being me;

It’s been the same damn thing every time. Denigrating the princesses that came before to prop up the new one. There’s already so much cool and interesting stuff about Anna and Elsa and Judy and probably will be about Moana that I have to roll my eyes at the media still going with “not like the other girls!” over and over again.

I’ve seen a Judy Hopps article that derides princess dresses as “silly.” I saw an article that rated Elsa and Anna as “more feminist” than any princess that came before (how did they beat Mulan, the old usual title holder, you might ask? the article bashed her for “forgiving Shang for leaving her on that mountain” aka when he spared her life against protocol. yep–tons of reaching, just like today). It was a big part of Merida’s marketing too!

And now they’re doing it again with Moana and…what’s so feminist about bashing other female heroines again? About bashing feminine qualities a lot of little girls do honestly hold, like liking dresses or wanting romance or just generally being girly?

As she is making history on stage, I fear for what would happen if she doesn’t get the presidency. All of this would be for nothing. All of these momentous achievements, hard work, and dedication from both Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and the DNC would be for nothing. I am afraid that Bernie or Bust people will remain prejudice against Hillary and cost us the election by voting third party. They will use their privilege to justify allowing Trump to win. I don’t care if you don’t like Hillary Clinton. I really don’t give a shit. She is a strong, qualified candidate and supports progressive and important values. Donald Trump goes against every single value I hold. He is a greedy, fascist bastard who will say anything and everything to get power. He has hijacked a radical Republican party that allowed him to prosper and spread hate and fear to our nation.

We CANNOT let Donald Trump become president. We simply cannot. For God’s sake, vote for Hillary Clinton in November. Register to vote, show up to the polls, send in an absentee ballot. Even if you can’t vote or aren’t in the US, encourage others to support Hillary Clinton and vote for her. Don’t allow idealism to cost us the election. Do whatever you can to help her win. There is a real chance Trump could win this election if we don’t rise up and stop this madness. 

Kamilah Brock spent 8 days in a NY mental health facility because she owned a BMW 

A friend of mine is an actor and received this open call from Trump’s PR team.

Trump’s PR team is seeking to hire “ethnically ambiguous, Hispanic, mixed, multi Ethnic” persons to PRETEND to be a “Mexican Trump Supporter” for his media campaign.

This is legitimately confirmed.

I feel like this should be standard learning material for those working in loud workplaces or with machinery, or maybe idk for talking underwater or when someone else can’t hear you at a concert. Or what about when somebody is having a panic attack and can’t talk, or just isn’t all that comfortable with voicing their feelings?

Earth was doing just fine with a mostly nitrogen/carbon dioxide atmosphere and everyone was happy to go on living in anaerobic bliss and then cyanobacteria suddenly hit the scene, altered the atmosphere composition so that there was a ton of oxygen gas and killed practically everything (97% or more of all species on earth).