Hey friends, quick favor and a feel-good opportunity 💙
As part of a class project this semester, I teamed up with a few others to support an incredible cause that really deserves some attention. We chose to raise money for Special Olympics, and the more we learned, the more personal it became.
We’re trying to hit a $2,500 goal to help cover things like coaching, uniforms, equipment, and travel for athletes with intellectual disabilities. These athletes aren’t just competing for medals, they’re gaining confidence, friendships, and life-changing experiences.
If you’re able to donate, awesome. If not, just sharing the link helps more than you know. Either way, I’d love for you to check it out and see why this means so much to us.
Here’s the link:
https://t.co/7yLTGEpCcQ
Thanks for reading and for supporting something truly inspiring
#SpecialOlympics #FuelTheDream
@JurrasicPo31235@libsoftiktok Hi! As a former Chef, you're incorrect. When we "86'd" something on the menu we "killed" it or "removed" it. The exact quote we would say is "86 it from the menu tonight"
Mostly indigenous actors from the Yucatán Peninsula were cast for Apocalypto, and the entire movie is spoken in Yucatec Maya.
Mel Gibson said:
"I think hearing a different language allows the audience to completely suspend their own reality and get drawn into the world of the film.”
@libsoftiktok Sadly, she probably has a degree and passed "civics" class but doesn't understand how the first amendment works or the Federal law trumps (no pun intended) state law 100% of the time
Former foster family here who b is WELL versed with CPS and their bullsh1t. Typically they DO NOT remove your kids for unsubstantiated claims, they just do an initial visit first. Secondary visits are another story. Either the kids were placed with another person for cause (CPS) or Buttgag did it for shiw.
As a lesbian, I am so tired of this nonsense. I am tired of corporate Pride and activist Pride.
This week HelloFresh decided that the best way to celebrate Pride Month was to post jokes about preparing for anal sex and offering high-fibre recipes to help people "prep". They then doubled down with a discount code called BOTTOMSUP.
Inclusion! WOO! 🙄
The thing that frustrates me is that people like me have spent years defending gay rights against accusations that we are hypersexual, inappropriate, and incapable of ordinary family life.
That was one of the central prejudices gay people faced. For decades, opponents portrayed gay men in particular as sexually obsessed and depraved. They argued that homosexuality was all about sex rather than love, commitment, relationships and family. The fight for equal rights was partly a fight against exactly that caricature.
And now here we are. A major multinational company has decided the best way to celebrate Pride is to publicly discuss anal sex. What an achievement.
The same-sex marriage movement wasn't about sex. It was about love, commitment, and the ability to build a life with the person you love. It was about family and equality before the law.
Most gay people are not what the weirdos in the HelloFresh marketing department think we are. We go to work, pay bills, walk the dog, argue about whose turn it is to empty the dishwasher, and try to build a decent life together.
You know... Normal things.
The overwhelming majority of gay people just want to be accepted and left alone. We want the same freedoms, responsibilities and opportunities as everyone else. We don't need multinational corporations making dirty jokes about us to feel "included".
What makes this even more ridiculous is that HelloFresh's core market is clearly not radical "queer" activists with blue hair and septum rings.
Their customers are overwhelmingly middle-class couples and families. Busy parents. Professionals. People with disposable income who want convenient meals after work.
How hard would it have been to make a genuinely wholesome Pride advertisement?
Two mums cooking dinner with their kids or two husbands hosting friends. A same-sex couple just making dinner together or flipping a coin to see who has to cook. A simple message acknowledging families and love. Instead they went with rectum jokes.
Somewhere along the way after the TQ+ hijacked our movement, Pride stopped being about acceptance and started being about performance. A small but influential group of activists have convinced themselves that being as shocking, vulgar and sexually explicit as possible is somehow brave and intrinsically "queer". They think boundaries of any kind are oppression including standards and decorum. They think manners are censorship.
The result is campaigns like this one and somehow people are shocked when there is backlash against us all.
I actually feel really sorry for gay men in particular because one of the oldest stigmas they have faced is the idea that they are dirty, promiscuous and defined entirely by sex. This campaign reinforces that stereotype.
If you wanted to design an advertisement that would make ordinary people roll their eyes and think Pride is ridiculous, or shield their children's eyes in horror, you would struggle to do better than this.
The irony is that HelloFresh's marketing department thinks this is progressive. It's regressive and distasteful. It takes decades of work by ordinary gay people who want to be seen as neighbours, colleagues, parents, partners and family members and reduces all of it to a crude sexual punchline.
The people who fought for our rights wanted dignity, but the people most enthusiastic about Pride today seem determined to turn it into a fetish convention with corporate sponsors.
Dear @McJuggerNuggets,
You just asked the world for empathy and sympathy because you aborted your unborn baby because you found out he had Downs Syndrome.
I'm not sure if this is some sick humiliation ritual, or you and your wife are simply dead inside, but I'd like to show you what you just ended for the sake of convenience:
@CBHeresy And you clearly have no experience around people with down syndrome as that are some of the best people I've ever had the pleasure to meet and know. The world could learn a thing or two from the down syndrome population!
@CBHeresy Yeah....sooo....what you're talking about is a "severe and profound" special needs child that has no correlation to Down Syndrome. The statistical odds of having a downs child that is severe and profound is so astronomically low!
@PhilipNowak@Chicago_NFL It absolutely will not! There's some quite wealthy people who park their boats/yachts right next to all of that in the Hammond marine and my parents used to be one. None of that ever bothered them vs having to deal with the exorbitant prices of Chicago
@bryanrbeal I'm in north Texas and agree....the marina's on our lake are emptying out as the greedy owners keep raising slips fees. During COVID their was a wait list and now, it sad the Marina is down to 55% capacity.
Stop rage baiting.....while this strain does spread person to person, it's INCREDIBLY difficult to spread without significant prolonged exposure as the virus sits lower in the lungs than COVID did. Its also not that rare and small outbreaks happen every year. Yes, the people should stay quarantined, no....you shouldn't bait people.
@ChairmanSelig@CFTC@SDNYnews "Hello....double standards, are you there? Its me, the DOJ....we need to go ahead and arrest a little guy for what we BLATANTLY do everyday"
- Mike Selig