Because this always bears reblogging. Illustrates how cartography—specifically the ways in which cartographers shrink and expand land masses in order to depict a “flat” earth— distorts our perception of the world.
Whoa
i need people to know that the fact that Africa is often portrayed so extremely out of scale is not just because the map is a flat version of the round earth
Bruh.
Again. Call the majority population of POC minorities and pretend Africa is a small, static country. -_- The amount of diversity on that continent is staggering. Oh and all the countries north of the Sahara are also African nations.
Thanks,
Black Studies majors errwhere
I cannot understand anti-abortion arguments that centre on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t believe in the sanctity of life. The shrugging acceptance of war, famine, epidemic, pain and life-long, grinding poverty show us that, whatever we tell ourselves, we’ve made only the most feeble of efforts to really treat human life as sacred.
I don’t understand, then, why, in the midst of all this, pregnant women - women trying to make rational decisions about their futures, and, usually, that of their families, too - should be subject to more pressure about preserving life than, say, Vladimir Putin, the World Bank, or the Catholic Church.
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Someone has notified us that a YouTube channel has been using OUR Coming Out stories to promote revolting, homophobic propaganda.
Please, if you have a spare moment, we need your help to reblog this and get it shared so we can flag this video and get it removed it as fast as possible. This could really damage someone.
Male privilege is no one being distracted by Louis CK sweating through his clothes, but for a woman to do the same would be slovenly.
Male privilege is Louis CK being able to make a joke that goes, “Young men don’t know what to do when their…
Sometimes it can be hard- I’ve been guilty of deflecting compliments myself. But you deserve to be complimented, so just say thank you and smile! :-)
Here´s a representation of how homophobes think their lifes will be affected if marriage equality is achieved
Where the fuck did that gif even come from.
