Tag: terrifying

pointless-letters:

THE POINTLESS LETTERS TOP THIRTY-FIVE “TERRIFYING PHRASES TO SEE
SOMEONE ACTUALLY USE WHEN WRITING IN TO A NEWSPAPER TO TALK ABOUT
SOMETHING”

35. “I’d abolish all rights and rename them privileges.”

34. “Human rights law should be suspended when dealing with the nation’s security.”

33. “Those
who think their privacy is more important than the safety of all of us
worry me and I’m glad the government doesn’t listen to them.”

32. “When does free speech become sedition?”

31. “If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide.”

30. “Unless action is taken to root out these fifth columnists the problem can only get worse.”

29. “I would want the state to employ numerous torture techniques, working shifts around the clock.”

28. “If
a few terrorist suspects have to be held without trial, deprived of
sleep and yes, even water-boarded, to protect the rest of us then so be
it.”

27. “We should put armed soldiers on our streets.”

26. “It’s time we ended all this ‘civil liberties’ nonsense.”

25. “Torture is OK.”

24. “If you aren’t doing wrong then you haven’t got anything to worry about.”

23. “Anyone with nothing to hide should have their DNA taken.”

22. “Everyone who lives in our country should give a DNA sample.”

21. “Forget about civil rights, we are at war.”

20. “This country needs a military presence on its streets.”

19. “Anyone who opposes this has something to hide.”

18. “Perhaps Western Christendom needs to declare its very own holy crusade.”

17. “Why not allow the Government total access to all electronic communications? I have nothing to hide.”

16. “If accessing my phone means stronger and greater security for the country, I’m more than happy.”

15. “If, like me, you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about.”

14. “I would have no objection to carrying proof that I am entitled to live in our country.”

13.“I am happy for MI5 or MI6 to know when I am on the train…if that means
they are free to gather information about someone who plans to blow me
up.”

12. “We have to be less tolerant.”

11.“Torture these terror nuts until they tell us wot we need 2 know and
when they’ve told us torture them more just 4 the hell of it.”

10.“…make sure that everyone in the UK has an identification card…anyone
at any time can be requested to show this card to prove that they are in
the country legally.”

9. “…the time has come for the
normal procedures with regard to evidence to be suspended for the
duration of the war on terror for the protection of the public.”

8.“Shouldn’t we be on a war footing with everyone carrying an ID card at
all times and state security being empowered to stop and search at
will?”

7. “In this day and age, if you don’t do what a policeman tells you to do, then expect a world of hurt.”

6. “…surely it is time to re-introduce internment.”

5. “I don’t understand why people are against internment.”

4. “…those with nothing to hide have no need for concern.”

3. “If you commit a crime and go to prison your rights should automatically be deleted.”

2. “No ID, deportation.”

1. “Give our security forces carte blanche.”

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Protip for men: if marriage is a horrifying concept for you and you think it is an evil trap, do not buy a ring and ask a woman to marry you

I’m way over seeing radical feminist bullshit on my dash. This isn’t even social justice or a real issue.

sorry that not marrying someone you dont loathe is radical feminism i guess?

women: don’t propose or get married if u don’t like the thought of marriage

men: what kind of sjw fuckery

the other bit that this implies is:

If you like your wife, act like it. Even around your friends. Be open and honest about liking your wife, liking spending time with her, and not being resentful of the shared work of building a household. Let your buddies know you can’t hang out with them because you’d rather be home with your wife, whom you like, because she is your legit bff, even though you know your buddies are gonna mock you for it.

Stand up to your buddies. Tell them mocking isn’t cool and you don’t want them to do it anymore. Challenge the other men in your life to be better men.

That is what “don’t get married if you think marriage is an evil trap” implies to men who are married. And while it’s all completely reasonable I imagine that it’s scary as fuck when it’s just so much easier to har de har har the little woman’s such a nag, ain’t she, don’t we all hate being married so much? with other men.

In that context, “don’t get married if you think marriage is an evil trap” is kindof a radical statement.

The number of guys I work with who are engaged who started pulling the “uh oh, life over soon, har har” shit that I have completely shut down with a simple “well if you don’t want to get married, then don’t”…*sigh* And they’re just like, hem, haw, welllll if I don’t then she might not stay with meee, which I respond to with “well, sounds like you need to have a pretty serious and honest conversation with your fiancee about your feelings then” and then the *panic!* look…When you remove that easy “hah hah ball-and-chain” narrative, watch the reaction. Some of them (to a female friend) will mumblingly admit that they love their fiancee and are excited to be married. Others…all you get is fear.

That’s the disservice we do men by refusing to teach boys how to explore their emotional needs. It hurts everyone. I watched three male friends walk into marriages I can tell they weren’t ready for and didn’t want, just because it was expected and they had no tools for emotional self-examination. Two of those marriages are (shockingly) in crisis, a couple years later. One has kids involved now. It’s more than a little heartbreaking. The marriages I see that are working? Are the guys with the emotional maturity to talk to their wives and who don’t care if everyone knows they’re in love with them.

SERIOUSLY. 

My friend is getting married this summer and when I congratulated her fiance on their engagement he said to me “Yeah well you know, women. This is what they want so you have to bite the bullet.” and my other friend’s husband who was sitting next to him laughed and agreed. If this is how you feel, don’t get married. Don’t propose. Just…. Don’t. Do it. Any of it.

Straight people think that doing things you really don’t want to do – like marriage and having kids – is normal cos they’re still stuck in a fucking 19th century mindset.

It’s why I know my best friend got a good one, he’s open about how much he loves her and he’s excited to be getting married and regularly contributes ideas and has his own input, it’s nice to see

It filters through as well. Even being gay, a lot of my straight friends don’t understand why I spend so much time with my husband. Because I love him? Because I enjoy his company? Because he’s my best friend? I can’t count the amount of straight people that have told me that they think it’s “weird” that my husband and I spend so much quality time together. The only person who understood was my mom, whose response was: “If you love someone and genuinely enjoy their company, why WOULDN’T you want to spend your free time with them?!”

How can anyone look at their impending marriage and think ‘oh no, it’s all over now’ like???? I’ve only felt so close to so many people in my life, but those small few were like?? I’d wake up in the morning excited to be awake just to look forward to SEEING them. I’d catch myself with this stupid idiot grin in broad daylight just THINKING ABOUT BEING AROUND THEM. I’d sleep easy with them in my head, shitty days became perfect once I spoke to them. THAT’s how I imagine feeling again someday. I think about feeling that way for someone again and it’s like the whole future opens up. Marriage is finding your best friend in the whole wide world and wanting to have a sleepover every single day, and to agree to it and then go around groaning like your freedom is being stolen is a HUGE disrespect. If you have the freedom to share your life with anyone you like and you throw it around like baggage you really can’t expect it to grow, can you? You gotta care about yourself a little more than that I think

All of this.

Not to mention this mentality makes it’s way TO THE DAY OF THE WEDDING. How many weddings have we seen with something like this:

Like what kind of toxic mentality do you have to have to say this as the bride is about to walk down the aisle and marry someone who it’s now suggested doesn’t even want to be there?? How is this cute? How is this supposedly charming? This is supposed to be the person you love and want to be with! And not to mention that you send this down the aisle with a small child (the ring bearer or the flower girls)…I have a special loathing for things like this. 

Holy shit I didn’t know that was even a thing.

This reminds me of a study I read about years ago with statistics on happiness/stability in relationships of people of various genders/orientations, and straight people were at the very bottom. (And lesbians were at the top! Not a huge surprise, given that women are generally more inclined to communicate and work out emotions and issues.)

YOUR SPOUSE SHOULD BE YOUR BEST FRIEND

PERIOD

#this is seriously creepy

#and the fact that most people accept this as normal makes it even more creepy