aynrandinaminiskirt:

if the only reason you stand with an oppressed group is because you want recognition for how awesome you are and and not because you want societal oppression to end, you may be an asshole.

allies need to realize that the second you make it about yourself or your voice overpowers that of the oppressed or you start making demands for your recognition or accomidation that you are allowing your privillege to derail and hurt whatever movement you are allies of.

supporting an oppressed group as allies does not resolve you of prvillege. remember that.

kerriganheartsyou:

cynical-douche:

Here is a list of GSM pride flags and their histories. 

Now, we have a lot of flags for sub-communities, gender expression, and apparently Straight Allies.

Here’s where my problem is. 

While your support is welcome, you don’t get cookies for it. You’re still hetero and cis.  You are not GSM. Your sexual orientation and gender identity is celebrated and normalized. 

You do not need a flag. It’s not some reward. You’re being a decent human being.

Here’s your flag, heteros. Take it or leave it.

(Source: stillcynicalstilladouche)

soooexotic:

thatsocialjusticebitch:

and the thing with this girl is that she has a ~*~gay best friend~*~ and he sits there and validates everything that she does and im like what is wRONG WITH YOU

lol awww i feel so bad for those type of people. like they’re marginalized in a pretty big way, even despite his other privileges he’s still gonna get dirty looks and have people look at him like he’s less than human for pretty much his whole life unless some sort of miracle happens and we start making really speedy social change, but he’s like not gonna be able to fight it either because he’ll be stuck on the “we all bleed red” crap which the people around him will never believe when it regards him, no matter how much he wishes otherwise. he’ll always make excuses for them but they’ll never return the favor.

idk i just can’t bring myself to be mad at these people. they internalize prejudice in such an extreme way, and i can’t manage to hate them for it so much as the people around them who perpetuate it you know?

Yeah basically. I tend to get kind of angry at them but the anger is tempered with this weird mix of sadness and pity. It’s always really disappointing, at any rate.

(Source: kulfislut)

psychetimelapse:

lezzbfriends:

I found something really messed up on facebook…https://www.facebook.com/HeteroAwarenessMonth

This shit is real, and it is not a joke. It almost looks like a sick sick joke but it is not. This is the least offensive photo, much of the pages is disgustingly homophobic and hate mongering.
I reported them to Facebook already, will you do the same? Just reblog and spread. C’mon Tumblr. We can do this.

BUT

WE ARE ALREADY

SO

SO

AWARE OF YOU

YOU ARE EVERYWHERE

WE SEE YOU LITERALLY EVERY DAY

EVEN IF I WERE TO GO TO SOME REALLY GAY RETREAT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, ANYONE FLIPPING ON A RADIO OR TELEVISION WOULD IMMEDIATELY EXPOSE EVERYONE IN RANGE TO HETEROSEXUALITY

I JUST CAN’T GET FAR ENOUGH OVER THE FACT THAT THEY CHOSE THE WORD “AWARENESS” TO TURN OFF CAPSLOCK

I AM STUCK LIKE THIS FOREVER

CHUNKILY CAPSLOCKING AT THE CONCEPT OF ANYONE IN THE WESTERN WORLD AND AT LEAST A LARGE MAJORITY OF EVERYWHERE ELSE NOT BEING AWARE OF HETEROSEXUALITY

SORRY ‘BOUT YOUR DASH

thesavagesalad:

just fyi if a person from an oppressed/ marginalised community is talking about their experiences or is expressing anger/ fear towards those who benefit or uphold these systems of oppression which harm them~

it is never the place for you (you as in those who are privileged enough to never e or witness these oppressions) to start screaming about how “NOT EVERYONE’S LIKE THAT!!111”

no

if you want people to not identify you as a festering piece of shit of a human being then for the love of fucking god, suck it up, sit the fuck down, listen AND DON’T TALK OVER THEIR FUCKING EXPERIENCES

firelordazula:

can Book Two be this though, even just a little bit?

please

kristenique:

I will never be sorry when I get frustrated when another character is put forth/confirmed as straight when they could easily have been made queer.  If that frustration is off-putting to you that is your problem and you need to deal with it.  It is not like you don’t get exposed to multitudes of characters and relationships that are similar to you/yours at EVERY POINT OF YOUR LIFE.  You got to see relationships and people that looked like you when you were young in media that was meant for you. 

I didn’t realize I was queer until I was 15 and huge reason why I realized it then was because I got see stuff like Haruka and Michiru and Willow and Tara and have everything click that yes, my liking girls and not feeling attraction to boys was a thing that did exist in people outside of me.  It isn’t hard for me to hazard that a lot of the confusion that I felt leading up to that could have been saved had I seen representations of queer people in stuff like Disney and Don Bluth films that I watched when I grew up.   So just think about that.

If it really bothers you that people read characters (particularly young characters) as queer but not when people read characters as straight you should re-evaluate your thoughts and ask yourself just why that bothers you, and why you have to try and make queer people feel guilty for fully valid frustration with extent that heteronormativity is pushed in everything everywhere along with the complete dearth of representation of queer people in everything.

That is something you should feel uncomfortable about.

emphasis mine

#IfTransTalkedLikeCis@nataliereed84: Oh, you're cis? Nice to meet you! So, what's your vagina like?
@nataliereed84: Wow! You look great! I never would have gussed you were cis!
@Mowgli3: "But how am I supposed to learn what cis bodies are like if I can't ask you everything about yours?"
@AndyTehNerd: But how can you be sure that's your gender? What if that's just what you were raised to believe?
@nataliereed84: But are you SURE you want to remain male? How do you know for sure this is right for you?
@AndersStarmark: Of course I support you. But I just want you tone it down. You're scaring people, and scared people are dangerous.
@nataliereed84: But "cis" people might regret not transitioning! We need strict criteria for diagnosing cisgenderism to prevent that.
@AndersStarmark: I don't believe Cises get raped. Who'd fuck one of them?
@LanaLangton: Yeah you can come clubbing with us but only if you promise to act like a girl.
@AndersStarmark: This magic ring will keep your gender the way it is.
@nataliereed84: People with mental health disorders might think they're cis when they're really not. We can't trust their choices.
@LanaLangton: You must declare your cisism immediately when you meet me or any of my friends else you are deceiving us.
@nataliereed84: It's not my fault I'm not attracted to cis ppl. I just find your bodies icky. It's just my sexual orientation!
@nataliereed84: No, but what's your REAL name? You know, the one you actually chose.
@nataliereed84: Wait, so you think you're a womon-born-womon? Isn't that just equating sex with gender and buying into the patriarchy?
@LanaLangton: sorry if you find what we say offensive it's just we're not used to actually talking to cis people & its only 'banter'
@nataliereed84: Look son, I understand you identify as your birth sex, but why can't you just transition to being a butch lesbian?
@AndersStarmark: No, I'm sorry, you may not use the ungendered restroom. A gendered one? No, never heard of them. Wouldn't work anyway.
@nataliereed84: Isn't it a bit selfish to go around claiming you're really your birth sex and expect us all to just go along with it?
@nataliereed84: You may think you're a woman because you're XX, but I think of you as male, and you need to respect my beliefs.
@nataliereed84: But if we let cis men use the men's room, what's to stop one of them from raping your children!?!?
@kinetictheorist: I'm glad your granddad died before finding out your cis
@PeregrineTwist: so you mean your cock is ATTACHED!? How do you sterilise and wash it properly?
@maeveregan: Oh, your new partner is cis? So do you actually have sex or what?
@nataliereed84: Son, you say that you're a boy, but I think you're a bit too young to be making that decision.
@nataliereed84: Honey, I know you think you want to remain male, but are you sure this isn't just a mid-life crisis?
@AndersStarmark: I'm a psychologist. I can help you cope with your reluctance to transition. Just relax. Let me help.
@AndersStarmark: You know, for a cis you're pretty attractive. I'd even call you fuckable.
@MaeveCaitKelly: Wow! You're such a convincing cis person, I just thought you were normal! Well done.
@sashapixlee: Dude, she looks like she might be cis. Be careful, bro
@sasugakirin: Just because "grue" is used to hurt you cis people all the time doesn't mean I can't reclaim it.
@BecciCath: No, Cis Identity Disorder shouldn't be removed from the DSM, I mean, being cis is a lifestyle choice, so u must b mad
@Dru_Marland: You're cis? -honestly, I'd never have known, you look so good
@AndersStarmark: If you cis people didn't scare people of we'd have opposite sex marriage a long time ago!
@Dru_Marland: "Are they real?" (gropes stranger's breasts)
@AndersStarmark: I think you're taking it a little hard when someone truegenders you. It's just a label, it's nothing serious.
@LadyJaya: You mean your breasts started growing when you were 12? Can I feel them? They seem so real!

glamaphonic:

just tossing this out there, yj fandom, but

a) raquel ervin is actually canonically from the ghetto

b) though it wouldn’t matter if she was she’s not even remotely speaking actual aave

c) she just has a noticeable twang

d) so what you actually mean is that she sounds black

and don’t let this one fuck you up but

e) there is literally nothing wrong with any of that

so stfu

appa-ss:

fangirlingforeverz:

deliciouskaek:

sageoflogic:

duessa:

lord-kitschener:

vondell-swain:

whitewhine:

You’re telling me that some married couples make less than $100,000? I don’t understand!

oh my god

oh my GOD

“This almost seems borderline poverty” 

Can we please just storm his mansion and put his head on a stick already?

You fetch the guillotine and I’ll start knitting.

If they ask if we want cake…

wait. wait wait wait

wait a minute

what McD are they working for that they net $95k a year

can i work there

cos right now i net $9.5k a year, and i’d be happy to work some damn McD to multiply my income x10

Haha, borderline poverty.

Haha.

HAHA.

I CAN’T EVEN BE SARCASTIC HERE. THIS POOR NAIVE FOOL.

Let them have cake? 

ARE YOU KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW

of-praxis:

princehandsome:

thenizu:

of-praxis:

Gay Texas judge won’t marry straight couples

Tonya Parker, an African-American lesbian judge in Texas, refuses to marry straight couples until everyone in the state has the right to marry.

Turning away would-be newlyweds is “my opportunity to give them a lesson about marriage inequality in this state,” Parker told a meeting of the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas earlier this week.

She said it’s “oxymoronic” for her to perform a ceremony that can’t be performed for her.

Instead, she refers couples to other judges in the courthouse with an explanation along the lines of “I’m sorry. I don’t perform marriage ceremonies because we are in a state that does not have marriage equality, and until it does, I am not going to partially apply the law to one group of people that doesn’t apply to another group of people,” she told the meeting.

#perfecthumanbeing

No. Wrong. When you’re being treated unfairly you don’t treat other people unfairly. That’s just a vicious cycle, because then when this judge treats those straight people unfairly, they’ll feel justified in treating gay people unfairly, and then gay people will feel justified in treating straight people unfairly, etc etc.

This is not how you get your way. You don’t act like a brat and say “Well if I can’t get married, NOBODY CAN!!!!!!!!!”

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

she controls all the marriage licenses in the WORLD

STRAIGHT PEOPLE CANT GET MARRIED

REVERSE RACISM! but you know with gay people

(Source: le-kif-kif)

astroprojection:

isitscary replied to your post: Whitewashed/light-skinned Korra fanart on my dash just makes me cry.

are you serious

Yep. I have this one on Tumblr H8. IDK, I shouldn’t have such a strong reaction but it kind of breaks my heart. 

EDIT: OIC and then it continues. Fuck this shit.

i was really irritated with the first picture and how no one seemed to be criticizing it but now that i see the artist’s response i’m kind of furious

[I don’t mind straight people as long as they act gay in public]

negritaaa:

tick-tock-thearenasaclock:

holymotherofrowling:

rlynches:

holymotherofrowling:

lageep:

this is so wrong… imagine if it said “i don’t mind gay people as long as they act straight in public”. everyone would be raging.

No, I agree with the person. Being heterophobic isn’t going to solve any intolerance of LGQBT. It just seperates the two entities even further.

It’s called sarcasm, to show the absurdity of the opposite statement.

I seriously started doing the laughing-so-hard-I’m-wheezing laugh. Oh my god how thick do people have to be to actually believe this shit is serious?

why are people so dense? honestly.

“HETEROPHOBIC”

sharptonguecharlie:

youarenotyou:

telegantmess:

smirkingbenevolence:

strangerthanheartbreak:

For every lesbian you bully into sex - a radical feminist is born.
For every woman you threaten with violence - a radical feminist is born.
For every woman who gets silenced in a feminist space for talking about women’s biology - a radical feminist is born.
For every woman who is intimidated into silence by the trans borg descending upon her valid criticisms - a radical feminist is born
For every woman who is told abortion is “not a women’s issue” - a radical feminist is born
For every man who tags pictures of his penis on tumblr as #lesbian - a radical feminist is born
For every woman hating flyer passed out at michigan womyns music festival that says “real women have cocks” - a radical feminist is born
For every man who says that he also gets a period - a radical feminist is born
For every penis flashed at women in private spaces - a radical feminist is born
For every “cotton ceiling” workshop you host in LGBT spaces - 5 radical feminists are born
For every woman you mansplain to about what it is to be a *woman on the inside* - a radical feminist is born 

For every stupid message you send to a radical feminist who is far more clever than you - another woman sees your illogical shit for what it is &

- a radical feminist is born. 

Whatever happened to ‘biology is not destiny’ ? Yeah, I suppose that just doesn’t apply to us.

For every trans woman who is told ‘you’ll never be a real woman’ - a radical trans queer is born

For every trans woman who is chased out of a ‘woman’ only event - a radical trans queer is born

For every trans person who is misgendered by the police and put in with the wrong population - a radical trans queer is born

For every trans person who is bullied by someone who they expect would understand their perspective - a radical trans queer is born

Attitudes like what you present are why ‘die cis scum’ has swept the trans community. Attitudes like what you present are the root cause of our distrust of cis people.

Beliefs like the ones you hold have led to the deaths of thousands of trans people. This is not some intellectual exercise in a gender studies class. This is our lived experience. This is a genocide of my people.

You’re in your late teens to early 20’s and white, right? ‘Cause it’s either that or you’re my mother’s generation and think you are owed respect. Respect is earned.

I love and support my cis allies. Those that are true allies love and support me. But those cis people that hate me, I welcome their hate. They are hateful scum. Those are who we speak of when we say ‘Die Cis Scum’. Only cis scum have anything to fear from that statement.

And for the op’s information, its shit like this that chased me away from feminism, since it has no room for people like me. I am so sorry for you that you feel the terrible need to control the trans* community to the point of endorsing ideas that KILL PEOPLE.

^seriously.

ugh radfems. so gross. 

Oh strangerthanheartbreak. What a vapid waste of carbon you are.

P.S Oh my god lol, is that a Dykes To Watch Out For page? Oh, wow. Oh lol.