The Misfit Historian

iwantobe120:

This is seriously an amazing visual. I always hear people say “healthy food is too expensive”…. well here you go!

I have never ever paid $1.96 for TWO POUNDS of chicken breast. Chicken even at my Walmart is $7 a pound. Ten pounds of potatoes costs roughly $5, not $2.97. A gallon of skim milk is $5.99, not $2. We’re already at $25 and I’ve only priced 3 items based on the Walmart circular for my store here in New Orleans. Visuals like this are misleading and erase the very real problem of food deserts in which people don’t have access or affordability.

(Source: fitness-is-a-habit, via fitspiration)

animalstalkinginallcaps:

THANK YOU FOR YOUR OPINION REGARDING MY EYELINER, BUT LET ME EXPLAIN A COUPLE THINGS TO YOU:

1. I DON’T WEAR IT FOR YOU, NOR DO I PICK OUT MY OUTFITS BASED ON WHAT I THINK MEN WILL LIKE. YOUR CONSTANT OGLING HAS NO BEARING ON MY DECISION TO FLATTER MY FIGURE OR ENHANCE MY NATURAL FEATURES WITH BEAUTY PRODUCTS. THAT IS YOUR GENDER’S CONSTANT MISGUIDED PERCEPTION.

2. YOU DON’T LIKE “WOMEN WHO DON’T WEAR MAKEUP.” YOU LIKE WOMEN WHO ARE WEARING CONCEALER AND BARE ESSENTIALS FOUNDATION CAREFULLY BLENDED INTO THEIR NECKLINE, CHEEKS TINTED LIGHTLY WITH SOFT ROSY CREAM BLUSH, EYESHADOW ONE SHADE DARKER THAN THEIR FOUNDATION, EYELASHES DOTTED WITH GREY PENCIL AND LIPS THAT HAVE BEEN ENHANCED WITH A LIGHT BERRY GLOSS.

THAT’S PROBABLY $200 WORTH OF CREAMS AND POWDERS AND TAKES MORE TIME TO APPLY THAN YOUR ENTIRE ‘SHIT, SHOWER AND SHAVE’ ROUTINE, ALL SO ASSHOLES LIKE YOU CAN TALK ABOUT ‘NATURAL BEAUTY’ WHILE WE’RE WAITING FOR A DAMNED BUS

3. EVEN IF I HONESTLY CARED ABOUT YOUR AMATEUR MAKEUP CRITIQUES I WOULDN’T IN A MILLION YEARS GO OUT WITH YOU BECAUSE YOU’RE AN IGNORANT, BALDING FASHION CASUALTY WITH NOODLE ARMS AND A BEER GUT WHO CAN’T KEEP HIS EYES OR OPINIONS TO HIMSELF. 

IF YOU KEEP TALKING TO ME I’M GOING TO SHOVE YOUR SANDALS UP YOUR ASS AND YOU CAN WADDLE HOME IN YOUR SOCKS.

Well this is just brilliant.

OMG.

(Source: feministryangosling)

curiousgeorgiana:

khaleesi:

[TRIGGER WARNING: MISOGYNY, FATPHOBIA, SIZEISM, RAPE APOLOGY, RAPE, HATE SLURS]

kyssiogkyssi:

mew-mew-mew:

imhallucinating:

goblinqween:

albinwonderland:

arseniccupcakes:

YESYESYES

ALL THE AWARDS

fuck yes

Yeah, because all rapists are men….

 Okay fuck. This is why I would never join one of those “rape survivors” groups. Because it seems to me that all the people who join them are like “all men are evil and should be destroyed and I’m the victim and I have no sympathy for anyone but myself it’s all about me and I hate all men because they all have the capacity to rape”. Well ladies, actually, no. You’re all full of shit. Y’know, 1 in 14 dudes are raped before they’re 18. So uh, shut the fuck up you fat cunt, not all men are going to take advantage of you. A lot of the time, women take advantage of men and it’d be way worse for a man if he were raped than a women and everyone knows it.
So, you’re all full of shit you stupid feminist whores.

reblogging for the horse shit above me

“you’re all full of shit you stupid feminist whores”

this is why we can’t have nice things. :|

i’ve lost faith in humanity.

1 in 4 women are raped before they’re 18. 1 in 3 will be raped in their lifetimes.

Luckily, I’ve reclaimed both the word “fat” and the word “cunt,” so you don’t actually have any power to hurt me — just expose yourself as the problem with our society to the rest of the world.

Go fuck yourself. I doubt you’ll find anyone else with standards low enough. :)

You know imhallucinating, if you actually went to a rape survivors group you might change your opinion.  By joining, you could also avoid using phrases like ” it seems to me” and “all the people who join them”—because assumptions combined with massive generalizations not supported by any facts whatsoever make you look like a real idiot. Though the “feminist whores” line would have done that anyway.

But I’m guessing you don’t want facts.  You don’t want nuance.  You don’t want true stories from survivors of both genders.  You just wanted to rant.  Well done.  You are now part of the rape culture.  Congrats.

Yes, 1 in 14 dudes are raped before 18. Nearly 100% of the rapists who victimized them are also male though.

Just to address one of the many things wrong with that person’s reblog. Rock on, Wonder Woman. You are awesome.

tightandtoned:

McDonald’s? I’m not lovin’ it.

I hate seeing girls who I follow struggle over eating a meal from there, or some other fast food institution.

I hate that they have made their brand world-wide through the production of cheap, unhealthy food that is PACKED with additives.

I hate that it’s a hugely unethical company.

I hate that “healthy” people will blindly eat from there despite all the horror stories you hear.

I hate that McDonald’s is doing a lot more to HARM the world than to help it.

I’m not going to sugarcoat this. Almost everyday I come on tumblr just to see someone posting about how they ate McDonald’s and they either a) regret it or b) used it as a cheat meal. I honestly DO NOT understand why you would ever want to eat food from McDonald’s.

I could not care less about the calories. But have you ever stopped to consider what else actually goes in to the food? A chicken nugget at McDonald’s is NOT just 40 calories of chicken and breadcrumbs. There are THIRTY EIGHT ingredients in a single chicken nugget, perhaps the most disturbing of which is TBHQ - an antioxidant taken from petroleum. The Omnivore’s Dilemma says :

According to A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food: It can comprise no more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause “nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse.” Ingesting five grams of TBHQ can kill.

Newsflash: your body was not designed to ingest lighter fluid.

There’s videos of four year old cheeseburgers and fries from McDonald’s which don’t look old. There is barely anything that you can eat or drink at McDonald’s which isn’t full of additives. I’m sorry to say it, but this is why you are fat. Your body doesn’t WANT to be filled with this crap. No matter how good those french fries taste, you’re eating a chemically created flavour. You thought the food naturally tasted like that? Ha! McDonald’s really tricked you.

I’m not saying you can’t eat a cheeseburger, if that’s what floats your boat. But there’s a massive difference between eating organic meat from a local butcher’s or even a supermarket, and eating meat from McDonald’s, or any other fast food chain.

You only have one body, and you only have one life. You should want to treat yourself the best that you can, by eating food that will do you good in the long term. No, NOT so you can be skinny. But so you can be HEALTHY. Not only that, but consider your future. Maybe you want to have kids; what kind of example will you be setting them by eating fast food food? Perhaps you only eat it as “a treat”. Maybe you’ll say to them, “if you’re good, we’ll go to McDonald’s.”

DON’T GLORIFY SOMETHING WHICH IS DETRIMENTAL TO YOUR HEALTH. Don’t put it on a pedestal and pretend it’s ok to have it “every once in a while”. Physically yes that’s better for you, but NOT mentally. You wouldn’t tell yourself or your child, “if you’re good, we’ll go and get you a bypass surgery so you can continue clogging up your arteries will all the hydrogenated fats in that food”. You think fast food is cheap and easy to get? Well, so is an early death if you want it bad enough.

Sort out your priorities, change your diet, and change your mindset. It might seem hard, but so what? This isn’t rocket science; anybody can choose to stop eating fast food. Make a choice.

Ugh. It’s not that I disagree, but that project for which a woman left out the McDonald’s food and it didn’t mold proves nothing. Mold needs moisture to occur, and the food dried out. Leave it somewhere moist or where moisture is present, and it’ll mold.

Also, not many people know, but companies like McDonald’s actually began because many people during the Depression were not getting enough food. These restaurants were able to provide cheap and easy meals with protein and other necessary nutrients for those who could not otherwise afford them.

Sound familiar? People who live in food deserts often have no other choice because they don’t have fucking grocery stores. Things never seem to change for the poor, do they?

(via fitfullfabulous)

themattsmith:

iamsosorry:

queen-of-everything:

2831:

soapsgonnasoap:

c-c-chuck:

pixelheroine:

phddiscworld:

I have to be honest.  When I first saw this, I thought it was some generic message thing that had to do with the quote alone.  However, it was brought to my attention that this is from a Borders store.  I have to say, this is the saddest thing I have seen all day, maybe even all week.

I’d like to personally thank the creators of the Kindle and Nook for this atrocity.

…I have no words.

digital books can’t beat the smell and feel of real books

RIP Borders

OMG IT’S A BORDERS GET OVER IT

“I cannot live without a store where I can buy a Seattle’s Best Cinnamon Roll latte, an overpriced CD, and leaf through a Seventeen magazine.” -Thomas Jefferson

LOL at the last two reactions.

Over 96% of book sales are still print, not digital. People need to get over this whole idea that digital is murdering the book business and lamenting the “smell” and “feel” of real books. If that’s what you like, fine, it doesn’t make you special or more intellectual.

Poor business strategy killed Borders, not lack of print media sales.

retnouc-clockwise:

“JEWS OUT” “ISRAEL NEVER AGAIN”

I turned in a paper last night in which I basically argued that Mittelbau-Dora’s memorial and others like it added authenticity to memory, and furthered Germany’s reconciliation with the Holocaust. Today I read this.

This is horrible. Someone scrawling “JEWS OUT!!” on a memorial in a concentration camp, a camp in which Nazis proudly employed citizens of Nordhausen to haul bodies, makes me want to give up the work I do to educate the public about World War II and just cry.

I gave an interview to a high school student about Nazi medical experiments yesterday, and I had nightmares last night. I’ve been studying these things for nearly ten years, and I sometimes I still can’t comprehend the evil. It’s too hard.

(Source: hbogirlsisthebestshowonearth)