I Didn’t Think About It That Way, But You’re Right! That Sort Of Indoctrination Is Clearly Starting

GOP: We must follow the Constitution THE THE LETTER ALL THE TIME NO MATTER WHAT BECAUSE THE FOUNDING FATHERS!

Me: Oh, okay. Glad you mentioned that. See, here's this thing in the Constitution where it says that the president shall appoint Supreme Court Justices, and now that there's a vacancy on the Supreme Court, President Obama's Constitutional duty is to appoint a new justice.

GOP: But Obama is in his last year of office!

Me: You mean like Ronald Reagan was when he nominated Anthony Kennedy?

GOP: But

Me: Yeah, go ahead and say something critical of Ronald Reagan.

GOP: Well. He. It. See. Ronald Rrrrreee...

Me: I'll wait. Take your time.

GOP: RrRrrrOoooonnnnaLllddddddd.......

Me: Are you okay?

GOP: Rrrrrreeeaaagggg gggg gggg gggg ggbbzzt bzzt bzzzzzt

Me: Are ... are you having a system freeze?

GOP: (a)bort, (r)etry, (f)ail?

Me: Let's go with fail. That's what you're best at.

I do not understand this “male privilege" bullshit.

What. Fucking. Privileges. Do. Men. Have.???????

Name them. I swear, I challenge you to name these “male privileges" and be able to prove them. 

Come on, I fucking dare you. 

Name them!

Are you doing okay?

When your partner misgenders you 😁😁😁😁😁

Roller Derby is the most amazing sport I have ever been a part of. 

New players are enthusiastically welcomed and made to feel a part of the community.

The community is incredibly accepting of LGBTQIA+ people.

Everyone actually uses your pronouns for you.

If you have to correct someone on your pronouns, they’ll start using correct ones.

Derby is the first place where I met openly LGBTQIA+ people my own age.

The local adult league has an all-gender restroom at all of their bouts.

It’s also full of feminists.

It basically includes everyone.

If you don’t want to play contact, you don’t have to! Everyone gets to learn at their own pace.

Basically it’s an incredibly inclusive and welcoming environment.

Roller Derby

Okay, story time, folks.

So I’m in a junior roller derby league (to young to be in the full on ones), been playing for six years, non skating official one year. And holy crap, I can’t even express the love.

Today, during half time, the part of the league that wasn’t drinking water was discussing gender, BDSM and how horrible 50 shades was and how it wasn’t BDSM, it was rape. We talked about abusive relationships, and the people who were less educated on anything just asked questions. RESPECTFULLY.

Everyone tries their hardest to understand everyone. All of the games for our states big league is translated into sign language (explaining the rules and such) so deaf individuals can understand the commentary.

The policies for the game are made to particularly protect women, people with special needs (sensory issues, hearing, processing, so on) and trans people. There’s a huge, and I do mean HUGE LGBT presence in derby. Heck, two of my trainers (I’m only a stand in coach, but I guess I would count as the third?) are Genderless, most all of my teammates are bi, pan, trans, gay, or questioning.

The newer people are always cheered for and aren’t ever belittled, and are set to learn at their own pace.

Religion isn’t ever a big deal.

One of the whole things about derby is to stop slut shaming and sex shaming so it’s always really open, but in a okay manner I guess (hard to explain?!), so it doesn’t feel violating, just open and happy. But slut shaming is never a thing.

Every person has a story behind their derby name, and their derby name is an identity.

Roller Derby is freaking rad and I love it. I love our community. I love everything about it.

Ppsssst you should too maybe

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Users: We don't like these new updates and would prefer you to change it back and spend your time on different features, eg making a messaging system.

Staff: Okay... Sounds fake

Of course we should consider people innocent until proven guilty, but that doesn’t mean that we should ignore the victim. If someone says “So-and-so raped me,” that’s significant evidence that so-and-so raped them. People making false rape accusations are extremely rare.

In most crimes, if someone says they were the victim of a crime committed by another specific person, we believe the victim. Yet somehow, when it comes to rape, suddenly we assume the victim is lying.

@theshynekotaru : What evidence would you consider sufficient, if the eyewitness evidence of the victim isn’t enough for you?

Toby Turner aka Tobuscus

There’s been allegations about him and I just want to say that it’s still innocent until proven guilty not guilty until proven innocent. Rape claims can ruin someones life and unfortunately there’s been so many people who have lied about being raped by friends or strangers, and even famous people that yes people are cautious as hell.

It happened with Yammimash, Pewdiepie, Markiplier, Basically, Lui, and many many others.

People can make false allegations so it’s best to get the FULL story, from all sides, before just jumping onto the victims side or the accused side.

Some peopel have found evidence that the girl may not have been where she claimed to be during one of the dates and other people close to Toby have come out in support of him and others in support fo the supposed victim.

We don’t have enough evidence to convict him fully and we don’t have evidence to prove him innocent either.

Do NOT just jump to conclusions with rape allegations there needs to be provided proof that isn’t just text messages or tweets as they can easily be faked by hundreds of various free softwares online.

Usually by inquiring why, as this does, based on the definition of feminism, seem a little bit strange.

You mean by saying that sex should be consensual? Because that’s basically all that feminists are saying.

I've never seen anyone try to control women like a group of feminists

Why is this so accurate?

HUMANISTS:

Expectation- Grow! Strive! Excel!

Reality- Government of, by, and for the most insufferable shitheads you knew in high school

BRILLISTS:

Expectation- Unlock the mysteries of the human psyche!

Reality- Your president is a smug sack of shit who’s also computer-racist

EUROPEANS:

Expectation- Unbreakable bonds of cultural tradition

Reality- “You seized my borderlands, you executed my hero, you conquered me a thousand years ago, and I remember.”

COUSINS:

Expectation- Altruism, community, common good

Reality- Some rando’s crashing on your couch six out of seven nights and it’d be too awkward to say anything at this point

UTOPIANS:

Expectation- Join our constellations and build the future! Also, Fursona-Pokémon are real and you can have one!

Reality- I Fucking Love Science + ENDLESS SCRUPULOSITY HELL

MASONS:

Expectation- Power. Order. Eternal tradition.

Reality- Facebook feed is endless unironic “when did THIS [modern architecture] become hotter than THIS [Byzantine spires]”

MITSUBISHI:

Expectation- Noble stewards of our terrestrial inheritance

Reality- Everyone’s least-favorite rent-seeker, and you don’t even have close to enough property to have a say in anything

WHITELAWS:

Expectation: Morally upright, clean living, stable communities

Reality: Mormonism but without the pretense of spiritual development

GRAYLAWS:

Expectation- Join the one group that isn’t directly run by lunatics

Reality- Somehow even more milquetoast than just becoming a Cousin because your ba'pas are

BLACKLAWS:

Expectation- Proud, honorable libertines, shining example of voluntary self-governance

Reality- The worst possible overlap in the Venn diagram of ancaps and LARPers

George Lucas: if you make gay stuff about my characters I'll sue you

*3 decades later*

George Lucas: *sells Star Wars*

Oscar Isaac: Poe is in love with Finn

Carrie Fisher: Obi-Wan Kenobi is bisexual

Mark Hamill: Luke's sexuality is never addressed in the movies, also he could be trans and even if he isn't he supports trans people because all Jedi do