Stop it. Stop. Stop crying.


♔ Ghibli Trivia 

“Cutting the line” is a japanese good-luck charm performed by making a chopping gesture through another person’s connected index fingers. This is done whenever someone is affected by some impurity. 

There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one’s cultural superiority. My mood is dampened every time I attend a benefit whose host runs through a litany of African disasters before presenting a (usually) wealthy, white person, who often proceeds to list the things he or she has done for the poor, starving Africans. Every time a well-meaning college student speaks of villagers dancing because they were so grateful for her help, I cringe. Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head — because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West’s fantasy of itself. And not only do such depictions tend to ignore the West’s prominent role in creating many of the unfortunate situations on the continent, they also ignore the incredible work Africans have done and continue to do to fix those problems.

Uzodinma Iweala, “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa”

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hott-javascriptt:

The problem with men seeing women as emotional by default

Is that he can’t see the signs of a woman who has no emotions for him.

He just thinks its a game.


jathis:

sachehund:

daniellediegue:

U.S. Military’s remake of the - Call Me Maybe

For anyone unfortunate enough to have not seen this yet.

I needed this in my life


glitterweave:

The girl from this gif is actually bat shit crazy

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