Causing All This Conversation

One of the few times it's 100% perfect to have an older white dude with a beard mansplain to a young girl.

Except that is not mansplaining -- mansplaining is a man, assuming he knows everything better than women simply by virtue of being a man, trying to explain something he doesn’t know that much about to a woman who is expert in that area.  This is a man sharing his knowledge with a woman who has clearly demonstrated she has no idea what she is talking about.  That’s just called explaining.

Apparently you get automatically suspended from twitter if you say the word “Memphis”

literally Cannot stop thinking about how my dmv employed aunt texted me last year ‘did the renewal driving test for a very nice man today you’ll never guess who :)’ and the picture attached was just her and keanu fucking reeves

she sent the same message again 2 weeks later btw… her and jason mamoa…

... anyway, as i was gaying,

ain’t nothing crazy about what this elephant is doing! she’s right!!!!!

DAAaHRLINg,

And this goes for friendships too! Even just stuff like “do you mind if I leave this door open?” 

…I never fully realized it before but this is a big part of why my relationship with my husband is so conflict-free. Both because him doing this all the time made it easy to trust him, back when we were a new item, and because it helped ME break out of the toxic idea that you should never ask about a partner’s preferences because if you Really Loved Them you should be able to intuit what they want, all the time, about anything. 

my one son is autistic so I ask ‘hug or no hug?’ I always knock and wait to be acknowledged before opening my sons’ bedroom doors (not just because I respect their privacy but because they’re teenagers and I don’t want to walk in on any personal activities) I don’t go into their rooms without asking I don’t touch their phones without asking (I’ll pick one up to take to them if I find it in another room but I won’t go through it) yesterday, my younger son walked into my room, stopped, said sorry and walked out to the hall and knocked on my door ‘because if I have to knock on his door, he has to knock on mine’ because their trust is important and I want them to know I respect their privacy

Consent is not just for sex. Consent is not just for sex. Consent is not just for sex.

!!!!!!!!!!!!! Growing up, there wasn’t a lot of boundaries respected by my parents and it warms my heart to see a re-blogger practicing this with their kiddos 💖 So important for every relationship in life.

yee yee, my anxiety has gotten worse because of my parents entering my room without asking, going through my phone and personal journals without asking, hugging me suddenly without asking etc, i dont have anything to hide, they just don’t respect my boundaries and it’s made my anxiety worse,,, so boundaries! important!!! in every type of relationship

High key consent is one of the keys to happiness in life when it comes to relationships with others. CONSENT IS IMPORTANT!!!

i deadass took a picture of my dates license and sent to my homegirls in the gc. and turned on my location. yea you cool but it’s always about me and my safety.

Men who aren’t trash should already know this is commonplace. One of my last dates even offered to take a picture together for my safety text.

Men who get mad when women try to protect themselves are just telling on themselves, nothing more.

All you people out there talking about “spreading my private information” like you don’t drive around with your liscense plate out there for everyone and their mom to see all day every day. Sit down. Shut up. She didn’t ask for your social security number you absolute acorn. Your plates are public knowledge.

The last guy I dated, I met him at Tim’s and after we got our coffee we walked out to his car to drive to the beach. I asked him to hold on a second, that my dad wanted a picture of his licence plate. He walked over and knelt down next to the plate so his face was in the picture, and told me “he’d probably feel better knowing what I look like too, right?”

^^ That guy gets it

i don’t wanna go to parties, i just wanna be invited to them

please can this meme get a revival