Observations

awful-bliss:

jkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjkjk:

NOW ACCEPTING PRE-ORDERS

fuck

jtotheizzoe:

edwardspoonhands:

neilcicierega:

Wow a lot of very shrewd minds have pointed out inaccuracies in my inspirational Einstein image. Just goes to show you what an incredible resource for fact-checking that Tumblr is.

I have updated the image to reflect the amazing truth about this amazing man.

<3 Neil

Welcome to 1 in 5 internet quotes!

I am so happy someone did this.

This, together with the linked original post and the indignant asks, is possibly my favorite thing on all of Tumblr.

Bolded jtotheizzoe’s comment for ridiculous accuracy.

musicahumana:

staff:

Tumblr for Android just got a total facelift! We’ve completely redesigned the interface, added fancy post animations, made images pop, and a whole lot more. Download the update today.

Digging the update. Love the dark blue!

Read More links are still all fuckered, I can’t figure out how to post a new post if I’ve scrolled down at all (the button “gets out of my way” but I don’t know how to bring it back), and editing tags is just as awkward as last time.

They have added a frantic flashy loading animation instead of the boring, non-seizure-inducing spinning arrow, so there’s that I guess.  AND OH MAN LOOK THAT MENU JUST POPS OUT WOAH SO COOL.

But seriously, this gif is pretty much the best (?) thing about this upgrade as far as I can see.

Edit: Aha, you can apparently press the menu button at any time to bring up the new post options.  Still confusing.

lafemme-piaf:

jabberwocky-92:

craseydreams29:

hiddlestalker:

eco-hepburn:

crowleyplease:

mydetheturk:

poco-loki:

nah, he ran into her knife

he ran into her knife ten times

he had it coming 

he had it coming

he only had himself to blaaame

if you’d have been there

If you had seen it

I betcha you would have done the same. 

(Source: redsuspenders)

After seeing Anna’s post, I glanced up at my follow count and couldn’t help but chuckle.

musicahumana:

preludeofthebreath:

aboutmaleprivilege:

ineedsmensrights:

mooncunt:

nagayki:

deadlydinos:

letsfuckingcuddleok:

nothingsgoingtochange:

Someone give this guy a motherfuckin’ certificate.

I reblog every time 

this guy deserves more than a certificate

“In year 7 you were already uncomfortable around me, so I manipulated our teacher into putting us together for a project and when you didn’t want to come to my house, instead of meeting in a neutral place like a library, I did the entire project so that you’d owe me. In year 8 I gave you a bunch of gifts, a really inappropriate quantity, and continued to do so even after you made it abundantly clear that you didn’t want them. By the time the school disco rolled around in year 9, you knew me well enough to know that I wouldn’t take no for an answer, so you made up an excuse and left the whole dance to escape from me, and somehow it’s me and not you who got the worst end of that stick. In year 10, I bought you another grossly inappropriate gift that required you to spend time with me in order to use it, and when you misunderstood how I wanted you to use it I didn’t say anything but just stewed on that information. And now, in year 11, I’m going to publish my victim complex and the entire history of how I’ve stalked you over the past five years, comfortable in the knowledge that because I’m a man, I will be taken seriously and you’ll be vilified.”

She has every right to think boys are dicks. Here’s example number one. This post is really really gross. He shouldn’t get a certificate; he needs to get a restraining order.

YES THANK YOU

MOTHERFUCKING THANK YOU

Fuck dudes, for real.

THANK YOU FOR THAT COMMENT.

-Lala

“I stalked you for five years and I’m being congratulated on doing so by many, many people on the internet.”

If tumblr has taught me one thing, it is that there is honestly no way for a white male to win. No matter what he does or says, through the cynicism of tumblr, he is at fault.

Oh a white person does something to help fight for equality? S/he’s trying to ease his white guilt, or else silencing the minority by not letting them speak.

Oh a guy likes a girl and does nice things to try and win her heart and gets sad when it doesn’t work out? He only wants a reward for being the nice guy and not raping her.

In fact, by saying this, I am sure that someone will read this and say “it’s because he’s a male (the color doesn’t matter here), privileged, and thus can’t see past his personal offense.”

No. 

I say this because I have yet to see one post by a white male not torn apart by tumblr.

If you go out looking to read a situation a certain way, you will certainly see that situation. Like if you always want to see the homoerotic side of films, that’s going to be all you see when you watch them. That doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s actually there outside of your own personal mind.

When it comes to this post, the above commentary could certainly stand, but I would like to point out that in each example, it certainly seemed as though the girl was both leading him on, and using him. She is absolutely not entirely blameless. 

It’s a special kind of privilege that can look at those posts together and say, “the girl was in the wrong.” It’s the white male’s fault because, historically, we’ve been real dicks. Like, without a doubt, biggest dicks in recent history.

It’s a white males fault because he couldn’t take a hint and kept pursuing a girl for four years. That’s a really long time to pursue someone. He’s not a nice guy. He’s a guy who feels that she owes him something, and that’s fucked up.

And as a white male, I need to stand up and say, we need to do better. We need to fix this shit now. Whether it be race relations, our interactions with women, interactions with trans* people, etc.

And the first part of doing better is shutting the hell up and listening to other people and their experiences with the oppression they’re describing.

Additionally, I would like to point out that this:

I say this because I have yet to see one post by a white male not torn apart by tumblr.

Is categorically and laughably false, and in fact so far from true that I just have to feel sorry for the author.  Because Tumblr is over half male and 70% white, so unless every third post you see on Tumblr is being torn apart, you’re just being shockingly selective and unreasonably hyperbolic.

This post didn’t get torn apart because OP is a male.  It got torn apart because OP is a creepy little fucker that doesn’t seem to grasp how the universe exists where every girl he wants isn’t required as a consequence to therefore accept his advances.  Sometimes, girl is just not interested.

Concluding your post with “while this particular tear-apart is probably accurate” doesn’t help your case - and as a privileged-as-fuck white male, I must say your assertion that it seems like she was leading him on is a pretty damn huge stretch.  Like, seriously, even reading the original post, that amount of stretching could make the Brooklyn Bridge cross the fucking Atlantic and end up in Scandinavia somewhere.

Being privileged is a weird place to be on Tumblr sometimes, because every once in a while you get a little taste of the “everyone in <insert demographic here> are <insert wide-reaching characteristic here>” syndrome that every other group experiences on a daily basis, and it is annoying because honest, you’re not like that, you say, that’s unfair.  I try to be not a dick to girls, I demand that you take back what you said because it’s wrong and I am a counterexample.  But then you usually realize that sometimes you kind of are a dick to girls, and in any case, you realize the fact that you only experience this feeling-dismissed-as-a-group-of-white-guys very seldom, on Tumblr, quite nicely frames exactly why privilege is a thing and why you’re being dumb.

I’ve felt similar things, poster-two-things-above-me, but we’re still wrong.  We’re still privileged, and OP is still an asshole with a terminal case of nice-guy syndrome, and when you get a little taste of dismissed-as-a-group, realize that it’s a sign of your privilege that the only time you have to deal with such things is on the occasional Tumblrpost.  Because the rest of the world has to deal with it all the fucking time.

(Source: now-wecanthaveit)