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yelyahwilliams: ryanrussell: thedailywhat: Heartwarming...

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:04:08 -0400

ryanrussell:

thedailywhat:

Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Moore Tornado Survivor Finds Her Dog in Rubble

This morning, Moore, Oklahoma resident Barbara Garcia was in the middle of an interview with CBS News about losing her home and her beloved companion dog to the deadly tornado, when something miraculous unfolded right in front of them and the viewers at home (starting at 1:32). Just try not to tear up.

If you don’t tear up you have no heart.

Ahhhhh

"I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my eyes, stick my..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:41:39 -0400

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I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, stomp my feet on the floor and scream “No! No, you cannot make me, I won’t, leave me alone!” I am, simply put, too tired. So very, very tired.

I am tired of fighting with my friends. I am tired of arguing that someone groping and slapping my butt isn’t “what I have to expect”, just because I’m at a bar, and the one attacking my butt has a drink in the other hand. I am tired of hearing “boys will be boys” and “when you’re dressed like that …” and “that’s just what guys do”. I am tired of trying to drown those sentiments in loud, repetitive no’s, screamed over and over again, till my throat is sore and my voice weak – just to hear them repeated, as soon as exhaustion threatens to silence me.

I am tired of being afraid. I am tired of seeing someone writing something offensive, sexist, racist, ageist, ableist, somewhere online. I am tired of seeing those writings getting likes and lol’s, and SO TRUE’s. I am tired of being consumed by confusion and anger, typing, typing, typing and typing a seemingly endless response, including research, links and statistics, and then hesitate clicking “submit”. I am tired of knowing that I hesitate because I am afraid of the flood of responses that will come. I am tired of knowing that I will be bombarded with lighten up’s, stop whining’s and get a sense of humor’s for so long, that I will start to wonder if I am indeed wound up too tight, a nagger and humorless. I am tired of the fact that I’m afraid of being called a cunt, even though I don’t find genitalia insulting or demeaning.

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- I don’t want to be a feminist anymore (via coffeeurlgirl)

"the first word I teach my daughter will be “no” she will sing it to me and scream it at me and I..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:40:42 -0400

“the first word I teach my daughter will be “no”
she will sing it to me and scream it at me
and I will never tell her to quiet down
she will say it when I tell her to go to bed
when I tell her she can’t have anymore candy
or watch anymore television
“no” will be my daughter’s favorite word
not only will I teach her how to say it
but I will teach her to repeat it over and over
again until every single atom in her tiny little body
hums with it
If it makes her less soft than the other girls
I will take her to museums and show her
what marble and stone can become
I will brush her hair and let her wear whatever
she wants
whatever that makes her
she will know
that the world has been built upon “no’s”
upon rejections and refusals and swords
if this makes her a warrior in a field of
flowers, then she will walk without fear
of being trampled on
the first word I teach my daughter will be
“no”
and when she grows up
in a world that tells her
she can’t walk down the street by herself
that “no” will be heard
it will roar and echo down the block
and she will never be told to keep
silent
she will not know the meaning of the word.”

- The First Word I Teach My Daughter (via catscatssarahcats)

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Let's be freaks...: albinwonderland: I was standing in the bathroom with my 8-year-old...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:33:50 -0400

Let's be freaks...: albinwonderland: I was standing in the bathroom with my 8-year-old...:

albinwonderland:

I was standing in the bathroom with my 8-year-old niece and she saw me adjusting my top and said, completely serious and curious,

“Why do you want to look good?”

it took me aback for a moment.

“Sometimes because I want to. Sometimes because I feel like I should.”

“That’s…

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bbnessa17: If you can’t handle me when I’m Amanda Bynes, you sure as hell don’t deserve me when I’m...

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:25:37 -0400

bbnessa17:

If you can’t handle me when I’m Amanda Bynes, you sure as hell don’t deserve me when I’m Beyonce.

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unbrokenstateofgrace: can you imagine if twitter existed in the 1800s abe lincoln tweeting shit...

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:26:57 -0400

unbrokenstateofgrace:

can you imagine if twitter existed in the 1800s

abe lincoln tweeting shit like “wow this play sucks just shoot me”

too soon

HE WAS SHOT IN 1865

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