Meet the faces of the “I’m Sorry” campaign, a group of Christians who go to Chicago’s pride celebrations every year to apologize for their past hateful actions against LGBT people. The group started in 2010 and has since moved to other cities across the world. This is what love looks like. (via the Advocate)
I know it’s color but this needed to be shared
Amazing
A reminder that everyone can change, and that there are truly wonderful and supportive people out there.
nsfw doesn’t mean “sexual” it means “not safe for work” meaning “It can get you in trouble if it comes up on your screen at work”
so stop trying to make a political statement by not listing nudity as nsfw, which it is, and actually be considerate for people who don’t want to get fucking fired because their boss sees them scrolling past nude images on their screen.
thank
My litmus test is, “Would this get me in trouble with my parents, especially as a minor?”
(If your parents are chill, think about kids with parents who are still trying to restrict their kids’ access to ‘bad’ content.)
I’m not good at consistency in any area but that’s the idea.
i think about this: would i want one of the kids i work with to see me scroll past this?
if there is any nude or gore, the answer is usually no. sometimes i forget, though. especially when im mindlessly scrolling.
so anyway. think about whether a young kid should see the content (and dont be like “but we should be more open about nakedness!!!” because believe me if i were to show a three-year-old a picture of an erect penis, not only would i lose my job but they’d probably be scarred for life.)
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
Every child I know under the age of 10 is unbelievably chill about gender and tbh I’m jealous
Me, teaching a pagan kids class: “A lot of people think that the deity Loki might be genderfluid, do any of you know what genderfluid means?”
8 year old, rolling his eyes like that’s the stupidest question he’s ever heard: “Everyone knows what genderfluid means”
Little sister: *walks into the kitchen looking incredibly masc*
Me: “Nice outfit, a lot of afab folks have to work really hard to look that masculine.”
Little sister: *takes headphones halfway off and gives me a blank stare* “Why? Is clothing gendered or something?”
Me: “No, but a lot of people will assume things about your gender based on your clothing”
Little sister: *Puting her headphones back on as she walks away* “Oh, cool I guess.”
9 year old that I babysit sometimes: “What’s that flag on your shirt?”
Me: “It’s the nonbinary flag. It means that I’m not a boy or a girl.”
9 year old: “I know what it means, have like 5 nonbinary friends, duh.”
I’m fucking begging the terfs in my notes to read literally anything about children’s gender development.
“It’s because kids aren’t old enough to know that gender is based on sex” Buddy two-year-olds can distinguish people based on secondary sex characteristics, the cis-binary view of gender isn’t hard to grasp. It actually takes children until about age 6-7 for their ideas about gender to be less based on gender stereotypes and more on their individual experience with gender, and for them to recognize and respect gender variant people. So like the fact that y’all’s idea of gender never got past the complexity of a toddlers is not my fault or my problem.
Also, I know very few parents who actually enforce trans and nonbinary acceptance with their children. The majority of kids are still being told by their parents that “boys have penises and girls have vaginas” it’s just that most kids today have enough gender-variant friends, caretakers, and tv role models, to establish individually that that is false and that gender is more complex than that. This isn’t evil trans people brainwashing your children, this is intelligent children developing critical thinking skills and coming to their own conclusions.
Okay, new rule: if you regularly consume the blood and flesh of a demigod in a room full of chanting elders you’re not allowed to call other religions primitive and evil
This is oddly specific and leaves some very interesting questions unanswered.
Catholicism sure does sound weird when you put it that way.
