Bigotry is getting so confusing these days. Like it used to make, at least, logical sense. It was never ethical, but like back when the issue was interracial marriage, people were like, “Don’t let the black people marry us! Don’t let them marry us. Make them marry each other, only.”
Today with gay people, they’re like, “Don’t let them marry each other! Make ‘em marry…us? I guess? Maybe make ‘em marry the blacks? Bigotry’s confusing!”

(via inquisitorpsyduck)

The previous post inspired me to write this. :D

Ladies! You don’t have to wear engineer boots and have a rooster-cut to prove you’re a strong woman. You don’t have to be Lara Croft or never cry or drink whiskey or whatever the media and movies would have us believe a strong woman is supposed to do.

Strong women can like pink and lace and ponies too! Wearing girly vintage dresses, painting your toenails, enjoying romantic comedies, decorating your house and body with flowers, these are all things a strong woman can also enjoy.

No it does not matter that I love engineer boots (but can never find them in my size in the men’s department), generally eschew pink and miss my chicken-butt hair. And I refuse to even acknowledge the myth that tattoos and piercings are the realm of masculine weirdos. I’m a strong woman when I wear capris and flats and I’m a strong woman when I’m in scrubs. I’m a strong woman when I’m challenging myself to lift and carry two anesthesia machines and I’m a strong woman when I’m nursing five tiny kittens. I’m a strong woman because I believe I am a strong woman, and no one can ever take that away from me.

All it takes to be truly strong is to believe in yourself and love yourself the best you can. Be proud to be you. Be honest. Be strong.

So tell me, what makes you strong?

uberdorkgirlie:

samspratt:

Reblogging this because NY FINALLY has given the gay community equal rights to marriage like the rest of us! This is huge news, so proud to be a New Yorker. 

Be a Man: Support Gay Marriage - Sam Spratt

Reblog your manliness, reblog because you care, reblog because it is simply absurd that the LGBT community, in the 21st century, STILL don’t share the same rights that we do.

Now may the rest of the states follow suit. 

This is great. Now I’d like to see a version for women.