Marguerite Bennett's Blog, page 74

mushroomaximus:spiroandthelacktones:blazepress:Family...

mushroomaximus:

spiroandthelacktones:

blazepress:

Family gathering.

MOOOOOM, AUNT CAROL IS HEEEEEERE

I love this because I actually have an aunt Carol

bi-privilege:bi-privilege:i would just like to point out that the recent conversation surrounding...

bi-privilege:

bi-privilege:

i would just like to point out that the recent conversation surrounding the male birth control trials isn’t just “lol weak men can’t deal with side effects” it’s the fact that when they were testing hormonal birth control for women in the 50s & 60s, the side effects were much worse, and the women who participated in them, mostly in puerto rico, were not told about the side effects or that the drug was experimental

and THEN when women dropped out, they started using incarcerated women as their guinea pigs, and then despite the fact that some scientists who participated in the original trials were like “uh i don’t think this is actually good, it’s making a lot of these women sick,” the pharmaceutical industry & fda were like  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and approved it for the general population anyways, without really warning women about the potential for all these negative side effects

and THEN researchers basically ceased to do any type of research on side effects like depression and decreased libido for 50 years, despite the fact that women were still complaining about them, and because there was no “hard evidence” of these side effects, a lot of doctors basically just assumed women were exaggerating or making it up. and that continued until the first major study of depression in women who take hormonal contraceptives was released just. this. year.

so yeah, the patriarchy. *waves flag*

further reading:

the puerto rico pill trials


the racist & sexist history of keeping side effects of birth controls secret


“it’s not in your head” striking new study links birth control to depression

oh, and fun fact: even after this new study was released, a lot of the scientific community is still being like “but can we PROVE these women aren’t just depressed because they’re LOVESICK?”

thenatsdorf:“Another!…Another!…”

A post shared by Foster Kittens In Bay Area, CA (@jessies_foster_kittens) on Jan 9, 2016 at 8:25am PST

thenatsdorf:

“Another!…Another!…”

heidi8:valadilenne:rollerskaq:reanimateobjects:americanpi...

heidi8:

valadilenne:

rollerskaq:

reanimateobjects:

americanpipedream:

reanimateobjects:

reptonic-art:

reanimateobjects:

I picked up a worm, and it wrote something in my hand with a tiny pencil. Unfortunately it was too small to read. An autograph? A spell? An angry note?

@reanimateobjects

I’ve decided to line up with their writing and whatever they wrote appear to be…. phallic.

I don’t how to break the news with you, but, I think that worm drew a penis on your hand…. Congratulation?

Ooh! Thank you for this valuable contribution to the field of worm linguistics and/or art. It is still unclear to me if it’s meant as a rude message to me, if it’s just putting its tag there, or something else. Further research is needed!

I think the idea of it being a penis is anthropomorphism. I mean, the worm doesn’t have a penis itself, nor proper eyes with which to see one. No, I’m afraid this is something far more interesting: a self-portrait. You have been touched by an aesthetic annelid, and now your life will never be the same.

Now I will forever try to communicate with all the worms I find, but I worry that I’ll never meet this one again.

My name is Werm
I liv in ground
And thru the darck
I skwirm around

The peepl tell me
All the tym
I’m farr too yuck
With too much slym

But I think Werm
Is gud to be.
I find a styck

I draw a me

This precious and holy Chaucer Animal Poetry meme is just so perfect for tone-setting 2017. 

I haven’t been on tumblr in weeks. I’m glad I popped back in this morning.

wnq-anonymous:Comics by Colleen Butters Perfectly Describe What...

wnq-anonymous:

Comics by Colleen Butters Perfectly Describe What It Is Like to Deal with Depression

coolstufffromlalacat:ekjohnston:waitwhatdidtheysay:let-it-go...

coolstufffromlalacat:

ekjohnston:

waitwhatdidtheysay:

let-it-go-brother:

I can’t stop replaying it

[captions]

[Adult beatboxes skillfully at the child]

[Child blows raspberry in response]

This is one of the most delightful things I have seen recently.

this is adorable. 

erotic-yoddeling:bemusedlybespectacled:nonlinear-nonsubjective:sonneillonv:castiel-for-king:...

erotic-yoddeling:

bemusedlybespectacled:

nonlinear-nonsubjective:

sonneillonv:

castiel-for-king:

maliwanhellfires:

just-shower-thoughts:

Mammals both produce milk and have hair. Ergo, a coconut is a mammal.

I know you’re being facetious, but this is an actual issue with morphology-based phylogeny.

*leans over and whispers to person beside me* what are they talking about

*leans over and whispers back*  Human ability to quantify and categorize natural phenomena is sketchy at best and wildly misleading at worst

consider the coconut

this reminds me of that time Plato defined humans as “featherless bipeds” and Diogenes ran in with a plucked chicken screaming “BEHOLD A MAN!”

i love how you say “it reminds me of that time” like you were there.

butthatsanothershow:Why does “you get what you pay for” only apply to consumers and not...

butthatsanothershow:

Why does “you get what you pay for” only apply to consumers and not employers?

Why do employers offering minimum wage expect dedicated, hard working, knowledgeable, experienced employees instead of just someone who shows up and does the job?

If you’re only willing to pay the minimum, you should only expect to get the minimum.

only-me-in-paris:oh my god the forest spirits are awake! hello!

only-me-in-paris:

oh my god the forest spirits are awake! hello!

iic3:seasaluki:please don’t say that I will straight up...

iic3:

seasaluki:

please don’t say that 

I will straight up vacuum your face if this is said to me

area man hospitalized after having his jaw broken by a 28lb vacuum cleaner swung head-on “it’s a miracle he wasn’t beheaded,” doctors say, “she must have shown mercy because she was in a maternal mood”