August 2011
175 posts
People who think that no one uses welfare/food stamps to actually buy things they need can tell that to my hungry 11 year old self who wouldn’t have had decent lunches or meat (at all) without government assistance.
Oh, and who might have gone hungry if there had been drug testing involved. Thanks. I’m glad that you know more about my life than I do! If only I had realized sooner that my mom wasn’t really buying food with that money! I mean, I don’t know what she was doing with it, since our lives were fucking awful at that point and we had a grand total of zero luxuries (I shared a room with my mom! In the basement of my grandma’s condo! I did laundry for the whole house to earn enough dimes to buy myself sodas and candy!), but really, please, enlighten me.
Also, as a child of a drug addict, this law fucking terrifies me. The idea that some kid who is trying to cope with having an addict for a parent (not always easy) also might go hungry or without new clothes or whatnot because some privileged assholes think poor people have to be suffering saints to qualify for help literally makes me cry to think about.
” —(via stfuconservatives)
YAAAS TO ALL OF THIS
(via love-resist)
All these bullshit “welfare reform” laws that are designed to fix some imaginary problem in the system that doesn’t exist all comes out of the perpetuation of the “welfare queen” stereotype that we love to vilify all the time.
When we think welfare we think poor black woman who’s having babies for extra government benefits who’s really just taking the government handouts to buy drugs, candy or brand new shoes or some shit…
Making laws based off stereotypes is NOT how we combat poverty. Its how we make the issue even worse
(via newwavefeminism)
Reblogged for commentary
(via alexjandra)
My sister had asked me about drug testing laws a few weeks back and this is the quote I wanted to pull up because it sums up how I feel.
(via pixyled)
UGH I needed this quote when I was talking to that ignorant cow about the drug testing policy the other day.
Actually, I was speaking from the USian perspective, versus hers, which is from wales. I know cursing is a bit more commonplace in a lot of UK culture (ie they don’t bleep it on TV)
And I seriously have no issue with it being used in a positive way, that’s how reclamation starts and we take the insulting power from it. But using it as a gendered insult is no bueno.
ETA: wow I’m probably the most unobservant person ever and just realized you’re the person who I was originally responding to. herp derp.
Fair play, I didn’t even see there was an article because there wasn’t a visible link, I was responding purely to the OP.
Even so, I stand by most of what I said. Also I don’t blame women for not being attracted to me, I blame them for choosing complete cunts over guys who will walk to the ends of the earth for them, and then do nothing but complain about how badly their boyfriends treat them.
Here’s a few brotips for getting a little attention from the wiminz:
1. Stop using the word “cunt.”
2. Stop assuming you know what a woman is thinking.
3. No seriously, stop referring to people as “cunt.”
Hope those help!
I’ll speak how I like cheers, if someone acts in a way I deem offensive or stupid, I will use the full extent of the English language to refect this. And I never said I knew how women think.
Why wont you get women if you say the word ‘cunt’? I say cunt more than most men I think.
But back to the main argument this has turned into, I would rather date a guy who is genuinely nice, than a guy who fits the whole ‘bad boy’ stereotype. I don’t have time for chasing and drama.
Being a nice guy doesn’t make you a boring person. Being a boring person makes you a boring person.It’s not my place to tell a woman when and when not to use the word “cunt”, but from everything that I have read and understand about the word, using it as an insult against other people is a shitty, sexist thing to do.
And I will never condone a man using that word, because it perpetuates the idea that a woman’s vagina is something terrible and insulting.
But it’s the same as saying ‘oh, you dick’. I don’t think that’s saying that penises are a bad thing. Swear words are usually used in a completely different sense and context compared to the derivations.
I’m not saying your opinions are wrong. I get that some people are more offended by certain things than others. I just think it was a huge generalisation to make saying that for women to find men attractive, they can’t say the word ‘cunt’.
This may be a cultural thing - I think cunt has a little bit of a different connotation in England than it does in the US, (any one in the UK want to comment on this?)
Here, the word “cunt” is one of the mos vile, insulting, demeaning insults out there. By far. And it’s also exclusively used as an insult in regards to a vagina. There’s a huge, HUGE difference between calling someone a dick and calling them a cunt.
Now, cunt is starting to be reclaimed in a positive sense. I can reclaim the word cunt and use it to talk about myself or my genitals, because I shouldn’t be ashamed of them, and it’s shitty that society tells me I should. But reclamation isn’t hurling it as a pejorative.
love-death-travel-revolt-chaos:
If you don’t see what’s wrong with being a Nice Guy, it’s this: despite your “nice” actions, you are still living under the assumption that how you treat a woman entitles you to some sort of appreciation, or some part of her body. If you haven’t noticed by now, this makes you an asshole, too.
what is wrong with being nice and showing affection and expecting to get the same amount of affection in return?
We don’t think it fucking entitles us to some part of the womans body. It entitles us to some fucking respect. Girls are always bitching about how they hate assholes and want a nice sweet guy to come “cuddle them” and treat them right. Then when a nice guy comes along they think he just wants something out of her then she goes and dates another piece of shit then when she inevitably gets fucked over again she bitches more.
fuck man, in my experience girls just aren’t interested in you if your a nice guy.. its kinda sad really..
I try and be half a total prick, half the second coming of Christ nice these days!
BROES BE CRAZY. i give up on men. might become a lesbian. js.
How about you just don’t be a dick… Is that so hard?
^^^Not being a dick really isn’t hard. But some people just don’t want to try that :)
Majority of girls I’ve known (not all of them) prefer guys who are pricks a lot, nice guys tend to bore them.
And being nice and expecting people to be nice back isn’t being an asshole, it’s manners. I don’t expect to be fucking worshipped for being nice, I just don’t expect to be treated like a cunt. That isn’t much to ask, though apparently for a lot of people it is. OP doesn’t know what a real ‘nice guy’ is apparently.
If you’re getting offended by this article, chances are you’re a “Nice Guy” (tm) rather than just a plain ole’ nice guy.
Maybe you just don’t get it - as a woman, a lot of times we have to navigate many types of men. One of the most aggravating instances is a guy who, for all intents and purposes is a good friend, who you hang out with and do FRIEND things with. Then, like 2 years down the road, he flips out on you and tells you about how much of a Nice Guy (tm) he’s been to you and that you should be dating him, not all the other “douchebags” you’ve been dating. Because obviously, you, as a woman, do not know what is best for you, and you need the Nice Guy (tm) in your life to tell you what is best for you. This Nice Guy (tm) expects that since he’s been depositing all this time and energy into his Nice Guy (tm) bank, that eventually he can cash it in, not for the friendship and niceness that you’ve been reciprocating over the past months or years, but for a relationship that somehow he’s now “owed.”
Again, this article isn’t a blanket attack on nice people, or nice people who happen to be men. This is addressed to, specifically, men who think that them being nice to a girl who has already shown that she’s not interested in him *that way* somehow warrants them more than whatever friendship or acquaintanceship that is already established.
If you don’t see what’s wrong with being a Nice Guy, it’s this: despite your “nice” actions, you are still living under the assumption that how you treat a woman entitles you to some sort of appreciation, or some part of her body. If you haven’t noticed by now, this makes you an asshole, too.
what is wrong with being nice and showing affection and expecting to get the same amount of affection in return?
So if a girl that you aren’t attracted to in any way, shape, or form is nice and shows affection to you, you are automatically going to show her the same amount of affection?
If she is nice to you then you should be nice back…. attractive or not
I said attracted to, not attractive. Someone doesn’t have to be “attractive” for you to be attracted to them. You also mentioned affection. You show affection to everyone? Because that’s, honestly, pretty creepy.
You get anon hate mail assuming that you’re some bitter bitch who’s “been fucked over” by guys.
July 2011
203 posts
If you don’t see what’s wrong with being a Nice Guy, it’s this: despite your “nice” actions, you are still living under the assumption that how you treat a woman entitles you to some sort of appreciation, or some part of her body. If you haven’t noticed by now, this makes you an asshole, too.
what is wrong with being nice and showing affection and expecting to get the same amount of affection in return?
So if a girl that you aren’t attracted to in any way, shape, or form is nice and shows affection to you, you are automatically going to show her the same amount of affection?
If you don’t see what’s wrong with being a Nice Guy, it’s this: despite your “nice” actions, you are still living under the assumption that how you treat a woman entitles you to some sort of appreciation, or some part of her body. If you haven’t noticed by now, this makes you an asshole, too.
We can’t fucking win can we? May as well all be dicks and shit over people.
Fucking women’s twisted logic.
Lolol sexist dickholes think they’re *spechul snowflakes.*
The comments from whiney, sexist, “nice guys” on this are fucking priceless.
If you don’t see what’s wrong with being a Nice Guy, it’s this: despite your “nice” actions, you are still living under the assumption that how you treat a woman entitles you to some sort of appreciation, or some part of her body. If you haven’t noticed by now, this makes you an asshole, too.
what is wrong with being nice and showing affection and expecting to get the same amount of affection in return?
We don’t think it fucking entitles us to some part of the womans body. It entitles us to some fucking respect. Girls are always bitching about how they hate assholes and want a nice sweet guy to come “cuddle them” and treat them right. Then when a nice guy comes along they think he just wants something out of her then she goes and dates another piece of shit then when she inevitably gets fucked over again she bitches more.
Lol. So what, exactly, is “respect” to you then, if not said girl who is “bitching” about assholes to turn around and date you? Why are you hanging around said girls if you’re obviously so fucking bitter about how much they’re “bitching” about other dudes?
(first of all, that is apparently a repeat title, which I think says a lot about me and my dilemmas.)
ANYSHWAY. I’m prepping for having to send out birth announcements and I now have a dilemma.
Shutterfly has an option where they will stamp, address, and mail the card for you - for $.99 a card.
I am going to be sending out about 50 birth announcements.
So my options are:
A. Buy envelopes and stamps for about half the price and hand address them
-or-
B. Input all the addresses and pay an extra ~$25 to have Shutterfly mail them for me.
Either of these things I can do now so it’s not like I’ll be hand addressing envelopes with a newborn.
What to do, what to doooo…
Also, if anyone wants an announcement, send me your address. I’m fairly certain we’re going to have a cutsey one for family/old people and a fun one for friends, but that depends on how lazy I am.
Which is very lazy.
lolol.
Because you can’t be a feminist if you aren’t a manhating lesbian who protests the peen on moral grounds.
Heaven forbid “socially acceptable” people don’t submit to the patriarchy.
On a similar note, I have a feeling Jesse’s ultraconservative dad is secretly shitting his pants over Jesse’s increasingly vocal liberal/pro-feminist views. Right now he’s pretty focused on our baby, but he’s hinted at us “sending her up to grandpa’s for some ‘leavening’”
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OK so people don’t hate me but I just got a fb message from my friend with the inception pregnancy saying she signed me up while she was in…. I didn’t ask her to, or even talk to her about it, but I’m pretty stored!!