“At least Nixon was-” please stop, Nixon was a fascistic lunatic. When Daniel Ellsberg revealed the Pentagon Papers, Nixon had his goons break into Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office to find things to discredit him with. He wanted to firebomb the Brookings Institute. He tanked the 1968 peace talks with Vietnam because he wanted a war to help him win the election. The most annoying thing liberals do is act like modern conservatives are a disgrace to the noble conservatives of the past. They’ve always been this bad.
They have always been very bad, but that doesn’t mean there’s not ways the current crop are worse. As desperate and manipulative as Nixon was for re-election, he actually rejected the idea of massive, unsustainable tax cuts to manipulate the electorate. Even if it was under pressure, the EPA was established under him. Don’t pretend that the current crop are betraying the good ones of the past, but also don’t erase where the current crop still manage to be worse despite that.
I might not be able to wear a binder for any length of time anymore, but you bet your ass I’m putting it on before I get my haircut so I can get those sweet sweet men’s prices.
Living outside a small town means that whenever I get my haircut, I have to roleplay to the stylist. The first time I went in, she thought I was a 15 year old boy, and even though I go there only every eight months or so, she somehow remembers me and thinks I am now entering my senior year of high school. I have to tell her my college aspirations and favorite classes and if I’m going to prom with a nice girl.
It’s The Worst™ and she’s always telling me how my hair is just too pretty for a boy, and telling everyone else in the room to admire my beautiful hair and cluck in envy that a boy should be blessed with such curls.
I don’t know how to get out of this incredibly awkward situation.
Hey Ship?
This is fucking hilarious.
no it’s bad Rob
she thinks I’m a hypermature Boy Genius Child and I don’t know how to tell her I’m a genderqueer college grad
this is my favorite sitcom
You know.. as a stylist I feel compelled to tell you that the ‘men’s’ price is actually just what they call a clippercut for some reason. So.. yeah. Have fun with that XD
Not really, a lot of places will charge like $45 for basic “women’s haircuts” and like $20 for “men’s haircuts” – so even if you’re like, a butch lesbian getting a literal buzzcut, they will still try to charge you $45 by virtue of your perceived gender. My butch friend had to call three or four places before she found one that would charge her the same price as a man for a simple clipper cut. I’ve asked for relatively complicated short haircuts while presenting masculine and been charged men’s prices by people who would have doubled or tripled the price if I’d been wearing lipstick.
That is not what I am saying in any way.
I have had my hair cut many times. 90% of those times have been very traditional men’s styles, taken from photos of men. I never get it styled afterwards. My mom’s old hair stylist, who cut my hair through high school, cheerfully informed me after I came out that I could get cheaper cuts from him now.
When I have shown up to the same studio with the same reference photo, I have been charged differently depending on whether the stylists read me as a man or a woman. This is a fact.
My friend who asked for a literal buzzcut, a la Furiosa, was told by the first few studios she called that they would charge her women’s prices for a men’s haircut because she’s a woman and “it’s different”. This is also a fact. She finally found a studio where the receptionist said, yeah, sure, they’d give her a men’s cut for men’s prices, and buzzed her head without further ado. Her loyalty to that studio was secured only because they didn’t try to price gouge her based soley on gender.
If you’re charging me based on the complexity of a haircut, that makes sense. But charging me based on the presence of lipstick rather than the actual haircut I am receiving is fucking absurd and it’s very much a problem that I have encountered time and again.
I call this schrodinger’s pink tax and it does happen. I get a haircut which is typically mostly clipper work, I go to pay, I get charged for a women’s haircut and say “hey that doesn’t seem right, is that the women’s cut price? I’m a dude” and they say “oh sorry” and charge me significantly less. for the same haircut. the amount of labor that has gone into the haircut has not changed. the price is variable solely based on my perceived gender. this has happened at some point at most places I’ve gone to, it’s not just a couple of rogue stylists being sexist, it’s A Thing.
I’ve noticed the reverse is true aswell since I started presenting female. I’ve almost always had long hair and asked for layered cuts, but once I started presenting female and attending different salons within the brand, suddenly the price had jumped. Even if I was asking for just a simple fringe tidy. I had to shop around independent salons to find someone who’d charge me reasonably.
omg I’ve been looking for this forever but google never cooperated!
“I never knew German could sound good!” literally because all of you haven’t heard German in any context other than nazis and making fun of the German language
Okay, this is a misdirection that abuses most of english speaker’s unability to speak portuguese. First off, this is webpage that is offering mobile data plans, not internet access, which always have been found themselves capped in their use. The offer that the site is presenting is the service so certain applications on your phone do not consume the data you already have contracted previously.
I’m in favor of Net Neutrality based on the principles of avoiding the possibility of privates censoring content and blocking free access to information, but lying and misdirection will never give you an upper hand in a debate, only discredit you and corrupt the cause you’re defending.
I keep seeing these posts about how sad or upsetting it is to see CHILDREN who identify as ace. So this is a friendly reminder to all my ace minors who may need to hear it today.
1. You are NOT sad, and no one has a right to be upset by your identity. 2. You do not need to explain, to an adult person or anyone else, what you consider sexual attraction, or why you think you are not experiencing it. No one has the right to ask you to question your own identity. 3. You do not need to listen to anyone trying to convince you you are probably more gay or more straight, or anyone trying to change the way you identify in any other way. 4. Asexuality is not about whether you have had or are having sex. If you self-identify as asexual, that is not you sexualizing yourself, and you are not harming yourself by taking on a label that MIGHT change in the future. and don’t ever let anyone convince you otherwise. 5. You are not required to keep an open mind that your orientation may change. It MIGHT change, and if it does, i hope you can welcome and enjoy whatever you are feeling when it arrives. But you aren’t required to participate in the rituals of dating, crushes, or experimenting just to prove that it’s really NOT what you want.
I am a firm believer in self-exploration, and obtaining self-knowledge through questioning what we know about ourselves, and the world. But the way ace kids are constantly expected to provide answers for how we are the way we are, and what it means, and how we’re really really open to being something else, is just disgusting. It does more to turn kids AWAY from relabeling or reexamining themselves.
If you’re a minor, and you ID as ace, then you’re ace. You’re not broken, or alone, you’re not wrong, and you don’t need to answer for it.
Actually if anything, the adults are sexualising you for being so meddly with what you do with your own junk.
I can’t believe people on this site are defending looting. Y’all realize that the corner stores and gas stations that are being broken into are also primarily owned by poc right?
Y’all realize that the people looting can evacuate to a shelter and get necessities right? If they’re stranded they can reach out and be rescued or just fucking ask right?
Jesus Christ this site can be so toxic sometimes.
You realize that these stores that are flooding are going to have to throw away almost all of their stock, right? So all that food is going to either be thrown away, or eaten by people in desperate need. Are you telling me you’d rather see it thrown out?
Those business owners have insurance and will be paid for damages and losses.
These people are looting to feed their families because just like in Katrina, it can take days or even weeks to be rescued.
Getting around in a flood isn’t as easy as just ‘going to a shelter’. Especially if you have small children, elderly or disabled family members or pets, it is probably easier and safer to send able bodied adults to get food while you wait for rescue.
Human life will always be more important and material objects.
God @ northern liberals w that “southerners deserve natural disasters for voting for trump” as if there aren’t a ton of poor people and people of color and other vulnerable people.. y’all think it’s the rich republicans that will die if a hurricane hits Florida??? Naw so shut the fuck up
NOBODY DESERVES MASSIVE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION JUST BECAUSE YOU DON’T LIKE THEM.
Y’all pulled this circus act during the Gatlinburg fires too. Your beliefs are not more important than the lives of people
It’s not just republicans who live down here either- There are CHILDREN who are far too young to grasp the shallow, sick reasons why you hate them and their families.So get out of here with your “lol u deserve this” crap.
France’s politicians and community leaders have criticised the “intolerable” violence against Paris’ Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars.
please please please spread this around, please speak up about this, please let everyone know that this is not okay, please please please protect my people from a second kristallnacht, please
Listen. I love my followers and my mutuals dearly. You know how occasionally I post something like ‘every Jew on this site has a list in their head of who reblogs what and who ignores posts about Jews’? I’m talking about this shit. I have been seeing things on my dash about the situation of Jews in France for over a year, but it’s coming from other Jews 99% of the time. Please stop ignoring this. This is literally history repeating itself and we can’t be the only ones calling it out again.
@whatbigotspost this seems like the sort of thing you signal boost
22 July 2014 | Updated 23 July 2014
This is thankfully not a new incident, but it has kept getting passed around as one for over three years now on this site
i’ll be like 40 w/no kids and people will say “aw i’m so sorry for you” and i’ll be like how was the fucking wiggles reunion tour asshole i went to italy last week for fun and didn’t have to hire a sitter
This is a very sad mentality. To think oneself more important than that of progeny is the sign of a failed human life.
so the wiggles concert wasn’t as good as you thought it would be huh
there are more than enough kids in the world already, so stop making new ones and go to fucking Italy please
My children’s mother was 24 when we had our first child and people said “have you even finished your college?” and “what happens if you two don’t stay together? You’ll have nothing to fall back on”. People are never satisfied.
i had a discussion today with a friend who was genuinely trying to understand why people are working so hard to ID the charlottesville nazis and contact their employers. “but won’t that just make them more desperate and violent?” they asked. “if they get fired from their jobs or kicked out of school? if they think they have nothing to lose?”
and i said, “i don’t know. maybe. but right now, these motherfuckers think they can be nazis on the weekend.”
like, i somewhat understood my friend’s hesitance re: doxxing, because doxxing is so often a tool of evil. but these motherfuckers think they can show up to a white supremacist rally on saturday where people got fucking murdered by white supremacists, and then on monday they can go back to the IT desk and log into outlook and answer their fucking office phone. they think they can show up to a rally on saturday with a shield and a helmet and beat black teenagers with fucking sticks in a parking garage, and on monday they can be back on campus, taking notes in accounting. these putrid pieces of human garbage think they can be nazis all weekend, and then on thursday they can go to the professional development workshop with the department and enjoy those brownies that diane brought in.
no. no, they fucking cannot.
if you want to be a goddamned weekend nazi, you have to be a nazi every goddamned day. you want to be a weekend nazi? then you face the fucking music on monday, you cowardly piece of shit. you go ahead and live in a world where your hatred of other people means nobody wants to hire you, work with you, live with you, break bread with you; you hateful fuck. you get to suffer the natural consequences of your belief in the lesser humanity of others. you get to live the outcome of your violence, your acts of bigotry. you get to live your ugly truth, alone.
This post had a good heart, BUT these people need to be identified by experts, not vigilantes on Tumblr. Doxxing goes south so often for a REASON: people get misidentified very easily. I’ve been informed that there’s already been a case of a guy getting misidentified from this rally, and he is now in danger and in need of protection from people who believe they are enacting vigilante justice. (http://5newsonline.com/2017/08/12/university-of-arkansas-responds-to-rally-photo/) I saw a post earlier that was spreading around info that Kyle Quinn was the University of Arkansas shirt man in the photo. THIS INFO IS WRONG.
If you’re a coworker, or peer, or neighbor of one of these people in the photos, and know them well enough to be able to say with certainty that it’s them, then yeah, go ahead and identify them! Don’t let them get away with it! If you’re not positive, maybe just shoot their company a quick email asking for confirmation about whether or not it’s them! DON’T spread your guess all over the internet. Innocent people will get hurt that way.
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