A Rant for The Night

This is inspired by a post that I just read.

I am that angry liberal. That is one of my many defining qualities, and my anger…well that’s been a part of me for a really long time. I have much to be angry about and my anger can be productive. Often times it is. But sometimes, I get tired of being angry. I get tired of fighting battles constantly. It seems as soon as one battle is won, 5 more come up. Gay marriage, LGBTQ acceptance, voting rights, feminism, the climate, racism, sexism, homophobia, entitlement, taxes, the budget, education, defense, etc, etc. I don’t want to have to fight constantly. I hate living in a state that makes me have to fight constantly. I hate this. I’m so tired of it. But I guess that’s the liberal’s burden. That’s the price of progressivism. 

And I’m so tired, I will now go to sleep.

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I don’t want to be a feminist anymore. Like a five-year-old, I want to close my eyes, stick my fingers in my ears, stomp my feet on the floor and scream “No! No, you cannot make me, I won’t, leave me alone!” I am, simply put, too tired. So very, very tired.

I am tired of fighting with my friends. I am tired of arguing that someone groping and slapping my butt isn’t “what I have to expect”, just because I’m at a bar, and the one attacking my butt has a drink in the other hand. I am tired of hearing “boys will be boys” and “when you’re dressed like that …” and “that’s just what guys do”. I am tired of trying to drown those sentiments in loud, repetitive no’s, screamed over and over again, till my throat is sore and my voice weak – just to hear them repeated, as soon as exhaustion threatens to silence me.

I am tired of being afraid. I am tired of seeing someone writing something offensive, sexist, racist, ageist, ableist, somewhere online. I am tired of seeing those writings getting likes and lol’s, and SO TRUE’s. I am tired of being consumed by confusion and anger, typing, typing, typing and typing a seemingly endless response, including research, links and statistics, and then hesitate clicking “submit”. I am tired of knowing that I hesitate because I am afraid of the flood of responses that will come. I am tired of knowing that I will be bombarded with lighten up’s, stop whining’s and get a sense of humor’s for so long, that I will start to wonder if I am indeed wound up too tight, a nagger and humorless. I am tired of the fact that I’m afraid of being called a cunt, even though I don’t find genitalia insulting or demeaning.

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I don’t want to be a feminist anymore.

“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”

— Ernest Hemingway (via pollgold)

(via lucidparadox)

The hilarious double standard “Mexicans are lazy, and too stupid/can’t be bothered to learn English” and “Mexicans are taking all our jobs”. So, you’re saying that you lost your job to a lazy person who doesn’t speak English, how bad at your job were you?

stargazingeyes:

OH SNAP!

(Source: chinitahermosaa, via kristinastewartcolbert)

tanlines-:

creduli:

it’s supposed to look like a tree idk

wow this is just wow

(via t0love1self)

(via adventuresofatinynerdgirl)

I will write about the following, leave one in my ask box.

Dear person I hate,
Dear person I like,
Dear ex boyfriend,
Dear ex girlfriend,
Dear ex bestfriend,
Dear bestfriend,
Dear *anyone*,
Dear Santa,
Dear mom,
Dear dad,
Dear future me,
Dear past me,
Dear person I’m jealous of,
Dear person I had a crush on,
Dear girlfriend,
Dear boyfriend,
Dear [insert URL here],

(Source: wishtoconfess, via missmarie-in-wonderland)

beeblunt504:

#sex #marriage

(via mehtaphysical)

commodore-amiga:

the-page-0f-space:

I fucking love you, BBC.

Is no-one going to comment on the title of the news report?

(via boiling-wax)

this is one of my favorite things ever.

(Source: impactings, via long-live-my-fighter)