@ people who shit on self-diagnosing, i was just wondering, why do you hate poor people and kids with shitty parents who wont let them get help
this is from the website of a bank… I am giving this entity my money to keep safe for me…
did you take the same biology class I did? cause if I remember correctly you kinda need a sperm and an egg to reproduce. and reproduction is kinda the whole point of life on a biological level.
as a literal biochemist who works in academic research, I can confirm that straight people are absolutely unnecessary at a biological level. god bless.
Put this everywhere. Show everyone. The protest pictures capture the determination and strength of the people they abuse.
Even if they’re not literally punching a protestor here… THIS picture captures them.
We had to illustrate a process for one of my classes, so I chose to draw out my experience with propagating one of my succulent cacti this summer! I’m no expert, so all you can really glean from this is what i did and what happened.
Stop calling ISIS the Islamic State.
You guys will go upon lengths and jump hoops to deny that the KKK are a Christian influenced group but won’t blink to say Muslim and terrorist in the same sentence.
The language you use matters.
There’s something called “linguistic domination” that we studied in my sociology class about deviance. People in power (ruling elite/govt/etc) use specific words to connote a certain meaning and evoke a certain feeling. “Terrorist” as opposed to “freedom fighter” or “traitor” instead of “dissident”.
Obviously ISIS is not Islamic at all, but if we think about how the media and government brands Muslims as “terrorists” and white people who shoot up schools as “mentally ill”, you get my point. People react very differently to these two words. To the former with fear and anger, and the latter with sympathy.
Linguistic domination, people.
jsyk the creators of urbance have posted on their facebook about the recent criticisms about the plotline and concept and they have displayed a willingness to fix mistakes and take fan critique into account.
you really should not boycott this project based on limited information given in the summary, when it is doing a lot of good things for representation in other areas and the creators seem more than happy to look at the flaws the concept does have and fix them.
This is probably the only Urbance thing that I’m gonna reblog for obvious reasons, but i think it’s the most important. I think my post garned up a lot of anti-urbance sentiment which is… really shitty and makes me regret posting it in the first place. It’s important to be critical yes, but I think it’s important for projects like this to succeed. The fact that the creators are listening to complaints is amazing and I have so much respect for them because it’s a tough call to make. Nothing is perfect, and trying to hold Urbance to a perfect standard is unfair. I don’t regret being critical, but I do regret if i have contributed to harming Urbance’s support on here.
typically with projects like these there is a LOT of good intent and desire to make quality content that appeals to as many people as possible, but there’s always a chance of lack of consideration. the good thing about kickstarters is that they are practically built with communication in mind, so it’s good to see them utilizing this.
i LOVE the concepts for Urbance, and i want more projects to be this cool and awesome with female characters that i fall for before i even see the final product, and it makes me happy that they’re confronting the early criticism so early.
i hope the word “sadstuck” outlives people actually remembering or caring about homestuck so eventually nobody will know why its called that
