You’re more honest with each other.
Bodily functions are something to laugh about.
Sweatpants and tee shirts are a regular thing.
They know what you look like without all the makeup.
Being “laid up and watching Netflix” is the only thing you’re looking forward to after work.
You don’t go on fancy dates as often but you trade that for quality time.
You find yourself being more vulnerable and you open up more.
They become your best friend.
You will able to talk about anything.
You won’t be worried about impressing their parents, you’re just gonna love them anyway regardless of how their parents may feel.
You will have inside jokes that no one else will get.
Sex is not as often but, twice as passionate.
Little fights will happen, but you’ll learn not to sweat the small stuff.
You’ll learn what compromise really is about.
You’ll dream about the future together.
Grow together.
Be on each other’s team.
See their ugly crying face, and be the one to wipe the tears away & do something stupid to make them life. things are amazing after the honeymoon stage. However, it’s a time about giving up your walls and open up some doors you have locked a long time ago.
That’s why some people don’t make it past this point, because they don’t know what unconditional self-love means. Remain open and optimistic, love will never fail you.
I love when this post resurfaces. It’s like a gentle reminder.
“A long-term study of children
raised by lesbians found that these children were less likely
to suffer from physical and sexual abuse than were their peers
who were raised by heterosexuals. This is thought to be due to
the absence of adult heterosexual men in the households (Gartrell,
Bos, & Goldberg, 2010). Girls raised by
lesbians tend to have higher self-esteem, show more maturity
and tolerance than their peers, and are older when they have
their first heterosexual contact (Gartrell et al., 2005, 2010). Children
raised by same-sex parents seem to be less constrained by
traditional gender roles; boys are less aggressive, and girls are
more inclined to consider nontraditional careers, such as doctor,
lawyer, or engineer (Gartrell et al., 2005; Stacey & Biblarz,
2001). Over the course of more than 20 years, scientists studied
the psychological adjustment of 78 teenagers who were raised by lesbian mothers. Compared to age-matched counterparts raised
by heterosexual parents, these adolescents were rated higher
in social, academic, and total competence, and lower in social
problems, rule-breaking, aggression, and externalizing problem
behavior (Gartrell & Bos, 2010).
There are fewer studies of children raised by two men, but gay
fathers are more likely than straight fathers to put their children
before their career, to make big changes in their lives to accommodate
a child, and to strengthen bonds with their extended families
after becoming fathers (Bergman, Rubio, Green, & Padrone,
2010).” ~ Martha Rosenthal, Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society, p.247.
“having gay parents will harm children”
I love that this is cited and sourced ahhhh. Actual researched support! So good.
I’m telling you elephants are chill motherfuckers. They fucking love being helpful. They once defended a man with heatstroke from a truck that came to rescue him. They knew he was sick, laying against a tree for shade. They were watching over him and petting him, and they threatened to charge the vehicle for coming towards him. Another person passed out, and elephants cried over her and buried her body in a traditional elephant funeral. (Piling branches on her). And were quite spooked when she got up later.
And an elephant was helping workers to put logs in holes for a wall. On one hole, the elephant absolutely refused to set the log in, despite being punished and goaded. Turns out there was a sleeping dog in the hole.
There are so many good elephants stories. They will even help zookeepers wash other elephants– literally, a zookeeper can be like “[Name 1], please wash [Name 2]” and he will go wash that elephant correctly.
Listen guys. Not only are elephants people, but they’re largely better people than us. I’m 10000% serious.
Just as the phrase “what the entire fuck” implies the existence of fractional fucks, the phrase “what the absolute fuck” implies the existence of both positive and negative fucks (or else there would be no need for an absolute value operation). Taken together with the phrase “what the actual fuck” (which implies the existence of imaginary fucks), we may thus conclude that fuckery is isomorphic with the complex field.
Technically, we can only conclude that “a fuck” is an element of some norm space over a field containing fractional values; the space being isomorphic to ℂ is a substantially stronger claim.
Well this is a negative fuck tonne of complexity now innit?
It’s also important to note that, since we can turn the fuck around or move the fuck over there, then we can represent all our fucks as vector quantities, even if we give no fucks.
We can also fuck someone over, which makes it an operation matrix, but since it’s an open question whether anything can be truly unfucked, we cannot conclude it is a one-to-one operation and are forced to say it is at most a rank-2 pseudotensor.
So I just read this article about how people end up fucking up whatever task they’re doing when they feel like they’re being watched. Scientists have discovered that the sense of being observed actually SHUTS OFF a part of the brain, the inferior parietal cortex.
Given the fact that women are constantly watched in our society, and we are constantly REMINDED that we are being watched by people making fun of fat, “ugly”, or gender-nonconforming women, it makes me wonder how many women have messed up important tasks or projects or just day-to-day activities because A PART OF OUR BRAIN is permanently being deactivated?
Like talk about a fucking handicap.
Women are constantly held under the microscope- whether we are attractive or unattractive, the gaze of patriarchy never ends.
Just last week I was walking my dog and bent over to literally pick up poop. Suddenly I heard whistling and looked up cause I knew I was the only person around. Sure enough, about 300 feet away, some construction worker was perched on top of a building, grinning at me and calling out stuff I luckily couldn’t hear because he was so goddamn far away.
I wonder what it does to women to have this constant source of stress hanging over us, each and every day, knowing we are being scrutinized and examined no matter what we’re doing. I wonder how many more accomplishments, life-changing discoveries, inventions, etc would have been achieved by women if we didn’t have this constant brain-handicap imposed on us by men.
This feeling of being watched extends even when we’re alone and affects our abilities- here’s a study where women took a math test while in a bathing suit and performed significantly worse than women fully dressed, even though all the women were alone when taking the test. The men in bathing suits and the men fully-dressed had no significant difference in performance. It is a major fucking handicap.
Keep an eye out for this pride flag! If you encounter someone with this pride flag as their icon, do yourself a favor and block/report them. This is the MAP pride flag. For those who don’t know, MAP stands for Minor Attracted Person, more commonly known as a pedophile. The MAP community is filled with adults who openly admit to having sexual feelings towards children, and post about how they fantasize about underaged children. It’s sick and disgusting, and these depraved individuals try and use tumblr as a platform to normalize their perversions. They appropriate the experiences of the LGBT community by feigning systematic oppression, and comparing the rightful societal condemnation of pedophiles to the violent persecution of the LGBT community, which isn’t even remotely comparable. It’s honestly reprehensible that they’d take advantage of pride by making a flag like this. It’s incrediblly dangerous because unifying symbols such as this create a platform for pedophiles to prey on children, and spread pedophilia-enabling rhetoric. Please spread this around if you can, and if you are a minor, don’t bother interacting with these scumbags. It’s not worth putting yourself in danger to call these people out or try to get them to see the error of their ways. Stay safe everyone!
It looks like the “Creator” of the flag is @/dont-mistake-our-geography, she is an avid MAP supporter and possible MAP herself. She has her main blog in her title under “stennastims” which she says she’ll follow from! So, if you get followed from either! Block them!
Not gonna lie, if this was the kinda of representation I saw growing up, I would of not have thought that I needed to already be a good weight and healthy to partispitate in physical activity.
Let me tell you, people at the state level and the federal level in too many places in our country are not doing anything other than offering prayers. We need to start using the ballot box and ballot initiatives to take the matters out of the hands of people that are doing nothing that are elected into the hands of the people to see that the will of the people in this country is actually carried out.
“Ew you’re a guy and like the color pink are you gay?”
I’ve been waiting for this post all my life
Pink is player
HEY GUYS WANT TO KNOW WHEN AND WHY IT WAS ACTUALLY FEMINIZED COMPLETE SOME ACTUAL SOURCES?! LET’S HISTORY FOR A MINUTE:
For most of Western history pink did not have the gender connotations it does today. So what happened?
Pink actually used to be a masculine color, blue a feminine one
Before the 20th Century, young men and women alike wore pink clothing.
Pink actually leant more on the masculine side
- it was seen as a lighter shade of red which was thought to be a ‘fierce’ and ‘warlike’ color and therefore was more appropriate for boys.
Blue was more associated with girls since the Virgin Mary is customarily dressed in blue robes
in paintings and sculptures. In the 15th Century painting above, both God the Father and Jesus are painted wearing pink while Mary wears blue robes.
The early 20th century continued this trend with newspapers like the The Sunday Sentinel in 1914 offering tips to new parents such as “If you like the color note on the little one’s garments, use pink for the boy and blue for the girl, if you are a follower of convention”.
In 1927, Time magazine printed a chart showing sex-appropriate colors for girls and boys according to leading U.S. stores. In Boston, Filene’s told parents to dress boys in pink. So did Best & Co. in New York City, Halle’s in Cleveland and Marshall Field in Chicago.
-The beginnings of a shift
Today’s color dictate began in the 1940s as a result of Americans’ preferences as interpreted by manufacturers and retailers.
Stores found that people were increasingly choosing to buy pink for girls, and blue for boys and slowly began to market them as such, but this was far from a universal convention.
That would happen in the coming decades.
-How a first lady changed pink forever
Okay, so let’s set the scene. During WWII 11 million men and women served in the US military, all needing uniforms. This strained the country’s supply of fabric, the price of civilian clothing skyrocketed and restrictions were brought in.
Clothing using less fabric became fashionable and people conserved materials in this grim time.
The 2.2 million women working in factories supplying soldiers with munitions and equipment would have been used to wearing simple blue denim outfits like this riveter in 1943.
This practicality would go on for years, even after the war, while the country was still recovering.
Then, in 1953, the general who ‘won the war’ Dwight Eisenhower, was elected as president. At his inauguration, his wife, Mamie Eisenhower, turned up in a shockingly ostentatious, enormous, full length, bright pink gown, embroidered with more than 2,000 rhinestones.
It may look fairly basic now but this was a ‘break the internet’ type of moment (before there was an internet) and a complete departure from the wartime styles of the previous decade.
Mamie would wear pink - her favorite color - everywhere, it was her signature. It was a completely arbitrary, personal preference - she thought it went well with her complexion - but this was a major turning point in the story of pink.
It became widely accepted as a feminine color and women everywhere began wearing it to emulate the glamorous first lady.
This was solidified and exemplified in the 1957 smash hit film ‘Funny Face’ starring Audrey Hepburn. Think of it as the ‘Devil Wears Prada’ of it’s time.
Watch the fashion magazine editor declare that today’s modern woman needs to “Think Pink!”
This trend coincided with the post WWII economic expansion, sometimes referred to as ‘The Golden Age of Capitalism’, the period from the end of the war to the mid 1970′s.
Companies looking to rebrand their products to capitalize on this emerging market used pink to energize and modernize products, this 1960 advert for ‘new’ pink soap being an example.
From here on in, pink was everywhere, from clothes to interiors, cars and furniture, it was universally accepted as a symbol for femininity.
This trend became a cultural norm throughout the Western world and beyond and remains the case to this day.
So no, it wasn’t Hitler, but Mamie Eisenhower, who was the first person to initiate Halloween decorations be put up in the white house, clipped coupons, acted as a gracious host and had recipe for “Mamie’s million dollar fudge” is the reason pink is associated with girls and femininity.
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