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in-the-right:

actionhank:

pyra-the-pyro:

lovethroughtheairwaves:

pink-mama:

littleselfia:

miss-doctorwhom:

lacigreen:

did you know you can’t “POP your cherry”?  In this video i talk about:

what the hymen really is
how this myth is some sexist bullshit
and how to deal with your hymen the 1st time you have sex.

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She is amazing.

I’m exceptionally pissed off that this is news to me.

I’m really fucking pissed off that I did not know this and it’s my own goddamned body.

I had a freaking kid and didn’t know this.

The only reason I knew this is because of the sex talk with my Mom I had about six months ago. It’s awful how many women don’t know this about their own bodies.

They need to teach this shit in sex ed. 

very informative. good stuff! ladies, watch! (and men, too)

This is very informative. I just don’t understand why this has to be about “patriarchy” or some kind of sexist thing men do to perpetuate a myth.

Furthermore, women DO allow men to “take” their virginity, as men allow women the same. It just so happens that being the receiver is a more submissive position, as is femininity. This is why God made sex for monogamous marriage, and why he made male and female roles the way they are. The way it’s supposed to work is that, during sex after marriage, the eternal commitment to your partner, you bare your soul to your partner (figuratively), trust each other with your vulnerabilities. It’s a profound bonding experience meant for life partners. Men are the leaders but also the protectors and respecters of women, and women are the helpers but also the validators and most cherished person to men. There’s no competition or prize-winning achievement or shame. God’s plan works immaculately, and deviation from it causes the previously expressed problems.

I wonder if women realize that men are never taught this ever. At any point in our lives. Ever at all. Not in sex ed. Not in anything. Ever. EVER. No one teaches us how to treat women during sex. Or how women’s bodies work.

And then people wonder why men don’t know that women’s periods sync. Or that PMS comes before the period. Or why men think penis size is important. It’d be nice if people actually taught us guys about sex so we could know what women actually want/need from us before we do it for the first time. 

Most of us just make it up as we go along or pick it up from porn or get erroneous information passed onto us from other guys that don’t have any idea what the heck they’re doing down there. Or we compare the only thing we have thinking that just cause it’s bigger it makes it better. 

nosdoog:

motorizedmycologist:

thepeoplesrecord:

The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person
May 7, 2013

Charles Ramsey, the man who helped rescue three Cleveland women presumed dead after going missing a decade ago, has become an instant Internet meme. It’s hardly surprising—the interviews he gave yesterday provide plenty of fodder for a viral video, including memorable soundbites (“I was eatin’ my McDonald’s”) and lots of enthusiastic gestures. But as Miles Klee and Connor Simpson have noted, Ramsey’s heroism is quickly being overshadowed by the public’s desire to laugh at and autotune his story, and that’s a shame. Ramsey has become the latest in a fairly recent trend of “hilarious” black neighbors, unwitting Internet celebrities whose appeal seems rooted in a “colorful” style that is always immediately recognizable as poor or working-class.

Before Ramsey, there was Antoine Dodson, who saved his younger sister from an intruder, only to wind up famous for his flamboyant recounting of the story to a reporter. Since Dodson’s rise to fame, there have been others: Sweet Brown, a woman who barely escaped her apartment complex during a fire last year, and Michelle Clarke, who couldn’t fathom the hailstorm that rained down in her hometown of Houston, and in turn became “the next Sweet Brown.”

Granted, the buzzworthy tactic of reporters interviewing the most loquacious witnesses to a crime or other event is nothing new, and YouTube has countless examples of people of all ethnicities saying ridiculous things. One woman, for instance, saw fit to casually mention her breasts while discussing a local accident, while another man described a car crash with theatrical flair. Earlier this year, a “hatchet-wielding hitchhiker” named Kai matched Dodson’s fame with his astonishing account of rescuing a woman from a racist attacker. But none of those people have been subjected to quite the same level of derisive memeification as Brown, Clark, and now, perhaps, Ramsey—the inescapable echoes of “Hide yo’ kids, hide yo’ wife!” and “Kabooyaw,” the tens of millions of YouTube hits and cameos in other viral videos, even commercials.

It’s difficult to watch these videos and not sense that their popularity has something to do with a persistent, if unconscious, desire to see black people perform. Even before the genuinely heroic Ramsey came along, some viewers had expressed concern that the laughter directed at people like Sweet Brown plays into the most basic stereotyping of blacks as simple-minded ramblers living in the “ghetto,” socially out of step with the rest of educated America. Black or white, seeing Clark and Dodson merely as funny instances of random poor people talking nonsense is disrespectful at best. And shushing away the question of race seems like wishful thinking.

Ramsey is particularly striking in this regard, since, for a moment at least, he put the issue of race front and center himself. Describing the rescue of Amanda Berry and her fellow captives, he says, “I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway!”

The candid statement seems to catch the reporter off guard; he ends the interview shortly afterward. And it’s notable that among the many memorable things Ramsey said on camera, this one has gotten less meme-attention than most. Those who are simply having fun with the footage of Ramsey might pause for a second to actually listen to the man. He clearly knows a thing or two about the way racism prevents us from seeing each other as people.

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Now that you know this is a thing, please stop sharing these memes. Poor Black people speaking candidly about various serious incidents isn’t a hilarious joke.

i think possibly a lot of people don’t really get why these memes are a problem, particularly people who don’t really stay abreast of memes at all (in which case, well done, you.) this sums it all up pretty well. in Charles Ramsey’s case it’s even more disgusting, IMO, because of the gravity of the situation at hand— these three women were held for OVER A DECADE in that house, one of them gave BIRTH and raised a CHILD during that time. the implications are beyond horrifying, and this man helped to set these women free, and somehow the IMMEDIATE reaction of some people is “oh man we gotta autotune this guy he’s total meme material”? it’s gross as hell, and to claim that class or race has nothing to do with it is either really disingenuous or REALLY naive.

reblogging again because this is super fucking important 

Reblogging because the thoughts and ideas portrayed here are really REALLY stupid. 

“This guy did something great stop talking about him”? I mean what? If anything he deserves to be a meme because he helped someone! When someone does something good you don’t sweep them under the rug! 

Would you do that to a white guy? Racists! Bigots  Why can’t a poor black person become a meme!? And furthermore, look at Sweet Brown and Antoine Dodson and even Ted fricking Williams!

Lets start with Mr. Dodson. He has released no less than 3 songs AND has made money from merchandise from the whole thing. And he’s been on TV several times. He became a house hold name and what happened to him and what he’s been through remains in everyone’s mind rather than being forgotten like the multitude of other rape victims.

Sweet Brown is currently in the midst of a lawsuit to acquire 15 million dollars. 

Ted Williams now has a home and a steady job doing voice over work after having been homeless and having a prior criminal record and life of hardships. 

So screw this crap. Sometimes becoming a meme is the best thing that actually happened to these people. Its an opportunity for them and not everyone has such low self esteem as you to think that they’re being made fun of for being themselves. 

What if Dodson had been forgotten, huh? What would have happened then? Would his life be better off? I don’t think so. What about anyone else? 

You wouldn’t be signal boosting this garbage if it were a white guy. And lets not pretend this is about race because race was brought into it from line one. “The troubling viral trend of the “hilarious” Black poor person“ 

Screw you and your racist crap. It has nothing to do with being black. Let them have their moment in the sun. If they want to be in the limelight they will be. If they don’t want to be they can step back and not do anything about it. But HOW DARE YOU attempt to take the very opportunity away from them. 

And furthermore! Those events will NOT be forgotten. And that’s what’s MOST important. These events DESERVE to be remembered  and told and repeated. If its a meme that’s all the better. Then everyone will know what happened. So screw you. 

in-the-right:

sweeetie-pie:

in-the-right:

fallen-flowers:

atticusatticus:

sunshinekindlyhere:

I will never shop at that store ever!!!

i thought this was a joke but 

no

and even if it were

it still wouldn’t matter

they do shit like this all the time apparently, they make sexist and racist statements.

i remember a while ago some girls boycotted the store because they had shirts like  ”Who needs brains when you have these(Boobs)?” 

so yeah

A & F is not smart

Boycott these a-holes.

Their prices lost my consumer interest years ago. 50 dollars for a t-shirt? 100 dollars for a hoodie? NOPE.

Limited edition, let’s do some simple addition; fifty dollars for a T-shirt, that’s just some ignorant BS. I call that getting swindled and pimped. I call that getting tricked by a business~

I’m all for boycotting. But… I mean, these things have been known and mentioned by employees for years. And I applied for a job there once and it was clearly stated and set up like a modeling competition.

I mean, for years people have told stories about overweight customers being asked to leave, ect. 

But the thing you have to remember the thing about boycotts is… if youre not part of their target market, they’re not going to care anyway. You want to make them care? You have to hit them where it hurts. And where does it hurt? Their wallet. And what fills their wallet? I’ll tell you who doesn’t. Over weight people. 

So… Just honestly speaking…. I dont think they’d consider it bad if overweight people stopped shopping there. That’s kinda what they want. Also as a business they do have a right to shoot themselves in the foot and refuse service to people. 

Who will decide if they go out of business? The target market. The thinner people that shop there. It’s all in their hands. 

(Though I guess people could form picket lines in front of the stores.)

(Source: livefitandhealthy)