Men, if you girlfriend or wife hits you, degrades you, pressures you into sex, intentionally shames and humiliates you, or cheats on you, you are the victim and you are in an unhealthy relationship. She is not treating you right, it’s not okay, and you do deserve better.
This poor man turns up on my dash all the time and he appears to just spend his time trying to point out all the stupid people in America to the people who could be a bit more clever if they tried so they become clever like him, but it’s going to take ages because America’s massive
Black Panther made it very clear that white Hollywood just doesn’t know how to write a female warrior in love.
Okoye loved a man too, but her story wasn’t ABOUT him.
He didn’t have to teach her a damn thing
She didn’t give anything up for him.
She didn’t go evil for a quick second and go on a rampage, losing herself, because she lost him.
She didn’t entertain, for even a miliisecond, compromising herself for him
She wasn’t crying over him
Their relationship wasn’t shoehorned in for no reason other than “there has to be a romance”
Most of her scenes had nothing to do with him
Except for the last point, all of that applies to Nakia too… but in addition
When he interrupted her work, she was angry and allowed to say something along the lines of “you ruined my mission!” unapologetically
She continued to do her job
She continued to thrive separate from him
Love for a single man didn’t outweigh her love for humanity and it wasn’t something she had to agonize over. It was a simple decision that wasn’t considered a real conflict for her.
In general, love didn’t make these heroes and warriors weak. It didn’t make these women vulnerable in a way that didn’t fit their personalities or compromise their duties.
In fact, we only saw love do that twice – when T’Challa saw Nakia and when T’Challa watched Zuri die.
and people forget that harry was a lonely child who lived in an abusive and neglectful household and somehow he managed to be cordial if not kind to people who looked up to him and needed him
he had less than snape coming into hogwarts he didn’t know about hogwarts, he didn’t know there were people like him, he didn’t even have A friend but he was still a basically good person
“can you imagine how much pain snape must have been in when he saw harry” so?
harry is a traumatised child who has been told all his life that he was worthless, that he was trash like his parents, that his parents must have done something to deserve their death, that the abuse rained daily upon him was kindness because he should not expect to be taken care of
he was an eleven year old child i don’t care how much he reminds you of someone you hated you don’t hurt eleven year old children as an adult, as a teacher, especially not ones who have had terrible childhoods to begin with.
when my dad was in his mid 20s and just starting out as a lawyer he had a client who was accused of being a pimp…the client asked him what he should wear to court and my dad says “just normal business clothes”
the man showed up in a lavender suit, alligator shoes, and an old school fedora with a feather in it
Brighton Park is a predominantly Latino community on the southwest side of Chicago. It’s a neighborhood threatened by poverty, gang violence, ICE raids, and isolation—in a city where income, race, and zip code can determine access to jobs, schools, healthy food, and essential services. It is against this backdrop that the Chicago teacher Xian Franzinger Barrett arrived at the neighborhood’s elementary school in 2014.
Recognizing the vast economic and racial inequalities his students faced, he chose what some might consider a radical approach for his writing and social-studies classes, weaving in concepts such as racism, classism, oppression, and prejudice. Barrett said it was vital to reject the oft-perpetuated narrative that society is fair and equal to address students’ questions and concerns about their current conditions. And Brighton Elementary’s seventh- and eighth-graders quickly put the lessons to work—confronting the school board over inequitable funding, fighting to install a playground, and creating a classroom library focused on black and Latino authors.
“Students who are told that things are fair implode pretty quickly in middle school as self-doubt hits them,” he said, “and they begin to blame themselves for problems they can’t control.”
Barrett’s personal observation is validated by a newly published study in the peer-reviewed journal Child Development that finds traditionally marginalized youth who grew up believing in the American ideal that hard work and perseverance naturally lead to success show a decline in self-esteem and an increase in risky behaviors during their middle-school years. The research is considered the first evidence linking preteens’ emotional and behavioral outcomes to their belief in meritocracy, the widely held assertion that individual merit is always rewarded.
“If you’re in an advantaged position in society, believing the system is fair and that everyone could just get ahead if they just tried hard enough doesn’t create any conflict for you … [you] can feel good about how [you] made it,” said Erin Godfrey, the study’s lead author and an assistant professor of applied psychology at New York University’s Steinhardt School. But for those marginalized by the system—economically, racially, and ethnically—believing the system is fair puts them in conflict with themselves and can have negative consequences.
“If the system is fair, why am I seeing that everybody who has brown skin is in this kind of job? You’re having to think about that … like you’re not as good, or your social group isn’t as good,” Godfrey said. “That’s the piece … that I was trying to really get at [by studying] these kids.”
The findings build upon a body of literature on “system justification”—a social-psychology theory that believes humans tend to defend, bolster, or rationalize the status quo and see overarching social, economic, and political systems as good, fair, and legitimate. System justification is a distinctively American notion, Godfrey said, built on myths used to justify inequities, like “If you just work hard enough you can pull yourself up by your bootstraps … it’s just a matter of motivation and talent and grit.” Yet, as she and her colleagues discovered, these beliefs can be a liability for disadvantaged adolescents once their identity as a member of a marginalized group begins to gel—and once they become keenly aware of how institutional discrimination disadvantages them and their group.
“If you’re [inclined] to believe that … the system is fair, then you’re maybe going to accept stereotypes about you more easily.”
One of the biggest lies taught in American schools is that the USA is “meritocracy.” BULLSHIT!! The United States is a plutocracy that masquerades as a republic. Certain people are given advantages depending on their race, wealth, and personal connections. Everyone else are left to fight over what scraps are left over after the white ruling class take their cut of the loot. It’s been that way since this country was still a backwater British colony.
inside toad’s head is an hollow cavern circling his face which contains those gills (the light brown ribbed things). when he gets old, his head will open up and flare out like a sombrero, and release the spores held in the gills on the underside of the cap. and then he’ll die
toads in various stages of life:
IM REALLY NOT SURE IF THIS IS ANY BETTER
I reblogged this a few days ago, but I woke up in a cold sweat to draw this
OH NO
@busket I hope you’re happy, you’ve brought more horror upon all of us
this implies that as toads age their skulls just get progressively longer and stretched out and i think thats beautiful
funeral-biscuit 