like i understand that there is a lot of space for various & sundry queernesses in nominally heterosexual people / pairing but come on these ppl are all teens, right?
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, September 3, 2013 6:56 PM (1 hour ago)
this is a conclusion i often come to w/ the a/demi/unicornsexuals, etc -- most of these people are kids with crazy hormones and access to a community of other kids with crazy hormones
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 4 September 2013 00:41 (ten years ago) link
I saw an actress referred to as not overly feminine in an article and almost choked laughing because she doesn't seem at all masculine, at least in a non-gender normative way to me. People are weird.
― space is deep (mh), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 01:03 (ten years ago) link
come on these ppl are all teens, right?
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, September 3, 2013 6:56 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
like isn't this just another expression of the unrequited everything of teen life
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, September 3, 2013 7:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is true ime/u of almost everything you find on tumblr that is funny or weird and stupid and why imo its better to marvel at it as pure teen lyfe instead of disparaging it as dumb social justice otherkin whatever
― max, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
teen sexuality is kind of its own thing, it's like a really sensitive mic with the input level set way too high
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link
I think some of this weird sexuality extends though. Som people.... never change
― space is deep (mh), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 01:07 (ten years ago) link
max otm
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 02:50 (ten years ago) link
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Tuesday, September 3, 2013 9:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha kind of a truth bomb
― 2 Steenz (some dude), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 02:53 (ten years ago) link
we're assuming some people really never mature past 'weird teen lyfe' and that explains a lot, yes?
― space is deep (mh), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 02:53 (ten years ago) link
stuff happens when you're a teen & sometimes you never get over it
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:08 (ten years ago) link
that girlfag/guydyke wikipedia article is especially bunk because poppy z brite is an actual trans man and mary renault was a lesbian
― 1staethyr, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:08 (ten years ago) link
http://31.media.tumblr.com/b49137c0c5b618952f1f66edf6a6ccd0/tumblr_mt86xxhsPe1rnkmu0o1_500.png
― your authentic guitar playing self (elmo argonaut), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:04 (ten years ago) link
OTM
― i'm not racist, i just dislike rap (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
omg at TEACH ME
― WHAT DOES SAMANTHA FOX SAY (DJP), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
that's the one that makes me reach for my revolver
hey elmo... teach me
― fresh (crüt), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
What is the "you're probably a rapist/pedophile" one?
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
also what is "people probably aren't ready for this yet?"
^ this guy's such a D5
― fresh (crüt), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
fun privilege game
― sleepingbag, Monday, 16 September 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
oh the rapist one is queer-specific i get it
not sure I understand the other one
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
"the topic you're bringing up is too controversial right now, wait for things to die down or for people to magically agree with you on their own before you bring it up again" is the subtext there
― WHAT DOES SAMANTHA FOX SAY (DJP), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
yeah that's kind of a classic going way back
― ryan, Monday, 16 September 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
oic, like "The south can't handle integration yet" for the internet era
― #fomo that's the motto (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
lol the other day someone said, "He's not a malintentioned person, but..." and three of us present all rolled our eyes/made that face at the same time.
― Tottenham Heelspur (in orbit), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:14 (ten years ago) link
"not being a douchebag to minority X is too much to expect from primitive earthlings at this point in time"
― i'm not racist, i just dislike rap (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
xposts my father-in-law used that as his trump card when he tried explaining why he was opposed to gay marriage and none of his other rationales held up; "the economy's terrible, why are we doing this NOW?"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:17 (ten years ago) link
Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, 'Wait.' But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim…when you see the vast majority of twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year-old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky…when you take a cross-country drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you…when…your wife and mother are never given the respected title 'Mrs.'…when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of 'nobodiness'—then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:18 (ten years ago) link
the subtext seems like basically "gosh all this strife and *politics* are really unpleasant for me to hear about."
― ryan, Monday, 16 September 2013 16:19 (ten years ago) link
Needed a 'stop teaching me' tbf
― quite racist, don't mind rap (darraghmac), Monday, 16 September 2013 16:20 (ten years ago) link
more from the Letter From Birmingham Jail:
I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
― The Reverend, Monday, 16 September 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
as it ever was
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, 16 September 2013 21:40 (ten years ago) link
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/being-privileged-is-not-a-choice-so-stop-hating-me-for-it/
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― fresh (crüt), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:13 (ten years ago) link
wtf is with people thinking they have to chime in when they DON'T have problems
polite thing is to stfu, imo
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
privileged people have real problems getting used to being de-centered
― eris bueller (lukas), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
that is some prime guilt avoidance going on.
― ryan, Monday, 23 September 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
guilt is a useless emotion
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:31 (ten years ago) link
ask any psychopath
― Tyskie in the giro (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wflNtNou7sk
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:32 (ten years ago) link
re: crüt's linked article
Kate, the author, contends that people hate her for her privilege, and goes on to explain how she lies to everyone about it, conceals it, feels paranoid about the "look" she gets from a delivery person, and so on, but never once gives us evidence that she was ever treated hatefully by anyone. No anecdotes of being spat on, no quotes of being called hateful names. Nothing.
What is it we're doing that she's pleading with us that we stop doing?
― Aimless, Monday, 23 September 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
envying her
― special beet service (La Lechera), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
STOP JUDGING ME SILENTLY IN YOUR MIND.
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 18:45 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz8ul-gmLyA
― special beet service (La Lechera), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
bwahaha
yeah, if friends are talking about their student loans I'm not going to bust out "yo, my parents and some scholarships and a few bucks I saved funded all my college years, I'm sorry you guys didn't have that" and then peace out
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
all the justifications about parents working hard and her working hard - well sure! as long as you realize that lots of those people who you think are jealous meanies are probably working just as hard just to get by
― Tyskie in the giro (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
xp you should save that for the comments section on an article about student loan debt
― Spectrum, Monday, 23 September 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Next, when a friend talks about getting hassled by the police just for being black, I'm going to say that it's so awkward that a police officer has never looked at me with suspicion, even when I was guilty
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
"The Tell-Tale White Heart"
― Tyskie in the giro (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
Stop making me feel like I am less deserving.
Like, maybe there's no level of whether you "deserve" a high-rise apartment and a doorman and nice suits, but you have them? Maybe you're... equally deserving as everyone else?
― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
That lady just needs to get herself one of these:
http://i01.i.aliimg.com/wsphoto/v2/570290779_1/Lot-of-10-3-Blue-Glass-Turkish-font-b-Evil-b-font-font-b-Eye-b.jpg_250x250.jpg
― Aimless, Monday, 23 September 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
xp
maybe that's precisely the cause of her unease - that underlying sense that she's won the lottery of life, and that the narrative of "i deserve this" is a means of ignoring that most people don't get what they "deserve"
― Tyskie in the giro (Noodle Vague), Monday, 23 September 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link