venusexmachina:

opcsdtv:

afpe:

tw-evan:

lornagonigall:

ithelpstodream:

Ithaca College student Yana Mazurkevich just rolled out her second Brock Turner-inspired photo series, in conjunction with sexual assault advocacy group Current Solutions.

Seriously. No matter who you are (other than a misogynist obviously), you should agree this sicko should get more time.

this is honest-to-god the first time i’ve seen a sexual assault/rape awareness campaign that shows not only men being victims but also women being perpetrators. 

This is true gender equality anti rape ads and its amazing.

I will reblog this until my fingers bleed

We need more of this!

Don’t ignore my pleasantries

shameless-fujoshi:

bjornwilde:

sprachtraeume:

arbitrary-stag:

imightbeacoffeesnob:

Me: hi there! How are you tonight?
Customer: tall mocha
My coworker over the headset: ah, my favorite emotion….tall mocha

I FUCKING HATE THIS SHIT

I’d be so fucked if I ever went to America and employees suddenly expect me to do small talk with them, like just let me order thanks bye

It’s usually management that pushes this. Most employees would much rather say “How can I help you?” and be done with it.

^^^

Management (and more so corporate, since they push it on management) haven’t a clue that there are customers (like me) who DESPISE small talk and they’re driving away a huge crowd of consumers that just want to shop/order food in peace.

Personally, I don’t like being asked how I am by people I don’t know b/c my annoying perfectionism brain wants me to tell the truth: “Oh well I’m depressed, how about you?” but I’m pretty sure that would make things awkward, and I don’t want the retail/food service worker to feel bad, and I’m sick of lying for pleasantries sake, and I want to go back to the days where a simple, “How can I help you?” was enough.

Don’t get me wrong though, I sidestep the “How are you” by politely saying, “Hi!” and then go straight to ordering, because I know most retail/food service workers are really being pushed to do these unnecessary pleasantries, and it’s not their fault.

One time though, there was a guy who literally would not let me order until I told him how I was, like, kept interrupting my order and saying, “Why won’t you tell me how you are? I just asked how are you? I’m not taking your order until you tell me how you are like I asked so nicely.” It felt incredibly violating, and his manager was just like, “Well it’s policy to ask customers how they are,” but like…that kind of behavior is a shitty power play, and now I don’t eat there anymore because I never want to run into that asshole again.

Corporate, stop giving shitty demands to the workers on the front lines because its driving customers like me away and corporate has no one to blame but themselves.

How do different identities accept and reject the label “queer?”

the-real-seebs:

wetwareproblem:

oodlenoodleroodle:

autismserenity:

qesurvey:

Overall, queer was approved of by 72.9% of respondents, with 37.2% of respondents specifying queer was their preferred umbrella term.

Queer is the most widely preferred umbrella term, and the 3rd most approved of umbrella term, behind LGBT+ and LGBTQ+.

Groups that do not prefer the use of queer as an umbrella are: straight respondents, exclusionst-identifying respondents, transmedicalists, truscum, sex-negative respondents, and sex work critical respondents.

Queer as an umbrella was preferred above other umbrella terms by all gender identities, and by all orientation groups other than straight.

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I’m fascinated to see that exclusionists are BY FAR the most opposed to the term “queer.” And that the only group that comes close to their 17% approval of the term is truscum, at 27%.

Not that I’m surprised they don’t like it. I’m surprised at the immense gap between what they insist, and scream, over and over – that very few people have reclaimed queer, that we should all avoid using it, that older people hate it because it was used against us but younger people hate it because only older people briefly reclaimed it –

and the reality of it being overwhelmingly accepted, preferred, and used, outside of all but a few very insulated groups.

What tickles me the most about it is that the one group where the majority does agree with exclusionists’ view of “gueer” is THE STRAIGHTS! 

Like this makes me think so much of the whole “terfs and conservatives agree on a lot of stuff” -thing. (There’s a whole game somewhere, with quotes from terfs and conservatives where you have to guess which one said it, and it is a real fucking hard game…)

Like maybe you aren’t really all that much on the side you think you are, if you actually have a lot in common with the side that wants to hurt the group you claim to support. 

We are officially done arguing about the appropriateness and appropriate usage of “queer.”

This matches my experience very closely. I know one (1) adult-over-25-or-so LGBT person who specifically disprefers “queer”, and she actually agrees that it’s the best umbrella term, she just dislikes it personally. I have encountered dozens of angry teens who are aggressively hostile to various other parts of the community and use the “queer is a slur” thing to justify attacking their preferred targets.