cybersappho:

just kidding lol i wouldn’t do that to y’all

deelekgolo:

rosexknight:

tinuviel-undomiel:

fucknorapeapologists:

the6thsiren:

50 Shades of Attempting to Pass Abuse Off as Romance

boycott this film. let everyone know how this film glorifies abuse.

I find these quotes disturbing.

Can we talk about how this was a Twilight fanfic? Twilight. The book that teens, moms, middle schoolers, and a shit ton of other people were reading? Hell my grandmother read it. And the fact that it was a Twilight fanfiction spawning something this abusive speaks VOLUMES about it.

Because let me tell you something about fanfic authors. Fanfic authors are the ones who get the characters. Really get them. They analyze them and dissect them and develop their own headcanons and get into the character’s mind until they can more or less kinda think they know what a character would do if they were in an AU or a specific situation within the show’s canon. Now not every interpretation is perfect and not everyone gets the characters right, but I know from experience that if you don’t write the characters well your fanfiction isn’t going to be popular since your characters are your bread and butter anyway. So for Fifty Shades of Bullshit to not only get popular enough to get published but also GET A MOVIE I’d certainly say people thought the characters were accurate (I’ve never read it so I can only assume. Besides it’s not like Bella and Edward were complex anyway.)

So. The characters are accurate in their portrayal/interpretation in this weird business bdsm AU. So what? For those of you that don’t know, bdsm is not meant to be an abusive relationship. It’s meant to give the sub a feeling of being used and the dom the feeling of being in control because that’s what they get off to. In reality, they’re on pretty equal ground as far as control. If anything the sub is in more control than the dom since a good dom is supposed to honor safewords, which are there to tell the dom when the sub has had enough or is starting to feel unsafe. THAT is a healthy dom/sub relationship. THIS is not.

So, what does this say about Twilight? That means Twilight was a book so knee-deep in making abuse look okay, that no-one even blinked when this fanfic was written, and even cheered it. That means a PUBLISHING COMPANY HAD TO LOOK OVER IT and went “Yeah that’s cool to sell and market as a romance novel (which by the way are NEVER this kinky when they are on a normal bookstore shelf.)” That means that Twilight has taught a generation of teen girls that this is how your “true love” is supposed to treat you, and to shun the nice guy who is your friend because you love the abusive asshole.

I once said that there was a reason romance books shouldn’t get movies, but after thinking about it I realized thy do in the form of romantic comedies. This? This shouldn’t exist. Ever. And I pity those who will go to this movie or read this book or Twilight and walk away thinking “Yes. That’s the way it should go.”

Twilight has a very abusive relationship to the point where one person feels like she needs to attempt suicide just to get her partners attention.

camwyn:

educational-gifs:

How an ant walks. This is called a tripod gait and is common in hexapods (6 legs).

This may be of interest to some of the artists/animators/science fiction types following my blog.

theartoftransliness:

transphysics:

For the first time, there is a hotline in the US that is staffed entirely by transgender people, to serve transgender people.  Everyone in the trans community needs to be spreading this around.  Lives could be saved.

You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860

Reblog every time you see this, you could save a life. Don’t hesitate to contact them!

youdtearthiscanvasskinapart:

twinkleofafadingstar:

quarterclever:

thetruegayicon:

bromancing-the-stone:

lepreax:

the virgin table

table most likely to go on a killing spree

The biggest ego but smallest dick table

OK, no, stop.

Stop with this whole using “virgin” or “well you must have a small dick” as a way to insult misogynists.

Because all that does is reinforce the idea that men’s status comes from the size of the genitalia and the number of their sexual conquests.

This isn’t a matter of “oh, well, you have to be nice! Nobody’s going to listen to you if you yell at them or insult them!” This is literally a matter of saying stuff like that being counterproductive.

When you say stuff like “lol look who has a small dick” or “found the virgin” or the above comments, the message you’re sending is that the person making the misogynist comments is unimportant and doesn’t need to be listened to because they aren’t able to sleep with/have not slept with a lot of women.

You are literally making THEIR argument for them.

You are implying that women’s value comes from their sexual availability to men and that men’s value is earned through their position in the competition to women. 

There are valuable critiques of this idea to be made— you can talk about how this social construction, the idea of toxic masculinity, etc., does lead to problems and, yeah, does lead to killing sprees when (white) men and boys feel as if they haven’t gotten their “due” (their “due,” of course, being access to girls and women, especially sexually). But that is a very, very different thing from insults that simply reinforce that social construction.

I get it, I really do. We’re all a part of the same culture, so telling a guy he has a small dick as an insult just seems “natural.” But it’s not, and it’s harmful on multiple levels. 

tl;dr: insulting guys by calling them virgins or saying they have small dicks reinforces the idea that men’s power comes from their conquest of women and is therefore ultimately conterproductive and harmful to women so seriously please stop it. oh also it’s not cool to call people dicks in general because it’s casually cissexist.

#stop calling guys virgins and telling them they have small dicks as insults 2015

also reinforces the idea that all men and only men have penises so let’s not do that either because that’s gross too

Call them whiney piss babies instead

pokeybooks13:

sadtrashbuckybarnes:

disneys-always-first:

Never not reblog

One thing that always bothered me about that picture of mulan, more than the obvious artifice which is pretty out of character, is the colour of her outfit. The general consensus seems to be that mulan took place in the Northern Wei dynasty, but during the Tang Dynasty which preceded it, the colour yellow, especially bright yellow, had become the exclusive domain of the Emperor. And in those times disrespect to the Emperor could cost you your head at best and the lives of you and your entire family at worst. So, y know, maybe don’t put her in yellow clothes.

I love the history side if tumblr

teen-heat:

iwatchforsasha:

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this is perfect oh my god for real

ask-king-sombra:

Now, where have we seen this before…