{{ NUMOL BITES }}

fuckyeahadelleda:

Does this image piss anyone else off?

It pisses me off, in that none of the alleged “equalities” at the top of the stairs actually exist in the US yet.

(via greedyinslavery)

haterina:

name-redacted:

hlewisallways:

British climber Adam Potter fell 1,000 feet down the side of a mountain in the Scottish Highlands. A helicopter crew found him half an hour later, standing on his feet reading a map. How did he survive?

Potter was climbing a mountain called Sgurr Choinnich Mor with his girlfriend, two friends, and his dog when he slipped on the snow and rolled down a “rough scree slope,” over three hundred-foot-high cliffs, and finally onto a boulder, which he thinks may have knocked him out.

Hardcore Scotland.

A brief side note.

Adam Potter lives in Glasgow, he’s a proud Scotsman. He’s also - I think it’s fair to say - an unkillable bad ass, no? Yet read the first word again. They describe him as a British climber. This is, technically, correct. Scotland is a part of Great Britain, which in turn makes him a British resident.

But here’s the rub. Had he actually pushed someone off a cliff, then he’d have been labelled as Scottish, instantly and indelably. No British person has ever murdered anyone, or lost a sporting match, or made a movie which flopped or done anything bad, ever. English people have, Welsh people have, Scottish people have, but never a British person. British people can be victims of a terrorist attack, but never the terrorist. If I were to foil a bank robbery, I’d be described as a London resident, but if I were the one robbing the bank, I’d be described as Irish.

This is a problem I have with the way conversations about Race and Ethnicity play out on Tumblr, they’re almost always based on the way North Americans percieve it. White Privilege doesn’t work the same way over here as it does elsewhere. It still exists, obviously, but we have our own version of shading over here, which isn’t taken into account in traditional views.

There are always methods to demarcate ethnocultural differences. That is to say, more clearly, that there’s foreign and then there is really foreign.

Perhaps there is race and then there is ethnicity. You get shit for being Irish here, but you might be ~honoured~ as a London resident as you said. You’re not That Type of Irish Person, you’re assimilated successfully in London. And either way, you’re still white, so you still have that going for you — until you open your mouth, as you’ve mentioned before. Always a “gotcha!” game of Are You Other Enough?

With my accent and habits, I could be considered English — and I have consciously taken to describing myself as English so that I and others are aware of my particular position so I don’t just homogenise the whole of the British Isles with my talk. I’ve also found that “English” is also the word used by the Daily Mail readers as another way of saying “Proud to be White And the Best Type of White Thank You Very Much”. Furthermore, person of colour describing oneself as British sometimes has overtones of [British] Empire to it, even though my country of ethnic origin was never subject to that. I was born in England and have lived here all my life, have witnessed attitudes towards Irish, Scottish and Welsh people, looked at and performed the constructed English image - stiff upper lip, queues, crumpets, weather, especial humility… so am I English? Do I have English privilege but not white privilege? Is Englishness ethnicity or nationality for me, or indeed for anyone…?

English privilege is weird to describe and make distinct BUT i have (albeit rarely) seen discussions of Statesider privilege conferred to those in the USA, soooo I think it makes sense to mark out these differences as such things obviously don’t take place in a void. And I don’t think there’s a zero sum game here of privilege trumping.

I think there was another post along the same lines as this. The person who wrote it is an Irish Traveller. They outlined how they were marked as Other in Ireland but elsewhere would pass as white, and so was simultaneously privileged yet not in terms of race (white) and ethnicity (Irish Traveller). I have a feeling that this particular issue is just a whole other bunch of things to consider in and of itself though, which shows just how important it is to localise discussion sometimes and be as specific as you can.

(via torayot)

genderbitch:

bodyfluid:

tehribbit:

et-tu-dionysus:

So my neighbor is selling these amazing shirts (click through to link to her store!)
Each one says “COMEDY IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY, NOT OFFENSIVE!” on the back and each print is available on every size the website has to offer.

I’m extremely tempted to order each one, :s

-want-

All of these need to be mine. :c

Omg omg omg make one for trans, for fat, for disability and for Islam! So very sold if you do!

(Source: unlubricated-anal-sex)

genderbitch:

nines19:

genderbitch:

bodyfluid:

tehribbit:

et-tu-dionysus:

So my neighbor is selling these amazing shirts (click through to link to her store!)
Each one says “COMEDY IS MEANT TO BE FUNNY, NOT OFFENSIVE!” on the back and each print is available on every size the website has to offer.

I’m extremely tempted to order each one, :s

-want-

All of these need to be mine. :c

Omg omg omg make one for trans, for fat, for disability and for Islam! So very sold if you do!

They do have ones for trans* and weight. :3

Yessssssssss

So disability I guess, although illness covers a shit ton of that, and Islam! Fingers crossed, cuz these shirts are awesome and everyone ought to be covered.

re-reblogging for correction.  and i agree that these are seriously awesome shirts.

(Source: unlubricated-anal-sex)