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my personality varies from unbearably clingy to disturbingly distant and there is no inbetween
Bisexuality Explained From a Bisexual’s Point of View
Inspired by a post I saw on katebishophawkeye’s blog.
Also: To anyone who’s sent me a message in the last few days
Apologies if you haven’t gotten an answer yet. I’ve been pretty busy the lately (which you can probably tell from my infrequent posts) and haven’t had as much time as I’d like for tumblr. But I WILL hopefully respond by the end of this weekend, and I’m sorry to keep you waiting!
Sometimes I wonder if the bad rep Jews get is just because other people don’t get our sense of humor.
This epiphany courtesy of the following conversation, as we cleaned up from Pesach:
My mother: Jews are weird. We keep our tablecloth in the bathroom.
Me: It’s true. Who knows what other weird stuff we’re up to?
My mother: We also have a Christian child in there.
Me: Bound. And gagged.
My mother: With the tablecloth.
Happy Easter to all of my followers who celebrate!
I’m still in the middle of my own religious holiday so you can expect me to be MIA from tonight until Tuesday night, but I just wanted to quickly pop in to wish a wonderful holiday to any Christian followers of mine who are celebrating today.
I hope you have a great day! :-)
Heads-Up:
I just wanted to let you guys know that I’m not going to be around here for the next few days - not because of any bad reason, just as part of the observance of the Pesach (Passover) holiday. So if any of you notice I’m missing, please don’t worry - I’ll just be gone because of religious observance, and hopefully celebrating.
(Or else I’ll have overdosed on matzah, in which case, it has been an honor knowing you all.)
More seriously- I just want to take the time to say that I love you guys, so so much. And that’s aimed at a few of you in particular, who I assume know who they are (though possibly not, being that several of you are depressingly adept in the art of selling yourselves short.) Thank you so much for being my friends, and for listening to me, and for making me laugh. I will miss being around you so much (even though it’s just for a few days), and I can’t wait to talk more when I get back. <3
And to any of my Jewish followers out there who observe the holiday - Happy Pesach to all of you! :-)
I actually love you
This would be a great argument for contraception, but for abortion? Um, yeah, the organism is already alive in the womb. It already has 46 chromosomes. It is alive and it is human. And abortion kills it. So… Sorry. That’s just simple science right there. The real argument for or against abortion is a philosophical one. When does it become wrong to kill a human? When do the mother’s wishes trump the baby’s right to life? It’s not a simple issue, no, but there certainly is no ambiguity that it kills a living human.
Um, but there really is? I mean, there isn’t ambiguity for me, because I don’t think a cluster of cells is a living human, but for the sake of argument I’m going to say that there is. But when does a potential life take prescience over an existing one? Why should a full-fledged person have her choices about her reproductive health taken from her? I mean we’re not talking about a week of discomfort here, we’re talking about forcing a woman to have a freaking baby she never wanted in the first place. And don’t give me this ‘she can give the child up for adoption’, because yes she could, but that isn’t the point.
#sorry I’m really strongly pro-choice #and I don’t agree with that argument #an embryo is not a person #it could be at some point #but it’s not yet
The question is, at what point does a fetus stop being a ‘potential life’ and become just… well, a person? At this point, a baby can be born several months early and live - it will probably have health complications, but it can live. Once it’s been born, I don’t know anyone who would argue that it isn’t a person. Or that it’s okay to kill it if you don’t want a baby. So should it be considered a person outside the womb but not when it’s still inside the womb? Maybe. Maybe not. It’s a very tricky thing to define.
Now, of course abortions are generally done much earlier than that - long before the baby could possibly be born and survive. But the question is, at what point does that bunch of cells become a human baby? At five months? Seven months? The full nine months? Is it not considered a baby until it leaves the womb, however many months old it is when that happens?
It’s possible now to do surgery where a fetus can be temporarily removed so that the mother can be operated on, and then returned so that her pregnancy can continue. If we define a fetus as a person by whether it’s in the mother’s womb or not, is it a person while it’s out of the womb, and then go back to not being a person once it’s put back inside? What if a baby was grown in an artificial womb, and was never inside its mother at all? At what point should she be allowed to change her mind and decide she wants to get rid of it?
This is not a simple issue, and technology will make it even less so as time goes on. When push comes to shove, yes, I am pro-choice too. I wish no one ever had to get one, but that would be unrealistic. But it’s not a simple issue, at all.
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Wow, I actually just stumbled across two people canoodling in the library. I thought that only happened in YA novels and cliched movies.
I mean, they weren’t having sex or anything, but they were lying on the floor between the shelves, and they were rather… closely entwined, shall we say.
I’m not offended or anything, I just find it rather funny. Livin’ the cliche, you guys! xD
It is officially my birthday where I am, and I’m going to sleep.
Hopefully I’ll see you all tomorrow to celebrate! :-)
Please tell me I’m not the only person on Tumblr who has listened to a song approximately 3965875657246 times in a row while editing a fanvid they will never actually make in their head.
Yes! I do this ridiculously often. And being that I know absolutely nothing about editing videos, nothing ever comes of it.
Although, nowadays I sometimes make a photoset.
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1stepclosertobeingacrazycatlady:
I cannot believe Curvy Kate’s audacity to outright steal the work of a high school student for some insipid marketing message.
Shame on you, Curvy Kate. Shame on you.
Via: The Curvy Kate Facebook Page
Original image via: Rosea Posey
SIGNAL BOOST RIP THEM A NEW ONE TUMBLR!
I’m sorry to say it, but I like the ad more, mostly because it isn’t saying that you are a whore for wearing a short skirt. And doesn’t “asking for it” totally go against the whole anti-rape campaign that has taken over Tumblr. Granted I might be saying all this only because I can’t seem to find a cute skirt that would cover even the “flirty” part of my legs. Even my long ass “prudish” skirts ride up to a “cheeky” level.
Actually, I took the student’s work as a way to say that this kind of labeling is wrong. Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought the point of the project was to portray how people tend to view women by the length of the skirt they where.
Also, the AD still includes the word “prudish” which upsets me. I personally usually where skirts at that length.
^ I agree. I feel like the original was purposely calling attention to how stupid this way of thinking is, that we draw arbitrary lines about people’s skirt lengths and slap judgmental labels on them because of it. (And this is coming from someone who embraces religious modesty law.) In fact, if you click on the link to the original (above), the artist says exactly that:
“Working on this project really made me examine my own opinions, preconceptions and prejudices about “slutty” women and women who choose to cover all of their skin alike. I used to assume that all women who wore Hijabs were being oppressed, slut-shame, and look down on and judge any woman who didn’t express her sexuality in a way that I found appropriate.
I’d like to think I’m more open now.”
The ad, on the other hand, feels like it’s just taking these labels at face value. Which is not only plagiarism, it’s completely missing the point of the original piece. They purposely removed that ‘offensive’ labels (“whore”, “slut”, “asking for it”), and in doing so, they managed to erase the original meaning, being that the image is supposed to MAKE YOU THINK about these labels. Not ENDORSE them.
As for the fact that you wear skirts at the “prudish” length, Joy, so do I - and what of it? Calling women “prudes” (BTW, the term originally came from Old French, and meant “a good, virtuous woman” - it comes from the same root as ‘proud’) is just shaming us for not giving men what they feel they’re ‘entitled’ to. It’s as meaningless and offensive as telling a woman she’s “asking for it” if she wears a skirt that’s too short. Terms like ‘prude’ and ‘slut’ are flipsides of the same coin - the idea that a woman whose choices about sexuality don’t conform to some narrow standard needs to be shamed for it. And no matter where you fall on the “modesty” spectrum, that’s something we need to fight against. ALL women are deserving of respect.
Possibly one of the weirdest experiences of my life
is spending the first half of my day making a photoset of the Flying Graysons
(which naturally necessitated looking up lots of scenes of them and stumbling across things about them and basically getting lost in All My Grayson Family Feels)
And then I went out to dinner with a friend.
And surprise? Guess what she had done with the first half of her day.
Yeah, that’s right, the circus.
And she could not wait to tell me all about how cool it was and how much fun she had and how she saw these awesome acrobats who did all these crazy stunts.
And I’m just sitting there like “B-but was there a safety net?!”
“Please god, tell me that there was.”
(Spoiler Alert: There wasn’t.)
(DAMMIT PEOPLE, DON’T YOU LEARN?!)
Hi, just your local Mayan here reminding you the world isn’t ending tomorrow.
Also, that Mayans still exist.
And finally, that we have a language that is still spoken, and written, and that our science and other studies have developed with time and we’re not some stone age group of savages carving shit into rocks for all eternity just so some iztacchuatl will find it and tell us white jesus is gonna end the world when our calender stops working for her.
gringos impitzoyos.
:)
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my hobbies include sleeping and disappointing everyone close to me
And going on tumblr. And reading superhero comics and writing rants about Dick Grayson.
And generally being a ridiculous, nerdy, insecure sometimes-mess.
Yeah. Pretty much.
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- me: everyone is beautiful and should accept themselves no matter what everyone is lovely
- me: except for me
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