i’m happy tom hardy is getting attention but i could do without the whole puppy-loving-flawless-angel persona that’s being created around him
because the day it gets out he said or did Something Bad i’ll have to watch my dash be flooded with reasons why i can’t love my favorite actor anymore just because y’all are incapable of appreciating someone without elevating them to god status and then needing to take it all back and demonize them instead when they turn out to be another one of those nasty flawed humans like the rest of us
actual Tumblr Social Justice problems:
- antisemitism is often veiled as “combating white supremacy”
- lack of focus on mental illnesses besides depression
- honest mistakes tend to be poorly dealt with
- “callout culture” (people looking for others to mess up, solely in order to defame them)
- in-depth education on terms tends to be scarce, leading to people having only a vague understanding of terms, and using them
- bigots are able to redefine these (poorly-defined) terms in ways that hurt the oppressed
- emotional manipulation / guilt-tripping (“i see my followers ignoring this”; “why is nobody talking about this?”)re-reblogging cause i thought of things
- Excessive and abusive punishment of young teenagers over mistakes made in discourse they don’t completely understand by bloggers much older than they are
- US-centrism
- Reliance on fear of retribution for spread of information (contributes to rapid spread of misinformation)
- Moral absolutism - the line between “perfect innocent angel” and “disgusting shit trash” can be as thin as one mistake
- Reliance on followed blogs for education about social issues
since avengers 2 is coming out soon, here’s a reminder to /please/ tag your spoilers for everyone who has to wait longer to see it ♥ thank you
this is real
you are real
the world is real
you are awake
you are alive
the day is april 1st 2015
this is not a dream
feel your feet on the ground
stomp your feet
count your fingers
read this post
in dreams, the words will change
but these words are not changing, so keep reading them
they are real
you are real
the world is realreblog this for those who have dpdr that might get triggered by april fools jokes that question reality. i promise you all that if you are reading this, everything is real
small collection of trans education resources for cis allies who are interested
- what does “cisgender” mean?
- what does “transgender” mean?
- what does “genderqueer” mean?
- what does “non-binary” mean?
- in-depth interview with a non-binary genderqueer person about their identity
- what does “intersex” mean?
- but how does the psychology community feel about trans people?
- why is it hard for trans people to access medical care?
- other various terms, and some more
would everyone who thinks that that kiss was proof of bisexual Peggy Carter please shut the hell up?
“Peggy looked totally unphased by it! Like she’d been there before! Dottie knew she liked girls so she used that against Peggy!”
oh god please shut up!
“It wasn’t a sexualized kiss so thats good!”
Yeah, it was an act of aggression forced upon Peggy without her consent, but at least it wasn’t sexualized.
unfollow me if you support leelah alcorn’s parents. unfollow me if you think transgender teens are just going through a “phase”. unfollow me if you feel “neutral”. unfollow me right now if you feel anything other than disgust and rage at what’s happening.
what’s worse: accepting your daughter’s gender identity or burying her because you couldn’t?
