for some of the wrongs they committed in this story. When Glenn revealed publicly that he was living with AIDS, the As moved in and helped him financially. Burke was honored publicly at Pride Night at the park in 2015 and his brother was invited to throw the first pitch.
Burke was happy to see the high five catch on, spilling out of sports and into the small joys of every day life. He died believing that the high five was his legacy. Next time you high five your friend, remember that the high five came from Glenn Burke.
Npr has a dope story on it
What? Cool! Maybe I can find some of his baseball cards?
You can! Not super expensively even!
I’m so glad high fives are gay culture
I was 13 in 1977, and I could’ve sworn the high five was around already.
But the memory cheats. And I may be thinking of the simple “Gimme five,” which was a torso-level, non-high, variation.
Please help me leave an abusive relationship!
If you’ve been following me for a while, you more than likely know what’s going on, but for those who don’t know: I’ve been in an extremely toxic, abusive relationship for the past 6 ½ years with my son’s father. We have a 3 year old together. While I did leave him last year, I (stupidly) came back in March under the promises of “things would change” etc etc. He has been emotionally, verbally, physically, sexually, and financially abusive. He threatens suicide every time I try to leave him. He’s flipped tables, thrown things, pushed me down a flight of stairs, pulled a knife on me, tried to drag me out of the house by my feet at 15 weeks pregnant. He gaslights me DAILY. Yesterday, he punched a hole in the bedroom door. My dad is going to cosign for a new apartment for me back in my hometown, as long as I cover the costs he is going to help me move. I’ve already got a rental application submitted. I’m done I’m leaving I’m OUT. I have tangible proof and I can break the lease without repercussions through the domestic violence clause in the lease.
I just need help with the intial moving costs and initial housing costs- the apartment I applied for is $645 a month, security deposit same amount. First months rent and security deposit due at lease signing. Moving costs are around $400 (it’s a 300 mile move so it gets expensive fast)My PayPal is c.newago@yahoo.com
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19th century sketches of fishes from the seas surrounding China and Japan.
The fish in the top image (the drawing clearly has taken some inspiration from the Chinese dragons) belongs to the stargazer family. Stargazers have their eyes and mouths on top of their heads. As the stargazers bury in the bottom of the sea, the top facing mouth and eyes allows them to ambush the prey quickly and unnoticed. This particular stargazer drawn here belongs to Uranoscopus genera, which is also capable of producing electric shocks.
Image source
For the first time in Dallas Zoo’s
129-year history, they welcomed two extremely rare Somali Wild Ass
foals.Born ten days apart, the little half-sisters and their moms are
doing great and have been bonding beautifully behind-the-scenes.Follow the link to today’s ZooBorns to learn more and see VIDEO:
Get in here with your wild ass…foal
i don’t know what i expected the “dr. bronner” of dr. bronner’s soaps to look like but this seems about right to me
I looked at this picture and immediately had “She Blinded Me With Science” stuck in my head
i know its a stingray but it looks like cthulhu popped his head up to say hi
I thought it was a giant squid.
holy shit they get this big?
They do get this big! They also tame relatively easily and are surprisingly docile animals. Its popular to swim with them in many beachy areas. As long as you’re not stupid and mean to them, your odds of being hurt by them are very low.
I had the opportunity to swim with a school of them on a sandbar once and I must say they are very aggreeable animals, though they do have the tendency to mob you if you have food, and they can be quite heavy. Still very pleasant animals.
ha cthulhu
Humans will pet anything. If aliens come, that might be what distinguishes us from the rest of the galaxy.
“we were going to blow them up, but they engaged in an oddly pleasing patting ritual and, well, it was nice.”
do u ever feel like you’ve accidentally tricked certain people into thinking you are smarter and have more potential than you actually do and do you ever think about how disappointed they’ll be when you inevitably crash and burn
Fun fact: Impostor Syndrome is ridiculously common among high-achievers, particularly women. If you identify with this post, odds are pretty good that you’re exactly as smart as people think you are, and the failure you’re afraid of isn’t inevitable at all.
and don’t forget this is one of the psychological barriers placed in by thousands years of patriarchy and male supremacy.
My computer science professor actually talked about this on the first day, it was really cool.
Funbrutal fact: in addition to the existence of imposter syndrome, being “twice exceptional” (also known as 2e) is also a thing. That means being intellectually gifted AND ALSO having a disability that affects your ability to succeed at study or work. Such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc etc etc. A lot of people believe that it’s not possible to be both, but it very much is.Society tends to have very high expectations for how well gifted people will perform. Society tends to have low expectations for how well disabled people will perform. Society tends to attribute invisible disabilities, including mental illness, to a failure of willpower or effort or a bad attitude.
So if you read this post and went “no, but seriously, this is not just low self esteem on my part, people keep thinking I’m smart and then I keep crashing and burning and disappointing them and they can’t understand why I didn’t live up to their expectations, it happens again and again and when I tell someone how I feel and ask for help, they just tell me to stop being so hard on myself and that I’ll succeed if I have more self-confidence,” it is not just you.
(Also, one of the previous posts in this thread buried the lede a little. Imposter syndrome is ridiculously common in people from underrepresented groups in academia and other high pressure/high status fields, particularly women and people of colour. Maya Angelou did not only feel out of place because she was a woman.)
This essay also totally changed my view on the intersection of impostor syndrome and mental illness.
Please help me leave an abusive relationship!
If you’ve been following me for a while, you more than likely know what’s going on, but for those who don’t know: I’ve been in an extremely toxic, abusive relationship for the past 6 ½ years with my son’s father. We have a 3 year old together. While I did leave him last year, I (stupidly) came back in March under the promises of “things would change” etc etc. He has been emotionally, verbally, physically, sexually, and financially abusive. He threatens suicide every time I try to leave him. He’s flipped tables, thrown things, pushed me down a flight of stairs, pulled a knife on me, tried to drag me out of the house by my feet at 15 weeks pregnant. He gaslights me DAILY. Yesterday, he punched a hole in the bedroom door. My dad is going to cosign for a new apartment for me back in my hometown, as long as I cover the costs he is going to help me move. I’ve already got a rental application submitted. I’m done I’m leaving I’m OUT. I have tangible proof and I can break the lease without repercussions through the domestic violence clause in the lease.
I just need help with the intial moving costs and initial housing costs- the apartment I applied for is $645 a month, security deposit same amount. First months rent and security deposit due at lease signing. Moving costs are around $400 (it’s a 300 mile move so it gets expensive fast)My PayPal is c.newago@yahoo.com
Cash.me/$binesiikwens
You can shop my website if donating isn’t your thing! www.bizaanideewin.comPLEASE PLEASE PLEASE REBLOG
Also update on this- dad backed out on consigning so looking for a different place with a private landlord! I’ve got a few I’m looking at already and will be setting up showings for next week.
I also have venmo @binesiikwens
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