Spraying peaceful protesters with freezing water in freezing temps is not normal.
Alt-right isn’t a thing. It’s called White Supremacy. It isn’t normal.
Fascism in the White House isn’t normal.
President-elects picking fights with FUCKING Broadway casts isn’t normal.
Teachers calling students “niggers,” or telling Muslim and Mexican students they will be deported isn’t normal.
Trump isn’t normal.
Do not normalize this. It will get innocent people brutalized and killed. Speak up. Get up.
WAKE. UP.
My mom’s coworker got a phone call from his kids (ages 7 & 5) on the day of the election. They were crying and asking if they were going to be sent back to Africa because some kid at school was taunting them. That is not normal.
[on an article about women being murdered or assaulted for rejecting men]
Women NOT being honest is what bothers me. If you’re going to reject a guy, you tell him squarely. I’ve had a girl give me a fake number before and that was a real kick in the teeth. Like you don’t even respect me enough to give me a straight answer and you don’t respect yourself enough to deal with it?
Ladies, if a guy asks, and you’re not into him, just tell him. If he persists after a strong and simple “no,” then seek help. That’s his fault and his problem, not yours.
Manslation: The emotional stress of receiving a fake number one time FAR outweighs women LITERALLY FUCKING DYING. You should really consider my feelings above all even though you never once asked to be in this situation. It’s obvious you don’t respect yourself, since you are doing your damndest to get away from me. No self-respecting woman would turn me down, am I right? LADIES, quit worrying about angry men making you dead if you say no to them! After all, it only happens some of the time! And if you DO say no and he DOES make you dead, make sure you notify the police RIGHT AWAY that you have been murdered. Is that really so hard?
Tbh this is like clutching your purse and locking your car doors because you think the person might rob you because they’re black.
No, it’s really not, yikes. Someone just walking down the street has not initiated any interaction of any sort, so assuming they have some agenda to come after you is ridiculous. Men asking women out is a very specific scenario in which they are directly seeking a response, putting the woman in a position to have to calculate on the spot the risks involved in each possible reply she could give. It involves actual interaction, decisions that must be made, potential dangers that must be evaluated, reading body language, expectations, and close physical proximity. Nice try tho!!!!!
I don’t have an issue with the manslation I’m bothered that I can’t find the article you’re referencing to and I’ve googled the sentences :/
I mostly pull comments from Facebook these days and I don’t know if they show up on google or not. I just read articles while I’m commuting on the bus and copy and paste comments into drafts. This one was on an article about murder victim Tiarah Poyau.
On The Daily Show with Trevor Noah guest Reshma Saujani, an Indian-American lawyer and politician, discussed the initiative to encourage young women and girls to pursue studies and careers the booming tech field, where they are falling behind. But there are two moments in a girl’s life where we can reverse the trend.
Gifs: The Daily Show/cc.com
Purely in historical terms, coding used to be seen as repetitive, unskilled labour, like typing (look at any pictures of “computers” or “coders” from the 1950s and you’ll see a room that looks exactly like a typing pool) What happened is that coding became seen as a technical skill, which meant it became higher paid, which meant it couldn’t be for women.
This is important, because it reverses what we assume is the direction of the narrative. The PERCEPTION of coding had to change first before the job itself could change. Coding was always difficult, technically skilled and demanding work, but until it was seen as such, it remained “women’s work”. We see the same with roles today that are seen as “feminine” - nursing, for example, is incredibly challenging skilled work, but as soon as it is seen as such it becomes specialised care, which then becomes professional and masculine (and higher paid).
You can’t fix this by focusing on young girls. When someone is constantly moving the goalposts, you have to stop those fuckers first.
Tony Porter: A Call To Men "Tony is the original visionary and co-founder behind A CALL TO MEN: The
National Association of Men and Women Committed to Ending Violence
Against Women. He is the author of "Well Meaning Men...Breaking Out of
the Man Box - Ending Violence Against Women" and the visionary for the
book, NFL Dads Dedicated to Daughters.
Tony's message of accountability is welcome and supported by many
grassroots and established organizations. He’s currently working with
numerous domestic and sexual violence programs, the National Football
League, the National Basketball Association, colleges and universities
around the country. He has worked with the United States Military
Academy at West Point and the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.
Tony is an international lecturer for the U.S. State Department having
worked in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Kingdom and
Brazil. In addition, he has been a guest presenter for the United
Nations' Commission on the Status of Women and has been a script
consultant for Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." - (x)
Donnell Thompson met the “ID” of being Black and the LAPD shot Donnell Thompson to death from the safety of their armored tank, where they couldn’t have possibly identified him, even if they wanted to.
The list of “suspicious” things that get Black people killed by police is out of control. We demand accountability for the extrajudicial murder of unarmed Black people by the state.
