Update: He Did :’D

Hey just by the way Sorrowaria is a terf and you shouldn't interact with them!

PSA:

Can everyone please block and report chickensalad ? They are sliding into everyone’s asks as anonymous and harassing their ex. Not aligning with your racist ass doesn’t make them a terf and I hope you step on a rusty nail.

Remember when Ursula K. Le Guin called JK Rowling a nasty basic bitch back in like, 2004? We should have listened

UPDATE: the link is paypal.me/Petra306 not the one above.

Tumblr I need your help

My best friend’s crappy boyfriend got her pregnant.

This wasn’t consensual at all. He slipped the condom off during sex when she wasn’t looking, and dumped her after he heard the news.

She needs an abortion, but her parents are strictly pro life and won’t help her. She’s about a few weeks in, and I don’t want her to drop out of school because of the negative feedback she’ll get. It’s bad enough that she already gets anxiety attacks from stress.

Getting an abortion at Planned Parenthood costs about 300-900 dollars. It would mean the world to me if anyone could help by donating to her paypal. She’s a bright student and a very talented programmer. Anything helps.

Here’s the link: paypal.me/Petra306r

best moments in gaming journalism

journalist gets real yakuza members to play yakuza 3 and asks for their opinions on its authenticity

that’s it

A friend and I were out with our kids when another family’s two-year-old came up. She began hugging my friend’s 18-month-old, following her around and smiling at her. My friend’s little girl looked like she wasn’t so sure she liked this, and at that moment the other little girl’s mom came up and got down on her little girl’s level to talk to her.

“Honey, can you listen to me for a moment? I’m glad you’ve found a new friend, but you need to make sure to look at her face to see if she likes it when you hug her. And if she doesn’t like it, you need to give her space. Okay?”

Two years old, and already her mother was teaching her about consent.

My daughter Sally likes to color on herself with markers. I tell her it’s her body, so it’s her choice. Sometimes she writes her name, sometimes she draws flowers or patterns. The other day I heard her talking to her brother, a marker in her hand.

“Bobby, do you mind if I color on your leg?”

Bobby smiled and moved himself closer to his sister. She began drawing a pattern on his leg with a marker while he watched, fascinated. Later, she began coloring on the sole of his foot. After each stoke, he pulled his foot back, laughing. I looked over to see what was causing the commotion, and Sally turned to me.

“He doesn’t mind if I do this,” she explained, “he is only moving his foot because it tickles. He thinks its funny.” And she was right. Already Bobby had extended his foot to her again, smiling as he did so.

What I find really fascinating about these two anecdotes is that they both deal with the consent of children not yet old enough to communicate verbally. In both stories, the older child must read the consent of the younger child through nonverbal cues. And even then, consent is not this ambiguous thing that is difficult to understand.

Teaching consent is ongoing, but it starts when children are very young. It involves both teaching children to pay attention to and respect others’ consent (or lack thereof) and teaching children that they should expect their own bodies and their own space to be respected—even by their parents and other relatives.

And if children of two or four can be expected to read the nonverbal cues and expressions of children not yet old enough to talk in order to assess whether there is consent, what excuse do full grown adults have?

and that’s why luffy is aroace

someone seeing a character who has no outward sexual or romantic interest in other characters has a right to see that character as aromantic and/or asexual. fandom is meant to be fun, and honestly I’m sick and tired of asexual and aromantic headcanons being mocked and ridiculed because “there’s no way x is ace” or “they’re gay and that’s it” or “stop that’s cringe”

we have as much of a right to see ourselves in characters as any other member of the lgbtqa community.

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