My Foot, Yr Throat

shutthefuckupstraightpeople:

Does anyone have the source for this because this would probably be something I want to watch.

That is the genius of Samantha Bee on the Daily Show. 

mousesinger:

willgrahammys:

cooking-up-gossip:

willgrahammys:

Made rebloggable upon request

Ugh. I fucking hate this.

The term friendzone was never meant for those loser guys who pretend to be nice guys just so they could get laid, or any other benefit they could receive

The term friendzone was meant for those legitimate nice guys who actually adored and loved; and I mean head over heels; those girls and wanted a relationship. Who were constantly overlooked by the girls, and chose some other guy who didn’t deserve her and always treated her the wrong way.

Thank you sexism, society and loser guys for making us legitimate nice guys seem like assholes.

Are you

ARE YOU SHITTING ME RN I’M LAUGHING SO HARD

here is the problem with “nice guyism” in a nutshell:

You don’t get to decide if you are treating others well, most of the time. You really can’t know that. Most people try their best. And plenty of self centered dickbags think they’re being awesome to other people when in fact they’re not.

Uuuuuughhhhhh, soooo manyyyy problems…

First off, these “friendzone” narratives always make it sound like the guy she’s dating is borderline abusive. I get the feeling it’s usually more like “He can’t love you like I can!”, but let’s say she is dating an abusive guy: You can say something like “Hey, from an outsider’s perspective, he doesn’t seem to treat you well…” then listen to what she says, and BACK THE FUCK OFF. Ultimately, it’s still going to be her choice, and if she is in an abusive relationship, the last thing she needs is friends who are mad at her because they’d rather she was in an abusive relationship with them.

Second, my husband and I were friends for ELEVEN FUCKING GODDAMN YEARS before we started dating. Eleven years. Over a decade. And you know what? Neither of us was “in the friendzone”, because both of us were perfectly happy being friends, So, if you are in the “friendzone”, maybe you should just chill the fuck out and BE A FUCKING FRIEND, you self-absorbed piece of shit.

Poly People I Can Do Without

androjohnny:

myfootyrthroat:

androjohnny:

I call bullshit on polyamory. This is not to say that I don’t believe it can work for some super human, hyper sexed, so-full-of-love-they-have-to-share-it communicators. To those ‘amazingly content and in touch with themselves’ super humans I say fuck your circle of supportive partners and share till you implode! Jizztastic!

To poly people who use poly as a front for shitty behavior I say… gooooooood luck.

I want to kiss the hands of the poly person who composed this rant. These are the exacting standards required of a healthy, functioning open relationship. This person is poly, and I’m at least convinced that they know their shit.

For me, one love is more than enough work and emotion.

Have a satisfying connection with another human being. Go to therapy. And if someone you love says they are poly ask them how and why. Then show them this rant… Then ask them how and why again.

Well, I would hope that if someone you actually loved actually told you they were poly, you’d just be like “Welp, I don’t understand it, but I respect and love you regardless.”

I mean, I’m not heterosexual, and I have a lot of friends whose husbands and wives and boyfriends and girlfriends have cheated on them, abused them, or otherwise treated them like shit. All the same, I’m not just gonna “call bullshit on heterosexuality” or “bullshit on monogamy”. 

I don’t think the problem is polyamory, per se, I think the problem is that large numbers of people are dicks.

Yes. You’re right. I only call bullshit on some people’s ideas of polyamory. Color me revised. But don’t just read what I wrote. Read the heartless bitches rant.

The rant linked above? What’s heartless about it? It seems like she’s advocating for people taking responsibility for the effect that their actions have on others.

brainstatic:

heartattackle:

lokiandgagaruletheworld:

enfeebler:

naathaaaly:

Reason why I hate cats. They’re so scary.

#Reasons why I hate babies #they do this and everyone blames the pet

THAT’S WHY YOU TEACH YOUR KIDS NOT TO SLAP THE FUCKING CAT

I grew up in a family with lots of animals. [mostly small dogs.] I was taught to respect them. To treat them like my family. Would I hit my mom, my siblings? No. Do I hit the animals? NO. If I hit, slapped or maliciously hurt one of them and they bit or scratched at me.. well, that’s my ass because I should know better and the animal was defending itself.

If any child ever does this shit to my animals.. the CHILD gets reprimanded, not the animal. My nephew was absolutely BANNED from touching our animals because he was mean to them. My baby brother was 5, he straight up PUNCHED our 13 year old dog in the face.. she bit him in the face, he got stitches in his nose. He hasn’t laid a finger on her since.

I think people really  need to teach their children, especially small children to respect animals. 

This is why every house should have a pet. A pet isn’t going to give your sociopathic little shit kid a lecture about boundaries and using your words. It’ll teach him what happens in this world when you punch things.

I thought that we had established on Tumblr that if you sided with animals over children, that was the same as supporting mass infanticide?

(I would also like to address the people who reason with their children having tantrums. That is some fucking stupid shit. Yes, your child is a tiny person with a tiny functioning brain, and you should treat them like a person. However, when your child is throwing a tantrum, they are not being reasonable, so reason doesn’t work. Just take them somewhere they can calm down without embarrassing the both of you. Whenever I hear some parent like “Now, Amethyst, what did we say about using our angry voice?” while their kid is flopping around the floor of the grocery store, it makes me want to go slap the parent.)

Poly People I Can Do Without

androjohnny:

I call bullshit on polyamory. This is not to say that I don’t believe it can work for some super human, hyper sexed, so-full-of-love-they-have-to-share-it communicators. To those ‘amazingly content and in touch with themselves’ super humans I say fuck your circle of supportive partners and share till you implode! Jizztastic!

To poly people who use poly as a front for shitty behavior I say… gooooooood luck.

I want to kiss the hands of the poly person who composed this rant. These are the exacting standards required of a healthy, functioning open relationship. This person is poly, and I’m at least convinced that they know their shit.

For me, one love is more than enough work and emotion.

Have a satisfying connection with another human being. Go to therapy. And if someone you love says they are poly ask them how and why. Then show them this rant… Then ask them how and why again.

Well, I would hope that if someone you actually loved actually told you they were poly, you’d just be like “Welp, I don’t understand it, but I respect and love you regardless.”

I mean, I’m not heterosexual, and I have a lot of friends whose husbands and wives and boyfriends and girlfriends have cheated on them, abused them, or otherwise treated them like shit. All the same, I’m not just gonna “call bullshit on heterosexuality” or “bullshit on monogamy”. 

I don’t think the problem is polyamory, per se, I think the problem is that large numbers of people are dicks.

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lifeiwishilived:

thefunnygentleman:

getsby:

koolkidseatgreens:

Well ok Kesha, maybe it’s because you’re an auto tuned peice of shit who shouldn’t be famous, you have no Buisness being in the music industry, it’s not even your music you fuck, someone else wrote it for you to record and them to auto tune yourself. And it’s not at all good . It’s not positive either. So complain some more.

I don’t know if you know this, tumblr user koolkidseatgreens, but Ke$ha is a certified genius. She has an IQ over 140 and an SAT score of 1500. When she was younger she would go to the library and do research for fun. Ke$ha is a both feminist and an advocate for equal marriage/rights for people of any sexuality, being a queer woman herself.

Ke$ha is a smart, professional woman, and just because she sings songs about wanting to let loose and have fun every once in a while doesn’t make her a piece of shit.

Ke$ha’s songs are meant to point out the sexism in our media. She treats men the same way many men in the music industry treat women, and she is hated on for it. Relentlessly. She sings on multiple occasions about taking charge in a sexual relationship, of how she only uses men for their body parts. She sexualizes men to make them uncomfortable. She sexualizes men for a reaction, so that people can both see why women are so uncomfortable with their sexualization and also to point out the inequality between the sexes both in the media and in the world at large.

She is judged so harshly for singing about things that make many men famous.

If you listen to Ke$ha’s deconstructed album you will see that she actually has some talent, which may be hard to hear because she does in fact use a fair amount of autotune. This is because of her genre and because of the kind of music she chooses to create as an artist. Ke$ha may not write her songs, but this doesn’t meant she isn’t a good artist or a good person. This doesn’t mean she deserves your harsh words. Some singers are good at writing, but that’s hardly a requirement. Last time I checked whether or not you can sing has nothing to do with whether or not you’re a poet.

You should not be calling anyone a piece of shit, my friend, especially someone you’ve never sat down and had a conversation (or even taken the time to wonder about her feelings!), but if anyone deserves that kind of language it’s not Ke$ha.

You may think that by shaming women for expressing their sexuality and having fun every once in a while, that you are somehow abolishing sexism. That in weeding out the less ‘deserving’ women you are gaining our sex more respect. This is not the case, and the fact that you and many others feel such a strong need to shame this woman who has done nothing wrong, especially not to you, shows that we still have a very far away to go.

^Preach!

you are literally my role model! can I just meet you so we can discuss how amazing you are?! Please! You give me hope that there are good people in the world!

I never understand why people specifically hate Ke$ha so much. Like the autotune argument, yeah, she uses autotune. SO DOES EVERY OTHER POP STAR. Britney Spears uses autotune, Beyonce uses autotune. Just because they don’t sound like a robot doesn’t mean they aren’t fixing their off notes.

I also hate when people point out bad performances by people like Katy Perry or Ke$ha. Yep, they get on stage and sing even if they’re having a bad day. Sure, you don’t hear Beyonce or Madonna sounding all flat, but it’s not because they’re better, it’s because they lip sync their off days.

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brainstatic:

quirkybrittany:

reginasmom:

those kids who still think liking old music makes them special 

it actually does. that means you’re different and it’s something to be proud of ^_^

It’s always a good time at quirkybrittany. Follow her for a peasant and hipster-free blogging experience ♒(★‿★)♒!

I have looked into the eyes of The Beast.

Why can’t these people ever realize that being different from one group usually just means you’re the same as a different group? And what is with teenagers on the internet thinking that classic rock is so obscure? Most cities have classic rock, country, and top 40 stations in an almost even ratio.

mousesinger:

josiahd:

mousesinger:

josiahd:

mousesinger:

I actually don’t quite feel this way anymore or really agree with my old stance.

I used to go around saying that power/space in the LGBT community was meted out based upon proximity to men and maleness. How much space you got to take up depended upon how much maleness was involved: of course, if you were a man and with men, you got to take up the most space, but if you were once a man, you were with men, and less, if you are a now man, you got some degree of prestige there, too.

I really don’t feel this way anymore.

My views don’t come from any particular party line, I just observe things, so my views change from time to time.

What I’m observing as to how things play out, outside of the LGBT and queer bubble - actually, i
I think it may be disprivilege that’s meted out, with privilege being the default position.

I can’t say who has more space and privilege because it varies from place to place and depending upon factors highly based upon the individual and or their other intersections.

And what it looks like to me is that actually, the disprivilege is based upon womanhood/femaleness, because these are the disprivileged positions. I don’t particularly want to use the heirarchy system I was using before because it makes people into Oppression Olympics contestants.

It really sounds like I’m using different words to say the same thing (“privilege level based upon proximity to a man” vs “disprivilege based upon proximity to femaleness”), but the feeling/context is a bit different. The “proximity to a man” argument was always highly flawed in that it positioned some women above other women as if heterosexual partnership erases all misogyny, which it doesn’t. And yeah, lesbians deal with more of certain types of bullshit than women who have the option of marrying men, but I’m not really all that interested in arguments that work more to set women against other women than they work to further the causes of any of us.

In the real world, of course, these arguments are totally mental masturbation. And again, since I don’t really base my views on anyone else’s or on any particular party line, I’m probably going to make a *different* observation in six months. Somebody here is probably going to respond to me with something that’s food for thought which totally disagrees with what I just said. And I will probably digest it and come away thinking something different.

Which is fine, to me it’s the whole point of discussion.

This stuff is all really, really complicated.

And I think dealing with it needs to start with treating folks well. I mean something specific by that, but I’m not sure how to express it better. 

it’s amazing how much just boils down to, don’t be a jerk.

And how complicated don’t be a jerk can be.

Because a lot of the ways people are awful to one another are totally unintentional.

this really sums it all up, doesn’t it? There are so many of these arguments that are totally unnecessary when people act out of basic respect and decency.

I’ve had kind of the opposite experience in LGBT spaces. In places I’ve lived, almost anything that wasn’t a bar was far more lesbian & trans oriented, but the bars were almost entirely  gay men. (It made for a weird dichotomy, because any socialization that wasn’t almost exclusively male tended to be very “serious”.)

As far as the complications of not being a jerk, and the unintended ways that people are jerks, in the words of Maya Angelou, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”

I think a lot of people/blogs say “sexy geek” when they mean “myopic” or “wearing non-prescription glasses”.

mousesinger:

the-unpopular-opinions:

I’m not saying people are wrong to like it, but I don’t see why it’s so popular and why everyone says it’s so amazing. 

I guess it’s supposed to be a comedy, and maybe I just have poor taste, but I didn’t find it funny. I found it annoying, but maybe worthy of a chuckle here or there. Nothing more. It’s better than a lot of what hollywood tries to pass off as “comedy” these days, but it’s not oMG TEH BEST MOVIE EVAR. 

Again, you’re not wrong to like it if you do, I’m just confused as to why. 

Oh god yes!! Finally someone else feels as I do. Also, I feel this way about Monty Python and the Holy Grail. One of the problems is that by the time I saw either, my geeky friends had already spammed me with all the jokes and one liners for years and so when I saw each film, it was kind of “meh”. If I’d seen either with my friends at the time they saw it, it’d be something we shared, but it wasn’t.

I had a really protected childhood, and I didn’t see a lot of “classic kids movies” until I was a lot older. I think a lot of the appeal of some of these movies is just remembering yourself when you saw them. For instance, I didn’t see The Princess Bride or The Goonies until I was a late teenager, after years of hearing my friends rave about them. I could see why I might have liked them more when I was a little kid, but I had clearly missed some window of opportunity.

brainstatic:

actualhumandisaster:

thenewhotness:

whiskeysmyxtracurricularactivity:

viceroys:

it’s JUNE why are u making me endure this horeshit TUMBL R

They didn’t even correctly display their own advertising campaign.

I swear until this second I didn’t realize this was an ad and when I saw it it had like 3 notes and my thought process was:

“What the fuck is this? Who is this person? Is this someone’s side blog? Ugh I should unfollow this. I’ll figure it out later.”

So, in conclusion, tumblr: you successfully made me not notice that this was an ad.

But you made me think that I was hate following someone.

I wonder if the person who is in charge of running the Ford Tumblr ever goes back through the notes and is like, “I just thought this is what the kids were doing!” Then they feel really bad about themselves and start worrying that everyone hates them and they’re going to lose their job because their resume said they were a social media expert which was only partially true because while they’ve used social media in their own life they’ve never applied it to a brand but they figured that they could surely do it and now they’re on edge every time they go in to work because they’re afraid this venn is going to have them dragged into their boss’s office and given the boot and they have a lot of bills coming up.

That’s how I think. This is why I’m always uncomfortable. 

I had no idea this was an ad. I just scrolled past it because venn diagrams about silly things barely register in my brain anymore.

I don’t think they even really understand how Venn diagrams work. I mean, the intersection of “Too Damn Hot” and “Too Damn Cold” is more likely to be “Menopause” or “Dying of Malaria” than “Just the right temperature!”

brainstatic:

Off tumblr: I like the color blue.
On tumblr: I consider myself Blue Positive even though I don’t agree with everything the movement says. What being Blue Positive means: I enjoy having things that are blue. I will buy more blue things in the future. What being Blue Positive does NOT mean: I hate all other colors. People who own green things are bad. Please learn about the BluPos movement before you go making assumptions about me because the issue is more abstract than you realize. I will answer RESPECTFUL questions about being BluPos but haters will be deleted.

While I respect your opinion, I think we really need to address some of the more problematic aspects of what you’re implying. First, you really need to check your color perceiving privilege. Also, this is really monochromatic normative. You’re completely denying the experiences of those who are polychromatic, and this is an erasure that they already have to deal with every day.

mousesinger:

myfootyrthroat:

DO THINGS YOURSELF.

Upset that there are Bibles in hotel rooms, but not other texts? BUY SOME AND PUT THEM THERE.

Upset that there’s a gay pride parade, but not a straight pride parade? ORGANIZE A FUCKING PARADE.

Complaining that there are sooo many more types of clothes for women to wear than men? DESIGN SOME OTHER CLOTHES FOR MEN AND SELL THEM.

These things aren’t happening because of some institutionalized injustice, they’re happening because no one has put the work in. If it really matters to you so much that there isn’t a parade for whatever you want a parade for, make some floats, get some permits, and have a parade. It’s not like Bibles just exist in hotel rooms or gay pride parades are some natural meteorological phenomenon. 

True fact: my initial introduction to Buddhism was at age 11, when I lived in a motel. The management was Chinese and they put “The Teaching of Buddha” (this book is still published and is free; it has a sunset on the front) along with bibles in the night stands.

Other true fact: my local LGBT center has virtually nothing for gay women. Every other group, yes. I asked about this and found out that the reason is because NONE OF THE WOMEN WANT TO BE THE ONE TO ORGANIZE IT. The two women who were leading the groups moved away, and no one will step up.

There was a similar problem with the Pride committee in the town I used to live in. Pride really sucked for a long time, and people complained that it was just drag queens with no visibility for anyone else. I had a friend who got on the committee and was determined to improve things. She found out later though that while drag queens were practically beating down her door to get on stage, no one else really wanted to perform.

endracismandhomophobia:

Are we caught in a happy trap?

“You couldn’t make sense of happiness if you didn’t know sadness.” This article is great. It instantly reminded me of an experience I had with someone met online, who exuded all the cliched “happy” indicators - relentless positive thinking, constantly talking about how great life was. I remember him because during the period when I knew him, I injured my back pretty badly and was forced out of work for a period of time. High on painkillers, my life was far from “happy”. This person actually told me my unhappiness was revolting, that it made him sick, and that he didn’t want anything to do with me ever again. He could only handle being around “positive people”. I found the experience really frustrating because my life, like anyone’s, is a constant up and down of emotions. No one goes running to the doctor because they are feeling “too happy”, and yet a lot of people run to the doctor to get anti depressants the moment they feel a little blue. I later discovered this guy was totally taking anti depressants. He had no reason for it: he had a great job, lots of money, owned his own house, etc. But as far as I am concerned, he is addicted to evil drugs designed to suck the life out of a person. He can carry on as much as he likes about positivity, but I think it is a false positivity found in a pill. I’ll continue with reality, with all it’s ups and downs, thank you very much! I’ve met other people like him in the gay community - judgmental little “positivity nazis”. But scratch the surface and just like with so many others, what you see is definitely not what you get!

Bright Sided by Barbara Ehrenreicha talks about this. 

poesizing:

people who argue that we should oppose same-sex marriage legislation because it’s unfair that marriage is one of the very few paths to residency / citizenship rights think that the first step to efficient immigration reform is making queer immigrants’ lives as hard as possible by not allowing them to marry and gain residency / citizenship rights??

(via gaypocalypse)