Discussing honeymoon ideas with my friends and I just realized that all my ideas come from We Got Married…
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at least not very often
Senate Accepts Deal to Kick Formerly Incarcerated Off Food Benefits - COLORLINES
Yesterday, Sen. Vitter of Louisiana offered up an amendment to permanently drop anyone ever convicted of a violent crime from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). According to Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Democrats in the Senate obliged him. The amendment is for a farm bill, which is currently being debated in the Senate.
Says Greenstein: The amendment would bar from SNAP (food stamps), for life, anyone who was ever convicted of one of a specified list of violent crimes at any time — even if they committed the crime decades ago in their youth and have served their sentence, paid their debt to society, and been a good citizen ever since. In addition, the amendment would mean lower SNAP benefits for their children and other family members.
So, a young man who was convicted of a single crime at age 19 who then reforms and is now elderly, poor, and raising grandchildren would be thrown off SNAP, and his grandchildren’s benefits would be cut. … Democrats accepted it without trying to modify it to address its most ill-considered aspects.
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Why did they train Luke up and not Princess Leia who was cooler, and had more to fight for, and was less screwed up? Patriarchy!
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Nailed it.
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Only other people who have watched King 2 Hearts will understand why I find this image so disturbing.
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I WANNA DANCE MV PREVIEW cr. omaruys
Rather than fighting for every woman’s right to feel beautiful, I would like to see the return of a kind of feminism that tells women and girls everywhere that maybe it’s all right not to be pretty and perfectly well behaved. That maybe women who are plain, or large, or old, or differently abled, or who simply don’t give a damn what they look like because they’re too busy saving the world or rearranging their sock drawer, have as much right to take up space as anyone else.
I think if we want to take care of the next generation of girls we should reassure them that power, strength and character are more important than beauty and always will be, and that even if they aren’t thin and pretty, they are still worthy of respect. That feeling is the birthright of men everywhere. It’s about time we claimed it for ourselves.
I don’t want to be told I’m pretty as I am - I want to live in a world where that’s irrelevant (via brute-reason)
idk this article reeks of white feminism? like as a woc, i am never told that i am pretty, i’d get maaaaybe a “you have ~nice features~ but….”. i mean i agree that we need to move towards a culture of respecting women w/o adding qualifiers but this article rubs me the wrong way
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Um YEP. I’m way more interested in, say, a combination of a) valuing women for who we are as whole human beings and b) MAJORLY expanding our extremely narrow ideas of what constitutes the bottom line of what it takes to be beautiful (i.e., whiteness).
Having spent most of my life being told I’m “so articulate” and “so intelligent” like it’s a fucking surprise not because I’m too-pretty-to-be-smart but because I’m black — having been told constantly, to my face, how beautiful mixed-race black people are when they have light eyes and skinny noses and straight hair when I am a black-eyed clunky-nosed nappy-haired biracial black woman — having never once in my entire life been asked to dance at an event where there are white girls present, no matter how plain or large or old or young or differently abled they are — having learned to settle for people liking my brain and my character because my appearance and sexuality don’t even register for a huge part of the population — and also having noticed that all of the women the author mentions by name are white, and that the only mention of race is a throwaway line about skin-bleaching products — I feel like that blog post really wasn’t written with women of color in mind at all.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting your appearance not to factor into how and why people value you, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with wanting people to consider you beautiful when they usually don’t. I think there’s next to no point in discussing Western beauty standards without acknowledging how much of a GIGANTIC factor race is. And I also can’t think of any kind of widespread feminism we can “return” to that doesn’t enforce some kind of bizarre standard for the “right” way to be a woman / perform femininity.
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