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“My girlfriend, who lives in LA, just sent them to me, and it made me so happy. But it’s not a proposal. It’s our thing. We always ask each other this because the day I met her, I was in her car and it was so dirty that I told her, ‘I’m not going to marry you with your a car like this.’”

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People who defend joining the US military because “uhhhh muh college education” make it really clear they truly do not value the lives of people in the third world as much as they value the class mobility of this strawman poor white kid they picture signing up because he has no options other than shipping off to help kill some brown people who’ve never personally harmed him or his family. Even when they have it pointed out to them that, while poor areas are targeted by recruiters heavily, a lot of the people there are there because they WANT to be, many are very educated, many are doing it because their fathers did it, etc. Even when it is pointed out that you have to choose whether the lives of innocent people matter more to you than some American young adult’s paycheck.

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Even fictional characters can magically opt out of misogyny, thanks Bustle!

#ARRRRG THESE POSTS DRIVE ME SO MAD #why the fuck shouldn't arya resent femininity??? #why the fuck do you think non gender conforming little girls aren't subject to misogyny?? #also like... let's not pretend like Sansa being pretty and feminine had never helped her survive #like yeah girl has skills but if she had just as smart while being ugly?? #she would have been subject to much more or would have died #i love Sansa #but her fans are terrible

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Not to be all “read Settlers” but a lot of white leftists are going at some point, to need to wrangle with the fact that white supremacy does have a lot to offer poor whites (not just material benefits like being called before black people for a job offer, but the social benefit of having a people to which you belong, the emotional benefit of having someone to see yourself as better than and of ignoring that people with their boots on your neck look like you, the ability to leverage at least one thing when you have no other leverage) and the material reality that a lot of the standard of living in the West is the result of ongoing imperial domination and mineral/labor/resource exploitation of some countries by imperialist powers like the US, and that no socialist revolution could take place and encourage internationalism without wrangling with that/without eradicating that relationship. You can call it Third Worldist and turn your nose up at it but these are practical concerns, and you see in many organizing models around white supremacy in particular this absolute refusal to acknowledge that all white people do benefit from white supremacy, even the ones who don’t want to, even the ones harmed in other ways by capital, even the nice ones, not just rich white people. And frankly, I think the refusal to acknowledge that is racist. It doesn’t mean that building class consciousness isn’t useful, but it means acknowledging that a lot of the people all of us are advocating for still hate black and brown people and will need to be dealt with accordingly, not pitied as fools fallen to false consciousness. This whole “white supremacy doesn’t really benefit you if you’re poor” shit has got to go. I’m not saying we give people a racial politics test, line the ones who fail against a wall, and shoot them, but you can’t just ignore this.

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Every book in the History of Literature summed up in a single sentence

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god, can some of y’all remove yourselves from maxine’s colon for one second to actually think?

robert’s attitude and feelings about cheating aren’t so different from adam’s and pete’s. now, the reveal episode was a blight and probably confused some people concerning robert’s views on cheating because it was racked with guilt and heartfelt reasons as to why he cheated along with the begging and desperation for aaron to forgive him. however, it doesn’t take away the fact that robert spent over two months exhausting his options to keep aaron in the dark.

let me break it down for you:

1) he tried to convince both rebecca and chas the day after to hide it from aaron. did not work on either of them, but had rebecca said “yes, I’ll keep quiet”, robert would have never told chas and aaron would still never know to this day

2) once he knew about the pregnancy, he tried his best to convince/coerce/[insert flowery alternative for force] rebecca to get an abortion because aaron must not know at all cost. he also hounded her every chance he saw her in the village about staying away and not talking to aaron.

3) he paid ross off when ross caught wind of the ons, but when ross demanded more, he manipulated aaron into LEAVING THE COUNTRY because again, aaron must not find out

4) when they got back and ross still wouldn’t let go of the blackmail, he appealed to rebecca again, even trying to flirt/manipulate her with quotes like “don’t you think I would have [stayed away from you], if I could?” and “I might not be the same arrogant idiot that I was, but I’m still not unbreakable. not when it comes to you. and you know, if I wasn’t if aaron, you know how things would be.” I mean, rebecca said it best: “you make out you love aaron. but I bet you’d cheat on him with me all over again if it stopped him from hearing the truth. you’ve learned absolutely nothing.”

so if you think that the robert now, the one with zero aaron and zero home and zero relationship, wouldn’t jump at the chance to go back and prevent aaron from ever finding out about his cheating and therefore still be with him, then I don’t think you understand his character at all (ok, that’s harsh, maybe you just don’t want to see that robert is just as bad as the rest of them when it comes to fidelity and that he wasn’t redeemable just because he confessed before somebody else told aaron). 

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i feel like when straight people in general encounter a woman who is clearly attracted to women, e.g. because of her relationship with a woman, it’s like… they assume she’s a lesbian, AND they assume she’s bi, AND they assume she’s straight, all at the same time, in different ways?

when they assume she’s a lesbian they mostly don’t believe it’s really possible for a woman to only be attracted to women, but they assume that a lesbian is what she thinks she is, plus lesbian is an easy thing to reach for to try to insult her with

and then they also assume she’s bi, without using that word or respecting that as an identity in any real way, in that they see her acting on attraction to women but they also think she must be attracted to men, as all women are

and at the same time they believe that deep down she’s straight because in addition to all women being attracted to men, women’s attraction to women is not real, a delusion

and like there’s this interplay among all these assumptions and they all play into how these women are treated

is this making sense at all i may just be overtired but yeah

it’s like pretty confusing and i think it ends up complicating the dialogue among lbpq women

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im fucking crYING

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we are both young, free & single. why are we not making the most of it?

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“So, maybe I’m a prophet. Not me, alone, all of us, the ones who’re dying now. Maybe the virus is the prophecy? Be still. Maybe the world has driven God from Heaven. Because I do believe that, over and over, I’ve seen the end of things. And having seen, I’m going blind, as prophets do. Right? It makes a certain sense to me.”

Angels in America: Perestroika, Act 2, Scene 2

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“it’s all in the same scene these days” is foreshadowing for bi adam

#please god

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please read this oh my god

#omg

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Headcanoning real people is gross.

You can speculate all you want about historical figures. Fine. But you can’t be like uwu Oscar Wilde is my aroace flower king like? Actually? He didn’t exist for your own greedy consumption. He was his own person with his own struggles related to his love for men.

You prey specifically on men who loved men. Men who had to hide their love lives from the public. Men whose evidence of male-centered sexuality was destroyed or lost to time. And then you say “there’s no evidence he wasn’t aroace uuwuuuwuuuu” like yep! You’re right! We can’t prove anything because straight people have taken our history from us! We are systematically destroyed even in death!

Historians are DESPERATE to explain away affection between men. They’ll say they’re friends. Brothers. Mentors. And you guys come along and do the same thing and act as if we’re denying you your harmless headcanons.

We can’t have anything.

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(insp.)

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