lionessofjuda:

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mrncllttd:

Jirka Väätäinen, a Finnish student of Graphic Design, decided to bring alive some Disney characters through photo manipulation. They look incredibly amazing and definitely real! Check out his blog: http://jirkavinse.wordpress.com/

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Think Twice About Becoming Vegan

In today’s trendy artsy world, more and more young people are becoming vegan every single day. The reason most of these people become vegan is for the protection and welfare of animals. They encourage vegan meals, no meat, cheese, dairy, eggs etc. What most vegans do not realise is that there is a dirty underworld to the growing and manufacturing of this disgusting world trade that is kept well hidden from society.

Above is a picture taken in Indonesia of a carrot being prepared and slaughtered. The carrots are first skinned, then drowned, and can be eaten raw or are cooked in boiling water.

Also above is a disturbing picture of potatoes being ripped from their home. The preparation is the same as the carrots.

Bananas grow together in a herd. When they ripen, they are stolen from their family, and whilst they are still alive their skin is peeled back and their entire body is usually eaten in about 6 bites.

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quixotess:

…not so good at critical thinking.

Oh have I ever been there. I really don’t want any of you to read anything I wrote three or more years ago. I had this blog with “critiques” of “Baby Got Back” and Fiddler on the Roof and oh it was bad.

There’s like this whole “critique mode” that people like the teenager I was go into. The whole idea is to prove our point and our thinking becomes just…anti-rigorous. Our shit is almost never supported by any background reading, or if it is, it’s something we read and don’t understand well enough to defend—if someone brings up a counterargument, we wouldn’t know how to respond. That’s because a huge chunk of our “worldview” has not been subjected to rigorous critical thinking and is not based so much on “a framework of underlying principles and experiences” as “a bunch of things we heard or read that sounded good.”

You gotta rip that shit down. Tear it all away. Forget what you think you know. Build it back up from the beginning.

What’s really painful, I mean the part where I cringe, isn’t how palpably the writer did not think things through, although that does hurt. It’s how they’re following a really common “mode” of “social justice critique” that you can learn at any big progressive or feminist blog.

1. Something happened in my life/I’ve seen something that bothered/affected/hurt me personally.

2. So that thing that happened was bad. *Identifies the precise aspect about it that they think was bad, which may be near the mark but which is probably overgeneralized to a wider swath of experiences than they can really speak to.*

3. So no one should do that thing any more.

4. *Complete ignorance of relevant rigorous & creative discussion/history.*

5. *Strong resistance to the idea that their experiences and Social Justice Rules may not be applicable where they want them to be.*

6. *Self-satisfaction.*

I mean, hell, why shouldn’t they think this is how it works? Plenty of people have made careers out of this.

This post is truth. I feel so embarrassed when I think of my own social justice warrior days….

maddlington:

farfromgotham:

lgbtlaughs:

A friend of mine was saying it made her uncomfortable when I made sexual references to her because I’m gay and she isn’t. She said I need to stop because it’s disturbing and I questioned her why it was a big deal. “You know you’re straight so what does it matter?” -It’s just weird, stop- “Sometimes guys joke about fucking me and you don’t see me flipping my shit. Oh no! A hetero comment. Now everyone is gonna think I’m straight!!” She says nothing and walks away. [jennifer13]

This is one of the first lgbt laughs post that I don’t find funny. jennifer13, if your friend feels uncomfortable with you making sexual comments about her, stop. She had the decency to ask you to stop, you should respect that. Not everyone is as sexually open as you may think they are, regardless of orientation. And does it make you feel good when those guys “joke about fucking you”? Because if guys joked about fucking me I would feel damn uncomfortable. Why would you want to do that to someone you see as a friend?

This isn’t a “win for the homos,” it’s sexual harassment. 

 The commentary here is spot on. This isn’t funny at all.

And frankly, in this regard, the OP a fairly shitty human being. I would absolutely “flip my shit” if a male friend made sexual reference to me; it might be a joke to someone else, but it’s completely disrespectful on so many levels. Just because you’re okay with something doesn’t mean you get to expect that everyone else is comfortable with it as a rule, or to mock them when they aren’t. It’s got nothing to do with people thinking she’s a lesbian. It’s that it makes a person uncomfortable and it crosses boundaries in total disrespect of who and what they are, and what they do or don’t want.

She asked you to stop, OP. She shouldn’t have had to, because any decent person would have seen the discomfort, realised how unwelcome their comments, references, and “jokes” were, and stopped of their own accord. But she did, and you chose to show even greater disrespect and disregard for her and tried to make her feel bad for it by making fun of her and making it seem like she was somehow wrong for how she feels. She’s not wrong, you are. This IS sexual harrassment, no matter how funny you think it is, no matter how cool you are with men making these same kinds of comments to/about you - it’s sexual harrassment, and you should be utterly disgusted with yourself, though it’s clear you won’t take any of this on board at all, which only makes you a more pathetic, repugnant, and spiteful human being who doesn’t deserve this girl’s friendship in the first place.  

You know, this is something we try to drill into *men* all the time - that they’re not entitled to make unwelcome sexual comments and references to/about women, and that they’re not entitled to disregard a woman’s sexual boundaries and comfort zones for any reason, whether it’s approaching them while alone in an elevator or hollering at them from a car window. This post is a perfect example of the fact that even while we’re fighting so hard against fact that there are so many examples of men engaging in this kind of behaviour, there are women doing it too. And the idea that anyone could consider the act of crossing a woman’s boundaries and purposefully making her uncomfortable in a sexual way to be joke-worthy, or a “win for the homos” (cue the eye rolling over here) - or indeed a legtimate form of interaction that isn’t problematic at all - is abominable, but the fact that it is another woman doing this (a member of the GLBT* crowd, no less, who should certainly know what it’s like to have to remind others that your feelings count for something and that they deserve as much respect as anyone else’s) makes it so much more frustrating.

jennifer13, this isn’t any kind of victory. By repeatedly making unwelcome sexual references to someone who has asked you to stop, you are sexually harrassing them. This isn’t a joke, and there’s nothing homophobic about her feelings, and certainly no triumph in you pretending that they don’t matter. You need to stop. Now.

katalepsja:

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fuckyesliberalshit:

microaggressions:

““You’re so beautiful - why are you still single?””

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This is a question I hear on a weekly basis from acquaintances, family, and complete strangers. I’m a graduate student with an A- average, yet people define me according to my ability (or lack thereof) to find a husband. Makes me feel minimized, demeaned, humiliated. 

Next time someone asks this, just tell them that you’re neurotic. Actually, they probably already know. They aren’t asking this because they define you according to your ability to find a husband, they’re each asking for different reasons.

Your family asks because they want to know what their family member is up to. They want to know if you’re seeing someone so they can celebrate the good news, or they want you to be happily partnered with someone who treats you well. 

Acquaintances and strangers either want to know if your fair game, or they want to gossip. Pretty easy to tell which ones want to know what. The women want to hear gossip, and the guys want to know if they should ask you out on a date.

Also, they’re calling you beautiful. And you’re getting your panties in a twist over it. They’re going out of their way to let you know that they’re affectionate towards you, and you snub them with this? Ridiculous. I have no idea how you haven’t had your uppity shit slapped yet. 

^This. I’d love to get a comment like that!

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