Mariska

20Gayteen is very gay

That is really yay

The gay is increasing every day

And that is very okay

Maybe they will come out by May

The antis think it’s nay

Phil Lester is a ray (of sunshine)

Phil is also Dan’s bae

I’m going to go pray

Tina fey

I’m running out of things to say

Gymnastics has come a long compared to that old footage, but this difference is particularly significant for black girls! Because they have never taken seriously our abilities! Just because the color of our skin is not what they want to see!

Simone Biles’s fantastic performance has been covered by many news outlets all these years! Now we can see the real difference!

“When her father was governor of New York, he and his wife proposed that Alice attend a conservative school for girls in New York City. Pulling out all the stops, Alice wrote, ‘If you send me I will humiliate you. I will do something that will shame you. I tell you I will.’”

“Her father took office in 1901 following the assassination of President William McKinley, Jr. in Buffalo (an event that she greeted with “sheer rapture.”)“

“During the cruise to Japan, Alice jumped into the ship’s pool fully clothed, and coaxed a congressman to join her in the water. (Years later Bobby Kennedy would chide her about the incident, saying it was outrageous for the time, to which the by-then-octogenarian Alice replied that it would only have been outrageous had she removed her clothes.”

“She was dressed in a blue wedding dress and dramatically cut the wedding cake with a sword (borrowed from a military aide attending the reception)”

“When it came time for the Roosevelt family to move out of the White House, Alice buried a Voodoo doll of the new First Lady, Nellie Taft, in the front yard.”

“Later, the Taft White House banned her from her former residence—the first but not the last administration to do so. During Woodrow Wilson’s administration (from which she was banned in 1916 for a bawdy joke at Wilson’s expense)…”

“As an example of her attitudes on race, in 1965 her African-American chauffeur and one of her best friends, Turner, was driving Alice to an appointment. During the trip, he pulled out in front of a taxi, and the driver got out and demanded to know of him, “What do you think you’re doing, you black bastard?” Turner took the insult calmly, but Alice did not and told the taxi driver, “He’s taking me to my destination, you white son of a bitch!”

This is Alice as an older lady. The pillow says “If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me.” 

When you have bi people telling you that bisexual means attraction to two or more genders/attraction to more than one gender, *listen* to them. Don’t insist that bisexuality is really, “attraction to men and women”, “attraction to cis men and cis women”, “attraction to only two genders”, “attraction to the binary genders”, “attraction to the two sexes”, or anything else.

When you have asexual people telling you that asexual means sexual attraction to no genders/lack of sexual attraction, *listen* to them. Don’t insist that asexuality is really “always just internalized homophobia”, “about sex shaming”, “attraction without wanting sex”, “not wanting to fuck”, or anything else.

When you have aromantic people telling you that aromantic means romantic attraction to no genders/lack of romantic attraction *listen* to them. Don’t insist that aromanticism is really “wanting no-strings-attached sex”, “fucking someone and not calling the next day”, “not wanting relationships”, “not loving anyone”, or anything else.

We are just going to keep coming back stronger…

EVERY.

SINGLE.

TIME.

The Senate is on the verge of voting to demolish health care for millions and cut off Planned Parenthood patients from care. Let’s keep their phones ringing off the hook. Call your senators now and tell them to stop this bill.

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