When humans dies and goes through rigor mortis, we don’t contort in angles because we have two sets of muscles in our arms and legs. Spiders don’t, so when they die their muscles constrict, and their legs curl up.
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Submitted by stopthatchalsea
Stop degrading the act of sex by calling it ‘opening your legs.’
I’m so sick of women being degraded all the time. Because women just, you know, lay back and ‘spread their legs’ and let men do whatever they want. They don’t take any active role in the actual sex act or enjoy it. They are just objects that lay there with their legs open. Then they are stupid because through poor judgement or mishap, they became pregnant. The man is never blamed or shamed or degraded for having sex. There are no phrases used to degrade the act of a man participating in a sexual act, at least not a heterosexual one.
I swear if I could punch people in the face for saying ‘they shouldn’t have spread their legs’ I would. I don’t even care if they are someone in my family or my friends. That is how fucking pissed I get when people say hateful shit like that about women.
No issue is black and white. Women have abortions for many reasons. Shit happens. The fetus ends up being deformed and would not live; the woman just ended a previously stable relationship; the woman or couple has children already and cannot afford any more at the moment; The couple may have used birth control but it failed; the woman just found out she has a serious illness and will not be able to carry a pregnancy to term; the woman was raped, etc.
So fuck you and your hatred of women. Negativity about sex is disgusting and harmful.
I wonder how the women of Fox News feel about this. They are the endless subject of “upskirt” leering on the internet mainly because Roger Ailes insists that they wear tight, short skirts that show off their legs and they get caught in compromising poses when leering leering men take screenshots of them just trying to cross their legs. They aren’t allowed to wear pants…
My legs are still burning from this morning. Every bus I took this morning was at least three minutes early, which necessitated a lot of running I didn’t want to do.
Dog picked up by tornado, crawls home on broken legs
A tornado picked up a family dog and blew him away, but his will to live was so strong he crawled home on two broken legs and survived for two weeks before his family found him.
Every reply to a Bernie Sanders tweet is something like “Yes I got fired from the Hellmann’s mayonnaise factory after the mayonnaise machine tore both my legs off and now I’m in debtors’ prison but you don’t see me whining about it. Go back to VENEZUELA!”
— popular comedy account “the pixelated boat” (@pixelatedboat)July 27, 2018
To hear many religious people talk, one would think God created the torso, head, legs and arms, but the devil slapped on the genitals.
[W]hen women tell how it is for them, when they self narrate their ordinary lives, it’s instantly sucked up by the culture—there’s already a place waiting for the story. A place where the story gets annulled. It’s 2012 and I’m still reading about what the girl or woman was wearing that night. Or how she should hold aspirin between her legs. Or how she shouldn’t say the word “vagina” on the floor of congress. Or how a friend at a bar wants the sob stories to end. What I’m trying to tell you is that violence against girls and women is in every move we make, whether it is big violence or small, explicit or hidden behind the word father. Priest. Lover. Teacher. Coach. Friend. I’m trying to explain how you can be a girl and a woman and travel through male violence like it’s part of what living a life means. Getting into or out of a car. A plane. Going through a door to your own home. A church. School. Pool. It can seem normal. It can seem like just the way things are.
Lidia Yuknavitch, “Explicit Violence” - The Rumpus.net
Read the whole thing. This quote is the easy part. The rest is pure remorseless truth.
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Stars, Meteors, and a Comet in Taurus via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2M0ULxT
A Laser Strike at the Galactic Center via NASA https://go.nasa.gov/2VqTK6i
