LDRs & Mushy love things

awwweee <3 Thank you anonymous. 

nakedhermione:

geoff-lestrudel:

casssasss:

“tell your wife that she looks pretty, even if she looks like a truck.” Ricky’s gonna have a very smooth sailin’ married life ahead of him haha

when is it okay to kiss someone? 

“when they’re rich”

you go pam, four for you.

my favorite is “you might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids.”

This is so great it hurts!

(Source: devoureth)

selfprofessedmathnerd:

wizardsvsrobots:

lostmymojo:

extremelypalehuman:

THANK YOU. FINALLY. cultural appropriation is seriously the biggest crock of bullshit i’ve ever heard of.

Says the “extremely pale human.” Yeah, POC are hurt by white people dressing up as caricatures of them for Halloween and you say “it’s the biggest crock of bullshit.” If you aren’t a person of colour, you don’t get to have an opinion on it. Aaaaand unfollow.

My faith in humanity

Where did you go?

1) if you refuse to accept a racialized white person, which is what “people of colour” vs “extremely pale human” (yes, I realize that was the tumblr name) is doing, then we can never get anywhere. 

2) if one more person tells me “You won’t understand, you aren’t black” I will flip. FLIP. I understand the majority of things perfectly fine when they are *explained* to me. I know this because the boyfriend takes the time to talk to me instead of just dismissing me as if I have no brain. Refusing to explain things to people will also get us nowhere.

3) Those are not “white people” dressed up as “people of colour” for Hallowe’en… they are legitimate “people of colour” so even within your context the argument is hard to understand. 

4) What I feel is actually wrong with this:

a) there is a need to tell people that black women are not all rappers

b) there is a need to tell people that asian women are not all geishas

c) the way the person explained themselves underneath the picture… let’s make that it’s own point

5) What is wrong with those explanations is they aren’t worded as carefully as everyone would like, mostly. Whoever wrote it was clearly looking at the pictures and wondering what was bad about those pictures being actual pictures (a good thing - it’s called acceptance). What they failed to realize was simply that the pictures themselves are not what is offensive but rather the stereotypes and prejudices which they REPRESENT in our culture today. 

6) I was at a speech for Martin Luther King Jr. Day this past week and the keynote speaker said it better than I ever could (because he was a black man - no one would ever accept them if they were my words because I am not): ” you black men out there (and women, too) need to go out and prove them all wrong … just like you already are but actively. Show them that you can be academics and not just NBA stars and rappers” If anyone comes up with a concise answer as to what everyone else should do I would be eternally grateful because that seems to encapsulate a lot more and somehow be less concrete… somehow. 

TL;DR: we should all be making a conscious effort to treat each other like humans and not just like stereotypes, whether that stereotype be based on skin colour, gender, sexual orientation, whatever. We should all be actively trying to change these stereotypes by both breaking them and pointing out when they are broken. 

When someone tells you “all black people are rappers” the wrong thing to say (according to my prof, and I agree) is “no, that’s not true! I know a lot of black people and they are all really good at sports” it would, instead, be to point out notable example after completely different notable example as to how and why that is not true. 

THAT, I think, is how we can get somewhere. Knowledge is, indeed, power.

(Source: angelastrikesback)