thatknittinglady:

confused-junkrat:

tomatomagica:

thisfuckingloser:

veronicasantangelo:

revolutionarygays:

andrewbelami:

old people are literally trying to blame our generation for food allergies…….

the sjws ruined halloween

peanut allergies were invented on tumblr

back in my day we

DIED

Yes… Allergic to gendered candy. Of course tumblr would be like this

No people still had but allergies. But before the parents of said kid would go around and tell all the neighbors or the people they planned on going to about it. Same with other kinds of allergies. I remember one lady with a kid who had a peanut allergy say she’d give us candy to give to her kid, but we had nut free candy. She even made sure to tell use what her kid was going as.

And before that level of awareness, sometimes kids did just die from unexplained anaphylaxis 😐

Happened to one my mom was in elementary school with in the ‘50s. He just had a sudden episode in the classroom one afternoon and didn’t even make it to the hospital, and they couldn’t figure out why that might have happened at the time. Freak accident, which she thought (much) later might have really been lunch.

But sure, everything was so much better back in the day 😵

reverseideologie:

fozmeadows:

tessacrowley:

lily-peet:

nevertrustamanwho:

femmebosskoopa:

imamisfittoy:

sardonicblisters:

yayfeminism:

A New Hampshire Republican State Representative anonymously created the “Red Pill” subreddit.

Wow.

these aren’t just bullshitter dweebs in their mom’s basements trolling the internet, these are men who formulate the way we implement laws and who govern the way we live our lives.

^^^ Hello, yes, everyone needs to see this. It’s not always a bunch of nobodies trolling around on 4chan. It’s, doctors, lawyers, judges, businessmen, bankers, law enforcement, etc. People who have pulls on society. They literally don’t see other groups besides themselves as human or equal

…holy shit like this is bad really really bad but so much clearly so if you’ve ever read the scum that floats to the top of the Red Pill. Like basically he was just outed as the creator of a neo-nazi misogynist pro-rape forum explicitly to recruit online loners and groom them like it’s EVERYTHING we’ve been saying these people do but this is like, the hive.

For the anon asking why not trust red pill guys

Fuck Conservatives

Fun fact: the Red Pill was 90% of the reason I left reddit. I think it’s important everyone understands why, without having to subject yourselves to actually looking at the subreddit.

The Red Pill is a confluence of gross misogyny, rape culture, and vile social darwinism, all tied up under the banner of it being the “truth” behind some grand lie that is PC culture; that is to say, taking the red pill to withdraw yourself from the Matrix, a metaphor nearly as dated as the ideals they espouse.

If you think I’m exaggerating, I’m not. I spent nearly two years on reddit before toxic bullshit like this drove me out. These people build an elaborate construct about treating women like property and sexualizing children because ~evolution~ programmed them to like it, and ~evolution~ can’t possibly be wrong, as though club-wielding Neanderthal brutes are something to aspire to and not something we left behind millennia ago.

They’ve created an incredibly detailed fantasy about how women are evolutionarily predisposed to react to certain behaviors of “alpha males” (another false equivalence; the theory of the alpha male comes from a since-disproved theory about wolf behavior), and how the trick to success in sex is about taking on these characteristics which, spoiler alert, explicitly encourage treating women like garbage.

I cannot overstate how incredibly toxic the Red Pill is and how disgustingly large the community became by the time I left reddit. I wish I could say I was surprised that a Republican senator founded it, but this is the kind of shit they’ve been legislating for years.

Why am I not surprised?

For all you god damn motherfucking doubters, this is not fake, sources include:

Time Magazine: http://time.com/4756308/robert-fisher-new-hampshire-mens-rights/

CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-hampshire-rep-revealed-as-founder-of-misogynistic-website-refuses-to-resign/

Boston Globe (Behind a Paywall): https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/04/26/lawmaker-accused-starting-red-pill-forum-reddit-won-resign/RD057SBlGTwLoOMC9lLVLM/story.html

Local News Stations (as they are tended to be considered most credible)

WMUR (Local news station): http://www.wmur.com/article/state-lawmaker-admits-saying-some-injudicious-things-about-women/9562347

WRAL (also local news station): http://www.wral.com/the-latest-governor-wants-lawmaker-to-resign-over-comments/16666205/

and of course

Snopes Confirmshttp://www.snopes.com/2017/04/25/legislator-reddit-redpill-forum/

‘Kids are gross’: on feminists and agency

pokabrows:

bogleech:

fullten:

astrobleme22:

this is a good read

 “Oscar gets more unsolicited comments about how cute he is, more uninvited pinches on the cheek and ruffles of the hair and demands for affection from strangers, than anyone else I know. I made a point, from when he was very young, of teaching him to express his discomfort: he says ‘I want some space’; he says ‘I feel shy’; he says ‘I don’t want you to touch me’; he says ‘I don’t like that, please stop.’ These statements from him are almost always laughed at, and then ignored, until I step in on his behalf.”

Kids no matter how small are fully conscious people who can have a strong sense of being patronized and disrespected. I remember being barely two and furious at how adults would talk about me like I couldn’t understand or wasn’t listening, then talk to me like they might talk to an animal.

This is especially important to remember for disabled kids, as they may have greater difficulty expressing that they are uncomfortable in a given situation.

‘Kids are gross’: on feminists and agency

jordanlhawk:

marxistbarbie:

marxistbarbie:

marxistbarbie:

friendly reminder that my university uses the taxidermied body of its founder as the chief librarian so every time i swipe my card to sit in the library and study he’s just sat in his glass cabinet following me w his sunken glass eyes like he knows i still have fines overdue

incase anyone thot i was kidding….like i know it was his own dying wish but someone shoulda said no….

he also attends meetings 

Here’s a link to the Wikipedia article. Apparently he meant to be mummified, but it didn’t really work, so the “auto-icon” pictured above has a head made of wax instead. It used to be displayed in the same case, but was removed after student pranks.