We often hear about the need for more STEM education. We never hear, though, about the need for historians.
I believe the utter lack of historical context provided by journalists that I’ve observed and the American public’s seeming ignorance of its own history–let alone the rest of the world–make a strong case for radically rethinking the priority we as a society place on understanding history as both an educational goal and a valuable professional endeavor.
After all, how can we expect citizens to make informed decisions about their collective path forward when they understand neither the route they’ve travelled nor the terrain they and so many others traverse?
Because context is for kings.
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The quietly desperate work culture of “I hate Mondays”, “thank god it’s Friday”, “working for the weekend”, and similar nonsense is deeply disgusting, and I hate that it’s seen as normal. We are burning away 70% of our lives waiting for the 30% where we can recuperate from work and actually live for a little while. This is absolutely not the way life is supposed to be. This is obscene.
biggest hetero lie i’ve been told: fighting is a part of a healthy romantic relationship
Disagreements are a part of every healthy relationship. Having bad days when you’re not your best self is a part of every healthy relationship. Fighting, disrespect, and insults? Those are not healthy at all.
NO OKAY THIS IS SO FUCKING TRUE. THIS BOILS MY GODDAMN BLOOD.
STORY TIME.
When I was 16 I had recently moved, and was attending a new school. About half-way through the school year, I started dating a guy I was friends with. He and I got on REALLY well. Like yeah we had disagreements and shit, but we always, ALWAYS talked about it and discussed our feelings and why things were making us upset. Every. Single. Time. We had a good system. And when we had disagreements we resolved them immediately. Otherwise we got along SO WELL. It was great I was really freaking happy and he was too!
About six months into my relationship, people, mostly my family members, commented about how WELL we got along…a l m o s t like it was a bad thing. I didn’t really think about it though, too involved in my own brain.
Skip ahead, to about a year-ish in. Friends of mine would sometimes get into fights with their significant others and they’d tell me ALL about it and I’m a good friend so I’d listen and try to give advice. Except I never had anything when they’d ask me, “Oh well what do you do when you and J get into fights??”
And I never had an answer other than “Well we don’t fight.”
And they never believed me. Or worse they’d insist that was UNHEALTHY. “Fighting is healthy, it lets out tension building up! You just need to sometimes!”
I never, EVER EVER felt comfortable with that, and I’d shrug it off and insist we didn’t NEED to fight. Our relationship was ALREADY healthy, especially because of the way we handled disagreements. People never listened and insisted there was something wrong, whether out-right stating it or hinting at it.
Even my best friend insisted that fighting was healthy, and I listened to her on nearly everything. Except for that. I didn’t budge for anyone.
DO NOT LET PEOPLE FOOL YOU. FIGHTING IS NOT HEALTHY. DISAGREEMENTS ARE. BAD DAYS ARE OKAY. LEGITIMATE SCREAMING AND GOD FORBID PHYSICAL VIOLENCE IS. NOT. OKAY!!!
Don’t be fooled guys, please.
Talking to one another through disagreements is the ONLY healthy way to handle disagreements in a relationship.
Verbal, physical and psychological violence is NEVER healthy.
^ All of this!
Previously, I’d only seen the first two panels and assumed it was the complete comic.
This version is much better.
omg it’s so much better with the conclusion
When someone says these days sexism and misogyny don’t exist anymore show them this.
i want to quit obsessing over building the perfect self and instead put a large amount of energy and effort into forgiving myself, because clearly i will never be free if i don’t. i’m so tired of being in a war w/ myself.. it’s so unnecessary and a waste of time
Do you know what I will always be bitter about from the waste that was TW?
That in order to give us cheap escalating horror and tragedy, they never let us saw the smallest things about the day to day life in the Pack.
Like what waitresses think when they see this mismatch group of beautiful people cram into the booth of their dinner at 3AM, clothes half torn up and smiling like crazy people. Do they think they are a kinky sex club? Do they think they are actors in a horror movie on a break? Do they just don’t bat an eye because they have seen so much worse (and they are polite and give good tips?)
Or what shopping is life as a werewolf. Are you able to smell if a fruit is ripe? are there security footage of Derek helping an old lady chose the right watermelon somewhere?
Where is my boy scout type moment, with Derek trying to teach as many things as he can about surviving into the woods? Where is my “don’t fuck with boar. Seriously don’t do it. You are a werewolf but they are boars, if you see one just climb a tree for fuck sake, don’t be a hero”. Where is my Scott and Jackson fighting about a type a moss and what it means.
Where are my “craming for exams” night, with lot of junk food, Lydia looking vaguely condescendant, and Derek not understanding why they are highschoolers spilled all over his floor? (but looking secretly pleased about it)
Or the pack reaction the first time they saw Derek hale in a suit (because damn). Lydia would sigh happily (because she totally chose the suit and she’s the best), Erica would stay silent and poker face and take so much pictures with her phone it’s basically a movie, Jackson would grumble something, kira would be all excited, etc…
(Stiles would totally screech and nope right out of the door in self defense, let’s be honest)
I just… I miss the little things that would have been (even if it made me love the fandom that much more)
Before we shout “no more man movies!” after seeing Wonder Woman, don’t forget men of color don’t have a lot of representation either. So supporting Aquaman, Black Pather, Cyborg, and Miles Morales movies does not make you less feminist.
White feminism always forget about men of color and even women of color.
We should shout “BETTER MAN MOVIES” instead. Men with feelings, men who are sensitive, men who are gay, of color, multinational, multilingual. More movies about complex men and complex women.
Homeless man interviewed by ‘ITV News’ recounts story of bravery during Manchester attack
Look for the helpers.
#please tell me someone is gonna help this guy and the other homeless people who were so selfless#manchester bombing
^^^this
Share the shit out of this. Share the ever-loving shit out of this. The UK is facing a vote with a party that has been very vocal about fucking over the homeless. Remind them why this policy is trash. Raise a huge swell of sympathy. Make it political suicide to go ahead with their plans.
There’s a generation of girls growing up right now where Wonder Woman is their first superhero, Rey is a Jedi, and Ghostbusters are women.
Excuse me I’ll just be over here crying
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