Who are you people

fuckyeahfeminists:

“Let me tell you some things. I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I can tell you how to stop the vast majority of abortion in the world. First, make knowledge and access to contraception widely available. Start teaching kids before they hit puberty. Teach them about domestic violence and coercion, and teach them not to coerce and rape. Create a strong, loving community where women and girls feel safe and supported in times of need. Because guess what? They aren’t. You know what happens to babies born under such circumstances? They get hurt, unnecessarily. They get sick, unnecessarily. They get removed from parents who love them but who are unprepared for the burden of a child. Resources? Honey, we try. There aren’t enough resources anywhere. There are waiting lists, and promises, and maybes. If the government itself can’t hook people up, what makes you think an impoverished single mom can handle it? Abolish poverty. Do you have any idea how much childcare costs? Daycare can cost as much or more than monthly rent. They may be inadequately staffed. Getting a private nanny is a nice idea, but they don’t come cheap either. Relatives? Do they own a car? Does the bus run at the right times? Do they have jobs of their own they need to work just to keep the lights on? Are they going to stick around until you get off you convenience store shift at 4 AM? Do they have criminal histories that will make them unsuitable as caregivers when CPS pokes around? You gonna pay for that? Who’s going to pay for that? End rape. I know your type errs on the side of blaming the woman, but I’ve seen little girls who’ve barely gotten their periods pregnant because somebody thought raping preteens was an awesome idea. You want to put a child through that? Or someone with a mental or physical inability for whom pregnancy would be frightening, painful or even life-threatening? I’ve seen nonverbal kids who had their feet sliced up by caregivers for no fucking reason at all, you think sexual abuse doesn’t happen either? You say there’s lots of couples who want to adopt. Kiddo, what they want to adopt are healthy white babies, preferably untainted by the wombs and genetics of women with alcohol or drug dependencies. I’ve seen the kids they don’t want, who almost no one wants. You people focus only on the happy pink babies, the gigglers, the ones who grow and grow with no trouble. Those are not the kids who linger in foster care. Those are certainly not the older kids and teenagers who age out of foster care and then are thrown out in the streets, usually with an array of medical and mental health issues. Are they too old to count? And yeah, I’ve seen the babies, little hand-sized things barely clinging to life. There’s no glory, no wonder there. There is no wonder in a pregnant woman with five dollars to her name, so deep in depression you wonder if she’ll be alive in a week. Therapy costs money. Medicine costs money. Food, clothes, electricity cost money. Government assistance is a pittance; poverty drives women and girls into situations where they are forced to rely on people who abuse them to survive. (I’ve been up in more hospitals than I can count.) In each and every dark pit of desperation, I have never seen a pro-lifer. I ain’t never seen them babysitting, scrubbing floors, bringing over goods, handing mom $50 bucks a month or driving her to the pediatrician. I ain’t never seen them sitting up for hours with an autistic child who screams and rages so his mother can get some sleep while she rests up from working 14-hour days. I don’t see them fixing leaks in rundown houses or playing with a kid while the police prepare to interview her about her sexual abuse. They’re not paying for the funerals of babies and children who died after birth, when they truly do become independent organisms. And the crazy thing is they think they’ve already done their job, because the child was born! Aphids give birth, girl. It’s no miracle. You want to speak for the weak? Get off your high horse and get your hands dirty helping the poor, the isolated, the ill and mentally ill women and mothers and their children who already breathe the dirty air. You are doing nothing, absolutely nothing, for children. You don’t have a flea’s comprehension of injustice. You are not doing shit for life until you get in there and fight that darkness. Until you understand that abortion is salvation in a world like ours. Does that sound too hard? Do you really think suffering post-birth is more permissible, less worthy of outrage? “Pro-life” is simply a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one that can be saved by punishing a woman.”

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In reply to a ‘pro-life’ blogger: STFU, Conservatives: When I say I’m pro-life… (via grrrltalk) emphasis mine.

(Source: speakfortheweak)

psychoticdrug:

muffinmuffin42:

Please. Please please please read this and reblog!

If you support LGBTQ Rights you need to stop scrolling and read this. This is not a fucking joke.

If you cant read this, here it is: 

If you don’t remember Sophie M Herold, she is a German girl, who is extremely homophobic and transphobic. She has found out LGBTQ persons names, addresses, personal info etc. And set up her own database.

Her intentions with this are harmful.

She is sending out this information, your information, your best friends information, someone you love and care about. She’s sending it to hate groups, malicious people, people with bad intentions.

And if you think I’m blowing this out of proportion, people have been kicked out of homes, disowned by families and even MURDERED. Yes, murdered. Innocent people who have done nothing but love.

She has had numerous blogs and each have been removed. Tumblr staff are aware of her, and as far as I’m aware she currently doesn’t have a blog, but this does not mean she isn’t still on peoples tumblrs, asking via anon where you live, what your name is.
An email I received today. She’s sending out information of same sex couples with children so the children can be kidnapped. She entitled it “Time to strike back”. If that doesn’t suggest harmful intentions I don’t know what does.

Please be extremely careful what you post on tumblr, on twitter, facebook, anywhere. Do NOT give out your full name or your address, or even the town in which you live. Look out for one another, and don’t answer any suspicious anons. Especially if they use your name in quotation marks.


Sophie M Herold is still out there, she always will be, so please spead this message and warn people. She’s attacking in silence. We don’t need more people dying because of her actions.

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This disgusting excuse of a human being of needs to stop, but the only way it can be stopped is if you spread this! Please, be aware of any suspicious people or anons asking for personal information. It can get you or your loved ones in SERIOUS DANGER. Thank you.

if you dont reblog this your probably risking some sorta dying biz like those haunted posts so please fucking do this i dont enjoy people dying
not even on tv shows when people arent real.

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serutuf:

Gay Pride Events in Uganda

“The importance of this Pride event cannot be understated. The fact that these brave activists could pull this off in this milieu of persecution is a great victory for the community. Visibility like this notes the ongoing legacy of late activist David Kato, it defies the export of American Evangelical hate, and it helps ensure defeat of the Bahati Bill. It shows leadership for all of Africa, and above all it shows that the LGBT people of Uganda simply refuse to give up their right to exist and to live their natural born sexual orientation.”

you can read the full article here

Their bravery is inspirational. 

Holy shit dude, these people are amazing!

I hope they’re all okay <:I

(Source: queen-galadriel, via hackedmotionsensors)

thiasthedark:

jackpowerx:

msamberhazard:

msamberhazard:

tal9000:

transawareness:

The above article is an update.  Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost.  She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender.  She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.

Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined.  Lets get on the ball and spread the word.

Sign It.

I literally just repeated the f-word until I ran out of breath.

Let me catch my breath. I may go on a cursing spree again as soon as I get it back.

Seriously people…

WHY THE FUCK AREN’T PEOPLE REBLOGGING THIS??

To think, people still ask why I seem so disgusted by humanity.

nnnnooooooooo

(via gemeva)

mizzkatonic:

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”…

ehmforce:

robbicide:

WHOA WHOA WHOA THERE. HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?? IS THAT ROB? OUR BRO? IN A FUCKING SKIRT AND BRA AND SHIT? YOU FUCKING BET IT IS.

DOES THIS MEAN YOU SHOULD STOP USING MALE PRONOUNS, BECAUSE I’VE TAKEN PART IN SOMETHING STEREOTYPICALLY FEMALE? FUCK NO! YOU SHOULD RESPECT MY PRONOUN CHOICE NO MATTER HOW I AM PRESENTING MYSELF, UNTIL I SPECIFICALLY ASK YOU TO CHANGE PRONOUNS!

DOES THIS MEAN, BECAUSE I AM (FAAB)ULOUS AND PARTAKING IN STEREOTYPICALLY FEMALE ACTIVITY, THAT I AM FEMALE? DOES IT MEAN I AM REJECTING MY GENDERQUEERITY OR MAKING MY GENDER IDENTITY ILLEGITIMATE? FUCK NO! IT MEANS I WANNA WEAR A FUCKING SKIRT, SON!

DOES THIS MEAN YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO FEEL COMFORTABLE IN A SKIRT BECAUSE CLOTHES ARE GENDERLESS? FUCK NO! IF IT ISN’T FOR YOU, IT ISN’T FOR YOU!

Always reblog.

When I first got on Tumblr I knew next to nothing about gender identity and related stuff.

Thanks for helping me not be an ass Tumblr. 

(Source: robaemea, via buttastic)

arrayedscience:

hey there followers. Just a quick reminder, since there’s new ones since the last batch, and I reblogged my epilepsy awareness post.

I’m epileptic. this is my medical alert bracelet. I’m light sensitive and I’m more than slightly masochistic in my choice to read homestuck, but I have precautions for that. I wear goggles when I go to mspaintadventures.com, but I also have my friends check the updates before I read them.

I don’t keep my goggles on all the time, I don’t wear them for fashion, and I don’t think of wearing them when I come on tumblr, because there’s this nifty thing called tumblrsavior that adds on to your browser and allows you to block out certain key words. I block out ‘epilepsy warning’ and ‘flashes a lot’, I’m adding ‘Lord English’ to the list, because, well, Lord English. Not another word needs be said. 

There’s an area of damage I got to see on my MRI as I was walking out yesterday. it’s about this [——————————-] big on the front right side of my brain. I don’t know what it means, and it worries me, but I know it’s bigger than it was three years ago, and every time I have a seizure, the damaged area grows a bit. So…

I’d ask this of you, ever so kindly. If I’ve followed you back, please tag anything that flashes appropriately. If you have to question it, if you wonder about it even a little, please, by all means, simply tag it. It’s a good rule of thumb to live by, since you never know who’s got a light sensitive issue, or who has a migraine.

Epilepsy is damaging, the effects are long term and lasting. The effects of a seizure don’t go away once the aura or the after migraine are gone. I have to take medication to function on a level comparable with a normal, healthy teenager(and I’m 25) and I spend most of my life wondering if I’m doing it right. 

Help prevent damage, not only to me, but to who knows how many other people around you. Please tag your posts appropriately. This goes for anything that can trigger people. PTSD is as bad as epilepsy, sometimes even worse. You never know what’s going on with your friends, so err on the side of caution. It’ll save a lot of drama.

Thank you in advance.

-TG

Oh snap

I’m gonna start doing that from now on 

sorry everyone with epilepsy 

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Reasons to say ‘fuck you’ to the Salvation Army.

spectralradiance:

[TW: anti-trans* bigotry/violence]

applepretzel:

respirrave:

apiphile:

kiriamaya:

strawberryfaerie:

“The Salvation Army has refused assistance to gay couples unless they break up and…

allthehomo:

[tw: misogyny, Nice Guy (tm) stuff]

lywinis:

amandakitswell:

stfuhypocrisy:

moreinclinedtoactmyshoesize:

angusexpired:

i-sauntered-vaguely-downwards:

razingcomplacency:

rapeculturerealities:

wtfniceguys:

dappertomcat:

If…

Good god. Everybody read this.

Everybody.

fuckyeahfeminists:

Celebrities like Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Jane Lynch, and Martin Sheen brought to life the trial’s powerful arguments for equality, the ineptitude of those who oppose same-sex marriage, and the emotional impact on the plaintiffs’ families. Given Prop 8′s proponents fought so hard to prevent public distribution of the videos of the proceedings, this reading is a must-watch and must-share glimpse into what actually transpired

[via ThinkProgress]