therisingtithes:

Dear Man,

I am writing you this letter to let you know, in case that you didn’t, that slut-shaming makes you a fucking monster, and doing it to the point of someone’s suicide only to verbally erase its importance makes you lower than dogshit.

Yes, I’m that fucking angry.

Consider the…

Yes. Yes. Thank you.

therisingtithes:

I have started watching CNN recently. It has not made my hope for the world any larger.

A few days ago, a Pakistani girl was shot in the head by the Taliban for saying out loud that girls have a right to be educated.

Back at home, the Minister of National Security is trying to step on the duty…

It’s about time we stand up.

cognitivedissonance:

stfuconservatives:

face-down-asgard-up:

erinburr:

therothwoman:

mswyrr:

voxmyriad:

Holy shit. Holy shit.

Take this viral, Tumblr. Signal boost.

COMPLETELY worth the read.

“My husband left for work at 7 AM. It is now 9 PM and he won’t be home again for two more hours from his second job today. I spent yesterday at the emergency room. I have been waiting for two years for Social Security. I do not understand. How much more do we have to work to show you that your call for jobs isn’t enough? You must also be concerned for the whole nation, and whether we eat, and whether we have medicine. You must care if a hardworking, devoted family like mine is unable to survive after investing their best efforts. How many jobs do you expect every American to take? Three? Four?”

Hero fucking status

Beautiful.

And that letter writer would be my friend Sarah… she’s amazing.

Wow. This is more than worth a read.

fishingboatproceeds:

I mean, I’m not saying that we can enforce this as law or anything. I also might be wrong about this. But:

Just as a general rule, I feel like we should not look at pictures of the breasts or genitalia of people who would rather we not look at pictures of their breasts…

Seems obvious, no?

This is a really intriguing piece about the other piece in the embarrassing Therese Baptiste-Cornelis puzzle: the person she replaced.

The story of Her Excellency’s eight-month tenure is now summarised in a revelatory video of her presentation on cultural diversity—her first keynote address as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary—delivered at the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy (ICD). By now, most of us will have viewed or read the transcript of that painfully embarrassing 30 minutes. This story, though, and the attendant fury, are eight months late; it is a story that started not with Her Excellency Baptiste-Cornelis, but with her predecessor, His Excellency Dennis Francis.

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Having studied his craft with application and dedication, having worked consistently and dutifully under People’s National Movement and United National Congress alike, having contributed tremendously to the well-being of all of us and having represented us with distinction and valour, Dennis Francis was summarily removed from the Geneva mission to make room for our current embarrassment.

This is the consequence of a hitherto unquestioned practice of allocating diplomatic postings to politicians so they can recuperate from political humiliation. The story of these appointments is not only how the incumbents perform, but equally about the disservice done to qualified citizens who quietly serve country with distinction.

Francis deserves our unqualified gratitude and apology. I am sure he is not the only one.

Would it surprise you to know that a law professor has analyzed the second verse of 99 Problems, line by line?

What about if I told you that it’s actually a pretty interesting read?

Long story short: The police don’t actually need a warrant to search your trunk in the U.S.

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(Source: newser.com)

An interesting story of how Twitter helped retrieve a stolen bicycle. Like the author, I don’t know exactly what it means (would it be too much to hope for the police to integrate Twitter into their crime-fighting arsenal?), but it’s an interesting read.

Pardon me while I engage in a shameless plug:

Do click here if you’d like to read my hilarious (if I do say so myself) reaction to “International Panty Day”, reputed to be a day in which women everywhere slipped off their panties and embraced the freedom of internet embarrassment.

This was a difficult read, but it offered interesting insight into the issue of molestation. It’s a more nuanced thing than the unmolested might realize.