Passing this along.
PLEASE REBLOG, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS OF NEW YORK, PITTSBURGH, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW JERSEY!!!!
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Well done Argentina! Thank you for taking this huge step forward in human rights and human dignity. I hope the rest of the world takes your example and does the same.
SO HAPPY!!!!
Argentina JUST PASSED a groundbreaking gender identity bill!!!
From now on, people will be able to change the name and gender on their ID without needing psychiatric permission or any body modifications. Furthermore, anyone who does want hormones or surgery will be able to access them for free through the public and private health system.
It was passed unanimously today by the Senate
UNANIMOUSLY
oh my gosh I just got so emotional reading this
I’m crying
this is amazing
(Source: genderqueer)
Just because someone is atheist, it doesn’t mean they don’t respect others rights to believe. Most atheists also have done a fair amount of reading and have a good understanding of the major world religions. How do you know you don’t believe something if you don’t understand what it’s about?
I think most religions have some good ideas. Every ‘holy’ book has some version of the so-called Golden Rule “Do unto others as you would have done unto you”. Which is really all you need. If every religion would just drop everything else and stick to that one rule, we would have a world that was something to be proud of. Sadly, religion, like political systems, only works on paper. There are always those who will use it as an excuse for bullshit.
So, with all that in mind, I would say Angelina Jolie is just trying her best to bring up her kids to respect and understand other people, and to take the good bits of every faith and instill those ideas into their world view. You can do all that and still be atheist.
Thanks for the question by the way - you were my first on Tumblr!
For the record, I am a happy carnivore, but this is just too fucking funny not to re-post.
The animals don’t look shocked, which is one of those things that separates us from them.CAN’T
STOP
LAUGHING
As a childfree atheist I can tell you right now that is not the proper way to roast a baby.
Honestly. We’re not barbarians. You don’t put it in the oven ALIVE, for fuck sake.
(Source: hayleyrue)
![cognitivedissonance:
[Image: Hi Dr. Garner. My name is K—— and my son Matthew was a little stinker today at the library. He went to play on my computer but instead he played on a student of yours computer in the library that looked just like mine but with stickers. Anyways he wrote Jesus in big letters thinking I’d be real proud of him. When your student Megan came back from the bathroom I guess he deleted a paper or something she was working on. He wanted to save it to show daddy when he got back from the store. She was real angry and said I had to email you. Anyways, please don’t fail Megan because my son wanted to do something nice. What he did was wrong and I told him so but he’s only five and real smart lol. I am emailing you the file he made to. Thank you very much.]
So this happened yesterday… I was finishing my final for my Editing and Publishing class when I dashed to the bathroom before printing it to submit. Mind you, this is 30 minutes before it’s due. When I got back, there was a little kid on my computer, and this was where my project used to be: 
He’d already clicked save. I tried to undo. No dice. By that point, I’d been awake since 10 AM Thursday.
I told her she absolutely had to email my professor to tell her what happened. At first, she refused, saying it wasn’t that big of a deal, her son was only trying to do something nice, and sorry that inconvenienced me, etc. I told her that it *was* that big of a deal, and she rolled her eyes and agreed to do it. A screen shot of her email is posted above.
I literally could not believe what I was reading. The “lol” was the cherry on top of that shit sundae. I posted it on Facebook, ranting about this woman’s “fuck trophy” (the profane name I call unremarkable children who do terrible things and are held up by their parents as just such wittle pwecious twophies). The 50+ comments from my friends on Facebook made my day. A sampling: 
I made one of the comments into a PSA: 
Luckily, my professor has a soul. If my professor hadn’t had said soul, I’d be putting Kathy’s last name and email on this post.
Here’s the gist of why I’m posting this: I don’t care if you bring your kid to the main university library, even during finals week. I don’t really care much for children, but I will tolerate them. But first, teach them basic manners and not to touch other people’s shit.
Before this, I saw a parent who was doing it right. He was clearly engrossed in what looked like engineering homework, and his son was sitting next to him drawing. His son said loudly, “Hey DAD—” and before he could continue, his dad shushed him and said, “Library voice, remember? There’s a lot of people working on homework. Now what do you need?”
Folks like Kathy, you’re doing it wrong.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3kpyrJbSq1qcfoo3o1_r1_500.png)
[Image: Hi Dr. Garner. My name is K—— and my son Matthew was a little stinker today at the library. He went to play on my computer but instead he played on a student of yours computer in the library that looked just like mine but with stickers. Anyways he wrote Jesus in big letters thinking I’d be real proud of him. When your student Megan came back from the bathroom I guess he deleted a paper or something she was working on. He wanted to save it to show daddy when he got back from the store. She was real angry and said I had to email you. Anyways, please don’t fail Megan because my son wanted to do something nice. What he did was wrong and I told him so but he’s only five and real smart lol. I am emailing you the file he made to. Thank you very much.]
So this happened yesterday… I was finishing my final for my Editing and Publishing class when I dashed to the bathroom before printing it to submit. Mind you, this is 30 minutes before it’s due. When I got back, there was a little kid on my computer, and this was where my project used to be: 
He’d already clicked save. I tried to undo. No dice. By that point, I’d been awake since 10 AM Thursday.
I told her she absolutely had to email my professor to tell her what happened. At first, she refused, saying it wasn’t that big of a deal, her son was only trying to do something nice, and sorry that inconvenienced me, etc. I told her that it *was* that big of a deal, and she rolled her eyes and agreed to do it. A screen shot of her email is posted above.
I literally could not believe what I was reading. The “lol” was the cherry on top of that shit sundae. I posted it on Facebook, ranting about this woman’s “fuck trophy” (the profane name I call unremarkable children who do terrible things and are held up by their parents as just such wittle pwecious twophies). The 50+ comments from my friends on Facebook made my day. A sampling: 
I made one of the comments into a PSA: 
Luckily, my professor has a soul. If my professor hadn’t had said soul, I’d be putting Kathy’s last name and email on this post.
Here’s the gist of why I’m posting this: I don’t care if you bring your kid to the main university library, even during finals week. I don’t really care much for children, but I will tolerate them. But first, teach them basic manners and not to touch other people’s shit.
Before this, I saw a parent who was doing it right. He was clearly engrossed in what looked like engineering homework, and his son was sitting next to him drawing. His son said loudly, “Hey DAD—” and before he could continue, his dad shushed him and said, “Library voice, remember? There’s a lot of people working on homework. Now what do you need?”
Folks like Kathy, you’re doing it wrong.
Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, and the amazing Eddie Izzard.
My inner geek girl is having a major squee! moment.
![murphysbride:
nonplussedbyreligion:
I grew up with the expression, “Never underestimate the power of prayer.” I however think we should never underestimate the power of faith, for prayer without faith is nothing more than wishing and hoping.
We often find ourselves unable to understand why those in faith based religions hold so stubbornly to their beliefs, even in the absence of evidence. The answer I’ve come up with based on my personal experience as a Christian is that you cannot reason with faith. Faith is a personal thing. Each believer, even those who believe in the same god, does so differently. My faith was based on what I perceived god to be and what he wanted of me. I was thankful to him for his blessings, and praised him for his mercies. Now that my mind is free of faith I can clearly see that those blessings and mercies were not things done by god, but by myself and others.
Faith is an extremely powerful force. When we feel like banging our heads against a wall or screaming in frustration while debating a theist, remember the source of their strength is their faith. It is for that reason that I try to not to debate/argue with theists too often. When someone is running on faith, it’s often not worth the effort or headache to try to use reason and logic with them. Faith is like a blindfold or earplugs that you cannot get through. For your own health, it’s sometimes best to just walk away.
[picture source]
my BIL pretty much gave “faith” as an answer when explaining why he believes in what he does. I told him that I can’t think that way. Faith isn’t a good enough reason for me; that asking me to have faith in something that I cannot hear, feel, see, touch or know is impossible. He said he felt sorry for me, and I said I felt sorry for him. We don’t talk about religion anymore.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3loqyx5Bg1qm4zvuo1_500.jpg)
I grew up with the expression, “Never underestimate the power of prayer.” I however think we should never underestimate the power of faith, for prayer without faith is nothing more than wishing and hoping.
We often find ourselves unable to understand why those in faith based religions hold so stubbornly to their beliefs, even in the absence of evidence. The answer I’ve come up with based on my personal experience as a Christian is that you cannot reason with faith. Faith is a personal thing. Each believer, even those who believe in the same god, does so differently. My faith was based on what I perceived god to be and what he wanted of me. I was thankful to him for his blessings, and praised him for his mercies. Now that my mind is free of faith I can clearly see that those blessings and mercies were not things done by god, but by myself and others.
Faith is an extremely powerful force. When we feel like banging our heads against a wall or screaming in frustration while debating a theist, remember the source of their strength is their faith. It is for that reason that I try to not to debate/argue with theists too often. When someone is running on faith, it’s often not worth the effort or headache to try to use reason and logic with them. Faith is like a blindfold or earplugs that you cannot get through. For your own health, it’s sometimes best to just walk away.
[picture source]
my BIL pretty much gave “faith” as an answer when explaining why he believes in what he does. I told him that I can’t think that way. Faith isn’t a good enough reason for me; that asking me to have faith in something that I cannot hear, feel, see, touch or know is impossible. He said he felt sorry for me, and I said I felt sorry for him. We don’t talk about religion anymore.
One of my favourite movies - dark, but so lovely.
(Source: ooohposters, via murphysbride)
I posted an entry earlier and when I was done I found myself thinking: Well, where do I go from here?
The answer happily came from that greatest source of information and idiocy - my Twitter feed.
Apparently a Christian Pastor has taken it upon herself to give one of her sheep a little project. Cast the Devil (not just any demon, I feel so special) out of the Lady Satan.
Excuse me while I engage in another round of raucous laughter.
While this is amusing I also find it a bit maddening. With all the REAL suffering, pain, poverty and illness in this world, these self-important bigots are sitting around on their collective ass PRAYING. As one wise person said “Prayer is a way of feeling like you are doing something while doing absolutely nothing.”
Instead of praying for me, why don’t you go volunteer at a women’s shelter, a homeless shelter, cook a meal for a senior, or do something else to actually make life on this planet a little better.
I’ve had this Tumblr now for ages. I take it out, poke about in the setting, change the colours, then get distracted by some other shiny new web-toy and forget about it again.
I think though, I would like to start actually writing stuff down again.
I rediscovered my love of Twitter, and I enjoy the challenge of conversation, debate, and humor in 140 characters or less, but sometimes I just want to say more, explore deeper.
Piss off more people.
I am a child-free, pansexual, atheist and an action/executive trophy wife. This is all the stuff that floats through my brain.
Enjoy!
