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facebooksexism: sexistfacebookdudes: For the new followers to play along at home! New ones that need to be added:  “Calling out sexism online doesn’t make real change!” “How am I supposed to learn this stuff if YOU DON’T TEACH ME?!” “Publicly posting things people say online is totes illegal!” “You guys are cyber bullying/trolling/mean!”

facebooksexism:

sexistfacebookdudes:

For the new followers to play along at home!

New ones that need to be added: 

“Calling out sexism online doesn’t make real change!”

“How am I supposed to learn this stuff if YOU DON’T TEACH ME?!”

“Publicly posting things people say online is totes illegal!”

“You guys are cyber bullying/trolling/mean!”

(via devotchkax)

condescendingcakebatter:

d0t0ri:

shadowkixx:

Oh god I saw this a long time ago and just now got it.

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OH MY GOD NO.

(via anotherdayinpurradise)

goldspirits:

You do not get to shame me for being open and comfortable with my body.
You do not get to shame me for being open and comfortable with my body.
You do not get to shame me for being open and comfortable with my body.
You do not get to shame me for being open and comfortable with my body.
You do not get to shame me for being open and comfortable with my body.
YOU DO NOT GET TO SHAME ME FOR BEING OPEN AND COMFORTABLE WITH MY BODY.

(via cuntofdoom)

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Two years ago, South Dakota legislators passed a new law designed to deter women from seeking abortions. Under the law, a woman must consult with her doctor, then visit an anti-abortion “crisis pregnancy center,” and then wait 72 hours before she can actually have an abortion. Now legislators want to raise the barrier to accessing an abortion even higher by disqualifying weekends and holidays from the waiting period.

House Bill 1237, sponsored by Republican Jon Hansen, would amend the waiting period rule to add the line, “No Saturday, Sunday, federal holiday, or state holiday may be included or counted in the calculation of the seventy-two hour minimum time period between the initial physician consultation and assessment and the time of the scheduled abortion procedure.” It has 14 co-sponsors in the house and five in the state senate.

Apparently South Dakota lawmakers believe that a woman will be unable to contemplate her abortion adequately unless she’s doing it on a weekday.

If the bill passes, it would mean a woman who goes in for her initial consultation for an abortion on a Wednesday actually has to wait five days before she can have the abortion (Or six, if she happens to come in before a long weekend.) This is no small barrier for many women, especially in South Dakota. The state has just one abortion clinic, in Sioux Falls, and a doctor that flies in from out of state to provide services. Women drive up to six hours each direction to reach that clinic. The state also requires the doctor to read patients a prescribed script claiming that abortion will put them at an increased risk of suicide (a claim not backed by medical evidence).

Mother Jones, “South Dakota Bill Implies Women Can’t Think on Weekends” (via inothernews)

! I’d have to wait business days now!? Am I getting my abortions done at the goddamn post office!? Wtf!?

(via supersoygrrrl)

Incomprehensible and totally unacceptable. I’d love to see statistics on how many pregnant people actually decide against the abortion after 24-72 hours. Most stories I’ve heard went like this: “They told me I had to wait to schedule my abortion, so I waited, then i scheduled it, then I had it.”

(via stfuconservatives)

Well OF COURSE you can’t thoughtfully consider your personal medical decisions on federal holidays. That’s like, the first rule of science. 

(via stfusexists)

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“
You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don’t make as much money as men do. I don’t understand that. Why do we have to take a backseat? I truly believe that women should be financially independent from their men. And let’s face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define value. They define what’s sexy. And men define what’s feminine. It’s ridiculous.
Beyonce Knowles dropping truth bombs in GQ Magazine | February 2013  (via ceedling)

(Source: grasstomyknees, via choppingmall)


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Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel  (via thirdeyeblinking)

to every person who has told me they ‘try to stay out of those conversations’.

(via forablueeyedmiracle)

(Source: sonofbaldwin, via forablueeyedmiracle)


fuckyeahretailrobin: guardiancomment: Chelsea Welch, the US waitress who was fired after she posted a picture of a tip receipt on Reddit, wrote for us: I was a waitress at Applebee’s restaurant in Saint Louis. I was fired Wednesday for posting a picture on Reddit.com of a note a customer left on a bill. I posted it on the web as a light-hearted joke. This didn’t even happen at my table. The note was left for another server, who allowed me to take a picture of it at the end of the night. Someone had scribbled on the receipt, “I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?” I assumed the customer’s signature was illegible, but I quickly started receiving messages containing Facebook profile links and websites, asking me to confirm the identity of the customer. I refused to confirm any of them, and all were incorrect. I worked with the Reddit moderators to remove any personal information. I wanted to protect the identity of both my fellow server and the customer. I had no intention of starting a witch-hunt or hurting anyone. Now I’ve been fired. The person who wrote the note came across an article about it, called the Applebee’s location, and demanded everyone be fired — me, the server who allowed me to take the picture, the manager on duty at the time, the manager not on duty at the time, everyone. It seems I was fired not because Applebee’s was represented poorly, not because I did anything illegal or against company policy, but because I embarrassed this person. In light of the situation, I would like to make a statement on behalf of wait staff everywhere: We make $3.50 an hour. Most of my paychecks are less than pocket change because I have to pay taxes on the tips I make. After sharing my tips with hosts, bussers, and bartenders, I make less than $9 an hour on average, before taxes. I am expected to skip bathroom breaks if we are busy. I go hungry all day if I have several busy tables to work. I am expected to work until 1:30am and then come in again at 10:30am to open the restaurant. I have worked 12-hour double shifts without a chance to even sit down. I am expected to portray a canned personality that has been found to be least offensive to the greatest amount of people. And I am expected to do all of this, every day, and receive change, or even nothing, in return. After all that, I can be fired for “embarrassing” someone, who directly insults his or her server on religious grounds. In this economy, $3.50 an hour doesn’t cut it. I can’t pay half my bills. Like many, I would love to see a reasonable, non-tip-dependent wage system for service workers like they have in other countries. But the system being flawed is not an excuse for not paying for services rendered. I need tips to pay my bills. All waiters do. We spend an hour or more of our time befriending you, making you laugh, getting to know you, and making your dining experience the best it can be. We work hard. We care. We deserve to be paid for that. I am trying to stand up for all of us who work for just a few dollars an hour at places like Applebee’s. Whether a chain steakhouse or a black-tie establishment, tipping is not optional. It is how we get paid. I posted a picture to make people laugh, but now I want to make a serious point: Things like this happen to servers all the time. People seem to think that the easiest way to save money on a night out is to skip the tip. I can’t understand why I was fired over this. I was well liked and respected at Applebee’s. My sales were high, my managers had no problems with me, and I was even hoping to move up to management soon. When I posted this, I didn’t represent Applebee’s in a bad light. In fact, I didn’t represent them at all. I did my best to protect the identity of all parties involved. I didn’t break any specific guidelines in the company handbook – I checked. But because this person got embarrassed that their selfishness was made public, Applebee’s has made it clear that they would rather lose a dedicated employee than an angry customer. That’s a policy I can’t understand. I am equally baffled about how a religious tithe is in any way related to paying for services at a restaurant. I can understand why someone could be upset with an automatic gratuity. However, it’s a plainly stated Applebee’s policy that a tip is added automatically for parties over eight like the one this customer was part of. I cannot control that kind of tip; it’s done by the computer that the orders are put into. I’ve been stiffed on tips before, but this is the first time I’ve seen the “Big Man” used as reasoning. Obviously the person who wrote this note wanted it seen by someone. It’s strange that now that the audience is wider than just the server, the person is ashamed. I have no agenda here. I seek no revenge against the note writer. I have no interest in exposing their identity, and, at this point, I’m not even sure I want my job back. I was just trying to make a joke, but I came home unemployed. I’ve been waiting tables to save up some money so I could finally go to college, so I could get an education that would qualify me for a job that doesn’t force me to sell my personality for pocket change. Relevant to our interests~J

fuckyeahretailrobin:

guardiancomment:

Chelsea Welch, the US waitress who was fired after she posted a picture of a tip receipt on Reddit, wrote for us:

I was a waitress at Applebee’s restaurant in Saint Louis. I was fired Wednesday for posting a picture on Reddit.com of a note a customer left on a bill. I posted it on the web as a light-hearted joke.

This didn’t even happen at my table. The note was left for another server, who allowed me to take a picture of it at the end of the night.

Someone had scribbled on the receipt, “I give God 10%. Why do you get 18?”

I assumed the customer’s signature was illegible, but I quickly started receiving messages containing Facebook profile links and websites, asking me to confirm the identity of the customer. I refused to confirm any of them, and all were incorrect.

I worked with the Reddit moderators to remove any personal information. I wanted to protect the identity of both my fellow server and the customer. I had no intention of starting a witch-hunt or hurting anyone.

Now I’ve been fired.

The person who wrote the note came across an article about it, called the Applebee’s location, and demanded everyone be fired — me, the server who allowed me to take the picture, the manager on duty at the time, the manager not on duty at the time, everyone. It seems I was fired not because Applebee’s was represented poorly, not because I did anything illegal or against company policy, but because I embarrassed this person.

In light of the situation, I would like to make a statement on behalf of wait staff everywhere: We make $3.50 an hour. Most of my paychecks are less than pocket change because I have to pay taxes on the tips I make.

After sharing my tips with hosts, bussers, and bartenders, I make less than $9 an hour on average, before taxes. I am expected to skip bathroom breaks if we are busy. I go hungry all day if I have several busy tables to work. I am expected to work until 1:30am and then come in again at 10:30am to open the restaurant.

I have worked 12-hour double shifts without a chance to even sit down. I am expected to portray a canned personality that has been found to be least offensive to the greatest amount of people. And I am expected to do all of this, every day, and receive change, or even nothing, in return. After all that, I can be fired for “embarrassing” someone, who directly insults his or her server on religious grounds.

In this economy, $3.50 an hour doesn’t cut it. I can’t pay half my bills. Like many, I would love to see a reasonable, non-tip-dependent wage system for service workers like they have in other countries. But the system being flawed is not an excuse for not paying for services rendered.

I need tips to pay my bills. All waiters do. We spend an hour or more of our time befriending you, making you laugh, getting to know you, and making your dining experience the best it can be. We work hard. We care. We deserve to be paid for that.

I am trying to stand up for all of us who work for just a few dollars an hour at places like Applebee’s. Whether a chain steakhouse or a black-tie establishment, tipping is not optional. It is how we get paid.

I posted a picture to make people laugh, but now I want to make a serious point: Things like this happen to servers all the time. People seem to think that the easiest way to save money on a night out is to skip the tip.

I can’t understand why I was fired over this. I was well liked and respected at Applebee’s. My sales were high, my managers had no problems with me, and I was even hoping to move up to management soon. When I posted this, I didn’t represent Applebee’s in a bad light. In fact, I didn’t represent them at all.

I did my best to protect the identity of all parties involved. I didn’t break any specific guidelines in the company handbook – I checked. But because this person got embarrassed that their selfishness was made public, Applebee’s has made it clear that they would rather lose a dedicated employee than an angry customer. That’s a policy I can’t understand.

I am equally baffled about how a religious tithe is in any way related to paying for services at a restaurant. I can understand why someone could be upset with an automatic gratuity. However, it’s a plainly stated Applebee’s policy that a tip is added automatically for parties over eight like the one this customer was part of. I cannot control that kind of tip; it’s done by the computer that the orders are put into. I’ve been stiffed on tips before, but this is the first time I’ve seen the “Big Man” used as reasoning.

Obviously the person who wrote this note wanted it seen by someone. It’s strange that now that the audience is wider than just the server, the person is ashamed.

I have no agenda here. I seek no revenge against the note writer. I have no interest in exposing their identity, and, at this point, I’m not even sure I want my job back. I was just trying to make a joke, but I came home unemployed.

I’ve been waiting tables to save up some money so I could finally go to college, so I could get an education that would qualify me for a job that doesn’t force me to sell my personality for pocket change.

Relevant to our interests

~J


(Source: ebonyalley, via girl-farts)

royceicon: How to deal with problems

royceicon:

How to deal with problems

(via queercore)

fatalismulier:

I wish people would learn the difference between “OMG I want to live in the 50’s!! I was born in the wrong era!!”

And “I appreciate the vintage aesthetic and wish it was easy and commonplace to adopt that kind of style in today’s world.”

Because, as much as I love pompadours and winged eyeliner, I also love having rights. 

(via fsufeministalumna)

“
Liking sex doesn’t mean you have to be up for it 24/7, do it with thirty-five different people in a week, or walk around with the majority of your ass hanging out whenever the weather permits. I’ve had sex with plenty of men and some women who don’t understand or care about my love for fancy lingerie and who find pajamas, jeans, and sneakers hotter than french lace and high heels.
If you only want sex every three months and you love doing it with the lights off missionary style, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. There are potential partners who want the same, or who like it once every three months with the lights off doggy style and will be willing to take turns with your favored position and theirs.
If you want it filthy, rough, and hard three times a day for half the month and maybe once or twice a week while gazing into each others’ eyes for the other half, you can find one or more people willing to accommodate.
You’re highly unlikely to find any of these things until you figure out what you want and get comfortable with asking for it.
There’s nothing wrong with you if you aren’t that into sex. Communication is super important. For every “weird” thing you’re into, there’s someone else out there that’s into it too.
Stoya (via sexual-feelings)

(via k-rotik)


crackerhell: fuckyeahladies-fictionalandreal: I… don’t even know where to start with Felicia Pearson. I mean, holy shit, this woman has been through, like, I… I guess I’ll start at the beginning. Her parents with both incarcerated drug addicts and when she was born (premature, which is unsurprising considering her mother did crack while pregnant) she weighed three fucking pounds and wasn’t really expected to live in the first place. Instead of going to school she worked as a drug dealer. No, not instead of going to college. Not instead of going to high school. Instead of going to middle school, Pearson worked as a drug dealer. When she was 14 a gunfight lead to her shooting and killing another teenage girl who Pearson didn’t even fucking know. She was sentenced to 8 years and served 6.5 of them. At the age of 18, while she was still in prison, she received word that a drug dealer named Arnold Loney had been killed. Arnold had looked out for her and was the closest thing to family she had. Finally deciding to wake the fuck up, Pearson went on to earn her GED while in prison, and when she got out she actually found a legit job making car bumpers, but was fired when her boss found out she’d been incarcerated. Somehow, out of shear fucking coincidence, she happened to meet Michael K. Williams in a club and he invited her to tour the set of The Wire. When she arrived he introduced her to the writers and producers, and she went through one audition before they went “This woman is fucking terrifying. We need her on the show.” Her character on the show, who is just straight up named Felicia Pearson (aka Snoop, which was Pearson’s actual nickname on the street), is scary as shit. She took her pain and suffering and her mistakes and bared it all for TV audiences, giving them an uncensored look into the reality of gang life. Stephen King, fucking Stephen King, is afraid of her, calling her character “the most terrifying female villain to ever be on TV.” Did I mention Pearson is a whopping 5’2”?  And since acting was the only thing that ever gave her life meaning, she founded a youth drama organization called Moving Mountains that teaches performing arts to inner city kids. That way they, unlike Pearson, don’t have to fucking sell drugs at 12 to survive. watch her shit on your whole life with her awesome

crackerhell:

fuckyeahladies-fictionalandreal:

I… don’t even know where to start with Felicia Pearson. I mean, holy shit, this woman has been through, like, I… I guess I’ll start at the beginning.

Her parents with both incarcerated drug addicts and when she was born (premature, which is unsurprising considering her mother did crack while pregnant) she weighed three fucking pounds and wasn’t really expected to live in the first place.

Instead of going to school she worked as a drug dealer. No, not instead of going to college. Not instead of going to high school. Instead of going to middle school, Pearson worked as a drug dealer. When she was 14 a gunfight lead to her shooting and killing another teenage girl who Pearson didn’t even fucking know. She was sentenced to 8 years and served 6.5 of them.

At the age of 18, while she was still in prison, she received word that a drug dealer named Arnold Loney had been killed. Arnold had looked out for her and was the closest thing to family she had. Finally deciding to wake the fuck up, Pearson went on to earn her GED while in prison, and when she got out she actually found a legit job making car bumpers, but was fired when her boss found out she’d been incarcerated. Somehow, out of shear fucking coincidence, she happened to meet Michael K. Williams in a club and he invited her to tour the set of The Wire. When she arrived he introduced her to the writers and producers, and she went through one audition before they went “This woman is fucking terrifying. We need her on the show.”

Her character on the show, who is just straight up named Felicia Pearson (aka Snoop, which was Pearson’s actual nickname on the street), is scary as shit. She took her pain and suffering and her mistakes and bared it all for TV audiences, giving them an uncensored look into the reality of gang life. Stephen King, fucking Stephen King, is afraid of her, calling her character “the most terrifying female villain to ever be on TV.”

Did I mention Pearson is a whopping 5’2”? 

And since acting was the only thing that ever gave her life meaning, she founded a youth drama organization called Moving Mountains that teaches performing arts to inner city kids. That way they, unlike Pearson, don’t have to fucking sell drugs at 12 to survive.

watch her shit on your whole life with her awesome

(via trickster-princess)

unlearn-me:

this makes me happy

(Source: r-a-v-e-n-f-r-i-g-g, via caledoniasternandwild)

“
I kissed a girl
Wearing a cross
Around her neck

Her lips didn’t taste
Like church
But her hips
Felt like god

I wonder what
Her pastor would
Have thought

I wonder if that
Cross around her neck
Meant more to me
Than it does
To her
Jesse Feinman, An Atheist on a date  (via vykin)

(Source: uoa, via kanibalkangaroo)


wrinklepaws: Snug as a bug in a rug

wrinklepaws:

Snug as a bug in a rug

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