More than a sum of parts. Less than what I will be.
An unfinished jewel will have its many facets revealed over time. It will have rough spots while it is being perfected. Its destiny is to showcase light.
poll time!!
please reblog with your answer and country!!
i, for example, have fired a gun, and am from canada.
enjoy!!
edit to say: air rifles, bb guns, paintball markers, etc, DO NOT COUNT. only REAL firearms (as in gunpowder powered) count.
USA, PNW, grew up in a small farming/ranching town, we all took a firearm safety course at around age 12 so we’d know how to respect and properly handle shotguns. I learned how to shoot skeet at the behest of my grandfather (discovering in the process that I’m left-eye dominant despite being right-handed). Reluctantly accompanied him on a couple of pheasant hunts in my early teens, finding the sport distasteful. Have actively avoided handling firearms since I came of age.
An action being “punishable by a fine” basically means “legal for rich people”.
Oh wow. That’s…
I once dated a rich guy and if I said “Hey it’s illegal to drink on the street” he’d respond with “Nah, it just costs £150″, or “You can’t park here!” “Yeh I can it costs £35″ like… literally… that’s how he saw fines, it was just how much you paid to do the thing.
Reminds me of the double red lines in London. They exist because rich people kept parking on double yellow lines (which mean “no parking” in the UK) and then just paying the fines. So London started putting double red lines on major roads. If you park on double red lines, they don’t give you a ticket. They tow your car away and crush it.
I like that.
For rich people, it stops being a fine and starts being a fee
Where to start reading Kyle Rayner?
Let’s start with his first appearance in Green Lantern vol.3 #48 then continue on
Also check out Flash/Green Lantern Faster Friends
I hope Barbie is so good and successful it makes every executive that’s turned everything bright and fun made for young girls into edgy boring teen dramas for the last ten years spontaneously combust into flames
I want everybody who’s calling Ken a Trophy Husband to know that he’s actually a Trophy Boyfriend, because when Ruth Handler invented Ken in the 1960s, she was adamant that he would never marry her and instead be her “handsome steady”, so that Barbie remained a figure of independence for the little girls and was never put in the position of housewife.
Her house is hers. She bought it and furnished it with money she made in her own job. In STEM, in politics, in healthcare, in fashion, in academy, in customer service. Her credit card is in her name (women in the US couldn’t have their own regardless of marital status until 1974). And it’s all pink and fashionable because femininity and badassness aren’t mutually exclusive. No matter who you are, you can be anything.
That’s why Barbie’s slogan is “you can be anything”. Teaching these ideals to little girls is why Barbie was created. Empowering women and empowering femininity is the original meaning of the Barbie doll. It’s not that you have to be all this to be a woman, but if you are all or some of this, you too are awesome.
And somehow pop culture deliberately changed that narrative. Sexualised, bimbofied, and villainised her, when she actually isn’t responsible for the impossible beauty standards — people are, she’s just a stylised, not-to-scale toy like most others.
Men are frothing because he’s just Ken and I guess they were expecting her to be just Barbie, but that’s exactly what Ken is. Canonically. A badass woman’s himbo boyfriend.
This movie has the potential to change the way we collectively see Barbie radically into what Ruth Handler’s intended, I’m so very excited
It is kind of awesome and hilarious how everyone right now (including myself) is like “social media / cancel culture / xyz is causing irreparable damage to this generation’s psyche” when in reality no it’s not and even if it was it’s like people used to take their kids to public hangings for fun and they would all just stand around and watch guys die and then golf clap afterwards like they’re at a high school production of Wicked. So I think we’re going to be fine.
Bathroom accessibility is not limited to mobility aids.
Bathroom accessibility is also having hooks to hang medical equipment.
I went to Walmart today and none of the bathroom stalls had hooks for my feeding tube backpack. Not even the disabled stall. They were intentionally removed by the store.
These hooks are important because we shouldn’t have to put our equipment on the floor and risk god knows what by contaminating our backpacks in the public bathroom.
Bathroom accessibility is having a fully equipped disabled stall or single use bathroom, hooks for medical equipment/bags, infant/child AND adult changing tables, sharps containers, free pads/tampons, and having a free to access, fully functioning and clean bathroom at all times.
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#also stop turning off the outlets in the bathrooms!! #sometimes I need a place to plug in my nebulizer machine and the bathroom is like the most private place to do it #but if all the outlets are turned off fuck u /end image description
No this is so true!! I can never find a place to plug in my nebulizer. I don’t need it all the time but when I do I’m pretty much homebound due to the inaccessibility of outlets in a lot of public spaces.
"Accessible" restrooms are also not actually accessible if the doors to the room are heavy and do not have a way to be automatically opened. How am I supposed to wheel myself into the restroom if my hands are busy trying to push and hold the door open? (This applies to restrooms with multiple stalls AND single use restrooms!)
Today, for the first time in forty years, I can once again represent my age with a single Roman numeral. 🎂
