A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that’s considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.
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Ha this is so relevant to people at my college who win “service awards” for tutoring a child a few hours a week versus people who live and work in those communities who don’t win them
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THIS
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Why I had to stop volunteering at the poor neighborhood in the city my school is based in. The people in my school went into these places to look like cool volunteers. Then there was me, a person who looked, spoke, and appeared to be just like them.
I saw how I wanted to see what these kids and their parents wanted us to help with, and how those coming from more privileged facets of society, were inclined to assume their own ideas of what the kids needed.
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If guys were as mad about rape as they are duck face we wouldn’t have a rape culture problem.
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Jamie Kilstein
Other things most straight white guys get way more upset about than they do about rape:
- Taylor Swift
- the song “Call Me Maybe”
- girls who date “douchebags”
- basically any music that isn’t played by white dudes with guitars
- girls who are “shallow” or “fake”
- girls who wear too much make-up
- girls who don’t wear enough make-up
- fat girls
- when people badmouth dark and gritty superhero films
- sports
- sports
- sports
- guns
- fishing
- hunting
- vegetarianism
- Justin Bieber
- someone thinking that they’re gay
- musicals
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Abortion seems to be the only medical procedure that people want to deny you based on how you got in that situation.
Drove drunk, got in an accident and need an organ transplant? No problem.
Messing around with a gun, accidentally shoot yourself in the leg and need surgery? Of course.
Smoke tobacco for most of your life and need treatment for lung cancer? Yep.
Climb a tree, fall out and break your leg? We’ll fix that right up.
Have sex and get pregnant when you don’t want to be? YOU GOT YOURSELF INTO THIS SITUATION AND YOU DESERVE NO MEDICAL HELP OR COMPASSION! THIS IS YOUR FAULT AND YOU WILL DEAL WITH THE CONSEQUENCES!
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“Worry about your own uterus” wise wise words.
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Maybe if your dick was thicker than your goddamn eyebrows we wouldn’t be having this conversation
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