These NYPD officers are the plaintiffs in class-action lawsuit alleging the department is violating a 2010 state ban on arrest quotas.
“We’re the predator. They’re the prey,” Pedro Serrano told NBC4 in New York. “The worst thing you can have is a police officer that needs an arrest for the month.”
Following the police killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge (which was caught on video), social media users and celebrities are expressing their outrage and disgust. Comedian Travon Free really drove the point home with one Jesse Williams quote.
Heavy police presence as Baltimore residents grieve for slain rapper
A heavy police presence accompanied dozens of fans of rapper Lor Scoota as they took to the streets Monday evening for a spontaneous block party in honor of his death in a shooting over the weekend.
#LorScoota #BLACKLIVESMATTER #PoliceState
#StayWoke
#Baltimore
this shit insane! Baltimore’s Fucked up!
I was wondering why all the helicopters were flying that direction
Good morning,a nd it’s time for your daily dose of rage and FUCK THE POLICE.
Women should NOT be forced to feed their babies in a bathroom, all because we live in a misogynistic, porn-warped society that’s been brainwashed to believe that female breasts used for anything other than male pleasure is “indecent”. Support public breast feeding and end the porn culture.
Forever reblog
No. I’m eating. I don’t wanna see you hang out your goddamn tits while I have food. My kids don’t wanna see it. It’s not some misogynistic ideal, it’s fucking public indecency. Can I take my cock out under the table and feed my wife/girlfriend? No? Fuck you
i genuinely cannot believe that you just compared a blowjob to breastfeeding oh my fucking god
getting a blowjob is a sexual thing and it also does not ‘feed’ anyone whereas breastfeeding is literally not even a sexual thing a baby is having food that they need to live like it’s nowhere near on the same level as getting a blowjob omg
if you are uncomfortable seeing a woman breastfeeding then that is your problem because you have oversexualised breasts so much that you can’t even stand seeing them being used for their actual purpose and also you’re an idiot
go eat your dinner in a public bathroom, you trash bag
End skeevy dudes who compare whipping out their dick in public to breast feeding 2k15
DO YOU FEED YOUR CHILDREN SEMEN? SHOVE A TRASH CAN UP YOUR ASS
Pediatric anthropology student, here.
1.) Breasts as sexual fetishes is a (largely Western) cultural construction. Yes, it’s a fetish – anything you are sexually attracted to that is not the genitals of an adult is a fetish, or paraphilia. My professors have met non-Westerners who think our men are “like babies” because they are attracted to breasts.
Breasts ≠ genitals. Scientifically, they are considered secondary sexual characteristics – same category as facial hair. They can be sexual in a sexual context, just as necks and feet can be. But their primary purpose is reproductive.
2.) Breastmilk is not a “bodily fluid.” It is FOOD.
It is not categorized by the CDC as a biohazard, and so no you don’t need to freak out if your coworker wants to store her milk right next to your Lunchables.
MOREOVER,
Breastmilk is not just protein and vitamins. It is a living, dynamic substance that BUILDS HUMANS.
There is a lab at the University of Washington St. Louis, where they have written all of the ingredients of human milk on the wall – They have run out of room on that wall. Among those ingredients:
The exact ratio of protein-sugars-fats that human infants need (cow’s milk doesn’t even come close)
Antibodies to pathogens in the baby’s environment (synthesized by the mother within hours of coming into contact with a given pathogen) and other immune factors
prolly other awesome shit we don’t even know about yet because we’ve barely scratched the surface of this research!
These ingredients change hour-to-hour according to the baby’s needs. It will even add more water on hot/dry days. Fuck, breastmilk kills cancer in a petri dish.
Breastmilk. is. not. a. bodily. fluid. It. is. liquid. gold.
3.) When you tell a woman to go to the bathroom to breastfeed, you are perpetuating the notion that it is dirty and shameful and needs to be hidden away. This idea is the biggest barrier to achieving breastfeeding goals in the United States. Because women feel ashamed, they often stay isolated at home when they should be spending time out and about with friends and family and having, like, a life. This isolation can contribute to postpartum depression.
Women may find themselves excluded from social interactions when they are breastfeeding because others are reluctant to be in the same room while they breastfeed. For many women, the feeling of embarrassment restricts their activities and is cited as a reason for choosing to feed supplementary formula or to give up breastfeeding altogether.
And since we have this culture of shame and privacy surrounding breastfeeding, young girls and women don’t see it enough to learn what is normal/not and how to do it, so they often give up when they run into problems because they don’t realize there’s an easy fix.
Moreover, an infant needs to be integrated into society in order to develop properly. He/she needs to see faces and hear voices. Isolating them – or throwing a blanket over their head – takes this important component of their development away. It also often annoys them because they are understimulated.
4.) YOU NEED TO SEE IT. That’s right, YOU. Even if you are a dude. Maybe you aren’t a parent, but you probably have loved ones who are. Or you might become one yourself someday. And if you are American chances are you have no idea how breastfeeding actually works, because you never fucking see it. It’s messy and complicated, and hard. It used to be a part of everyday life, because there weren’t any alternatives – So we learned how to do it by being around it all the time, NBD. The whole sexualization/modesty thing surrounding breasts wasn’t a thing until like the mid-20th century. Check out this 1871 drawing of a woman breastfeeding IN FUCKING CHURCH:
She’s covered head to toe, in accordance with modesty standards of the time – except for her breast, about which the people around her give zero fucks.
More from the Surgeon General:
In American culture, breasts have often been regarded primarily as sexual objects, while their nurturing function has been downplayed. Although focusing on the sexuality of female breasts is common in the mass media, visual images of breastfeeding are rare, and a mother may never have seen a woman breastfeeding.
Mothers need to see it. Future mothers need to see it. Future fathers need to see it. Family members need to see it. Everybody needs to see it. SO THEY FUCKING GET USED TO IT.
So, no, I’m not gonna go to the bathroom to feed my kid. If you don’t want to see it, then DON’T. FUCKING. LOOK.
TEEEEELLLLL EMMMMMM
I fed my baby in a public bathroom just last weekend. It was disgusting, but I had no way of knowing if everyone in the room was this dude, and I didn’t want to deal with the judgement.
I changed my profile picture into this, with a caption that said that normally I don’t do this, but I wanted to show my support for the victims of the hate crime in Orlando. Especially because several media fails in recognizing it for what it is: a hate crime against lgbtq+ people (and not some isis shit).
Then one of my fb friends comments the photo with this picture. Wtf.
I know it could’ve been much worse with homophobia and such, but I still think that it’s waaaaay inappropriate. Did the word lgbtq remind him of lesbian sex? Did he think that this is a fucking joke? I got so angry. Of course I deleted the comment and I just wrote to him that he crossed the line, because I’m obviously very affected by what happened. Wonder what he’ll answer.
He just answered: Yeah sure ! In response to my last sentence “I hope you understand”. Ok, pretty weak but at least he doesn’t start any drama or anything. Sigh.
Oh. He just texted again: “and I’m sorry if I hurt you. It wasn’t my intention”. THERE. That’s what I needed.
Omg. Now he said: I just didn’t see the people in the massacre as homosexuals. It’s people like everybody else, so I thought that a picture of a funny cat didn’t hurt. Ok, you just missed my whole point and it proves that you don’t understand anything about this. It’s not “just people” when it’s a hate crime ffs.
I just didn’t see the people in the massacre as homosexuals. It’s people like everybody else, so I thought that a picture of a funny cat didn’t hurt.
First of all, even if it had been people like everybody else, such comment would have been highly inappropriate. Next…
It was a homophobic attack.
That kind of attacks have a name, it’s called hate crime. This man didn’t fire in some random public place, which would already be atrocious, he targeted a LGBT+ nightclub.
It was a homophobic attack by a homophobic man, we have to call a spade a spade.
I told him that exactly and he answered me with: “you’re right, but” and kept going on about how sexuality is the last thing on his mind when people are getting killed.
“yes, but…” might as well be “no”. What a dick. Ugh, so sorry you had to deal with that @thefriendlychip!
Funny how people only want to generalize when it’s LGBT folks getting killed. “They’re just people” now that they’re dead? How convenient for you to not have to deal with your homophobia that way.
fucked up to know that this is being called terrorism not because of the very real terror it’s causing for lgbt people, but because the shooter fits the news media’s racist terrorist profile
Meteorologist Liberté Chan was in the middle of her forecast when she was given a cardigan to cover up. Viewers were apparently writing in, appalled by her outfit. In a second video posted to her Facebook page, Chan and a coworker read some of the “angry emails” and responded.
And there it is. The exact problem with this whole thing in six words. Dress codes follow women from school to professional life — and in every situation, they are sending a clear and damaging message about priorities.
The largest tribe in the United States could not prove it was “famous” enough to win a trademark case against the hipster fashion giant.
The Navajo Nation lost two counts in a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Urban Outfitters because the tribe’s trademark is not “famous” enough, the court siding with the fashion giant’s argument that “Navajo” is a generic term for a style or design.
The Indigenous tribe—the largest in the United States—had to prove that the term “Navajo” is “widely recognized by the general consuming public of the United States” to move forward with the trademark dilution case, which few courts have been able to prove, said New Mexico’s District Judge Bruce Black on Friday.
gnellis 