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Women. All sexualities. All races. All social and economic status'.
I'm against the death penalty.
I'm pro choice and pro freedom.
I use my right to sexual liberation.
Living in Canberra, 2012.
Will travel the world very soon.
I'll probably offend you.
Also, I'm new here. So play nice.
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That was a brilliant Q&A
“The wealth in lybia didn’t trickle down, but the madness certainly did.”
GENIOUS.
(Source: insearchofanhonestman)
Courtship of the peacock jumping spider in Australia.
FUCK YEAH AUSTRALIA
I researched this, and it’s even in sydney. I fucking love my town.
(Source: khoaismissing)
If you’re against appendectomies, re-post!
Hi Jack!
I’m your appendix, I’m just over four inches long and love hanging out on the right lower quadrant of your abdomen where it’s warm and cozy.
I love you, as your body provides me with nourishment, oxygen and blood to keep me alive.
I look like a worm, and I’m really happy to be in here. In return I harbor and protect beneficial bacteria for use in your gut. We’re friends, we help each other out.
The other day, I heard you talking to the doctor. What’s an appendectomy? That’s a funny word.
I didn’t like the doctor, he sounds mean and cold. What’s the word “septic” mean? What is he talking about?
Oh this is strange, what’s going on, there’s light! It’s cold! It’s always been dark and warm.
What is that shiny thing? Some kind of knife???
Jack! They are cutting me out of you! Why?! I love you! I thought you loved me!!!
Jack, they are tossing me aside in a plastic bag! I’m going to die! Don’t you love me Jack? Why would you let them do this to me? I’m part of you, we’ve been through so much together.
A thinking, sentient appendix makes about as much sense as a thinking, feeling mass of cells, which is the stage at which nearly all abortions are performed.
Re-blog if you support a woman’s right to choose what to do with her own body and what will grow in it.
This is what an actual abortion looks like when terminated at 5-6 weeks, the forceps point to the gestational sac. All other tissue is tissue, from the uterus associated with the pregnancy:
This is the gestational sac from a termination of pregnancy at 6-7 weeks.
If anti-abortion activists dealt in reality versus propaganda, maybe a real conversation on trying to reduce the number of abortions could be had, via prevention and pregnancy assistance.
Koreans and blackface
I know how a lot of people really want to avoid talking about this topic and what needs to be said has, for the most part, been said, but I feel like I should add my two cents in anyway
as a mainland-born korean, I immigrated to the states when I was just five years old. I didn’t grow up in a sheltered, racist community - blacks, whites, hispanics, and everyone in general got along fine. I attended (and still go to) public school.
not once did my teachers or any textbook pages teach me about blackface. guess how I learned about it?
you guys know the infamous Kikwang blackface incident? I wasn’t there for all the wank (because I was on vacation lol) but when I came back and saw the picture, I was confused and had this really uncomfortable feeling about it. I couldn’t really process my thoughts because it was the first time I was ever exposed to blackface. but I knew right off the bat that it was meant to be offensive - like how kids in elementary school would give me the ‘chinky face’ by stretching their eyes to the side, mocking my race. (I know the scale is different, I’m just saying that I knew it was wrong right when I saw it.)
anyways, I started doing my research on it and I was surprised how something this offensive and impertinent is not addressed properly in today’s society - even in the USA. I was 16, turning 17 a week later then. that’s roughly one year ago. only roughly one year ago did I learn the term ‘blackface’.
lately on Korean TV (there’s known to be some in the past, but it seems to be more evident these days - it’s like they’re trying to make it a trend) there’s all these celebrities doing blackface. now, for what intent they do that seems pretty obvious - to provide entertainment to the audience - to make them laugh.
recently I watched the Idol Star Athletics Championship. right as the show starts, I see this.
as you can see here, Boom’s supposed to be depicting Stevie Wonder. it screams offensive because of the blackface, but do you know what the captions say?
“Boom impersonates Stevie wonder, a figure he respects.” ironic right? I’m not even sugarcoating it - 존경 means honor or respect. and that’s when it hit me: Koreans do blackface because they think they are honoring African Americans.
now I’m not saying that blackface is okay, nor am I defending their act of doing so, but take it into context: was it really their intent to insult the black race?
if you search blackface (Korean: 흑인 분장) in a Korean portal site, 99% of the results are “how to do blackface”, “where to get the materials needed”, and “how to make it look ‘natural’”. not one result that I found showed any signs of hostility toward black people - they just want to ‘depict’ them, for characterization.
Koreans and a lot of other people in this world don’t know that blackface is racist because they don’t know the historical context. they don’t teach Korean students about American slavery in school (unless they choose a really rare major like American Historian, but even so, the chances that the wrongs of blackface is taught is very slim. Like I said earlier, I grew up here for the majority of my life and I only figured it out last year through independent research).
so instead of judging Korea as a whole because of these unfortunate events, spend that time making a petition or figuring out some way to let the Korean embassy or a high authority who has relations with the Korean government know that Korea needs to know that blackface is wrong and WHY it’s wrong. especially now that kpop stars are focusing on becoming internationally recognized and whatnot, they have to learn to be sensitive to other people’s cultures. they can’t perform in front of the world if they’re going to keep degrading a culture like that. they need to be informed that there is NOTHING honorable or respectful about blackface.
“This is not a “one race” one country” problem people!! It involves every human being! The sooner we recognize this the sooner we can work together to fix it!” - Yoon Mirae/Tasha via twitter
there’s actually more I wanted to say like blackface is only racist because the USA created made it that way, if nothing like that ever happened it would only be used as makeup for character purposes, and surely there’s a handful of people who do know the historical context behind it but laugh anyway but it’s still important to teach the country as a whole, etc. but I’m rereading every single thing I type several times to make sure I don’t offend anybody (but with a topic like this, it’s likely that I’ll strike a nerve somewhere) and it’s making my head hurt and I’ve pretty much said everything that I wanted to say so I’ll leave it at that lol
tl;dr koreans and other people in the world are uneducated about blackface so instead of judging them we as a whole need to teach them why it’s bad etc
All I’m getting from this is that since Koreans weren’t taught about slavery and blackface, it’s not their fault if they come off as racist. They just don’t know any better.
Oh, okay. Because that’s a good excuse for everything. Not.
And that if Americans didn’t make blackface racist, it wouldn’t be racist nowadays.
What?
No, this is a really interesting read. She’s saying that the Koreans see it as respectful to do this, as if they’re saying “We want to be black” or “I’d be happy to be black” or “I want to be like you”. They just don’t understand that people find it offensive, they think people find it flattering. She then says we need to teach them about it, saying that yes, this is offensive so they have to stop.
That make more sense?
I can’t even
The topic of abortion came up in my American Government class this afternoon. Abortion is a topic very near and dear to my heart. And I am 100% against it. This girl who acts like she knows everything about anything discussed in class, was pro-choice, of course. I wasn’t going to jump into this conversation- because I know I can get nasty- until she said the words
“It’s not a baby. They don’t care. They don’t feel or think. Its the mother’s choice.”
Then of course, the short tempered bitch that I am, I jumped in the debate. And out of anger, I said a few things I should not have said. On average, 50 BABIES survive abortions every year. When those babies grow up, they DO care. They DO feel. And they DO think. It was the mother’s choice. Bet its grand waking up in the morning, looking at yourself in the mirror and knowing your mother’s choice was to terminate your existence. Oh wait.
What she said was correct.
It’s not a baby, it’s a fetus. A fetus will not care, feel or think, and it’s the pregnant person’s choice.
Those survivors of abortions were aborted after 5+ months of pregnancy. Abortion in Australia is illegal after 10 weeks, or 12 weeks in extreme circumstance. So no, sorry. No child would survive an abortion, if the abortion is done legally.
Oh wow no he didn’t.
Women and men can do whatever they want sexually between two consenting adults. Anything. It doesn’t effect anyone and therefore it doesn’t matter. Therefore, don’t call people sluts!
It’s a horrible derogatory term designed to put people down about their sexual choices, in the same way fridget does. Don’t use it.
And the fact this has 48000 notes?
I just hope this got picked up by a chain of people who have some sort of rational thought - because I am ashamed of the tumblr community now.
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