dustsculptures:

saying “be safe” like a spell that’ll protect them

i’m currently high but not on morphine. my high aesthetic ⏳

polterpride:

STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]

Today is a very rough day for Stray Kids fans. With everything going on right now, I hope that you all are taking care of your health, drinking water, eating, putting your phone down every once in a while, and keeping yourself in the best mindset that you can in this situation, even though I know it can be hard.

Personally, I feel disgusted and dirty for supporting somebody like Woojin, but I know that there are some people who have been triggered or otherwise very harmfully affected by the shocking news.

If anybody, and I mean anybody at all, needs a safe space where they can talk freely to somebody who cares and understands, please don’t hesitate to dm me. Even if you just need somebody to process your emotions with. Idc if we’ve never talked, you wouldn’t be bothering or putting a burden on me at all. Literally just drop in and I’ll answer and talk for as long as you need or want. I hope that everybody can stay safe today, and I love you all.❤️

feministlisafrank:

leointheskywithdiamonds:

calliopehoop:

feministlisafrank:

jacobross820:

feministlisafrank:

At 11 o’clock at night, you moved across the train car to sit far too close to two girls about half your age so you could interrupt our conversation to tell us how pretty we are. We said thank you, have a good night, and went back to our conversation.

You interrupted us a second time to say that you didn’t want to bother us, but we needed to hear it, how pretty we are. We said cool, thanks, have a good night, and went back to our conversation.

You interrupted us a third time to say you wouldn’t say anything else, you didn’t want to bother us, you just had to let us know. We said have a good night, and went back to our conversation.

This seemed to perplex you. You came all that way across a train car to bestow upon us this life altering knowledge - the fact we were pretty - and all you got was a polite thank you? You grumbled about gratitude, about how you better not end up on facebook, were we putting you on facebook? Why was my friend looking at her phone? Was she putting you on facebook? All you’d done was tell us we were pretty.

At this point, my friend says, “Sir, we’re trying to have a conversation. Please don’t be disrespectful.”

This was when you got angry. Disrespectful? YOU? For taking the time out of your day to tell us we were pretty? Did we know we were pretty?

“Yes, we knew,” says my friend.

Well, that was the last straw. How dare we know we were pretty! Sure, you were allowed to tell us we were pretty, but we weren’t allowed to think it independently, without your permission! And if we had somehow already known - perhaps some other strange man had informed us earlier in the day - we certainly weren’t allowed to SAY it! Where did we get off, having confidence in ourselves? You wanted us to know we were pretty, sure, but only as a reward for good behavior. We were pretty when you gifted it upon us with your words, and not a moment before! You raged for a minute about how horrible we were for saying we thought we were pretty, how awful we turned out to be.

I took a page out of your book and interrupted you. “Sir, you said you wouldn’t say anything else, and then you kept talking,” I said. “You complimented us, we said thank you, and we don’t owe you anything else. It’s late, you’re a stranger, and I don’t want to talk to you. We’ve tried to disengage multiple times but you keep bothering us.”

At this point, our train pulled into the next stop. My friend suggested we leave, so we got up and went to the door.

Seeing your last chance, you lashed out with the killing blow. “I was wrong!” you shouted at us as we left, “You’re ugly! You’re both REALLY UGLY!”

Fortunately, since our worth as human beings is in no way dependent upon how physically attractive you find us, my friend and I were unharmed and continued on with our night. She walked home; I switched to the next train car and sat down.

So, strange man, I know you’re confused. I don’t know if you’ll think about anything I said to you, but I hope you do learn this: when you give someone something - a gift, a compliment, whatever - with stringent stipulations about how they respond to it, you are not giving anything. You are setting a trap. It is not as nice as you think it is.

But you’ll be happy to know that when I sat down in the next car, a strange man several seats over called, “Hey, pretty girl. Nice guitar. How was your concert?”

“Thanks. Good,” I said, then looked away and put on my headphones, the universal sign for ‘I’d like to be left alone.’

“Wow. Fine. Whatever. Fucking bitch,” he said.

Fucking creepers. May I ask how feminism or anything similar would actually have prevented this from happening? This ya already socially unacceptable.

Men - because to be clear, I called them ‘strange men’ because they were strangers to me, not because there was anything abnormal about them - act this way because they are raised in a culture that lets them believe their time and opinions are more important than the time and opinions of women, and that as a consequence, they are owed women’s attention. They are socialized to believe women should be grateful to them for their attention, and that they are being denied something rightfully theirs when women are not.

Raising someone with feminism, the idea that all sexes/genders are equals and thus no party is beholden to or more important than another, would have prevented this by not allowing men to grow up expecting ‘rights’ that are not actually theirs. You say this is socially unacceptable, but there were 20+ people on that train who actively watched us being harassed and did not say a word. It is socially unacceptable, but this kind of thing happens to me and many other women multiple times a week, with often more traumatic results.

So, yes, I believe more feminism would prevent sexist moments like this. Also, water is wet, the atmosphere is 78% nitrogen, and cheese is addictive.

REBLOGGING FOR THE FUCKING COMMENTARY

Glad these girls stood up for themselves, but I don’t think feminism would fix this. There will always be assholes in the world, you can’t fix assholes.

Except you absolutely can.

People act out or misbehave when they think they can get away with it. It’s why people say things anonymously online that they would never dare say to someone’s face. It’s why crime is more common at night or dimly lit places. It’s why people feel emboldened to act when they have a crowd supporting them, or are in a group of their friends. It’s why men tend to harass women who are either alone or with other women, but not women who are with other men.

You can never 100% curb a behavior, it’s true; there are too many humans and we all vary in too many ways for one thing to be effective on everybody. But kids who grow up watching TV/reading books/playing games that tell them it’s acceptable to treat women (or really anyone who isn’t an able-bodied, cisgendered straight white male) badly, as lessors, as people who have equal rights in only a winkwinknudgenudge manner are going to grow up emulating the things they’ve learned through the media they’ve absorbed. Kids who see their parents, or other adults, or other kids their age treating people poorly and not being corrected or admonished grow up thinking that they too can act that way without getting in trouble.

Kids who grow up seeing people of all types being treated equally, seeing people who are openly intolerant being shut down by those around them rather than quietly allowed to continue, grow up emulating better behavior. Social acceptance is a powerful motivator. Think about how terrified you were as a teen of saying or doing the wrong thing and having people ridicule you or think you were lame. Imagine being that terrified of someone thinking you were a misogynist.

If you stay, stay forever. If you go, do it today. If you change, change for the better. And if you talk, make sure you mean what you say.

my new year resolution is to stop wondering if I’m good enough for other people and start wondering if they are good enough for me

yippebee:

IMPORTANT: Please Read

This is Hailey and I need your help. Deea has gone missing, we are looking for any information you might have. A classmate found her phone, we have not found out where she is yet. Her parents, nor do us friends know where she is. I ask if she has texted you anything or know anything please, please let us know.

PLEASE REPOBLOG THIS TO SPREAD AWARENESS

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67-chevy-baby:

insanelycoolish:

icoree:

imagine-that-one-thing:

tollhousecookiedough:

magicdreamsandmusic:

shanzsway:

WARNING!!!!

People, please be careful. There are also people tracking children and people and putting bids on them based on their profile pictures on whatsapp, tracking and kidnapping them. Especially young children, so please be cautious, especially parents who have their children as their profile pictures.

Please pass this on to everyone so that they are aware of the danger. I don’t how it is all around the world but I know it can’t just be here so please please spread the word. Thank you.

oh my god

I HAVE BEEN GETTING THIS TEXT REGULARLY FOR WEEKS

HOLY SHIT THANK GOD I DIDN’T

I’ve gotten a few of these. Never ever click a link from an unknown number!!!

oh yeahhhh, I saw that on snapchat. it’s been freakin’ EVERYWHERE lately. i haven’t been getting the text, luckily, but im still extremely cautious about it. shit’s scary.

not just girls, but boys and other genders have to be careful as well. this could happen to anyone. please be safe, my friends <3

FOR ALL THE YOUNGER PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW. YOU GUYS ARE SMART. YOU KNOW THIS. BUT JUST IN CASE THERE ARE SOME WHO MIGHT NOT. THAT DOESN’T MAKE YOU NOT SMART, PERHAPS JUST LESS INFORMED. 

DO NOT CLICK LINKS IN TEXTS EVER. GO TO ACTUAL WEBSITES FOR ONES YOU RECOGNIZE AND TYPE IN THE URL. OR A BOOKMARK IF YOU HAVE ONE. DON’T CLICK LINKS IN TEXTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES/DMS AND EMAILS. EVEN IF YOU KNOW THE PERSON. TAKE EXTREME CAUTION. 

IF YOU’RE GUTS SAYS EH WOULDN’T DO THAT BUDDY. LISTEN. 

ALSO SIGNAL BOOST THE HELL OUT OF THIS

I DON’T CARE WHAT YOUR BLOG THEME IS!! REPOST THIS TO SAVE A LIFE!!

Things people rarely say:

•it is okay if you fall out of love and you dont know why, you are not a bad person

•your mental stability will always be more important than your s/o. You need a healthy relationship with yourself as much as you need one with others

•you have every right to remove yourself out of any relationship that you are not 100% happy and feel safe in. Be your own protector, remove yourself from the hazardous people.

•you’re not required to explain yourself to anyone that asks why you’re relationship ended. Your life, your relationship. Your business.

Please,

Be your own priority. You deserve to love and appreciate and care for yourself. Self-love is the strongest form of love you can receive, and it only comes from yourself.

I love you, now you gotta love you too.

zheders:

drrarythings:

jndferry123:

monarda-fistulosa:

cocksmasher69:

parttimepup:

gluten-free-pussy:

gluten-free-pussy:

The older I get the more fiercely protective I get of younger girls. I was heading into work yesterday and I saw that 12 year old (I mentioned her before, the one who wore makeup) talking to this older man. She’s normally really bubbly but she looked a little more subdued talking to him so I go over and loudly say “Hey sweetheart, who’s this?” And the guys just glares at me and she says “oh um his name is Justin.” And I’m like “Hi Justin, how do you know her?” And he gets nervous and is like “I just saw her jogging and thought I’d give her pointers.” So I just kinda tilted my head and looked at him for a minute. He literally asked me “are you a cop or something? I haven’t done anything wrong.” So I took her to the McDonald’s near by, bought her something and had a talk about not talking to strangers. Low key I’m debating the next time I see her parents (they drop her off at the gym and leave her there for hours) to maybe have a talk with them or something. Idk if it’s my place tho

Just to add because some messaged me saying that I was being a nosey bitch: so a woman who used to go to my gym (and my same university. Like I used to see her at my job and on campus) actually went missing not far from my intersection (literally a 5 min walk away from the major intersection) on may 10 and they found her body literally last week (June 19). Everyone has been on high alert lately so when I saw this random dude talking to this little girl, my brain immediately went into defence panic mode. So yeah call me nosey if you want

This world could use more nosey b*tches.

I’ll stop being a nosey bitch when males stop being predators

Always be a nosy bitch where young girls are concerned. Always be a nosy bitch where creepy old men are concerned

Always, ALWAYS be a nosy bitch. Better to be wrong and apologize, then be right and not do anything.

As a nosy bitch I want more nosy bitches! Be a nosy bitch and protect children, the youngsters and those who need it! The world is better with nosy bitches! Better misunderstood situation than not trying to prevent something like this to happen.

Alright, so I know literally nobody will see me say this, but— let’s not forget about young boys, mmkay? I’m not saying we should put less focus on the girls, I’m just saying that if we’re gonna tackle pedophilia and stuff maybe we could go after the entire thing???

Like, nothing against this— I love it— but in my school (Which is a high school) I know this guy who’s about 14 going 15 bragging about losing his virginity a week or so after he turned 14 (I wasn’t there, but a friend or two were there and they said it happened) “Yeah, so this woman started talking to me, and we hit it off” is what I can say if I remove what most would deem….. Too explicit??

Anyways, back to the topic on hand, from every description I got from him, (As well as the friend(s)??? He was with) I came to the conclusion that the woman was by no means within 14-15, AT ALL, and I’d even go on to say she might be above 25….

Of course, I have to go on their word, the story might be a lie itself, so I can never be too sure. (Yes, his parents are “aware” of this story, but he had made it out that the woman he slept with was a few MONTHS older, but to be honest, that doesn’t make me worry less)

BOYS ARE INCLUDED! CHILDREN OF ALL KINDS! NOSY BITCHES EVERYWHERE TO PROTECT CHILDREN! BE SAVE MY LITTLE ONES!!! ALSO BE SAFE EVERYONE!!