Day: October 10, 2018

verylostpenguin:

verylostpenguin:

It’s my grandpa’s birthday next week and he said “I don’t want to be 85” and my grandmother, his wife of 59 and a half years, said “well your only alternative is to die”, I can’t believe how affectionate they are

I was having lunch with them today and my grandpa started throwing napkins at my grandmother, and she balled it up and looked all set to throw it back but then she put it down and said “I will not throw it because I was brought up properly, you were dragged” she has spent ¾ of her life with this man

funereal-disease:

mitoticcephalopod:

funereal-disease:

dragon-in-a-fez:

perce:

this is really it huh? millenials are old now. they can’t handle kids dancing just bc its from something they’re not into. bc its not aimed at them. congratulations you’re doing what you said you wouldn’t and are turning into your parents and grandparents. i know this is how it always goes but millenials were So Sure they’d break the cycle and look at them. mad at kids doing fun lil dances. shut up

generational conflict is honestly such a shitty framing of such important issues, because it lets each cohort develop a victim identity that they maintain even as they transition into the structural privilege of older adulthood, blinding them to their own bullshit even once they’re the ones with most of the power. youth as a social category remains constant no matter how many people age out of it, and ageism needs to be understood as the marginalization of that category, not of people born in any specific set of years.

Ageism also manifests against elderly people, which “generation wars” bullshit perpetually forgets. “Fuck Boomers” isn’t a great look when Boomers are dying in shitty nursing homes.

I mean you’re right, the way we treat the elderly needs to be improved

But also fuck boomers

The baby boom generation, as the name indicates, is huge and diverse. It includes both Donald Trump and first-gen immigrant women who clean his hotels. Anti-Boomer rhetoric, it seems to me, pointlessly divides people who might otherwise be able to work together. Millennial activists and working-class people would actively benefit from reaching out to older people in the same boat, and vice versa. If you mean “fuck specific CEOs and legislators”, then say that.

funereal-disease:

To put it more bluntly: you can’t go on about white men not being the default, about widening the gaze and introducing other narratives, and then hold up rich white men as the de facto representatives of everyone between 54 and 72. That is, quite literally, marginalizing.

bendycripple:

I know I’ve been begging a lot lately. But I’m seriously in need still.

Let me begin by introducing myself. I’m allyson Marie, I’m 24 years old and I live alone in subsidized housing. I suffer from many mental and physical illnesses (Ehlers-Danlos, systemic lupus, chronic pulmonary embolisms/ pulmonary fibrosis/ asthma, epilepsy, narcolepsy, POTS/ dysotnomiaNOS, chronic pain from many sources, anorexia purging subtype, ADHD, autism seminonverbal, BPD, OCD/ OCPD, and schizoaffective disorder)

Because of these illnesses I cannot work or leave my house much, I am on disability and make very little every month. Simmalarly to last month I am very far overdrawn in my bank account (-$270) and I have no food and can’t refil my medications. Rent always come first so that I won’t be sick and homeless. But now I have no money and no sustanence.

If you are able and willing to help, I would really apriciate it

Ways you can help:

• send me food by ordering me take out somewhere local to me, and have it delivered to my house.

• donate money to me to help get me out of the negative.

• have a grocery service deliver me groceries.

If you cannot help, I completely understand, but just sharing this post gets me out to people who may be able to.

Thanks in advance.