Possibly the greatest moment of my entire life. He didn’t hear us. The windows were up. So clearly the only explanation is that his nerd heart resonated with our own nerd hearts. Believe it.
Bodily autonomy, as it relates to the simple rule of not touching someone else without consent, is one of those things that lots of people agree with in theory, but everywhere I see people thinking there’s exceptions for different groups they view as lesser
Me: Respecting bodily autonomy means not touching people without their consent
People: try to hug children after they say no
Me: bodily autonomy applies to children
People: try to touch women to ‘guide’ them with their hand on the woman’s back
Me: bodily autonomy applies to women
People: try to touch Black women’s hair
Me: bodily autonomy applies to Black women
People: try to move disabled people in their chair or lift them up
Me: bodily autonomy applies to disabled people
People: use little people or dwarfs’ heads as arm rests as a ‘joke’
Me: bodily autonomy applies to little people
People: try to restrain children who are stimming
Me: bodily autonomy applies to autistic kids
People: try to touch strippers while they’re at work
Me: bodily autonomy applies to sex workers
People: literally cannot get this concept somehow
Me: bodily autonomy applies to EVERYONE. Everybody. Every body. If they have a body, they have bodily autonomy. Stop touching people without consent.
Human: *is minding his own business, filing reports and reading documents at his desk*
Alien: Look at him, doin’ a work.What a good boy. Precious hooman. We don’t deserve them.
Human: You do realize your damn translator is on, right? I can hear and understand exactly what you’re saying. We may be “cute” to your species, but don’t patronize me. I let it slide for god knows how long-
Alien: *runs their “fingers” through his hair, messing up the carefully combed over “floof”* soft hooman, a n g e r y boy
Human: I dropped out of college and went through Martian boot camp for this.
This is just too funny not to reblog.
to be fair i would be floored to ditch earth to live a pampered life as a pet for an alien. free home? free food? space? sign me up
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
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