Socks Rocked Right Off
Now just a blog consisting of random things that pique my interest. Sometimes nsfw, will be tagged.
Ask me anything, but I'd rather it be about pokemon
welp
and if any of you white people respond with “wait but I didn’t do that. that was in the past”
i need you to check your privilege
and then drink bleach if you think your hands aren’t dirty
They’re not.
Guilt doesn’t transfer from generation to generation. I am not magically accountable for something my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather MIGHT have done. Also;
>social justice blogger
>telling people to kill themselvesI love that there’s a blog called “this is white culture” that is solely devoted to bad things white people did, not their cultures at all. So I guess I can make a blog called “this is black culture” and post gang and crime records and that’s 100% okay. Or “this is Muslim culture” and make it all about terrorism.
But wait, you cry. Not all black people are criminals and not all Muslims are terrorists. That’s unfair! And racist!
WELL GOLLY GEE DO YOU THINK SO? Because saying that all white people are responsible for the Atlantic slave trade sounds pretty racist to me, given that, you know, that was between the African slaveholders and the British and Americans and had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with my ancestors, who were incredibly poor farmers and serfs from Ireland and Lithuania who had to flee to America at around the turn of the century (by which time slavery had already been abolished in the US) because they were being treated like slaves. Even if they had been living in America at the time when slavery was legal they wouldn’t have been able to afford a slave; in fact they probably would have been working with them in the fields and treated about the same, since the first slaves in America were actually white serfs. But please, tell me more about how dirty my hands are because of circumstances surrounding my birth that I could not control and continue to treat me differently based on the color of my skin without actually knowing anything about my heritage, I’m sure that isn’t racist at all!
Motherfucking BLESS this post and those last two responses.
(via thetenk)
Stones and words may break my birds, but bones can never hurt them.
http://www.rarecandytreatment.com/comics/1743829/awkward-boner/
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There are some things I just don’t get
Like people being rude to fast food employees.I mean sure they’re not promising 5 star gourmet food (and hardly any fast food joint would promise that) but they’re still providing you food. You get to avoid the hassle of preparing the food yourself and all you have to give in return is just a small bit of money.
Heck, since they’re the ones directly involved with making you your food, wouldn’t you want to be especially courteous? It just seems to me that if you treat an employee well then they won’t be thinking “Great, another ungrateful jerk” and instead “Hey that guy was kind of nice” and with a better attitude towards who they’re serving they might put more effort into their work and provide better food.
[Image Description: Background is several triangles in a circle like a pie alternating from true red, scarlet and black. A robin is sitting on his perch looking to the right.
Top Text: “YOU WORK HERE.”
Bottom Text: “SO I CAN CUT IN FRONT OF YOU.”]Food service robin, here! After I clocked out today, my mom texted me and told me to pick something up for dinner. So I thought “I’m already at a food place, and I can get a discount, might as well just get something from here.”
The girl who was working front counter was busy talking to another customer, so I was waiting patiently by the register. Some guy comes out of nowhere, and cuts in front of me (which means he has to slightly shove me, because I was leaning against the counter). I said “Excuse me, sir, but I am in line.” His response? “Yeah, I know, but you work here, so I can cut in front of you.”
Um, pretty sure that’s not the way it works, sir. The fact that I work here doesn’t mean you get to be rude, and the fact that I work here doesn’t mean you getting food is more important than me getting food.
Cat's Paw: Mary Sue, what are you? or why the concept of Sue is sexist
Looks like this essay was needed, so I went ahead and did it. Not sure I said everything I wanted to say, but I tried.
So, there’s this girl. She’s tragically orphaned and richer than anyone on the planet. Every guy she meets falls in love with her, but in…
- Helen Keller, 1911
Why did we learn about Helen Keller’s childhood in school and not about the socialist and feminist advocacy that was her focus for the vast majority of her adult life? She was a suffragette and a disability rights activist! She helped to found the ACLU! She was a member of the Wobblies! She supported birth control and the rights of sex workers! In school her story always ended when she went off to college and “became a writer.” She was a badass political activist, not an inspirational disability trope, and if we learned about that we would think of her as more than just a joke in Apples to Apples.
(via ratspeaker)
THIS
(via in-capitalist-america)
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Why did I never learn about this?
“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted.
Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”
This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”
This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”
this is why performance art is important
So every single person who told me ‘ignore them they’ll go away’ and ‘you can’t let them know they bothered you’ and ‘They’ll stop if they don’t see you react’ and all that bull shit, my entire school career, I want you to look good and hard at this.
I want you to think about what you said.
What you keep saying.
What you are telling your children.
You are making them powerless.
jesus christ, this is one of the most chilling things i’ve ever seen/read.
Hey look, it’s almost as if being silent/polite/nice doesn’t actually stop people from doing hurtful things to you. Who knew?
This is amazing performance art; but it’s also devastating, because it’s more proof that people are shit.
I’ve reblogged this before but it never really sunk in how it applies to real life situations. This commentary is excellent.
People can be scary.
(Source: andrewfishman)
