Posted on April 5, 2013 via If It Still Hurts, You Still Care with 39,597 notes

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canikon-bokeh:

Exactly.

Imagine a wall full of circular holes, that circles can keep walking in and out of with no difficulty.

Now imagine that the triangles manage to get the resources together, after years of not being able to fit through the circle’s holes, to drill a single triangle space into the wall.

Now imagine that the circle — who previously supported the triangle’s efforts because they are well-rounded (har) and value equality — comes along and sees the construction project. But instead of being happy, they get angry.

“Well, I won’t be able to fit through your hole!!!!” the circle cries.

“I helped you get the drill!!!!” the circle shrieks.

“Make it fit me too!!!!” the circle demands.

The triangles, barely holding it together enough to get a triangle hole together, stare at the circle in confusion.

“You have all the holes you need,” the triangles explain. “This is for us. You don’t need to fit through our hole, too.”

“YOU’RE BEING UNEQUAL AND HURTING MY FEELINGS!” the circle wails. “I DON’T SUPPORT YOUR HOLE IF IT DOESN’T FIT ME TOO. GIVE ME MY DRILL BACK.”

“It’s not your drill, it’s our drill. You helped us get it, because you said you cared.”

“I ONLY CARED WHEN I THOUGHT YOU’D MAKE A HOLE EVERYONE COULD FIT THROUGH. YOU’RE PERPETUATING INEQUALITY!!!”

“Why is it up to us, the small group that has never been able to fit through the wall at all, to make a hole everyone can use? Why isn’t it up to you, the people who have been able to cross back and forth at will for years? We just want to see the other side; why are you yelling at us?”

“I DIDN’T ASK TO BE BORN A CIRCLE, OMG. I’VE HAD TO WORK HARD ALL MY LIFE TOO. YOU’RE JUST BEING BIGOTED AGAINST ME BECAUSE OF SOMETHING I CAN’T CONTROL, JUST LIKE EVERYONE IS AGAINST YOU.”

“You are interfering with our project and asking us to comfort you while we’re trying to make progress. Please leave.”

“I’m going to tell everyone about this,” the circle warns. “Nobody will support you now.”

“Apparently nobody ever did,” the triangles sigh, getting back to work.

It’s kind of sad

That we have to draw comics using colorful shapes

To explain systematic inequality to people

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Posted on March 18, 2013 via with 106,209 notes

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bidyke:

[Image: a bisexual flag overlaid with the text: “I AM BISEXUAL. I’m allowed to be confused. I’m allowed to be going through a phase. I’m allowed to be greedy. I’m allowed to want attention. I’m allowed to have sex with as many people as I want, or not at all. Your society builds closets all around me, alienating me, silencing me, trying to push me back into your comfort zone. Do I make you uncomfortable? MY BISEXUALITY WILL NOT BE TONED DOWN. It will slip through the edges, under the cracks, against the current, under the radar, and when you least expect it, it will burst out and shatter your monosexist world.”]

New meme by me :)

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Posted on February 18, 2013 via Bi radical with 417 notes

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‎Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are asked to laugh about it because other people think it’s funny.

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Rape jokes are unacceptable and should not be tolerated under any circumstances.

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Posted on January 23, 2013 via Radical Notions with 20,827 notes

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breathemystardust:

quincynessigsays:

A bath tub cut out of a large single piece of Quartz Crystal.

yes please

breathemystardust:

quincynessigsays:

A bath tub cut out of a large single piece of Quartz Crystal.

yes please

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Posted on January 23, 2013 via Quincy's Quirks with 52,763 notes

…a symphony of punctuation played out to perfection
like a woman is a consonant and a man is a vowel
a kiss a semi-colon bringing together two entities
perfectly capable of standing on their own
but they’d rather
lay next to each other under a tin roof
listening to the rain dripping commas down the window pane
because even pauses are poetry when another heart is listening

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Posted on December 19, 2012 via ABCDETC. with 19 notes

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Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: ‘The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.’

George Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008)

Posted on December 17, 2012 via Anonymous with 77 notes

Ten Relationship Words That Aren't Translatable Into English

Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego):

The wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start.

Yuanfen (Chinese):

A relationship by fate or destiny. This is a complex concept. It draws on principles of predetermination in Chinese culture, which dictate relationships, encounters and affinities, mostly among lovers and friends.

Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese):

The act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair.

Retrouvailles (French):

The happiness of meeting again after a long time.

Ilunga (Bantu):

A person who is willing to forgive abuse the first time; tolerate it the second time, but never a third time.

La Douleur Exquise (French):

The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have.

Koi No Yokan (Japanese):

The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall into love.

Ya’aburnee (Arabic):

“You bury me.” It’s a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person, because of how difficult it would be to live without them.

Forelsket:

(Norwegian): The euphoria you experience when you’re first falling in love.

Saudade (Portuguese):

The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost. Another linguist describes it as a "vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist."

Posted on December 12, 2012 via Holy horseshit, Batman! with 95,175 notes

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