Author: rushkeating

gaylor-moon:

elaxisfae:

sjw-gladion:

scumbugg:

iamyoursmoldad:

transmasculineselfielove:

3 ½ years on T, 3 years post top surgery, and turning 55 in July 😳. It’s never too late.

❤

This makes me so happy

Never too late!!!!!

Whoever this is, bless you. Fucking bless you. Even if I don’t have the resources to transition soon, this gives me hope that I can still become the man I want to be 20+ years in the future. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

And thank you to everyone who reblogged this until it reached my dash, too. Thank you for giving me the ability to see this. I have HOPE now.

This is so important! I feel like there are never enough images of older trans people

oh my god this is wonderful 💖💖💖💖

Forreal though we need to stop responding to new people moving to places with “stop moving here!” and start responding with “how can we accommodate you in the most economically and socially just fashion possible?” and we need to start doing it fast before millions of people die due to climate change.

captainsnoop:

say what you want about elon musk but you gotta admit it’s extremely funny that the rescue team got those boys out before elon could even finish masturbating all over his shitty little escape pod 

like he was hemming and hawing over what kind of music to load it with and the thai rescue teams just. got the job done normally. without him. he contributed jack shit and his shitty little submarine was rendered useless by completely standard scuba gear and a few determined workers. 

dude tried playing the white savior just got blown the fuck out by people who actually cared about what was going on 

kickingshoes:

lacommunarde:

thebibliosphere:

trustinmedontyoujudgeorquestion:

thebibliosphere:

trustinmedontyoujudgeorquestion:

thebibliosphere:

unendingballofstress:

thebibliosphere:

revolutionaryshoe:

thebibliosphere:

thebibliosphere:

It is approximately a bajillion degrees outside (90°f) and I regret any and all life choices that lead to me being outside right at this very moment.

I am too Scottish for this nonsense.

We cannae help you fam, we’re dying here. It was 30 degrees at 6.30pm, The grass has gone brown. The Highlands are literally on fire. Nowhere has any air conditioning because of course we don’t it’s f*cking Scotland

We haven’t seen rain in weeks and we’re starting to lose all sense of identity. 

My da’ keeps telling me the garden is on fire, I thought he was kidding.

Ya’ll are weak af

I get these kind of comments are typically jokey, but these are literally dangerous temperatures for people not used to them, and the UK doesn’t typically get this hot for more than a random day let alone weeks. It’s about 20°f hotter than it usually gets in some places for this time of year, so people are a) not used to it b) have no air conditioning and c) no idea how to handle this kind of heat at all and d) you dinnae ken humidity till you’ve felt Scotland in the middle of a heatwave, it’s like wading uphill through treacle, and the air sits in the lungs like swamp water. And I moved to Minnesota for gods sake. We only have two seasons, hell and frozen hell.

So maybe gonnae no wi your non helpful comments when people who never have to deal wi this kind of thing struggle tae deal wi it.

There’s nae gold medal at the end of the suffering Olympics, only gilt.

Uhh, even people that live in the heat aren’t used to it & still struggle to cope?

Try living in Australia, 90F is a breezy summers eve, it can get over 120F and you want to peel your skin off & move into the freezer.

What did I literally just say.

We risk dying almost every day in summer here but sure 😂😂😂😂 fucking hell, I knew the Europeans were the biggest babies ever but this ridiculous

Ah I see, you think being mean is actually a worthy attribute. Unfortunate.

Bye.

Cape Cod tends to get really hot in the summer and the humidity is such that nothing dries, ever. But Cape Cod is used to it and may complain a bit. But is used to it. For people who aren’t, and likely whose bodies just will not handle heat without thinking they are dying and trying to die of dehydration if it gets a degree over 80 F (I am used to it, and my body still pulls that stuff every summer, so I have to be on Oral Rehydration Salts that are typically given to hikers in the summer and kids with cholera). So below is a recipe for Oral Rehydration Salts for those who aren’t used to heatwaves and the rest of you can stfu:

½ teaspoon of salt

1 teaspoon of sugar

1 teaspoon of electrolytes, or vitamin C (lemon juice or orange juice will work just fine)

16 oz or a liter of water

Mix and drink until feeling less like your body is trying to die from sweating so much.

That recipe is going to be super helpful when the heatwave hits later this week thank you T___T

I hate posts like this. People in cold rainy places like Scotland tend not to have AC. Public buildings also tend not to have AC in Europe because it’s not second nature like how it is in the US. Also homes in cold places are built to retain heat, which can be brutal in the summer. Stop being jerks.

Don’t confused ‘oppression’ with ‘first world problems’, it’s a rookie error among feminists.

lavvyan:

thehenaproject:

cherrispryte:

feministbatwoman:

Wow, okay buddy, you’re BEGGING for a takedown here. 

First world problems? Not a thing. People who say shit like “first world problems” are massive racist, imperialist, dismissive assholes. 

If you’re ever tempted to say “first world problems,” do me a favor, and pull down a map. Tell me EXACTLY where the “third world” is. Make sure you correctly identify Switzerland as part of the third world, and Turkey as part of the First World. Don’t forget that Djibouti is a part of the first world. 

Literally sit down and learn what “third world” means and why people from nonwestern nations  think it’s a total bullshit term. 

Second: you think people in the so-called third world don’t care about shit like makeup, and love, and technology? You think they don’t care about internet harassment? You think women over there don’t care about street harassment? You think they don’t care about fashion and clothes? You think they don’t care about music and video games?

Because THEY DO. 

Right now, there is a woman in burundi teaching herself how to do a cut-crease eyeshadow look. Guaranteed. 

“Third world” nations have fashion shows and fashion magazines. They care about street harassment. They care about the internet. They play video games. They know more about anime than your sorry ass every will. And the idea of “first world problems,” which makes it sound like all women in “third world” nations are dealing with starvation, rape, war, acid attacks etc. 

Is bullshit.

Rank. 

Bullshit. 

Women in Iran spend shitloads of money on makeup. Women in the DRC don’t just care about rape. Rape – the ONE THING westerners can be expected to know about women in Congo-Kinshasa – ranks NUMBER FOUR on the list of issues women in Congo want addressed. Political participation is number 1. Economic empowerment is number 2. Women in India are passionate about information technology, and you know what they hate? Coming to the United States, where Indian women in STEM are suddenly considered LESS GOOD than their male colleagues.  My friends in Senegal taught ME how to download movies off the internet. Zimbabwe has a fashion week. 

As Teju Coal points out: 

“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.

One event that illustrated the gap between the Africa of conjecture and the real Africa was the BlackBerry outage of a few weeks ago. Who would have thought Research In Motion’s technical issues would cause so much annoyance and inconvenience in a place like Lagos? But of course it did, because people don’t wake up with “poor African” pasted on their foreheads. They live as citizens of the modern world. None of this is to deny the existence of social stratification and elite structures here. There are lifestyles of the rich and famous, sure. But the interesting thing about modern technology is how socially mobile it is—quite literally. Everyone in Lagos has a phone.” 

95% of the people who use bullshit expressions like “First world problems” have NO IDEA what life is like for people in the so-called third world. You just like sitting there derailing. 

And for the record? As a white, western feminist, DAMN RIGHT I concentrate on issues in the United States. Because when white western feminists try to “save” women outside the west? We do a SHIT job of it. We’re the ones who bowl over actual congolese women, and what THEY want, and say that the #1 issue affecting them is rape. We become arms of the imperialist patriarchal complex. 

Classic example: the guy who was ruling Egypt for the British got british feminists to help him in his anti-headscarf campaign in Egypt. Why did he hate headscarves? Because he wanted to *break the spirit* of Egyptians. Not because he gave a shit about women’s rights. 
How do I know that? 
Because he was the head of the anti-women’s-suffrage group in England. 

When women who live outside the west do awesome things, I will signal-boost them, and I will do whatever they think I can do to help. But I follow their lead. Because these are THEIR issues, and THEY know what matters to them. Not me. 

FINALLY: My problems are not trivial. My problems are not bullshit. My problems are not to be dismissed with your racist, imperialist logic. Dress codes and makeup and music and books and video games MATTER. They matter to me. They matter to my life. 

So fuck you. 

And fuck your assumptions. 

And maybe consider that YOUR first world problem? 
Is that you can’t “see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.” 

::stands up and applauds this response::

Have I blogged this before? Still bears repeating.

“Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.”