letting my mom watch queer eye was a mistake. she just walked into my room, pointed at some clothes on my floor and said “hey. what would tan say about this???” and i just shuffled over to pick them up like a sad child cause i would want tan france to be proud of me 😦 fuck 😦
oh yeah and i can’t believe it’s taken me this long to bring this up but i’m absolutely not here for people shading the “american girl today”/”my american girl” line because
the line literally enables girls to create a doll that looks like them
including a wide array of non-white skin tones and non-european features
like black dolls with curly and textured hair
or asian dolls that appear to have epicanthic folds
and they’ve also released accessories like doll-sized wheelchairs, hearing aids, and crutches so that girls who aren’t able-bodied or are hard of hearing can have a little friend who shares their experiences
and they’ve even begun to offer dolls without hair for little girls who have alopecia or have lost hair while battling cancer
and basically if you don’t think that’s the tightest shit then get out of my face
Also: SERVICE DOGS.
IT’S SO CUTE IT EVEN HAS TRAINING TREATS. You go American Girl.
They also consulted the Nez Pierce when making their Kaya doll and that’s why her smile doesn’t show teeth, among other things, and they’ve released some beautiful, and accurate, modern Powwow regalia for her.
Also they’ve been offering all this stuff since I was still getting the catalog. I just turned 29, so if I’m going to guess, that means they’ve been offering these options since at least 1996ish.
Listen its easy to make fun of borderlands for all the outdated memes and cheesy jokes but you’ve really gotta hand it to them for the lgbtq+ rep. they throw in random tidbits about characters being queer without making it a huge Thing, both moxxi and sir hammerlock have missions where they’ll say “this person is my ex girl/boyfriend” and its not a big deal, theres an ace character who’s explicitly ace coded, gnc and not-conventionally-attractive characters (especially women!) who are just Like That and it’s not a punchline. They make mistakes, but they fix them – apologising for getting zer0’s pronouns wrong in Tales ; hell, making axton bi after people complained about That One Voiceline was such a fuckin power move. Borderlands isn’t perfect but they gave me a game where I can play as a space lesbian with a magic shield who is simultaneously a total badass but also gets completely flustered whenever a cute girl comms her and you’ll pry that from my cold dead queer hands
I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money.
“A scam” people are fucking wild.
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Everyone goes on about how algorithmically-targeted ads are so creepily precise that they know everything about you, but I still can’t convince my Google ads that I’m not pregnant, I don’t own a horse, and my purchase of a home thermostat was a one-time thing and not the start of a comprehensive thermostat collection.
some cop, unlucky enough to pull over captain america of all people: sir um could I see ur… uh… license?
steve rogers, someone who never bothered to get one: …..no
the cop, flustered, about to pass out, staring as his notepad: how long have u….. drive….. no license… illegal???
steve, a little shit, slowly driving away to avoid conflict: since,,,, world war…. two
the cop lets him go. he’s forgotten all his training. its a hopeless situation. when he gets back to the station everyone laughs in his face. he’s humiliated. captain america doesn’t have a license???? preposterous!!!
you know that dumbass Forbes article advocating for Amazon stores to replace public libraries? It was taken down cause the author got dragged so hard by like everyone who has ever entered a library in their life & now Forbes released a statement basically calling the author of the original op-ed “deeply misinformed” lmao
You know, mabes we socialist types should proactively do something to help our local libraries before capitalists find ways of shutting them down for good. Some kind of mass fundraiser or something, I don’t know what. But they seem like the last holdout for people who believe that everyone has a right to resources, no questions asked.
For many people, the library is the one place they can access the internet, which may in turn be the only way they can apply for jobs or get schoolwork done.
Other technology is also available for use at a library, such as a copier or a printer (ours even has a 3D printer open to the public).
The library is a safe place to go if it’s raining or really cold outside.
Children are enabled to read more books than their allowance could ever possibly afford, and for kids from lower-income backgrounds, it might be their only access to books at all.
Lots of libraries provide classes that are needed in their community, whether it’s ESL or literacy or parenting or what have you. Free of charge.
You can even borrow movies or seasons of TV shows instead of springing for Netflix.
And there is no shame whatsoever in visiting one. There is no social stigma attached to the library, it’s for everyone, period.
Any librarians with ideas for how we could help keep them going?
Support the Library Defense Network! They’re a leftist org made up of library workers and they organize communities to prevent public library closures.
they/them pronouns?? honestly so good & pure & so underrated. perfectly gender neutral!! don’t want to misgender a stranger? they/them. don’t want to assume someone is cis? they/them. don’t want to out a friend in front of someone but also don’t want to cause them dysphoria? they/them. literally so good for almost everyone in almost every situation and so easy to use, there’s literally no excuse not to. i love them
Using they/them will literally out a trans person. Using they/them will cause a trans person dysphoria. Using they/them is offensive to trans people. And the majority of the world doesn’t pander to your Tumblr mindset. Using they/them around normal people for no reason if there isn’t a nonbinary person involved will cause confusion.
using they/them is gender neutral and won’t attract any attention when used with proper grammar and subtlety. if using they/them causes someone dysphoria, i will respect that and not use it. using they/them is often very appreciated by my trans friends, shows that i care enough to respect their identity, and does not offensd them at all. respecting people’s identities is not a “tumblr mindset”, it’s basic human decency. using they/them is both grammatically correct and easy to understand and shouldn’t confuse anyone when used properly.
many many cishet people are just,,, oblivious. if you don’t draw attention to your use of a gender neutral pronoun, often their mind will just skip over it, and not register it. it’s when a big deal is made out of it, that they notice. especially if you say it a little quicker, kinda like “’em” instead of “them,” like “look at ‘em go!”
When talking about an encounter with a customer to my super homophobic boss I always use they/them just because that’s normal to me. He literally has never once questioned me. They/them is already fully integrated into society that it’s literally only when it’s called out that people get all fussy
In my experience, verbally using they them basically never pings a single alarm. If you write it, then people might notice, but usually only if they have been vaguely educated on the topic, but not so much they pick it up in verbage.
(I’ve been around a they/them friend that everyone else used different pronouns for, and no one ever ever ever noticed me using they/them. not their parents. Not their home friends. not the shared community. It was only when I typed it out to people who specifically were trying to be inclusive, did folks notice it)
My number one tip for straight men (I mean, it could conceivably work for other genders and sexualities, but you’d have to adjust it quite a bit) is: inagine they’re a man.
Imagine that you just randomly told some bloke in a pub that he has beautiful eyes.
That you walked up behind your coworker Jim and started caressing his neck and shoulders while talking to him about the budget.
That you just sent a large and unexplained bouquet of flowers to Darren in Accounting.
That instead of complimenting a coworker on her breasts, you complimented him on his dick.
Does the action now seem weird? Uncomfortable? Do you no longer want to do it now that it isn’t directed at somebody you are sexually attracted to?
That strongly suggests that your action has a sexual aspect to it and therefore probably counts as sexual harassment!
I have a large, colorful tattoo on one arm. I’ve had multiple strange men cross a room to tell me how awesome it is, frequently while I’m at work, and it has never made me uncomfortable.
A couple of weeks ago, someone yelled out a car at me ‘I FUCKING LOVE YOUR BOOTS’, which was awesome.
It’s just… it’s really not hard to compliment people in a way that isn’t creepy, if your goal is actually to compliment them and not to slide a ‘btw I’m thinking about fucking you’ under the radar.
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