The term “safe space” originates in LGBT communities and designates a place where homophobia isn’t tolerated.

The argument usually goes that safe spaces keep people from encountering ideas they disagree with, that they have an infantilizing and silencing effect.

I respond that when gay people are so sheltered that they have no idea what homophobia is, well, then I’ll admit that maybe things have gone a bit too far.

In the meantime, gay people not experiencing enough homophobia is not really striking me as a pressing social issue.

lamardeuse:

gravedelight:

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this is the best most concise takedown of safe space critics I’ve ever seen

great-tweets:

oof.

becausedragonage:

People who:

a) resent attempts to manipulate them into reblogging a post.

b) have no desire to pass that manipulation on to their followers.

churchnotmadewithhands:

tealesbian:

taking off my bra, puting on a big t-shirt, and crawling into bed at the end of the day is very sexy of me if I do say so myself

me but at 2 in the afternoon after like running one errand

deanky:

knuckleduster:

deanky:

life-is-rutile:

I only just realized that Pearl has built herself around layers of trauma, which is literally how pearls are created.

i fon’t remember pearl going through trauma unless you mean when that guy shook her hand and she said she was never going to wash it again and then bubble buddy touched it and washer it off?

splatoon

oh

gal-gadot:

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) directed by Taika Waititi & Jemaine Clement.

chalabrun:

David Roentgen’s Automaton of Queen Marie Antoinette, The Dulcimer Player

SPIDERWEEN: An Arachnophobe-Safe Guide to Spiders – Day 01 – An Introduction!

bogleech:

31 days straight of SPIDER BIOLOGY without any photos of spiders or even any drawings that technically look like spiders!

For the first entry, we explain the basics of a common spider’s body plan and biology, but only one piece at a time!

SPIDERWEEN: An Arachnophobe-Safe Guide to Spiders – Day 01 – An Introduction!