not language but a map: [TW for discussion/dismissal of depression, self-harm, suicide] Some of the "depressed" people on this website.....

alexandraerin:

payslipgig:

almightysempai:

therealmoki:

I could honestly find a logical flaw in every possible reason you have to be sad. Life is tough and you should learn to be strong and not care so much about the petty little shit that bothers you now. You are all young as fuck and want to waste these precious youthful years…

Why am I not already following jizzy?

I can’t even count all the times I’ve heard “bootstraps” from people I care about, so I’ll just… reblog and not go off on a tirade??? But yes, read this.

OP took a lot of words to say “I don’t know what ‘depression’ means.”

read the original post, wanted to punch things.

read gyzym’s response, felt a wave of calm. thanks.

Source: therealmoki

alexandraerin: dumbthingswhitepplsay: gailsimone: someonecertainly: gailsimone: kirailabs: gailsimone: clownyprincess: asylum-countess: badatpettingcats: har I’m sorry, but THIS isn’t racist? ‘WHITE HIPSTERS NOT ALLOWED’. If you replace it with any other race, THAT is racist, but if you put white, then SOMEHOW it isn’t racist! And whites just have to be okay with that. Sorry. This pisses me off. Equality means to be EQUAL, NOT ‘EVERYONE ELSE GETS ALL THE BENEFITS AND LEAVES THE REST WITH THE SCRAPS.’ This is NOT okay, and THIS IS RACIST.  Please stop talking about something you don’t understand. If you would like me to help you understand, I will do so tomorrow because right now it’s my bedtime.  But for now… please, stop. Wait, wait, wait. In what delusional world do POC get ‘all the benefits,’ and white people get, ‘the scraps?’ WHAT benefits? WHAT scraps? Are you fucking kidding, here? It’s racist to specificy race with a ‘get out’ or similar such message. Regardless of what the race is. Racism isn’t about privilage, status, etc. It’s about *disliking and discriminating against a race of people*. Sexism is about disliking/discriminating against *any given gender*. Ageism is about disliking/discriminating against *younger or older people*. Prejudice and intolerance, regardless of age, sex, creed, color, etc is bad. Assuming I agreed with your first statement, which I don’t, my question was purely about the somehow baffling notion that the world is a playtoy for POC, who get all the good stuff while poor unfortunate disempowered white people get the ‘scraps.’ Does that sound like reality to you? I actually agree with kirailabs. Racism toward minorities is more prevalent in society, but it really isn’t okay for anyone to discriminate based on race, religion, gender, or whatever. It’s a pretty nasty double standard to say “discrimination isn’t okay UNLESS IT’S DIRECTED AT X GROUP, BECAUSE THEY’RE THE MAJORITY AND IT DOESN’T HAPPEN NEARLY AS OFTEN”. The whole practice is ugly and works to ostracize and inflict shame based on generalizations. Being white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, or otherwise is all fine, and no group should be condemned for being born with one ethnicity or another IMO. We’re all just people, everybody does good and bad, and while I can understand frustration while enduring discrimination I don’t think that’s an excuse to return the favor in-kind. My head hurts so much right now. A thousand people are going to say this more eloquently than me, but HOW in god’s name is a hand-drawn poster responding ‘in kind’ to centuries-old, institutionalized and systemic racism?  ‘In kind?’ Really?  That’s how this seems to you? look at gail simone being a total bad ass right hurr Note how the respondents keep ignoring her actual questions to just repeat some variation of “All discrimination is equally bad.” I contemplated deleting all this discussion and simply posting the image, because that’s really what I want to put on my blog. Not stupid people who don’t understand their own privilege. BUT then I thought about it, and I guess that’s exactly the point. I still don’t really want to have this discussion on my blog. I think the image on its own is very important and it’s sullied by the stupidity below. Buuuuuuut I think it would be wrong to delete it and pretend it never happened, because that would be telling people that it’s okay to think that way.
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alexandraerin:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

gailsimone:

someonecertainly:

gailsimone:

kirailabs:

gailsimone:

clownyprincess:

asylum-countess:

badatpettingcats:

har

I’m sorry, but THIS isn’t racist? ‘WHITE HIPSTERS NOT ALLOWED’. If you replace it with any other race, THAT is racist, but if you put white, then SOMEHOW it isn’t racist! And whites just have to be okay with that. Sorry. This pisses me off. Equality means to be EQUAL, NOT ‘EVERYONE ELSE GETS ALL THE BENEFITS AND LEAVES THE REST WITH THE SCRAPS.’ This is NOT okay, and THIS IS RACIST. 

Please stop talking about something you don’t understand.

If you would like me to help you understand, I will do so tomorrow because right now it’s my bedtime.  But for now… please, stop.

Wait, wait, wait.

In what delusional world do POC get ‘all the benefits,’ and white people get, ‘the scraps?’

WHAT benefits? WHAT scraps?

Are you fucking kidding, here?

It’s racist to specificy race with a ‘get out’ or similar such message. Regardless of what the race is. Racism isn’t about privilage, status, etc. It’s about *disliking and discriminating against a race of people*. Sexism is about disliking/discriminating against *any given gender*. Ageism is about disliking/discriminating against *younger or older people*.

Prejudice and intolerance, regardless of age, sex, creed, color, etc is bad.


Assuming I agreed with your first statement, which I don’t, my question was purely about the somehow baffling notion that the world is a playtoy for POC, who get all the good stuff while poor unfortunate disempowered white people get the ‘scraps.’

Does that sound like reality to you?

I actually agree with kirailabs. Racism toward minorities is more prevalent in society, but it really isn’t okay for anyone to discriminate based on race, religion, gender, or whatever. It’s a pretty nasty double standard to say “discrimination isn’t okay UNLESS IT’S DIRECTED AT X GROUP, BECAUSE THEY’RE THE MAJORITY AND IT DOESN’T HAPPEN NEARLY AS OFTEN”. The whole practice is ugly and works to ostracize and inflict shame based on generalizations. Being white, black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, or otherwise is all fine, and no group should be condemned for being born with one ethnicity or another IMO. We’re all just people, everybody does good and bad, and while I can understand frustration while enduring discrimination I don’t think that’s an excuse to return the favor in-kind.

My head hurts so much right now.


A thousand people are going to say this more eloquently than me, but HOW in god’s name is a hand-drawn poster responding ‘in kind’ to centuries-old, institutionalized and systemic racism? 

‘In kind?’ Really?  That’s how this seems to you?

look at gail simone being a total bad ass right hurr

Note how the respondents keep ignoring her actual questions to just repeat some variation of “All discrimination is equally bad.”

I contemplated deleting all this discussion and simply posting the image, because that’s really what I want to put on my blog. Not stupid people who don’t understand their own privilege. BUT then I thought about it, and I guess that’s exactly the point.

I still don’t really want to have this discussion on my blog. I think the image on its own is very important and it’s sullied by the stupidity below. Buuuuuuut I think it would be wrong to delete it and pretend it never happened, because that would be telling people that it’s okay to think that way.

Source: badatpettingcats

I’ve said it before, so I’m not going to write an essay here now. But I really don’t like this comic.
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I’ve said it before, so I’m not going to write an essay here now. But I really don’t like this comic.

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Source: thedailywhat

i’m not ok with this post. it is NOT that easy. you don’t know what this struggle is like.
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i’m not ok with this post.

it is NOT that easy.

you don’t know what this struggle is like.

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You don’t understand

-Cutting unless you’re a cutter.

-Suicide unless you’ve attempted it.

-Depression unless you’ve felt it.

-Eating disorders unless you’ve had one.

-Me unless you’ve been through what I’ve been through.

So don’t pretend like you fucking understand.

I really fucking despise the term “cutter.” Don’t reduce me to my actions like that. I am a PERSON who suffers with self-injury. I am a PERSON who has cut myself. I am a PERSON with real-life issues. I’m not an archetype. I’m not an action. I’m a human being.

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By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over,

- Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), in an interview on MSNBC, on why as a small business owner he can’t afford a tax increase. (via wtfwhiteprivilege)

That’s cool. I just have an overdrawn bank account.

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O______O  I think this might be the disconnect.

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cannot identify! LOL

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Every time I see this I find myself yelling at my laptop screen. Is it still class warfare when Marie Antoinette’s heir is talking?

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Source: andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com

Tonight at rehearsal was utterly terrible.

There was one point where I wanted to storm out. But I can’t, because I need to be the adult, since Matt refuses to treat me like one.

I thought part of being grown up is that you force yourself to get along with people you don’t like. You just suck it up and deal. You accept the fact that there are some people in the world you aren’t going to mesh well with. There’s a good chance that at some point you’ll end up working with somebody you don’t like, but everybody’s life is a hell of a lot easier if you just act civil. Apparently nobody taught Matt this. He doesn’t like me, and he makes it very clear. Not just to me, but also to everybody else. It’s a hostile working environment for me, and it makes me upset which then affects my interactions with everybody else.

I’ve briefly considered quitting, because it’s not like I’m getting paid for this… so there is nothing that makes it worth it for me to continue, you know? But I can’t, because I have to be the adult. I have to push through in a shitty environment because I have to prove to him that I can take it. And I’ll be better off for it in the future… right?  I make it through this show - which only goes to mid-October - and then I’m under no obligation to ever work with him again, and both of us can go on our merry ways.

Knowing that doesn’t make it hurt less right now though.

AND THEN coming home and seeing images on my tumblr dashboard, like a gif of the plane hitting the first tower on 9/11 - that might not ordinarily upset me as much as it did, but on top of everything else tonight it did not help. And a photo of a woman who was hanged?! It never occurred to me that I need to add hanging to my tumblr savior. It’s just something I never thought I would see here. A good friend of mine killed herself by hanging nearly seven years ago and I still can’t look at a picture like that, or watch a hanging scene in a movie (in fact, I can’t even watch Girl, Interrupted at all - because of the one scene)… it’s a really terrible trigger for me. So… I’m making this post, and then I’m closing tumblr for the evening, because odds are, I’ll see more shit that sets me off.

Just wanted to blow off some steam first.

a human being is not a prize to be won.

i hope you sleep well at night knowing you’re an evil, hateful bitch.

stfuconservatives: natiswag: stfuconservatives: eleventhirty submitted I rarely hit the “Top News” button Facebook, and I’m so glad I did.  People are also on welfare because they dont have any fucking work ethic to get themselves a good job or are addicted to crack cocaine etc… so why do we reward people like this with welfare while the rest of us are working? Why don’t we all just get welfare? just saying but im a dumb repub that grew up with hard working parents that acutally work for their shit and im also 19 with a full time job, so what do i know. Nothing. You know nothing of poverty. Count yourself lucky. -Joe
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stfuconservatives:

natiswag:

stfuconservatives:

eleventhirty submitted

I rarely hit the “Top News” button Facebook, and I’m so glad I did. 

People are also on welfare because they dont have any fucking work ethic to get themselves a good job or are addicted to crack cocaine etc… so why do we reward people like this with welfare while the rest of us are working? Why don’t we all just get welfare? just saying but im a dumb repub that grew up with hard working parents that acutally work for their shit and im also 19 with a full time job, so what do i know.

Nothing. You know nothing of poverty. Count yourself lucky.

-Joe

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Source: stfuconservatives

STFU, Conservatives: Food Stamps

ladyatheist:

murphysbride:

stfuconservatives:

dingoatemybabycrazy submitted: “My mom sent this to me this morning, with this caption:

Found in the parking lot of a grocery store, Menominee, Michigan

The 1 in 7 Americans currently on food stamps certainly appreciate the opportunity to dine on lobster and porterhouse steak

Oh I’m sorry!  I forgot, we’re poor, we can’t have nice things!

I’d rather see my tax dollars go towards one family having a nice meal for the first time in probably months, if not years, than see it going towards bullets in Iraq.

Dude’s mom needs to mind her own bidness; it doesn’t hurt no one.

People like her piss me off so bad. I get looked at like I’m “cheating the system” when I use WIC to buy my child’s food & formula and I buy some things for myself or wear new clothes. I have literally heard people talking behind my back at the grocery store saying that I shouldn’t be using WIC if I can afford to buy candy, organic food or name brand foods. People need to mind their own fucking business.

I remember chatting with David one time… he was explaining that your EBT balance rolls over (I assumed it started over every month). Since he’s only buying for one person, he doesn’t usually use all of his allotment each month, so he was saying that since his balance was adding up, he was planning on treating his roommate to what he called “Food Stamps Lobster.”

The way I see it… why not? No, that sort of food is not what will be on the average grocery bill of a shopper paying with food stamps.  The shopper whose receipt we see here… this isn’t a normal feast. I mean obviously, he doesn’t have $150 to spend on lobster and steak every week. My guess is that he budgets well, because well - he’s poor, and he knows it’s in his best interest. He can live on pb&j or lunch meat for his weekday lunches, he doesn’t need microwaveable TV dinners. So he shops wisely, and he ends up with money to spare. And it can only be used on groceries. So why SHOULDN’T he get to reward himself with a nice meal? Yes, he can survive on pb&j for the daily grind, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve a nice meal once in a blue moon. So he had the money to spare, and he’s not using it for anything else, so he might as well use it to treat himself and his friends or family to an extravagant feast. I mean, maybe he’s shopping for his wife’s birthday dinner or something. Just because they’re poor doesn’t mean that his wife doesn’t deserve to have him go all-out for her birthday.

You have no idea what this person’s story is. Hell, maybe he’s on food stamps because he’s disabled, living off SSI and food stamps because he is not able to work. There are billions of reasons this person (sorry for using the generic “he”) might be using food stamps, and a billion reasons why he might be buying lobster and steak. You don’t know him, don’t know his life, don’t know his situation. His grocery list is not at your discretion.

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Source: stfuconservatives