We need to get around to realizing that genetic modification isnt contamination, or carcinogenic chemicals, or sludge, or evil godless mutations. They aren’t horrifying and they’re grown natural just like everything else.
“i don’t buy anything with gmos,” said the woman walking her purebred pug
look don’t be against GMOs be against PATENTING GENES and PURPOSELY DESIGNING CROPS TO BE STERILE SO FARMERS HAVE TO KEEP BUYING SEEDS.
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Don’t be against GMOs be against CORPOCRATIC ABUSE OF THE TOOLS. Be against Monsanto. Basically.
I linked this to my guy friends who always use the excuse of “What about the false reports? It’s not fair that innocent men are accused of a crime they didn’t commit”
2 out of 1000. 0.02% Of all rapes are false.
The skin colour distribution of this graph always strikes me as so gruesomely hilarious.
Imagine one of your OT3 being asexual and the other two accepting that fact without leaving them out of the relationship romantically.
Okay I’m sorry my brain is stupid but all I can picture is the two sexual partners getting some sexytime in the bed after a date and the asexual on pulling the pillow on their head and going “Some people are trying to sleEP YOU ANIMALS”
And the asexual person shows up the next night while the two sexual people are trying to sleep, banging two pans together like, “I DIDN’T GET NO SLEEP CAUSE’ O’ YA’LL! YA’LL GET NO SLEEP CAUSE O’ ME!”
Reblogging becAUSE THAT L AST COMMENT OMFG XD
I get the image of the asexual turning around and kicking their shins and going “THE SEX BED IS DOWNSTAIRS FOR A REASON OMG.”
PTSD is bad, but I doubt that telling students that an old novel has some form of graphic description is anything bit coddling. Most victims of PTSD probably feel horrified that anybody would think so low of them as to force university professors to add trigger warnings on books like The Great Gatsby!
When I was in school, which was several years ago, my high school teachers had us read stories like Edgar Allen Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum and
Huxley’s Brave New World. Nobody ran out of the classroom, nobody ever got sick. The only time a student ever got sick in class due to the material is during health class when they showed an open-heart operation on a human.
About 8% of Americans have PTSD, and before now, required literature has never been a severely triggering effect for ANYONE as far as my knowledge goes. I have read and researched on how schools deal with PTSD in the classroom, and never was “warn your student if there is any scene in a book where their issue is even remotely related to their trauma” mentioned.
It’s infantilizing to people to have severe mental illnesses.We are supposed to help them, not coddle them. And this is coming from someone who suffers from anxiety, depression, and recurring thoughts. I think we need to help those who suffer from PTSD, but Trigger Warnings are not the way to do it. It just makes a mockery of the sufferers of PTSD.
If you don’t have PTSD- Don’t talk over us?
Who do you think is pushing for trigger warnings /if not the people with the disorder/
and no not all of us need them or want them.
but it’s no more infantalizing trauma survivors to offer trigger warnings, which give us the ability to choose to engage with the material (it’d be infantalizing if they just said ‘NO! You can’t interact with this!!) than it is to offer an elevator to a cane user who would prefer to take the stairs.
/Tons of people with PTSD have had severe triggered effects due to required literature/
/I literally used to go catatonic/ and it caused a break down to the point I was /younger than 13 and cutting in class because it was the only way for me to stay in the present/ At 18 a required reading in a class pushed me over the ledge of a psychotic break down that would eventually wind up with me in a mental hospital because I thought tiny men were trying to break open my chest cavity during class. I know other PTSD suffers who it caused a. panic attacks b. psychotic issues c. uptick in self harm d. dissociation or e. repressed memories to come back and that’s a whole nother ball game.
and I don’t like trigger warnings (for me personally.) I don’t use them, not for me at least. But I fully respect my fellow -trauma survivors right- to use whatever tools they need and the fact that yeah, schools need to provide tools to be accessible.
/Stop speaking over people/ You don’t have PTSD. You don’t get to talk about what mocks us. What mocks us? is people like you thinking you can speak for us.
The fact that you think your experience, the people in your classes, who you don’t know if any of them even had PTSD- somehow speaks for people who have it…. is so ridiculous.
/Can you not?/
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How about huge tradition-oriented institutions haven’t accommodated PTSD with trigger warnings before because PTSD didn’t exist as a medical condition until 1973 and the concept of a ‘trigger warning’ only gained wide use when a critical mass of people with PTSD began using social media to talk to each other in places non-disabled people could hear us?
“Nobody accommodated this mental illness in this way before, so the accommodation isn’t necessary” is like the ouroboros of ableist inertia. Wow.
Also: FOR FUCK’S SAKE.
IT’S JUST A NOTE SAYING THERE’S SOMETHING POTENTIALLY UPSETTING IN THE BOOK.
They are not ripping the book out of your hands. They are not telling you not to read it. They are not telling you it’s bad. They are not burning the book.
It’s putting a fucking note in syllabus saying “book contains $thing”.
And you know what else?
Some of us are fine … if we know what we’re getting into. The warning doesn’t mean we don’t read the book. It just means we read it prepared and braced, with coping mechanisms in place.
And that means we make it out okay. Whereas if it just fucking dropped on us, we might not be.
You see this is the sort of thing I like. Because, especially at Disney, you don’t want to really discourage any of those ideals “thinking, having your own ideas” but you also have to stay in character. So you associate those ideals with the princess in the group, the one who the young girl is supposed to idolize. So, while staying in character, Gaston can announce his displeasure for women who read while also encouraging it in a young girl by giving it the good association of Belle. Idk, I always thought those work arounds that Disney villain face characters go through to not be overtly mean to children but stay in character were really interesting.
I just gained so fucking much respect for this Gaston.
How the heck did her hair get braided like that? Did she and the other officers just have a braiding train at night? ????
do you think Peggy carter needs anyone to braid her hair? she does it herself. The right hand’s nail polish? my girl has it covered. Zipping and unzipping the back of the dress? pff… Peggy Carter can do anything. Liquid Eyeliner? in one try. Peggy carter can do anything.
anything.
a n y t h i n g.
That’s not a braid. It’s a roll. It is one of the most beautiful hair styles to come out of the 40s and is incredibly simple. The hair styles you should be impressed with are these.
Waves: I had a 1920s themed dance last month, and I wore my hair in waves. I sat in a chair with a professional stylist for AN HOUR for FOUR of those beauties. I see at least eight. And she does those regularly for work.
Victory curls: I can do victory curls. Two, to be exact. Not counting practice, I have worn my hair in V-curls exactly twice. It took me an hour and a half last time, and I didn’t even curl the ends, just two v-curls on the top of my head, and they weren’t nearly this amazing. Again, another casual work look.
Do you think Steve curled her hair? Fat chance. Be in awe of Peggy Carter. Be in awe.
Kimchi and Justice 