July 2012
deciding what is and isn’t ‘real’ self care is kind of shitty. bulimia is...
– People are idiots and this is exactly why I made the original post.
Bulimia is not helping anyone, anytime, anywhere. This kind of illogical framing of arguments is why substance abuse and self-destructive behavior runs rampant in the GLBTQ community. People want to make excuses instead of seeking...
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June 2012
elizabitchtaylor:
film about a group of men getting into shenanigans= “comedy” film about a group of women getting into shenanigans= “chick flick”
film about a friendship between two men= “buddy flick” film about a friendship between two women= “chick flick”
emotional film about father/son relationships= “drama” emotional film about mother/daughter relationships= “chick flick”
film about a...
Stella Marr on Pimps as Sex Worker Activists...
theunsexyfeminist:
Pimps Posing as Sex Worker Activists
A pimp is someone who makes money from another’s prostitution. A madam is a female pimp. Whether they call themselves managers, brothel owners, escort agency owners — they are all pimps. As a survivor of ten years of trafficking/prostitution, I have a right to use this word. If someone poisons another in cold blood, it doesn’t matter if...
the fact that ‘love your body rhetoric shifts the responsibility for body...
– look at the medusa straight on.: on “loving your body.” (via vladislava)
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coldbitterness:
Ugh I was trying to delete all but the first comment and the comment of the person I reblogged this from but fuck trying to fix Tumblr’s formatting, ANYWAY, this is a reblog of a post about looking up one’s name on Googlism, with some of my results:
molly is gother than you
molly is my mantra
molly is greedy licking the pink excited clitoris of her sunburnt
molly is in need...
What exactly is Obamacare and what does it change? →
abaldwin360:
big thanks to reddit user CaspianX2 for typing all this out!
What people call “Obamacare” is actually the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. However, people were calling it “Obamacare” before everyone even hammered out what it would be. It’s a term mostly used by people who don’t like the PPaACA, and it’s become popularized in part because PPaACA is a really long and...
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I consider this an act of war by the U.S. government against my individual...
– a disgruntled upper-middle-class White “libertarian” male, on SCOTUS’s affordable care act ruling.
not sure which part i like more, the part where he calls what amounts to a new tax as “an act of war by the US government,” the part about his being a “creation of god” (lol forever and ever), or the...
alternating between dentist freak-out and boggling...
Me: i can't believe there are people who are actually mad about this. what are they thinking? 'oh, how dare the government try to mandate that i have healthcare!!'
A: They're not mad about healthcare, they're mad that the president is Black.
A: They're so mad about it they are literally willing to kill themselves if it means there's even a chance for them to be lorded over by a white guy instead.
What the Supreme Court Ruling Means for the Health... →
yourhue:
The Supreme Court ruled this morning that President Obama’s health care reform can move forward, with some complicated caveats around the expansion of Medicaid. The take home point of the ruling: The controversial “individual mandate” to buy health insurance is constitutional, because the penalty for not doing so is a tax and the feds have the power to tax you.
Colorlines.com’s...