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“Guns are one thing, but phone calls are too dangerous to go unchecked.” —John Oliver (via kristinastewartcolbert)
Consistent with the ultimate government platform of “power for cishet white men!” They get to monitor us while toting about their guns.
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A few years ago, I attended a local meeting in my town for a “Fitness Club”. The original meeting went great, everyone treated me equally despite my size and we all decided to become Facebook buddies to solidify our meetings. After a month of weekly meetings, the leader decided to choose a few exemplary students of the team to lead smaller groups in fitness routines on days other than regular meetings. I was surprised, but pleased, to learn that the president of the club had elected me to be the leader of the cardio subgroup. Having hovered around 275 lbs for most of my life, I’ve never been viewed as the ‘shining star’ of health. But the president told me that he thought I was a perfect example of what the club wanted to reach for, which was endurance, strength, and health. He also said that my size was no matter in this.
I was thrilled to lead my first cardio group, planning a thirty minute jog around the neighborhood followed by a few other exercises. I waited in my living room with protein shakes and granola bars, excited for the 10-15 people who had been assigned to my group to show up.
No one came.
I waited for an hour before the first call rolled in, a young woman saying that her cat had fallen ill and she didn’t want to leave him home alone. Several calls followed, some saying they forgot, some saying they were sick. Only one woman who had never particularly gotten along with me stated her true reason.
“No one wanted to come because we thought Mark had assigned it as a joke, Milly! God, why would he actually put YOU in charge of the runners?”
Thin privilege is not having people assume you were chosen to be a cardio leader as a prank.
(Joke is on them, three years later and President Mark of the Hightown Fitness Club is now my fiance)
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“It is illegal for women to go topless in most cities, yet you can buy a magazine of a woman without her top on at any 7-11 store. So, you can sell breasts, but you cannot wear breasts, in America.” — Violet Rose (via lauva)(via cishetssuck)
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If you’re not a feminist, you either don’t know what feminism is, or you’re a bag of dicks.
That is all.
Or you’re a WoC who’s sick and tired of White Feminists thinking they speak for everybody, ignoring intersectionality, and just generally being hypocritical as fuck.
There are very valid reasons some people aren’t feminists.
Lol, really? Use two white women and how much they make compared to men and then, and only then, for the future use a black woman, completely ignoring that WOC (and men of color, too) make even less than white women? Ew, this is a gross, uninformative graphic. I mean, really.
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Bahahaha I just realized the government has been working for a week to explain why spying on all our phone records is totally okay because it brings criminals to justice, but the dude who doxxed the stubenville rapists is possibly going to jail for ten years. So funny I could cry.
(via fuckingrapeculture)
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CUT FUNDING TO 'CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERS' | We the People: Your Voice in Our Government For decades, most Crisis Pregnancy Centers have been lying to women, evading questions, and disguising their institutions as health care facilities. They receive federal funding to shame women into believing lies- “abortion causes breast cancer”, “it will make you infertile”, “condoms do not protect against STIs”, etc. They do not have a doctor at these facilities, and are not under HIPAA regulations of non-disclosure of medical records. They are against all contraception forms. They will harass a woman until she is in tears, and then send her on her way with a Christian religious token, and a promise from her that she will keep her child, they will only provide “help” if she agrees to go to Bible Study. This is not health care. Title X funding should be revoked.
500 signatures, let’s keep this going.
Sign and pass it on! It boggles the mind that this garbage is tax-payer funded.
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(via kristinastewartcolbert)
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(via male-tears)
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Indigenous Style Icon: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (Samoan)
Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor and semi-retired professional wrestler who works for WWE. Dwayne Johnson was born in Hayward, California, to Ata Maivia and professional wrestler Rocky Johnson. His maternal grandfather, High Chief Peter Maivia, was also a wrestler. His maternal grandmother, Lia Maivia, was one of wrestling’s few female professional promoters, taking over Polynesian Pacific Pro Wrestling after her husband’s death in 1982, until 1988. His father is Black Nova Scotian, and his mother is Samoan.
Johnson was a college football player. In 1991, he was on the University of Miami’s national championship team. He later played for the Calgary Stampeders in the Canadian Football League, and was cut two months into the 1995 season. This led him to become a professional wrestler like his grandfather, Peter Maivia, and his father, Rocky Johnson. He gained mainstream fame as a wrestler in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1996 to 2004, and was the first third-generation wrestler in the company’s history. He was quickly pushed as a face in the WWF, originally billed as “Rocky Maivia”, then as “The Rock”. He turned heel as a member of the Nation of Domination in 1997. Two years after he joined the WWF, he won the WWF Championship. Johnson is widely considered one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time. He has had 17 championship reigns in WWE, including 10 as a world heavyweight champion (the WWF/E Championship eight times and the WCW/World Championship twice), the WWF Intercontinental Championship twice and the WWF Tag Team Championship five times. He is the sixth WWF/E Triple Crown Champion, and the winner of the 2000 Royal Rumble.
Johnson’s first leading film role was in The Scorpion King in 2002. For this role, he was paid US$5.5 million, a world record for an actor in his first starring role. He has since appeared in several successful films, including The Rundown, Be Cool, Walking Tall, Gridiron Gang, The Game Plan, Get Smart, Race to Witch Mountain, Planet 51, Tooth Fairy, Doom, The Other Guys, Faster, Fast Five, and Fast & Furious 6.
Johnson’s autobiography The Rock Says… was published in 2000. It debuted at #1 on The New York Times Best Seller list and remained on the list for several weeks. In 2004, Johnson was crowned High Chief by His Highness Malietoa Tanumafili II—in an interview with People Magazine, he said of the event: “I was moved…It’s way deeper than an honorary title. It’s blood…It clarified my ties to the royal family when the title was bestowed. It was an incredible life-changing moment that I will never forget…I told him I was going to carry this title with honor, dignity and, above all else, with pride…This trip just made me extremely proud of my heritage and culture. I’ve never been ashamed to say what I am. I am half black and half Samoan.”
(via chauvinistsushi)
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How compassionate.
If you’re attempting to talk about abortion rather than infanticide as this poster seems to be:
- Abortion =/= murder
- Hey, look, guys. Pro-birthers are now outright admitting they don’t give a crap about babies or children!
Like, seriously, how dare we wait to give birth until we’re ready, want a child, and can provide a good life to that child. What awful monsters we are!
