story time: i taught my little cousin her first longer word when she was very young. i taught her to say “tax benefits”. and to this day my aunt still doesn’t know where she got it from, but it was a hilarious sight to see a little toddler waddling around the house, wearing a big diaper, all the while yelling “TAX BENEFITS!!!!”
My parents did this with me and “nuclear disarmament”.
I taught my little brother to say “micro-surgical vasectomy reversal” (saw it on a billboard) on a road trip, and he didn’t stop saying it for literal years.
My parents taught me to chant “Get your laws off our bodies!” for a pro-choice rally when I was like four and I went to preschool and taught all the other kids the chant and led them on a mini-parade around the playground and the teachers were like ?????????? ?????????? ????????????
whenever my brother threw a tantrum as a baby my parents would chant “live free or die” until he calmed down it was fuckin weird
when i was a kid whenever we got stuck in traffic my dad would say “what the fuck?!?” in a very comic voice and i would repeat it and then he would say it with a slightly different inflection and i would repeat that too and so forth and so basically my poor mother would be stuck in standstill traffic listening to her husband and 4 yr old daughter swearing at each other without end
i’m a preschool teacher and we like to joke around using radical vocabulary with the children, the other day i overheard one kid say ‘this is my truck’ and the other one said ‘no, this truck belongs to the collective’; they all say it now
To all my followers who don’t follow tennis and are wondering why this is important, Serena and Venus were unfairly treated at Indian Wells. The last time Serena played at this venue was in the 2001 final. She won, but she was booed throughout and racist slurs were thrown at both her and her family because Venus pulled out of their semifinal match. Venus and Serena boycotted the tournament since then. 14 years later, Serena decided to return. She was rightfully apprehensive and unsure what the crowd would be like, but she was welcomed on the court for her first match with a standing ovation. That’s why both she and her family are in tears.
She’s an otherworldy being because I would never
Respect
You never realize the holes a person leaves behind until you fall into them.
Neal Shusterman, The Dark Side of Nowhere (via hplyrikz)
And suddenly I realised how cold, untouched your side of the bed was. How quiet the night has become without the comfort of your heavy yet reassuring breath against the warmth of my neck. I know one day I won’t even notice these things but now everywhere I look there are traces of your presence. Irreplaceable scents, glances, touches that will soon stop being the only things that matter to me. You will eventually become only a distant memory. Or perhaps that’s just what I keep telling myself. Maybe you’re imprint on my life will remain a significant part of who I am now.
Recently Maybelline posted a photo of a beauty blogger on its Instagram - not uncommon. The difference: This blogger happened to be male. Manny Gutierrez joins a growing number of male beauty bloggers with a belief that makeup is ungendered. Will someone like Gutierrez join the likes of female models on makeup billboards? Mic decided to ask male beauty bloggers for their first-hand perspective.
My friend Jaime introduced a new makeup line last week, and one of the cornerstones of her whole thing is that anyone can wear beautiful makeup, regardless of their gender.
I’ve always thought that eye makeup and lipstick are really pretty, and I wish I had the no-fucks-to-give confidence to try making myself fabulous with some of her makeup sometime.
please… please
this is so good this is honestly such a step in the right direction for the whole, clothing and makeup isn’t gendered thing
