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I was walking behind a woman for five minutes and she got catcalled three times.

I usually walk everywhere with my headphones on, but I had them in my bag and I was reading a book on my phone instead (I do that when the foot traffic is light).  A young Latina was coming down the street as I was coming up the avenue, and when she got to the corner a few paces ahead of me, she turned to walk in the direction I was going.  We were traveling at the same speed, but since she was like ten paces ahead and it’s bright outside in the middle of the day, I didn’t feel the need to fall back or slow down to give her more space. At night, I try not to walk too close behind women just so they don’t feel like I’m any sort of threat.

We got to a corner and this dude standing outside of the bodega was like, “Slow down mama where you goin? You don’t have to work today, you can stop and speak.”

She didn’t break her stride. “I’m going to the gym.”  The Walk sign was on, so I didn’t break mine either.  

A block later, a young guy was coming toward us on the sidewalk riding his bike.

“What’s good shorty?”

She didn’t respond.

“Well you was lookin, you can say something, stuck up bitch.”

We kept walking.

In the middle of the next block, an older man was walking toward us and he put on a friendly smile and said, “Smile young lady, it’s a beautiful day.”

I don’t know if she smiled, but we kept walking. She went into the gym and I kept on toward where I was going thinking about how that was just five minutes of her day.  How many other blocks of five minutes are just like that?  

Only one of them was truly aggressive. The other two guys seemed nice enough and it felt more like a pleasant compliment. It felt like the kind of thing a guy says who argues with women online about catcalling. “We’re not all bad guys. We can’t even compliment women? We can’t even say something nice?”

No.  You really can’t.  I was annoyed in that five minutes and I just happened to be walking behind her with no headphones on.  Can you imagine those five minutes over and over every day of your life?  Nobody wants to be spoken to by strangers day in and day out forever regardless of what they’re saying.  

So no.  You can’t say anything. The quality of your life has not decreased because you aren’t allowed to say nice things to strange women on the sidewalk, but your silence greatly increases the quality of hers.  So just be quiet, and let her go where she’s going.

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

you know what i do when i dont like a character?

stay away from their fanpages

never go to their hashtags

sometimes even block a few pages so their posts dont come up on my explore

try to be as indifferent as i can

you know what i dont do?

bully their fans

comment "my fav character is better" or stuffs like that on their posts

comment slurs on their posts

wish death/hell upon their fans (yes thats a thing)

make hate posts about them

send anonymous hate msgs to their stans

The mortifying ordeal of trying to shove all your shit back in your wallet so the next person on line can get rung up at the grocery store.

people be like “are you really going to miss out on a potential friendship just because someone doesnt share your views on feminism/racism/etc.” and i’m like “ya lol”

happy bi visibility day to:

transmasc bisexuals!

transfem bisexuals!

nonbinary bisexuals!

cis bisexuals!

ace bisexuals!

aro bisexuals!

bisexuals with a male lean!

bisexuals with a female lean!

bisexuals with no lean!

bisexuals in a straight-presenting relationship!

bisexuals in a gay-presenting relationship!

bisexuals who aren’t in a relationship!

polyamorous bisexuals!

closeted bisexuals!

bisexuals who are out and proud!

bisexuals with internalized biphobia!

bisexuals without accepting parents!

bisexuals with accepting parents!

bisexuals who just figured out they’re bi!

bisexuals who’ve known they’re bi!

bisexuals on the split-attraction model!

all bisexuals!!!

y’all are amazing and deserve the world <3

happy bi visibility day! 💖💜💙

oh hi, thanks for checking in, i still would die for tony stark

Hey if you’re schizophrenic/psychotic I just want you to know that you’re a wonderful person and that you deserve so much better than the demonization, marginalization and stigmatization you face in this society.

i’m so sorry but if i see you post even one (1) bad thing about Tony Stark i will unfollow and/or block you, even if i love the rest of your blog and you have great content, it’s not personal it’s just How It Be.