I remember first learning that you can cry from any emotion, that emotions are chemical levels in your brain and your body is constantly trying to maintain equilibrium. so if one emotion sky rockets, that chemical becomes flagged and signals the tear duct to open as an exit to release that emotion packaged neatly within a tear. Everything made sense after learning that. That sudden stability of your emotions after crying. How crying is often accompanied by the inability to feel any other emotion in that precise moment. And it is especially beautiful knowing that it is even possible to experience so much beauty or love or happiness that your body literally can’t hold on to all of it. So what I’ve learned is that crying signifies that you are feeling as much as humanely possible and that is living to the fullest extent. So keep feeling and cry often and as much as needed
SHIT WHAT
Also let yourself cry. It really is a biochemical release valve to dump out all the chemicals that make you feel stuff.
I honestly think one reason men in western culture have so many problems is that we don’t let them cry, and literally their brains get stuffed with all this crap that doesn’t have a release valve. Men, please cry. You’ll feel better. It’s ok. You are not lesser for taking care of your health.
This is why tears from different emotions look different under an electron microscope. They’re literally made up of different things.
Happy tears are structurally different than sad tears than angry tears than overwhelmed tears etc.
I looked it up, cuz that tidbit was dope to me and..
Bullying in schools by and large works to enforce cultural norms, and this is why most teachers don’t do anything about it. Most teachers agree that an effeminate boy should be beat up, or that a child who speaks with an accent should be mocked. Children’s schooling is one of the most comprehensive ways we indoctrinate them into our societal mores, and this is enabled by teachers who will always enforce cultural norms at the cost of their students’ safety and individuality.
and wow it’s surprising how fucking quickly people forget how fucking often gay cis men and trans women were conflated for one another that a character like Him from PPG can be a huge damaging stereotype that affects both marginalised groups
So when someone points to media that predates the 2010s of a problematic character and calls the presentation transphobic, your instinct should NOT to go “Well actually sweaty,,,, the character is obviously just a cis man using gay stereotypes not transphobia so it’s homophobic not transphobic”.
Because while they’re not the same, homophobia and transphobia has ALWAYS fucking occupied the same space in mainstream media for deviating outside of expected gender norms ESPECIALLY when the shitty characters have been made by privileged people who never had to experience that kind of violence in their god damn lives.
You can never separate homophobia and transphobia enough to say one can’t implicate the other especially when it comes from straight cis people. THIS is why it is so fucking important to remember that sexual and gender identity needs solidarity in this shitty fucking world when the people beating us down don’t fucking care about the specifics.
I just received absolutely fucking awful news tonight and I am at a complete loss of words
No other way to say it, I’m fucked
My Kansas City plans suddenly went under because my potential roommates abandoned the plan over financial issues and shit. So in other words, I don’t have any future plans anymore
You know what, I’m just gonna come out and say it. If you can take in a roommate by January of next year, and you are not a man, hmu. I don’t got a lotta options left
To answer some people’s asks, yes i want this reblogged
Anything can be clothed in progressive rhetoric. Femininity, eating disorders, gender essentialism, capitalism, racism, rape, quite literally anything. And anyone can use this to their advantage. They learn your language, they absorb your theories, mimic your concerns. It is done from a place of selfishness, never of empathy and love.
Ahead of Trump’s planned summit with North Korean “Supreme Leader” Kim
Jong Un, the White House issued a tacky commemorative coin; once Trump
sent his petulant breakup letter to Kim canceling the summit, the coin became the discounted “deal of the day” at the White House gift shop.
Though much fun has been had at Trump’s expense, I think that the
cancellation makes the coins more valuable, not less – after all, now
they commemorate something real (Trump’s administrative incompetence)
rather than the imaginary victory he had projected (Trump was raised on
the wishful-thinking gospel of Norman Vincent Peale
and his whole philosophy in life is to simply declare that everything
is going great, regardless of how things are actually going).
I predict that these coins will be a major medium of exchange after our
coming nuclear holocaust and will be redeemable for lightly irradiated
canned goods in all the major trading posts on the fused-glass desert.
3. Documents obtained by the ACLU show massive horrific abuse of children in ICE custody, including kicking a child in the ribs, running over a 17 year old with a patrol car, sexually assaulting a 16 year old girl in a search, and detaining a 4 pound premature baby and her mother in an overcrowded and dirty cell full of sick people. (More here: https://www.aclusandiego.org/civil-rights-civil-liberties/)
ICE was only created in 2003, as part of the US’s post-9/11 hyper-militarized, xenophobic frenzy. We didn’t have this department 16 years ago, we do not need it, and we should abolish it immediately. I do not say this lightly: ICE is America’s gestapo and we should treat them with that level of serious resistance.
