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she/her

[terp @tpxrisi]

They unspoken bond between the children who play outside my window and me, who smokes weed out said window

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

No words.

[terp @tpxrisi]

Where did all these life saving motorcyclists with helmet cameras come from? Where do I find more

[terp @tpxrisi]

Okay Lizzo is the perfect example of those people who are always crafting a certain nice person image and you wanna tell everyone they’re being manipulative but from the outside they seem like the nicest person and you look like an ass for hating on the nice person

[terp @tpxrisi]

The reason so many men & internalized-misogyny-women are not understanding that the message behind Barbie is that patriarchy disadvantages all people & all genders is because you need to explicitly spell shit out for them. They don’t understand symbolism & metaphors unfortunately

[terp @tpxrisi]

I’m 85% into the book little fires everywhere and I wanna fight Mrs Richardson so bad

[terp @tpxrisi]

Legit WHY didn’t anyone tell me my anxiety as a child was not normal? Like I was out here raw dogging life thinking I was going to get kidnapped or my parents were going to die at 7 years old

[terp @tpxrisi]

DUMP HIS ASS @KekePalmer

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Keke Palmer’s boyfriend responds to the backlash he's receiving for outfit-shaming her:

“We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he gets told how much of a hater he is.”

[terp @tpxrisi]

@Raggio9124 LOL I’m actually good on that sunny d is gross

[ryan @OhItsRyan]

This is so sad. The fact that Bud Light chose to partner with her then basically hung her out to dry while conservatives literally called for her to be murdered is probably the most egregious example of rainbow capitalism.

[eva @_glorianas]

just fell to my knees

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Neerja Bhanot was a flight attendant on Pan Am Flight 73 when it was hijacked in Pakistan by Palestinian terrorists on September 5, 1986. She helped the pilots escape, saved American passengers from execution, and opened the emergency door so hundreds could jump to safety. Ultimately, she was killed while shielding three children from gunfire.

Twenty-two-year-old Indian air hostess Neerja Bhanot was always a woman of courage and convictions. Despite the traditions of her culture and her family's protests, she left her arranged marriage when her husband proved abusive. Then she struck out on her own and began working as both a model and a flight attendant for Pan Am. But shortly after she began her new career in the skies, disaster struck when a flight she was working was hijacked by four terrorists in 1986. Though she was new to the job, she proved to be the greatest hero of the entire ordeal. Over the course of 17 harrowing hours, she helped both the pilots and hundreds of passengers to escape. In the end, she was killed while using her body to protect three children from gunfire.

Bhanot was posthumously awarded medals of bravery from India, Pakistan, and the United States. And one of the children she saved grew up to be a pilot himself and credited Bhanot for his decision.

[dash @thedigitaldash_]

my relationship with my parents improved when i started thinking of them as sitcom parents. and that sounds so silly but i realized if i kept on taking them seriously i would always be stressed. in order for us to get along i just gotta pretend our interactions have laugh tracks

[terp @tpxrisi]

Crying at how many bean-eating colonizers have responded to this thinking their obsession with royalty is normal

[terp @tpxrisi]

Currently reading Spare by Prince Harry, and William, Kate, Charles & Camilla are literally insufferable human beings. I feel so bad for Harry & megan

[terp @tpxrisi]

@tbatde 80% of what?

[terp @tpxrisi]

@gosforthgal What does that even mean

[terp @tpxrisi]

“There IS beauty in wrinkles, and saggy skin, and drooping breasts. These are markers of a life hard fought for and well lived. It seems odd to try and erase these battle scars.”

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is a side by side of two women gracing the front covers of two well known magazines.

The one on the right we all know is Martha Stewart, age 81. The one on the left is Apo Whang-Od, age 106, a tribal tattooist in a remote province in the Philippines.

There seems to be an unwritten rule which equates beauty with youngness. In an interview, Martha Stewart told the reporter she credits her organic, home-grown, farm-to-table eating, yoga, and actively healthy lifestyle to her youthfulness. While that’s an admirable journey for her, let’s not forget the amount of privilege that kind of lifestyle requires.

On the left is Apo Whang-Od, who is a 106-year-old tribal tattooist in the Philippines. The wisdom she carries in every forehead wrinkle and frown line is stunning. Her eyes are glass, reflecting back all that she’s witnessed over a century of lived experiences. Her tattoos a reminder of the ancestors she seeks to honor.

Both women are beautiful in their own right. But I wish we as women didn’t play into this idea that we have to look younger—and thinner—in order to fit some unrealistic beauty standard which will grant us acceptance and relevance in the world around us.

I’m writing this for any woman who, like me, may have had a punched-gut reaction to seeing an octogenarian in a swimsuit on the cover of a magazine looking more like a woman in her forties or fifties: Anti-aging is not a beauty standard.

There IS beauty in wrinkles, and saggy skin, and drooping breasts. These are markers of a life hard fought for and well lived. It seems odd to try and erase these battle scars.

So while I applaud Martha for her fortunate body, carefully curated procedures, and pristinely styled makeup, I also applaud Whang-Od for what others may perceive as imperfections.

Anti-aging is not a beauty standard.
Authenticity is.

@ FeministNews