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slow-bicycle: violeteyelids: undertheselights: Okay. Time to rant. Look at these girls. Look long and hard.This is the future of your society. Girls who wanted to look sexually appealing at age 7. They cock their hips to make it look like they have curves, and they wear as little as they can get away with. They’re wearing lingerie, for god’s sake. Open your eyes. These are CHILDREN, who should be in adorable frilly clothing, bright pinks and blues and purples. They should be innocent. They don’t even have boobs yet. Yet here they are, trying to fit in to what today’s society worships. These girls are too thin, too sexy, wearing too much makeup, too young. You know what they’re going to be doing in a year? Sexually experimenting with boys- maybe even boys 2 or more years older. Girls like this feed pedophilia, maybe they’ll end up with an old man. In a whorehouse. With a madame, or maybe a pimp. Abusing drugs. Abused themselves. Missing. Dead.Is that really what we want? Is our future going to come to a point where nobody, not even a toddler, is innocent? Where there’s no such thing as purity, and the pursuit of knowledge will never be as important as the pursuit of sex?We are becoming more and more a world as Aldous Huxley described in his book Brave New World. If you haven’t read it, do. Maybe if more people would read it, we’d start raising our children the right way- instead of letting the media do it. Take a good look at your child’s role models. Ask them who they want most to be like, and ask why. Set them straight. This is not a good road to be on. first off how about we a) not call anyone whores, b) not use the n word, and c) not blame the girls for this behaviour, yeah? i do agree that parents should pay attention to who their children look up to, but we should not make assumptions about the children and their “innocence” or lack thereof. while i think dressing that way at that age is problematic it does not mean they are sexually active or that they are going to end up as sex workers (whorehouse, really?). frankly i don’t think most children would truly understand what dressing in sexy clothes means or know what is or is not sexy, and these ones probably just liked the outfit. in fact it looks to me like they’re having fun and being silly like kids do. but clearly the whole world is ending and these girls are running off with pedophiles at the first chance. because they are little sluts poisoned by ~the media~, who chose that outfit to attract older men. also, do you get this upset about the poor little boys whose purity is also in danger? jw because the word “purity” and all of its implications makes me want to vomit everywhere, especially when it’s used in alarmist rants about protecting our darling little daughters from becoming dirty sluts from watching too much tv. i am not going to argue that sexualization of young girls isn’t a problem, because it is. it’s nothing new. sometimes it feels like it’s getting worse. it sickens me. but i’m also not going to scream and cry and shame young girls when they dress in ways that i feel are sexualized. “girls who want to look sexually appealing at age 7”? they don’t even know what sexual appeal is. “they wear as little as they can get away with”? give me a break. they are not intending to look provocative and saying otherwise is blaming them for your interpretation of their naive (or, in your language, innocent) behaviour. and fyi, girls have always and will always sexually experiment with boys (or even girls!!1), sometimes at young ages. try not to faint. and as far as the “too thin” comment goes: fuck off. this is a stupid rant and you should feel bad. calling little girls whores is definitely going to help.
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foreheadtittaes: S-SORT OF. MAYBE. UNLESS THEY REACH REPRODUCTIVE AGE AND HAVE BABIES. You know what, I’ve totally ranted about this before so let me just take that out of the Disney™ vault. It’s a ‘The More You Know! Star swipe!’ kind of night in my blog.  You know what makes my imaginary testicles retreat back into my body? There seems to be a common belief that stupidity will be weeded out by natural selection and that we will evolve to become hyper-intelligent beings. And to this assertion, I say: BULLCUNT. POPPYCOCK. Evolution has no foresight. It has no goal. It doesn’t “want” us to become telepathic, non-corporeal beings. It doesn’t “want” us to become anything because it is not a conscious force. Darwinian fitness isn’t synonymous with bigger, stronger, brighter, faster; it’s synonymous to reproductive success: in other words, whoever can pass on their genes to the next generation (by copulating and popping out lots and lots of human larvae!) wins. It’s a bleak view, but it makes sense. The reason we’re not evolving to become hyper-intelligent Vulcans is because there’s no need for us to become hyper-intelligent Vulcans in our present environment. Possessing enough intelligence to NOT die of stupidity before procreating is good enough most of the time. Anything after that is fair game… So while all them “intellectuals” are recognizing the absurdity of life and sticking it to society for not going down the 2.5-kids-white-picket-fence route, people who lack the ability to question their environment are humping like hyperactive bunnies and impregnating or being impregnated and spreading the derp with their ten children.
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slow-bicycle: doctorbluebox: whatthefawkes: -lumossolem: Professor Lupin, who appears in the third book, is one of my favourite characters. He’s a damaged person, literally and metaphorically. I think it’s important for children to know that adults, too, have their problems, that they struggle. His being a werewolf is a metaphor for people’s reactions to illness and disability. - JK Rowling Jo is so smart and is influenced by society when she writes. I looove Lupin! I always identified with him having to deal with his transformations and being different…..even though I didn’t know why at first. goddamn I love JKR. And Lupin is my 2nd favorite character <33
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→ The Way I Visualize It

fuckyeahmenfolk:

Humanism means not boxing people into categories. It’s never saying “you have trait A so you must B”.

Sexism is saying that you must behave or look or speak or think or feel or love or fornicate or dress or move or live or work or play a certain way because of how certain parts of your body are arranged.

Homophobia is an extension of sexism. Anti-sexists are often still homophobic because they want to box in love as an attraction between two categories of bodies and minds.

Transphobia is an extension of sexism. Anti-sexists and anti-homophobics are often still transphobic because they want to box in minds as strictly correlated between two types of bodies.

In the same way, people who don’t accept bisexuals, pansexuals, asexuals, intersexed people, genderqueer people, and every sort of person which doesn’t have a proper name are all trying to box people in. They are each a particular kind of sexist. And sexism is just a certain kind of anti-humanism. Each time a certain category of person is accepted, there are still people who aren’t. Because people only accept what they can categorize.

Humanism means everyone can be any combination of things, even if nobody understands why. Humanism means believing someone when they say: “This is me. This is who I am.”

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theverbalthing: It made me laugh to see that two anons asked me the same exact question (assuming, of course, that they are not the same person). I was waiting for this, given the title of my latest spam… I don’t believe in marriage for several reasons. I’d love to say that I’m just a cynic who thinks that romance is dead and soulmates are nonexistent and the divorce rate is too high, but I don’t necessarily think any of those things. I believe in romance and I like the idea of chivalry (though I’m more than capable of opening a door myself, thank you, so there’s no need for you to juggle everything in your hands in order to “rescue me” from my own perceived ineptitude). I don’t necessarily believe in the Neoplatonic concept of soulmates and I particularly despise the way that the term “soulmate” is understood in popular culture and media today. (It’s a philosophical conception of the Platonic forms, not a derivative of the Courtly Love tradition, so please fuck off with your candy hearts and your rom-coms that always seem to involve love at first sight.) The divorce rate is absurd, I’ll admit, but I blame that more on the quicksilver nature of contemporary society and the fact that we all expect instant gratification, all the time, so we’re not willing to work through big issues and try, even when it matters. I don’t believe in marriage because I think the entire institution is flawed. People seem to believe that in order to be successful and loved, it’s necessary to go to college, get a job, fall in love, get married, have a bunch of kids and settle down. I disagree. I think that the so-called “committed life” is often more cowardly than genuine. People get so caught up in adapting to traditional values that they fail to look at their own desires. They get married because they’re supposed to. They have kids because they’re supposed to. That isn’t to say that people shouldn’t get married or have kids, but I think that oftentimes people do it just because it’s the socially acceptable thing to do. There are plenty of people who genuinely want to have families and I respect and admire them for that decision, but there are so many people who are just playing a role that it makes me sort of ill. I call bullshit. I don’t want kids. I don’t want to get married. I think it’s absurd that I have to have a piece of paper to proclaim that I’m in love with someone and want to spend the rest of my life with them. I want to travel. I want to write. I want to explore the world, figure out who I am (though I’m not sure it’s possible to ever completely know yourself), fight for the issues I care about and meet fascinating people. I want to fall in love, but I don’t want to stay in one place until I fall head over heels for a particular location. I’m restless. I get bored easily. I moved 3,000 miles to go to college and intend to move another 3,000 to go to grad school. I do believe in the idea of falling in love and working on a relationship with someone who makes me feel completely at home, no matter where we are or what we’re doing. And furthermore, I think the fact that the term “marriage” has to be categorized as something between two people of the opposite sex is not only wrong, but just plain ridiculous. Why should love have to have a label? Why shouldn’t lesbians and gay men (or, for that matter, bisexual, pansexual or sexually fluid individuals) have access to the same privileges, rights and experiences as heterosexuals? When I told one of my classmates last year that I was uninterested in marriage or children, her first question was “Well do you like men?” If I was a lesbian, why should that automatically entail that I don’t want either of those things? I was torn between puking and punching this girl in the face, but instead I explained everything that I just wrote (albeit, more succinctly, since I was speaking and we were in a class with a time limit). Marriage isn’t the right fit for me. And I’m self-aware enough to recognize that, but I’m also self-aware enough to recognize that some day, maybe I’ll change my mind. I don’t think it’s likely, but it’s possible. Anything is.
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→ Hey Potter stans, remember when the Deathly Hallows epilogue leaked

thequietworld:

  • AND EVERYONE WAS LIKE
  • ‘THIS IS SO OBVIOUSLY FAKE’
  • AND EVERYONE WAS EVEN POINTING OUT WHERE IT LOOKED ‘SHOPPED
  • AND THEN IN JULY OF 2007 WE ALL WENT TO THE MIDNIGHT RELEASE AND GOT OUR COPIES
  • AND WE FLIPPED TO THE END
  • AND WE WERE LIKE
  • AND WE HAD OUR LIZ LEMON BADGER FACES ON
  • AND WE WERE LIKE UMMM JKR
  • AND THEN AFTER IT HAD SETTLED
  • IT WAS JUST FUNNY
  • BECAUSE RON COULDN’T PARK A CAR
  • AND DRACO HAD A RECEDING HAIRLINE
  • AND ALBUS SEVERUS
  • ALBUS SEVERUS
  • AND THEN ALL WAS WELL
  • AND NOW IT’S JUST KNOWN AS THE FAILOGUE BECAUSE JKR HAD THAT PIECE OF TURD UNDER ~LOCK AND KEY~ FOR SO MANY YEARS AND WE WERE ALL ANTICIPATING THIS EPIC SHIT
  • AND THEN IT WASN’T AND WE WERE SUFFERING FROM SECONDHAND EMBARRASSMENT
  • AND WE ALL LAUGH TO HIDE THE PAIN
  • ALBUS SEVERUS
  • ALBUS SEVERUS
  • AND JKR JUST WENT AND CASHED HER 1 BILLION DOLLAR CHECK AT THE BANK AND WAS LIKE

FIN.

(Source: formerlythequietworld, via foreheadtittaes)

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→ Draco/Hermione Fiction 101

fujiidom:

accidentalsupernova said: what are your favorite Hr/D fics, if I may ask?

LOLDAMN. I’ve read hundreds, over the years. It’s the only HP fiction I read outside of the books and I’ve been reading it since… a year or two before the third movie came out? Eight years? JFC, I’m old. Since I’ve been asked this several times over the past few weeks (HUZZAH! Fellow D/HR shippers, new and old, I LOVE YOU!) here’s a little resource list and a few of my favorites:

Try here, for a master list of a fuckton of other rec lists. It’s my go-to starting point, if I want to hunt for new stories or find random older ones to reread. These are what’s considered the major D/Hr fandom classics. Raffyv’s Smut Vault is the best source for adult/MA fic (Seriously, you can’t even imagine. It’s four separate entries long and has over six hundred collective comments). I also love dhrhaven because their tags are by trope, which is how I select what I’m in the mood to read 95% of the time. Enjoy!

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“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a three-day-old human embryo is a potential human being. Every cell in your body, given the right manipulations, every cell with a nucleus is now a potential human being. Every time you scratch your nose, you’ve committed a holocaust of potential human beings… Let’s say we grant it that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. First of all, embryos at this stage can split into identical twins. Is this a case of one soul splitting into two souls? Embryos at this stage can fuse into a chimera. What has happened to the extra human soul in such a case? This is intellectually indefensible, but it’s morally indefensible given that these notions really are prolonging scarcely endurable misery of tens of millions of human beings, and because of the respect we accord religious faith, we can’t have this dialogue in the way that we should. I submit to you that if you think the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst trump the interests of a little girl with spinal cord injuries or a person with full-body burns, your moral intuitions have been obscured by religious metaphysics.”
Sam Harris, on stem cell research. (via cocknbull)

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“I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.”

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I truly agree with and believe in this.

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