i have a weird relationship with how i perceive my body. not in shame way, in the more basic sense of “shit, i have a body”

every once in a while i have an odd feeling of “…hey…wait a minute…i have a physical body that people see and associate with me! i have a body! i’m not just a brain with hands!”

and sometimes i’ll catch my reflection in a window or something and just stare because whoa, that’s me right there

am i low key dissociating all the time?

plunderpuss:

tallulah99:

datiek:

popping-smoke:

mbisthegame:

oparnoshoshoi:

anarchyandacupofcoffee:

OK Highway Patrol Captain George Brown says the best “tip” for women to not get raped by a cop is to “follow the law in the first place so you don’t get pulled over.”
http://youtu.be/BO8g8akPWcY (Last third of the video).

Three serial rapists in 3 weeks arrested in Oklahoma, all cops.

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Pro tip: if you’re signaled to pull over (whether you’re male or female) and you’re in a place that has no witnesses, turn your hazard lights on to acknowledge the officer’s siren, and drive to the nearest gas station or populated area. This is accepted protocol by every agency. You are not obligated pull over until you can do so safely. This includes personal safety. Understand your rights, brothers and sisters. There are disgusting examples of authority in this world.

HAZARD LIGHTS ARE NOT AN ACCEPTABLE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. IT IS NOT ACCEPTED PROTOCOL BY EVERY AGENCY. DO NOT JUST CONTINUE DRIVING WITH YOUR HAZARD LIGHTS IN CASE THE COP MIGHT THINK IT’S A LOW-SPEED CHASE.

I know that sounds dumb, but hear me out. My mother is a dispatcher for the local police station. I asked her about how to pull over for a cop and even brought up the use of hazard lights, and she told me that it is not always accepted. This is what she told me you can do in order to feel safe when pulling over:

Call the police. No, really. Call and tell the dispatcher where you are and that there is a cop behind you demanding you pull over. The dispatcher can and will stay on the line with you while they look up the area you’re in to see if it’s one of their station’s cops. Then, once the cop comes to your window, you can crack it open (it only has to be an inch!) while still on the phone with the dispatcher. This is definitely, 100% accepted protocol.

The dispatcher will verify that it is their own, real cop, and they will gladly stay on the line with you throughout your interaction with the officer. And God forbid this ever happens to any of you, but if something were to happen to you during this time, you’ve already contacted 911 and given your location to the dispatcher.

Please keep this in mind if you are ever requested to pull over and do not feel safe. The dispatcher will understand. Do not, however, continue to drive, because there might be the off-chance an officer will think you’re flat-out refusing to pull over (a well-lit, populated area might be a ways away).

Stay safe.

Signal boost.

Because I personally know some creepy ass mother fuckers who became cops because they’re demented psychopaths and they get off on having control over people.

In light of current bullshit, this might be a good idea for a LOT of people, not just women. Marginalized minorities of all stripes, take note. I hate taking up an emergency dispatcher’s resources, but i also hate seeing yet another fucked up news story about police harming citizens.

a note to millennials re: gen-x not entirely freaking the fuck out over trump

jumpingjacktrash:

vastderp:

roachpatrol:

jumpingjacktrash:

it’s not that we don’t think it’s bad shit

it’s just that it’s not NEW bad shit to someone who grew up under reagan and the bushes, exactly; what’s new is how blatant and hamfisted it is, not the actual agenda

also new is the fact that people care and are horrified

also new is the fact that people have anything better to compare it to

so we’re kinda like “aw not this shit again, i thought we were past this” rather than “end of the fucking world” about it, like “welp time to dig up those old dead kennedies albums”

even the nuclear threat is like

idk babies we thought about getting nuked a LOT when i was growing up, it was just this constant cloud following us around, we made nuclear apocalypse jokes and it wasn’t even that dark because it was just life

it’s been nice not thinking about mushroom clouds for a while but it’s not exactly a shock that it’s come back up

i’m not trying to make you feel naive here, i’m just saying history is dark as fuck, and while you maybe knew that intellectually, you’ve been living in a very bright time up until now

i wish you could’ve gone your whole lives without knowing your government doesn’t have a problem with getting everyone killed for no fucking reason except to add another zero to the already absurd bank accounts of a tiny handful of elderly white men, but since shit fell out this way, i guess i just have to let you know that it isn’t something new, it’s the same battle we’ve been fighting all along

anyway, i’ve got your back

this manages to be depressing and reassuring somehow

i have to admit i’ve been feeling a little bit surprised by the anguish, and i chalked it up to my autistic emotional weirdness that makes me not feel stuff all at once, but this is very true. i grew up thinking world war III was about to start at any minute and we’d all be nuked to death. i was waiting to be on the streets for pretty much my entire childhood. i knew how fragile the safety net was, and i knew how many people wished fervently to dissolve it altogether.

powerlessness is the lot of a kid, so i dealt with it, and lived through it, and became numb to it.

 i was 21 when 9/11 happened, and i watched America bend over and look pretty for the patriot act. the libraries fought back (i was working at one) but all around me people were buying into right wing fuckery with a zeal i’d never seen before. they were terrified and they were sculpted into bigots by opportunistic fucks in the bush administration. i watched national security get scary like it is today. the TSA, the NSA, homeland security, FUCKING GUANTANAMO BAY, unprecedented pressures on civil liberties being accepted as the price for safety (because we’re so fucking into safety we’ll put ourselves in danger just to feel like we have it)

my dad and mom survived the vietnam war and the broken US welfare system. i was born into the Reagan years. i watched society grapple with the bullshit that was the 2000 election and i was scared but i expected worse any day now, and i lived like that for a long time until it felt normal.

i’m used to being afraid of the right on the rise, i’m comfortable with it

but this administration? this specific regime? fucking terrifies me.

the good news is, we can stop it, and we’re already making history with our resistance.

what’s missing this time, i think, is complacency. the obama generation that hasn’t grown up numb to constant fuckery is fucking pissed, and those of us who learned to live with the monster are starting to acknowledge just how bad it is, and how normal it ain’t.

it’s nice to be inspired, even if it’s angry inspiration. numbness is how you survive, but it’s no way to live.

well said. i feel like the people for whom this is all a fresh outrage are going to keep me from falling back into that numb despair.