This Cured All My Psychological Problems

I absolutely love when cats become mascots/companions to certain things just by…. showing up there

Tama the train cat in Japan

Felix the other train cat in Russia

PP the gym cat in China

Oreo the nursing home cat in the US

Ryzhy the post office cat in Russia again

there are TONS of examples of this, cats just roll up to places like train stations and go like

This is how you should ask trans and non-binary people about their identity 

everytime a character uses their body to shield another character i discover three new emotions

bi women are women who like men in a gay way. wont elaborate

we act like the derry girls get into wild shenanigans because they’re teenagers when mary and sarah were literally caught stealing jewellery off a corpse and joe was prepared to take on a polar bear with a tranquilliser gun. that is cross generational poor decision making, that is grade-A genetic stupidity

No matter what a post on tumblr tries to tell you, your moral and ethical stances will never be determined by what you reblog and what you scroll past. Don’t let manipulation tactics force you into doing anything you don’t want to do.

"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

For a Few Dollars More -  Mortimer and Indio face off, as observed by Manco.

For @chunchomunos